Coping with racial battle fatigue: differences and similarities for African American and Mexican American college students

Student of Color often reference racial microaggressions when asked to describe their post-secondary experience. The racial battle fatigue framework assists in understanding the cumulative, negative effect of racial microaggressions on psychological, behavioral, and physiological outcomes. This paper assesses the racial battle fatigue framework for African American and Mexican American college students and the impact of coping on racial stress. Results demonstrate that racial microaggressions negatively impact stress responses for African American and Mexican Americans differently, but coping may help alleviate the impact of racial battle fatigue. Universities can address racial microaggressions and negative health outcomes by educating campus constituents about racial microaggressions, addressing Whiteness, and providing education about adaptive coping strategies.     

Alarmed: sensory approaches to improving medical alarm systems

Medical alarms sound incessantly, loudly, and dissonantly, contributing to an already noisy ICU and OR soundscape, and ultimately harming both patients and staff. Sometimes triggered in error, the sheer number of alarms distracts health care professionals and results in sensory overload that contributes to hospital staff’s alarm fatigue. In turn, staff become increasingly likely to ignore alarms instead of acting on them. Furthermore, the patients’ sensitivity to alarms disturbs their hospital stay, raises their stress levels, and impedes their recovery process, with sometimes lasting effects. This article considers the sensory effects of hospital alarms and possibilities for redesigning future alarm systems, with the goal of eventually creating a more calming, less stressful, and safer hospital soundscape environment for all.     

Attitude strength moderates adverse effects to questionnaire design

ABSTRACT

The presentation and visual design of the “don’t know” category in rating scales on respondents’ behavior may have ambivalent effects. The hypothesis is that attitude strength toward the topic influences the respondents’ sensitivity to the graphical design of the scale. A paper-and-pencil questionnaire conducted among 307 German university students contained an experimental variation of the presentation of a “don’t know” category and its visual design. A multinomial logistic regression shows that presenting a “don’t know” category drives respondents toward extreme categories. The visual design of the “don’t know” category influences the distribution of responses, all the more that the respondents’ attitudes toward the item topic are weak.     

Compassion Satisfaction,Compassion Fatigue,and Burnout: A Replication Study with Victim Advocates

Abstract

Past research has investigated the rates of compassion satisfaction (CS), compassion fatigue (CF), and burnout within health-care providers. Findings indicate higher levels of CS and lower levels of CF predict lower rates of burnout. The current study extended prior research by replicating past research findings, but with victim advocates. This study enrolled a national sample of 142 victim advocates. A hierarchal linear regression was run to test the research questions. In level 1, years of experience was not significant and only accounted for 1.1% of the variance in burnout. When adding CS, the model became significant (p?<?.001) and CS accounted for an additional 51.8% of the variance. When CF was added to the final model, it was significant (p?<?.001), and accounted for an additional 19.3% of the variance. When comparing the findings to past studies, our findings were similar; however, our study did find that CS and CF accounted for significantly more variance than past studies with health-care providers. Therefore, CS and CF might be greater predictors of burnout in victim advocates than in health-care providers. Future studies should aim to create interventions to increase CS and decrease CF, to reduce burnout.     

艺术设计教育理念与文化产业需求意向的对接

以培养符合文化产业发展需求意向以及知识结构合理的复合型人才为目的，探讨艺术设计教育理念与文化产业诉求的契合点，分析艺术设计教育理念的定位调整对文化产业市场及文化产业综合形象力的提升产生的积极作用，进而得出艺术设计教育理念与文化产业需求意向的对接，关系到艺术设计教育的发展前景，并对文化产业起到推进动能和促进作用，对文化价值观产生不可估量的影响。     

关于地基极限承载力的理论计算

讨论了地基极限承载力的理论公式及其在使用时应注意的几个问题。     

宇航精密仪表及零件用LY12铝合金的尺寸稳定性

综述了宇航精密仪表及零件用LY12铝合金的尺寸稳定性,分析了影响尺寸稳定性的因素,提出了改善尺寸稳定性的途径.     

刘勰“宗经”思想探析

＂经＂是以孔子为宗师的儒家所撰之书籍的通称,历代学者对＂经＂的解释主要有四种：五常说、专名说、通名说、文言说。刘勰本质上是一个儒生,他所宗的＂经＂是对汉人五常说的继承和发展。刘勰主张宗经的用意主要是为了纠正当时＂讹滥＂的空洞文风,以＂经＂义思想充入文章,营造一种辞采、风骨兼备的文学;此外,他宗经还有更深层次的原因。与前人和时人相比,刘勰的宗经思想更进一步,也更为合理。刘勰的宗经思想在当时不被人所重视,但却对后世的文论思想产生了很大的影响。     

企业DNA中的文化力

与生物体类似,企业也拥有其基因,了解这种基因有利于明确企业固有的特性,进而可以了解影响企业绩效的因素和原理.将企业基因与DNA模型相类比,研究对企业影响较大的四个因素(决策权、组织架构、激励机制和信息传导),可以构建出企业基因的模型,文化力作用于各因素之间,并对企业发展起着重要作用.     

中外中长跑训练负荷强度安排特征比较研究

通过对中外学者关于耐力项目运动强度研究得出的生理实验数据和中外教练在耐力项目-／OIl练强度上的安排特征进行比较分析发现：中外生理实验数据指标都与两极化训练研究得出的结论一致;国外教练员在体能类耐力项目训练强度的安排上采用两极化训练模式。使运动员长期保持良好的竞技状态,从而创造出个人最佳成绩;中国教练把提高无氧乳酸能力作为训练重点,易造成运动员肌体交感神经系统活动能力下降而伴随有激素疲劳综合征,从而缩短了其运动员竞技生涯．