Power (Psychology)

31.

Power bases and attribution in three cultures.

The authors used a Saudi context to verify the cross-cultural generality of findings (A. Rodrigues & K. L. Lloyd, 1998) reported for U.S. and Brazilian samples in which compliant behavior caused by reward, informational, and referent influences was ...
Falah M Alanazi, Aroldo Rodrigues (J Soc Psychol, 200306)
power-bases-attribution-three-cultures.asp

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Predicting job insecurity via moderating influence of individual powerlessness.

While job insecurity has been extensively studied since Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt called attention to it in 1984, this paper examined why some individuals respond to the antecedents of job insecurity with increased job insecurity while others do not. ...
William D Reisel (Psychol Rep, 200306)
predicting-job-insecurity-via-moderating-influence-individual.asp

33.

Bioethics and rural health: theorizing place, space, and subjects.

The field of bioethics has been criticized for its universalizing tendencies, attributed in a large part to its foundations in moral philosophy and the level of abstraction of much bioethical discourse. Efforts to particularize bioethics have included ...
Susan E Kelly (Soc Sci Med, 200306)
bioethics-rural-health-theorizing-place-space-subjects.asp

34.

Desperately seeking fusion: on joined-up thinking, holistic practice and the new economy of welfare professional power.

This paper argues that social welfare research on joined-up thinking is underpinned by two theses. The systemic move thesis suggests that joined-up thinking is needed to fill gaps in welfare service provision arising from a lack of interorganizational ...
Chris Allen (Br J Sociol, 200306)
desperately-seeking-fusion-joined-up-thinking-holistic-practice-new.asp

35.

Power and conflict in intensive care clinical decision making.

It is clear that current government policy places increasing emphasis on the need for flexible team working. This requires a shared understanding of roles and working practices. However, review of the current literature reveals that such a collaborative ...
Maureen Coombs (Intensive Crit Care Nurs, 200306)
power-conflict-intensive-care-clinical-decision-making.asp

36.

Stress disorders and gender: implications for theory and research.

Numerous epidemiological studies report increased prevalence rates for women as compared to men for stress-related disorders such as acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and major depressive disorder. Stress disorders disrupt work and ...
Cathy Carter-Snell, Kathy Hegadoren (Can J Nurs Res, 200306)
stress-disorders-gender-implications-theory-research.asp

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An education in racism.

Lack of diversity in nursing doctoral programs compromises the quality of doctoral education and perpetuates the shortage of faculty of color in nursing schools. To help understand the contexts that contribute to this lack of diversity, this study ...
Dena Hassouneh-Phillips, Ann Beckett (J Nurs Educ, 200306)
education-racism.asp

38.

Using self-efficacy as a client-centred outcome measure.

BACKGROUND: The concept of self-efficacy has been proposed as a suitable outcome measure in psychiatry. Self-efficacy refers to an individuals belief that he or she can control important aspects of his or her life. An audit of 67 consecutive clients ...
Gerry Fleming, Maureen McKenna, Virginia Murchison, Yvette Wood, Jo Nixon, Tim Rogers, Fiona Hutcheson (Nurs Stand, 2003057-13)
self-efficacy-client-centred-outcome-measure.asp

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African American adolescents experiences with unplanned pregnancy and elective abortion.

Abortion is a controversial topic in American society, yet abortion experiences have not been studied in great detail. We used a focused ethnographic method to interview 12 adolescents (ages 15-18 years) as they awaited elective abortion. Two follow-up ...
Janet L Andrews, Joyceen S Boyle (Health Care Women Int, 200305-06)
african-american-adolescents-experiences-unplanned-pregnancy-elective.asp

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Learning organizations need teachers: the leaders challenge.

The leader as learner and the leader as teacher are very basic to the role of any leader, but often overlooked in favor of command and control styles of leadership. Continual improvement is the only way we can insure to our patients that we can provide ...
Karlene Kerfoot (Nurs Econ, 200305-06)
learning-organizations-need-teachers-leader-s-challenge.asp