Workers’ job satisfaction is considered a critical indicator for the effectiveness of socio-technical interventions in the work place. However, job satisfaction represents a complex psychological phenomenon with many contributing factors that can be difficult to assess. To facilitate assessments of job satisfaction we review psychological theories and metrics of job satisfaction to investigate ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate attempts in the military to screen for vulnerability to psychological disorders from World War I to the present. METHODS An extensive literature review was conducted by hand-searching leading medical and psychological journals relating to World Wars I and II. Recent publications were surveyed electronically and UK archives investigated for British applications. RESULT...

OBJECTIVES Patients with fibromyalgia (FM) undergo multiple testing and referral to specialists, and often use complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) services. The objectives of the study were: (i) to document health service utilization, and (ii) to examine whether psychological vulnerability was associated with visits to physicians and CAM providers. METHODS Women (N = 178) with a diagnosi...

This research explored aspects of agile teamwork initiatives associated with positive socio-psychological phenomena, with a focus on phenomena outside the scope of traditional management, organizational, and software engineering research. Agile teams were viewed as complex adaptive socio-technical systems. Qualitative grounded theory was used to explore the socio-psychological characteristics o...

There is lack of evidence on the health effects of perceived discrimination. We analysed the association between perceived discrimination and psychological distress, and whether socio-economic disadvantage explains this association in 15,406 men and 17,922 women in Sweden during 2004. After adjustment for age and long-term illness, frequent experiences of discrimination were associated with inc...

Although there is general acknowledgement that socio-psychological forces have important implications for knowledge management, they are difficult to conceptualise and analyse. This paper presents framework for studying socio-psychological forces in knowledge activities. The utility of the framework is demonstrated by applying it to a case study that examines the impact of national culture on t...

OBJECTIVES Women with infertility experience higher rates of psychological distress compared with their fertile counterparts. In developing countries, socio-cultural factors may aggravate this distress. We aimed to determine the prevalence of psychological distress as well as its associated socio-cultural characteristics among women attending the infertility clinic of a tertiary hospital in Nig...

The World Wide Web has deeply changed our world and, over years, it has shaped our society. Social networks like Facebook strongly speed up the spreading of information among users, and allow people to communicate simultaneously with several individuals. As result, when studying sociological phenomena and socio-psychological behaviors, we have to consider the influence that the WWW has on peopl...

several factors may make children vulnerable to psychological problems. attachment style can be considered as a risk factor for later psychological pathology. the main purpose of this study was to explain vulnerability to somatization and anxiety based on attachment styles in university students in tehran. the research method was descriptive- correlation. the statistical population comprised of...

BACKGROUND Hurricane Ike struck the Galveston Bay area of Texas on September 13, 2008, leaving substantial destruction and a number of deaths in its wake. We assessed differences in the determinants of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression after this event, including the particular hurricane experiences, including postevent nontraumatic stressors, that were associated with these p...