This paper tested antecedents of organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCB-E) and goal self-concordance as a mediator between those OCB-E or related outcomes. We proposed that core self-evaluations, well-studied antecedent (OCB), are also to newer form OCB – namely, OCB-E. Similarly, we environmental identity, pro-environmental behaviors (PEBS), specific PEBS again, The relat...

BACKGROUND Medication adherence can be essential for improving health outcomes. Patients with multiple chronic conditions, often receiving multiple medications, are at higher risk for medication nonadherence. Previous research has focused on concordance between patients and providers about which medication should be taken. However, the question of whether patients and providers are concordant i...

OBJECTIVE To assess concordance between self-reported amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) use and toxicology results among young female sex workers (FSW) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. METHODS Cross-sectional data from the Young Women's Health Study-2 (YWHS-2), a prospective study of HIV and ATS use among young (15 to 29 years) FSW in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, was analyzed. The YWHS-2 assessed sociodemogr...

BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) adoption is essential for obesity prevention and control, yet ethnic minority women report lower levels of PA and are at higher risk for obesity and its comorbidities compared to Caucasians. Epidemiological studies and ecologic models of health behavior suggest that built environmental factors are associated with health behaviors like PA, but few studies have e...

OBJECTIVE In large cohort studies comorbidities are usually self-reported by the patients. This way to collect health information only represents conditions known, memorized and openly reported by the patients. Several studies addressed the relationship between self-reported comorbidities and medical records or pharmacy data, but none of them provided a structured, documented method of evaluati...

BACKGROUND Detention in a secure forensic psychiatric hospital may inhibit engagement and recovery. Having validated the clinician rated DUNDRUM-3 (programme completion) and DUNDRUM-4 (recovery) in a forensic hospital, we set out to draft and validate scales measuring the same programme completion and recovery items that patients could use to self-rate. Based on previous work, we hypothesised t...

0092-6566/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2009.05.006 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (A The present work tested whether increases in level of action construal would relate to perceiving greater concordance among one’s ongoing goals, thereby facilitating positive affect. In two studies, construing action abstractly was found to re...

We extend existing theories by linking transformational leadership to “self-concordance” at work. In two studies using diverse samples and methods, leader behaviors were associated with follower tendencies to set self-concordant goals. In general, followers of transformational leaders viewed their work as more important and as more self-congruent. The effects of self-concordant work goals on jo...

We deene the notion of self-concordance of order two for the restriction f of a logarithmic barrier function to a given line. Based on this notion we prove an inner approximation of the domain of f, as well as a lower bound of the distance from a point t to the minimum of f. These results provide the theoretical tools to develop a simple and eecient search step for nding the minimum of the barr...