Viewing psychological ownership as a positive resource for impacting human performance in organizations, the present study investigated the components of an expanded view of psychological ownership. Confirmatory factor analyses on a proposed measure of psychological ownership provided support for a positively-oriented, ‘‘promotion-focused’’ aspect of psychological ownership comprised of four di...

Background: The integrated motivational-volitional (IMV) model is the second theory based on ideation-to-action framework. Objectives: current study aimed to investigate motivational phase of this in Iranian population. In study, threat-to-self moderators included cognitive emotion regulation strategies and thwarted belongingness perceived burdensomeness as moderators. Materials Methods: A tota...

This study examined the role of social belonging and self-esteem in acute physical health and mood in 159 young adolescents (aged 11 to 14 years). Standardized self-report measures of belongingness (school, home and community), self-esteem, acute physical symptoms, and affect, were completed for the previous month. Higher levels of inclusive belonging were associated with fewer physical symptom...

Theories of social surrogacy and embodied cognition assume that cognitive associations with nonhuman stimuli can be affectively charged. In the current research, we examined whether the "comfort" of comfort foods comes from affective associations with relationships. Two experiments support the hypotheses that comfort foods are associated with relationships and alleviate loneliness. Experiment 1...

This article provides a theoretical and practical rational for the implementation of an innovative and comprehensive social wellness program in a surgical residency program at a large safety net hospital on the East Coast of the United States. Using basic needs theory, we describe why it is particularly important for surgical residency programs to consider the residents sense of competence, aut...

Software Defined Networking in Cloud paradigm is most suitable for dynamic functionality and reduces the computation complexity. The routers switches located at network's boundaries are managed by software-defined netwrking (SDN) using open protocols specialised programmable interfaces. But security threats often degrade performance of SDN due to its constraints resource usage. sensitive compon...

Suicidal ideation in elderly is rarely a society’s concern even though the age group most vulnerable to suicide. This study was conducted prove effect of perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, religiosity, and demographic factors (gender education level) on suicidal elderly. The subjects this were 230 respondents aged 60 years over who obtained using accidental non-probability sampli...