Search results for " commitment"

Acceptance and commitment therapy for insomnia as a group intervention : predictors of treatment response

2014

JYVÄSKYLÄN YLIOPISTO Psykologian laitos NAAMANKA, ELINA & SUUTARI, VILLE: Ryhmämuotoinen hyväksymis- ja omistautumisterapia unettomuudesta kärsiville - hoitotulosta ennustavat tekijät Pro gradu-tutkielma, 33 s., 3 liittes. Ohjaajat: Jukka Kaartinen, Raimo Lappalainen Psykologia Toukokuu 2014 Tutkimuksessa tarkasteltiin unettomuudesta kärsiville suunnatun ryhmämuotoisen hyväksymis- ja omistautumisterapian (HOT) onnistuneeseen hoitotulokseen vaikuttavia tekijöitä. Tarkastelun kohteena olivat tutkittavien demografiset muuttujat, psykologinen ja fyysinen hyvinvointi, unettomuuden haittaavuus, HOT:n prosessit sekä persoonallisuustekijät. Näiden muuttujien ennustavuutta hoitotulokseen tarkastelti…

The significance of perceived development opportunities in the context of retention : comparing ageing and younger nurses

2012

Descartes: Ethics and Politics

2017

Este artículo analiza la moral y la filosofía política cartesiana. Defiende que la posición de Descartes en estos ámbitos es congruente con sus concepciones metafísicas y físicas. Una posición que busca un difícil equilibrio entre individualismo y altruismo, vida retirada y compromiso social. This paper analyses Cartesian ethics and politics. It defends that Descartes's position in these areas coincides with his metaphysical and physical conceptions, searching a difficult equilibrium between individualism and altruism, quiet life and social commitment.

Acceptance and commitment group therapy for treatment of insomnia

2013

Hyväksymis- ja omistautumisterapiaa on käytetty laajasti erilaisten psyykkisten ongelmien hoidossa, niin aikuisilla kuin lapsilla. Viimeaikaisista tutkimuksista HOT:n periaatteiden soveltamisesta nukkumisongelmien ja unettomuuden hoitoon on saatu lupaavia tuloksia. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää ryhmämuotoisen Hyväksymis- ja omistautumisterapian vaikutuksia unettomuuden hoidossa. Tutkimukseen osallistuneista 32 henkilöä kuului koeryhmään ja 33 tutkittavaa kontrolliryhmään. Hoito suoritettiin ryhmämuotoisena terapiana, joka sisälsi yhteensä kuusi kertaa, joista ensimmäinen tehtiin yksilöllisellä puhelinhaastattelulla. Loput viisi istuntoa pidettiin säännöllisesti viikoittain. …

A lattice of participation: reflecting on examples of children's and young people's collective engagement in influencing social welfare policies and …

2014

The article introduces four case studies from Wales, France and Finland and explores the situated, intergenerational and dynamic nature of collective participation in child welfare settings. Collective participation is conceived of as a process of engagement in which children and young people have some influence over the initiation or direction of a project; and as seeking a product, or outcome. The case studies represent a range of forms of collective engagement and highlight some key resources which supported children's participation (communicative spaces, time, money, knowledge, social position, attitudes, social networks, institutional commitment, equipment, food and transport). Challen…

Are Happy Workers More Productive? The Mediating Role of Service-Skill Use

2020

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between happiness at work and cross-selling performance in the banking sector. In addition, the mediating effect of service-skill use is analyzed in the relationship between happiness at work and performance. Confirmatory factor analysis is used by means of structural equation models to assess the relationship between happiness at work, service-skill use, and cross-selling performance. A sample of 492 financial service employees is examined. Results reveal that happiness at work positively and directly affects cross-selling performance. The study also shows that service-skill use plays a partial mediating role in the relationship betw…

Identificación con clubes y cultura futbolística en España. [Teams identification and football culture in Spain].

2013

Pese a la enorme relevancia del futbol en la sociedad espanola, algunas de sus pautas y procesos caracteristicos han sido poco examinados por la investigacion sociologica. Este articulo presenta una investigacion sobre la identificacion con los principales clubes de futbol en la sociedad espanola e incluye un analisis de los dos principales componentes de la cultura futbolistica de sus aficionados, esto es, la vinculacion y el compromiso personal con el club. El estudio se basa en una encuesta representativa de la poblacion espanola realizada en 2007 por el Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas (CIS) que conto con una muestra de 2.473 entrevistas. Los resultados obtenidos ponen de manifies…

The Influence of Emotion in the Management of Amateur Football Organizations.

2020

This article is oriented to the analysis of organisational and emotional variables in amateur sporting organizations. The general objective is to analyse the influence of organisational variables such as service quality, transactional leadership, and transformational leadership and emotional variables such as affective commitment, emotional attachment investment and emotional attachment dividend to predict the credibility that members of amateur sporting organisations perceive, as well as their degree of identification and loyalty. The opinions of 203 members of Chilean amateur football teams, (169 men and 34 women, with ages between 18 and 68 years (Mean=32.75 years, DT= 9.92) have been an…

Changing Managers for a Changing Economy – The Need for Creativity and Leadership

2013

Abstract The present paper aims to identify new approaches of management by re-considering business comportment and attitudes. The research looked into specialized literature on new development of business in the post-crisis era and, on another hand, on leadership and organizational culture, in order to establish a possible profile of the most efficient management and organizational culture adapted to the new challenges of business environment, intending to demonstrate that managers need to develop leadership traits and re-shape organizational culture for a better business performance.

Early sudden gains in an acceptance and values-based intervention: Effects on treatment outcome for depression and psychological flexibility

2018

Abstract Objective The aim of this study was to explore early temporal patterns of change in a treatment delivered by novice therapists. We examined if early sudden gains (ESGs) in a six-session acceptance and values-based intervention would produce superior treatment outcomes when compared to slower improvements. Method The temporal patterns of change of 56 clients diagnosed with depression were analyzed. ESGs were defined as reaching the status of recovered or improved in the Reliable Change Index (RCI) (Jacobson & Truax (1991)) classification after two sessions. The group with ESGs was then compared to participants without ESGs for differences in treatment outcome on measures of symptoma…