Despite the surge in interest in research on organizational identification, little attention has been paid to investigating the notion of identification in the branding context. Moreover, consumer-brand identification has been conceptualized and opertionalized equally as organizational identification while ignoring both the shortcomings of organizational identification measures and the differen...

Although previous research has successfully tested the usefulness of cognitive and non-cognitive factors to predict dental anxiety, they have rarely been jointly analysed. This study therefore aimed to compare the relative predictive power of a set of cognitive and non-cognitive factors in accounting for dental anxiety scores. A sample of 167 Spanish undergraduate students (81.4% women; mean ag...

BACKGROUND The effects of biological and physical factors on cognitive aging are widely studied. Less is known about the role of psychosocial factors such as stress and social relationships for cognitive functioning. METHODS Speakers in Session IV of the Summit focused on possible mechanisms linking social interactions and stressful experiences to cognitive changes with aging. RESULTS Eleva...

Background Despite the significant role “values” play in decision-making no definition or attributes regarding the concept have been provided in health policy-making. This study aimed to clarify the defining attributes of a concept of value and its irrelevant structures in health policy-making. We anticipate our findings will help reduce the semantic ambiguities associated with the use of “valu...

Introduction Permission Marketing and the Internet Literature Review Permission Marketing Business Models on the Web Conceptual Framework Overall Framework Overview of Benefits and Costs Causal Antecedents to Message Relevance Causal Antecedents to Information Entry or Modification Costs Causal Antecedents to Message Processing Costs Causal Antecedents to Privacy Costs Discussion Footnotes Refe...

The construction industry is stressful and concerns for workers’ psychological well-being (PWB) are on the rise with high prevalence of mental health problems. However, there currently no clear framework or system in mainstream literature to guide management practices such as allocating resources, optimizing work systems, supporting worker well-being. In this study, a state-of-the-art review wa...

Two of the major cognitive theories of depression, the theory of Beck [Beck, A. T. (1967). Depression: clinical, experimental and theoretical aspects. New York: Harper & Row. and Beck, A. T. (1987) Cognitive models of depression. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: an International Quarterly, 1, 5-37] and the hopelessness theory [Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, (1989) Hopelessness depression: a th...

Much leadership literature neglects its historical-contextual antecedents and as a result overemphasizes zeitgeist, or tenor of the time’s social forces. This neglect impedes leadership research by encouraging academic amnesia and promoting a strong feeling of research déjà vu among many researchers and practitioners. In this article, we develop a leadership historical-contextual superstructure...