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{"title":"Effects of Spatial Crowding on Store Loyalty: Roles of Store Size","authors":"Yongsoo Ha, Yuri Lee","doi":"10.13189/UJP.2016.040302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJP.2016.040302","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial crowding and social crowding are mutually distinctive dimensions of perceived crowding. This study investigates the sole effects of spatial crowding on store loyalty and the roles of store size in spatial crowding-store loyalty relationships. Two video clips which display different store size were recorded for the purpose of the study. An internet survey was conducted with 400 fashion brand consumers. A multiple group analysis was conducted using structural equation modeling. This study consists of three stages. The first stage tested the general effects of spatial crowding. Test results showed that, when social crowding was controlled, spatial crowding did not show negative impacts on pleasure, rather the relationship was positive. Pleasure showed positive impact on expectation and, subsequently, it led to store loyalty. Such results are opposed to a prevailing belief that retail store crowding results in negative retail outcomes. The second stage tested the role of store size. Density and social crowding were controlled as the same level in both small and large stores. In the large store, spatial crowding effected on pleasure positively, whereas, the effect was negative in the small store. The third stage revealed the mediating effect of perceived control, albeit partially. In the small store, the negative effects of spatial crowding on pleasure dropped in magnitude when perceived control was included as a mediator. Implications for practice and future research opportunities are discussed.","PeriodicalId":23456,"journal":{"name":"Universal Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89738604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What is Right with the First Year Disadvantaged Students? Towards a Strength Based Perspective in Resolving Poor Academic Achievement in Science and Technology","authors":"D. Mkhize","doi":"10.13189/UJP.2016.040306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJP.2016.040306","url":null,"abstract":"The challenge facing South Africa’s higher education is the poor academic performance of the disadvantaged university students. This leads to a low number of graduates. This is particularly prevalent in the field of science, engineering and technology. Research addressing this problem utilizes deficit models, which focus on what is lacking among students. This paper will argue for a strength based model in tackling the poor performance of first year students. The strength based model has its roots from positive psychology which seeks to focus on what is right, rather than what is wrong. Hence the paper will discuss the strengths the first year students possess. These are malleable self-identity and cognitive growth resulting from their developmental stage, their schoolhouse giftedness exhibited by their high school superior academic performance. And finally their positive coping styles from findings of research on coping styles of adolescents from different countries. The paper argues that these strengths can be utilised as the stepping stones to enhance achievement. The paper concludes by proposing for research that pays more attention and value the strengths the disadvantaged students have, as a strategy to resolve low academic achievement of the disadvantaged youth who enters university.","PeriodicalId":23456,"journal":{"name":"Universal Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91461551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Preferences of Lifestyles in High School Students and Their Relation to Gender, School Achievement and Parents Education","authors":"Marija Mladenovska-Dimitrovska, A. Dimitrovski","doi":"10.13189/ujp.2016.040205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/ujp.2016.040205","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the research is to determine the lifestyle preferences in high school students, as well as to determine the differences in the preferences between respondents according to gender, school achievement and parents' education. The survey was conducted on a sample of 237 subjects, students of secondary schools in Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. In the research was used the Scale for measuring the value orientations by Popadic (1995), which measure 10 value orientations: family-sentimental, altruistic, cognitive, utilitarian, egoistic, hedonistic, religious-traditional, orientation to popularity, Promethean activism and orientation to power. The results showed that the most preferred lifestyle is a family-sentimental, which means that the family is one of the dominant values, following utilitarian lifestyle, egoistic and hedonistic orientation. At least preferred lifestyles are: orientation to popularity, orientation to power and cognitive lifestyle. There were no significant differences in terms of lifestyle preferences among the respondents of different gender, with exception of the orientation to popularity, which is more valued by the girls. Students who have less success at school more prefer the hedonistic orientation and orientation to popularity, while students who have better success at school, more value the cognitive lifestyle. Students whose parents are more educated more prefer the cognitive lifestyle of students whose parents have lower levels of education.","PeriodicalId":23456,"journal":{"name":"Universal Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87280672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychotherapy as Practice of Myself","authors":"L. Vorobyova","doi":"10.13189/UJP.2016.040203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJP.2016.040203","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to philosophical consideration of psychotherapeutic discourse in social and cultural context. The author uses the archaeological method of Michel Foucault, focusing on the analysis of the changes in the medical discourse of psychiatry that occurred with the advent of psychoanalysis on the «axis» of power and ethos.","PeriodicalId":23456,"journal":{"name":"Universal Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73368576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Treating High Conflict Divorce","authors":"Brenda J. Barnwell, M. Stone","doi":"10.13189/UJP.2016.040206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJP.2016.040206","url":null,"abstract":"A model for treating high conflict in divorce is presented because the standard service model typically mandated is not sufficient to address the high stress dynamics residing in family systems or the self-concept of parents. The model for treating high conflict emanates from Bowen's family systems model and Kohut's theory of self-psychology. A strategy for client assessment and program evaluation is outlined together with an example showing the effectiveness of treatment for one sample of participants.","PeriodicalId":23456,"journal":{"name":"Universal Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77093991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychological Factors Involved in Banking, as Encountered in Two Novels","authors":"S. Çaya","doi":"10.13189/UJP.2016.040605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJP.2016.040605","url":null,"abstract":"This article compares an American bank in an unknown state in the United States in 1970s with a French bank of 1850s in Paris. Even though those monetary institutions are fictitious as given, one can indeed infer a lot of truth and realism behind the hidden transcripts. As presented in the involved literary works; the French bank depicted by Emile Zola and the American bank thought up by Arthur Hailey are, despite the differences in time and geography; very similar in their functions. The former is only more deeply embedded in the stock exchange while the latter is essentially dependent upon loans made possible thanks to depositors. A war of nerves and extreme stress underline the themes of both of those superb novels.","PeriodicalId":23456,"journal":{"name":"Universal Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78771439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quality of Life and Hopelessness among Adolescent Rag Pickers of Delhi, India","authors":"Akbar Hussian, M. Sharma","doi":"10.13189/UJP.2016.040204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJP.2016.040204","url":null,"abstract":"Rag pickers are marginalized section of our society. India grappling the problem of shelter particularly in the urban societies besides other socio economic problems likes other Asian countries. Children living and working on streets are bound to adopt substandard life style due to lack of basic facilities. As results their quality of life includes physical health, social and psychological functioning severely destabilized and tends to develop sense of insecurity, hopelessness, depression, anxiety etc. Therefore, the study was conducted on the adolescents engaged in rag picking on the streets of Delhi to measure their quality of life and its impact on future perspective thinking. For that purpose sixty rag pickers were taken incidentally from different localities of Delhi. The participants of were male and between the age range of 12 - 18 engaged in rag picking. Sixty adolescents not engaged in rag picking and living with the parents were also taken from the same locality. WHOQOL-BREF and Beck hopelessness scales (BHS) were administered on both the groups of participants to assess their quality of life and sense of hopelessness. The finding suggested that rag picker adolescents were found suffering from significantly poor quality of life as well as higher degree of hopelessness. Findings further indicated negative relationship between quality of life and sense of hopelessness. The living conditions and quality of life of such population appear to be miserable as they usually tolerate constant hunger and suffers from malnourishment, which make them vulnerable to health related problems. For the sake of survival, adolescents working on street and perform variety of jobs including the collection of plastic, aluminium, paper, and anything else that can be resold. Sometime they are also found to be engaged in begging. Their poor quality of life expose them too many health related risk and derive them to be involved in illegal activities like drug trafficking, organ trades, prostitution and slavery especially in metropolitan cities. Such type of situations makes their life complex which in turn develops many psychological problems such as anxiety, psychological trauma, alienation, and feeling of hopelessness as a result they become psychologically vulnerable as well. Psychologically, these children are deprived of love, affection and family's sympathy. As far as quality of life is concerned it is defined in many ways and its measurement and incorporation into scientific study is not steady or easy. The World Health Organization defines Quality of Life as 'The individual's perception of his or her position in life, within the cultural context and value system he/she lives in, and in relation to his or her goals, expectations parameters and social relations. Every culture has different factors affecting quality of life and measures psychological, physical, social as well as economic well-being of the individuals. The general concept of quality of life wa","PeriodicalId":23456,"journal":{"name":"Universal Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80756839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the Origin of Consciousness - A Personal Experience on the Interaction of Mind and Body","authors":"Borje Peratt","doi":"10.13189/UJP.2016.040105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJP.2016.040105","url":null,"abstract":"The title is, of course, an allusion to Darwin’s classic book “On the Origin of Species.” Here we are concerned with the question of whether there is actually an origin of consciousness or if consciousness is eternal and its availability limited by physical senses. A car crash in 1987 opened my mind to the possibility of consciousness existing independent of the senses i.e. independent of the brain and body. The circumstances surrounding the accident involve a variety of extrasensory perceptions, which, up to that time, I had ignored because of my scepticism. The accident almost cost me my life and led to a long period of convalescence reflecting on what had happened. My documentation of the resultant experiences made it plausible for me to conclude that extrasensory sources of information were active even before the crash and also that these senses seemed to be boosted during the years that followed. In order to understand what had happened, I started to investigate my own experiences and then began to search to see if there were other people reporting similar experiences. It initiated what was to become research for more than twenty years. This really took off when the Internet and its search engines enabled data collection. The method based on Grounded Theory led to proto-scientific theories, published in book","PeriodicalId":23456,"journal":{"name":"Universal Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86598351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beneficial Effects of Regular Physical Exercises on Mental State in Visually Impaired and Deaf-blind Adults","authors":"Airi Surakka, Mika Venojarvi, K. Pitkanen","doi":"10.13189/UJP.2016.040104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJP.2016.040104","url":null,"abstract":"The most common mental health problems in visually impaired and deaf-blind adults are depression, anxiety, tension, difficulties in falling asleep and disturbed sleep. The physical training program used in this study was designed with the aim of reducing the physical and mental problems of this population. Twenty-four visually impaired and deaf-blind adults completed a 5-6-week supervised physical training program (three 60-minute sessions per week) with varying rhythms of music. Motivation was enhanced in a number of ways, including measurement of weight, blood pressure, flexibility of upper body and trunk and gait analysis before and after the intervention. After completion of the training program the participants themselves assessed the effect of the intervention by answering freely in their own words the question: \"Did you feel or notice any effect of the physical training program?\" The responses showed that 22 participants experienced improvements in physical condition (binomial one-sided confidence interval CI = 0.76, confidence level 95%), 21 in mental state (CI = 0.71) and 11 in balance (CI = 0.28). According to this study moderate and regular physical exercises reduce mental and physical problems and allow visually impaired and deaf-blind adults to live to the fullest with independent mobility, orientation, and better self-confidence and self-esteem.","PeriodicalId":23456,"journal":{"name":"Universal Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90723838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Research of School Bullying Behaviors on Junior High School Students in Southern Taiwan City","authors":"Chuan-Hsing Wang, M. Chou, Huang Chia-Fen","doi":"10.13189/UJP.2016.040101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJP.2016.040101","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to understand the current situation of the school bullying behaviors of students in junior high schools in Tainan City. It also compares the differences among the varied personal, family, and school backgrounds, and explores the relationships between what influences school bullying and being-bullied behaviors and school bullying and being-bullied behaviors. Finally, it analyzes the anticipated facts that influence school bullying and being-bullied behaviors. The subjects in this research were the public and private junior high school students of seventh, eighth, and ninth grade in Tainan City, and the researcher compiled questionnaires -\"the investigation on the school bullying behaviors of students in junior high school in Tainan City.\" There were 641 questionnaires given and 639 effective questionnaires were collected. The data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics, the method of Independent t test, One-way ANOVA, Scheffe Posteriori comparison, Pearson Product-moment and multiple regression with SPSS. The findings were as follows: 1. The school bullying behaviors on students of junior high school in Tainan City still exist. 2. There are significant distinctions on the school bullying behaviors in the different personal backgrounds for the students of junior high school in Tainan City, including gender, interpersonal relationship, and academic achievement. 3. There are significant distinctions on the school bullying behaviors in the different family backgrounds for the students of junior high school in Tainan City, including family members, sibling numbers, the harmony of parents' marriage, and parents' discipline. 4. There are significant distinctions in the school bullying behaviors in the different school backgrounds for the students of junior high school in Tainan City, including homeroom teacher's discipline. 5. The whole school bullying behaviors, bullying behaviors and being bullied of students of junior high school in Tainan City are positively related to each aspect- privacy, language, body, and majority. 6. There is significant anticipation of the facts of influencing school bullying behaviors for school bullying behaviors. That means we can use the facts of junior school bullying behaviors to predict the behaviors of school bullying. The facts include interpersonal relationship, homeroom teacher's misinterpretation, gender, the harmony of parents' marriage, family members, and parents' discipline.","PeriodicalId":23456,"journal":{"name":"Universal Journal of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79459493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}