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      PsychologyHelping BehaviorCaliforniaAlcoholism
This review examines research and theory relevant to work groups and teams typically embedded in organizations and existing over time, although many studies reviewed were conducted in other settings, including the laboratory. Research was... more
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      MarketingPsychologyCognitive ScienceOrganizational Culture
For some persons who are facing terminal illness, severe permanent disability, or extreme old age, suicide may seem to be a rational choice. Suicide prevention services, however, do not provide for suicide as a sane, honorable choice in... more
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      PsychologySuicideEuthanasiaMedicine
This phenomenological study focuses on the experience of career satisfaction among registered nurses. Potential participants were asked, "Do you love your work as a nurse?" A random sample of eight nurses who answered yes to this question... more
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      PsychologyNursingJob SatisfactionQualitative Research
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      PsychologyMortalityHelping BehaviorProspective studies
Objective: To describe experiences of uncertainty and management strategies for staff working with families in a hospital waiting room.
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      CommunicationFamilySocial SupportQualitative Research
Article Title: A social-cognitive model of trait and state levels of gratitude. Year of publication: 2008 Link to published version: http://dx.
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      Cognitive ScienceEmotionIndividualityCulture
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      FamilyHousingHelping BehaviorInformation
Within a sample of 584 twins aged 12 to 25 months (292 pairs) studied longitudinally, positive affect measured through two laboratory pleasure episodes and maternal report at 12 and 22 months significantly predicted empathy-related... more
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      GeneticsPsychologyCognitive ScienceIndividuality
The study investigated adolescents' moral emotion expectancies for actions versus inactions across cultures (Chinese vs. Canadian) and different moral rule contexts (rules that prohibit antisocial behaviour vs. rules that prescribe... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceChinaAdolescent
Seventy-two male Israeli students were exposed to a violent crime in the course of a bogus discussion. Their awareness of other bystanders' lack of reaction to the emergency (social influence) and others' awareness of their actions... more
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      MarketingPsychologyCognitive ScienceDecision Making
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the strength and role of therapeutic alliance in a trial comparing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for anorexia nervosa (CBT-AN) and Specialist Supportive Clinical Management for the... more
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      Eating DisordersTreatment OutcomeAnorexia NervosaHelping Behavior
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      GeneticsPsychologyStressHealth
The aim of the study was to explore and describe the experiences of relatives of critically ill patients in adult intensive care. A qualitative research design was chosen, using a Grounded Theory approach. In-depth interviews were... more
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      NursingFamilyQualitative ResearchMedicine
Homework is a universal practice used in schools, and is commonly related to academic achievement. According to literature, parental homework involvement has positive and negative aspects, depending on parents’ behaviors. Assuming a... more
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      PsychologyParentingChileMedicine
Background: The study documented Australian primigravidas' perceptions about breastfeeding. Objectives: To examine women's perspectives of their breastfeeding experiences during the first 12 weeks postpartum. Design: A Journal was... more
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      NursingQualitative ResearchSocial ClassHelping Behavior
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceAgingAltruism
Objectives. The aim of the study was to explore an amended version of Weiner's (e.g. helping behaviour model potentially more specific to the context of care staff working with people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours.
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceCognitionTreatment
A meta-analysis of 47 studies investigating the relationship between family-centered helpgiving practices and parent, family, and child behavior and functioning is reported. The studies included more than 11,000 participants from seven... more
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      PsychologyEducationData AnalysisCulture
Resumo A técnica da carta perdida foi adaptada para o contexto cultural brasileiro. Trezentas cartas endereçadas e seladas, foram colocadas "por engano", simulando perda, nos pára-brisas de veículos em dois estacionamentos. Um bilhete... more
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      PrejudiceExperimental DesignHelping BehaviorPro Social Behavior
People have a fundamental need for positive and lasting relationships. This need to belong is rooted in evolutionary history and gave rise to the development of traits that enable individuals to gain acceptance and to avoid rejection.... more
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      PsychologyCognitive SciencePersonalityIndividuality
Little is known about the neurobiological mechanisms underlying prosocial decisions and how they are modulated by social factors such as perceived group membership. The present study investigates the neural processes preceding the... more
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      Cognitive SciencePainIndividualityMagnetic Resonance Imaging
This paper presents the European federation of Critical Care Nursing associations,
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      NursingCardiologyCommunicationDecision Making
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      NursingHealth PromotionMental HealthChild Welfare
Being a caregiver for an ill or disabled loved one is widely recognized as a threat to the caregiver's quality of life. Nonetheless, research indicates that helping behavior, broadly construed, promotes well-being. Could helping behavior... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceDementiaQuality of life
Recent literature emphasizes that recovery from schizophrenia involves recovery within one's own narrative of an integral sense of identity, agency, social connection, and worth. While this is intuitively appealing and consistent with... more
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      PsychologyNursingCommunicationHealth Promotion
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      PharmacologyBiochemistryBioinformaticsEndocrinology
A cross-sectional survey was used to determine the association among women’s breastfeeding problems, their perceptions of support from midwives and child health nurses, and breastfeeding cessation in the first 10 weeks postbirth in a... more
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      NursingPerceptionChild healthSocial Support
The present meta-analysis evaluated the effectiveness of bystander education programs for preventing sexual assault in college communities. Undergraduates trained in bystander education for sexual assault were expected to report more... more
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      CriminologyViolenceHealth EducationSocial Support
With approximately 50% of young people aged 18-24 in tertiary education, these are potential settings for programmes to improve mental health literacy. A survey was carried out with students and staff of a tertiary education institution... more
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      PsychologyDepressionAustraliaFirst Aid
The present study identified psychiatric inpatient (N = 61) and staff (N = 63) perceptions of most and least important nurse caring behaviors using a modified Swedish version of the CARE-Q instrument and compared the results with data... more
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      NursingPsychometricsSocial PerceptionHelping Behavior
Objective To examine ''miscarried helping'' as a maladaptive dyadic process in families of youth with chronic pain using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model. Methods 210 adolescents with chronic pain (mean ¼ 14.23 years; 73.9% female)... more
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      PsychologyPediatric PsychologyChronic PainFamily
“As we know, well-led groups provide many member benefits: feelings of universality, a sense of hope, altruism, acquisition of knowledge and skills, and mutual support...This text is affordable, easy to use, and very suitable for... more
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      SociologyPsychologyClinical PsychologyCognitive Behavioral Therapy
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      NursingPerceptionTrustFamily
Despite the widespread interest in the topic of organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs), little empirical research has tested the fundamental assumption that these forms of behavior improve the effectiveness of work groups or... more
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      MarketingPsychologyApplied PsychologyOrganizational Culture
Bystander-focused in person sexual violence prevention programs provide an opportunity for skill development among bystanders and for widening the safety net for survivors. A social marketing campaign was designed modeling prosocial... more
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      CriminologyPsychologyMedicineHelping Behavior
Lo sguardo sulla persona offre una visione psicologica delle relazioni umane attraverso la narrazione di storie, esperienze e vicende interiori, disposte in un’ottica umanistico-esistenziale. Lo sguardo appassionato dell’autore irrompe... more
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      PsychologySchizophreniaSexualityInterpersonal Relationships
To assess the support needs, support resources, barriers to support, and preferences for support intervention for women with postpartum depression.
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      NursingFamilySocial SupportQualitative Research
A total of 2,611 calls to 14 helplines were monitored to observe helper behaviors and caller characteristics and changes during the calls. The relationship between intervention characteristics and call outcomes are reported for 1,431... more
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      PsychologyAdolescentHelping BehaviorCrisis Intervention
The emergence of pro-social behaviors and social interaction skills is a major focus of research on children's development. Here, we consider one important feature of human social interactions, interpersonal movement synchrony, and... more
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      Social InteractionEarly ChildhoodProsocial BehaviorHelping Behavior
An increasing body of literature has indicated that social stories are an effective way to teach individuals diagnosed with autism appropriate social behavior. This study compared two formats of a social story targeting the improvement of... more
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      EducationResearch DesignAdolescentHelping Behavior
Title. Supporting breastfeeding mothers: qualitative synthesis. Aim. This paper is a report of a synthesis of mothers' and healthcare professionals' experiences and perceptions of breastfeeding support. Background. Despite increasing... more
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      NursingHealth PromotionSocial SupportQualitative Research
This research tests a model of employee helping behavior (a component of Organizational Citizenship Behavior, OCB) that involves a direct path (Intrinsic Motives → Helping Behavior, the Good Samaritan Effect) and an indirect path (the... more
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      BusinessMarketingBusiness EthicsApplied Ethics
The study focuses on the relationship between prosocial behavior and the expectation of prosocial behavior from others. According to the social exchange theory and the norm of reciprocity, correlation can be expected. The sample consisted... more
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      Moral PsychologyAltruismProsocial BehaviorHelping Behavior
Religion plays an important role in human life. In a recent review, religiosity has been associated with prosocial behavior; although consistent, the association was weak (Saroglou, 2013). To understand religious prosociality, varying... more
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      ReligionPsychologyPositive PsychologySocial Psychology
When we hear stories of distant humanitarian crises, we often feel sympathy for victims, but may stop short of taking action to help. Past research indicates that media portrayals of distant suffering can promote helping behavior by... more
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      Media StudiesHelping BehaviorDistant SufferingSympathy
In 2 experimental studies, the authors hypothesized that the performance of altruistic citizenship behavior in a work setting would enhance the favorability of men's (but not women's) evaluations and recommendations, whereas the... more
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      MarketingPsychologyApplied PsychologySocial Interaction
The identifiable victim effect Belief in a just world Helping behavior People's willingness to contribute (WTC) more resources to save the lives of identified victims than to save anonymous or statistical victims is known as the... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceSocial InteractionJustice
In the existing system, they have introduced an app in which the deaf people and communicate with normal people. Normal people may not know the sign language to communicate so the voice of the normal people is recorded and equivalent... more
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Past research has revealed that forgiveness promotes prosocial cognition, feeling, and behavior toward the offender. The present research extends this research by examining whether forgiveness may spill over beyond the relationship with... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceSocial PerceptionHelping Behavior