Exploring Psychological Factors Influencing Deliberation

Exploring Psychological Factors Influencing Deliberation

In contemporary societies there is a growing need to coordinate and legitimize different perspectives. Instead of a dialogical search for consensus polarizing communication still prevails. The legitimacy of formal political institutions and conventional forms of political participation is in decline; increasingly publicly expressed people’s need for a greater influence on social developments re...

Psychological factors influencing recovery from balance disorders.

This article reviews evidence for three mechanisms whereby psychological factors may aggravate dizziness and retard recovery from balance disorders. Firstly, a common behavioral response to dizziness is to avoid activities and environments that provoke symptoms, yet such avoidance deprives the individual of the exposure necessary to promote psychological and neurophysiological adaptation. Secon...

Exploring factors influencing smoking behaviour in Malaysia.

OBJECTIVE The objective of present study is to investigate the determinants of smoking behaviour among adults in Malaysia. METHOD Findings of the Third National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS-3) by the Ministry of Health, Malaysia, were used. The sample consisted of 34,539 observations. A logistic regression model was thus applied to estimate the probability to participate in smoking. RE...

Psychological Factors Influencing Chronic Pain and the Impact of Litigation

Understanding chronic pain requires an understanding of psychological factors related to the pain experience. This paradigm is the standard foundation for pain medicine as well as physical medicine and rehabilitation diagnosis and treatment. Pain patients with spine disease frequently present with a multifaceted array of physical and psychological aspects including depression, anxiety, traumati...

Factors Influencing Psychological Empowerment of Nurse Aides in Nursing Homes