This study investigates how female and male workers perceive feelings of Psychological Empowerment (PE), using respondents from two different countries with dissimilar cultural power dynamics. Two hundred ten non-managerial bank Nigeria the United States were selected for this study. A comparative quantitative method was used Statistical analyses performed both spreadsheets SPSS. My key researc...

Online support groups have been used extensively, in numerous areas of distress, for 15 years. Researchers have presented conflicting findings and ideas about their effectiveness in helping people cope with respective problems. Our review of quantitative studies and our qualitative exploration of the nature of the experiences that occur in such groups show that several factors operate to potent...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the quality of life of visually impaired using WHOQOL-100. METHOD exploratory, descriptive, and quantitative study, performed between April and May 2013 with 20 visually impaired of the Blind Association of Ceará, through interviews. RESULTS the analysis showed that males predominated (80%), 41-55 years (40%), students (50%) and personal income than the minimum wage (7...

Personal Electronic Health Records (EHR) have recently been published as one means to support patient empowerment and patient control over their personal health record. The functionality of such an EHR may vary from a simple web-based interface for interactive data entry and data review up to a much more powerful system additionally supporting electronic data/document communication between clin...

Thesis Supervisor: Chris Csikszentmihalyi Title: Director, Computing Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab In contemporary Western society, electronic devices are becoming so prevalent that many people find themselves surrounded by technologies they find frustrating or annoying. The electronics industry has little incentive to address this complaint; I designed two counter-technologies to help peo...

In contemporary Western society, electronic devices are becoming so prevalent that many people find themselves surrounded by technologies they find frustrating or annoying. The electronics industry has little incentive to address this complaint; I designed two counter-technologies to help people defend their personal space from unwanted electronic intrusion. Both devices were designed and proto...

OBJECTIVE To assess the attitudes of upper-year undergraduate medical students (ie, clerks) toward the philosophy of community inclusion of persons with intellectual disabilities (ID) according to demographic, personal contact, and training variables. DESIGN Cross-sectional self-administered survey. SETTING Clerkship rotations at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont, and the University of To...

The study aimed to assess the effect of psychological empowerment on burnout from variable-centered and person-centered perspective. Based 363 questionnaires police officers in China, results this indicate that when officer feel higher level empowerment, job can be decreased among Chinese officers. From perspective, used latent profile analysis method divide three different burnouts, including ...