Master speakers In Zinacantán, a Tzotzil [Mayan] speaking community in highland Chiapas, Mexico, there are various kinds of specialists in talk, many of whose roles are lexically labeled. Consider, for example the j`ilol, ‘curer, lit., seer’ who cures (and occasionally gives) illness by means of ritual offerings and prayer; the jmeltzanej-k’op, ‘dispute settler, lit., maker of words’ who helps ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationships between physical, psychological, and social factors and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and disability in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS A sample of 106 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) completed measures of self-reported disease activity and psychosocial functioning, including coping, personal mastery, social network, perceived stress,...

The transition of the process teaching and learning activities from face-to-face systems to online certainly provides significant changes. Online requires students be more active in because teachers cannot monitor their directly. This study aims determine teacher student perceptions, self-efficacy, concept mastery, interrelation between self-efficacy conceptual mastery class X MIPA learning. de...

OBJECTIVE Doctors' self-perceived mastery of clinical work might have an impact on their career and patient care, in addition to their own health and well-being. The aim of this study is to identify predictors at medical school of perceived mastery later in doctors' careers. DESIGN A cohort of medical students (n=631) was surveyed in the final year of medical school in 1993/1994 (T1), and 10 ...

BACKGROUND This study describes the differences in psychological distress, disability and psychosocial resources between types of major medical conditions and sensory impairments (collectively denoted as CMCs); and tests whether disability and psychosocial resources mediate CMC-specific mental health effects. METHODS Data were obtained from a population-based, cross-sectional survey of 5078 n...

BACKGROUND With greater numbers of older adults relocating to independent living communities (ILCs), there is an increasing need to determine whether factors such as self-efficacy can facilitate relocation adjustment. However, no relocation self-efficacy instrument is available. OBJECTIVES To develop and test an instrument measuring older adults' self-efficacy to relocate to an ILC. METHOD ...

Abstract Personality dispositions and their role in inducing employee creative behavior are well documented the literature. However, much is unexplored about collective relative contribution of personality orientations environmental factors explaining behavior. This study used a framework based on self-determination theory (SDT) to measure combined personal mastery orientation authentic leaders...

The study’s goal is to discover and investigate how students’ grammatical knowledge sense of self-worth influence their capacity for effective oral expression empirically. researchers adopted a quantitative strategy used survey gather information. Seventy-three students were selected at random from the population Private Vocational High Schools in East Jakarta. In order verify hypotheses, multi...