Conceptualisations of attachment to one's nation of origin reflecting a symbolic caregiver can be found cross-culturally in literature, art, and language. Despite its prevalence, the relationship with one's nation has not been investigated empirically in terms of an attachment theory framework. Two studies employed an attachment theory approach to investigate the construct validity of symbolic ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the psychometric properties of the French version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture questionnaire (HSOPSC) and study the hierarchical structure of the measured dimensions. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of the safety culture. SETTING 18 acute care units of seven hospitals in South-western France. PARTICIPANTS Full- and part-time healthcare providers who w...

Rapid development of e-government has exposed critical public information to the possibility of cybercrime. Information security has become a critical issue that needs to be adequately addressed in egovernment development. This paper develops an information security compliance model by drawing insights from organizational and institutional theory literature to examine how organizational securit...

This article investigates the representation of “dulle Griet” by the seventeenthcentury artists David II Teniers and David III Ryckaert in the context of Catholic Flanders. In a society preoccupied with hierarchical order both the state and church aimed to root out archaic beliefs and customs, and to save society from witchcraft. The representations of mad Meg are interpreted as comic archaisms...

This study examined the role that employee perceptions of dispositional gratitude, state gratitude and institutionalized gratitude had upon job satisfaction. Employees (n = 171) completed measures of dispositional, state and institutionalized gratitude together with job satisfaction. Multiple Hierarchical Regression showed that state gratitude and institutional gratitude uniquely predict job sa...

Shouldering Risks is a valuable addition to a line of studies in a range of disciplines which describe both normal operations as well as incidents and accidents in complex and potentially dangerous systems: Perrow’s Normal Accidents, Hutchin’s Cognition in the Wild, and Vaughan’s The Challenger Launch Decision : Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA. All of these books attempt to desc...

BACKGROUND This study advances a measurement approach for the study of organizational culture in population-based occupational health research, and tests how different organizational culture types are associated with psychological distress, depression, emotional exhaustion, and well-being. METHODS Data were collected over a sample of 1,164 employees nested in 30 workplaces. Employees complete...

The purpose of this paper is to determine the contribution of social structural characteristics on employee empowerment and whether proactive personality plays a role in moderating the above stated relationship among managers in Malaysia. Hierarchical regression analyses of 584 responses revealed that social structural characteristics of self-esteem, power distribution, information sharing, kno...

This report describes a hierarchical screening technique for identification of pathways that control the morphogenesis of the renal collecting duct system. The multi-step screen involves a first round using a 2-dimensional, cell-line-based scrape-healing assay, then a second round using a 3-dimensional tubulogenesis assay; both of these rounds use new cell lines described in this report. The fi...

A new framework for the study of the human moral faculty is currently receiving much attention: the so-called 'universal moral grammar' framework. It is based on an intriguing analogy, first pointed out by Rawls, between the study of the human moral sense and Chomsky's research program into the human language faculty. To assess UMG, we ask: is moral competence modular? Does it have an underlyin...