The present study examined age differences in the disposition to forgive others and the role of interpersonal transgression frequency and intensity. Data from a representative cross-sectional sample of Swiss adults (N = 451, age: 20–83 years) were used. Participants completed a self-report measure of forgivingness and indicated whether and how intense they have experienced different types of in...

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Background. Research related to prevention of maternal to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV is dynamic and rapidly changing and has provided evidence-based interventions and policies for practitioners. However, it is uncertain that research and policy guidelines are adequately being disseminated and implemented in resource-constrained countries with the largest burden PMTCT. This study examined...

In this paper we focus on the transition from undergraduate to postgraduate study in mathematics through the lens of the construct ‘thinking style’ as defined by Sternberg (1997). A cross-sectional study (N=54) was conducted in the Department of Mathematics of a large university in Greece. The data analysis reveals some statistically significant (though far from straightforward) stylistic diffe...

The objective of this study was to examine the construct validity and reliability of the Nursing Stress Indicator (NSI) and to identify differences between occupational stressors of professional and enrolled nurses. A cross-sectional survey design was used. A sample of professional nurses (N = 980) and enrolled and auxiliary nurses (N = 800) in South Africa was used. The NSI was developed as me...

This is a cross-sectional study conducted among medical undergraduate students with the aim to assess resilience against stress in each year of education. Self-efficacy in terms of college education and social functioning has also been assessed and its relationship with perceived stress examined. Results indicated that resilience varies directly with stress up to a limit beyond which it becomes...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to assess the psychometric properties of the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) in the men who have sex with men (MSM) population in China. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 373 MSM from September to December, 2012, in Zhengzhou and Huludao City, China. Internal reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by Cronbach's α coeffici...

This paper studies how firm size, firm growth, and market structure affect matching between workers and firms, and resulting levels of employment, wages, and output. Building on the directed search literature, I construct and analyze a framework in which both the number of firms and the distribution of vacancies across firms are determined endogenously, wages play an allocative role in the matc...

We analyse the term structure of interest rates in a general equilibrium model with incomplete markets, borrowing constraint, and positive net supply of government bonds. Uninsured idiosyncratic shocks generate bond trades, while aggregate shocks cause fluctuations in the trading price of bonds. Long bonds command a “liquidation risk premium”over short bonds, because they may have to be liquida...