scholarly journals LAUGHTER AND EMPATHY

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 192-202
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Răban-Motounu

At a biological level, laughter was found to help in dealing with pain and suffering. From a psychological perspective, its effects have been studied both at intrapersonal and interpersonal levels. At an intrapersonal level, laughter contributes to self-regulating emotions (especially lowering the trait anxiety), diminishing the expression of anger, internally or externally, the same time with increasing self-acceptance. At interpersonal level, laughing together builds trust, while being laughed at may be traumatic. In the present study, the objective was to investigate the effects of laughter on empathy, awareness, and acceptance of personal experience. The participants in the study, all women, watched a situational comedy for 1.5 hours, with different life situations which may seem negative, but presented in an amusing manner, and, very important, with a happy end. At the end, they completed the empathy and awareness questionnaires. Statistical analysis, comparing their scores with those in a non-treatment condition, showed that laughing at the situational comedy significantly influenced almost all aspects of empathy, significantly decreasing the personal distress from empathizing with others, but also sensitivity and emotional interest towards them, without significant influence on awareness and acceptance of personal experience.

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-29
Author(s):  
Erlangga Arya Mandala ◽  
Faresti Nurdiana Dihan

The Emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence and job satisfaction to be part of the factors that influence performance. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence on the performance through job satisfaction as an intervening variable partially and simultaneously. This study also aimed to determine the effect of emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence on the performance through job satisfaction as an intervening variable directly and indirectly. This study was conducted to 77 respondents employees of PT. Madu Baru, Yogyakarta. The research method used is quantitative method uses statistical analysis and descriptive. The results of this study are (1) there is a significant effect of emotional intelligence on employee job satisfaction. (2) there is a significant influence of spiritual intelligence on employee job satisfaction. (3) There is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence on job satisfaction. (4) There is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence on employee performance. (5) There is a significant relationship between spiritual intelligence on employee performance. (6) There is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence on employee performance. (7) There is a significant relationship between job satisfaction on employee performance. (8) There is an indirect effect of emotional intelligence on the performance of employees through job satisfaction. (9) There is the indirect influence of spiritual intelligence on the performance of employees through job satisfaction. Keywords: emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence, job satisfaction and employee performance


2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 604-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Franke ◽  
A. W. Taylor ◽  
A. Lago ◽  
M. C. Fredel

Clinical Relevance Statistical analysis of the results obtained in this study shows that Nd:YAG laser irradiation on the adhesive system has a significant influence on bond strength to dentin. Bond strength is improved by better adhesive penetration when low energy is applied; whereas, high energy densities have a deleterious effect on the procedure.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Achmad Rozi

The implementation of promotional activities carried out by the company includes advertising, sales promotion, personal sales, and publicity. This study aims to determine the effect of promotion and accuracy of distribution of consumer buying interest at PT. Enzym Biotechnology Internusa. The method used was explanatory research with a sample of 96 respondents. The analysis technique uses statistical analysis with regression testing, correlation, determination and hypothesis testing. The results of this study have a significant influence on consumer buying interest of 41.1%, hypothesis testing obtained significance 0,000 <0.05. The accuracy of the distribution has a significant effect on consumer buying interest by 39.1%, the hypothesis test obtained a significance of 0,000 <0.05. Promotion and accuracy of distribution simultaneously have a significant effect on consumer buying interest of 50.2%, the hypothesis test obtained significance of 0,000 <0.05.


Author(s):  
Elza Jurun ◽  
Nada Ratković ◽  
Bože Vuleta

This paper presents the part of results obtained by a comprehensive statistical analysis of public opinion in the issue of work-free Sunday, based on a survey undertaken in the Republic of Croatia in October 2017. The research has been made aiming at providing the answer to the crucial question of whether free Sunday can be considered only as of the economic issue or concerns deeply almost all the spheres of life in general. Moreover, the authors want to show and promote free Sunday as socio-economic phenomena which become a political and ideological issue as a fundamental human right and true notion of human freedom and welfare. Besides, as a member of the European Sunday Alliance, Croatia is the first EU member state which promotes free Sunday as one of the measures of active demographic policy. Along with the results of classical statistical processing of public opinion research, the methodology of this research has also involved the hypothesis testing about differences in the proportions as well as post-stratification of the two-step stratified random sample based on gender, age, size of residence, regions and education level. Even more, than two-thirds of respondents consider important or exceptionally important not-working on Sundays and support the maximum limit of that work.


2002 ◽  
Vol 130 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 64-67
Author(s):  
Dejan Petrovic ◽  
Radmila Obrenovic ◽  
Mileta Poskurica ◽  
Biljana Stojimirovic

Functional and structural damages of tubulointerstitium are caused by proteinuria. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of different proteinuria levels on Na+, K+, Cl tubular transport. We examined 50 patients (24 males, 26 females), mean age 46.50 ? 13.08 years, with mean creati-nine clearence of 87.29 ? 31.17 mL/min. They were separated in three groups depending on proteinuria value. The first group with proteinuria less than 0.3 g/24h included 19 persons (7 males, 12 females), mean age 45.12 ? 13.28 years, with mean creatinine clearance of 94.27 ? 34.70 mL/min. The second group of 18 patients (8 males, 10 females), mean age 45.39 ? 12.64 years had proteinuria of 0.3-3,0 g/24h and mean creatinine clearance of 90.07 ? 31.89 mL/min. The third group had proteinuria level higher than 3.0g/24h and mean creatinine clearance of 73.25 ? 20.44 mL/min. It included 13 patients (9 males, 4 females), mean age 50.08 ? 13.73 years. As a parameter of proteinuria influence on tubular transport of Na+, K+ and Cl-, fractional excretion of these electrolytes, was studied. Student's T test, Mann Whitney U test and c2 test were used for statistical analysis. No statistically significant influence of proteinuria was found on Na+, K+ and Cl tubular transport.


2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (8) ◽  
pp. 2805-2810
Author(s):  
Ion Mircioiu ◽  
Valentina Anuta ◽  
Constantin Mircioiu ◽  
Victor Voicu ◽  
Roxana Sandulovici

Paper presents the effect of food on the pharmacokinetics of omeprazole and on the extraction yield of its internal standard, lansoprazole. The experimental data were obtained over three bioequivalence studies performed by the authors. Statistical analysis of plasma level curves of omeprazole indicated that food induces a delay of the time of maximum concentrations, but had a lower effect on maximum concentration and area under curves. Peak areas of lansoprazole were not constant, presenting a similar pattern in all seven periods of the clinical experiment, both in feeding and fasting conditions: an increase after the standard meal at four hours from the administration of drug followed by relatively constant, but higher areas afterwards. Statistical analysis of data (1500 points) in the 3 - 6 h interval, i.e. from immediately before until two hours after food intake revealed a two phase effect: an initial decrease of areas followed by an increase to a higher level than in the preprandial conditions, leading to the appearance of a minimum in curves one hour after food intake. In almost all cases a good parabolic fitting of data was obtained, which is in agreement with authors previous results on extraction of ketoconazole from pasma in methylene chloride in the presence of bile salts. The increase of peak areas of lansoprazole from two hours after meal by 24 h lead to an artificial decrease of calculated omeprazole concentrations. This effect could explain the unexpected lack of food effect on the area under curve of omeprazole, observed in the comparison between areas in fasting and fed conditions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nagendar Yerukala ◽  
V Kamakshi Prasad ◽  
Allam Apparao

For a stream cipher to be secure, the keystream generated by it should be uniformly random with parameter 1/2.Statistical tests check whether the given sequence follow a certain probability distribution. In this paper, we perform a detailed statistical analysis of various stream ciphers used in GSM 2G,3G, 4G and 5G communications. The sequences output by these ciphers are checked for randomness using the statistical tests defined by the NIST Test Suite. It should also be not possible to derive any information about secret key and the initial state ofthe cipher from the keystream. Therefore, additional statisticaltests based on properties like Correlation between Keystreamand Key, and Correlation between Keystream and IV are also performed. Performance analysis of the ciphers also has been done and the results tabulated. Almost all the ciphers pass thetests in the NIST test suite with 99% confidence level. For A5/3stream cipher, the correlation between the keystream and key is high and correlation between the keystream and IV is low when compared to other ciphers in the A5 family.


1986 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Joyce ◽  
J. A. Bushnell ◽  
J. W. B. Walshe ◽  
J. B. Morton

Of 105 patients admitted to a surgical ward with acute abdominal pain, 18 were considered to be without evidence of any organic aetiology for this symptom. These ‘non-organic’ patients were almost all female and differed from the ‘organic’ patients in state anxiety and in the illness behaviour questionnaire scales of psychological versus somatic perception, denial and affective disturbance. The two groups of patients could be differentiated on the basis of scores derived from the Illness Behaviour Questionnaire, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.


Author(s):  
Erika Loucanova ◽  
Jan Parobek ◽  
Martina Kalamarova

Abstract The paper deals with the evaluation of the perception of packaging innovations in terms of their functions through the Kano model. It focuses on the evaluation of the perception of innovation of all main seven functions of packaging, in particular on handling, protective, informative, economic, environmental, promotional and ecological packaging functions. The results indicate that the target groups interested in the new innovative packaging are mostly in age between 41 to 60 years. These groups have the highest requirements for new packaging. The innovations of handling functions of packaging have the most significant influence on the older generation. However, almost all ages categories positively recognize ecological innovations of packaging.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamza Salim Khraim

The landscape of fashion industry in UAE has changed and evolved over the years in unprecedented way. This study examines the influence of involvement and awareness on UAE women attitude towards fashion clothing. In addition, we will shed some light on fashion industry inside UAE. For collecting the required data, a self-administered survey was distributed for a convenience sample of female Emirati students resulting in 223 usable responses. Numerous statistical analysis tools were used, first factor analysis was conducted and followed by regression, in addition to items mean and frequency. The results indicate that women in UAE have a positive attitude towards fashion clothing. Self-confidence will increases by following fashion statement got the highest mean by respondents. Further, it was found that involvement has a significant influence on UAE women attitude towards fashion clothing. While awareness have no any influence on UAE women attitude towards fashion clothing.


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