Public health emergency planners can better perform their mission if they develop and maintain effective relationships with community- and faith-based organizations in their jurisdictions. This qualitative study presents six themes that emerged from 20 key informant interviews representing a wide range of American community- and faith-based organizations across different types of jurisdictions,...

In Study 1, we tested a model in which two job demands (i.e., changes in tasks and ambiguities about work) and organizational resources (i.e., interpersonal and informational justice) influence work engagement through the satisfaction of individuals' psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. In Study 2, we examined the indirect effects of the same job demands and organizati...

The initiation of voluntary action is preceded by up to 2s of preparatory neural activity, originating in premotor and supplementary motor regions of the brain. The function of this extended period of pre-movement activity is unclear. Although recent studies have suggested that pre-movement activity is influenced by attention to action, little is understood about the specific processes that are...

Grounded in the Motivated Learning Strategies Model, this paper proposes a testable framework to explore how access to digital information impacts learning through examining the mediating factor of engagement. While the implications of patterns of behavior on learning and learning outcomes are significant, we first must understand what drives students to engage with their course content in the ...

In this article, researchers set out to discover the metadiscourse markers in research articles written by both native and non-native English speakers. To this end, a total number of twenty research articles published by Iranian and native English speakers in highly reputed journals on Arts and Humanities domains were randomly selected from major databases including Science Direct, Noormagz, an...

statistics anxiety has a positive relationship with academic drop-out and deserves greater attention. this study examines a model explaining the impact of students’ achievement goals on their statistics anxiety through levels of their academic engagement. three hundred and fifteen undergraduate students (53 males and 262 females) who studied educational sciences and psychology in the state univ...

one of the most important issues in educational psychology is school engagement and academic achievement among students. based on self system model, a set of contextual factors (relations with teachers like perceived autonomy, structure, and involvement) through personal psychological characteristics (autonomy, relatedness, competence) is related to school engagement. the purpose of this study ...

this study has been done with the aim of determining the effect of financial and nonfinancial compensation satisfaction on employee engagement considering mediator role of perceived organizational justice. the research statistical population included eight hundred sixty two isfahan municipality employees. three hundred fourtheen persons were selected as the research sample by stratified random ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of bureaucratic structure on the employee engagement (EE). Our study extends previous researches by considering bureaucracy from two points of view: enabling versus hindering. We study the extent to which these two types of bureaucracy are related to the two forms of employee engagement: organizational (OE) and work engagement (WE). The vie...