Reduction of death anxiety in patients with advanced cancer in short-term psychotherapy. [PDF]
Oberth P+3 more
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Refusal of male partner responsibility and pregnancy support: prevalence, associated factors and health outcomes in a cross sectional study in Harare, Zimbabwe. [PDF]
Shamu S, Shamu P, Machisa MT.
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How dispositional optimism-pessimism relates to early adolescents' emotional maladjustment during COVID-19? Moderating roles of knowledge about the disease and parent-child conflicts. [PDF]
Jiang Y, Wu D, Lin X.
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Dynamic contests and the discouragement effect
Considering several main types of dynamic contests (the race, the tug-of-war, elimination contests and iterated incumbency fights) we identify a common pattern: the discouragement effect.
Kai A. Konrad
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Discouragement effect and alternative formats to increase suspense in professional biathlon
Research Question The paper analyzes mass start competitions in professional biathlon, where 30 biathletes start simultaneously. This structure allows us to test the existence of discouragement effect, according to which biathletes reduce their efforts ...
Alex Krumer
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Transitions in the Labour Market: Discouragement Effect and Individual Characteristics
The present work analyses the unemployment gender gap in Italy for the period 2004-11. We present a methodology for decomposing the natural rate of unemployment, thus defining it in terms of equilibrium labour market flows between the aggregate states of
Maurizio Baussola, Chiara Mussida
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A Note on the Discouragement Effect
Considers the methodological ramifications involved in measuring the discouragement effect in an area such as the Ozarks. Evidence on the discouragement effect; Migration and status shifts possible under the census's labor-force definition; Impact of net migration and labor-force status shifts on labor force and unemployment rates.
Robert L. Sandmeyer, Larkin B. Warner
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The effect of encouragement and of discouragement upon performance. [PDF]
G. S. Gates, L. Q. Rissland
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Discouragement Among Women Entrepreneurs and the Effect of Community Empowerment
Juanita Kimiyo Forrester+1 more
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