Psychosocial factors and safety behaviour as predictors of accidental work injuries in farming

Abstract

Farming is one of the most hazardous occupations in terms of the incidence and seriousness of accidental injuries. Research with other occupational groups has drawn attention to the role of psychosocial factors and stress. Such research needs to be extended to agriculture. Since stress may be a problem faced by farmers, there is a particular need to investigate the associations between farm accidents and work stressors and stress reactions. Using multivariate logistic regression analyses, this study aimed to uncover the best psychosocial predictors of injury, while controlling for exposure-related confounders. From a randomly selected sample of 794 farms, 10% of all farms in Ringkoebing County, Denmark, 393 farmers completed completed weekly accident registration over 12 months. The study sample consisted of 310 farmers who also completed questionnaires on psychosocial factors. Results indicated that farm stressors (including perceived economic problems), stress symptoms, and safety behaviour were predictors of occupational farm accidents. Higher levels of stressors and stress symptoms and poor safety behaviour were all associated with an elevated risk of injury. In the case of stress symptoms, the relation with accidents occurred via an interaction with safety behaviour. The combination of high levels of stress symptoms and poor safety behaviour was associated with a particularly high accident risk.     

Influences of individual-related factors and job satisfaction on workplace deviant behaviour among support personnel in Malaysian public service organizations

Workplace deviance has become pervasive in most organizations today. This cross-sectional study examines the influences of individual-related factors and job satisfaction on workplace deviance behaviour among 429 support personnel in Malaysian public service organizations. Samples were randomly selected using multi-stage cluster sampling. The findings of the study indicated that agreeableness, negative affectivity, conscientiousness, emotional intelligence and job satisfaction predicted the organizational deviant behaviour. The same variables, except for emotional intelligence, also correlated to interpersonal deviant behaviour. Implications and suggestion for future research are discussed.     

高校学生干部的就业优势分析

随着竞争日趋激烈,大学本科毕业生就业所需的能力门槛也逐渐提高,各就业单位对大学生的素质与能力提出了更高的要求。相对于普通学生而言,学生干部由于较高的综合素质、组织管理以及处理问题等各项能力,往往成为用人单位青睐的人选。高校学生干部既是教育对象又参与学生管理,是优良校风、学风建设的推动者,是活跃校园文化活动的骨干,他们的就业优势明显高于非学生干部,其优势来源于其较强的执行力、良好的沟通能力和综合素质。     

大学生骨干帮扶留守儿童长效机制探索

留守儿童是一类特殊的社会弱势群体,受到国家和社会的广泛关注。高校学生骨干是学生当中的积极分子,是高校“青马工程”的重点培养对象。针对我国留守儿童的现状和存在问题,根据高校学生骨干帮扶留守儿童活动的指导原则和现实可行性,可通过建立工作小组开展相关调查研究,创新帮扶内容,多角度开展大学生志愿服务,加强联络,建立帮扶常态机制,扩大宣传,在高校形成关心、关爱留守儿童的浓厚氛围,从而使留守儿童帮扶和学生骨干培养相互融合,相互促进。     

“@古城钟楼”微博走红的传播学分析

2013年初,一个名为“@古城钟楼”的微博迅速走红,其粉丝数量在一夜之间增加了10多万。作为一个普通的、由程序设置发布的旅游地标景观微博,它能在较短的时间内引起人们的高度关注,是由诸多因素促成的。从传播学的角度分析,这涉及微博内容、传播者以及受众心理等多个方面的因素。     

A sexual affiliation network of swingers,heterosexuals practicing risk behaviours that potentiate the spread of sexually transmitted infections: A two-mode approach

Using the example of the sexual affiliation networks of swingers, this paper examines how the analysis of sexual affiliation networks can contribute to the development of sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention strategies. Two-mode network methodology and ERGMs are applied to describe the structural composition of the affiliation network and analyse attribute effects. Swingers were found to recruit their sex partners through one large, moderately cohesive network component. Swingers who used drugs or had a longer history of swinging tended to frequent websites instead of clubs. This study confirms the relevance of studying sexual affiliation networks and its additional value for STI epidemiology.     

Look Who's Talking: Compositional Effects of Gender and Status on Verbal Contributions at Sociology Conferences

Making a verbal contribution is an efficient means to increase one's visibility in the academic job market. Therefore, we examine the duration and word density of spoken contributions made in debates at sociology conferences held in Germany, thus enriching the discussion on the gender gap in scientific careers. We differentiate between the contributors' age and gender, and the social context of the conferences. Hidden observation of 392 verbal contributions on 64 topics at five different conferences using hierarchical linear models shows that with increasing age, women speak more slowly and for longer, while the duration of verbal contributions of men rises up to the age of 53 and then decreases again. Contrary to our hypothesis, the duration of spoken contributions of men is not longer than that of women; in fact if there is a majority of female associate or full professors in the audience, contributions by women become significantly longer. This finding underlines the importance of social context for gender‐related features of communication. In addition, we find that word density depends on the age and gender of the speaker.     

微博中的意见领袖和新闻伦理

基于两级传播的理论,对微博平台中意见领袖的新闻传播作用及责任进行分析,并对其中涉及的新闻伦理问题进行探讨。研究认为,正因为微博中意见领袖具有重要作用,所以应规范意见领袖传播信息的行为,遏制其对假新闻的推波助澜的作用。     

品牌知名度和安全认证对猪肉消费行为的影响

采用2×4阶乘情景实验法及多元协方差分析技术,研究生鲜猪肉的品牌知名度、质量安全认证对顾客感知安全、质量、尝试可能性和购买可能性的主影响和交互影响。研究结果表明,品牌知名度、安全认证对顾客感知的安全、质量、尝试可能性和购买可能性有主影响,也对尝试可能性有显著的交互影响。此外,顾客在广州的居住时间和顾客的受教育程度也是不可忽视的影响因素。     

Social representations of history,wars and politics in Latin America,Europe and Africa

Abstract

This study analyzes how people perceive world history on three continents: Latin America, Europe and Africa. A total of 1179 university students form Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Guinea-Bissau, and Cape Verde were asked to evaluate world events and leaders in terms of their valence and importance. The results demonstrated that social representations of history show a Euro/North American-centric, long-term positive evaluation, recency, and socio-centric bias. Euro/North American-centric events and leaders were found to be rated as more important and were more positively perceived in general. Distant political events, like French or American Revolution, were considered to be more positive than XX century similar events, which supports the long-term positive evaluation bias hypothesis. The hypothesis on recency bias was partially substantiated. Confirming the existence of such bias, World War II was rated as more important than the previous XX century wars and revolutions. Socio-centric bias also received partial support. African participants rated Mandela as a more important leader than other participants did. Latin Americans rated Che Guevara less positively, which suggests that some leaders are generally idealized icons, not based on group belongingness. However, results did not bring support to the centrality of war hypothesis. Wars were indeed negatively evaluated and World War II was rated as an important and negative event. Nevertheless, war- and politics-related events were not perceived as more important than the Industrial Revolution, suggesting that people appraise the importance of long-term socioeconomic factors of history when responding to close-ended quantitative measures (vs. open-ended salience measures). Results are discussed in the framework of social representations of history.