BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Increased utilization of online medical information seeking demands investigation of potentially detrimental effects of these activities. The present study investigated whether viewing medical websites may adversely affect anxiety sensitivity (AS), a well-established risk factor for the development of psychopathology. METHODS Participants (N = 52) were randomly assig...

This paper will discuss key aspects of collaborative practice for researchers and professionals, who use or intend to use collaboration in practice or research. It will introduce our understanding of collaboration, then briefly review supporting research, explore how researchers collaborate with teachers and related professionals, and explore how teachers have integrated peer collaboration into...

objective: bone marrow transplantation is considered one of the main procedures used in the treatment of both malignant and non-malignant diseases. psychological factors after bone marrow transplantation have an important role in the survival of the patients undergoing this procedure. method: in the present study, some parameters including depression, anxiety and cognition were assessed during ...

this study investigated the effects of giving information and the role of individual characteristic in level of anxiety in general surgery operation patients. 112 male and female (with a mean age of 31.8) in two groups of experimental and control subjects were studied. the subjects answered to rater internal-external locus of control scale. then the subjects in the experimental group were given...

Although the internet has become one of the most important information resources for university students, excessive internet use can be defined as uncontrolled and harmful use of the internet, in other words, Internet Addiction. Internet addiction (IA) can be described as a maladaptive preoccupation with internet use impairing social, occupational and other areas of a person’s functioning. Rece...

This paper proposes a conceptual framework for creative information seeking drawing upon Weisberg’s argument that creativity exists in everyone, and mapping the creative process described in the holistic model of creativity to the information seeking activities identified in the behavioural model of information seeking. Using scenarios of information seeking behaviour, mappings between the crea...

The ways in which people seek and process information are fundamentally epistemic in nature. Existing epistemic cognition research has tended towards characterizing this fundamental relationship as cognitive or belief-based in nature. This paper builds on recent calls for a shift towards activity-oriented perspectives on epistemic cognition and proposes a new theory of ‘epistemic commitments’. ...

This research set out to investigate the internet information seeking behavior of older users in New Zealand. The findings show that older internet users are diverse group with a wide range of skills and attitudes but that they do exhibit specific internet behaviors based on their information seeking behavior. A classification of how older New Zealanders use the Internet is presented based on a...