The present study investigated the teachers’ attitudes towards children with voice disorders. Three groups of listeners participated in this study: 15 primary school teachers, 15 speech therapy students, and 15 general university students. They were required to make attitude judgments for 12 children voices (6 with normal voice; 2 with mild voice disorder; 2 with moderate voice disorder; and 2 ...

BACKGROUND A negative attitude toward disability is one of the potential barriers for people with disability (PWD) to achieve social equality. Although numerous studies have investigated attitudes toward disability, few have evaluated personal attitudes toward disability among PWD, and made comparisons with attitudes of healthy respondents. This study was to investigate and compare the attitude...

This study examined associations between loneliness, a construct associated with serious adverse mental health outcomes, and positive mental wellbeing. Validated measures of loneliness (represented by friendship related loneliness, isolation, positive attitude to solitude, and negative attitude to solitude) and positive mental wellbeing were administered to 1,143 adolescents from urban and rura...

This study develops an original framework to explore the influence of excessive product packaging on green brand attachment and to discuss the mediation roles of green brand attitude and green brand image. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is applied to verify the research framework. The results from a dataset of 238 valid questionnaires show that excessive product packaging has no direct effe...

The rise of new communication technologies such as instant messaging systems in enterprises enables employees to communicate and cooperate in new ways. In general, it is believed that these new communication technologies have a positive impact on communication effectiveness and the attitude towards information sharing of employees but at the same time some negative impacts as well, such as crea...

The global statistics reveal that at least one in every five women experiences rape or attempted rape during her lifetime. Rape myths encompass a set of (false) beliefs. Adolescents have high rates of rape victimization than other age groups. Rape myths among health care providers may have a negative influence on proper care of the victims. A total of 422 medical undergraduates of both sexes, s...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to investigate medical students' views on general practice based on their experiences in training, and to find out whether there were certain views associated with the intention to become a GP. METHODS A questionnaire, based on our earlier studies about GP working behaviour, was handed out to medical students in terms 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 and 11 of undergraduate s...

Breastfeeding is the recommended feeding for all healthy infants. The aim of our study was to assess the current state of breastfeeding prevalence, duration and behaviour in Bavaria, Germany as a basis for targeting breastfeeding promotion measures. The Bavarian Breastfeeding Study is a prospective cohort study of 3822 mothers who delivered in April 2005 in Bavaria, Germany. Breastfeeding durat...

Computer anxiety as a kind of state anxiety that refer to “the negative emotional and cognitive reactions in some people that occur during work with the computer” and maybe considered as a challenge to their capabilities. In the present study, computer anxiety and positive and negative attitudes to it were examinated among undergraduate students of Kangavar Payam-e-Noor University. This descrip...

Interaction synchrony among interlocutors happens naturally as people adapt their speaking style gradually to promote efficient communication. In this work, we quantify one aspect of interaction synchrony prosodic entrainment, specifically pitch and energy, in married couples’ problem-solving interactions using speech signal-derived measures. Statistical testings demonstrate that some of these ...