BACKGROUND The psychosocial vulnerability model of hostility posits that hostile individuals, given their oppositional attitudes and behaviours, are more likely to have increased interpersonal conflicts, lower social support, more stressful life events (SL-E) and higher likelihood of depression. However, little research has tested this hypothesis using large-scale prospective samples. The prese...

The present article examines the brand-contextual effects of recent pandemic in form cynical brand distance conceptualization. study aims to determine whether consumers' perception social and congruency perceptions affects then shift perception. research was carried out a web survey on media 298 consumers analysis done with PLS algoritm SmartPLS software. It is found that positive relationship ...

Abstract Governments around the world have sought to promote school choice, not just in order improve educational outcomes, but also because such choice is believed be intrinsically valuable: parents are want and feel empowered by it. This article empirically evaluates intrinsic value of comparing attitudes experiences England (where expanding an explicit policy goal) Scotland policymakers tend...

INTRODUCTION Hostility--a personality trait reflective of cynical attitudes and a general mistrust of others--is associated with smoking status and relapse risk. Yet, the mechanisms linking hostility and smoking are not entirely clear. In this lab study, we tested a socioaffective model that purports that high-hostility individuals smoke to cope with maladaptive social mood states (i.e., anger ...