This article investigates the multivariate relationship between personal characteristics of prison staff, their work rank within the organizational hierarchy, working conditions, constraints of personal accomplishment, stressresponse states, and the emotional exhaustion. Specifically, this study attempts to determine the amount of variation that can be explained in emotional exhaustion, the mai...

Affective influences abound in groups. In this article we propose an organizing model for understanding these affective influences and their effects on group life. We begin with individuallevel affective characteristics that members bring to their groups: moods, emotions, sentiments, and emotional intelligence. These affective characteristics then combine to form a group’s affective composition...

Emotional responses (i.e., valence, arousal and liking) to single-voice melody versions that were systematically varied along five music structural characteristics (i.e., mode, tempo, articulation, appoggiatura and subito piano) were studied. The results suggest that differential emotional responses can be produced by simple manipulations on structural characteristics of a ringtone melody. For ...

The goal of this contribution is to describe some characteristics of mother-child relationships in Japan and Germany including consequences for child-rearing practices and children's development. In contrast to Germany. in Japan a strong emotional bond between mother and child, the encouragement of amae-behavior. maternal sensitivity, and responsiveness is assumed to influence the child's sodo-...

This research uses status characteristics theory to expand our knowledge of the effects of status variables (e.g., race, education) and emotional displays on the antecedents of sentencing - evaluations of offender dangerousness and offense seriousness. We present a theoretical formulation that combines three areas of status characteristics research - reward expectations, individual evaluative s...

Speech signal in addition to the linguistic information contains additional information about the speaker: age, gender, social status, accent (foreign accent, dialects, etc.), emotional state, health etc. Some of these informational channels induce changes of the speech acoustic characteristics. This article presents evaluation of the ASR acoustic models (first trained on neutral, read speech) ...

Title: Dietary Quality linkage to Overall Competence at School and Emotional Disturbance in Representative Taiwanese Young Adolescents: dependence on Gender, Parental Characteristics and Personal Behaviors Authors: Lin-Yuan Huang ([email protected]) Mark Wahlqvist ([email protected]) Meei-Shyuan Lee ([email protected]) Po Huang Chiang ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 24 Nov 20...

This article presents the first attempt to investigate the existence of possible quantitative correlations among the physical characteristics of emotional portrayals and the emotions perceived by humans during their listening. Our aim was: a) to design and develop a new investigation protocol; b) to obtain information useful to recognition and synthesis of emotions conveyed by the human voice. ...

Speech signal in addition to the linguistic information contains additional information about the speaker: age, gender, social status, accent (foreign accent, dialects, etc.), emotional state, health etc. Some of these informational channels induce changes of the speech acoustic characteristics. This article presents evaluation of the ASR acoustic models (first trained on neutral, read speech) ...

Mothers experiencing psychological distress in the postpartum period may have difficulties parenting their children. Inconsistent and unresponsive parenting may increase the risk of later emotional and behavioural problems in children. The purpose of this study was to identify how maternal psychological characteristics cluster at eight weeks postpartum, and whether these clusters were associate...