BACKGROUND Recruiting, retaining, and training oncology nurses is challenging given the stress levels associated with a field with constantly evolving treatments and a need for expertise in death and dying. OBJECTIVES This research was conducted to assess what is unique about oncology nursing, to identify what motivates oncology nurses to continue working in the specialty, and to determine wh...

From a personal perspective, the author reflects upon the notion that many research findings appear falsely to possess the quality of being “obvious”. Specific attention is given to the topic of teacher effectiveness. The feeling that findings are obvious can be related to the following: the false consensus effect, self-serving cognition, hindsight bias, base-rate neglect, illusory correlations...

The aim of this qualitative study was to examine the different facets of meaning that people who are severely mentally ill and unemployed may find in their everyday occupations. Twelve unemployed people with severe mental illness, six who attended day centres and six who did not, were interviewed regarding their experience of meaning in everyday occupations. The data were analysed with content ...

There is a growing interest in persuasive games designed to positively influence players’ well-being in areas such as physical and mental health, particularly in terms of education. Designing such “wellbeing games” is challenging because games themselves have not been sufficiently examined from this perspective. Examining the ways popular games convey messages persuasively is an important step ...

In this work, we are comparing the subjective security feeling of mobile phone users to the (objectively agreed) best security practices. This was possible by statistically processing a large pool of 7172 students in 17 Universities of 10 European countries. We introduced a “mean actual security value”, comparing their security practices to best practices. There was a clear negative connection ...

This article suggests that communities and social ties support the feeling of being meaningful. The theoretical concepts discussed here are capital, community, new forms ties. data consists 969 answers from citizens different ages three cities. Despite possibilities global ties, Finns seem to be quite traditional when it comes a meaningful life: sources communality “old communities” such as wor...

> Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. laughs the face of all types discrimination1 These telling words Nelson Mandela allude to ubiquitous and global phenomenon discrimination, prevalent societal despair we have witnessed recent past, wish foster. They also remind us honour being involved world sport e...

The medial prefrontal cortex exhibits a higher resting metabolic rate than many other brain regions. This physiological default mode might support a psychological default state of chronic self-evaluation that helps people consider their strengths and weaknesses when planning future actions. However, a recent imaging study that relates medial prefrontal cortex activity to self-evaluation raises ...