Purpose Teleworkers need to use information and communication technology (ICT) communicate collaborate with their team members, however, when new complicated systems should be used, this can lead stress. Receiving adequate emotional support from members could reduce the stress caused by technological complexity subsequent work occupational strains. Design/methodology/approach Participants ( N =...

Understanding resource managers' perceptions of climate change, analytic capacity, and current adaptation activities can provide insight into what can help support adaptation processes at the local level. In California, where a major drought currently demonstrates some of the hardships that could be regularly encountered under a changing climate, we present results from a survey of drinking wat...

Young children with learning disabilities typically encounter difficulty with academic tasks requiring intentional effort and effective use of metacognitive skills--qualities that competent readers and writers possess. In response to these difficulties, special educators often modify literacy instruction, isolating the "basic skills" of literacy (such as decoding and penmanship) from meaningful...

The author uses a tridimensional approach to sustainable development in organizations which includes social, economic and environmental dimensions. This approach is consistent with the Brundtland Commission Report, United Nations notion and views of various authors that economic growth, social equity, and environmental maintenance are simultaneously achievable. Creating a learning organization ...

BACKGROUND Infertility all around the world and in every culture is recognized as a stressful and critical experience that threatens individual, familial, marital, and social stability. Thus, in accordance with the importance of a woman's mental health and the possible impact of mental health on treatment outcome, finding a way to deal with perceived stress in women can help improve pregnancy o...

This study aimed to investigate the role of teacher support and equity in relationship between teacher’s autonomy-promoting behavior students’ learning strategies. The approach examines direct autonomy-supportive strategies via perceived support. It also discusses effect for Data were obtained from 24 secondary schools nine Lithuanian municipalities with poor socioeconomic level contexts ( N = ...

This study explored a moderated mediation model, which is based on the assumption about direct relationship between teachers’ autonomy-supportive behaviours and students’ learning strategies via perceived classroom management as well effect of growth mindset for relationships (1) applied by students (2) students. Data were collected from 23 secondary schools in municipalities Lithuania with low...

BACKGROUND Global climate change impacts on human and natural systems are predicted to be severe, far reaching, and to affect the most physically and economically vulnerable disproportionately. Society can respond to these threats through two strategies: mitigation and adaptation. Industry, commerce, and government play indispensable roles in these actions but so do individuals, if they are rec...