Predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors associated with opioid addiction helping behaviour in tri-state Appalachian counties: application of the PRECEDE–PROCEED model–cross-sectional analysis [PDF]
Objectives The overdose epidemic was designated a ‘Public Health Emergency’ in the USA on 26 October 2017, bringing attention to the severity of this public health problem.
Richard W Kim+6 more
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Educational attainment is associated with unconditional helping behaviour [PDF]
Altruism is a universal human trait, but little is known about its within-population variation. Socio-economic status (SES) has been found to positively impact altruism, but the specific socio-economic variables behind this relationship have remained ...
Grace Westlake+2 more
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Market forces influence helping behaviour in cooperatively breeding paper wasps [PDF]
In cooperatively breeding species, subordinates help to raise the dominant breeders’ offspring in return for benefits associated with group membership. Here, Grinsted and Field show that the amount of help provided by subordinate paper wasps depends on ...
Lena Grinsted, Jeremy Field
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Orientations in difficult situations of providing assistance according to the type of the individual’s attitudes towards helping behaviour [PDF]
The research on helping behaviour in difficult situations is of relevance due to the increase in the difficulty of situations of providing assistance.
Ekaterina N. Leonova
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Methods of helping patients with behaviour change. [PDF]
BMJ 1993;307:188-90 Helping patients to change behaviour concerned with eating, drinking, smoking, exercise, or taking medica? tion is a common task in medical consultations. In both hospital and primary care the care of chronically ill people often entails encouraging them to change behaviour.
Paul Richard Kinnersley+2 more
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Encouraging bystander helping behaviour in a violent incident: a virtual reality study using reinforcement learning [PDF]
Virtual reality (VR) affords the study of the behaviour of people in social situations that would be logistically difficult or ethically problematic in reality.
Aitor Rovira, Mel Slater
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Similarity with others in need regarding various attributes [e.g., social group membership] has been shown to increase individuals’ empathic responses, willingness to help and prosocial behaviour.
Rinad Bakhti+3 more
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Direct benefits explain interspecific variation in helping behaviour among cooperatively breeding birds [PDF]
Helpers in cooperatively breeding species can gain indirect benefits when caring for kin, but care may also be directed towards non-kin. Here, Kingma shows that, in cooperatively breeding birds, helping non-kin is common and helping effort is higher when
Sjouke A. Kingma
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The influence of helping behaviour and voice of pleasant members on their team inclusion
We conducted a two-phase study to investigate role of positive affect, helping behaviour, and voice on one's team inclusion. Business students (n = 105) nested in teams participated in the study and provided data through surveys at the beginning of a ...
Madhu Bala Sahoo, Jeff Brice, Jr.
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Australian R U OK?Day campaign: improving helping beliefs, intentions and behaviours [PDF]
Background Suicide is a major public health concern and has been recognised as a public health priority. R U OK?Day aims to prevent suicide by encouraging and empowering Australians to reach out to friends and family who might be experiencing personal ...
Anna M. Ross, Bridget Bassilios
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