Abstract Aim Urodynamic assessment is an invasive outpatient diagnostic modality that performed in most urological centres. What the patient experience of our service, regard to levels anxiety, embarrassment and overall satisfaction? Method Patients undergoing urodynamic investigation, between August November 2021, were asked complete a questionnaire, with visual analogue scale (VAS), where 1 w...

The ability to process information abstractly functions traverse psychological distance and expand one’s mental horizons. Therefore, abstract (vs. concrete) thinking may contract) social scope. Accordingly, it was hypothesized that concrete abstract) processing makes one less more) susceptible the perspective of others, attenuating increasing) public—but not private—self-awareness. Four studies...

The authors derive evidence on guilt, shame and embarrassment from (a) Chinese and Japanese cultural data on expressions of emotion, (b) empirical studies of losing face, and ~"\ (c) multilingual-multicultural clinical experiences. A scheme that J has transcultural applicability is proposed for differentiating guilt, shame and embarrassment. The evidence supports the conclusion that these three...

Faced with an unfunded mandate, school and district leaders can respond in several ways. The first, ignoring the mandate, may actually work quite well in some cases. Some mandates turn out to be downright silly and, as long as the consequences are mild, ignoring them is an effective strategy. Most, however, cannot be ignored. Ignoring them results in severe sanctions, including loss of funds an...