Excessive Reassurance Seeking, Hassles, and Depressive Symptoms in Children of Affectively Ill Parents: A Multiwave Longitudinal Study

The current study examined whether excessive reassurance seeking serves as a vulnerability factor to depression in a sample of high-risk youth using a multiwave longitudinal design. At Time 1, 140 children (aged 6-14) of affectively disordered parents completed measures assessing reassurance seeking and depressive symptoms. In addition, every 6 weeks during the following year, children and parents completed measures assessing depressive symptoms and the occurrence of hassles. In line with hypotheses, the results of contemporaneous analyses indicated that children with high levels of reassurance seeking reported greater elevations in depressive symptoms following elevations in either hassles or parental depressive symptoms than children with low levels. At the same time, the results of time-lagged analyses indicated that both these relationships were moderated by age with excessive reassurance seeking being associated with greater elevations in depressive symptoms following elevations in either hassles or parental depressive symptoms in older but not younger children.     

Contagious Disease and Self-Defence

This paper gives a self-defence account of the scope and limits of the justified use of compulsion to control contagious disease. It applies an individualistic model of self-defence for state action and uses it to illuminate the constraints on public health compulsion of proportionality and using the least restrictive alternative. It next shows how a self-defence account should not be rejected on the basis of past abuses. The paper then considers two possible limits to a self-defence justification: compulsion of the non-culpable and over-inclusive compulsion. The paper claims that objections to compelling the non-culpable do not greatly restrict the scope of the self-defence justification. The over-included are, however, innocent bystanders, and methods such as compulsory quarantine, vaccination, and screening are not justified in self-defence. I am grateful to Julian Lamont, Jeff McMahan and Debbie Tseung for their help with this paper. An earlier version was given at the School of Public Health, the University of Texas at Houston; the Auckland Regional Public Health Service; and a conference at the School of Population Health, the University of Auckland. My thanks to the audiences for their comments.     

传染病防治中的伦理学问题探讨

针对传染病防治中的伦理学问题,结合疾病防治实践,以生命伦理学基本原则为依据,分析原因并提出对策。认为应该重视和谐伦理在传染病防治中的作用,注重医疗活动过程的道德管理,重视伦理道德意识的培养,加强医学伦理知识的在职教育,强调在维护公众利益的前提下尊重传染病患者的个人权利,对其适度关怀,减少歧视。     

Psychological impact of coronavirus-related social isolation in Colombia after a year of lockdown

Several repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent isolation period have been reported worldwide. In this paper, we analyze the behavioral and emotional effects of 1 year of coronavirus-related lockdown in Colombia. A cross-sectional correlational design was used on a sample of 1853 participants from different regions, and with different levels of education, income, and employment situations. We applied the fear of coronavirus scale, the use of preventive behaviors scale, and a scale to measure pleasant and unpleasant emotions based on the circumplex model of affect. Our data shows that women, participants who were unemployed during the lockdown, and participants that study or work in legal, computational, or related fields, have been more affected in terms of unpleasant emotions. In addition, we observed a trend towards a relation between higher income and educational levels with lower degrees of fear, higher degrees of pleasant emotions, and a greater use of preventive behaviors related to the pandemic.     

团队内工作投入的人际传导机制

团队成员工作投入是影响团队有效性的关键性因素。本研究基于工作资源-要求模型, 采用多层分析的视角, 考察在不同情境下, 团队内工作投入的人际传导机制, 阐明工作资源和情绪传染的中介作用, 探讨团队、个体多层面情境因素的权变作用, 建立团队内工作投入人际传导的机制模型。研究结果对于加强和改进团队合作, 改善团队氛围, 建设高效团队具有一定的理论价值和实践意义。     

哈欠传染的发展与演化：一项探索性研究

传染性哈欠可能承载着一定的社会功能,但实证证据还非常有限。研究收集了大学生和老年人两个年龄群体的传染性哈欠和自发性哈欠数据,测量了抑制控制和观点采择,同时采用问卷测查参与者睡眠状况等。结果发现：大学生表现出哈欠传染,但这种现象在老年人群体中不明显;传染性哈欠和个体的抑制控制能力存在共变关系;相比传染性哈欠,自发性哈欠更多与一些基本的生理因素（如睡眠状况、警觉程度）相关。结果为从种系发生和个体发生两个层面探究传染性哈欠的机制提供了基础数据。