Positive Connections: a programme for children who have a parent with a mental illness

Mental health professionals working with parents who suffer from a mental illness often overlook the children within the family. Children whose parents are mentally ill face numerous obstacles to their own emotional development and these children are at higher risk for developing mental illnesses than other children. These risks can be decreased if protective or positive interventions are available for the children. This article will describe the development and implementation of Positive Connections, an effective intervention programme specifically designed for children whose parents have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. The effectiveness of this programme has been evaluated using both qualitative and quantitative research strategies, and the results are presented.     

Employees' perceptions of organizational restructuring: The role of social support

Organizational change and restructuring is often perceived as leading to increased occupational stress, impacting negatively on the psychological well-being of employees. This pragmatic study investigates the role of social support and dispositional affect as moderators of role stress post-restructuring for employees in a public utility company. A total of 176 employees, including 37 managers, 60 graded staff and 78 industrial staff completed a self-report questionnaire, approximately 1 year postrestructuring, retrospectively assessing role conflict, ambiguity, overload and positive and negative feedback pre- and post-restructuring. Results suggested that overall role stress increased for managers/ senior officers and graded staff, but not for industrial staff. Social support was linked with lower role stress, more positive feedback and less negative feedback at post-restructuring. For certain role stressors this impact was moderated by dispositional affect, but the effect was not consistent across occupational groups. Positive affect enhanced the effect of manager support in reducing role conflict for graded staff, and the effect of co-worker support in increasing positive feedback and reducing negative feedback for industrial staff. Findings suggest that managers should pay particular attention to support and feedback for employees during periods of chronic occupational stress following organizational restructuring.     

Shiftwork tolerance and 24-h variations in moods

Abstract

The objective of the study was to identify the differences in 24-h variations in moods between three groups of oil-refinery workers: tolerant shiftworkers, intolerant shiftworkers and workers who had never worked in shifts. Each group comprised 29 workers matched by age. The mood measurements were taken during a 24-h period every 2 h starting from 08:00 h. Results were scored for three scales: positive moods, negative moods and fatigue. The two-factor ANOVA revealed the significant main effect of groups for all three moods indicating differences at the average level of 24-h variations in all moods between workers who differed in the degree of tolerance to shiftwork. The significant main effect of time of day was also found for all moods while the reliable interaction between groups and time of day was observed for negative moods only, indicating a different shape of 24-h variations for non-shiftworkers in comparison to shiftworkers.     

试论萧红作品中的故土情结

萧红,这位呼兰河的女儿,用手中的笔描绘着那方黑土地的“原始,蛮荒,愚昧”,表达着对故土人民的爱与忧伤,痛苦与批判。她以灵魂的在场,真实地、历史地写出了黑土地上人们的“精神奴役的创伤”,写出了黑土地上人们悲剧性的生存状态与麻木的生命意识。在她至情至性心血凝成的文字背后,渗透出无限爱意和柔情。     

邹衍五行说考论

邹衍对阴阳与五行思想的改造与发展,在秦汉思想史上占有非常重要的地位。他的学说,对后世的《吕氏春秋》、《淮南子》和《春秋繁露》等书都产生了很大的影响。本文试图通过对其生平著作、学说内容与命运等问题进行全面考察与分析,这将有助于我们更深入地考察秦汉社会思想文化变迁的轨迹。     

论“思”的实质及其临床意义

中医的“七情学说”始于《内经》时代，其中的“思”历来被解释为“思虑”、“思考”等思维活动的内容。通过多种方法论证、指出“思”的内涵是情绪活动，类同于“抑郁（Ｄｅｐｒｅｓｓｉｏｎ）”情绪，并认为对“思”的新解具有积极的和现实的临床意义。     

组织支持感对研发人员创新行为的影响：创造力效能感与积极情绪的中介作用

组织支持感对个体创新行为具有重要影响,但其中的影响机制值得深入探究。本研究基于组织支持感理论,同时从认知和情绪视角切入,将创造力效能感和积极情绪引入到组织支持感与研发人员创新行为的关系分析框架中。采用自填问卷法调查了248名研发人员,在检验了同源方差和问卷信效度的基础上,通过结构方程建模（SEM）方法检验了研究假设,结果发现：①在中国情境下,组织支持感对研发人员创新行为有显著正向影响,组织支持感及其各维度对研发人员创新行为有预测力,其中主管支持的预测力最强;②创造力效能感对研发人员创新行为有显著正向影响,并在研发人员组织支持感与创新行为间起部分中介作用;③积极情绪对研发人员创新行为有显著正向影响,在组织支持感与研发人员创新行为间起部分中介作用;④将创造力效能感和积极情绪同时纳入中介模型后,两者的中介作用完全解释了组织支持感对研发人员创新行为的影响。     

目前有效需求不足的实证分析

我国经济运行目前已进入通货紧缩阶段，主要表现为社会总需求小于社会总供给，即有效需求不足。有效需求不足的根本原因是居民收入偏低、农村城镇化进程缓慢、投资主体单一及投资结构不合理，财政政策空间未被充分利用，对外贸易额下降。     

中国棉花生产波动的实证分析

运用内部传导与外部冲击模型对我国棉花产量波动的形成原因进行了实证分析 ,结果表明 ,政策和自然灾害等外部冲击对棉花生产波动的影响较大 ,而在影响我国棉花产量波动的内部因素中 ,种植面积的波动是最主要的因素。