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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
1954-12-31
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The diversity of information provided on Social Networking (SN) sites offers an ideal basis for social comparison, and peer acceptance is also an important feature of these sites. Both social comparison and peer acceptance are linked to self-esteem, body image and disordered eating, and emerging research indicates this link may extend to SN site usage. The current study investigated this notion by examining social comparison and perceived peer acceptance on the SN site Facebook, and their relationship with body image, body change strategies and self-esteem. The study used an online survey of 166 males and females aged between 18 and 66. Questions were asked on Facebook usage (number of times used, checking behaviour, and length of time on the site), perceived liking by friends, and similarity to friends on Facebook. Self-esteem was ...
The purpose of this study was to explore whether resilience acted as a health protective factor influencing an employee's ability to manage those demands for self-control placed upon them by the nature of their work, and how this influence interacted with employee well-being and job satisfaction. All participants held tertiary health professional qualifications and worked as vocational rehabilitation consultants in a large public sector organization. 1023 employees were invited to participate in the study and 33% (n = 341) responded. 86% (n = 292) were female. Generic information was gathered and the following tests administered: Self Control Demands (SCD); Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA); Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS) and the Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21). The results support recent findings that self-control demands...
This study assessed the health-related quality of life (HRQoL), fatigue and physical activity levels of 28 persons with chronic kidney disease (CKD) on initial administration of an erythropoietin stimulating agent to increase haemoglobin levels, and at 3 months, 6 months and 12 months. The sample comprised of 15 females and 13 males whose ages ranged from 31 to 84 years. Physical activity was measured using the Human Activity Profile (HAP): Self-care, Personal/Household work, Entertainment/Social, Independent exercise. Quality of life was measured using the SF-36 which gives scores on physical health (physical functioning, role-physical, bodily pain and general health) and mental health (vitality, social functioning, role-emotional and emotional well-being). Fatigue was measured by the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS). Across all time poin...
Background: Baby boom women (people born from 1946 to 1964) are reaching retirement age; however, they have experienced a very different life course than previous generations. Social and economic changes for baby boom women (e.g., the enormous growth of women in the workforce, single-parent families) reflect their multiple roles and identities. Baby boomers are also living longer than previous generations, which has resulted in baby boom women having more active, multi-generational caregiving roles (e.g., caring for spouse, parents, grandparents, grandchildren) (Blieszer, 2009). In order to ensure that baby boom career women have optimal work and retirement trajectories or transitions in later life, it is crucial to examine factors that contribute towards their view of retirement.
Aim: The aim of this research was to investigate...
This paper outlines the development and testing of two appraisal instruments to promote best practice in the casual nursing workforce. The Casual Nurse Performance Instrument (CNPI) provides feedback from permanent nurses to casual nurses about performance. The Workplace Evaluation Instrument (WEI) provides feedback from casual nurses to teams of nurses in clinical areas regarding the support provided to casual nurses. The two-way appraisal instruments will be completed by 128 casual and permanent
nursing staff at Cairns Base Hospital and the Townsville Hospital as part of the performance management intervention to improve standards of care, promote a clinical environment conducive to safe practice, and support Casual nurses to develop professionally. An expert panel of clinicians and key stakeholders (Nursing Unit Managers and Nurse ...
Immigrants account for a quarter of Australia's total population. Self-regulatory health practices in chronic illness management are dependent on patients' understanding of health behaviours that are required of them, and their ability to communicate effectively in a medical context. This study sought to address a gap in the intercultural medical communication literature by examining patients' perceived ability to perform different communication behaviours. The Medical Social Self-efficacy Scale (MSSE) was developed to assess social self-efficacy within a medical context, for patients of diverse cultural backgrounds. Validation of the MSSE scale with a sample of 113 persons from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds indicated that the scale has good internal consistency, with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of .85. A factor ...
Grant C.B. Sinnamon, Marie Caltabiano and Bernhard T. Baune
Recognition of dementia in the community is generally poor
and individuals with dementia tend not to access professional help until the disorder is advanced. Using the Self-Regulation Model, this study examines a range of socio-demographic, attitudinal, and psychological factors in order to understand better how these factors contribute to professional health help-seeking among community-dwelling older adults. A sample of 205 healthy older adults ranging in age from 50 to 94 years was recruited from community groups and independent living residences. Participants completed measures of socio-demographic details, dementia-specific knowledge, prior contact with a person with dementia, self-perceptions of ageing, mental health help seeking attitudes, illness perceptions, and professional help-seeking intentions. Dementia knowledge, positi...
The present study compared certain semantic and verbal fluency processes in Chinese and Australian first language speakers. Sixty Chinese and 60 Australian undergraduates participated in semantic decision, semantic fluency, letter fluency, reading and spelling tasks administered in their first language. Results showed that semantic decision and semantic fluency correlated significantly with reading and spelling in Chinese. However, only semantic decision correlated significantly with reading in English. In particular, semantic decision significantly predicted reading and spelling in both languages. Consistent with previous studies, letter fluency seemed to be less relevant to later stages of reading acquisition. The relative contribution of the semantic and verbal fluency processes in each language is discussed in terms of the age of t...
This study investigated if enhanced verbal memory among advanced musicians is a result of music training or other factors, for example their general education. Twenty-three advanced musicians and 45 undergraduate controls were compared on various musical abilities and verbal memory. Results showed that the musicians performed significantly better than the controls in melodic organisation, temporal perception, incidental music memory, and verbal memory, even after controlling the effect of education. However, there were no significant correlations between various musical abilities and verbal memory. The findings seem to suggest that some forms of higher-order cognitive control processes may operate in both memory and music domains in a separate manner.
