We examined the relationship between parent-perceived neighborhood safety and children's physical activity, sedentary behavior, body mass, and obesity status using 9 years of longitudinal data (1999-2007) on a cohort of approximately 19,000 US kindergartners from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. Children's height and weight measurements and parent perceptions of neighborhood safety were ...

Over the years much research has been devoted to understanding how employee’s voice behavior may be promoted. Existing studies, however, have not yet fully examined the voice behavior process, because they have not taken the mediating role of cognitive and mental processes into adequate consideration. In order to fill this gap, this study develops and tests a theoretical model which focuses on ...

This review paper focuses on different aspects of perceived safety for a number autonomous physical systems. is major aspect robotics research, as more and applications allow humans systems to share their space, with crucial implications both its perception. The alternative terms used express related concepts (e.g., psychological safety, trust, comfort, stress, fear, anxiety) are listed explain...

conclusions perceptions of nursing were significantly different from those of the ideal career in most of the attributes. therefore, it is recommended that nurses’ income, workplace safety, and sense of being appreciated and respected by all authorities should be improved. background identification of the attributes of nursing and the ideal career, and their similarities and differences, as per...

OBJECTIVE To explore what individuals at risk of injury from using paraffin (also known as kerosene) know about paraffin safety, what they do to protect themselves and their families from paraffin-related injury, and how they perceive their risk for such injury. Also, to explore interrelations between these factors and age, sex, education and income. METHODS A sample of 238 individuals was ra...

BACKGROUND We investigated whether lack of perceived neighborhood safety due to crime, or living in high crime neighborhoods was associated with incident mobility disability in elderly populations. We hypothesized that low-income elders and elders at retirement age (65 - 74) would be at greatest risk of mobility disability onset in the face of perceived or measured crime-related safety hazards....