conclusions although older patients need more self-care and the quality of this self-care originates from their attitude toward cvd risk factors, their lack of awareness about the main risk factor of their condition is a major challenge for secondary prevention measures. in addition, younger patients’ significant emphasis on biological risk factors as uncorrectable factors can reduce their sens...

Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment This research note uses two German data sets – the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel and unique data from own student questionnaires – to analyse the relationship between risk aversion and the choice for public sector employment. Main results are: (1) more risk averse individuals sort into public sector employment, (2) the impact of ...

Although the ability to make optimal decisions under uncertainty is an integral part of everyday life, individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) frequently report that they experience difficulties with this skill. In behavioral economics, researchers distinguish two types of uncertainty to understand decision-making in this setting: risk (known probabilities) and ambiguity (unknown probab...

The existing quality control studies of supply chain mostly only consider one member's risk attitude, and ignore the combination of two members' risk attitudes. Therefore, a discussion about different risk attitudes affect quality control game of supply chain especially in logistics service supply chain (LSSC) is required. A basic quality control game model (Model I) was established in a LSSC c...

BACKGROUND Environmental destruction is one of the most important problems in this century. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to determine the environmental attitudes and perceived risks associated with environmental factors of the students. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in 7 faculties of Mersin University. The research data were collected using a questionnaire. The ques...

This study compared differences in both maladaptive beliefs and attitudes about sleep between African American (heareafter referred to as black) men at risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and those without OSA risk. METHODS A convenience sample of 120 community-dwelling men provided sociodemographic, health and sleep data. A validated questionnaire was used to identify men at high risk for...

W conduct experiments measuring individual behavior under compound risk, simple risk, and ambiguity. We focus on (1) treatment of compound risks relative to simple risks and (2) the relationship between compound risk attitudes and ambiguity attitudes. We find that compound risks are valued differently than corresponding reduced simple risks. These differences measure compound risk attitudes. Th...

Juliana Bernhofer⇑, Francesco Costantini and Matija Kovacic⇑ Bernhofer is an honorary fellow (“cultrice della materia”) at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice a researcher Free Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty Economics Management; associate professor in linguisticsat Udine, Department Humanities Cultural Heritage Studies. Kovacic (“cultore Ca’Foscari Venice, Economics, European Commission, Joint Resear...