1.Sexual health intervention for couples with difficulty in sexual abstinence
Philippine Journal of Nursing 2021;91(2):29-35
Purpose:
Nurses in the forefront of reproductive health services face the challenge of motivating clients to adapt fertility
awareness-based methods, or making them continue with the method due to concerns about handling sexual abstinence. To assist nurses and other reproductive health providers, a sexual health intervention was developed. Thus, this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of the sexual health intervention called Kalabit-kalabit (sexual desire), Irap (abstinence), and Sanggang-dikit (shared behavioral plan) (KIS) on the sexual scripts, motivation, and behavior of couples with difficulty in sexual abstinence in natural family planning. Specifically, it aimed to identify the sexual scripts on pagkatao (personhood), pagkalalaki (manhood), pagiging lalaki (masculinity), pagkababae (womanhood), pagiging babae (femininity), pagtatalik (sexual intercourse), and pagpipigil (abstinence), as well as the sexual motivation and behavior of couples with difficulty in abstinence before and after KIS.
Methods:
Embedded multiple-case study with purposive sampling using the replication logic was used to satisfy the inquiry. Four couples qualified using the assumption that difficulty with abstinence is caused by illogical sexual scripts, and inappropriate sexual motivation and behavior of either one or both spouses as a template to determine KIS’s effectiveness. Pattern matching, cross-case synthesis, and logic model were used for analytic generalization. Prior to the conduct of the study, the research protocol underwent scrutiny by the Independent Ethics Committee of De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute.
Result:
KIS was found to be effective in (a) decoding and denouncing illogical sexual scripts and inappropriate sexual motivation and behavior, (b) reframing them to logical sexual scripts and appropriate sexual motivation and behavior, and (c) sharing mutual behavioral plans if accompanied with openness and full acceptance of self and spouse coupled with conviction, cooperation, commitment, and determination.
Conclusions
Decoding, challenging, reframing, and sharing mutual behavioral plans facilitate couples' competence in achieving sexual abstinence with ease.
Motivation
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Behavior
2.Relationships among Nurses' Internal Marketing, Occupational Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment.
Suk Hee OH ; Seung Tae MOON ; Hee Sun KANG
Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing 2011;20(1):65-73
PURPOSE: This study investigates nurses' organizational commitment, internal marketing, and occupational satisfaction depending on their age, martial status, clinical experience and income. METHODS: The subjects of this study were 350 nurses from six hospitals in Jeolla-do. The t-tests were used to analyze the differences in internal marketing, occupational satisfaction, and organizational commitment depending on their age, marital status, career, and income. The relationships among internal marketing, occupational satisfaction, and organizational commitment were analyzed by the path analysis. RESULTS: The results of this study showed that organizational commitment was correlated with age, clinical experiences, and income, but not significantly associated with martial status. Education and training policy, benefit system, and fairness of the internal marketing were influencing factors on occupational satisfaction. These factors were correlated with organizational commitment through occupational satisfaction. CONCLUSION: This study addressed the relationships among nurses' internal marketing, occupational satisfaction, and organizational commitment. Based on the results, it is suggested that hospital organizations introduce more diverse incentive policies to enhance nurses' occupational satisfaction and organizational commitment.
Marital Status
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Marketing
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Motivation
3.Organizational Ostracism: A Potential Framework in Order to Deal with It.
Mona MLIKA ; Mehdi Ben KHELIL ; Nidhal Haj SALEM
Safety and Health at Work 2017;8(4):398-401
BACKGROUND: Organizational ostracism is defined as a violation of norms that we are suggested to acknowledge at the workplace. It results in the exclusion of one person or multiple persons, and causes damage to our innate need to belong. This kind of behaviorism can be engaged through a hierarchical or nonhierarchical relationship. Three elements interact in the framework of organizational ostracism: the actor, the target, and the institution. Our aim was to describe the different factors interacting with every element in order to produce recommendations targeting to prevent the occurrence of such behaviorism in an institution and to help targets of such a violence in order to handle this situation and go forward. As psychological impact of ostracism has frequently been studied in the literature, we focused on its impact on professional tasks. METHODS: We performed a questionnaire-based study about organizational ostracism. This questionnaire was established through an online platform (https://www.sondageonline.com) and made available through the following link: https://goo.gl/forms/KrkVXe3bMEc79cau2. A keyword was sent to all participants. We created a 23-interrogation questionnaire with open and short questions. Nonwritten consent was obtained from all participants. RESULTS: The actor of ostracism engaged in ostracism, in most of the cases, with other persons without a real purpose. The actor of ostracism had an antecedent of problematic relationship at work in 82.9% of the cases. Of the participants, 58.5% were of the view that ostracism aimed to cause hurt and isolate them. Professional isolation was observed in 58.5% of the cases; 51.2% of the participants tried to improve their work potential and explained their reaction by an intrinsic motivation. The organization atmosphere was judged to be bad in most of the cases. CONCLUSION: Our study showed that ostracism was mainly observed in public practice.
Atmosphere
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Humans
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Motivation
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Violence
4.Surprising Incentive: An Instrument for Promoting Safety Performance of Construction Employees.
Fakhradin GHASEMI ; Iraj MOHAMMADFAM ; Ali Reza SOLTANIAN ; Shahram MAHMOUDI ; Esmaeil ZAREI
Safety and Health at Work 2015;6(3):227-232
BACKGROUND: In comparison with other industries, the construction industry still has a higher rate of fatal injuries, and thus, there is a need to apply new and innovative approaches for preventing accidents and promoting safe conditions at construction sites. METHODS: In this study, the effectiveness of a new incentive system-the surprising incentive system-was assessed. One year after the implementation of this new incentive system, behavioral changes of employees with respect to seven types of activities were observed. RESULTS: The results of this study showed that there is a significant relationship between the new incentive system and the safety performance of frontline employees. The new incentive system had a greater positive impact in the first 6 months since its implementation. In the long term, however, safety performance experienced a gradual reduction. Based on previous studies, all activities selected in this study are important indicators of the safety conditions at workplaces. However, there is a need for a comprehensive and simple-to-apply tool for assessing frontline employees' safety performance. Shortening the intervals between incentives is more effective in promoting safety performance. CONCLUSION: The results of this study proved that the surprising incentive would improve the employees' safety performance just in the short term because the surprising value of the incentives dwindle over time. For this reason and to maintain the surprising value of the incentive system, the amount and types of incentives need to be evaluated and modified annually or biannually.
Construction Industry
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Motivation*
5.The influence of reward motivation on emotion regulation.
Han-Xiao LI ; Quan-Shan LONG ; An-Tao CHEN ; Qing LI
Acta Physiologica Sinica 2019;71(4):562-574
The influence of reward on behavior is one of the hottest research subjects in psychological research. Reward-induced motivation promotes the performance of the participants. In the field of emotional processing, the reward can influence the individual's processing of emotional information, but previous studies have not directly discussed the effect of reward on emotional regulation. The present study focused on whether emotional regulation ability would be improved under the reward condition. Experiment 1 and 2 investigated the effect of reward on negative emotional down-regulation and positive emotional up-regulation respectively. In experiment 1, monetary reward stimulation was introduced on the basis of the classic emotion regulation paradigm, and the subjects were asked to regulate their negative emotion under the condition of reward or non-reward, and evaluate their current affective state subsequently. Similar to experiment 1, experiment 2 required subjects to up-regulate positive emotions under the condition of reward or non-reward. The results of experiment 1 showed that under the reward condition, the negative emotional regulation effect was significantly higher than that under the non-reward condition (P < 0.05). Experiment 2 also showed that compared to non-reward condition, the positive emotion regulation effect was significantly increased under the reward condition (P < 0.05). These results suggested that compared to non-reward condition, participants can regulate their emotion better under the condition of the reward. It is worth noting that the results of Experiment 1 and 2 may be caused by the incentive motivation induced by monetary stimulus, or the positive emotion caused by positive value of money information. Therefore, we carried out experiment 3 and 4 to explore whether the positive emotions induced by money itself can influence the emotional regulation of individuals. In experiment 3, the money pictures were used to induce the positive emotions of subjects, and the subjects were asked to regulate their negative emotion after the presence of money pictures or non-monetary picture, and evaluate their current affective state subsequently. Similarly, experiment 4 required subjects to regulate their positive emotion after the presence of money pictures. The results of experiment 3 and 4 showed that there was no significant difference in the subjects' scores of emotional pleasantness after the presence of money pictures or non-monetary picture (P < 0.05). The results of experiment 3 and 4 excluded the possibility that the positive emotions induced by simple money stimulus pictures could improve individual's emotional regulation ability. To sum up, the improvement of individual's emotional regulation ability was indeed driven by reward motivation in this study, that is, the motivation induced by reward can effectively promote individual's emotional regulation ability.
Emotions
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Humans
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Motivation
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Reward
6.Individualized Diabetes Education.
Journal of Korean Diabetes 2011;12(1):50-52
The individual personality traits of diabetes patients are important to understanding in order to effectively educate patients about their disease. A variety of perspectives and theoretical backgrounds may be useful to assess individual patients. In this paper, we present information regarding effective diabetes education through the understanding of different personality types and their characteristics. When the individual characteristics of patients are understood and relationships between patients and educators are based on mutual trust and respect, the self-management motivation of patients will be maximized, as will the quality of patient's lives.
Humans
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Motivation
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Self Care
7.Vision on the internationalization of physiology education: Trends and prospects.
Chun-Wai MA ; Kenneth Lap-Kei WU ; Ying-Shing CHAN
Acta Physiologica Sinica 2020;72(6):690-698
Rapid advancement of physiology education has occurred since the twentieth century due to the emergence of new pedagogies and collaborative effort of physiologists worldwide. Physiological organizations and institutions contribute to the teaching of physiology through international congresses, education symposia, teaching workshops, exchange programs, and journal publications. The Internet and information technologies play a crucial role in the promotion and improvement of computer-based physiology education across different countries. Interactive teaching practices and problem-based learning have also become globally applied strategies to enhance students' motivation and facilitate learning effectiveness. In this article, we review the global development and implementation of pedagogical approaches to the teaching of physiology, as well as the emerging trends and practices for physiology education in the future.
Humans
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Learning
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Motivation
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Physiology
8.Mindfulness, mindset, motivation, and academic performance of speech pathology undergraduate students: A correlational study
Rozelle Francesca K. Bentulan ; Grace S. Koo
Philippine Journal of Health Research and Development 2022;26(CAMP-UPM Issue):33-42
Background:
Speech pathology (SP) students report great difficulty as they experience academic and mental health concerns while completing their programs. Even with increased global attention on non-cognitive factors influencing academic performance, no study focusing on Filipino SP students has been done.
Objectives:
This study aimed to (1) explore the relationships among mindfulness, growth mindset, academic intrinsic motivation, and academic performance, and (2) investigate the influence of mindfulness, mindset, and motivation levels on academic performance.
Methodology:
SP undergraduate students from a university in Manila (n=89) responded to an online survey measuring the three variables. Grades were extracted and analyzed alongside survey scores. Correlation and multiple linear regression analysis were performed.
Results:
Higher mindfulness level was significantly related to better academic performance (rs(89) = -.235, p<.05). Correlation analysis further revealed a significant association between mindfulness and growth mindset (rs(89) = .390, p<.01); mindfulness and academic intrinsic motivation (rs(89) = .504, p<.01); and growth mindset and academic intrinsic motivation (rs(89) = .409, p<.01). No significant relationship was found between grades and growth mindset or motivation levels. Furthermore, regression analysis revealed that mindfulness, mindset, and motivation levels do not significantly predict grades (F(3,85)=.461, p=.710, R2=.016).
Conclusion
This study provides scientific findings to help educators develop a better understanding of Filipino health professions education student characteristics. Evidence on the significance of mindfulness in student performance is presented. It also provides new knowledge regarding the association between the constructs of mindfulness, growth mindset, and intrinsic motivation in this specific population.
Mindfulness
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Motivation
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Academic Performance
9.Paternal adaptation and role attainment: A concept analysis
Philippine Journal of Nursing 2023;93(2):78-85
Becoming a parent is a significant life transition accompanied by various experiences and emotions that may be both fulfilling and
rewarding, as well as challenging and stressful for both the mother and father. Mercer's theory of becoming a mother provides a
framework for mothers' adaptation and role attainment throughout the perinatal period. However, a theoretical gap exists
surrounding fathers' adaptability and role attainment, as fathers are frequently forgotten, and their experiences are overlooked.
Although becoming a father can be a rewarding or satisfying experience that results in positive changes in men's lives, some
fathers experience concerns and contradictions as a result of a shift in their roles, responsibilities, and social expectations, which
result in maladaptation and mental health challenges. Given the significance of fathers in the family, community, and society, this
concept analysis aimed to bridge the gap by proposing a theory that will guide fathers in successfully adapting to and reaching a
solid role identity. The concept analysis methodology from Walker and Avant (2011) was utilized to define the concept of paternal
adaptation and role attainment, attributes, antecedents, consequences, cases, and empirical referents. This paper concludes that
perinatal fathers' adaptability and role attainment improve psycho-emotional, cognitive, relational, and behavioral outcomes,
improving paternal-maternal-infant quality of life and developmental products when influenced by positive personal resources,
adequate family, friends support, and community resources. Given the implications of paternal maladaptation on the family, a
theoretical framework for fathers is crucial. Hence, the theory of paternal adaptation and role attainment is proposed.
Pregnancy
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Mothers
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Fathers
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Motivation
10.Relationship Between Self-Referential Processing and Intrinsic Motivation in Patients with Schizophrenia.
Jung Suk LEE ; Eun Seong KIM ; Eun Joo KIM ; Joohan KIM ; Jae Jin KIM
Korean Journal of Schizophrenia Research 2015;18(2):73-78
OBJECTIVES: The close relationship between impaired self-referential processing and intrinsic motivation in schizophrenia has been suggested, but is not investigated yet. The purpose of this study was to explore the characteristics of self-referential processing and its relationship with intrinsic motivation in patients with schizophrenia. METHODS: Nineteen patients with schizophrenia and 24 healthy controls performed a self-referential processing task, in which a face (self, familiar other, or unfamiliar other) and three words (positive, neutral, and negative nouns) were presented. Participants were asked to indicate which word is relevant to the face. Intrinsic motivation and basic psychological needs affecting intrinsic motivation were assessed using self-reports. RESULTS: Compared to healthy controls, the relevance rating between self-face and neutral word was significantly lower in patients with schizophrenia (p=0.02). In patients with schizophrenia, it was negatively correlated with intrinsic motivation (r=-0.47, p=0.04) and competence (r=-0.47, p=0.05) which is known to influence intrinsic motivation. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that there is an impairment in self-referential processing in schizophrenia and it is associated with an impairment in intrinsic motivation. In particular, amotivation in patients with schizophrenia may represent a facet of selfdisorder.
Humans
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Mental Competency
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Motivation*
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Schizophrenia*