Mental health problems are highly prevalent among university students, but little is known about their underlying determinants. This study explores mental the association between “effort-reward imbalance” (ERI), overcommitment and health, to what extent ERI explain gender differences in health. Cross-sectional data were analyzed from 4760 Italian students. The Kessler Psychological Distress Sca...

The stigma of mental illness—the negative attitudes toward and rejection of the mentally ill— is a topic that has received increasing attention in recent years. The President's Commission on Mental Health (1978) recommended that a task force be established to help reduce stigma, to improve public understanding of mental illness, to assist former patients in the community, and to encourage the m...

The relationships were studied between daily life, work, and mental disorders in female health workers from the Mexican Health Insurance Institute. The study sample (n = 170) included female physicians, nurses, laboratory workers, and medical assistants. Primary data were obtained through an interview which had been previously validated in a population of workers in Mexico. Relationships were f...

Much of the effort devoted to promoting better hand hygiene is based on the belief that poor hand hygiene reflects poor motivation. We argue, however, that automatic unconscious behaviour driven by 'mental models' is an important contributor to what actually happens. Mental models are concepts of reality--imaginary, often blurred, and sometimes unstable. Human beings use them to reduce mental l...

This paper presents a new effort based model for software usability and reports the results of a set of experiments performed to assess the validity of the model. The model is based on the notion that usability is an inverse function of effort. Physical and mental effort are obtained and inferred from logging physical activity and eye tracking. Using the new model, an objective metric of softwa...

Auseinet has also been committed to producing high quality information, resources and research that supports and facilitates the implementation of mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention initiatives. This is demonstrated by one of Auseinet's most recent publications 'Mental Health and Work: Issues and Perspectives' launched at the Auseinet National Forum in September 2002. It...

Cooperating and trusting behavior may be explained with preferences over social outcomes (people care about others, are unselfish and helpful), or attitudes to work and social responsibilities (plans have to be carried out, norms have to be followed). We test the relative importance of these two factors considering personality traits of subjects in experiments with costly mental effort provisio...