People who feel bored experience that their current situation is meaningless and are motivated to reestablish a sense of meaningfulness. Building on the literature that conceptualizes social identification as source of meaningfulness, the authors tested the hypothesis that boredom increases the valuation of ingroups and devaluation of outgroups. Indeed, state boredom increased the liking of an ...

Drawing on the tradition of Danish–German school critical psychology, this empirical study discusses seven unaccompanied asylum-seeking adolescents’ experiences process applying for asylum in Denmark. By privileging first-person perspectives adolescents, authors explore conduct their everyday lives at centre and school. The project’s findings emphasise societal, political, social spatial condit...

The present study investigated the influence of content meaningfulness on eye-movement control in reading and scene viewing. Texts and scenes were manipulated to make them uninterpretable, and then eye-movements in reading and scene-viewing were compared to those in pseudo-reading and pseudo-scene viewing. Fixation durations and saccade amplitudes were greater for pseudo-stimuli. The effect of ...

A Cross-State Comparison of Measures of Subjective Well-Being* Using data drawn from the 2010 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Module, this study examines the relationship between three measures of subjective well-being based on timeuse data and an objective measure of well-being. Whereas the measures of affect – net affect and the U-index – are uncorrelated with the objective quality-of-lif...

Despite the plethora of research on market orientation, our understanding of how different dimensions of market orientation interact with each other in generating new intelligence for marketing programs is limited. In this paper, we develop and test a model that examines the interaction effects of the three dimensions of market orientation—customer orientation, competitor orientation, and cross...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between employees’ empowerment and organizational learning in physical education organization. the research used a descriptive correlation method. statistical population consisted of all employees in physical education organization (n=722) and based on cochran sampling method, 250 subjects were selected for the statistical sample. the ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of and influences on work ability in young workers related to their work and life situation. METHODS In a qualitative study of a strategic sample of 12 young female and 12 young male workers, aged 25-30 years, in work or recently left work, recruited from the 5-year follow-up of a Swedish cohort, semi-structured interviews were perf...

Abstract The synthetic control method (SCM) is widely used to evaluate causal effects under quasi-experimental designs. However, SCM suffers from weaknesses that compromise its accuracy, stability and meaningfulness, due the nested optimization problem of covariate relevance counterfactual weights. We propose a decoupling both problems. economic effect government formation deadlock in Spain-201...