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Congregational bonding social capital and psychological type : an empirical enquiry among Australian churchgoers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study explores the variation in levels of bonding social capital experienced by individual churchgoers, drawing on data generated by the Australian National Church Life Survey, and employing a five-item measure of church-related bonding social ...
Baker C   +27 more
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Long-term psychiatric inpatients’ perspectives on weight gain, body satisfaction, diet and physical activity: a mixed methods study

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2018
Background Obesity is a significant problem for people with serious mental illness. We aimed to consider body size from the perspective of long-stay psychiatric inpatients, focussing on: weight gain and its causes and impacts; diet and physical activity;
Susanna Every-Palmer   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psychological capital and entrepreneurial tendencies

open access: yesEuropean Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2022
This study is interested in psychological capital and entrepreneurial tendencies. Psychological capital is an individual's attitude and tendency towards Hope, Optimism, Resilience and Self-Efficacy. It has been connected with several positive outcomes in individuals’ working life, e.g. career progress, work satisfaction, wage and well-being.
openaire   +3 more sources

A Psychological Approach to Human Capital [PDF]

open access: yesETS Research Report Series, 2018
AbstractThe concept of human capital originated in economics over 200 years ago. The current paper takes a novel approach to human capital by interpreting it from a psychological perspective. We divide human capital into 2 domains: traditional and nontraditional.
Harrison J. Kell   +3 more
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The mediating effect of psychological capital on the relationship between psychological stress and distress among chinese nursing students: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Nursing, 2022
Background With the COVID-19 outbreak in China, the Chinese government took measures to prevent and control the spread of the virus. In-person teaching was replaced by distance learning, which was an unknown challenge for students.
Feifei Sun   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Positive psychological capital: beyond human and social capital [PDF]

open access: yesBusiness Horizons, 2004
or years, business academics and practitioners haveoperated in the belief that sustained competitiveadvantage could accrue from a variety of industry-level entry barriers, such as technological supremacy,patent protections, and government regulations. However,technological change and diffusion, rapid innovation, andderegulation have eroded these widely
Luthans, Fred   +2 more
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What makes an entrepreneur? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
This article uses various micro data sets to study entrepreneurship. Consistent with the existence of capital constraints on potential entrepreneurs, the estimates imply that the probability of self-employment depends positively upon whether the ...
Blanchflower, David G.   +1 more
core   +4 more sources

Disability associated with community cases of commonly occurring eatinq disorders

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2004
Objective: To examine disability associated with community cases of the more commonly occurring eating disorders and with particular eating disorder behaviours.
Jonathan Mond   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Interrelation of sport participation, physical activity, social capital and mental health in disadvantaged communities : a sem-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background : The Health through Sport conceptual model links sport participation with physical, social and psychological outcomes and stresses the need for more understanding between these outcomes.
Babiak, Kathy   +5 more
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Psychological capital and entrepreneurship: gender differences

open access: yesGender in Management: An International Journal, 2021
PurposeThis study aims to examine whether the psychological capital of male and female university students explains the intention to undertake entrepreneurism. Following Ajzen’s theory of planned behaviour, the aim was to study whether perceived behavioural control and subjective norms influence entrepreneurial intention and if subjective norms ...
Villanueva-Flores, Mercedes   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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