Suicide-preventive training has shown to influence attitudes. This study aimed at investigating what impact other factors than knowledge might have on attitudes towards work with suicidal patients and suicide prevention. In 2007, 500 health-care staff working in a psychiatric clinic in Stockholm received a questionnaire with items concerning work with suicidal patients to which 358 (71.6%) resp...

BACKGROUND The nursing staff working in psychiatric care have a demanding work situation, which may be reflected in how they view their psychosocial work environment and the ward atmosphere. The aims of the present study were to investigate in what way different aspects of the ward atmosphere were related to the psychosocial work environment, as perceived by nursing staff working in psychiatric...

Personality develops across the lifespan, but most development occurs in adolescence and young adulthood. Life transitions to new social roles may be important drivers of mean-level personality development. The present study examined adulthood, role transition tertiary education working life therein a sample Dutch people that were followed 14 years ( N = 497, Age W1 13.03 years). We explored wh...

ABSTRACT The paper sought to grasp the arbitrator’s expectations regarding expert accountant’s performance in arbitration arena light of role theory and reasons for meeting these or not. study has been poorly explored field forensic accounting. This article helps fill this gap by presenting motives that affect perception service. is relevant because it grasps from viewpoint (role transferrer) (...

Investigators have begun to document links between emotional clarity and forms of negative emotionality, including neuroticism and major depressive disorder (MDD). Researchers to date have relied almost exclusively on global self-reports of emotional clarity; moreover, no studies have examined emotional clarity as a function of valence, although this may prove to be crucial in understanding the...

Knowledge communication is an essential mechanism to facilitate intraand interorganizational knowledge transfer. In order to improve the efficiency of knowledge communication, organizations need to pay particular attention to the clarity of conveyed knowledge in order not to create confusion, misunderstandings, or misapplication of knowledge. In this contribution, we show where and how the conc...

one of the fundamental issues in organizations is theadaptive capacity. therefore, the present study aims at assessing theadaptive capacity of employees to test its relationship with ethicalleadership. the method of research was survey and the measuring toolwas a closed questionnaire. the population consisted of 716employees of tabriz university in 2012 from which 239 employeeswere selected thr...

The study sought to analyse research methodologies used in dissertations for the Masters of Education in Educational Management at the Zimbabwe Open University in Zimbabwe. It used the qualitative methodology. The study made use of the case study design, in which the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU), Department of Educational studies became the case to be studied. Fifty dissertations were collect...

Signs, prompts, and symbols are a common means to change behavior in our society. Understanding the psychological mechanisms by which signage influences behavior is a critical first step to achieve the desired outcome. In the current research, we propose a theoretical model of sign-to-behavior process. The model suggests that when one encounters a sign, it is encoded to construct an action repr...