Strong environmental and ecological pressure has been put on motor manufacturers in recent years to reduce the organic solvents that are used in large quantities for painting cars.
Chris Naylor, Chiara Samele and Jan Wallcraft
Developing ‘patient‐centred’ health services has become a goal in many countries but little work has been done to identify what research is needed to support the development of…
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Developing ‘patient‐centred’ health services has become a goal in many countries but little work has been done to identify what research is needed to support the development of such services within mental health. The aim of this study was to consult all relevant stakeholder groups to establish research priorities for developing ‘patient‐centred’ mental health services in the UK. More than 1,000 stakeholders were consulted, including service users, carers and mental health professionals. The consultation identified 12 thematic areas requiring further research. These should be prioritised if services are to become more centred on the needs and aspirations of the people who use them.
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Suicide is a tragic cause of death and causes considerable distress for families, carers and healthcare professionals. Thankfully, suicide rates in older people in the UK have…
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Suicide is a tragic cause of death and causes considerable distress for families, carers and healthcare professionals. Thankfully, suicide rates in older people in the UK have steadily declined for both men and women since the mid‐1980s. An understanding of the clinical and demographic characteristics of both completed suicide and non‐fatal self‐harm in older people is important in informing the development of preventative strategies to sustain this decline. Non‐fatal self‐harm in older people is relatively uncommon compared with younger age groups, but research indicates that self‐harm among older people is frequently a failed attempt at suicide. Thus, the important factors associated with self‐harm in this age group are similar to those linked with completed suicide, particularly high rates of clinical depression, poor physical health and social isolation. Unfortunately, there is also a high rate of subsequent completed suicide. For this reason, self‐harm in later life needs to be taken very seriously and a careful assessment of risk and need by a specialist in older people's mental health should be conducted. The identification and appropriate management of older people with depression in the community and general hospitals is a key area for the prevention of self‐harm and suicide in this age group and requires further attention, particularly with targeted support programmes for those at high risk.
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Tulus Suryanto and Simon Grima
In this chapter we investigated the importance of the Audit Statement of Opinion in the Final Audit Report to ensure good corporate governance and to reduce earnings management…
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In this chapter we investigated the importance of the Audit Statement of Opinion in the Final Audit Report to ensure good corporate governance and to reduce earnings management and ensure accurately informed corporate decisions. After going through literature and discussing with peers we hypothesized that this does have an effect on all the three processes.
A self-administered survey was purposely designed for the study after consulting the literature and referring to established frameworks and consulted with accounting executives. The survey consisted of an introduction page and four sections contained statements relating to each of the following four themes: “earnings management”; “audit statement and report”; “corporate governance”; and “the corporate decision.” For all statements, participants were asked to respond to a five-point Likert items ranging from “strongly disagree” (coded as “1”) to “strongly agree” (coded as “5”).
The research was conducted with a population of 100 accounting managers and financial managers of manufacture companies listed on Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) during 2015. To test the hypothesis, we used SPSS (Version 22) to carry out a regression analysis using the F and t tests.
It is determined that the three hypotheses were correct and the Audit Statement of Opinion in the Final Audit Report influences corporate governance and earning management reducing deviant behavior and that there is a significant reliance by Indonesians managers/investors on it when taking corporate decision.
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The paper reports on a review of assessment scales commonly used for assessment of psychiatric illnesses or behaviour problems in adults with learning disabilities. Initially, a…
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The paper reports on a review of assessment scales commonly used for assessment of psychiatric illnesses or behaviour problems in adults with learning disabilities. Initially, a literature search was conducted to identify relevant peer‐reviewed journal publications pertaining to relevant scales. Those scales with more publications were reviewed with reference to the scale composition and psychometric properties. In total, eight behaviour scales, one psychiatric illness scale and three combined behaviour and psychiatric illness scales are reviewed.
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Jane Ireland and Christina Power
This study explores the association between fear of bullying and psychological distress. Participants were 293 adult prisoners, including men (n = 169) and women (n = 124), split…
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This study explores the association between fear of bullying and psychological distress. Participants were 293 adult prisoners, including men (n = 169) and women (n = 124), split into groups of ‘pure bullies’ (ie. solely reporting perpetration), ‘bully/victims’ (reporting perpetration and being victimised), ‘pure victims’ (reporting being victimised) and those ‘not‐involved’. All completed the Direct and Indirect Prisoner Behaviour Checklist ‐ Revised (DIPC‐R), a measure of psychological health (General Health Questionnaire: GHQ‐28) and the Fear of Bullying Scale (FBS). The FBS was piloted on a sample of adult male prisoners (n = 69) prior to the main study. It was hypothesised that experience of victimisation would associate with higher levels of fear; that bully/victims would present with higher levels of fear than pure bullies (perpetrators); that fear would be associated with increased levels of psychological distress; and, finally, that women would report higher levels of fear than men. Pure victims reported higher levels of fear than pure bullies and those not‐involved, with bully/victims reporting increased levels of fear in comparison to those not‐involved. These findings did not, however, hold across sex, with women overall reporting higher levels of fear than men. Structural equation models indicated no direct relationship between experiencing victimisation and psychological distress, but rather an indirect relationship through fear of victimisation. The results are discussed with reference to the association between victimisation and psychological distress and the importance of this finding to the wider research field.
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Ahmad Danu Prasetyo, Taffy Ukhtia Panduputri, Prawira Fajarindra Belgiawan, Yunieta Anny Nainggolan, Subhan Noor, Riky Candra, Sri Putri Siregar and Yuddy Hendranata
Government bonds are debt securities issued by the central government, where investors are to receive returns in the form of an annual coupon rate periodically. This leads…
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Government bonds are debt securities issued by the central government, where investors are to receive returns in the form of an annual coupon rate periodically. This leads investors tend to hold their portfolio after purchasing due to the guaranteed returns of the government bonds. However, another strategy for gaining returns is to sell the eligible portfolios in the secondary market. This research aims to investigate the factors behind investors’ decisions whether to sell their government retail bonds portfolio and the length of their portfolio hold days. Towards a secondary dataset of existing government retail bonds investors in Indonesia and secondary market rate, logistic regression analysis was employed to inspect their selling decisions, while the decision tree classification method investigated their hold days. Results show that both the decision to sell bonds portfolio in the secondary market and the period of hold days are highly affected by its comparative return performance towards other investment alternatives, represented by excess returns. This study contributes to the behavioural finance field by answering the lack of investigation for investors’ selling decisions, particularly for government retail bonds, which will enhance the understanding of portfolio rebalancing in portfolio management studies.
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Gregory O'Brien, John Taylor, William Lindsay, Anthony Holland, Derek Carson, Lesley Steptoe, Karen Price, Claire Middleton and Jessica Wheeler
This study was carried out as part of a larger study commissioned by the UK Department of Health to investigate the service pathways for offenders with learning disabilities (LD)…
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This study was carried out as part of a larger study commissioned by the UK Department of Health to investigate the service pathways for offenders with learning disabilities (LD). The study covered three health regions in the UK and included 477 people with LD referred to services because of antisocial or offending behaviour during a 12‐month period. Data were collected concerning demographic, individual, offending behaviour and service characteristics. The findings of the study are broadly consistent with contemporary research concerning this population, particularly in relation to the nature and frequency of offending, history of offending, psychopathology, age and gender distribution. However, very few of those referred had any form of structured care plan, despite having significant offending histories, and this may have compromised early identification of their needs and communication between the health, social and other services involved.
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Mahima Thakur, Anjali Bansal and Peter Stokes
This empirical investigation studies the correlates and predictors of employees’ psychological outcomes during mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the context of India. This study…
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This empirical investigation studies the correlates and predictors of employees’ psychological outcomes during mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the context of India. This study examined the role of different types of training initiatives (awareness training, human capital development training, and cross-cultural training) on building employees feeling of psychological empowerment and thriving. Further, second-order attitudes were studied in the form of employee satisfaction and commitment. A cross-sectional research design was adopted where quantitative and qualitative data were collected to investigate the interplay between the variables. Data were collected on an adapted standardized questionnaire from the employees of a public sector organization (N = 117) which had merged with a software company to deliver its IT services. Descriptive analysis, multiple correlational analysis, and stepwise regression analysis have assisted in exploring the different relationships amongst the variables. This study produces a prescriptive framework for merger success based on the model of growth and thriving (Spreitzer & Porath, 2012). Broadly, the results point towards the facilitative role of training in developing feelings of psychological empowerment, thriving, commitment and satisfaction with the merger, however qualitative data identified significant cultural undercurrents.