high comorbidity between psychological disorders causes attention to the mechanisms responsible for this comorbidity and common cognitive factors involved in these disorders. these are known as transdiagniostic factors. similarity evidence and high comorbidity between generalized anxiety disorder (gad) and obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) introduce them as neighboring disorders. the purpose ...

BACKGROUND For many patients with lung cancer, disease progression occurs without notice or with vague symptoms, and unfortunately, most treatments are not curative. Given this unpredictability, we hypothesized the following: (1) poorer psychological adjustment (specifically, more depressive symptoms, higher perceptions of stress, and poorer emotional well-being) would be associated with higher...

Drawing from Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory and Hofstede’s typology of national culture, this study proposes that the diffusion VSNs in a country is influenced by the levels of its information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and human capital, which in turn are contingent on the national cultural dimension of uncertainty avoidance. Utilizing the publicly available arch...

This study shows that the joint effects of the entrepreneur’s personality and an unpredictable environment, as well as the interaction effects of a low uncertainty avoidance culture, predict opportunity exploitation. Our study’s findings are consistent with the emerging opportunityexploiter nexus framework of Shane and Venkataraman, which posits that the rate and nature of entrepreneurial explo...

Distinct types of collective intelligence are prominent over different countries. This study explores why some types of collective intelligence knowledge services flourish in some countries but not in others by employing an analogy related to Darwin’s evolutionary theory. This study uses geographical isolation theory and Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory (such as the uncertainty avoidance i...

Introduction. The study elaborates the picture of health-related information behaviour by exploring the reasons and strategies for avoiding information. The study draws on the ideas of uncertainty management suggesting that people reduce uncertainty because they find it threatening. However, in some instances, people avoid information so that they can manipulate uncertainty to suit their needs....

Recent reports on work safety in container shipping operations highlight high frequencies of human failures. In this study, we empirically examine the effects of seafarers' perceptions of national culture on the occurrence of human failures affecting work safety in shipping operations. We develop a model adopting Hofstede's national culture construct, which comprises five dimensions, namely pow...