Attitudes of 40 interns towards rational drug use (RDU) were assessed, using a standardized Likert type scale. The assessment was repeated after 4 months to evaluate the effect of usual working conditions of the hospital. After this period, the attitudes had slided towards negative side (p < 0.01). At this point, an intervention in the form of a workshop was provided for half the group while ot...

This paper set out to explore and compare the experiences attitudes of self-identified Muslim students (N = 84) Christian 87) attending same Anglican primary schools in Wales within context Student Voice Project. The data identified two distinct attitudinal trajectories, one assessed by Scale Attitude toward my School other Religion School. No significant differences were found between terms at...

Medical ethics education remains an important venue of moral education. In spite of the intensity of these efforts, the desired outcomes of medical ethics education remain obscure, undefined and largely untested. In the first part of this study, the goals of medical ethics are operationalized along cognitive, behavioral and attitudinal dimensions. This includes a written moral judgment test, a ...

BACKGROUND Current population-based anti-obesity campaigns often target individuals based on either weight or socio-demographic characteristics, and give a 'mass' message about personal responsibility. There is a recognition that attempts to influence attitudes and opinions may be more effective if they resonate with the beliefs that different groups have about the causes of, and solutions for,...

Dolores Albarracín and Wei Wang Department of Psychology University of Florida History presents abundant examples that people who strongly advocate and defend a given attitudinal position often change this position, becoming “converted” to points of view that are opposite to the ones they initially held. One reason for such changes is the degree to which individuals perceive that they can defen...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to review literature relevant to cohesion measurement, explore developing measurement approaches, and provide theoretical and practical recommendations for optimizing cohesion measurement. BACKGROUND Cohesion is essential for team effectiveness and performance, leading researchers to focus attention on understanding how to enhance it. However, cohesion is i...

The current study qualitatively examined blurbs in the discipline of physics which is perceived to be less infused with evaluative resources and more objective and impersonal in its textual argumentation. The study followed the appraisal framework proposed by Martin and White (2005) to see how interpersonal meaning is textually constructed in blurbs. Findings indicated that writers of the blurb...

this study investigates the effect of co-production on customer loyalty (attitudinal and behavioral separately) and factors which may boost co-production in an iranian bank. to investigate co-production in banking services, the proposed model of auh et al. (2007) was applied. given the fact that many banks try to get the status of their main customers, co-production was examined due to its pote...