The moderating role of job resources in the relationship between ageing, professional status and well-being in healthcare

PurposeThis study aims to test the relationship between ageing, professional status and well-being and the moderating role that job resources might have in this relationship.Design/methodology/approachThe authors relied upon the literature on well-being and the job demands–resources (JD-R) model and employed the Copenhagen psychological questionnaire administered to patient care workers in three paediatric hospitals belonging to the same healthcare organization.FindingsThe findings, on the one hand, confirm a not-significant relationship between ageing, professional status and well-being; on the other hand, they indicate that job resources have a positive, significant and direct impact on well-being and a significant role in moderating the relationship between ageing, professional status and well-being.Originality/valueThe present paper has manifold academic and practical interesting implications as it contributes to the literature on the well-being of healthcare workers and provides implications to identify interventions for better human resource (HR) management in the healthcare context.

Research of personal characteristics of unemployed persons with addictive behavior

The article examines the personal characteristics of unemployed men and women with addictive behavior. In order to determine the personal characteristics of unemployed addicts, the California Psychological Questionnaire CPI was used. The personal characteristics of unemployed addicts are empirically revealed. The differences between unemployed men and women with addicts, as well as the dynamics of the personal characteristics of unemployed people with addictive behavior, due to the age factor, are statistically proved. With age, unemployed people with dependent behavior decrease self-regulation, attention to others, organization, ability to take responsibility for themselves, independence, a tendency to think, insight, and increased rigidity and conservatism.

Introduction

Part 1 of the introduction describes the motivations and approach of the book, then summarizes the contents of the book chapter by chapter. Part 2 provides the linguistic and methodological underpinnings of the analysis of the word “know” and related epistemic words that are relied on throughout the book. Standard methods for gathering data in linguistics are described and analyzed. It’s shown why characterizing linguistic evidence practices as “the method of cases” is misleading, and the limitations of social-psychological questionnaire tools are explained. The bearing of lexical semantics on questions of when usages are metaphorical, when they are literal, when ambiguous, and when polysemous are given. The importance of retraction phenomena—how and when speakers withdraw usages under pressure—is described; and as an illustration, it’s shown that “know” is factive. The important distinction between the syntactic/semantic structure of a word and the role it is put to by speakers is described.

Aesthetic outcomes after surgical repair of pectus excavatum in females: Differences between patients and professional evaluators

Background Pectus excavatum is less common in females than in males, and it often aggravates a coexistent breast asymmetry. We conducted a study comparing female patients’ versus medical professionals’ evaluation of pectus excavatum repair to assess differences in aesthetic outcome ratings. Moreover, we evaluated the influence of surgical correction on patients’ self-perception.Methods Of 30 female patients who were initially screened, 18 patients (mean age, 20 years) who underwent bar removal after surgical correction of pectus excavatum deformity participated in the survey (60%). They completed a questionnaire rating their appearance before and after surgery and responded to a psychological questionnaire about the changes that they had experienced. The mean interval between pectus bar removal and evaluation was 28 months. Standardized preoperative and postoperative patient photographs were evaluated using the same questionnaire by a panel of medical professionals and students (n=24) and the results were compared.Results Patients rated their preoperative deformity as more severe than the other evaluators, revealing the significant impact of the deformity on patients’ self-perception. Postoperatively, patient and professional evaluations were much better than before and were very similar. The psychological evaluation showed a clear improvement in well-being. The ratings of the medical professionals were not influenced by their degree of medical education.Conclusions Surgical correction of pectus excavatum in female patients positively influences body perception and psychological well-being. It should therefore not be considered as a merely aesthetic correction, but as an important procedure to restore a patient’s self-perception.

Revealing the Joint Mechanisms in Traditional Data Linked With Big Data

Recent technological advances have made it possible to study human behavior by linking novel types of data to more traditional types of psychological data, for example, linking psychological questionnaire data with genetic risk scores. Revealing the variables that are linked throughout these traditional and novel types of data gives crucial insight into the complex interplay between the multiple factors that determine human behavior, for example, the concerted action of genes and environment in the emergence of depression. Little or no theory is available on the link between such traditional and novel types of data, the latter usually consisting of a huge number of variables. The challenge is to select – in an automated way – those variables that are linked throughout the different blocks, and this eludes currently available methods for data analysis. To fill the methodological gap, we here present a novel data integration method.

COMPARING SELECTED TYPES OF AGGRESSIVENESS AND INDIVIDUAL TYPES OF HOSTILITY AMONG STUDENTS OF SPORTS HOCKEY CLASSES

Aim of the research was to find out and compare individual subsystems of selected types of aggressiveness and individual types of hostility within age categories of learners of sports hockey classes. Research sample consisted of sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grade boys from primary schools. Age of learners varied from 11 to 14 years. Total sample consisted of 120 learners. The research was it was implemented with the help of a standardized psychological questionnaire B – D – I. In the results we‘re comparing the differences in individual subspecies of aggressive behaviour and also in overall aggressiveness between younger and older learners grade. It turned out that in all of the observed comparisons older learners achieved higher average values of the weighted score than younger. The difference was confirmed also by the nonparametric Mann Whitney U test, which at the unilateral test of 5 % level of demonstrability tells that between younger and older learners there‘s statistically significant difference p = 0.031. Also, any increased value of the resentment didn‘t occur neither among younger learners who achieved the average value of the weighted score 4.19 nor among older learners with the average value of the weighted score 4.81 and therefore there is not statistically significant difference (p = 0.681). Our research revealed that controlling emotions such as aggression is very important. Therefore, it‘s important to pay enough attention to the young athletes and their coaches to prevent any manifestations of aggressiveness from their performers and to encourage them to play fair-play sports.