in this article inorder to identify variables related to employee’s psychological empowerment in qom education organization, at first, psychological empowerment and it’s components (trust, impact, self-determination, meaning, competence) are set as a dependent variable and participative management, training, fostering personal mastery experiences , amotional erousal, connecting to outcomes, hav...

The prevailing lay and medical views of cancer as an uncontrollable and unpredictable disease raise a question about the effect of cancer on personal mastery. Does cancer undermine individuals' beliefs? Are cancer survivors more likely than persons without cancer to feel that life is beyond their control? Using data from the 1994-1995 and 2004-2006 waves of the National Survey of Midlife Develo...

Sense of control is greater among children who grow up in households of higher socioeconomic status. It is unclear if this childhood advantage persists throughout life or if schooling and adulthood experiences override any early childhood advantage. Using data from 2 nationally representative samples of primarily middle-aged (National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, or MIDUS...

The present experiment was designed to test the theory that psychological procedures achieve changes in behavior by altering the level and strength of self-efficacy. In this formulation, perceived self-efficacy. In this formulation, perceived self-efficacy influences level of performance by enhancing intensity and persistence of effort. Adult phobics were administered treatments based upon eith...

Introduction: Higher personal mastery is associated with better physical functioning, wellbeing, and longevity among older populations. However, few studies have focused on whether personal mastery is protective against mortality among older adults living with diabetes over time.  Methods: A total of 1,779 participants were identified from an off-year survey of the Health and Retirement Study....

The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has Impact Factor 5.120 (2020 JCR, received June 2021)

The purpose of this study was to examine the inXuence of Bandura’s (1997) hypothesized sources of self-eYcacy on the academic and self-regulatory eYcacy beliefs of entering middle school students (ND 263) and to explore whether these sources diVer as a function of gender, reading ability, and race/ethnicity. For the full sample, mastery experience, vicarious experience, social persuasions, and ...

Increasing attention is being paid to the question of why some people emerge as leaders, and we investigated the effects of persistent exposure to poverty during childhood on later leadership role occupancy. We hypothesized that exposure to poverty would limit later leadership role occupancy through the indirect effects of the quality of schooling and personal mastery, and that gender would mod...

6 Abstract By fostering continuous learning experiences blended with entertaining 7 affordances, serious games have been able to shape new virtual contexts for human 8 psychological growth and well-being. Thus, they can be considered as Positive 9 Technologies. Positive Technology is an emergent field based on both theoretical 10 and applied research, whose goal is to investigate how Informatio...