Personal attitudes and beliefs and willingness to pay to reduce marine plastic pollution in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 113120
Author(s):  
Emmanouil Tyllianakis ◽  
Silvia Ferrini
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Personal Attitudes

U.S. VETERANS AS EMERGING ENTREPRENEURS: SELF-EFFICACY, INTENTIONS AND CHALLENGES

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050012
Author(s):  
JOHN JAMES CATER ◽  
MARILYN YOUNG
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Business Plan ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Risk Propensity ◽  
Tolerance Of Ambiguity ◽  
Personal Attitudes ◽  
Descriptive Survey

Veterans may acquire technical skills and leadership ability from their military service but have little information concerning specific entrepreneurial tasks, such as developing a business plan. This descriptive survey study examines avenues for veterans to find assistance to acquire needed skills, adding to their entrepreneurial self-efficacy. We surveyed 68 U.S. veterans who were emerging entrepreneurs, either owning their own business or indicating they intended to start their own company. Veterans’ personal attitudes and beliefs, including entrepreneurial self-efficacy, risk propensity and tolerance of ambiguity, may increase their entrepreneurial intentions. A model of veterans as emerging entrepreneurs and five propositions are offered.

Theory and Research on Stereotypes and Perceptual Bias

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M. Abreu
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Perceptual Bias ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Counseling Trainees ◽  
Personal Attitudes ◽  
Didactic Material ◽  
Diverse Groups

This article presents theory and selected research on stereotyping and cognitive automaticity as a didactic resource base for multicultural counselor educators. Multicultural trainers can use this information in the classroom to establish the existing scientific evidence indicating that perceptual processes taking place outside of conscious awareness give rise to biased perceptions involving racial or ethnic categories. The objective of this didactic resource is to impress upon counseling trainees the importance of coming to terms with racial prejudice and biases often hidden from conscious scrutiny. In addition to the didactic material, several experiential exercises designed to elicit awareness of biases in personal attitudes and beliefs toward culturally diverse groups are presented. Suggestions for future research are also included.

scholarly journals Economic Analysis of The Innovative Eco-Biofilter /Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) System for Community Wastewater Recycling

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Sakran Taesopapong ◽  
Chavalit Ratanatamskul ◽  
Pongsa Pornchaiwiseskul
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Water Reuse ◽  
Membrane Bioreactor ◽  
Contingent Valuation Method ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Cost Ratio ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Treated Effluent

A prototype Eco-biofilter/MBR (Membrane Bioreactor) system has been developed and installed at a community in Chiang Rak Yai Sub-district, Sam Khok District, Pathum Thani Province, Thailand for community wastewater treatment and recycling. This research aims to investigate the performance of Eco-biofilter/MBR system, as well as the economic analysis of willingness to pay for wastewater treatment. A novel porous baked clay biofilter was also developed as an eco-friendly filter media to replace traditional plastic filter in order to reduce plastic pollution to water environment. The effluent quality from the system could meet the international standard for agricultural water reuse. The survey data for economic analysis were collected from the 281 households living in the studied area, analyzed by descriptive statistic and Contingent Valuation Method. The results show the fact that household’s land use has an inverse relationship while the water source use positively correlates to the value of willingness to pay for wastewater treatment at the statistical significance level of 0.05. The economic analysis of the innovative wastewater treatment system reveals the appropriate wastewater treatment fee at 7 THB per cubic meter of wastewater that is a breakeven point. In addition, the Eco-biofilter/MBR also shows many benefits both of direct and indirect benefits such as water reuse potential, opportunity economic value of treated effluent, and reducing medical expenses. The benefit to cost ratio is equal to 1.04.

Subjective Time Preference and Willingness to Pay for an Energy-Saving Durable Good

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerrit Antonides ◽  
Sophia R. Wunderink
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Subjective Time ◽  
Durable Good ◽  
Discount Function ◽  
Hyperbolic Discount ◽  
The One ◽  
Two Parameter ◽  
Difference Effect ◽  
Better Than

Summary: Different shapes of individual subjective discount functions were compared using real measures of willingness to accept future monetary outcomes in an experiment. The two-parameter hyperbolic discount function described the data better than three alternative one-parameter discount functions. However, the hyperbolic discount functions did not explain the common difference effect better than the classical discount function. Discount functions were also estimated from survey data of Dutch households who reported their willingness to postpone positive and negative amounts. Future positive amounts were discounted more than future negative amounts and smaller amounts were discounted more than larger amounts. Furthermore, younger people discounted more than older people. Finally, discount functions were used in explaining consumers' willingness to pay for an energy-saving durable good. In this case, the two-parameter discount model could not be estimated and the one-parameter models did not differ significantly in explaining the data.

Acceptability of Assisted Suicide in Patients With Severe and Persistent Mental Illness

GeroPsych ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Sophie Gloeckler ◽  
Manuel Trachsel
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Psychiatric Nurses ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Persistent Mental Illness ◽  
Moral Attitudes

Abstract. In Switzerland, assisted suicide (AS) may be granted on the basis of a psychiatric diagnosis. This pilot study explored the moral attitudes and beliefs of nurses regarding these practices through a quantitative survey of 38 psychiatric nurses. The pilot study, which serves to inform hypothesis development and future studies, showed that participating nurses supported AS and valued the reduction of suffering in patients with severe persistent mental illness. Findings were compared with those from a previously published study presenting the same questions to psychiatrists. The key differences between nurses’ responses and psychiatrists’ may reflect differences in the burden of responsibility, while similarities might capture shared values worth considering when determining treatment efforts. More information is needed to determine whether these initial findings represent nurses’ views more broadly.

Attitudes and Beliefs Among Women With Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delilah O. Noronha ◽  
Rhonda L. Johnson ◽  
Scott McMeekin ◽  
Sara Vesely ◽  
Joan Walker
Keyword(s):  
Ovarian Cancer ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs
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