Personality is hypothesized to have direct and indirect effects on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) through the mediating role of perceived occupational stressors. This hypothesized model was tested with Chinese judges, individuals characterized by high occupational stress. In this cross-sectional study, 330 judges undergoing professional training at the Shandong Judge Training Institute completed questionnaires assessing their personality (Big Five Inventory, BFI), perceived occupational stressors (Occupational Role Questionnaire, ORQ), and HRQoL (Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form Health Survey, SF-36). The proposed model was tested using structural equation modelling (SEM) approaches. The SEM analysis showed a good fit of the data to the hypothesized model(x2/df = 1.52, P?0.001, RMSEA = 0.04, GFI = 0.87, CFI = 0.91, TLI = 0.89). The model explained 60 % of the variance in HRQoL. A strong negative direct effect of neuroticism on HRQoL (?0.50, P?0.01) was observed. Neuroticism also had a negative indirect effect (?0.18, P?0.01) on HRQoL by positively influencing (β?=?0.47, P?0.01) perceived occupational stressors which had significantly negative direct effects (β?=??0.39, P?0.01) on HRQoL. However, both the direct effects of openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness and extraversion on HRQoL and their indirect effects mediated by perceived occupational stressor were not significant. In conclusion, our hypotheses were partly supported by the data. We found that neuroticism had both direct effect on HRQoL and an indirect effect through the mediating role of perceived occupational stressors which also had a significant effect on HRQoL, whereas neither the direct nor the indirect effects of openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness and extraversion on HRQoL of Chinese judges had been found in current study. 相似文献
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The orienting of attention has been found to be influenced by the previous cueing status in a spatial-cueing paradigm. The explanation for this sequence effect remains uncertain. This study separated the involuntary and the voluntary components of arrow cueing by manipulating the predicted target locations. For example, a left arrow cue may have indicated that the target was more likely to appear at the up location. Therefore, three trial types were repeated or switched between trials: cued (targets appeared along the direction of the arrows), predicted (targets appeared at the locations predicted by the arrows), and unrelated (targets appeared at the other two locations, neither cued nor predicted). RTs of cued trials were found to be significantly facilitated after a previous cued trial; however, the same effect was not observed for predicted trials. The results suggest that significant sequence effects are induced only in the involuntary component of arrow cueing. The findings support the feature-integration hypothesis for the sequence effect of symbolic cueing.
In an experiment with 80 participants in China, protagonists with opposing views in organizations that valued collectivism, compared to individualism, were found to develop cooperative goals, were confident that they could work, sought to understand, and demonstrated that they understood the opposing arguments, accepted these arguments as reasonable, and combined positions to create an integrated decision. The inductions comparing participants who valued harmony as a goal or a technique in which they pretended to agree were only partially effective and did not yield significant differences on conflict dynamics and outcomes. Findings challenge traditional theorizing that collectivistic values lead to conflict avoidance, and support recent arguments that strong, cooperative relationships promote the productive discussion of opposing views in decision making. 相似文献