Beneficiaries can have prior expectations of not receiving benefits and imagine ex-post that were given. The present study examined the preregistered hypothesis these two kinds absence simulations increase gratitude. Both Studies 1 2 conducted in a Japanese university. In Study 1, reading manipulated vignette made participants simulation condition expect to receive benefit, while those control ...

Apart from these pragmatic goals, the vignette provides a means to look-up the role of any parameters in our formulation of the Bayesian model. A more detailed discussion of the Bayesian model is provided elsewhere [? ]. If you are content with the default settings provided when creating an instance of the XdeParameter class, fitting the model, assessing convergence, and generating alternative ...

BACKGROUND University students have high rates of depression, and friends are often the most commonly-used source of support for emotional distress in this population. This study aimed to explore students' ability to provide effective support for their peers with depressive symptoms and the factors influencing the quality of their mental health first aid (MHFA) skills, including students' gende...

Extending research on the ‘disharmony stereotype’, we examined teachers-in-training’s perceptions of gifted children’s characteristics and their expected teacher-child interactions. Also, investigated whether adding context information that contrasts impaired social functioning students could buffer teachers’ stereotypes. An experiment was conducted (N = 522 teachers-in-training), using a 2 × b...

Older people who experience declining health are often faced with difficult decisions about possible residential relocation. The research aim was to determine how five distinct dimensions—functional status, features of current housing, social networks, features of retirement communities, and financial considerations—affect decisions to relocate to a retirement community. A vignette experiment w...

OBJECTIVE High incidence, rising admission rates, and relatively ineffective therapies make the management of bronchiolitis controversial. Since 1980, the rate of hospitalization for children with bronchiolitis has increased by nearly 250%, whereas mortality rates for the disease have remained constant. It has been speculated that the increasing use of pulse oximetry has lowered the threshold f...

BACKGROUND Although mental health literacy has been widely studied in adults, there are still relatively few studies on adolescent populations. In Sri Lanka, adolescents account for about one fifth of the population. Current evidence shows that most mental health problems diagnosed in adulthood begin in adolescence. There is also growing evidence that the trajectories of these disorders can be ...

This vignette is preliminary, and should be viewed as subject to change. A number of the functions are not directly exported by the package – there is a reason for that. In this vignette we demonstrate how to visualize data using the GenomeGraphs package. The main idea is that we want to build a plotting function which we can use to plot regions. The simplest case is the following: First, we ma...

OBJECTIVES To assess recognition of five mental disorders (alcohol abuse, dementia, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia) among a sample of medical students using a vignette-based approach. Socio-demographic predictors of correct recognition were also explored. DESIGN Cross-sectional online survey. PARTICIPANTS Medical students studying in Singapore. METHODS T...

BACKGROUND There are barely any studies focusing on migration in relation to mental illness stigma. We explore present attitudes regarding depression among migrants (either born in Germany or born abroad) and non-migrants in Germany, drawing upon three components of public stigma: stereotypes, emotional reactions and desire for social distance. Furthermore, differences in self-stigma of depress...