Extending the expanded model of organizational identification to occupations

We extend Kreiner and Ashforth's (2004) research on the expanded model of organizational identification to the occupational level of self. A survey of 251 customer service representatives from an Indian call center indicates that occupational identification, occupational disidentification, ambivalent occupational identification, and neutral occupational identification are empirically differentiable. Further, each form of identification in the expanded model was related to certain predictors from a set of ten situational and individual difference variables, and to certain outcomes from a set of five adjustment variables. The differing patterns of antecedents and outcomes for each form of occupational identification suggest that each form constitutes a relatively unique phenomenon.     

Seeking support: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of an Internet message board for people with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

In this article, we report on the findings of a qualitative inquiry into how an online message board for people who have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) was used by its members. All messages (and responses) posted on the CRPS message board over a 4-month period were collected retrospectively. The data were analysed using the method of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Members used the message board to seek (and provide) support to those with CRPS, and also to express their emotions, feelings and experiences linked to their condition. The message board provided an important source of support for a patient group that can otherwise become isolated as a result of their mobility problems. Furthermore, the analysis revealed the unrealistic hopes that patients can hold concerning the anticipated outcomes of their treatment. This is an important issue for healthcare professionals to explicitly address when interacting with the patient group.     

Clinical Commentary

Abstract

This paper is the narrative of a first-time father with a son born seven weeks early by Caesarean section. Against the anxiety and trauma of his infant's birth and his wife's illness, another inner darker drama is being relived. Michael shows all the wounds of a battered child. He asks two awesome questions - Will I be to my son as my father was to me? Will my son be to me as I was to my father? Fearful and at first unvoiced questions, the developing interviews gave them a voice. We respected Michael's sharing of the early and fearful days and nights when his infant first came home. We sometimes found it hard to empathize with his running away to hide in work, until we understood what he was hiding from. Most poignant was his struggle with his anger and hurt with his father and his desire to understand, ‘Why?’, so that he would not be like this to his son. We saw a sensitive revelation of life being born inside him anew, as he made contact with his real infant and his psychic infant within. Of particular interest was the therapeutic use of the research interview space and the interviewer.     

Childhood anxiety associated with low BMI in women with Anorexia Nervosa

Objective

Extremely low body mass index (BMI) values are associated with increased risk for death and poor long-term prognosis in individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN). The present study explores childhood personality characteristics that could be associated with the ability to attain an extremely low BMI.

Methods

Participants were 326 women from the Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa (GAN) Study who completed the Structured Interview for Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimic Syndromes and whose mother completed the Child Behavioral Checklist and/or Revised Dimensions of Temperament Survey.

Results

Children who were described as having greater fear or anxiety by their mothers attained lower BMIs during AN (p < 0.02). Path analysis in the GAN and a validation sample, Price Foundation Anorexia Nervosa Trios Study, confirmed the relation between early childhood anxiety, caloric restriction, qualitative food item restriction, excessive exercise, and low BMI. Path analysis also confirmed a relation between childhood anxiety and caloric restriction, which mediated the relation between childhood anxiety and low BMI in the GAN sample only.

Conclusion

Fearful or anxious behavior as a child was associated with the attainment of low BMI in AN and childhood anxiety was associated with caloric restriction. Measures of anxiety and factors associated with anxiety-proneness in childhood may index children at risk for restrictive behaviors and extremely low BMIs in AN.     

Home-Based Preventive Parenting Intervention for at-Risk Infants and Their Families: An Open Trial

The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and initial outcome of a home-based adaptation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for at-risk infants with externalizing behavior problems. Seven 12- to 15-month-old infants and their families were recruited at a large pediatric primary care clinic to participate in a home-based parenting intervention to prevent subsequent externalizing behavior problems. Home-based assessments were conducted at baseline, postintervention, and a 4- to 6-month follow-up. Six of the 7 (86%) families completed the intervention, and all completers reported high satisfaction with the intervention. All of the mothers demonstrated significant improvements and statistically reliable changes in their interactions with their infant, and most reported clinically significant and statistically reliable changes in infant behavior problems. The current study provides preliminary support for the use of this brief, home-based parenting intervention in addressing behavior problems as early as possible to improve access to an intervention for at-risk infants and their families. Successes and challenges with the development and implementation of this intervention are discussed along with directions for future research and clinical practice.     

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Child Soldiers as Adults: The Mozambique Case Study

Statement of Retraction

We, the Editors and Publisher of the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, have retracted the following article:

Neil Boothby & Blake Thomson, Child Soldiers as Adults: The Mozambique Case Study, Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, Vol. 22 2013, 735–756, DOI 10.1080/10926671.2013.814742.

The senior author has identified computational mistakes in this article and problems with the data analyses.

The senior author has also identified that significant portions of this article were previously published in other articles by the author.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions.

The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.     

Long-term nurse-patient interactions: factors in patient compliance or noncompliance to the dietary regimen

Noncompliance to treatment regimens is a widespread, costly problem. The present study examines nurse-patient interactions as factors in compliance/noncompliance to the hemodialysis dietary regimen. Several research studies have evidenced these interactions to be central to patient compliance. However, no research has been reported that has controlled for the nature of the treatment regimen; rather, practitioners' interactions with patients who are being treated for a variety of disorders have been examined. An interaction-process-analysis technique was used to code the verbal behaviors that occur during treatment between 38 hemodialysis outpatients with chronic renal disease and the nurses who provide their treatment. These verbal interactions were analyzed in relation to levels of dietary compliance/noncompliance of patients and length of nursing tenure. It was found that emotionally positive and negative responses by nurses were both positively associated with noncompliance to the dietary regimen; however, treatment-related responses by nurses were not associated with compliance/noncompliance level. With regard to length of nursing tenure, it was found that emotionally positive and negative responses by patients were positively associated with nursing tenure and that treatment-related questions by nurses were negatively associated with nursing tenure.