Effects of Mentoring in First Year Medical Undergraduate Students using DASS-21 [PDF]
Introduction: Medical students often require high level of specialised institutional and personal support to facilitate success. Distress is commonly observed in medical undergraduate students which leads to poor academic performances.
Tejaswini Sonawane+4 more
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Psychological Safety in Agile Software Development Teams: Work Design Antecedents and Performance Consequences [PDF]
Psychological safety has been postulated as a key factor for the success of agile software development teams, yet there is a lack of empirical studies investigating the role of psychological safety in this context. The present study examines how work design characteristics of software development teams (autonomy, task interdependence, and role clarity)
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Understanding Work Practices of Autonomous Agile Teams: A Social-psychological Review [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to suggest additional aspects of social psychology that could help when making sense of autonomous agile teams. To make use of well-tested theories in social psychology and instead see how they replicated and differ in the autonomous agile team context would avoid reinventing the wheel.
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Computer Administering of the Psychological Investigations: Set-relational Representation [PDF]
Computer administering of a psychological investigation is the computer representation of the entire procedure of psychological assessments - test construction, test implementation, results evaluation, storage and maintenance of the developed database, its statistical processing, analysis and interpretation.
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Towards Psychologically-Grounded Dynamic Preference Models [PDF]
Designing recommendation systems that serve content aligned with time varying preferences requires proper accounting of the feedback effects of recommendations on human behavior and psychological condition. We argue that modeling the influence of recommendations on people's preferences must be grounded in psychologically plausible models. We contribute
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Managing mental & psychological wellbeing amidst COVID-19 pandemic: Positive psychology interventions [PDF]
COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the roots of healthcare facilities worldwide, with the US being one of the most affected countries irrespective of being a superpower. Along with the current pandemic, COVID-19 can cause a secondary crisis of mental health pandemic if left unignored.
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What happens to psychological safety when going remote? [PDF]
Psychological safety is a precondition for learning and success in software teams. Companies such as SavingsBank, which is discussed in this article, have developed good practices to facilitate psychological safety, most of which depend on face-to-face interaction. However, what happens to psychological safety when working remotely? In this article, we
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PsyMo: A Dataset for Estimating Self-Reported Psychological Traits from Gait [PDF]
Psychological trait estimation from external factors such as movement and appearance is a challenging and long-standing problem in psychology, and is principally based on the psychological theory of embodiment. To date, attempts to tackle this problem have utilized private small-scale datasets with intrusive body-attached sensors.
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Understanding Resilience Factors Among Caregivers of People with Alzheimer’s Disease in Spain
Noelia Durán-Gómez,1 Jorge Guerrero-Martín,1 Demetrio Pérez-Civantos,2 Casimiro Fermín López Jurado,1 Patricia Palomo-López,1 Macarena C Cáceres1 1Department of Nursing, University of Extremadura ...
Durán-Gómez N+5 more
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ABSTRACT Purpose To assess the long‐term effects of a community cancer exercise program on quality of life, fatigue, weight, waist circumference, physical activity levels, lower extremity strength, body mass index (BMI), heart rate, and blood pressure, across non‐metastatic and metastatic patients.
Isaac Oppong, Roozbeh Naemi
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