Term Acronym Definition Source Affective Commitment to the IS Profession ACISP* An individual's positive emotional attachment to the profession. Lee et al. 2000; Meyer and Herscovitch 2001 Autonomy AUT Provides individuals with the freedom to decide how to accomplish tasks. Ahuja and Thatcher 2005 Burnout BO A condition in which the stress experienced exceeds an individual's ability to cope wit...

This article allows consulting the performance data of 96 Spanish university students in two personality questionnaires and two theory of mind (ToM) tasks. Personality dimensions were evaluated through the OPERAS questionnaire (Vigil-Colet et al., 2013) [1], which evaluates global personality through 5 scales: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness to expe...

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The main aim of the present study was to examine and explore family environment perceived stress amongst working non-working women. A sample 60 women (30 30 homemakers) drawn from population. purposive sampling technique used. Family Environment Scale by Dr. Harpreet Bhatia N.K.Chadha Perceived Stress Cohen, Kamarck, Mermelstein were used for data collection. Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test, C...

INTRODUCTION An extensive literature has firmly established the role of emotion on memory. For example, behavioral experiments have shown robustly that emotional stimuli are better remembered than neutral stimuli (see Mather and Sutherland, 2011). Mechanisms identified for such enhancements in memory include prioritized initial perceptual processing of emotional stimuli (Nummenmaa et al., 2006;...

This study explored relationships between sense of humor, stress, and coping strategies. Undergraduate students (N=258) from introductory psychology courses completed a perceived stress scale, an everyday problems scale, a state anxiety inventory, a sense of humor scale, and a scale assessing their preferred coping strategies. High and low sense of humor groups were determined by selecting part...