Work–home enrichment and health: an analysis of the mediating role of persistence in goal striving and vulnerability to stress Marcello Russo To cite this article: Marcello Russo (2015) Work–home enrichment and health: an analysis of the mediating role of persistence in goal striving and vulnerability to stress, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26:19, 2486-2502, DOI: 10.1...

Mental well-being is fundamental to good quality of life. Happy and confi dent children are most likely to grow into happy and confi dent adults, who in turn contribute to the health and well-being of nations (1). Emotional health and well-being in young people have implications for self-esteem, behaviour, attendance at school, educational achievement, social cohesion and future health and life...

De seneste år har ungdomsforskningen beskrevet et ungdomsliv karakteriseret ved præstation. Unges ’selver’ er blevet sammenlignet med små virksomheder, der stræber efter optimering i alle livets facetter, og den stigende mistrivsel blandt unge relateres ofte til omsiggribende præstationspres. På baggrund af kvalitativt interviewstudie danske gymnasieelever peger denne artikel imidlertid på, at ...

Why should we focus on the early years? One reason is the accumulation of evidence that indicates that the child's experience in the early years has profound consequences for later life. There are now many studies that present a consistent picture indicating that adversity in early life, such as frequently accompanies child poverty, is linked to: poor adult mental and physical health , adult mo...

We propose an account of indirect forms of speech acts to request and inform based on the hypothesis that language users can recognize actions being performed by others, infer goals being sought, and cooperate in their achievement. This cooperative behaviour is independently motivated and may or may not be intended by speakers. If the hearer believes it is intended, he or she can recognize the ...

Research shows consistent relations between personality and job performance. In this study the authors develop and test a model of job performance that examines the mediating effects of cognitive-motivational work orientations on the relationships between personality traits and performance in a sales job (N = 164). Covariance structural analyses revealed proximal motivational variables to be in...

'Ibis ehapter disellsses reeent research exploring how shifting between conseious, controlled proeessing, ;md alltomatieity affect goal pursuit. First, we review past approaches to noneonseiolls goal pursuit, inclllding both the seareh für similarities between eonscious and noneonseious goal pursllit and differences Getween the (wo. \YJe next address the consequenees of shifting between eonscio...

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Terror management theory (TMT; J. Greenberg, T. Pyszczynski, & S. Solomon, 1986) posits that people are motivated to pursue positive self-evaluations because self-esteem provides a buffer against the omnipresent potential for anxiety engendered by the uniquely human awareness of mortality. Empirical evidence relevant to the theory is reviewed showing that high levels of self-esteem reduce anxie...

This paper investigates the impact of the School Breakfast Program (SBP) on cognitive achievement. The SBP is a federal entitlement program that offers breakfast to any student, including free breakfast for any low-income student, who attends a school that participates in the program. To increase the availability of the SBP, many states mandate that schools participate in the program if the per...