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The relationship between attentional processing of emotional information and personality : a comparison between older and younger adults [PDF]

, 2019
Older adults have been found to focus more on positive and less on negative information compared to younger adults. Yet, results on this attentional positivity effect are inconsistent.
De Raedt, Rudi, Demeyer, Ineke, Rossi, Gina, Steenhaut, Priska   +3 more
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Consistency With and Disengagement From Self-monitoring of Weight, Dietary Intake, and Physical Activity in a Technology-Based Weight Loss Program: Exploratory Study

JMIR Formative Research, 2022
BackgroundDigital self-monitoring tools offer promise to improve adherence to self-monitoring of weight and weight-related behaviors; however, less is known regarding the patterns of participant consistency and disengagement with ...
Chelsea A Carpenter, Abraham Eastman, Kathryn M Ross   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender differences in adolescents' academic motivation and classroom behaviour [PDF]

, 2013
© 2013 Taylor & Francis. The present study investigated gender differences in adolescents’ academic motivation and classroom behaviour and gender differences in the extent to which motivation was associated with, and predicted, classroom behaviour ...
Bugler, Myfanwy, McGeown, Sarah P., St Clair-Thompson, Helen   +2 more
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Perceptual Control Theory for Engagement and Disengagement of Users in Public Spaces [PDF]

, 2017
This paper presents Perceptual Control Theory-a model that explains behaviour as an attempt to keep sensory inputs in a desired range and demonstrates that it can be used to develop an approach designed to make robots capable of human interaction.
Deshmukh, Amol, Foster, Mary Ellen, Vinciarelli, Alessandro   +2 more
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Despotic Leadership and Front-Line Employee Deviant Work Behaviors in Service Organizations: The Roles of Moral Disengagement and Moral Identity

Journal of services research, 2023
Research on despotic leadership and its impacts on the behavior of front-line employees (FLE) in service organizations is nascent. Drawing on the social cognitive theory of morality, we develop and test a model in two service settings investigating the ...
M. Akhtar, Thomas Garavan, Fauzia Syed, Chunhui Huo, Muzhar Javed, Fergal O’Brien   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The applicability of self-regulation theories in sport : goal adjustment capacities, stress appraisals, coping and well-being among athletes [PDF]

, 2016
Objectives: We examined a model, informed by self-regulation theories, which included goal adjustment capacities, appraisals of challenge and threat, coping, and well-being. Design: Prospective.
Carson, Fraser, Levy, Andrew R., Nicholls, Adam R., Perry, John L., Thompson, Mark A.   +4 more
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Not fitting in and getting out : psychological type and congregational satisfaction among Anglican churchgoers in England [PDF]

, 2012
Listening to the motivations reported by individuals for ceasing church attendance and becoming church leavers, Francis and Richter identified high on the list the sense of "not fitting in".
Ball IL, Bigelow ED, Craig CL, Delis-Bulhoes V, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Gerhardt R, Gill R, Gill R, Hale JR, Hartman WJ, Hoge DR, Jung CG, Keirsey D, Kendall E, Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Myers IB, Rehak MC, Richter P, Roozen DA, Ross CFJ, Ross CFJ, Savage JS   +26 more
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Perceiving pervasive discrimination over time: Implications for coping [PDF]

, 2009
This study suggests the effects of perceived pervasiveness may be dynamic over time. The hypothesis was that participants who perceived discrimination to be highly pervasive would initially be more likely to engage in inactive coping strategies than ...
Foster, Mindi D
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The indirect association between moral disengagement and bystander behaviors in school bullying through motivation: Structural equation modelling and mediation analysis

Social Psychology of Education, 2023
Guided by the social-cognitive theory and self-determination theory, this study examined whether moral disengagement is indirectly associated with pro-bullying, passive bystanding, and defending, mediated by autonomous motivation, introjected motivation,
Robert Thornberg, T. Jungert, J. Hong
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation is stimulated by red light irradiation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Light at different wavelengths has distinct effects on keratinocyte viability and metabolism. UVA light abrogates metabolic fluxes. Blue and green light have no effect on metabolic fluxes, while red light enhanced oxidative phosphorylation by promoting fatty acid oxidation. Keratinocytes are the primary constituents of sunlight‐exposed epidermis.
Manuel Alejandro Herrera, Camille C. Caldeira da Silva, Maiza Von Dentz, Mauricio S. Baptista, Alicia J. Kowaltowski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source