Using meta-analysis, we compare three attitudinal outcomes (i.e., job satisfaction, affective commitment, and turnover intent), three behavioral outcomes (i.e., interpersonal deviance, organizational deviance, and work performance), and four health-related outcomes (i.e., general health, depression, emotional exhaustion, and physical well being) of workplace aggression from three different sour...

Loyalty concept is analyzed under different points of view such as brand, customer or store loyalty. Furthermore, due to the advancements in relationship marketing concept and the raising prominence of building relationship with the customers, this study focuses on the store loyalty aspect and aims to investigate the relationship between store loyalty and the customers’ relational benefits (soc...

A visual information feedback mechanism for group decision making (GDM) problems with triangular fuzzy complementary preference relations (TFCPRs) is investigated. The concepts of similarity degree (SD) between two experts as well as the proximity degree (PD) between an expert and the rest of experts in the group are developed for TFCPRs. The consensus level (CL) is defined by combining SD and ...

BACKGROUND Education is integral to reducing stigma toward the mentally ill. Medical educators have a key role in delivering education that reduces that stigma. Undergraduate psychiatric training and specific education programs are both effective in reducing stigma. However, many students are exposed to concepts of mental illness at a much earlier stage in their education. No previous study has...

Using a system of structural equations, this paper empirically examines the relationship of residential neighborhood type to travel behavior, incorporating attitudinal, lifestyle, and demographic variables. Data on these variables were collected from residents of five neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1993 (final N 1⁄4 515), including ‘‘traditional’’ and ‘‘suburban’’ as well as mix...

BACKGROUND Medical tourism is the term that describes patients' international travel with the intention of seeking medical treatment. Some medical tourists go abroad for orthopaedic surgeries, including hip and knee resurfacing and replacement. In this article we examine the findings of interviews with Canadian medical tourists who went abroad for such surgeries to determine what is distinctive...

This paper investigates the epistemic and attitudinal meanings of rise and rise-plateau contours in listing contexts. Previous accounts of list intonation have made claims about epistemic meanings for list intonation, though without experimental evidence. In our first study, a metalinguistic task, subjects perceived rise and rise-plateau contours in listing contexts as having epistemic but also...

The aim of this paper is to identify and understand the role of the attitudinal factors involved in annoyance reported due to railway vibration. Many non-acoustical factors have been identified with various degrees of association with annoyance due to noise exposure. In particular, attitudinal factors have shown a large effect on noise annoyance reporting. However, the novelty of this work lies...

The problem of closure for the traditional unstructured possible worlds model attitudinal content is that it treats belief and other cognitive states as closed under entailment, despite apparent counterexamples showing this not a necessary property such states. One solution to problem, which has been proposed recently by several authors (Schaffer in: Hawthorne Gendler (eds) Oxford studies in ep...