Abstract Positive psychology postulates that using one’s strengths can facilitate employee well-being and performance at work. However, whether use is associated with attentional has remained unanswered in the literature. Attention plays a role job performance, previous literature suggested contrasting link between (i.e., positive affect) performance. We hypothesize that, within work episodes, ...

Employee well-being and productivity are crucial factors for organizational success, understanding the relationships between psychological meaningfulness, job involvement, proactive behavior, performance can help organizations to create more supportive engaging work environments. This empirical study aimed examine these relationships, with a particular focus on mediating role of self-efficacy. ...

Briand, Morasca, and Basili [1] introduce a measurement theoretic approach to software measurement and criticize among others the work of the author, but they misinterpret the work of the author. Zuse does not require additive software (complexity) measures as Briand, Morasca, and Basili state. Zuse uses the concept of the extensive structure in order to show the empirical properties behind sof...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded to investigate whether the meaningfulness of experimental stimuli impacted performances during global/local visual tasks. Participants were presented with compound stimuli, based on either meaningful letters, meaningful objects, or meaningless non-objects. The ERP recordings displayed typical early components, P1 and N1, evoked by task-related proce...

human’s life becomes meaningful and valuable when the purpose of his creation becomes true. the investigation of nature’s role in the case of special human’s creation is related to the meaningfulness of human’s life. in this study, first we will explain first nature and second nature with descriptive-analysis method and from mullah sadra’s point of view and then, we explain his view about natur...

Abstract The absence of meaningfulness in life is meaninglessness. But what the polar opposite meaningfulness? In recent and ongoing work together with Stephen Campbell Marcello di Paola respectively, I have explored we dub ‘anti-meaning’: negative counterpart positive meaning life. Here, relate this idea ‘anti-meaningful’ actions, activities, projects to topic death, particular deaths or suffe...

Although interest in meaningfulness is mounting the growing stream of research dedicated to how professionals experience it, has only just begun investigate complex relationships between search for and constitution professional identity emerging groups. This paper investigates interacts with formation enactment identity, focusing on group corporate social responsibility (CSR) consultants. Relyi...