CONTEXT Ambivalence in pregnancy intentions is well-documented in sub-Saharan African (SSA) settings and has been associated with inconsistent use of contraception, thereby exposing women using contraception to the possibility of unintended pregnancies. A better understanding of the potential role for client counseling interventions in enabling women to achieve their pregnancy intentions is ess...

This article compares the first two Dutch translations of Qur’an printed in Republic: De Arabische Alkoran (1641) published by Barent Adriaensz Berentsma and Mahomets (1657) Jan Rieuwertsz. It builds upon previous bibliographic research quantifying abbreviation Surahs editions, identifying sources paratexts, describing different strategies for translation. analysis reveals how editing choices r...

OBJECTIVE Ambivalence can be understood as a cyclical movement between an emerging narrative novelty-an Innovative Moment (IM)-and a return to a problematically dominant self-narrative. The return implies that the IM, with its potential for change is devalued right after its emergence. Our goal is to test the hypothesis that the probability of the client expressing such form of ambivalence decr...

We explore user ambivalence towards interpersonal informatics systems for smoking cessation. Smokers desire support through such systems to help them reflect on their habits and create strategies for changing them, yet at the same time they are reluctant to share personal information via these systems. We conducted interviews with smokers and recent exsmokers to discuss their current practices ...

One study examined modes of social identification (‘attachment’ to the group and in-group ‘glorification’) that can lead people to experience positive psychological consequences from their cognition-based ambivalent evaluations of the in-group. As expected, among highly attached participants, cognitive in-group ambivalence predicted a stronger perception of their ambivalent views about fellow g...

BACKGROUND A scale aimed at measuring ambivalence among people with pachinko/pachi-slot playing disorder, the Pachinko/Pachi-Slot Playing Ambivalence Scale (PPAS), was developed and its reliability and validity ascertained. METHODS A total of 522 participants (average year: 48.0) who were residing in Tokyo Metropolitan Area, and had played pachinko within the previous year completed questions...

We examined how listeners characterized by empathy and a non-judgmental approach affect speakers' attitude structure. We hypothesized that high quality listening decreases speakers' social anxiety, which in turn reduces defensive processing. This reduction in defensive processing was hypothesized to result in an awareness of contradictions (increased objective-attitude ambivalence), and decreas...