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Understanding Complexities of Expatriate Coping and Adjustment: The Complementary Roles of Acceptance and Action

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This work aims to provide theoretical and practical insights into coping with expatriation challenges. We show that both acceptance and action (problem‐solving) are needed, to manage different aspects of expatriate life. These two coping strategies are complementary and, to be beneficial, need to be applied selectively.
Olivier Wurtz
wiley   +1 more source

Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

Quality of year‐end spending and risk–return trade‐off

Fiscal Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how the quality of government spending changes at the end of the fiscal year, using administrative data from financing programmes for small and medium‐sized enterprises in South Korea. We assess spending quality based on the average sales growth of recipient firms. We show that while an early budget execution policy reduces
Illoong Kwon, Hanhyung Pyo
wiley   +1 more source

Perfectionism explains variance in self-defeating behaviors beyond self-criticism: Evidence from a cross-national sample [PDF]

, 2016
Does perfectionism predict maladjustment beyond self-criticism? Attention to this key question is needed as some studies suggest perfectionism may not explain variance in maladjustment beyond self-criticism.
Stoeber, Joachim, Ramasubbu, Cynthia, Sherry, Simon B.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A qualitative investigation of the lived experiences of adults with anxiety and related disorders and ADHD: Interconnectedness of symptoms and implications for improving care

British Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is highly prevalent in adults with anxiety and related disorders (ARDs). Quantitative research on this clinical population is mixed, with some studies suggesting that anxiety is protective against some symptoms of ADHD and others in which co‐occurring ARDs and ADHD are linked to poorer
Arij Alarachi, Heather McNeely, Karen Rowa, Randi E. McCabe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Threats of nursing productivity in the digital era: investigating the interplay between smartphones addiction and procrastination behavior among nurses

BMC Nursing
Background Controlling smartphone addiction and procrastination among nurses is crucial for enhancing the productivity of both nursing and the healthcare system.
Ahmed Abdelwahab Ibrahim El-Sayed, Shimaa Fathy Daif Allah Goda, Gehan Galal Elbialy   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predictors of worry‐related safety behaviours and avoidance

British Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which the primary mechanisms implicated in leading models of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) (i.e. cognitive avoidance, metacognitive beliefs and intolerance of uncertainty) uniquely predict reassurance seeking and other behaviours associated with worry (e.g.
Taylor Crawford, Christine Purdon
wiley   +1 more source

Differences in Learning Characteristics Between Students With High, Average, and Low Levels of Academic Procrastination: Students’ Views on Factors Influencing Their Learning

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Within the field of procrastination, much research has been conducted on factors that have an influence on academic procrastination. Less is known about how such factors may differ for various students. In addition, not much is known about differences in
Lennart Visser, Fred A. J. Korthagen, Judith Schoonenboom   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

From barriers to benefits: A personalized sleep intervention enhances sleep duration and emotional health in chronic short sleepers

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This pilot study evaluated a personalized sleep intervention incorporating motivational interviewing techniques to address sleep barriers, along with tailored sleep hygiene and extension for chronic short sleepers. Eleven university students completed a 14‐day sequential intervention (baseline, sleep hygiene and a combined phase adding 90‐min ...
Wei Wang, Ho Yin Derek Ma, Ming Ming Chiu, Shu Fai Cheung, C. Harry Hui, Mark Lawrence Wong, Janet Hui‐wen Hsiao, Rong Wei Sun, Yeuk Ching Lam, Akira Basa Okabe, Chin Ho Chan, Esther Yuet Ying Lau   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

AI‐Caramba: The Experience of Mothers in Central Texas With BRAT, a Parenting AI Chatbot

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Virtual parent training interventions (PTIs) have successfully addressed classic participation barriers for over a decade. Regardless, most limit themselves to deliver the in‐person manual and fail to leverage virtual innovation tools like chatbots.
Jaime Fuentes‐Balderrama, Harold Zhong, María Elvira Cárdenas, Sophia Ayala, Stephanie I. Velasco, Jiawen Cui   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source