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The relationship between university student help-seeking intentions and well-being outcomes
University represents a time of both great uncertainty and change as well as a time of opportunity and learning. University students represent a population both at a higher risk of experiencing poor mental health and diagnosis and a population with ...
Melinda McCabe +7 more
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Exchange Economies and Loss Exposure: Experiments Exploring Prospect Theory and Competitive Equilibria in Market Environments [PDF]
Exchange economies were created in which individuals faced losses. If people are risk seeking in the losses, as predicted by prospect theory, then due to the nonconvexity, the competitive equilibria are all on the boundaries of the Edgeworth Box.
Myagkov, Mikhail, Plott, Charles R.
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Understanding the help-seeking behaviours of women at risk of postnatal depression
Background: Postnatal depression, which affects between 10 and 25% of women worldwide, is a major public health problem. However, studies have shown that patients with postnatal depression engage poorly with treatment.
Junpei Elizabeth Siak +4 more
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Institutionalized Social Technologies Index: A Global Perspective [PDF]
This paper presents an index of institutionalized social technologies covering its two main dimensions namely Risk reducing technologies and Anti Rent seeking technologies and in turn covers several social, institutional, political and economic aspects ...
Ahmed, Qazi Masood +1 more
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The dual-system model proposes that asynchronous maturation of the socioemotional and cognitive control systems underlies the high incidence of adolescent risk-taking.
Zhiqiang Wang, Min Zhang, Shuhui Xu
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Political Intergenerational Risk Sharing [PDF]
TIn a stochastic two-period OLG model, featuring an aggregate shock to the economy, ex-ante optimality requires intergenerational risk sharing. We compare the level of time-consistent intergenerational risk sharing chosen by a benevolent government and ...
Marcello D'Amato, Vincenzo Galasso
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Reward prediction errors induce risk-seeking
Abstract Reinforcement learning theories propose that humans choose based on the estimated values of available options, and that they learn from rewards by reducing the difference between the experienced and expected value. In the brain, such prediction errors are broadcasted by dopamine. However, choices are not only influenced by expected value, but
Moeller, Moritz +3 more
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Background Adolescents’ mental health is shaped by their coping strategies and the broader family context in which they live. However, few studies have examined psychological distress and help-seeking patterns jointly, especially from a person-oriented ...
Na Lyu +10 more
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Sovereign credit ratings [PDF]
Sovereign ratings are gaining importance as more governments with greater default risk borrow in international bond markets. But while the ratings have proved useful to governments seeking market access, the difficulty of assessing sovereign risk has led
Frank Packer, Richard Cantor
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Testing Invariance in Risk Taking: A Comparison Between Anglophone and Francophone Groups [PDF]
This article investigates the measurement invariance of 3 related constructs across 2 groups sampled from Anglophone and Francophone adult populations. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses explored the factor structures of the Domain-Specific Risk-
Ann-Renée Blais, Elke U. Weber
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