Women in the Mediterranean: Still Discriminated Against?

First depressed, then discriminated against?

Each year a substantial share of the European population suffers from major depression. This mental illness may affect individuals' later life outcomes indirectly by the stigma it inflicts. The present study assesses hiring discrimination based on disclosed depression. To this end, between May 2015 and July 2015, we sent out 288 trios of job applications from fictitious candidates to real vacan...

“I Think They Discriminated Against Me”:

Research in Industrial/Organizational (I/O) psychology has generally focused on objective measures of employment discrimination and has virtually neglected individuals’ subjective perceptions as to whether a selection or promotion process is discriminatory or not. This paper presents two theoretical models as organizing frameworks to explain candidates’ likelihood of perceiving that discriminat...

Are gays and lesbians discriminated against in the hiring process?

Mediterranean countries facing the Mediterranean Diet, are we still on track? The example of southern Spain midlife women.

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The overall intake of a cohort of middle aged women of Granada was studied along with their body composition, anthropometric and sociodemographic characteristics to evaluate if this population does really follow a Mediterranean Diet. METHODS 206 women aged 53.3 ± 5.5 years old, were evaluated for their body composition, anthropometric and sociodemographic character...

Mediterranean diet in the southern Croatia – does it still exist?

AIM To assess the adherence to the Mediterranean diet in the population of Dalmatia in southern Croatia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed within the 10001 Dalmatians cohort, encompassing 2768 participants from Korčula and Vis islands and the City of Split, who were recruited during 2011-2014. Using the data obtained from food frequency questionnaire we calculated the Mediterranea...