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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53508#.VMcmbizQrzE Author(s)   Elizabeth I. Olowookere 1 , Amos A. Alao 1 , Jonathan A. Odukoya 1 , Olujide A. Adekeye 1 , Godwyns Ade’ Agbude 2   Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Psychology, School of Human Resource Development, College of Leadership Development Studies, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria . 2 Department of Political Science and International Relations, College of Leadership Development Studies, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria . ABSTRACT Background: University undergraduates are representative of the Nigerian youth population; and sustainable development in any nation depends on the resourcefulness of her youth. This necessitates the need to drive excellence among Nigerian undergraduates through quality education and advice. Quality education is demonstrated in character and in learning; and characters of discipline, responsibility and...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52835#.VKn-jMnQrzE Author(s)    Pierluigi Diotaiuti * , Filippo Petruccelli , Luigi Rea , Angelo Marco Zona , Valeria Verrastro Affiliation(s) Department of Human, Social and Health Sciences, University of Cassino and South Latium, Cassino, Italy . ABSTRACT Blind people face daily a stressful condition that they seek to better manage through the control of the surrounding environment. They prefer the maintenance of routines and the contacts with familiar people and frequentation of well-known places. We hypothesize that in people with a serious visual impairment, the exercise of self-control, both as self-regulation both as...