Levels Of Joy Research Articles

A latent profile analysis of doctors' joy in work at public hospitals.

When doctors' work stress increases, their joy in work decreases, severely affecting the quality of care and threatening patient safety. Analysis of the latent categories of joy in work of doctors in public hospitals and the differences in the characteristics of each category can help uncover hidden messages that enhance doctors' joy in work. Questionnaires were administered to 426 doctors working in public hospitals using the general information questionnaire and the public hospital doctor's joy in work evaluation scale. Upon identifying their potential categories using latent profile analysis, chi-square test, and multinomial logistic regression were performed to analyze the differences in the characteristics of each category. The 426 public hospital doctors could be divided into three potential categories: "low joy in work" (11.27%), "medium joy in work" (59.86%), and "high joy in work" (28.87%). Most of the doctors did not have much joy in work, with 71.13% of them having "low to medium joy in work." Doctors who work in secondary or tertiary hospitals, have a personnel agency or contract, and are older than 45 years are more likely to belong to the "low joy in work" category. Some of the protective factors are having an average monthly income (RMB) of 10,001-15,000 yuan and having a fair or good self-rated health status. There are obvious classification characteristics of doctors' level of joy in work. Hospital managers can take commensurate actions to improve their joy in work, thereby improving patient safety and the quality of medical services.

Service failures in times of crisis: An analysis of eWOM emotionality

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt consumer experiences as well as service operations. Despite the magnitude of this exogenous shock, little is known about the pandemic’s impact on consumers. Building on engagement theory, this study examines consumers’ emotional responses to service failures on social media. Contributing to the brand equity literature, we test whether electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) emotionality is contingent on brand strength. To do so, we analyzed 327,205 tweets directed at airline brands over the first 12 months of the pandemic in addition to data from a nonaffected period. The models show that consumers’ overall emotionality in tweets was lower during the pandemic than before it. Over the course of the pandemic, levels of joy were lower while levels of sadness and anger were more prominent in tweets directed at weaker brands. Thus, brand strength still acts as a “buffer” if service failures are caused by exogenous shocks.

At the Peak of the Second Wave of COVID-19, Did Millennials Show Different Emotional Responses from Older Adults?

The COVID-19 pandemic disturbs mental health. Indeed, higher levels of negative emotions and anxiety, along with lower levels of positive emotions and well-being, have been highlighted. As a result, individuals need to regulate these psychological states in a context of uncertainty and daily restrictions (e.g., access to leisure activities, social contacts) or modifications of livelihood (e.g., working modalities). Overall, psychological reactions to the pandemic have been shown to differ based on one’s age. The purpose of this research is to compare psychological reactions to the pandemic between Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) and Older Adults. The generation’s prism seems relevant as members of specific generations are shaped (e.g., views of the world, the future) by their similar experiences. Ninety-four Millennials and 129 Older Adults, recruited in the general population, participated to an online survey assessing emotions, emotion regulation strategies, environmental satisfaction, and intolerance of uncertainty. Results show that Millennials experience higher levels of negative emotions along with higher levels of worry and rumination than Older Adults. Millennials also report a higher level of joy. Nonetheless, more Older Adults engage themselves in novel activities. Overall, findings confirm previous ones and indicate the need to offer effective clinicals tool to prevent mental health worsening.

CEO happiness and forecasting

We utilize the IBM Watson Tone Analyzer to measure chief executive officers' (CEOs') levels of joy (happiness) in year-end conference calls, and empirically test how CEOs' happiness affects the properties of their own and analysts' forecasts. We find that joyful CEOs are more likely to issue forecasts, less likely to miss their forecast targets, and exhibit lower optimistic bias in their forecasts. When joyful CEOs issue earnings forecasts, analysts revise their forecasts upwards and produce forecasts that are less dispersed and more accurate. Our results demonstrate that inherent CEO happiness significantly impacts the forecast properties of both managers and analysts, thus supporting upper echelons theory.

Different Statistical Approaches to Develop a Guideline for Improvement of Caregiver’s Mental Health

Caregiver burden is common, and improvement of caregivers’ mental health could lead to better quality of care and well-being for both caregivers and care recipients. We investigate ways to develop a guideline to enhance caregiver’s mental well-being by applying and comparing regression tree and ensemble tree models. Data comes from the 2017 National Health and Aging Trends Study and National Study of Caregiving. Dementia caregivers’ (n=945) aspects of caregiving, care activities, support environment, and participation along with basic demographics and health are considered. First, insignificant predictors are preselected using linear regression with backward selection, which will not be included in the tree models. Using the predetermined predictors that are not excluded in the backward selection method, regression tree and ensemble tree models are generated to predict emotional difficulty of caregivers. The regression tree with the preselected predictors predicts caregivers with low to moderate levels of overload and high levels of joy being with their care recipient associated with the lowest level of emotional difficulty. On the other hand, if caregivers have high levels of overload and low to moderately high levels of positive affect, this is linked with the highest level of emotional difficulty. Ensemble tree models showed similar results with lower error measures. Using tree-based methods can help determine the most important predictors of caregiver mental health. Easily interpretable results with applicable decision rules can provide a guideline for intervention developers.

Measuring Science Teachers' Emotional Experiences with Evolution using Real World Scenarios

Low acceptance of evolution remains an obstacle to quality biology instruction. We develop and utilize a novel assessment which measures emotional experience in light of real-world evolution education scenarios. We presented 296 science teachers 4 pro-evolution and 8 anti-evolution scenarios and asked them to rate their levels of joy, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, shame, and guilt elicited by that scenario on an ordinal 5-point scale. We used exploratory factor analysis to extract the most important dimensions in the teachers’ responses, Rasch analysis to explore the validity of the extracted subscales, and stepwise regression to find the most important factors driving emotional dispositions. We extracted 3 factors: (1) pro-evolution experience (positive emotions on pro-evolution and negative emotions on anti-evolution scenarios), (2) anti-evolution experience (negative emotions on pro-evolution and positive emotions on anti-evolution scenarios), and (2) feelings of regret over anti-evolution scenarios (shame and guilt on anti-evolution scenarios). Acceptance of evolution facts and a non-theistic religious orientation were positively related to pro-evolution experience. Anti-evolution experience was predicted by lack of microevolution acceptance and lack of teacher preparation. Feelings of regret around anti-evolution scenarios were driven by acceptance of evolution facts and lower levels of teacher preparation. This work advances our understanding of how teachers relate affectively to the theory of evolution and offers empirical insight into ways to improve dispositions about evolution.

The State of Mind of Health Care Professionals in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Text Analysis Study of Twitter Discourses.

BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected populations worldwide, with extreme health, economic, social, and political implications. Health care professionals (HCPs) are at the core of pandemic response and are among the most crucial factors in maintaining coping capacities. Yet, they are also vulnerable to mental health effects caused by managing a long-lasting emergency with a lack of resources and under complicated personal concerns. However, there are a lack of longitudinal studies that investigate the HCP population.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to analyze the state of mind of HCPs as expressed in online discussions published on Twitter in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, from the onset of the pandemic until the end of 2020.MethodsThe population for this study was selected from followers of a few hundred Twitter accounts of health care organizations and common HCP points of interest. We used active learning, a process that iteratively uses machine learning and manual data labeling, to select the large-scale population of Twitter accounts maintained by English-speaking HCPs, focusing on individuals rather than official organizations. We analyzed the topics and emotions in their discourses during 2020. The topic distributions were obtained using the latent Dirichlet allocation algorithm. We defined a measure of topic cohesion and described the most cohesive topics. The emotions expressed in tweets during 2020 were compared to those in 2019. Finally, the emotion intensities were cross-correlated with the pandemic waves to explore possible associations between the pandemic development and emotional response.ResultsWe analyzed the timelines of 53,063 Twitter profiles, 90% of which were maintained by individual HCPs. Professional topics accounted for 44.5% of tweets by HCPs from January 1, 2019, to December 6, 2020. Events such as the pandemic waves, US elections, or the George Floyd case affected the HCPs’ discourse. The levels of joy and sadness exceeded their minimal and maximal values from 2019, respectively, 80% of the time (P=.001). Most interestingly, fear preceded the pandemic waves, in terms of the differences in confirmed cases, by 2 weeks with a Spearman correlation coefficient of ρ(47 pairs)=0.340 (P=.03).ConclusionsAnalyses of longitudinal data over the year 2020 revealed that a large fraction of HCP discourse is directly related to professional content, including the increase in the volume of discussions following the pandemic waves. The changes in emotional patterns (ie, decrease in joy and increase in sadness, fear, and disgust) during the year 2020 may indicate the utmost importance in providing emotional support for HCPs to prevent fatigue, burnout, and mental health disorders during the postpandemic period. The increase in fear 2 weeks in advance of pandemic waves indicates that HCPs are in a position, and with adequate qualifications, to anticipate pandemic development, and could serve as a bottom-up pathway for expressing morbidity and clinical situations to health agencies.

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<p style="text-align: justify;">Low acceptance of evolution remains an obstacle to quality biology instruction. We develop and utilize a novel assessment which measures emotional experience in light of real-world evolution education scenarios. We presented 296 science teachers 4 pro-evolution and 8 anti-evolution scenarios and asked them to rate their levels of joy, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, shame, and guilt elicited by that scenario on an ordinal 5-point scale. We used exploratory factor analysis to extract the most important dimensions in the teachers’ responses, Rasch analysis to explore the validity of the extracted subscales, and stepwise regression to find the most important factors driving emotional dispositions. We extracted 3 factors: (1) pro-evolution experience (positive emotions on pro-evolution and negative emotions on anti-evolution scenarios), (2) anti-evolution experience (negative emotions on pro-evolution and positive emotions on anti-evolution scenarios), and (2) feelings of regret over anti-evolution scenarios (shame and guilt on anti-evolution scenarios). Acceptance of evolution facts and a non-theistic religious orientation were positively related to pro-evolution experience. Anti-evolution experience was predicted by lack of microevolution acceptance and lack of teacher preparation. Feelings of regret around anti-evolution scenarios were driven by acceptance of evolution facts and lower levels of teacher preparation. This work advances our understanding of how teachers relate affectively to the theory of evolution and offers empirical insight into ways to improve dispositions about evolution.</p>

Evaluation types of solvents on the extraction of Bixa orellana and application of extract on a chicken sausage product as natural colour and antioxidant sources

Bixa orellana known as annatto is often used as a natural colorant in some food industries. This pigment is potential as an antioxidant due to high levels of total phenol and carotenoid in seeds. This study aims to evaluate the effect of polarity of solvents in annatto extraction on colour and antioxidant content in the extracts as well as the application of extracts of annatto on chicken sausage products. The solvent used for extraction annatto was hexane (nonpolar), chloroform (semipolar) and ethanol (polar), and concentration of extracts used in the making of chicken sausage were 1, 2 and 3% respectively. Colour observation of extract was done visually and by using a tintometer to measuring the color components while the colour observation of chicken sausage was done using Munsell chard as well as sensory evaluation by the panelist. The antioxidant content in the extracts as well as in the chicken sausages was evaluated by measuring the total phenol and carotenoid. The result of this research shows that hexane extract had a yellow colour, which composed of red and yellow colour with intensity 9 and 37. The chloroform extract had red dense colour, which composed of red, yellow and blue with intensity 12, 4 and 6.9, respectively, while the ethanol extract had orange colour, which composed of red and yellow colour with intensity of 12, and 50. The highest content of total phenol (115 mg/g) was found in ethanol extract while the highest content of carotenoid (11.77mg/g) was produced in hexane extract. Addition of 2 % hexane extract gives the best colour on the chicken sausage, and based on the measuring with the Munsell chard was produced orange colour with hue 2.5 Y; value 7; and chrome 6, with the level of joy is like (3.8). The highest total phenol content (29.95 mg/g) was found in the chicken sausage which was added of 1% extract of hexane whereas the highest carotenoid content (16.17 ug/g) found in the chicken sausage which was added of 3 % extract of hexane.

Analysis of Chest Masculinization Surgery Results in Female-to-Male Transgender Patients: Demonstrating High Satisfaction beyond Aesthetic Outcomes Using Advanced Linguistic Analyzer Technology and Social Media.

Background:Satisfaction rates are reported as high after subcutaneous mastectomy for chest masculinization. We examined patient satisfaction based on linguistic analysis of social media posts showing postoperative results and compared them to aesthetic quality ratings from plastic surgeons.Methods:Fifty publicly available images of subcutaneous mastectomy postoperative results of female-to-male gender transition patients were selected from Instagram. The photograph’s corresponding post and comments were then analyzed for sentiment through the IBM Watson tone analyzer, which rated the presence of joy on a continuous scale from 0 to 1. Three plastic surgeons rated aesthetic quality on an ordinal scale of 1 to 10. Results of both analyses were then compared.Results:Joy was rated as a mean value of 0.74 (±0.13) in posts and 0.81 (±0.13) in comments. The mean ratings of results were found to be chest contour 6.1 of 10 (±1.7), scar position 5.3 of 10 (±1.8), scar quality 4.8 of 10 (±1.9), nipple position 5.2 of 10 (±1.9), and nipple quality 5.1 of 10 (±2.0). A positive relationship was found between post joy and nipple quality (r = 0.33, P = 0.0169). There were no other associations detected between level of joy and the ratings of results by plastic surgeons (P > 0.05).Conclusions:Despite wide variety in surgical appearance, there is a high level of satisfaction and community support. This is in contrast to the low-quality ratings by plastic surgeons. The results demonstrate the strong psychological and functional underpinnings chest masculinization has for patients. However, surgical results can be improved through a variety of techniques such that patients have both excellent surgical results and high satisfaction.

Facial feedback: Limited effect for videos of opposite emotions

To prove the hypothesis of facial feedback (FF) for opposite emotional stimuli, 30 participants viewed a happy video, with 15 of the participant posing a sad expression; another 30 participants viewed a sad video, with 15 posing a joyful expression. Levels of joy, sadness, anger and anxiety were recorded before and after the videos. All observers of the happy video showed a decrease in sadness, but those who posed for sadness expressed lesser decrease. For their part, participants who posed joy during the sad video recorded an increase in anger and anxiety, attributed to having to pose for joy. No evidence was found that FF can counteract the effects of an intense emotional stimulus. The evidence related to the controlling of the intensity of an opposite emotion was also limited. The study found that posing for joy while undergoing sadness could provoke other negative emotions. The study questions the practical usefulness of FF.

I think It’s Good, but I’m Also Afraid: The Interplay of Opportunity Evaluation and Emotions as Antecedent of Entrepreneurial Exploitation

This research examines the interplay of opportunity evaluation and emotions as determinants of entrepreneurial exploitation, using affect-as-information theory and the affective processing principle as conceptual bases. Three central assumptions are confirmed across two studies. The first is that the effects of opportunity characteristics on exploitation are mediated by evaluation. The second is that emotions influence exploitation decisions in addition to evaluation. Fear reduces exploitation whereas joy and anger increase it. The third is that fear, joy, and anger influence evaluation’s effect on exploitation with higher levels of fear reducing and higher levels of joy and anger increasing the positive impact of evaluation on exploitation.

The Psychological Profile of a Rock Band: Using Intellectual and Personality Measures with Musicians

Unique personality and intelligence factors are important components of the makeup of any individual. In addition, emotional factors, such as a person's inherent levels of joy, anger, passion, worry, grief, and dedication, influence their creative expression. The picture becomes more complicated when there are four individual members with different emotional, intelligence, and personality profiles who must collaborate to make one composition of a creative group. The inner workings of a band are intrinsic and may produce inner conflict, affecting not only themselves and family members but also management and production teams. While there is a growing amount of literature on cohesiveness and attitudinal influences on performance in other areas of psychology, the lack of literature and exploration into the dynamics of cohesiveness and group attitude within the musical domain is significant. Using the WAIS-III, MMPI-2, Rorschach Inkblot Test, and an interview, the authors took a psychological “snapshot” of a band. Making music is often the first thing a musician states as his life’s work, but as this case study illustrates, intra-band difficulties including severe depression, anxiety, control issues, and family disruptions are significant issues that arise, affecting the success goals of the group.

Is Awareness an Important Factor in Learning Better Posture?

This study consisted of two (2) experiments. The objective of Experiment 1 was to observe changes in EEGs on learning a balanced sitting posture with/without “Relaxercise” while the objective of Experiment 2 was to study changes in EEGs periodically throughout an eye movement lesson. As a result of EEGs measurement and Emotion Spectrum Analysis of Experiment 1, four (4) out of ten (10) subjects showed the level of joy was the highest at instructed sitting after “Relaxercise.” The results of photo and video analysis in Experiment 2 showed that ten (10) out of thirteen (13) subjects improved sitting, standing, and walking postures after the lesson.

Kafka's "Burrow": A Speculative Analysis

Kafka wrote Burrow (Der Bau) in 1923 during the final stage of his terminal illness. It is probably the last manuscript of any magnitude to tax the author's declining health. The subterranean narrator-the last of Kafka's humanized animals-is a creature of many moods and dispositions. Generically speaking, he is a hybrid of rational Man and instinctive animal. The lonely and capricious narrator is alternately rational and irrational, confident and fearful, passive and recklessly militant. Each frame of mind is distinctly portrayed, but the reasons for his many volatile moods are almost always ambiguous. Because his levels of joy and despair often seem out of proportion to his life's circumstance and stated reasons, he is a paradox. In the past scholars have hardly been reluctant to tackle Kafka's many enigmas and paradoxical personalities, and yet proportionate to the voluminous mass of existing Kafka criticism, Burrow has attracted only a modicum of critical attention. And for the most part the existing criticism is either fragmentary, unnecessarily abstract, or simply trite. One popular approach to the story sees the burrow itself as an elaborate metaphor for the Mind which is out of tune with external reality. Lienhard Bergel, for example, identifies the central theme as the narrator's hopeless effort to construct a rational world entirely of his own creation within the framework of a world dominated by irrationality.1 Granted, the narrator is a self-centered hermit and a solipsist, but it is difficult to reduce the burrow to a pure construction of the Mind. In the same metaphysical vein, others have viewed the story as a religious allegory. R. M. Alberes and Pierre de Boisdeffre have suggested that the narrator is so hopelessly involved with the task of