AIM This exploratory study set out to investigate the perceptions and practices of junior healthcare managers with regard to stress at work. BACKGROUND It has been suggested that cultural change is needed to accommodate a shift towards recognition of organizational responsibility for stress (Schulz et al. 1985). Logically, it can be argued that junior healthcare managers, as potential future ...

Since its creation, New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) has used child and family development research to bridge the chasm between child welfare and juvenile justice policy and practice. OCFS's major challenges have been to help the staff and stakeholders of the merged child welfare and juvenile justice agencies develop a common culture and design new financial and prog...

ARIATION in cultural characteristics, viability, and motility of bacV teria has been recognized almost from the beginning of their study in pure culture. Because of the influence of the Koch school, which emphasized cultural purity, early bacteriologists were prone to attribute changes in cultures to contamination. Thus, many of the earlier observations of bacterial variation probably were disc...

Conventional models of cultural evolution consider only panmictic populations. In many real world cases, however, random mating is constrained by the spatial or social structure of the population. A spatial population model of biased cultural transmission is proposed. Monte Carlo simulations produce results which show quantitatively different dynamics to those predicted by the more conventional...

There are pitfalls in the singular application of western categories in diagnosing psychiatric disorders and distress among refugees. Based on my research with Cambodian refugees I argue that cultural bereavement, by mapping the subjective experience of refugees, gives meaning to the refugee's distress, clarifies the 'structure' of the person's reactions to loss, frames psychiatric disorder in ...

I investigate the structure of an argument that culture cannot be maintained in a population if each individual acquires a given cultural variant from a single person. I note two puzzling consequences of the argument: It appears to conflict with (a) many models of cultural transmission and (b) real-world cases of cultural transmission. I resolve the first puzzle by showing that one of the model...

Kin altruism appears to influence an individual’s evaluation of the reproductive decisions of other people. Playing the role of an older woman advising a younger woman about reproduction influenced female participants’ self-reported beliefs about the decision. Women randomly assigned to the group with the task of advising a daughter were more inclined to believe that the choice consistent with ...

The aim of this study was to analyze the cultural adaptation of the European Spanish version of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS; Cohen, Kamarak, & Mermelstein, 1983), for its use in Mexican samples. Using a random sample of students, internal consistency was analyzed and the factor structure of the Spanish version of the PSS was compared with the factor structure found in the English version. I...