BACKGROUND The association between income inequality and societal performance has been intensely debated in recent decades. This paper reports how unmet need for medical care has changed in Europe during The Great Recession, and investigates whether countries with smaller income differences have been more successful than inegalitarian countries in protecting access to medical care during an eco...

Drawing on a database of 149 university spin-offs, we investigated the impact of network capability (NC), defined as a firm’s ability to develop and utilize inter-organizational relationships, and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on organizational performance. Not only do the results suggest that a spin-off’s performance is positively influenced by its NC, but the findings also indicate that a ...

A multi-level analysis of skin/stiffener debonding is used to perform the design of fuselage of future aircraft during postbuckling. The “pyramid of test” approach is used both for experimental and numerical analysis (see Fig 1). The analysis begins with nonspecific element (NASA Specimens), then 7 point-bending tests are performed and the approach is finally validated on real panels of an on-g...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To examine the association between housing tenure and self rated health, controlling for socioeconomic measures and testing the mediating effects of physical features of the home, pollution in the local environment, and relationships with neighbours. DESIGN Cross sectional panel study with people nested within households. Analyses were performed using multilevel methods. SE...

Based on an integration of job design and lifespan developmental theories, Truxillo et al. (2012) proposed that job characteristics interact with employee age in predicting important work outcomes. Using an experimental policy-capturing design, we investigated age-differential effects of four core job characteristics (i.e., job autonomy, task variety, task significance, and feedback from the jo...

The effects of a 20-session intervention targeting morphological word structure on vocabulary knowledge were investigated in four Grade 4 and 5 classes, assigned randomly to treatment and control conditions. Hierarchical regression analyses controlling for initial vocabulary showed significant instructional effects on morphological analysis and vocabulary with words that were taught directly an...

Article history: Received 29 April 2014 Available online 13 August 2014 Although mentoring others and career plateaus are both common experiences for seasoned employees, they are rarely examined together. In this study, we considered mentoring others as an antecedent of career plateaus and emotional exhaustion and turnover intentions as outcomes of career plateaus for mentors.We also examined t...

We examined how culturally relevant variables, including universal-diverse orientation (UDO), an attitude characterized by awareness and acceptance of similarities and differences between self and others, and emotional intelligence, the ability to accurately monitor emotions, might be related to empathy.Two-hundred-and-eleven counseling graduate students completed measures of these variables, a...

Although job demands are known to be detrimental to employees’ psychological health, research suggests that certain individual characteristics moderate this relationship to some extent. This two-sample study investigated whether autonomous motivation moderates the relationship between specific job demands (role overload, role ambiguity, and role conflict) and psychological distress. Hierarchica...

This study examines the environmental and psychosocial determinants of depression in older adults. Based on Lawton’s environmental docility thesis, the question is posed: is the strong association between functional limitations and depressive symptomatology affected when environmental conditions, objective and subjective efficacy, and docile or proactive behaviour are taken into account. Data w...