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Review of the Campaign to Prevent Falls in Construction

Frontiers in Public Health, 2017
Roofing is one of the most dangerous activities in the construction industry according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Although injuries are manifold in this industry element, the vast majority of them occur as a result of falls from elevation (1 ...
Kevin O’Donnell
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Follow the leader or the pack? Regulatory focus and academic entrepreneurial intentions [PDF]

, 2016
Drawing on the academic entrepreneurship and regulatory focus theory literature, and applying a multilevel per- spective, this paper examines why university academics intend to engage in formal (spin-off or start-up companies and licensing university ...
Johnson, Mark, MacKenzie, Niall G., Monsen, Erik W.   +2 more
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Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in Young Athletes Using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale

Frontiers in Physiology, 2018
Elite young athletes have to cope with multiple psychological demands such as training volume, mental and physical fatigue, spatial separation of family and friends or time management problems may lead to reduced mental and physical recovery.
Stephanie Weber, Christian Puta, Melanie Lesinski, Brunhild Gabriel, Thomas Steidten, Karl-Jürgen Bär, Marco Herbsleb, Urs Granacher, Holger H. W. Gabriel   +8 more
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Impact of Performance Lower Than Expectations on Work Behaviors: The Moderating Effect of Status Mutability and Mediating Role of Regulatory Focus

Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2021
Nilesh Kumar,1,2 Md Yahin Hossain,2,3 Yanghua Jin,1 Asif Ali Safeer,4 Ting Chen1 1School of Business Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and ...
Kumar N, Hossain MY, Jin Y, Safeer AA, Chen T   +4 more
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Why are people with high self-control happier? The effect of trait self-control on happiness as mediated by regulatory focus

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Background: While self-control has often been related to positive outcomes in life such as higher academic achievements and better health, recent insights reveal that people with high trait self-control (TSC) may even experience greater life satisfaction
Tracy T.L. Cheung, Marleen eGillebaart, Floor eKroese, Denise eDe Ridder   +3 more
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At Least I Tried: The Relationship between Regulatory Focus and Regret Following Action versus Inaction

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
Regret is an unpleasant feeling that may arise following decisions that ended poorly, and may affect the decision-maker’s well-being and future decision making.
Adi Itzkin, Dina Van Dijk, Ofer Haim Azar   +2 more
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Error orientation in a decision-making simulation program: differences between promotion vs. prevention focus

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Changing situations develop work environments where workers must generate strategies to learn and persist from continuous errors and setbacks. Previous research has shown that errors enhance motivation, break the routine, lead to creative solutions, and ...
Alicia Arenas, Alicia Arenas, Elena Briones, Carmen Tabernero, Carmen Tabernero   +4 more
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Promoting your e-Books: Lessons from the UK JISC National e-Book Observatory [PDF]

, 2010
Purpose – This paper describes the findings from the qualitative strand of the JISC National e-Book Observatory (2007-2009), relating to the promotion of e-textbooks in UK universities by the library, academics and publishers.
Armstrong, Chris, Lonsdale, Ray
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Shared Leadership and Improvisation: Dual Perspective of Cognition-Affection

Behavioral Sciences, 2023
Improvisation is an effective way to cope with rapid changes and obtain unexpected opportunities in a complex environment. Based on the cognitive-affective system theory, this study investigates the dual mediating role of cognitive flexibility and ...
Dixuan Zhang, Xiaohong Wang, Shaopeng Zhang   +2 more
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Evaluation of the reliability and validity of the health regulatory focus scale in Chinese samples

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
This study sought to validate the psychometric properties of the Health Regulatory Focus Scale (HRFS), emphasizing its manifestation and association with personality traits in a Chinese context. Originally developed by Ferrer, the HRFS gauges individuals’
Xiaokang Lyu, Tingting Yang, Yanqin Fan, Haijuan Hong, Chunye Fu   +4 more
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