PURPOSE To develop a profiling tool which accurately assigns a patient to the appropriate attitudinal cluster for the management of asthma. METHODS Attitudinal data from an online survey of 2,467 patients with asthma from 8 Asian countries/region, aged 18-50 years, having had ≥2 prescriptions in the previous 2 years and access to social media was used in a discriminant function analysis to id...

severity of rivalry in markets and importance of customer’s maintenance for organization enforced them to gain toward creation, keeping and promotion the relationship with customers and according to scholars’ findings; relationship marketing is one of the best ways. the conceptual model which is used in this paper, aims to investigate the effects of relationship marketing value dimensions such ...

This paper describes a database of affective (emotional) utterances for the Russian language. The database contains recordings of 61 speakers (12 male and 49 female) who pronounce ten sentences neutrally (unemotionally) and expressing the following five emotional states: surprise, happiness, anger, sadness and fear. The database is constructed as a material source for linguistic and speech proc...

To further delineate the conceptual and operational properties of attitude structure, the relationship between affect and behavioral Intentions was tested by Campbell and Fiske's (1959) imiltitrait-multi■ethod matrix procedure. Involved were measures of affect, behavioral intentions, and a multiplicative function of measures of behavioral intentions and the affect toward the behaviors. The resu...

Absenteeism findings published by Steel and Rentsch (1995) were replicated and extended by correlating attitudinal, personal-demographic, and job stress variables with 34 months of work group absenteeism scores obtained on employees of a U.S. federal mint. Attitudinal and job stress results were consistent with previous findings, but results involving personal-demographic variables were not.

Ambition and Jealousy: Income Interactions in the “Old” Europe versus the “New” Europe and the United States This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly concentrates on the relation between satisfaction and reference income (defined as the income...

This article analyzes race-targeted policy in Brazil as both a political stake and a powerful instrument in an unfolding classificatory struggle over the definition of racial boundaries. The Brazilian state traditionally embraced mixed-race classification, but is adopting racial quotas employing a black/white scheme. To explore potential consequences of that turn for beneficiary identification ...

This study attempts to examine the effects of task characteristics and accountability on audit judgment. We found that when the audit task is less structured, such as in analytical reviews, auditors will manifest an attitudinal shift toward the preference of the agent to whom they are accountable. When the audit task is structured such as in internal control evaluations, an attitudinal shift wi...