Intensive and sustained efforts to "counter-market" tobacco among teenagers are necessary to negate the "friendly familiarity" created by tobacco advertising and to communicate the true health and social costs of tobacco use. Counter-marketing campaigns should: highlight a tobacco-free lifestyle as the majority lifestyle of diverse and interesting individuals; explain the dangers of tobacco in ...

Recent research has hypothesized that empowerment can arise from collective action through collective self-objectification (CSO), defined as action that actualizes participants' social identity against the power of dominant groups. Activists (N = 37) described several experiences that made them feel empowered (and disempowered). Among the various explanations they offered for these feelings, th...

This study aimed to measure the impact of employee empowerment on customer-oriented behavior in the Jordanian commercial banks. The study addressed two perspectives of empowerment (i.e., structural empowerment and psychological empowerment). The frontline employee’s perspective was used, since this position plays an excellent role in mediating the relationship between clients and service provid...

The assimilation of enterprise systems has extensive influence on power interactions within organizations. Previous assimilation research has typically focused on organizational-level assimilation processes, and the impact of individual characteristics, including personal power, has been overlooked. Social network analysis provides a useful way to empirically examine the changes to personal pow...

Job burnout is a major concern within the service industry. However, there is a lack of research exploring positive resources for combating burnout among telephone operators. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between resilience, psychological empowerment, and job burnout, and the mediating role of psychological empowerment. A cross-sectional survey of 575 telephone opera...

A phase oriented treatment approach to PTSD is presented which facilitates spiritual empowerment by teaching patients how to have nonlocal perceptions (benign dissociations) that stimulate the healing process. Patients are taught a structured protocol which promotes cognitive awareness of spiritual intuitions and their characteristic mental presentations. This in turn creates greater potential ...