BACKGROUND The Health Care Climate Questionnaire measures patient perceptions of their clinician's autonomy supportive communication. We sought to evaluate the psychometric properties of a modified brief version of the Health Care Climate Questionnaire (mHCCQ) adapted for breast cancer patients. METHODS We surveyed 235 women aged 20-79 diagnosed with breast cancer within the previous 18 month...

This paper details the changes in agency and autonomy of left-behind women international migrant-men exploring continuity discourse systems traditional gender roles a village rural Bangladesh. It sheds light on pattern trans-border communication their mobility locality subsequent relations. Through ethnographic fieldwork, this examined how rearrange culturally constructed boundaries meanings ge...

Autonomy has been conceived as a masculine trait in literature. However, feminist literature and SDT theorists consider autonomy requisite need for all irrespective of gender, class culture. The Self-Determination Theory perspective posits basic psychological an essential nutriment well-being. aim the present paper was to study effects dispositional on subjective wellbeing among women Kashmir. ...

Background: Decision-making about if and how to terminate a pregnancy is a dilemma for young women experiencing an unwanted pregnancy. Those women are subject to sociocultural and economic barriers that limit their autonomy and make them vulnerable to pressures that influence or force decisions about abortion. Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the individual, interpersonal a...

The construct of avoidance has begun to receive attention in theoretical models and empirical investigations of depression. However, little is known about relative levels of avoidance across diagnostic categories or about the relationships between avoidance and other correlates of depression. The present study compared levels of avoidance across groups of depressed women without social anxiety ...

This article examines the relationship between women entrepreneurs’ job autonomy and work–life balance, with a particular focus on how this might be augmented by environments that discriminate against women, whether socio-economically, institutionally, or culturally. Multisource data pertaining to 5334 entrepreneurs from 37 countries indicate their sense of increases likelihood they feel satisf...

BACKGROUND Most previous studies on healthcare service utilization in low-income countries have not used a multilevel study design to address the importance of community-level women's autonomy. We assessed whether women's autonomy, measured at both individual and community levels, is associated with maternal healthcare service utilization in Ethiopia. METHODS We analyzed data from the 2005 an...

Several empirical observations suggest that when women have more autonomy over their reproductive decisions, fertility is lower. Some evolutionary theorists have interpreted this as evidence for sexual conflicts of interest, arguing that higher fertility is more adaptive for men than women. We suggest the assumptions underlying these arguments are problematic: assuming that women suffer higher ...

BACKGROUND In Pakistan, preference for boys over girls is deeply culturally embedded. From birth, many women experience gendered disadvantages; less access to scarce resources, poorer health care, higher child mortality, limited education, less employment outside of the home and circumscribed autonomy. The prevalence of psychological morbidity is exceptionally high among women. We hypothesise t...