Introduction: Engaging in meaningful activities contributes to health and well-being. Therefore, it is important to measure this with reliable and valid evaluation tools. The Engagement in Meaningful Activities Survey (EMAS-VL) has been cross-culturally validated in Flemish and the psychometric properties determined. Method: The adaptation process ...
Published in The American Behavioral Scientist
Social research highlights the stability of cultural beliefs, broadly arguing that population-level changes are uncommon and mostly explained by cohort replacement rather than individual-level change. We find evidence suggesting that cultural change may also occur rapidly in response to an economically and socially transformative period. Using data...
Published in Work (Reading, Mass.)
In Japan, women's participation in the workforce has been increasing. However, there are few studies about gender differences in stress factors in the workplace. We aimed to clarify gender differences in psychosocial factors in the workplace related to severe stress. In total, 930 male and 339 female employees working in a construction company in J...
Rares sont les mobilisations qui engagent leurs participants au point d’occuper presque entièrement leur quotidien. C’est le cas des mouvements lycéens de 2015-2016 au Brésil, qui ont déployé un mode d’action jusque-là inédit : l’occupation nuit et jour des établissements par les lycéens et leur transformation simultanée en lieux de mobilisation, e...
Published in Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicine
The study aimed to examine the effects of "Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance" (CO-OP) approach in terms of performance and satisfaction as well as functional status in children with cerebral palsy (CP) receiving neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT) and determine the parents' satisfaction level. Thirty-two children with CP were r...
We introduce this two-part special issue that celebrates David Heise and his pathbreaking theories: affect control theory (ACT), affect control theory of the self (ACTS), and affect control theory of institutions (ACTI). These interlocking, multi-level, mathematically based theories explain a range of social processes, including impression formatio...
In light of current debates on ‘protective’ and ‘connective’ professionalism, this article explores a new type of occupational position that is emerging within the Swedish public sector: the cross-sector strategist. The growing presence of this intermediary occupational position is seen as attempts to formalize and institutionalize the imprecise ro...
Published in Tourism Economics
Due to technological change and growing digitalization of the workplaces, the post-pandemic economic recovery offers opportunities for workers to upgrade their industry-specific skills in different sectors, including tourism, where an increasing shortage in the seasonal tier of the labor market is emerging. Various barriers have been identified as ...
Depressive symptoms can be influenced by different factors, including job types. In this study, we identified factors that affect depressive symptoms among South Korean workers by job type using data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Examined respondents were between 40 and 69 years (N = 9375). A complex sample linear...
Published in Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia
Health of people with severe haemophilia (PwSH) improves thanks to the advancements in haemophilia care, giving them more opportunities in occupational integration. However, there is little literature on the occupational integration of PwSH. The main objective of our study was to assess the occupational integration of PwSH and to compare it with th...
