Distraction is an emotion regulation strategy that has an ambiguous status within cognitive-behavior therapy. According to some treatment protocols it is counterproductive, whereas according to other protocols it is seen as a quite useful strategy. The main purpose of the present study was to test the hypothesis that distraction is adaptive when combined with active acceptance, but maladaptive ...

The scarcity of rural doctors has undermined the ability of health systems in low and middle-income countries like India to provide quality services to rural populations. This study examines job preferences of doctors and nurses to inform what works in terms of rural recruitment strategies. Job acceptance of different strategies was compared to identify policy options for increasing the availab...

We examined the relationships between six emotion-regulation strategies (acceptance, avoidance, problem solving, reappraisal, rumination, and suppression) and symptoms of four psychopathologies (anxiety, depression, eating, and substance-related disorders). We combined 241 effect sizes from 114 studies that examined the relationships between dispositional emotion regulation and psychopathology....

The Short Message Service (SMS) has been available in Hong Kong and China since the late 1990s. However, the user acceptance patterns for this service have been evidently different in these two regions. Based on fieldwork in Hong Kong and China, this study attempts to explain these differences through the information technology acceptance framework, which posits that various external factors im...

Effective parallel tempering simulations rely crucially on a properly chosen sequence of temperatures. While it is desirable to achieve a uniform exchange acceptance rate across neighboring replicas, finding a set of temperatures that achieves this end is often a difficult task, in particular for systems undergoing phase transitions. Here we present a method for determination of optimal replica...

As the consumer e-commerce market grows intensively competitive, the strategy in retaining new customers at their first visits to a website has been recognized as a critical research issue. Not only does the customer’s initial acceptance of a website capture business opportunities, it also casts great impact on customers’ return purchases in the future and their loyalty buildup. From a continge...

objective : the purpose of this study was to determine the construct validity and reliability of the two forms of the persian version of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale (ders-6 & ders-5-revised) in a clinical sample. methods : the clinical sample consisted of 181 patients diagnosed with functional gi disorders (fgid) who referred to the digestive psychosomatic clinic in isfahan in ...