BACKGROUND Lifetime co-occurrence of violence victimisation is common. A large proportion of victims report being exposed to multiple forms of violence (physical, sexual, emotional violence) and/or violence by multiple kinds of perpetrators (family members, intimate partners, acquaintances/strangers). Yet much research focuses on only one kind of victimisation. The aim of this study was to inve...

We contest a reductive view of trust, quite diffused in economics, and in studies influenced by the Game-Theory framework: the idea that trust has necessarily to do with contexts requiring ‘‘reciprocation’’; or that trust is trust in the other’s reciprocation. A multi-layer cognitive model of trust will be proposed. Trust is not conceived only as an attitude towards the other, implying differen...

the main purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational trust and organizational justice components and their role on job involvement. the method of this research is descriptive and co-relational, and the statistical sample contains 350 employees and managers of education in meybod and ardakan (yazd). data collected by moorman's (1999) organizational justice qu...

anxiety is one of the most controversial issues in mental disorders that its prevalence is increasing in today's society. preclinical anxiety that is causing some anxiety disorders in adults can help us in the prevention of mental disorders. in this paper an attempt has been made to have an analytical review of attachment anxiety and its significance in childhood and adulthood. attachment ...

Standard measures of generalized trust in others are often taken to provide reliable indicators of economic attitudes in different countries. Here we compared three highly distinct groups, in Kenya, China and the US, in terms of more specific attitudes, [a] people's willingness to invest in the future, [b] their willingness to invest in others, and [c] their trust in institutions. Results sugge...

prior research has indicated that employee turnover is detrimental to both individuals and organisations. because a turnover intention in the workplace is detrimental, several factors have been suggested to better understand the reasons why employees may decide to leave their organisations. some of the organizational-related factors that have been considered by previous research include perceiv...

Stereotypes may influence the attitudes that individuals have towards others. Stereotypes, therefore, represent biases toward and against others. In this paper, we formalise stereotypical bias within trust evaluations. Then, using the iterated prisoners’ dilemma game, we quantitatively analyse how cooperation and mutual trust between self-interested agents are affected by stereotypical bias. We...