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Functions of personal experience and of expression of regret
Although learning and preparing for future behavior are well-established functions of regret, social functions have been largely ignored. We suggest a new model of the functions of regret, the Privately Experienced versus ... -
How far to the road not taken? The effect of psychological distance on counterfactual direction.
Upward and downward counterfactuals serve the distinct motivational functions of selfimprovement and self-enhancement, respectively. Drawing on construal level theory, which contends that increasing psychological distance ... -
City of Springboro: Citizen Attitudes and Public Opinion Survey Results
Final report of community survey conducted by the Center for Public Management and Regional Affairs at Miami University. -
Reshaping retirement policies in post-industrial nations: The need for flexibility
Social Security programs in post-industrial nations are facing the need for policy reforms. Fiscal shortfalls in current Social Security programs are a major driving force promoting these reforms. At the same time, changes ... -
Anticipatory socialization for retirement: A multilevel dyadic model
Role theory, widely used to examine human behavior, has often been used to describe the transition from work to retirement. Anticipatory socialization, a role theory concept, describes the process that occurs prior to role ... -
Factors affecting willingness of social work students to accept jobs in aging
The aging of the United States population is creating an increased need for social workers and other helping professionals with training in gerontology. Recent estimates indicate that less than three percent of MSW students ... -
Retirement transitions among married couples
Retirement is often viewed as an event when someone completely withdraws from paid employment. The purpose of the present study was to examine the patterns of retirement transitions evidenced in married couples in the ... -
A multilevel dyadic study of the impact of retirement on self-rated health: Does retirement predict worse health in married couples?
Objectives: This study examined the effects of retirement on self-rated health for married couples, using interdependence and social stratification theoretical frameworks. Methods: Dyadic multilevel modeling of data (N = ... -
A longitudinal study of website accessibility: Have social work education websites become more accessible?
This study (N = 45 schools) sought to determine the accessibility of baccalaureate social work program websites in 2003 and 2008 using Priority 1 checkpoints from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) 1.0 guidelines. Paired ... -
A case study of professional change: The impact of the National Gerontological Social Work Competencies Survey
Our society is aging and this demographic change necessitates that all social workers have basic competency in gerontology. This article describes the results of a competency survey conducted in 2000, and how these results ... -
Giving up the keys: How driving cessation affects engagement in later life
Purpose of the study. Many older adults consider driving vital to maintaining their preferred lifestyle and engagement with society, yet it is normative for individuals to eventually stop driving. This study examined the ... -
Productive and Social Engagement following Driving Cessation: A Couple-Based Analysis
Drawing on interdependence theory, this study examined the cross-spouse impact of driving cessation on productive (work, formal volunteering, and informal volunteering) and social engagement of older couples age 65+ using ... -
Meta-Synthesis Older Adults' Spiritual Needs in Health Care Settings: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
Recognizing that spiritual needs often emerge in health care settings, the Joint Commission requires spiritual assessments in numerous organizations frequented by older adults. Given that many gerontological practitioners ... -
A program evaluation of block and concurrent practicum formats
This study investigated the issues related to block versus concurrent formats for the advanced MSW field placement. Quantitative and qualitative survey data were collected from current MSW students (N=103) and Field ... -
"Ecocrítica y epistemología subalterna en Eduardo Galeano"
El presente ensayo articula un análisis ecocrítico de algunas de las narraciones breves del escritor uruguayo Eduardo Galeano seleccionadas de El libro de los abrazos (1989) y Patas arriba. La escuela del mundo al revés ... -
Heterothermy in Northern Cardinals
(2014-12-10)These data were used in the article on Northern Cardinal heterothermy published in the journal Animal Biologging. -
Cryoprotectants and Extreme Freeze Tolerance in a Subarctic Population of the Wood Frog
(2014-12-01)Two (2) Excel spreadsheets containing raw data supporting publication in PLOS ONE -
Psuedo-dyadic "interaction" on Amazon's Mechanical Turk
(2014-09-17)Psychological researchers have begun to utilize Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) marketplace as a participant pool. Although past work has established that MTurk is well suited to examining individual behavior, pseudo-dyadic ... -
Adaptations to knowledge templates in Base-of-the-Pyramid markets: The role of social interaction
(2014-02-18)While templates may facilitate knowledge sharing within the base-of-the-pyramid, it is often necessary for entrepreneurs to adapt the template for reasons of resource scarcity. We explore the role of social interaction in ... -
Research Directions for Pushing Harnessing Human Computation to Mainstream Video Games
(2014-02-05)In this paper, we propose a research direction that will allow the harnessing of human computation to be included in mainstream video games. Human computing resources are vastly different and superior in some cases ...