This study aimed to analyze the factor structure of Coleman and Karraker’s (2003) Self-Efficacy of the Parenting Task Index Toddlers Scale, which assesses mothers’ and fathers’ parental self-efficacy (PSE) at child ages 1.5 and 3 years. A 5-factor model consisting of Presence, Emotional Support, Routines, Playing, and Teaching was found to have good measurement validity. All PSE dimensions were...

BACKGROUND The relationship between passive smoking exposure (PSE) and breast cancer risk is of major interest. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between PSE from partners and breast cancer risk stratified by hormone-receptor (HR) status in Chinese urban women population. DESIGN Hospital-based matched case control study. SETTING Chinese urban breast cancer patients without current or...

ABSTRACT The study aims to show the evolution of percentage schools adhering School Health Program (PSE) that carried out a collective activity on Promotion Adequate and Healthy Eating (PAAS) over last five years verify if there is difference in this indicator according adhesion Growth (PCS). Ecological study, developed with data registered Information System for Primary Care (SISAB). performan...

Abstract Given recent sociocultural and economic changes that have created significant pressures on South Korean mothers, we were interested in understanding the factors might contribute to their sense of competence taking challenges childrearing. We examined several family conditions theoretically supportive mothers’ parenting self-efficacy (PSE), specifically whether PSE was associated with m...

In this paper, we introduce a new framework called PSE Park for constructing a Problem Solving Environment (PSE); it enables us to construct PSEs easily. PSE Park outputs PSEs depending on user’s demand/input. In this sense, PSE Park is a kind of PSE for PSE, and helps users to construct PSEs. PSE Park consists of four engines: PIPE server, core, registration engine, and console. A PSE designed...

BACKGROUND The most important knowledge in the field of patient safety is regarding the prevention and reduction of patient safety events (PSE) during treatment and care. The similarities and patterns among the events may otherwise go unnoticed if they are not properly reported and analyzed. There is an urgent need for developing a PSE reporting system that can dynamically measure the similarit...

Abstract A Problem Solving Environment for the finite element method (FEM-PSE) is an application system to support users pursuing a career in the finite element analysis (FEA). There are two types of users associated with the FEA. One is analysis-user who uses application software of the FEM and the other is development-user who develops application software of the FEM. We used an abstraction t...

Parental self-efficacy (PSE) is a key to the child-parent relationship. It reflects parents’ self-perception of their ability perform parenting tasks successfully and high level parental associated with positive child outcomes. The literature on cultural differences regarding PSE scant. This study applied perspective examined between Arab Jewish mothers regard factors such as marital satisfacti...

Producer brands increasingly dominate the international wine market. Concurrently, generic advertising campaigns are launched in an attempt to promote wine origin and exports (e.g. Australia, Austria, Spain). We analyze U.S. price data and quality indicators for 24 wine growing regions within eleven countries using a hedonic modeling approach. We assess the value of producer brands vs. geograph...