scholarly journals Death Anxiety and Attitudes towards Death in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: An Exploratory Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 964
Author(s):  
Jara Francalancia ◽  
Paraskevi Mavrogiorgou ◽  
Georg Juckel ◽  
Tina Mitrovic ◽  
Jens Kuhle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Neurological Deficits ◽  
Attitude Towards Death ◽  
Attitudes Towards Death ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Treatable Condition

Background: Death and the anxiety of it becomes more apparent when confronted with a chronic disease. Even though multiple sclerosis (MS) is a treatable condition today, it is still accompanied by a multitude of impairments, which in turn may intensify of death anxiety. Objective: The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between depression, anxiety and death anxiety in individuals with MS. Methods: Fifty-six MS patients were recruited at the Department of Neurology of the University Clinic in Basel. Death anxiety was assessed using the Bochumer Questionnaire on attitude to death and death anxiety 2.0 (BOFRETTA 2.0). Results: Scores of death anxiety towards it in MS patients were low. Only disability (EDSS) was moderately correlated with death anxiety. Depression in MS was significantly correlated with fatigue and disability, but not with the BOFRETTA 2.0. Conclusion: Scores of death anxiety and the attitude towards death are low in this MS cohort. It was shown that both psychopathological and neurological deficits impact the subject of death with respect to multiple sclerosis.

scholarly journals Measuring logical competences and soft skills when enrolling in a university degree course

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Bruno Bertaccini ◽  
Riccardo Bruni ◽  
Federico Crescenzi ◽  
Beatrice Donati
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
Exit Examination ◽  
University System ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Subject ◽  
University Of Florence ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Logical abilities are a ubiquitous ingredient in all those contexts that take into account soft skills, argumentative skills or critical thinking. However, the relationship between logical models and the enhancement of these abilities is rarely explicitly considered. Two aspects of the issue are particularly critical in our opinion, namely: (i) the lack of statistically relevant data concerning these competences; (ii) the absence of reliable indices that might be used to measure and detect the possession of abilities underlying the above-mentioned soft skills. This paper aims to address both aspects of this topic by presenting the results of a research we conducted in the period October – December 2020 on students enrolled in various degree courses at the University of Florence. To the best of our knowledge, to date this is the largest available database on the subject in the Italian University System. It has been obtained by a three-stage initiative. We started from an “entrance” examination for assessing the students' initial abilities. This test comprised ten questions, each of which was centered on a specific reasoning construct. The results we have collected show that there is a widespread lack of understanding of basic patterns that are common in the everyday way of arguing. Students then underwent a short training course, using formal logic techniques in order to strengthen their abilities, and afterwards took an “exit” examination, replicating the structure and the questions difficulty of the entrance one in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the course. Results show that the training was beneficial.

Honesty Requiring a Self-Initiated Response

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Hays
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Dollar Bill ◽  
Student Union ◽  
Subject Variables ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

33 patrons of the University of California, Riverside student union were given $1.05 in change for a dollar bill (three quarters, two dimes, and two nickels). Honesty was assessed by the criterion of self-initiating the return of the extra nickel, and behavior was examined as a function of sex, age, and manner of dress. Results indicate that the over-all honesty of patrons was low (45%), but no significant findings for the relationship between the subject variables and honesty were shown. The 45% rate of honesty indicates that subjects who believe there will not be any external knowledge of their dishonesty are likely to exhibit dishonest behavior.

scholarly journals GENDER SPECIFICITY OF SUBJECTIVITY MANIFESTATIONS IN SITUATIONS OF AUTONOMY AND NON-AUTONOMY

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-405
Author(s):  
A.V. Eremeeva
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Effective Parameters ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Psychological Need ◽  
Advanced Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Angular Transformation

The relevance of this article is due to the need to study the gender specifics of the relationship between the manifestations of subjectivity (mental states, procedural and effective parameters of the situation) with the basic psychological need for autonomy to apply the data obtained in the practice of psychological and pedagogical support of the educational process at the university. The goal of the empirical research was to determine the gender common and peculiar in the manifestations of subjectivity, depending on the degree of autonomy of the subject of activity. The main hypothesis was the assumption that there are differences in the manifestations of subjectivity in situations with different levels of autonomy among respondents of different genders. The sample consisted of 112 people (56 men and 56 women). The age of men was from 22 to 42 years (M=25, SD=3,5 years). The age of women was from 22 to 45 years (M=24, SD=2,8 years). The respondents - advanced students (n=112) in the form of a free essay described the situations of extrinsic and internal motivation when studying at the university and compared them with each other by any possible criteria. For data processing, the methods of content analysis, frequency analysis of text and the Fisher angular transformation criterion were used. Statistically significant differences in the emotional and intellectual-emotional manifestations of states in subjects of different sexes were revealed. In situations of autonomy, women more often experienced states of joy, interest and passion (p≤0,05), and men experienced pleasure (p≤0,01). The state of relief in situations of non-autonomy was more common for women than for men (p≤0,01). Differences in the frequency of mention of procedural and effective parameters of situations in respondents of different sexes were not found. The results of the study can be used in the development of programs for the adaptation of future specialists to changes in the labor market conditions.

scholarly journals Regverdiging van die sondaar: Martin Luther se teologiese definisie van die mens soos uiteengesit in die Disputatio de homine van 1536, stelling 32

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriël M.J. Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Essential Resource ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theology And Philosophy

Disputations were a fixture of Martin Luther’s academic career. Luther participated regularly in disputations. It was an important communicative vehicle through which he developed and expressed his theology. The well-known 95 theses are a case in point. Luther’s career as a disputator was impressive. Several of his most influential disputations were explicitly intended for consideration by his academic and ecclesiastical colleagues, but the majority of his disputations took place as a curricular exercise at the University of Wittenberg. The purpose of these disputations was pedagogical and polemical. Luther deployed the same tools for his defence of proper doctrine that were at the centre of the Protestant reformation in the face of objections. The disputatio de homine is a systematic summary of Luther’s anthropology. It incorporates the doctrine of justification as the theological definition of man. It treats the subject within the context of the relationship between theology and philosophy, and reflects upon the new language of theology. The disputatio de homine provides an essential resource for the study of Luther’s anthropology and the doctrine of justification.

Paradigmas que permeiam os modelos de atenção à saúde no Brasil: um ensaio analítico

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1236
Author(s):  
Flávio César Bezerra da Silva ◽  
Francisca Marta de Lima Costa ◽  
Hamilton Leandro Pinto de Andrade ◽  
Lúcia De Fátima Freire ◽  
Patrícia Suerda de Oliveira Maciel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Production ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Healthy City ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Critics ◽  
The Relationship

Objectives: to discuss the historical trajectory of health policies in Brazil, contrasting the paradigms flexenerian and the social production of health; to deal the range of cultural and ideological factors in historical development in the social field of health, relating them to the role of the University. Methods: we analyzed the subject from different authors who discussed the matter in order to detect the approach of the relationship between the paradigms and models of health care in the economic, political and cultural predominance. Results: the Universities have contributed to the discussions about the paradigms inherent in the social context of public health in Brazil, assuming the role of training, update and improve the content of their curricula, as well as to respond the demands arising from the society. Conclusion: we concluded that this situation was crucial in the development of the emerging paradigm and that the University has an important role in the formation of professional critics, and reflective participants in structuring a new paradigm. Descriptors: healthy city; education; health policy.

scholarly journals Association between attitude towards death and spiritual care competence of Chinese oncology nurses: a cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liujin Li ◽  
Jingmin Lv ◽  
Lingling Zhang ◽  
Yalan Song ◽  
Ying Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Nurse Managers ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Oncology Nurse ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Attitude Towards Death ◽  
Attitudes Towards Death ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Backgrounds An understanding of the oncology nurse spiritual care competence would help nurse managers recognize weakness in spiritual practice and improve the quality of spiritual care. But the relationship between attitude towards death and spiritual care competence is unknown. Methods We recruited 326 nurses from hospitals in Guangzhou, China. The nurses completed the Chinese Spiritual Care Competence Scale and the Chinese Death Attitude Profile-Revised questionnaires. Results The total score of spiritual care competence was 61.62 ± 16.10. And the lowest score of attitude towards death was for escape acceptance, 2.64 ± 0.82. Factors associated with nurse spiritual care competence were work department, whether trained in spiritual care, approaching acceptance, and escaping acceptance of attitude towards death. Conclusion Nurses need to perfect their spiritual care competence and establish positive attitudes towards death.

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN STRES KERJA DAN KINERJA DOSEN

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didit Darmawan
Keyword(s):  
Job Stress ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Spearman Correlation ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Spearman Correlation Test ◽  
The Subject ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTLecturers are the basic foundation for delivering knowledge and knowledge at the university level. Lecturers face various college tridharma tasks that have the potential to create work stress. This study analyzes the relationship between work stress and lecturer performance. It is important to understand and cultivate work stress because of its impact on mental as well as individual physical health. The subject of this research is 49 lecturers in 49 universities in the scope of Kopertis Region VII. Sampling technique using accidental sampling. Data analysis technique using Rank Spearman correlation test. The result of research mentioned that the variable of work stress and lecturer's performance have the opposite or negative and strong enough relationship.Keywords: job stress, lecturer performanceABSTRAKDosen adalah pondasi dasar untuk menyampaikan ilmu dan pengetahuan di tingkat perguruan tinggi. Dosen menghadapi berbagai tugas tridarma perguruan tinggi yang memiliki potensi untuk memunculkan stres kerja. Penelitian ini menganalisis hubungan stres kerja dan kinerja dosen. Hal yang penting untuk mengerti dan mengolah stres kerja karena dampaknya terhadap mental dan juga kesehatan fisik individu. Subjek penelitian ini adalah 49 dosen di 49 perguruan tinggi di lingkup Kopertis Wilayah VII. Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan accidential sampling. Teknik analisis data dengan menggunakan uji korelasi Rank Spearman. Hasil penelitian menyebutkan bahwa variabel stres kerja dan kinerja dosen memiliki hubungan yang berlawanan atau negatif dan cukup kuat.Kata – kata kunci : stres kerja, kinerja dosen

‘all things as they might be’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oli Hazzard
Keyword(s):  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Critical Consideration ◽  
National Literatures

Chapter 2 is the first critical consideration of the relationship between Ashbery and F. T. Prince. It attends to the extensive correspondence between the two poets—held at Harvard and the recently opened F. T. Prince archive at the University of Southampton—which is particularly rich in discussion of the subject of national literatures. Through analysis of Prince’s first volume, Poems, and Ashbery’s Some Trees, it suggests that Prince’s work provided a model for Ashbery’s ‘encrypted’ early lyrics addressing his homosexuality. In the sec section, the correspondence is employed to identify further points of interaction between the two poets’ work. ‘Clepsydra’ is read as building closely upon Prince’s ‘The Tears of a Muse in America’, and presented as an early elaboration of Ashbery’s incipient conception of a reciprocal influential model.

Relating health-related Quality of Life to disability progression in multiple sclerosis, using the 5-level EQ-5D

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 1190-1196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emer Fogarty ◽  
Cathal Walsh ◽  
Roisin Adams ◽  
Christopher McGuigan ◽  
Michael Barry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Inform Resource Allocation

Background: Increasing use of the Quality-Adjusted Life-Year to inform resource allocation decision-making has highlighted the importance of relating clinical and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Objective and Methods: To investigate the relationship between the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) and HRQoL utility, using the 5-level EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L). The discriminatory power of the EQ-5D-5L was assessed using Shannon’s indices. Results: A linear decline in utility was observed with changes in EDSS score from 0 to 6, after which point the relationship exhibited greater variability. Mean utility values ranged from −0.22 at EDSS 9 to 0.88 at EDSS 0. We found that the discriminative capacity of the EQ-5D-5L was considerably lower for the domains self-care and anxiety/depression, compared with other health-related domains. Conclusion: In its first reported use in an MS population, the EQ-5D-5L displayed good discriminatory capacity, although performance differed between the various domains of health, with evidence of a ceiling effect present in the domains of self-care and anxiety/depression. The EQ-5D-5L demonstrated a high correlation with EDSS in our MS cohort up to EDSS 6, after which point the utility valuation of severe health states exhibited much greater variability. Utility estimates from this study may be used in economic evaluations of disease-modifying therapies in MS, to inform resource-allocation decisions.

Effects of Death Anxiety on Perceived Stress in Individuals With Multiple Sclerosis and the Role of Self-Transcendence

2019 ◽  
pp. 003022281988071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Abdollahi ◽  
Hannaneh Panahipour ◽  
Kelly A. Allen ◽  
Simin Hosseinian
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
The Relationship

Stress is a commonly reported concern of individuals with chronical diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS). This study sought to investigate the relationships between self-transcendence, death anxiety, and perceived stress among individuals with MS from Iran. A second aim of the study was to assess the buffering effect of self-transcendence in the relationship between death anxiety and perceived stress. Two hundred and fifteen participants with MS from four hospitals completed measures assessing self-transcendence, death anxiety, and perceived stress. Using structural equation modeling, death anxiety was found to be positively related to perceived stress. In addition, there was a negative relationship between self-transcendence and perceived stress. Results of the study suggest that self-transcendence is a buffer in the link between death anxiety and perceived stress for individuals with MS. The findings demonstrate the importance of self-transcendence in decreasing the effects of death anxiety on perceived stress and have clinical implications for health professionals.

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