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International Journal of Psychological Studies
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ISSN (Print) 1918-7211 - ISSN (Online) 1918-722X
Published by CCSE

[43 journals]

Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Journal of Psychological
Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1
- Abstract: Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Journal of Psychological Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1
  PubDate: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 01:54:26 +000
The Influence of Organizational Factors on Registered Nurses’ Work
Attitudes in Nigeria
- Abstract: This study examined the influence of competence development, work-life balance, perceived organizational support and organization’s commitment to employees on job satisfaction, affective commitment and turnover intention among registered nurses in Nigeria’s Ondo State. The sample consisted of 220 registered nurses from six public hospitals in Ondo State. Data analysis was conducted using multivariate regressions, Pearson’s product-moment correlation and descriptive statistics to determine the influence of organizational factors on nurses’ job satisfaction, affective commitment and turnover intention. The results indicated that competence development practices, work-life balance policies and practices, perceived organizational support and the organization’s commitment to employees were positively correlated to job satisfaction and affective commitment but negatively correlated to registered nurses’ turnover intention. This study identified the importance of organizational factors in promoting nurses’ job satisfaction, affective organizational commitment and intention to stay which may inform hospital administration, health care institutions and the Ondo State Government about the significant role of organizational factors in improving nurses' job satisfaction, affective commitment and turnover intention.
  PubDate: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:17:04 +000
The Relationship between Social Exchange Variables and In-Role
Performance, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, and Commitment: Evidence
from Israeli Community Centers
- Abstract: Community centers provide invaluable services for local communities worldwide. This study examines the relationships between social exchange variables (affection toward supervisors, job satisfaction, distributive justice, and psychological contract violation) and in-role performance, organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), and commitment forms (community center, job, and the local community). The target population consisted of employees from 24 community centers working for national nonprofit organizations in Israel. A total of 176 questionnaires were distributed, and 129 employees returned usable questionnaires (a response rate of 73%). Supervisors provided information on in-role performance and OCB. The findings show that affection toward supervisors has a strong positive relationship with the three investigated commitment forms and altruistic OCB. Further, psychological contract violation has a negative relationship with in-role performance and OCB. Therefore, we conclude that the process of social exchange represents an important mechanism for increasing in-role performance, OCB, and commitment.
  PubDate: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:02:34 +000
Efficacy of Flipping the College Career Planning Course -- A Finance
Career Planning Course
- Abstract: This study investigates the effectiveness of applying the flipped classroom teaching model to career planning courses in colleges and its efficacy on students’ learning satisfaction and career planning. This study samples 52 first-year university students and 56 first year junior college student. The purpose is to identify and improve the deficiency in the application of flipped classrooms to career planning courses under different academic systems at colleges, so as to enhance benefits to students. In addition, this study adopts the Learning Satisfaction Questionnaire as the assessment tool. The statistical analysis and the research findings suggest that in general, older students (with an average age of 18) in the first year of the four-year technical program are more satisfied with the teaching model of flipped classrooms than younger students (with an average age of 15) in the first year of the five-year junior college program. The teaching model of flipped classrooms has differing effects on students in different academic systems. Based on the research findings, for 4-year technical program freshmen, after taking the flipping career planning course it is about 92% of students have personal specialty-oriented career planning; for first-year junior college students, after taking the flipping career planning course it is about to 86% of students have personal specialty-oriented career planning. This paper develops suggestions for the application of flipped classrooms to the teaching of career planning courses to college students. It serves as a template for the promotion of flipped classroom teaching in higher education for specialty-oriented career planning courses in colleges.
  PubDate: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:44:42 +000
Separation Fear: An Integral Feature of the Complex Trauma Syndrome in
War-Refugees
- Abstract: Feelings of uncertainty after traumatic event (i.e., forcefully leaving living place) is a common cause of severe fear (anxiety) which may contribute to development of complex trauma syndrome. Traumatic injuries of such depleted individual’s sense of aliveness might be quite catastrophic causing a perception that one’s identity, togetherness and wholeness is lost forever. In such situation, the individual’s response may lead to a cascade of the events which may result in severe symptoms of the hyperarousal, dissociation, depersonalisation, detachment, recollection of the intrusive events, and avoidance of reminder.
  Separation fear (anxiety) among war-refugees is a broader condition than it is defined as the anxiety disorder in which dominant features are excessive and inappropriate anxiety of the separation from primary attachment figure(s). In war-refugees, the clinical manifestations are realistic worries about harmful things which may happen to the attachment figure(s) who are left behind – condition of persistent fears for loved ones of being killed, tortured, and possible lost forever.
  PubDate: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 08:31:30 +000
Exploring the Influence of Geographic Region and Cultural Indulgence on
Tactile Behaviors
- Abstract: In this study, touch behavior was monitored via live-feed webcams in 18 bars, spread across 5 continents (North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia) for 213 hours. Our findings offer support for a link between equatorial proximity (measured by latitude) and cultural indulgence with more tactile communication. In cultures where indulgence versus restraint was more normative, those perceived as females initiated more touch in both opposite- and same- sex dyads. Moreover, in cultures closer to the equator, there was an increase in touch frequency and the number of body locations touched. Housed within these findings is the idea that geographical location may play a predictable role in motivating the development of cultural communication norms and behaviors. We consider the influence of sunlight, topography, history, and other culture-specific forces on the development of touch norms.
  
  PubDate: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 07:34:04 +000
“Under the Radar”: How is the Jewish–Arab Conflict Reflected in
Internal Jewish Dialogue'
- Abstract: This study explores the role of intergroup conflict in the identity exploration process among 83 Jewish participants in a dialogue in a multicultural college in Israel. Thematic analysis has shown that the behavior of most of the participants has been affected by the Jewish–Arab conflict as follows: they centered on internal commonalities among Jewish subgroups; they neither engaged in conflict among Jewish subgroups nor explored their Jewish identities, and they expressed confusion regarding who the out-group was: the Jewish subgroups’ members or the Arab students in the college. These findings expand the knowledge about the identity exploration process in a social context of religious–ethnic conflict and may pose a practical contribution to the field of intergroup dialogues and conflict resolution in divided societies.
  
  PubDate: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 05:44:24 +000
Impacts of Stress Coping Approaches on Covid-19 Anxiety: A Sample of
Turkish Medical School Students
- Abstract: We aimed to assess Covid-19 anxiety among Turkish medical school students. More specifically, we examined the association between the participants’ age, gender, grades, stress coping approaches and Covid-19 anxiety using a quantitative design. The participants were 875 (493 female and 480 male students) medical school students between 19 and 26 years old. The participants completed Ways of Coping Inventory and Coronavirus Anxiety Scale. It was observed that university students in the schools of medicine used stress coping approaches such as searching for social support and self-confident. ANOVA analyses revealed that female medical school students had higher mean scores for the search for social support, optimistic, submissive, and helpless approaches, while male medical school students had higher scores for self-confident approach. Post hoc analysis indicated that the first-grade medical school students used self-confident stress coping approach more often than the higher-grade medical school students. We established that 21 years and older medical school students used submissive stress coping approach more often than younger students. Hierarchical regression revealed that gender female, submissive and helpless approaches explained 11% of the variance in Coronavirus anxiety.
  
  PubDate: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 05:23:00 +000