Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Motivation to read in grades K – 2: a cross-cultural perspective

ABSTRACT We examined early elementary children’s reading motivation in four different countries. Results revealed that reading motivation is a stable construct in countries like Chile, Finland, Greece, and the United States. Motivation to read followed similar patterns across the countries, with increased scores at the end of the school year. This trend differs from what has been reported in the literature for older students. Significant gender differences were observed mainly for Finnish and Greek students. Understanding early reading motivation from a cross-cultural perspective can help identify commonalities in the initial development of reading motivation, and deepen our understanding about how it may differ in different cultural contexts.
“I don’t care” or “It’s their fault”: System justification and the lack of empathy as complementary obstacles to dealing with the modern sexism

In this paper, we analyzed college students’ perceptions of their experiences with sexism through the frameworks of the benevolent sexism theory and the theory of system justification. These theories describe the complexity of sexism and explain obstacles of dealing with it in the modern Western world. We qualitatively analyzed students’ responses to an open-ended question about sexism on their campuses. While many informants did describe sexism as a problem, others indicated that it is not important. Respondents displayed negative emotions that often took the form of blame directed both ways. There were almost no responses describing the complexity of the dynamics of the modern sexism, which the theories of system justification and ambivalent sexism highlight. We conclude that the subtle nature of the modern sexism combined with people’s reluctance to empathize with the other side (whether they are negatively affected by sexism or not) contribute to the persistence of sexism in the modern world.
Cerrahi Hastalarinin Hemşirelik Bakimindan Memnuniyet Düzeylerinin Belirlenmesi* Determination of The Surgical Patients' Saticfaction Levels from Nursing Care

Aim: This study was carried out to evaluate satisfaction levels of patients from nursing care. Method: This study, which was a descriptive type, was conducted from 15 August to 15 September 2012. The sample was consisted of 106 patients who hospitalized for minimum two day in surgical clinics of one hospital in Konya. The data was obtained through a questionnaire form and Newcastle Satisfaction Scale from Nursing Care. Results: At the end of research it was found that 41.5% of the patients’ ages were between 40-59 years, 51.9% of the patients were male, 39.6% of the patients’ educations were primary education degree and 81.1% of the patients were married. It was found that the mean of total point of patients which gained from Satisfaction Scale from Nursing Care was 62.30±16.09 and their satisfaction was evaluated as moderate level. It was determined that highest satisfaction (3.67±0.88) was from “respects of the nurses on privacy” and the lowest satisfaction (3.05±1.04) was from “The level of knowledge they have about the nurses caring”. Conclusion: Finally, studies toward increase of patients’ levels of satisfaction from nursing care may be suggested.
Analysis of quality of life and associated factors in a group of elderly persons with supplemental health plans in the city of São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract Objective: To measure the Quality of Life (QoL) and associated factors in a group of elderly persons receiving care through a health plan operator in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out with 169 elderly persons enrolled in a health plan and who were participants in a program to promote health and prevent risks and diseases. The Bref and Old versions of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) instruments were adopted for the evaluation of the QoL of the elderly. After descriptive analysis, a comparative analysis was performed through the Student’s t-tests and ANOVA. The Brown-Forsythe test was applied for situations in which no homogeneity was found and the Tukey test for multiple comparisons was applied. Results: The highest mean QoL values were found in the Psychological [72.1 (±14.3)] and Environment [68 (±15.4)] and Intimacy [72.5 (±20.8)] domains, while the worst results were found in the Physical [64.3 (±18)] domain and in the Death and Dying facet [61.2 (±23.2)]. In this group, factors such as obesity, neoplasia and previous hospitalizations were negatively associated with QoL, whereas young elderly, female, widows, carriers of chronic non-communicable diseases and those limited to two morbidities, who practiced physical activity and had clinical care provided by a reference physician had a positive influence. Conclusion: The findings of this research showed high levels of satisfaction with health and QoL, in addition to raising relevant discussions about predictors that influence the QoL of the elderly receiving care from the supplementary sector. It also emphasizes the need for new strategies of action to ensure improvements in the health care of the elderly.
Poverty Identity and Preference for Challenge: Evidence from the U.S. and India

Abstract One’s personal identity can play an important role in decision-making. We propose that a key identity that shapes behavior among poor populations is conceptualizing oneself as financially insecure, which we term “poverty identity. ” Two experiments suggest that this identity can influence one’s propensity to engage in challenging tasks. We first demonstrate in a lab experiment with students that making financial insecurity temporarily salient can reduce preference for challenging tasks. Subsequently, in a lab-in-field experiment conducted in Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, India, we show that a verbal self-affirmation intervention involving simple, one-on-one conversations with each individual can counteract the effects of persistent identity salience for the poor by fostering greater preference for more challenging labor tasks. We suggest that the persistence of scarcity can make poverty a continually salient characteristic by which the truly impoverished define who they are. Further, we outline an identity-based theoretical framework that explains behavior among people who temporarily feel poor but also suggests that similar perturbations in identity salience may have a negligible impact on behavior among the very poor. These findings have important implications for models of identity and policy design aimed at improving well-being for disadvantaged populations.
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTITIONERS Learning-forgetting-unlearning- relearning – the learning organization’s learning dynamics

Introduction Learning organizations are usually perceived as organizations that excel in individual and organizational learning, which renders them resilient to challenges both internally and externally. They are considered organizations that thrive on the synergy of individual and collective learning, which increases their transformation ability with the goal of sustained viability. However, a specific learning perspective cannot continue indefinitely. Learning organizations often face challenges requiring strategic discontinuities which call for collective reflection upon the suitability of organizational behavior followed by a critical thinking of the underlying knowledge base. In that process, practitioners often find that certain knowledge must be abandoned or discarded, redefined and modified, or updated with new information. This process exists on the individual, team and organizational level as every building block of a learning organization is continuously engaged in the learningforgetting-unlearning-relearning dynamics. Even though much research attention has been dedicated to learning, other aspects of this learning dynamics have been relatively ignored in previous research. The majority of research in this direction can be traced to the period after the year 2000 (Azmi, 2008). This special issue is an attempt to amend this situation and provide guidelines for this complex learning dynamics that could be of use for practitioners.
Water Into Wine: Using Social Policy Courses to Make MSW Students Interested in Politics

ABSTRACT Social workers are making a name for themselves in national politics. Senators Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) have MSW degrees. The current chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Karen Bass (D-CA), also has an MSW. Having social workers in elected office allows the profession to directly address the Grand Challenges of the 21st century. But given students’ general disinterest in policy, let alone politics, getting students to take an interest in running for office can be a challenge. How can schools of social work make students interested in running for office? This study uses the results of a survey experiment from the Michigan Law & Social Work Study to show that referring to elected office as a way of making a difference in the community can make MSW students more interested in running for office. However, these results varied across the sample of 545 MSW students. Because of their practice interests and political socialization, many students are impervious to new messaging about the political system. This study finds that the difference-making message is most effective for micropractice students from less politically socialized households. The right messaging can make students more interested. Implications for social work education are discussed.
The pedagogy of engagement: classroom management vs. facilitating learning

This thesis explored the way upper primary teachers think about student engagement and how they operationalise the concept within their classrooms. Student engagement has been frequently linked to academic success, and improving the engagement of students continues to be a priority for policy makers and practitioners alike. Despite an abundance of research, it remains questionable whether researcher conceptions of student engagement adequately represent the way teachers experience the concept. Teachers' perspectives on student engagement and their engagement-related practices were investigated over two studies using an exploratory sequential mixed methods design. In Study One, in-depth interviews were conducted with 16 teachers to explore their beliefs about student engagement in learning. Teachers described six qualitatively different forms of engagement and disengagement, as well as a complex process for facilitating student engagement within lessons. A typology of engagement and a pedagogical framework for engaging students were proposed based on the findings. Study Two sought to test the validity of the typology as a representation of teachers' descriptions of student engagement and its usefulness in coding teachers' engagement-related interactions within observed lessons. Four teachers were interviewed and four lessons observations for each teacher were conducted. In addition, 72 students within those classrooms were surveyed to explore their perceptions of aspects of the learning environment, including their understanding of teacher expectations for student engagement. Qualitative analysis of interview and observation data revealed that teachers varied in their expectations for student engagement within lessons, their views on the role of peers in student engagement, and in the frequency with which they intervened within lessons to facilitate different forms of student engagement. [SHORTENED TITLE UP TO 50 CHARACTERS] 3 Quantitative analysis of survey data suggest that students in different classrooms perceive different expectations for how they will engage in learning experiences. A model is proposed for thinking about the pedagogy of student engagement, providing an alternative vantage point from which to explore the concept, one that is grounded in the reallife experiences of teachers facing the ongoing challenge of engaging students in classroom learning experiences. [SHORTENED TITLE UP TO 50 CHARACTERS] 4
Knowledge and practices related to diabetes mellitus among adults with diabetes in the Mopani District, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) among black South Africans is on the increase because of population ageing, unhealthy lifestyles, and obesity. Knowledge about DM and appropriate practices related to DM are keys to its proper management. Aim: To assess the knowledge and practices related to DM among black South Africans aged 40 years and older with DM. Setting: The study was conducted in seven government health care facilities in the Mopani District. Method: This was a health facility-based cross-sectional quantitative study. Structured interviews were used to obtain information which included socio-demographic profiles as well as knowledge about DM and its ocular complications. Results: Participants ( N = 225) included 161 (71.6%) women and 64 (28.4%) men aged 40–90 years (mean and standard deviation of 61.5 ± 10.49 years). Many (68.3%) did not know the types of DM and only 32.4% knew the type of DM they had. Many knew about the importance of special diet (84.5%) and physical activity (64.4%) in DM management; however, only 52% knew about the importance of losing weight. Many (71.5%) followed a special diet as advised, only 29.1% always tried to lose weight, and 48.3% engaged in physical activity. Many (82.6%) knew that DM could cause vision problems, but only 49.3% have had their eyes examined. Most (99.5%) of those on oral medication and those on insulin (93.1%) reported using their treatment as prescribed. Conclusion: The knowledge and practices related to DM among the participants were good in certain aspects but poor in others, suggesting the need for programmes on DM awareness in this population. Keywords: Knowledge; practices; diabetes mellitus; Mopani District; South Africa
From Empirical Observation to Social Intervention: The Marxization of Psychology in China, 1949–1958

This article examines the Marxization of psychology in the first decade of socialist China, between 1949 and 1958. In this movement, a loose group of radical intellectuals called for the replacement of the empirical observation model popular in psychology with a social intervention model as exemplified by educators. This paradigmatic, transdisciplinary shift would encompass three epistemological–ontological nexuses. First, the radical intellectuals accused ahistorical empirical observation of failing to recognize that the Chinese mental capacity, so far impaired by class domination, could display tremendous growth in socialism. Second, they criticized experimental and naturalistic contexts of observation for revealing the human mind to be mechanistic rather than purposeful. To recognize human agency, psychologists must transform their objectivist conceptualization of reality to a sociopolitical one. Third, they denounced the ideal of value neutrality for eschewing political engagement while permitting instrumental rationality and its hidden normative judgments. The solution lay in a refocusing on mental content instead of mental process as the object of inquiry. By examining the Marxization of psychology in socialist China, this article aims to foster reflection on how Chinese and Western psychologists’ research assumptions are shaped by their sociopolitical milieux.
Effects of unipedicular versus bipedicular kyphoplasty for treatment of osteoporosis vertebral compression fractures

Objective To compare two surgical approaches, unipedicular versus bipedicular, with PKP in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures, and to explore if the unilateral and bilateral pedicle surgical approaches have effect on postoperative efficacy. Methods Patients with unilateral(unilateral group) or bilateral(bilateral group) osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures receiving PKP treatment were selected from March 2009 to April 2012 including 46 cases of unilateral, bilateral group of 50 patients. The perioperative and postoperative follow-up clinical data of both treatment groups were analyzed and indicators between the two groups were compared. Results All patients were followed up for 12 to 48 months, average 34.6 months, the number of days in the hospital, ambulation, VAS score, etc., the difference between the two treatment groups was not statistically significant(P 0.05). There was no significant difference in vertebral height and Cobb angle between the last follow-up data and the data of one week after operation for bilateral group(P 0.05), while for the unilateral group, the difference was statistically significant(P 0.05). Conclusion For patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures, unilateral or bilateral approach with PKP method can achieve good therapeutic effect, however with time flying, in the maintenance of vertebral height and correct kyphosis regard, the bilateral approach is superior to unilateral effects.
Word of Mouth and Risk Perception Toward the Decision on Using Go-Jek Services

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of WOM-Topics toward online transportation on using the sevice of Go-Jek in Padang City; to analyze the effect of RPSocial & Time/Convenience toward online transportation on using the service of Go-Jek in Padang City and to analyze the effect of WOM-Topics and RP-Social & Time/Convenience for taking decision on using the service of Go-Jek in Padang City. The data were collected from 384 respondents who have ever used Go-Jek for one year. The result of the study showed that (1) WOM-Topics partially has positive and significant impact on purchasing decision; (2) RP-Social & Time/Convenience partially have negative and significant impact on purchasing decision; and (3) WOM-Topics and RP-Social & Time/Convenience simultantly capable to explain the effect on purchasing decision. The value of adjusted R Square indicators was 47.4%. For online transportation (Go-Jek), they should give more attention to their services for the consumers especially for the ordering which need longer time and longer route while occuring traffic jam and the convenience of consumers when they are on the trip. Moreover, the topics that consumers discussed about with the driver generally is about the promotions and the vouchers, it showed that the consumers fond of with the promotion given by the PT. Gojek Indonesia.
Sport emotions profiles: Relationships with burnout and coping skills among competitive athletes

The aims of the study were to identify naturally occurring competitive emotional profiles and examine whether participants from several profiles significantly differed on burnout and coping. A sample of 424 competitive athletes (Mage = 32.38; SD = 13.16) completed a series of self-report questionnaires. Comparing the sample as a whole, cluster analyses revealed two emotional profiles: (a) High unpleasant emotions and low pleasant emotions; and (b) moderately high pleasant emotions and low unpleasant emotions. Results of MANOVAs showed significant differences across emotional profiles on burnout (emotional/physical exhaustion, reduced accomplishment, sport devaluation) and coping (resignation, distancing, venting emotions and mental distraction). Therefore, results suggested that an emotion profile approach offered a robust heuristic for examining emotions in a more holistic method to unpack their complex associations with key outcomes (coping, burnout) and they have implications for intervention.
A Systematic Synthesis of Evidence Regarding Relationship of Physical Activity and Sports Participation With Trait Self-control

Background: Individuals with low level of trait self-control exhibit several negative behaviors such as violence, addictive behaviors (drug addiction, technological addictions), suicide, unhealthy eating, and criminal behaviors. In contrast, high level of self-control thought to be associated with positive psychosocial and physical health related outcomes. Interventions contribute to boost self-control seems essential for individual with risk of low trait self-control. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to systematically evaluate the relationship between physical activity and trait self-control. Methods: For this purpose, full-text articles were searched in research databases including Psych INFO, PubMed, Medline, The Cochrane Library, Wiley Library, Taylor & Francis, Science Direct, Springer, ERIC, JSTOR, Google scholar, and Sage Journals. Following screening for the study selection criteria and assessment of risk of bias, twenty one studies (13cross-sectional, 5 longitudinal and 3 interventions) with low or moderate risks of bias were finally selected for qualitative synthesis. Results: Findings from all of the included studies consistently showed that there was a significantly positive relationship between physical activity and trait self-control.It is suggested that increasing self-efficacy, decreasing aggression, and improvement in positive and negative emotional states might be underlying mechanisms working for beneficial effects of physical activity on trait self-control. Conclusion: These suggest that physical activity and exercise may serve as a potential means to enhance trait self-control. Practical implementation and recommendations for policy makers are put forward in this connection.
Redesigning the Crash Cart: Usability testing improves one facilityʼs medication drawers.

T he medication drawers of the crash carts at St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, were a mess— cluttered and disorganized. There were too many drugs in the drawers, and the way vials were stored made it difficult to identify contents quickly. As a result, a life-threatening emergency often resulted in the following scene: a panicked nurse struggles to find a drug in the drawer, angering an impatient physician. Each understands the dire consequences of not finding a drug in time. The gravity of the situation puts immense pressure on everyone involved. Many on staff were aware of the problem, but nothing was done to fix it. Early in November 2001, however, the associate nursing administrator found herself working a code; soon afterward the problem was delegated to the facility’s Code Blue Committee, established to oversee the problems associated with codes—in particular, the crash cart’s drug drawer. An ad hoc committee was formed, with representatives from pharmacy, nursing administration, ED, ICU, and progressive care, to investigate possible solutions. At the first meeting, I suggested we look into usability testing, a way of gathering information that can be used to design systems and machines that fit human capabilities and limitations. Having been introduced to the method at a recent conference, I felt comfortable applying what I had learned to designing a more usable crash cart drug drawer.
The Dermatologist Perspective: What Difference Does It Really Make?

Correctly classifying adnexal neoplasms is a difficult aspect of skin pathology. In some circumstances, designating a lesion merely as “benign adnexal neoplasm” is adequate. However, there are some instances when further classification is essential. In such cases, these benign adnexal neoplasms may serve as a clinical marker for genetic syndromes with serious systemic associations, particularly systemic malignancies. This article discusses these syndromes, specifically Muir-Torre syndrome, Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome, and Cowden's syndrome, and their associated adnexal neoplasms.