BACKGROUND England's Time To Change (TTC) social marketing campaign emphasised social contact between people with and without mental health problems to reduce stigma and discrimination. AIMS We aimed to assess the effectiveness of the mass media component and also that of the mass social contact events. METHOD Online interviews were performed before and after each burst of mass media social...

OBJECTIVES First, to explore the kind of information that Mexican mothers give their daughters about menstruation before their menarche, and to study the impact of this communication on how prepared the daughters felt when they experienced their menarche. Second, to investigate the influence of the menarcheal experience on attitudes toward menstruation. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTIN...

Open Educational Resources (OER) have become widespread, but constantly lack adoption. The various studies that address this predominantly focus on structural causes (e.g. of time, legal uncertainty) while omitting individual factors. However, the latter especially can yield insights into ‘black box’ drivers for OER engagement. Employing a theoretical concept attitudes, we investigate whether f...

and on their differing feelings toward the politicians (in this case, across liking, trusting, and feeling affiliated with the candidates). After 16 test runs, the voters did indeed change their attitudes and feelings toward the candidates in different and yet generally realistic ways, and even changed their attitudes about other issues based on what a candidate extolled.

Harary’s structural balance theory based on the idea of Heider explains social processes and is used to account for social actor’s attitudes toward another. We propose a social value emergence model in the form of an agent-based simulation model. In this model, the structural balance theory is used to explain the feelings, attitudes and beliefs. Each agent is in effort to reach balanced states ...

This study examines attitudinal differences related to osteoporosis between first and second generation Japanese-American women. In an interview, the women completed a battery of tests assessing their attitudes, values, and beliefs about the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care of osteoporosis. The groups differed in their general knowledge of osteoporosis, perceptions of the disease, attri...

Green exercise is physical activity that takes place in the presence of natural environments. Despite the promising evidence of the benefits, little is known about how individuals' thoughts and feelings influence participation in green exercise and subsequent outcomes. The aim of the current research was to develop questionnaires using the Theory of Planned Behaviour as a framework that could b...

BACKGROUND Breastfeeding attitudes are known to influence infant feeding but little information exists on the prenatal breastfeeding attitudes of parents. The purpose of this study was to describe Finnish parents' prenatal breastfeeding attitudes and their relationships with demographic characteristics. METHODS The electronic Breastfeeding Knowledge, Attitude and Confidence scale was develope...

" Extraversion" and " introversion " are descriptive terms denoting two types of behavioural reaction and personality organization widely recognized and described in psychological literature (Guilford, 1934; Eysenck, 1953). "Extraverted behaviour " is characterized clinically by the outward expression of feelings and attitudes, in words; gestures, and acts, in a spontaneous and direct manner, l...