Abstract The current study examined the relationship between trait emotional intelligence (TEI), academic stress, burnout, and engagement in Japanese undergraduate students learning English as a second language. One hundred eighty-four participants (females = 87, mean age 19.7 years) completed two questionnaires, one administered at beginning of semester (i.e., baseline), end follow-up). Struct...

The increasing prevalence of chronic conditions among older adults constitutes a major public health problem. Thus, changes in lifestyles are required to prevent secondary conditions and sustain good care practices. While patient engagement received great attention in the last years as key strategy to solve this issue, to date no interventions exist to sustain the engagement of older chronic pa...

background employee engagement is the emotional commitment of the employee towards the organisation. we aimed to analyse baseline work engagement using utrecht work engagement scale (uwes) at a teaching hospital.   methods we have conducted a cross-sectional study within the national health service (nhs) teaching hospital in the uk. all participants were working age population from both genders...

Paradoxically, villainous characters in film, literature, and video games can be very popular. Previous research the traditions of cognitive media theory affective disposition has assumed that inspire positive engagement only when audiences discount villains’ immorality by focusing on traits or mitigating circumstances. Challenging this assumption, we argue with a conventionally immoral persona...

The capacity for self-regulation is a hallmark of successful development. People engage in a variety of interactions with the physical, cognitive, and social world that require responsiveness to the actions of others while at the same timemaking a variety of choices. The agentic aspect of this engagement is understood as self-regulation. Although the construct of self-regulation originated in g...

Most studies of children and climate change focus on instilling literacy (a ‘top-down’ process), positioning as passive recipients knowledge rather than active agents in shaping their lived realities. Photovoice, a form participatory action research, can help explore how make sense change, while inviting critical reflection, arts-based expression, ‘bottom-up’ process). By qualitatively examinin...

employee engagement at work is a concept that recently entered in organizational discussions in past two decades. engaged employees are happy, energetic and productive employees that are willing to invest the discretionary effort through the work and organizational roles. previous literatures show that employee engagement at work is affected by different personal, vocational and organizational ...

Clinical observation and correlational studies with nonclinical samples suggest that a linkage between negative affective states (especially shame) and engagement in erotic pursuits typifies sexual compulsivity. The present study tested whether experimental induction of shame leads to increased interest in erotically suggestive targets among more sexually compulsive individuals. A total of 74 a...

A diagnosis of dementia often shifts a person’s social status. Opportunities for the person with dementia to be autonomous in decisions and agentic in constructing access to community activities can diminish. Reduced engagement with others may be attributed to cognitive impairment, but it may, even if unintentionally, be a consequence of the action of others. Our aim is to explore the social st...