The literature on personal correlates of Protestant work ethic beliefs and the relationship between these beliefs and various aspects of paid work is briefly reviewed. A study is described which examines the relationship between Protestant work ethic beliefs and attitudes to unemployment. Subjects rated the importance of various explanations for unemployment in Britain, as well as their agreeme...

In three studies, we examined the relationship between free will beliefs and job satisfaction over time and across cultures. Study 1 examined 252 Taiwanese real-estate agents over a 3-months period. Study 2 examined job satisfaction for 137 American workers on an online labor market over a 6-months period. Study 3 extended to a large sample of 14,062 employees from 16 countries and examined cou...

MEDIATING ROLES OF ATTACHMENT AND DESTRUCTIVE DISAGREEMENT BELIEFS by TARA ELIZABETH SUTTON (Under the Direction of Leslie Gordon Simons) ABSTRACT The current study expands the current literature on the intergenerational transmission of violence by examining insecure attachment styles and destructive disagreement beliefs as mediators in the relationship between family of origin factors, like ho...

This study used a path analysis approach to examine the relationship between feelings of energy, exerciserelated self-efficacy beliefs, and exercise participation. A cross-sectional mailing survey design was used to measure feelings of physical and mental energy, task and scheduling self-efficacy beliefs, and voluntary moderate and vigorous exercise participation in 368 healthy, full-time under...

Many current ICT-supported reform efforts demand teachers to assume the role of epistemic facilitator of knowledge construction supported by technology. It is thus important for teacher educators to understand teachers’ epistemic beliefs. This qualitative study investigated seven Singaporean in-service teachers’ epistemic beliefs and their pedagogical beliefs. Two interviews were conducted for ...

OBJECTIVE This study of bulimic women examined the relationship between the severity of four forms of reported child abuse (emotional abuse, neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse) and bulimic pathology. ln addition, it investigated the relationship of abuse with dissociation and core beliefs. METHOD A sample of 23 women with bulimic disorders completed standardized self-report measures of chi...

Quantitative studies failed to determine variables which consistently explain adherence or non-adherence to treatment recommendations. Qualitative studies identified issues such as the quality of the health provider-health receiver relationship and the patient's health beliefs. According to these findings, 39 focus groups of 246 people living with type-2 diabetes were conducted in seven Europea...

OBJECTIVES To measure the attitudes and beliefs of Brazilian physical therapists about chronic low back pain and to identify the sociodemographic characteristics that are more likely to influence these attitudes and beliefs. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study with 100 Brazilian physical therapists who routinely work with chronic low back pain patients. The attitudes and beliefs were...