Humans report perceptions of unease or eeriness as humanoid/android robots and digital avatars approach human-like physical resemblance, a phenomenon alluded by the Uncanny Valley theory. This study extends discussions on interactions acceptance with findings from three experiments. In first, perceptive evaluation actors in clips computer-generated animation live-action version same movie was e...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine how nurses' professional needs were met in nursing practice. DESIGN A survey design was used in this study. SETTING Data were collected from one metropolitan public hospital, one rural public hospital, and from postgraduate students in diploma/certificate course at a university in Victoria. SUBJECTS Participants consisted of 346 registered nu...

Although decades of research have well elaborated on teacher professional development, we still do not have a thorough picture about what teacher professional development could entail and what components it consists of. The present study aims to develop and validate a teacher professional development scale in an Iranian English foreign language context. An initial tentative model with 130 items...

Background: The professional identity and gender of the auditors are among the factors that can affect and change the ethical judgment of external auditors. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of professional identity on ethical judgment and to investigate the mediating role of gender in this influence. Method: The method of this research is descriptive-survey of ...

Objective: The study was carried out to examine the relationship between nurses' professional values and caregiver roles. 
 Methods: This is based on a descriptive correlational research design using structural equation model. 366 nurses participated in study. It gathered Nurse Promotion Form Professional Values Scale of Nurses Attitude for Their Caregiver Roles.
 Results: total mean ...

background: the negative attitudes and behaviors of iranian nursing students impede learning and threaten their progression and retention in nursing programs. the need to understand students’ perception and experiences of nursing provide knowledge about effectiveness of nursing education program as well as their professional identity. the purpose of this study was to discover experiences of nur...

The current study explores the roles offenders see themselves playing during an offence and their relationship to different crime types. One hundred and twenty incarcerated offenders indicated the narrative roles they acted out whilst committing a specific crime they remembered well. The data were subjected to Smallest Space Analysis (SSA) and four themes were identified: Hero, Professional, Re...

The study was designed to investigate work-family conflict in Type A and Type B professional women. Sample consisted of 170 professional women belonging to two different occupations, namely, teaching and medical. It was hypothesized that there would be a significant positive relationship between Type A behavior and workfamily conflict and that Type A professional women would experience more int...

BACKGROUND Assessing residents' understanding and application of the 6 intrinsic CanMEDS roles (communicator, professional, manager, collaborator, health advocate, scholar) is challenging for postgraduate medical educators. We hypothesized that an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) designed to assess multiple intrinsic CanMEDS roles would be sufficiently reliable and valid. METH...