This study used regional telephone survey data collected after the 1996 U.S. presidential election to examine how two possibly important affective variables—public mood and political cynicism—predict actual as compared with self-reported voting. Public mood, a construct introduced by Rahn, Kroeger, and Kite (1996) to suggest how affective processes may play a role in political behavior, is show...

There is nothing like medicine to attract reformers. Their arguments include claims that orthodox medicine produces iatrogenic harm, it is too expensive, it is arrogantly exclusive of other systems of practice, its practitioners lack empathy and communication skills, and its practitioners are wilfully ignorant of their patients’ beliefs and needs. Entwistle and Watt (2013) have done a good job ...

The purpose of this study was to find out the effect despotic leadership on organizational cynicism both directly and with mediating role moral disengagement. It also posited that identification inversely moderates cynicism. Data collected from SMEs in Gujranwala Division Punjab, Pakistan. sample consisted 280 randomly chosen front line employees nine strata SME manufacturing concerns. To empir...

BACKGROUND Burnout among nurses not only threatens their own health, but also that of their patients. Exploring risk factors of nurse' burnout is important to improve nurses' health and to increase the quality of health care services. This study aims to explore the relationship between work-family conflict and burnout among Chinese female nurses and the mediating role of psychological capital i...

Although drama and film rely on collaboration, the arts can otherwise be a solitary endeavor. We think of the painter, the composer, the writer withdrawing to the studio or loft or room apart, as Alphonse Daudet withdrew to his windmill for the Lettres. In the past, science too could be pursued alone. Newton and Darwin were great individualists and discoverers: their works had single authorship...

"The craving for an interpretation of history is so deep-rooted that, unless we have a constructive outlook over the past, we are drawn either to mysticism or to cynicism."1

More than 60 years ago, psychologists identified a potential threat to democracy from within, namely the “antidemocratic personality” arising from the “authoritarian syndrome.” It was soon discovered that the problem of authoritarianism was especially acute among those who were low in education and income, and that it was associated with intolerance toward others. However, several important que...

The present study uses the Job Demands-Resources model (Bakker & Demerouti, 2007) to examine how job characteristics and burnout (exhaustion and cynicism) contribute to explaining variance in objective team performance. A central assumption in the model is that working characteristics evoke two psychologically different processes. In the first process, job demands lead to constant psychological...