Background: Nowadays, medical environment is becoming increasingly competitive in order to meet the patients' expectations and demands. Despite their efforts to provide the best services, nurses often receive complaints from people who are dissatisfied with the services they receive. There are reports claiming nurses as violent and unethical in their duties. This leads to constant stress among ...

ISSN: 0046-1520 (Print) 1532-6985 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hedp20 Operationalizing and Detecting Disengagement Within Online Science Microworlds Janice D. Gobert, Ryan S. Baker & Michael B. Wixon To cite this article: Janice D. Gobert, Ryan S. Baker & Michael B. Wixon (2015) Operationalizing and Detecting Disengagement Within Online Science Microworlds, Educatio...

We examined whether constructs outlined in self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2002), namely, autonomy-supportive and controlling motivational climates and autonomous and controlled motivation, were related to attitudes toward performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sport and drug-taking susceptibility. We also investigated moral disengagement as a potential mediator. We surveyed a sample of ...

There is substantial literature documenting the negative association between secure parental attachment and lower adolescent delinquency, but little is known about the mediating mechanisms (i.e., how does parental attachment relate to delinquency?) underlying this relation. The present study examined whether secure parental attachment would be indirectly related to lower adolescent delinquency ...

We investigate the occurrence of two pathological coevolutionary behaviours, specifically disengagement and cycling, in GP systems. An empirical analysis is carried out using constructed GP problems and a historical pursuit and evasion task, the Game of Tag. The effect of semantic bias on the likelihood of pathologies and performance in a coevolutionary context is examined. We present findings ...