The Health Belief Model (HBM) posits that messages will achieve optimal behavior change if they successfully target perceived barriers, benefits, self-efficacy, and threat. While the model seems to be an ideal explanatory framework for communication research, theoretical limitations have limited its use in the field. Notably, variable ordering is currently undefined in the HBM. Thus, it is uncl...

The purpose of this study is to explore the psychometric quality of a self-evaluation instrument based on Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences (1991; 1993; 1995). Self-evaluated intelligence is closely related to a person’s selfconcept and can reflect both general and academic components of it. Our data includes Finnish students from five different universities (N=256). The questionnaire ...

Conceptual models provide a theoretical basis for advancing scientific knowledge and improving professional practice. Although numerous assistive technology-related models have appeared in the literature, there has been no systematic effort to assess them. Six conceptual models are reviewed here: Cook and Hussey's Human-Activity-Assistive Technology model; the World Health Organization's Intern...

This paper presents Ž ndings from a study that investigated the relationship between research and practice on a Nursing Development Unit (NDU) in a hospital in the UK. The over-arching aim of the NDU was to promote individualised patient care. This requires the experiences and life goals of the patient, including the patient’s and family construction of risk, to inform the care planning process...

One important objective of molecular assembly research is to create highly complex functional chemical systems capable of responding, adapting, and evolving. Compared with living systems, the synthetic systems are still rather primitive and are far from realizing those features. Nature is by far the most important source of inspiration for designing and creating such systems. In this critical r...

This paper presents evidence from a psychosocial framework about the relationship among youth, work, and identity construction. The aims of this research were twofold. The first one was to analyze the working conditions of Spanish youth and their impact on individuals' biographies. The second one was to examine the effect of labor-related variables on construction/change of identity elements in...

⎯In this paper, we construct a pair of Mond-Weir type second order symmetric dual problems, in which the objective function contains support function and is, therefore, nondifferentiable. For this pair of problems, we validate weak, strong and converse duality theorems under pseudobonvexity – pseudoboncavity assumption on the kernel function that appears in the problems. A second order self dua...