Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) intervening in the area of alcohol problems are varied and have different histories depending on their political, social and cultural contexts; some are long-established and often bear a heavy heritage, while others have recently arisen from the upheavals in eastern Europe and the developing countries. All of them, however, must solve certain ethical proble...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the association between job stress and self-rated health among nurses in public hospital emergency units. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study undertaken through the administration of a self-administered questionnaire in a sample of 134 health professionals, using the brief version of the Job Stress Scale. Descriptive analyses of the socio-demographic, health and work ...

Existent computer programming training environments help users to learn programming by solving problems from scratch. Nevertheless, initiating the resolution of a program can be frustrating and demotivating if the student does not know where and how to start. Skeleton programming facilitates a top-down design approach, where a partially functional system with complete highlevel structures is av...

Tailored motivational messages are helpful to motivate people in eHealth applications for increasing physical activity, but it is not sufficiently clear how such can be effectively generated advance. We, therefore, put forward a theory-driven approach generating tailored behavior change, and we examine its feasibility by assessing motivating the resulting perceived. For this, designed with spec...

It is widely acknowledged that teachers’ (de)motivating style (what they say, do and how act) affects students’ learning. Understanding what leads teachers to adopt a necessary develop effective training programmes. The current study aimed identify antecedents of motivating (i.e. need-supportive) demotivating need-thwarting) styles by (a) examining the relationships between five types pressures...

In this short-term longitudinal study, we examine specific examples of identity exploration in real-time interactions among peers. The participants included 12 first-year students majoring literature, social sciences, and humanities at a national university Japan (Mage = 18.2; SD 0.39; 83.3% female). They were divided into four triads that participated weekly 20-minute discussions for nine succ...

Gamification in healthcare has shown to increase user motivation and treatment adherence. Personalisation strategies have the potential create sustainable health change motivation. In striving for personalisation, surveys are often used as an easy tool collect information about user. But lengthy tedious demotivating, provoking bad respondent behaviour which results a loss of data quality. Gamif...

Student engagement plays an important role in promoting student success at higher education institutions. It is of profound significance to improve through the utilisation effective pedagogical approaches, such as game-based learning. However, there a lack study South African context focusing on learning This aimed explore students’ views and experiences identified university Africa. The constr...

There is a deep divide between the worlds of education and working life. Differences comprise culture, values, processes, tools more. This hinders many people from reaching their fullest potential, instead often demotivating them. Collaboration across can be facilitated by semantic concepts that both sides relate to. article attempts to propose new unifying concept – “work-learn balance” two ap...