This paper analyzes the impact of job insecurity perceptions on individual well-being. While previous studies on the subject have used the concept of perceived job insecurity rather arbitrarily, the present analysis explicitly takes into account individual perceptions about both the likelihood and the potential costs of job loss. We demonstrate that any model assessing the impact of perceived j...

Learned Helplessness is an important concept to understand because it provides a foundation in theory developments. This concept is considered a personality trait of one who feels hopeless; their responses are unimportant and lose control of external environment. Understanding the definition will help health professionals in nursing and psychology. In both disciplines, understanding learned hel...

Does childhood depression involve a perceived lack of control? The answer may depend on which dimension of control one examines. Here, building on recent theory, we distinguished between two dimensions: beliefs about the contingency of outcomes and beliefs about one's own competence to perform outcome-relevant behavior. Three separate groups of clinic-referred children (aged 8-17} were sampled,...

BACKGROUND The associations between socioeconomic status (SES), physical and psychosocial workload and health are well documented. According to The Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS), learned response outcome expectancies (coping, helplessness, and hopelessness) are also important contributors to health. This is in part as independent factors for health, but coping may also function a...

Perceived autonomy, overall job satisfaction, and specific work incentives and disincentives were surveyed in 249 occupational therapists. Respondents rated autonomy and job satisfaction moderately high. They perceived achievement, interpersonal relationships with co-workers, and the nature of the work itself as incentives. The lack of organizational support for training, opportunity for advanc...

PURPOSE To explore those contextual factors that predict potential suicide ideation among students who observe bullying at school. METHODS 1,592 students of whom 1,009 who reported having observed bullying at school were surveyed from 14 secondary schools in the North of England. Role-related (not-involved, victim, perpetrator, 'bully-victim' and observer) and gender-wise comparisons of key v...

End-stage renal disease (ESRD), a chronic life-threatening condition, and its treatment by hemodialysis impose severe limitations over a number of significant life dimensions. Variations in treatment, however, afford patients with differing degrees of control over this facet of their illness, and renal transplantation removes these constraints. This situation was employed as a naturally occurri...

background and aims: the prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents is increasing worldwide. one of the key lifestyle behaviors that helps prevent obesity and being overweight among children and adolescents is to avoid drinking sugar-sweetened beverages (ssbs) or to take, at most, one serving per day. the present study intended to evaluate knowledge and perceptions of high school girl...