The Perceived Personal Control Preventive Intervention for a Caesarean Birth Population.

1988 ◽  
pp. 141-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciporah S. Tadmor
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Intervention ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Caesarean Birth ◽  
Perceived Personal Control

Social Comparison for Concern and Action on Climate Change, Racial Injustice, and COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Ulichney ◽  
Johanna Jarcho ◽  
Thomas Shipley ◽  
joy ham ◽  
Chelsea Helion
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Personal Concern ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Perceived Personal Control

Preventing the negative impacts of major, intersectional U.S. social issues hinges on personal concern and willingness to take action. We examined social comparison of COVID-19, racial injustice, and climate change during Fall 2020. Participants in a U.S. university sample (n = 288), reported personal levels of concern and action taken on these issues, and estimated their peers’ concern and action. Participants accurately estimated similar levels of personal and peer concern for racial injustice and climate change, but overestimated peer concern for COVID-19. At higher personal concern levels, people estimated that they took greater action than peers for all issues. Exploratory analyses found that perceived personal control over social issues increased participants’ concern and action for racial injustice and climate change, but yielded no change for COVID-19. This suggests that issue-specific features, including perceived controllability, may drive people to differently assess their experience of distinct social issues relative to peers.

Perceived Personal Control Measure

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine H. Greenaway ◽  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Matthew J. Hornsey
Keyword(s):  
Control Measure ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Perceived Personal Control

Mediating Effects of Perceived Personal Control in Coping With a Health Threat: The Case of Genetic Counseling1

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (13) ◽  
pp. 1146-1174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoshana Shiloh ◽  
Michal Berkenstadt ◽  
Nachshon Meiran ◽  
Mariassa Bat-Miriam-Katznelson ◽  
Boleslav Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Personal Control ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Health Threat ◽  
Perceived Personal Control

Perceived Personal Control and Academic Achievement

1981 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah J. Stipek ◽  
John R. Weisz
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Perceived Personal Control

scholarly journals The perceived personal control (PPC) questionnaire: Reliability and validity in a sample from the United Kingdom

2011 ◽  
Vol 158A (2) ◽  
pp. 367-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion McAllister ◽  
Alex M. Wood ◽  
Graham Dunn ◽  
Shoshana Shiloh ◽  
Chris Todd
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Perceived Personal Control

scholarly journals Gender Differences in the Association of Brain Gray Matter and Pain-Related Psychosocial Characteristic

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (22;3) ◽  
pp. E191-E203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneleen Malfliet
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Gray Matter ◽  
Pain Catastrophizing ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Spinal Pain ◽  
Psychosocial Characteristics ◽  
Pain Duration ◽  
Emotional Representations ◽  
Perceived Personal Control ◽  
Chronic Spinal Pain

Background: Although the association of gray matter morphology alterations and pain-related psychosocial characteristics with pain intensity and chronification in people with chronic spinal pain is evident, research on their mutual interaction is scarce and does not account for possible gender differences. Gender-based differences are, however, of utmost importance to consider when examining pain neurobiology. Objectives: To look for gender differences in the association between magnetic resonance imaging- (MRI) derived brain gray matter morphology and self-reported psychosocial characteristics. Study Design: An explorative, observational study. Setting: University Hospitals Ghent and Brussels, Belgium. Methods: Brain gray matter morphology (using MRI) and self-reported psychosocial characteristics were examined in women and men with nonspecific chronic spinal pain. Statistical analyses were performed in SPSS and R to identify differences between men and women regarding brain gray matter, self-reported psychosocial characteristics, as well as gender differences in the association between those outcome measures. Results: A total of 94 people with chronic spinal pain were studied, including 32 men (15 suffering from neck pain, 17 suffering from low back pain; demographics [mean ± SD] age: 45.00 ± 12.02 years; pain duration: 128.37 ± 110.45 months), and 62 women (36 suffering from neck pain, 26 suffering from low back pain; demographics [mean ± SD] age: 38.78 ± 12.69 years; pain duration: 114.27 ± 92.45 months). Woman showed larger (positive) associations of several central brain areas (paracentral, precentral, postcentral, etc.) with perceived consequences (P < 0.001), emotional representations (P < 0.001), chronicity (P < 0.001), and pain catastrophizing (P< 0.001). Men showed larger (both positive and negative) associations of the precuneus cortex, the precentral gyrus, and the insula with perceived personal control (P < 0.001) and kinesiophobia (P < 0.001). Limitations: Other factors, such as menstrual cycle and medication can have a certain influence, and were only partly taken into consideration in the present investigation to obtain sufficient power. Another limitation is the observational study design, which hampers the possibility to look for causal or temporal interactions. Conclusions: Gray matter morphology relates differently to psychosocial characteristics in women and men. These explorative findings provide ideas for further research to investigate if targeting perceived negative consequences of the illness, perceived emotional representations, perceived chronicity, and pain catastrophizing in women, and perceived personal control of the illness and kinesiophobia in men, could contribute to the normalization of brain alterations in people with nonspecific chronic spinal pain. Key words: Gray matter, brain morphology, central nervous system, illness perceptions, central sensitization

scholarly journals Personal Control of the Indoor Environment in Offices: Relations with Building Characteristics, Influence on Occupant Perception and Reported Symptoms Related to the Building—The Officair Project

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 3227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakellaris ◽  
Saraga ◽  
Mandin ◽  
de Kluizenaar ◽  
Fossati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indoor Environment ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
Strong Relation ◽  
Building Characteristics ◽  
Environment Parameters ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Perceived Personal Control

Personal control over various indoor environment parameters, especially in the last decades, appear to have a significant role on occupants’ comfort, health and productivity. To reveal this complex relationship, 7441 occupants of 167 recently built or retrofitted office buildings in eight European countries participated in an online survey about personal/health/work data as well as physical/psycho-social information. The relationship between the types of control available over indoor environments and the perceived personal control of the occupants was examined, as well as the combined effect of the control parameters on the perceived comfort using multilevel statistical models. The results indicated that most of the occupants have no or low control on noise. Half of the occupants declared no or low control on ventilation and temperature conditions. Almost one-third of them remarked that they do not have satisfactory levels of control for lighting and shading from sun conditions. The presence of operable windows was shown to influence occupants’ control perception over temperature, ventilation, light and noise. General building characteristics, such as floor number and floor area, office type, etc., helped occupants associate freedom positively with control perception. Combined controlling parameters seem to have a strong relation with overall comfort, as well as with perception regarding amount of privacy, office layout and decoration satisfaction. The results also indicated that occupants with more personal control may have less building-related symptoms. Noise control parameter had the highest impact on the occupants’ overall comfort.

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