The present study uses the Job Demands-Resources model (Bakker & Demerouti, 2007) to examine how job characteristics and burnout (exhaustion and cynicism) contribute to explaining variance in objective team performance. A central assumption in the model is that working characteristics evoke two psychologically different processes. In the first process, job demands lead to constant psychological...

This paper investigates the epistemic and attitudinal meanings of rise and rise-plateau contours in listing contexts. Previous accounts of list intonation have made claims about epistemic meanings for list intonation, though without experimental evidence. In our first study, a metalinguistic task, subjects perceived rise and rise-plateau contours in listing contexts as having epistemic but also...

The aim of this paper is to identify and understand the role of the attitudinal factors involved in annoyance reported due to railway vibration. Many non-acoustical factors have been identified with various degrees of association with annoyance due to noise exposure. In particular, attitudinal factors have shown a large effect on noise annoyance reporting. However, the novelty of this work lies...

The main objective of this study is the design and validation an educational methodological model based on use immersive technological resources (Augmented Reality – AR) to improve learning processes in secondary education science subjects (Biology Geology). process was developed three quantitative studies: exploratory study, a performance divided into cases studies, attitudinal study. informat...

At this point of time, two decades after intense biological research into dementia began, we need to reassess our perspective on hope, and understand the need for some redirection toward the larger questions of care when no cure is in sight. It does seem appropriate to focus more of our hope and possibly resources on care itself, and on the creation of attitudinal shifts toward the affirmation ...

The present study drew from modern person-environment’s needs-supply fit theory and assessed the extent to which career embeddedness acted as a moderator in link between individuals’ agility their perceptions of value-oriented psychological contract. A sample ( N = 293; mean age 38.58 years) employees human resources financial services industry participated study. Moderated regression results d...

Being a multifaceted unit idioms can be studied from five angles: meaning, function, style, emotiveness and contrastive analysis. The merit of this paper lies in the fact that it attempts to analyze evaluative functions English idioms. analysis is performed within functional framework thesis establish semantics Idioms operate as encoded resources for amplifying attitudinal meanings entities phe...

educational psychology, but what exactly is metacognition? The length and abstract nature of the word makes it sound intimidating, yet it’s not as daunting a concept as it might seem. We engage in metacognitive activities every day. Metacognition enables us to be successful learners and has been associated with intelligence. Metacognition refers to higher order thinking which involves active co...

The correlation between social ties and political participation has been evident for some time, though very little attention is devoted to examining the causal mechanisms producing this relationship. This paper moves the literature in this direction by examining how an important feature of social networks – levels of political expertise – affect the attitudes underlying involvement. After outli...

City branding is a common practice adopted by many cities in the context of intensified urban competition for mobile resources, markets, opportunities and attention. This paper examines the effectiveness of efforts to brand Beijing, the capital city of China. Based on an analysis of official branding strategies through the Olympics, and an attitudinal survey of peoples’ understanding of Beijing...