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Assessing Organizational Role Stress of Employees in Public and Private Sectors
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Relationship between Academic Stress and Emotional Intelligence in High School Students
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A Shared Information Technology-Business-Health Model: Lessons for Healthcare Leaders on Integrating Technology from Investment
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Design and Validation of the Quality of Work Life Scale for Call Center Workers of a Private Company in Downtown of Lima, 2019
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The Effect of Internal Locus of Control and Social-Emotional Learning on Life and Relationship Satisfaction
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Call for a ‘Live Third’: The Impact of Institutional and Psychiatric Racism on Adebayo’s Physical and Mental Health
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The Tale of Two Schools: Investigating the Understanding of Mental Health by Students, Parents and Teachers in Rural and City Bangladesh
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How Self-Reflection Influences Use of Cognitive and Analytical Language
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A Case Study Exploring Pre-Service Teachers’ Programming Difficulties and Strategies when Learning Programming Languages
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How the Desensitization of Police Violence, Stereotyped Language, and Racial Bias Impact Black Communities
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Exploring the Notion of Performance in Branch Sales Managers: A Narrative Approach
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An Urgent Request for Evidence-Based Mental Health Intervention Research in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries
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Building Resilience in Children to Prevent Social Aggression: The Principles of Behavioral Sciences
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Impact of Insomnia on Optimism: A Predictor Factor among Young Adults in Indian Context
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A Review of Barriers to Treating Domestic Violence for Middle Eastern Women Living in the United States
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Therapeutic Relationship of Telepsychiatry and Telebehavioral Health: Ideas from Research on Telepresence, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
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Does Progress Bars’ Behavior Influence the User Experience in Human-Computer Interaction?
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Collaborative Intelligence: Optimizing Our Human-sized Digital Key Conversations for Transforming Organizations
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Human Behavior with Mobile Health: Smartphone/ Devices, Apps and Cognition
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New Insights into “The Bignetti Model” from Classic and Quantum Mechanics Perspectives
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A Prospective Examination of Acceptance at a CBT-based Interdisciplinary Chronic Pain Management Program
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Relationship of Sustainable Behavior, World-Mindedness, National and Global Identities, Perceived Environmental Risk and Globalization Impact Among College Students in the United States
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Stress of Siege of Gaza and Locus of Control in Palestinian Children in the Gaza Strip
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Epistemic Curiosity, Conceptual Ambiguity and Cognitive Conflict: Do these Implicate Students Exploratory Behavior?
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Volunteers Motives in Relation to their Task Preference in Health Service Delivery: A Case of West Kenya
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Which is Necessary for Cognition, “Free Will” or “Free Will Illusion”?
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Psychological Pleasure in Reading and Visual Cognition Under Colour Luminance: A Psycholinguistic Approach
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Blast-Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Treatable Condition?
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Deprivation or Interest-Type Curiosity and Exploratory Behaviour in Humans: Are they Inherently Cognitive and Implicate Curiosity-Induced Teaching?
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eLearning Education
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The Effect of Mobile Telephone Electromagnetic Field on Human Brain Bioelectric Activity and Information Processing Speed
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Virtual Acute Stress Reaction in a Treatment Team Following a Family Meeting of “Potentates”: Measures of Prevention
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Technology and the Brain: Lessons from Patient Care, Social Media and the Internet
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A Randomized Controlled Study on the Effects of a Documentary on Students’ Empathy and Attitudes towards Older Adults
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Emotional Diglossia in Multilingual Classroom Environments: A Proposal
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Biopsychisocial
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Explanding the Realms
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Developmental Interpersonal Neurobiology, Attachment Style and Mindsight
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Quality of Life (QoL) and Depression Among Children With End Stage Renal Disease Attending Hemodialysis Units in Gaza Strip
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Binary and Ternary Analogy by Children: Testing the Role of Insufficiently Developed Working Memory Capacity (WMC) Executive Functions
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Relationship between Trauma due to Winter Storm Alexa, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Mental Health Problems of Palestinian Children in Gaza Strip
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Mindfulness, Sustained Attention and Post-traumatic Stress in Tsunami Survivors
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Evolutionary Roots of the Sex Difference in the Prevalence of Severe Anti-social Behavior: A Literature Review
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Some Influences on Perception and Justification of Aggression in Themselves and in their Social Environment
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Intertarget Distractors and Input Filter Compatibility in the Attentional Blink
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Accessibility of Chronic Pain Treatment for Individuals Injured in a Motor Vehicle Accident
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Expected Agreement Coefficient for Norm-Referenced Tests With Classical Test Theory
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The Symbolism as a Cheap Channel Code: The Symbolic Language’s Role in Cognition
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How to Develop a Fair and Valid Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation System
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Behavioral Problems and Neurocognitive Functioning in Snoring School-Aged Children
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The Evolution of Psychology
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Evidence-Based Social Work Interventions to Improve Client Attendance in Rural Mental Health: An Overview of Literature
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An Integrated Model of Emotions, Attitudes, and Intentions Associated with Undergoing Autism Genetic Testing
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COMPCOR: A Computer Program for Comparing Correlation Using Confidence Intervals
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Advancing Science, Clinical Care and Education: Shall we Update Engel’s Biopsychosocial Model to a Bio-Psycho-Socio-Cultural Model?
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About the Journal
Psychology and cognitive sciences have emerged vastly in the last two decades and more importantly in the 21stcentury. It is a study of mind and intelligence including memory, emotions, perception, attention, conceptual development, decision making and reasoning.
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences – Open Journal (PCSOJ) deals with the study of psychology and behavioral sciences, philosophy, neuroscience, mathematics, computer science, health informatics, medicine and linguistics.
Openventio aims at the widespread propagation of matters related to encompass cognitive functions, human language, mind evolution, artificial intelligence and many more through its open journal to the scientific community for its welfare and control.
Aims and Scope
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences – Open Journal (PCSOJ) is dedicated to the open dissemination and robust discussion on the latest trends of Cognitive Sciences and Psychology.
PCSOJ covers a wide array of subjects as given below:
Primary Subjects
- Attention, cognition and memory
- Behavioral science and neuroscience
- Cognitive psychology
- Development and abnormal psychology
- Educational, health and medical psychology and psychiatry
- Interpersonal neurobiology
- Neuroscience and neuropathology
Secondary Subjects
- Anxiety and stress
- Behavioral and chemical addiction
- Biostatistics and epidemiology
- Creativity, problem-solving and reasoning
- Evidence-based psychotherapy, psychodynamic therapy and psychoanalysis
- Health informatics, telehealth and technology
- Implementation science
- Population and public health
Articles that have an impact on cognitive sciences, psychological concepts and computational intelligences will be accepted towards this journal.
The audience of PCSOJ are psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, neuroscientists, education researchers, linguists and computer scientists.
The journal welcomes all types of articles such as original research, review, case report, mini review, editorial, short communication, book review, opinion, commentary, letter to the editor, conference proceedings, technical report, errata, illustrations etc.
We are open to receive comments and corrections from to improve the quality of journal
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Assessing Organizational Role Stress of Employees in Public and Private Sectors
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Introduction
Work plays a vital role in most people’s lives, and thus the impact of stress in the workplace is a significant issue. Since organisational role stress (ORS) has detrimental effects on both the organisation and employee, managing role pressures has greater importance.
Objective
This study analysed the comparative organisational role stress between India’s public sector and private sector workers. It also fulfilled its objective of ranking stressors to contribute to total ORS.
Materials and Methods
This descriptive-comparative analytical study selected 92 employees (41 private sectors and 51 public sectors) from different organisations in India. The study administered the organisational role stress scale developed by Udai Pareek to employees of both groups. For analysis independent sample t-test were used in the study.
Results
The study reveals that public sector employees score higher than private-sector employees in almost all scale dimensions other than role stagnation. Data analysis also inferred that inter-role stressor was the maximum contributor to overall organisational role stress, and the two groups differed most in the dimension of role overload.
Conclusion
These have important implications in policy-making to ensure enhanced well-being and productivity.
Keywords
Stress; Organisational role stressors; Causes of stress; Workplace stress; Coping strategies; Public and private sector; The stress of Indian employees.
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A Shared Information Technology-Business-Health Model: Lessons for Healthcare Leaders on Integrating Technology from Investment
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Objective: Technology is rapidly shifting our day-to-day existence, education, social relationships, health care and business. Psychiatric leaders have slowly explored telepsychiatric services – but few have an approach to technology in general–due to
competing clinical, educational and research demands. Technology has typically been added on, rather than integrated, to institutional functions.
Method: This narrative review used a literature search of Medline, PsycNET, PsycINFO, Embase, Cochrane, SpringerLink, Scopus, ABI/Inform, Business Source Complete, and Web of Science, using subject headings and keywords along with a manual search of reference lists of articles published by November 2020. The keywords explored four areas: 1) business; 2) service delivery; 3) system change; and 4) technology. Articles were reviewed by title/abstract, full text review and review of references. They were included if they discussed integration of technology into health care and compared literature from medicine/health, psychiatry/behavioral health, business, technology, leadership and health care administration. The goal was to explore how medicine/psychiatry has integrated technology compared to business, and apply business approaches to health care and training.
Results: From a total of 2,710 potential references, two authors found 327 eligible for full text review and found 69 papers directly relevant to the concepts. Business and medicine/psychiatry have similarities/differences from both historical and contemporary views. Many health care systems and companies lack a strategic plan for technology and focus only on short-term due to administrative demands. Clinical informatics is a rapidly expanding area and would be central to this process. It has started to facilitate patient-centered care as defined by quality, affordable, and timely health care. While in principle information systems use integrative approaches, electronic health records, electronic means of communications with patients and staff, behavioral health indicators and related digital advances are often added to existing systems rather than integrated. Effective businesses use integrative approaches to share domain knowledge and streamline practices to link information technology (IT) with research and development, production, financing and marketing management. A case example highlights the IT strategy and business leaders’ comments in shifting to straight through processing (STP) from the banking industry for investments. It also exemplifies a model of shared IT-business understanding, which improves performance via efficiency, quality of data/information processing/integration and managerial teamwork.
Conclusion: When it is integrated into health care service delivery workflow, evaluated and quality improved, IT facilitates the translation of strategic planning into organizational change. Incremental versus strategically innovative approaches to technological integration for care, education and administration are considered. Successful implementation requires a needs and impact assessment for patients, staff, clinicians and leaders across all levels of the organization. Benefits to the mission, limited disruptions of core operational workflow and reasonable costs reduce the likelihood of failure.
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Health care; Business; Information technology; Shared; Leadership; Understanding; Straight through processing.
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Psychological Effects of Coronavirus Disease 2019 on Students
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Background
This qualitative study investigated the psychological effects on 21 U.S. high school students during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Aim
The study aimed to identify and assess the pandemic’s effect on the mental health of these students.
Method
To determine the stress and anxiety students faced during the pandemic, an online survey used five open-ended questions that focused on awareness of the pandemic surrounding the major themes of insight, stress, anxiety, social support, and adapted coping strategies. NVivo software analyzed the raw data. Colaizzi’s descriptive phenomenological analysis method converted the quantitative results into a visual/verbal form. Based on the analysis, the researcher identified the pandemic’s effects on students’ mental health and well-being.
Results
All 21 participants responded to each of the five questions. Of the participants, 72% demonstrated a negative outlook on their future. Seventy percent (70%) of the participants felt that COVID-19 hurt their social life because of safety precautions, such has social distancing. Even though schools and their faculty tried to keep students engaged and active, 64% of the participants found it challenging to be physically distanced from friends and teachers while learning from home. Of the students, 62% worried about missing out on sports and activities canceled due to the pandemic. 63.14% of the students felt the pandemic stressed
them to the point that fear and anxiety overwhelmed them with many questions about the future.
Conclusion
This study’s results may help create programs that better meet students’ mental and social needs.
Keywords
COVID-19; Pandemic; High school; College students; Mental health; Stress; Anxiety; Coping strategies; Depression.
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Relationship between Academic Stress and Emotional Intelligence in High School Students
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Background
Academic stress is a mental distress originated from the anticipated frustration associated with academic failure. Whereas, emotional intelligence (EI) is a characteristic of an individual that determines the degree, and intensity with which they are able to understand and accept one’s own emotions as well as that of others.
Aim and Objective
The broad aim of the present study was to investigate an empirical-based examination of the relationship among academic stress and EI in high school students. The objectives of the study were to ascertain if there exist any gender, family structure and single child differences between academic stress and EI.
Method
This study is based on a quantitative analysis of the data. To collect validated data, purposive sampling was taken from varied streams and family structure of the age group 16 to 18-years; with no gender disparity. Student Academic Stress Scale (SASS) and emotional intelligence test (EIT) were used in this research. The data obtained was further validated through statistical techniques of correlation and analysis of variance (ANOVA) methods.
Results
The results showed an inverse correlation between EI and academic stress in high school students. The study also revealed single child and family structure factors are associated with the level of EI and showed an impact on academic stress of high school students.
Keywords
Academic stress; Emotional intelligence; High school students; Family structure.
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The Effect of Internal Locus of Control and Social-Emotional Learning on Life and Relationship Satisfaction
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Objective
The current study examined the impact of a non-governmental organization’s academic tutoring and mentoring program on the social-emotional learning (SEL) and subjective well-being of 240 marginalized young women.
Participants
One-hundred-fifty-nine currently enrolled 7-12th grade students with a mean age of 16.39, SD=1.55; 40 students who were enrolled in college with a mean age of 20.25, SD=1.57, and 25 who had graduated from college with a mean age of 22.48, SD=2.16 and their leaders participated.
Methods
All participants completed in a survey that assessed the degree of participants’ locus of control, expectations of success (self-efficacy), current goals and career-related aspirations and their satisfaction with their relationships and life in general. Twenty-one of the participants and all leaders also were interviewed.
Results
Regression analyses revealed that both the participants’ self-management and the leader’s locus of control were significant predictors of the participants’ internal locus of control. Congruent with interview findings, latent structural equation analysis revealed that three manifest variables of social-emotional learning, “self-management”, “social awareness”, and “self-efficacy” had direct positive effects on participants’ subjective well-being (i.e., their satisfaction with life and relationships).
Conclusion
Culturally sensitive approaches to mentoring and training are needed and helpful. Future research should be carried out to mitigate design limitations and further the current study’s addition to the body of research on social-emotional learning and well-being.
Keywords
Self-management; Self-efficacy; Social awareness; Social-emotional learning (SEL); Internal locus of control; Life satisfaction; Relationship satisfaction; Subjective well-being (SWB).
Design and Validation of the Quality of Work Life Scale for Call Center Workers of a Private Company in Downtown of Lima, 2019
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Objective
The purpose of the research was to build a scale of quality of working life, in telemarketers of a call center company in Downtown of Lima, with a sample of 700 telemarketers.
Methods
The methodology was obtained through a non-probabilistic convenience sampling, the validity was carried out through the judgment of 10 experts and the indices were obtained using the V. of Aiken p>0.80 and the Binomial test p<0.05 in 29 questions.
The construct validity was obtained through confirmatory factor analysis, to explain the quality of working life composed of five dimensions according to Maslow’s theory.
Results
In the results, the Kaiser Meyer Olkin (KMO) measurement test yielded a value of 0.930, which means that it is greater than>0.80 over the number of observations for the base of respondents (700), for the test of Bartlett’s sphericity. is not significant
(p<0.05), which means a correlation between the variables, in the total variance explained indicates that the instrument has five factors that explain 54.982% of the total variance, it tells us that the test is acceptable, whose factorial the loads ranged between 0.4 and 0.8 respectively. The reliability by internal consistency with a value of 0.919.
Conclusion
The relevance of the theoretical model to explain the quality of working life composed of five dimensions according to Maslow’s theory was verified, showing adequate adjustment indices: X2/gl=4.920 and 4.711, CFI=0.835 and 0.90, RMSEA=0.075 and
0.073, except TLI=0.805 and 0.815 that did not show an adequate value.
Keywords
Quality of work life; Quality-of-life; Design; Validation; Psychometry.
