Horse Play: A Brief Psychological Intervention for Disengaged Youths

This pilot study examined a brief psychological intervention delivered to a group of disengaged youths (n = 16) using horse-related activities to improve their levels of self-esteem and self-efficacy. The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and the General Self-Efficacy Scale were administered (preintervention and postintervention). Participants’ case managers also completed a survey to assess their perception of the young people’s behaviors and attitudes to life. Participants showed a significant increase in their levels of self-esteem and self-efficacy following the intervention. There was also evidence of a positive shift in overall attitude toward life. The findings indicated that equine-facilitated therapy might provide a viable option for youths who have not responded to other interventions and who have disengaged from traditional institutions.     

负面评价恐惧的性别差异:基于内隐和外显测量的比较

从内隐和外显两种角度探讨负面评价恐惧的性别差异。采用简式内隐联系测验(BIAT)和简明负面评价恐惧量表(BFNES)两种测量方法,实验共72名被试,每名被试先进行简式内隐联系测验,再完成简明负面评价恐惧量表,并借鉴不同方法对两种测量结果进行分析。结果发现:(1)被试的内隐负面评价恐惧与外显负面评价恐惧不存在显著相关,结果产生实验性分离;(2)负面评价恐惧不存在显著性别差异;(3)但有趣的是,不同性别被试内隐和外显负面评价恐惧的分离状况存在显著差异,其中男性的外显负面评价恐惧低于内隐负面评价恐惧,而女性的结果刚好相反,其外显负面评价恐惧高于内隐负面评价恐惧。这些结果表明被试的内隐和外显负面评价恐惧虽然不存在显著性别差异,但不同性别被试的内隐负面评价恐惧和外显负面评价恐惧内部存在不同的组合状况。     

Development of Japanese version of the long‐term mating orientation scale (LTMO‐J)

The purpose of this study was to validate the 7‐item long‐term mating orientation scale (LTMO) as translated into Japanese. Two samples of Japanese adults (N = 2000; 50.0% male; Mage = 40.9 for the first survey; N = 300; 54.7% male; Mage = 42.4 for the second survey) completed a web‐based questionnaire, including the Japanese translation of the LTMO. The results showed that the psychometric properties of the Japanese LTMO scale were comparable to those of the original English version. The scale had adequate reliability based on Cronbach's α and McDonald's ω. Convergent validity was demonstrated by the correlation between the LTMO scores and related variables: human life history strategies, short‐term sociosexual orientation, attitude to infidelity, romantic attachment style, and so on. The translated scale provides a valid and reliable instrument in Japanese that measures human mating strategy.     

The logistics of choice

The generalized matching law (GML) is reconstructed as a logistic regression equation that privileges no particular value of the sensitivity parameter, a. That value will often approach 1 due to the feedback that drives switching that is intrinsic to most concurrent schedules. A model of that feedback reproduced some features of concurrent data. The GML is a law only in the strained sense that any equation that maps data is a law. The machine under the hood of matching is in all likelihood the very law that was displaced by the Matching Law. It is now time to return the Law of Effect to centrality in our science.     

Experience and Life as Ever‐Present Constraints on Knowledge

This essay argues that acknowledging the existence of mind‐independent facts is a matter of vital importance, in that acquiescence before the layout of the world is something demanded of knowing agents from the most elementary empirical deliverance to the most abstract construct. Building on the idea that normativity requires the presence of more than one option to choose from, the essay shows how the cessation of one's life is the disjunctive alternative of any experiential episode. This much has been missed, it argues, because of a generalized failure to appreciate how even the simplest atomic contents embroil their subjects in acts of assent. Its account thus casts a new light on relativism and skepticism, revealing them to be provisional luxuries supported only by the cognitive labor of others.     

应重视对马克思主义人生观的理论研究

马克思主义的人生观和世界观在马克思主义的历史唯物主义中是统一的。历史唯物主义明确反对从“抽象的人”、“人的当下存在”出发理解人生的有关问题,但这并不一定意味着坚持历史唯物论就要排斥从个体生命的视角研究人生的问题。我们的马克思主义理论研究和建设工作,应重视对马克思主义人生观理论的发掘和整理,为社会主义精神文明建设和和谐社会的构建作出贡献。     

机构伦理视域下安徽省某三级医院不良事件管理策略研究

医疗质量安全一直是国内外共同关注的话题,其中不良事件的管理是医院质量安全的核心议程,而现有的归因和治理模式对不良事件的分析不充分,是对不良事件的“误诊”。通过收集汇总医院不良事件电子上报系统中2 588例事件,从事件发生类型、严重程度、发生人员和变动情况进行系统分析,基于机构伦理逻辑分析医疗机构伦理准则、伦理氛围、伦理激励,尝试从系统层面构建机构伦理视域下不良事件管理策略模型,为医疗质量改进和安全管理提供参考。

     

生命回顾疗法介入晚期癌症患者死亡恐惧的实践探索

聚焦晚期癌症患者死亡恐惧,分析比较生命回顾疗法的实际应用。基于临床服务案例,医务社工发现晚期癌症患者的死亡恐惧主要受躯体症状、疾病归因、家庭支持和心性支持四方面影响。医务社工通过运用生命回顾疗法对晚期癌症患者进行干预,依托建立早期良好专业关系、正视死亡恐惧、回顾重要生命事件、强化/修复重要关系、增强自我认同五大策略,赋予患者生命新的价值和希望,实现生命意义的整合,有效缓解个体死亡恐惧,改善末期生命质量。

     

敬畏生命：现代生命价值观的理性复归

敬畏生命,涵盖了人们对生命之理性与感性的双重认知,从语义概念到历史渊源再到内生逻辑,它都可以看作是生命价值观的起点。现代社会中的生命科学技术与人们的认知水平齐驱并进地发展攀升,生命价值观与敬畏生命之间的张力逐渐显现。为了社会的健康、平稳、可持续发展,就必须将这一张力维持在适度水平。这要求人类必须再次拾起敬畏生命的理性,对生命的神圣予以重视,使现代生命价值观的理性复归得以完成。如此便可以防止生命异化,更好地守卫人类身体,守护人类生命的神圣与尊严。

     

非医疗卫生机构医学伦理委员会现状及挑战

我国非医疗卫生机构正处于建立健全伦理委员会的阶段,其伦理委员会常见问题包括无针对性的伦理审查规范,审查能力无法匹配需求,伦理监管难以护航创新,可参考的指南和标准操作规程有限,研究者伦理知识有待提高,跟踪审查落实困难。鉴于此,建议落实法规基本规定,建立健全伦理委员会,人财物支持,提升委员审查能力,实行研究者准入制,建立伦理委员会认证制度和借鉴国外高等院校经验,以期加快非医疗卫生机构伦理委员会建设。