Orientation and transition programme component predictors of new graduate workplace integration

New Graduate Nurses’ Experiences of their Professional Readiness During Transition to Professional Roles

Introduction. Transition from the student’s role to the professional role, as an important stage in the nursing career, is of considerable importance. Lack of readiness in new graduate nurses for transition to their professional roles and joining the clinical setting brings about unfavorable physical and psychological reactions that act as a barrier for adaptation to their new position. This st...

Predictors of Workplace Bullying and Cyber-Bullying in New Zealand

BACKGROUND The negative effects of in-person workplace bullying (WB) are well established. Less is known about cyber-bullying (CB), in which negative behaviours are mediated by technology. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, the current research examined how individual and organisational factors were related to WB and CB at two time points three months apart. METHODS Data were co...

P170: Predictors of Test Anxiety: Perfectionism and Goal Orientation

Test anxiety as a common disorder is a physiological condition in which students experience extreme stress, anxiety and discomfort during and/or before taking a test. This kind of anxiety results from the sense of threats like fear of failure, lack of confidence and setting unattainable goals in learning and wishing to be perfect in academic situation. Resulting anxiety disrupts attention, memo...

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on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...