From its inception, the Committee for National Health Insurance has emphasized that a single nationwide program of financing of medical care is essential to the accomplishment of the long-overdue reorganization of the disorderly "non-system" of personal health services now available to Americans. Money alone, as so grimly proven in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, cannot provide health prote...

Burnout has been identified as a significant issue among those in instructional positions. The purpose of the present research was to identify and describe the status of burnout among higher education online instructors. The population for this study included responses of 76 online instructors employed by baccalaureate granting institutions within the United States. A demographic survey and the...

This study examined the effect of social support on burnout in nurses of People with AIDS (PWAs). A sample of 80 female registered nurses (RNs) completed the House and Wells Social Support Questionnaire, which measures supervisor, co-worker, friend/relative, and spouse/partner support, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory, which defines burnout in terms of Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, ...

The possibility of constructing a personal AI raises many ethical and religious questions that have been dealt with seriously only by imaginative works of fiction; they have largely been ignored by technical experts and by philosophical and theological ethicists Arguing that a personal AI is possible in principle, and that its accomplishment could be adjudicated by the Turing Test, the article ...

We investigated how positive affectivity influences people's perception of the pat terns of social relationships around them. Positive affectivity was measured as trait positive affect. The outcome variable was accuracy in the perception of informal patterns of social interaction in a group (i.e., the group's network structure). Data on the perception of the relationships of friendship and work...

The impact of the current nursing shortage on the health care system is receiving attention by both state and federal governments. This study, using a convenience sample of 243 oncology/haematology nurses working in 11 Queensland health care facilities, explored factors that influence the quality of nurses' working lives. Although nurses reported high levels of personal satisfaction and persona...

The phenomenon of burnout has always been under scrutiny, especially with reference to the teachers and their demographics. This study has deliberately focused on the English teachers’ burnout and its relation with their demographics of age and workload in Malaysia. The findings showed that burnout is evident at high levels in all dimensions. In addition, some age and workload categories demons...

This study investigated the relationships between burnout and self-efficacy among school counselors. Also, the level of their burnout and self-efficacy was examined in terms of the social support, task perception and the number of students. A sample of 194 school counselors filled out the Maslach Burnout Inventory, The School Counselors SelfEfficacy Scale, and Personal Information Sheet. For th...

as with the majority of the parenting literature, the focus on parenting efficacy has been almost exclusively on the experience of the mother while neglecting fathers and the potential link between partners. in the current study, we examined the influence of personal and co-parent predictors on parenting efficacy. We interviewed 104 primiparous couples during the third trimester, 1-month postpa...

At once fearful and dependent, hopeful and distrustful, our contemporary relationship with technology is highly ambivalent. Using experiential accounts from an ongoing Facebook-based qualitative study (N = 231), I both diagnose and articulate this ambivalence. I argue that technological ambivalence is rooted primarily in the deeply embedded moral prescription to lead a meaningful life, and a re...