Abstract: Attitudes toward people with dementia influence how these patients are treated. Knowledge of intercultural differences in attitudes enables specific concepts of care. We validated the Dementia Attitudes Scale (DAS) for Mandarin Chinese to ...
Summary: Two questionnaire studies, one in Gießen (N = 68), one in Dresden (N = 74), with samples of employees of medium-sized industrial companies have been carried out in order to determine predictors of environmental behavior in different social ...
Summary: A German-language version of the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI; Glick & Fiske, 1996) is presented. This scale aims at measuring ambivalent attitudes toward women. In contrast to the concepts of traditional and modern sexism, the concept of ...
Summary: This article examines whether there is a connection between the attitudes of traders in the foreign exchange market and their expectations of future exchange rate developments. A psychological understanding of expectations is contrasted to the ...
Summary: The present study examined the hypothesis that the degree to which stereotypic judgments of female and male subcategories tend to show polarization is dependent on the strength of ambivalent attitudes people hold toward women and men. Subjects ...
Nutrition Education in Children - Results from an Evaluation StudyThis article reports results from an evaluation study of a nutrition education program for children in Saxony. The efficacy of the education program in the areas of nutrition-related ...
Abstract: Currently, the possibilities and limitations of gene technology and genetic testing as well as ethical and legal issues associated with the further advancement and medical application of molecular genetics are controversely discussed in the ...
This study examines the role of attribute importance in expectancy-value models. Attitudes towards smoking were assessed by a) a direct attitude measure (four semantic differentials) and b) a series of 15 attribute statements. These attributes (negative ...
Homosexual HIV-positives suffer under a double stigma. Moreover, many heterosexuals still associate HIV/AIDS with homosexuality (Herek & Capitanio, 1999). This study examined the connection between belief in a just world, sexual morality and values on the ...
A comparison of attitudes towards animals between German- and French-speaking Swiss adults is of particular interest, given the often invoked cultural barrier, the «Röstigraben». We sent questionnaires to 3000 randomly chosen Swiss adults in both language ...
Zusammenfassung. Der “Mere-Exposure”-Effekt bezeichnet eine positive Einstellungsänderung gegenüber einem Reiz aufgrund der bloßen wiederholten Darbietung dieses Reizes (Zajonc, 1968). In der vorliegenden Studie wurde geprüft, ob sich “mere exposure” auch ...
Stigmatisation of Alcohol Dependence: Attitudes of Alcohol-Dependent Patients During Detoxification, Medical Staff and StudentsAbstract. The study investigated attitudes towards people with alcohol dependency and ...
Curriculum for Geriatric Psychiatry and PsychotherapyTrying to establish a subspecialisation in geriatric psychiatry the German Academy of Gerontopsychiatry and -psychotherapy chose a «bottom-up-approach». During the years 2001–2004 previously selected ...
The ability to handle a complex medication regimen is important for patients with cancer being treated on an outpatient basis, because many of them have to take drugs for oral chemotherapy, against cancer-related symptoms, side effects of the treatments, ...
Zusammenfassung. Hintergrund: Einstellungen zur aktiven Sterbehilfe auf Verlangen von voll urteilsfähigen, schwer und unheilbar kranken Menschen sind zunehmend Gegenstand von öffentlichen Debatten. Forschungsbedarf besteht noch zum Einfluss der ...
Impact of an e-learning program regarding patients’ harmful alcohol consumption on the knowledge, attitudes and perceived competencies of nurses from an acute care hospital: a pretest-posttest-studyAbstract.Background: ...
Abstract.Background: Given that nursing staff play a critical role in the decision regarding use of physical restraints, research has examined nursing professionals’ attitudes toward this practice. Aim: Since nursing ...
Validity studies on the Teacher Efficacy Scale provide us with neither clear evidence nor clear solutions to the factorial structure or the theoretical concepts underlying the scale’s items. This study tests different factor structures of the Teacher ...
This study investigated attitudes towards older employees, perceived age discrimination, and HR practices (personnel development and reward) in 240 employees. Attitudes toward older employees were largely positive, thus supporting the notion that ...
Bateson, Nettle, and Roberts (2006) provided an intriguing experimental paradigm for investigating the effects of social cues on cooperative behavior in a real-world setting. By placing an image of a pair of eyes on a cupboard door above an “honesty box” ...