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Second Language Ability and Emotional Prosody Perception

PLOS ONE, 2016
The present study examines the effect of language experience on vocal emotion perception in a second language. Native speakers of French with varying levels of self-reported English ability were asked to identify emotions from vocal expressions produced by American actors in a forced-choice task, and to rate their pleasantness, power, alertness and ...
Bhatara, Anjali, Laukka, Petri, Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie, Granjon, Lionel, Elfenbein, Hillary Anger, Bänziger, Tanja   +5 more
openaire   +8 more sources

Exploring Chinese Language Teachers' Perspectives on Their Career Development: A Q Methodology Research

Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recruiting, training, and retaining qualified teachers remain matters of public concern in many countries, including Belarus. Drawing on the Systems Theory Framework, this study examined the influences shaping the career development of Chinese language teachers in Belarus across individual, social, and environmental‐societal contexts.
Katsiaryna Hryshayeva, Manchun Dai, Mohamed Oubibi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development and Preliminary Validation of a Modified Thyroid Symptom Questionnaire (TSQ)

Head &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background This study aimed to modify and validate the Thyroidectomy Voice and Symptom Questionnaire (TVSQ) to serve as a symptom screening tool in benign thyroid disease. Methods A 32‐item modified TVSQ was developed and administered alongside a symptom checklist to outpatients; controls were recruited to determine discriminative validity ...
Vikash Yogaraj, Debra Phyland, Catherine Sinclair   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the Relationship Between Job Insecurity and Work Engagement: The Moderating Roles of Contract Type and Trait Negative Affectivity

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study proposes and tests a curvilinear effect of job insecurity on work engagement, while also examining the moderating roles of employment contract type (permanent vs. temporary) and trait negative affectivity on this relationship. Utilizing two waves of time‐lagged data from a sample of 397 participants (273 permanent and 124 temporary ...
Hui‐Hsien Hsieh, Kuo‐Yang Kao
wiley   +1 more source

Sex Differences in Processing Emotional Speech Prosody: Preliminary Findings from a Multi-Feature Oddball Study

Brain Sciences
Background/Objectives: Emotional prosody, the intonation and rhythm of speech that conveys emotions, is vital for speech communication as it provides essential context and nuance to the words being spoken.
Chieh Kao, Yang Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Pursuing Leadership on One's Own Terms: A Human Resource Development Perspective on Leadership Aspiration, Identity, and Organizational Influence

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Leadership aspiration is not simply a product of ambition or capability, but a dynamic, context‐sensitive phenomenon shaped by how individuals understand leadership and whether pursuing it feels feasible, meaningful, and sustainable. Using phenomenographic analysis of semi‐structured interviews with 23 employees and drawing on Leadership ...
Bishakha Mazumdar, Stephanie Gilbert, Megan M. Walsh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Women's Speech In A State of Anger: A Neuropragmatic Study

Arbitrer, 2019
This research aims to describe and to translate the emotional prosody patterns through Praat program and also to describe types of speech acts used by female characters in an emotional state in the film "Hati 7 Cinta 7 Wanita".
Rahmadani Sabrian, Gusdi Sastra, Ike Revita   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

When People Management Backfires: A Qualitative Study of Unintended Consequences of Line Managers' Support for Employees

Human Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how and why well‐intended people management can backfire, resulting in unintended consequences such as reduced well‐being and performance. Although people management—the combination of line managers' implementation of HR practices and their leadership behavior in supporting employees—is generally assumed to result in ...
Roos Mulder, Eva Knies, Jasmijn van Harten, Maria Peeters   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

CACNA1C risk variant affects microstructural connectivity of the amygdala

NeuroImage: Clinical, 2019
Deficits in perception of emotional prosody have been described in patients with affective disorders at behavioral and neural level. In the current study, we use an imaging genetics approach to examine the impact of CACNA1C, one of the most promising ...
Katharina Koch, Sophia Stegmaier, Lena Schwarz, Michael Erb, Mara Thomas, Klaus Scheffler, Dirk Wildgruber, Vanessa Nieratschker, Thomas Ethofer   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Safety, Trust, and Connection With Horses: Adults’ Lived Experience of Group Equine‐Assisted Psychotherapy in Substance Use Treatment

Journal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Talk‐based interventions are the standard of care in substance use residential treatment, yet little is known about how adults experience alternative approaches like equine‐assisted psychotherapy (EAP). This hermeneutic phenomenological study explored how 12 adults experienced group EAP sessions during residential substance use treatment at ...
Leah Finch Lungren
wiley   +1 more source