Personality Features Research Articles

The relationship between student interaction with generative artificial intelligence and learning achievement: serial mediating roles of self-efficacy and cognitive engagement.

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) shocked the world with its unprecedented ability and raised significant tensions in the education field. Educators inevitably transition to an educational future that embraces GAI rather than shuns it. Understanding the mechanism between students interacting with GAI tools and their achievement is important for educators and schools, but relevant empirical evidence is relatively lacking. Due to the characteristics of personalization and real-time interactivity of GAI tools, we propose that the students-GAI interaction would affect their learning achievement through serial mediators of self-efficacy and cognitive engagement. Based on questionnaire surveys that include 389 participants as the objective, this study finds that: (1) in total, there is a significantly positive relationship between student-GAI interaction and learning achievement. (2) This positive relationship is mediated by self-efficacy, with a significant mediation effect value of 0.015. (3) Cognitive engagement also acts as a mediator in the mechanism between the student-GAI interaction and learning achievement, evidenced by a significant and relatively strong mediating effect value of 0.046. (4) Self-efficacy and cognitive engagement in series mediate this positive association, with a serial mediating effect value of 0.011, which is relatively small in comparison but also shows significance. In addition, the propensity score matching (PSM) method is applied to alleviate self-selection bias, reinforcing the validity of the results. The findings offer empirical evidence for the incorporation of GAI in teaching and learning.

Экзистенциальная личность и специфика философского стиля Жоржа Батая: проблема взаимовлияния

The article examines the features of the existential personality, the ideological origins of creativity and the spe-cifics of the philosophical style of the French thinker J. Bataille. The features of J. Bataille’s paradoxical thinking are shown, the value of which is in the ability to analyze various mental states of a person, in the destruction of standard philosophical structures and the creation of new forms of philosophical understanding of reality. The application of the phenomenological approach made it possible to identify the features of J. Bataille’s literary and philosophical style, the inconsistency and complexity of interpreting his texts addressed to existential expe-rience in the act of tragedy, delusions or the search for truth, inseparable from the transgressive state of a per-son. The authors determined that in J. Bataille’s work, the specifics of language, vocabulary, and the ability to express the hidden meaning remind of the author himself, of his constant desire to invade the realm of the im-possible. The study of the problem of the mutual influence of the existential personality and J. Bataille’s philo-sophical thinking was carried out using a hermeneutic approach. The authors also identified a number of XXth century thinkers, such as M. Foucault, N. Land, J. Derridа, whose works were significantly influenced by Ba-taille’s thinking. The novelty of this study is the disclosure of evaluative judgments of the literary style of the French philosopher by modern authors and specialists in the philosophical work of J. Bataille.

Enhancing Online Learning Experiences through Personalization Utilizing Recommendation Algorithms

This research investigates the implementation and impact of personalized learning systems underpinned by advanced recommendation algorithms in the realm of online education. The study encompasses a diverse group of participants from various educational backgrounds and explores their interactions with the personalized learning platform. The key findings of this research are noteworthy. Participants who had access to the personalized learning environment exhibited a substantial increase in engagement, satisfaction, and learning outcomes compared to those in the control group. This signifies the transformative potential of personalized learning in online education. The research emphasizes the critical role of personalization in enhancing learner engagement and satisfaction. It highlights how learners actively engaged with the system, making use of personalized recommendations to tailor their learning experiences. Moreover, the study sheds light on the positive impact of personalization on learning outcomes, indicating that learners achieved higher academic performance when their learning experiences were customized to their needs and preferences. In addition to its benefits for learners, the research underscores the advantages of personalized learning for instructors. The system provided instructors with valuable insights into each learner's progress and challenges, enabling more targeted and effective support. While the study demonstrates the effectiveness of personalized learning, it acknowledges certain limitations, including a relatively limited sample size and short duration. Future research endeavors could involve larger and more diverse samples and extend the study duration to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the long-term effects of personalized learning. In conclusion, this research contributes to the growing body of literature on personalized learning in online education. It provides compelling evidence that personalized learning, facilitated by sophisticated recommendation algorithms, can significantly enhance the online learning experience. The findings offer insights for educators and institutions looking to integrate personalized learning features into their online platforms to improve learner engagement, satisfaction, and learning outcomes.

Personal and social aspect of psychological diagnosis of children with mental disorders in medical and social expertise

The article discusses the personal and social characteristics of children with impaired mental functions undergoing medical and social examination to establish the category of “disabled childˮ. The results of comparing two groups are presented: children who were assigned the category “disabled childˮ according to the results of the examination, and children who were not assigned this category. Personal and social features were diagnosed using the children's version of R. Kettell's multifactorial personality questionnaire, R. Gilles' method “Film test interpersonal relationships of a childˮ, observation cards. Statistically significant differences in the characteristics of children with different levels of mental disorders were obtained: according to the degree of sociability, verbal intelligence, self-confidence, social courage and risk-taking, sense of responsibility, sensitivity and self-control; according to communication and adaptation strategies in the family and external society. The main conclusion of the study was the statement that conducting a medical and social examination requires taking into account not only the types, persistence and severity of mental disorders, but also to assess the personal and social characteristics of children. This will allow the psychologist to identify the personal potential of the child and the need for specific rehabilitation measures and social support measures.

CHARISMA AS A FACTOR OF THE FORMATION OF LEADERS IN THE MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION ON THE TERRITORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA

This article aims to study and present charisma as a factor of the formation of the leader, taking as an example the municipal administration in the Republic of Bulgaria. The author has used data from her own online survey of mayors of municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria, as well as of district mayors of the cities Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna. The survey started in June 2022; by the time this article was written, responses had been received from 55 mayors. The author’s emphasis will be on one of the survey questionnaires, composed of questions grouped into six blocks. The analysis methods are: descriptive statistics, calculation of mean values, testing of statistical hypotheses, and analysis of open-ended questions. The analysis identified factors of charisma and the respective personal characteristics. The identified personal features and behavior of the surveyed mayors may be used to design a profile to be applied when selecting candidates for public positions.

Sexual Outcomes after Conservative Management for Patients with Localized Penile Cancer.

Men with localized invasive penile cancer (PC) can be treated with organ-sparing treatments with different functional and aesthetical outcomes. Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate sexual outcomes in patients with PC confined to the glans that underwent wide local excision (WLE) vs. glansectomy with urethral glanduloplasty. Complete data from 60 patients with PC were analyzed at our institution from 2017 to 2022. Patients were asked for personal habits and clinical features. PC was assessed with a clinical visit and imaging techniques. At the outpatient follow-up visit or phone call, all patients compiled the Changes in Sexual Function Questionnaire (CSFQ) and the International Index of Erectile Function in its short 5-item form (IIEF-5). Erectile function (EF) impairment was categorized using Cappelleri's criteria. Overall, 34 patients with PC confined to the glans (c ≤ T2N0) were included. Of those, 12 underwent WLE and 22 underwent glansectomy with urethral glanduloplasty. Using multivariable logistic regression, glansectomy (OR: 3.49) and diabetes (OR: 2.33) were associated with erectile disfunction (IEEF < 22). Meanwhile, using multivariable linear regression analysis, younger patients (Coeff: -2.41) and those that underwent glansectomy (Coeff: -7.5) had a higher risk of sexual function impairment, according to the CSFQ. Patients with PC ≤ T2N0 that underwent WLE have better outcomes in terms of sexual functioning than the patients who underwent glansectomy and uretheral gladuloplasty. Further research is needed to clarify the outcomes of penile-sparing surgery, to inform patients in pre-surgical counseling more comprehensively, and to meet their post-operative expectations more effectively.

« Je t’aime. – Moi aussi (je t’aime). »

In dialogs like “I love you – I do too”, the pronoun in the ellipsis site can be interpreted as dependent on the preceding overt pronoun (i.e. I do love you too). This dependency can neither be explained by Kaplan’s (1977/1989) theory implying the fixity of indexicals, nor by the various theories of bound indexicals: due to mismatch in person features, the identity in the ellipsis is not sloppy, but supersloppy in such cases. Based on experimentally collected English data, I proposed in Charnavel (2019) to reduce supersloppy readings to sloppy readings by hypothesizing that indexicals can be interpreted as context-dependent descriptions containing a bindable pronoun, i.e. as indexical e-type pronouns (e.g. you as my interlocutor). But due to some limitations in my English data, I left open two interrelated issues: (i) whether supersloppy readings, like sloppy readings, rely on focus blindness to presuppositions of bound pronouns; (ii) whether supersloppy readings can be analyzed in the same way in ellipsis and focus constructions. I here use novel French data to settle these two issues partly based on some morphosyntactic specificities of French. By clarifying the analysis of supersloppy readings, this provides new insight into the theories of indexicals and e-type pronouns.

Machine learning algorithm integrates bulk and single-cell transcriptome sequencing to reveal immune-related personalized therapy prediction features for pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a digestive malignancy with worse overall survival. Tumor immune environment (TIME) alters the progression and proliferation of various solid tumors. Hence, we aimed to detect the TIME-related classifier to facilitate the personalized treatment of PC. Based on the 1612 immune-related genes (IRGs), we classified patients into Immune_rich and Immune_desert subgroups via consensus clustering. Patients in distinct subtypes exhibited a difference in sensitivity to immune checkpoint blockers (ICB). Next, the immune-related signature (IRS) model was established based on 8 IRGs (SYT12, TNNT1, TRIM46, SMPD3, ANLN, AFF3, CXCL9 and RP1L1) and validated its predictive efficiency in multiple cohorts. RT-qPCR experiments demonstrated the differential expression of 8 IRGs between tumor and normal cell lines. Patients who gained lower IRS score tended to be more sensitive to chemotherapy and immunotherapy, and obtained better overall survival compared to those with higher IRS scores. Moreover, scRNA-seq analysis revealed that fibroblast and ductal cells might affect malignant tumor cells via MIF-(CD74+CD44) and SPP1-CD44 axis. Eventually, we identified eight therapeutic targets and one agent for IRS high patients. Our study screened out the specific regulation pattern of TIME in PC, and shed light on the precise treatment of PC.

Into the Dark Serum Proteome: Personalized Features of IgG1 and IgA1 Repertoires in Severe COVID-19 Patients

Serum proteomics has matured and is now able to monitor hundreds of proteins quantitatively in large cohorts of patients. However, the fine characteristics of some of the most dominant proteins in serum, the immunoglobulins, are in these studies often ignored, due to their vast, and highly personalized, diversity in sequences. Here, we focus exclusively on these personalized features in the serum proteome and distinctively chose to study individual samples from a low diversity population: elderly donors infected by severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). By using mass spectrometry-based methods, immunoglobulin IgG1 and IgA1 clonal repertoires were monitored quantitatively and longitudinally in more than 50 individual serum samples obtained from 17 Corona virus disease 2019 patients admitted to intensive care units. These clonal profiles were used to examine how each patient reacted to a severe SARS-CoV-2 infection. All 17 donors revealed unique polyclonal repertoires and substantial changes over time, with several new clones appearing following the infection, in a few cases leading to a few, very high, abundant clones dominating their repertoire. Several of these clones were de novo sequenced through combinations of top-down, middle-down, and bottom-up proteomics approaches. This revealed sequence features in line with sequences deposited in the SARS-CoV-specific antibody database. In other patients, the serological Ig profiles revealed the treatment with tocilizumab, that subsequently dominated their serological IgG1 repertoire. Tocilizumab clearance could be monitored, and a half-life of approximately 6 days was established. Overall, our longitudinal monitoring of IgG1 and IgA1 repertoires of individual donors reveals that antibody responses are highly personalized traits of each patient, affected by the disease and the chosen clinical treatment. The impact of these observations argues for a more personalized and longitudinal approach in patients’ diagnostics, both in serum proteomics as well as in monitoring immune responses.

Research of the effect of gender-specific personality features of flight school students on the success of their studies

Aim. The paper describes a research of gender-specific personality features of flight school students. The eventual task was to research the effect of the identified gender-specific features of the male and female students on their academic and flight training performance.Methods. The research employed standardised character research methods: L.N. Sobchik’s version of MMPI and the 16-factor personality inventory. The resulting data were analysed using descriptive statistics of Microsoft Office 2007 Excel, Student’s Т-score for unconjugated samples (statistical significance if p &lt; 0.05).Results of the research. It has been established that the academic and flight training performance are affected by both identical and differing personal qualities of male and female students.Conclusion. The conducted research identified gender-related personality features that correlated with the academic and flight training performance of male and female students that manifest themselves as sets of personal attributes. The identified personal attributes of male and female students may have either a positive, or a negative effect on their academic and flight training performance.

Psychological Factors of Vaccination Intent among Healthcare Providers, Parents, and Laypeople.

The interrelatedness of social-structural aspects and psychological features with vaccination intention provides the context to explore personal psychological features related to vaccination. Specifically, we focused on general decision making and vaccine-related dispositions, and their contribution to the intention to vaccinate, within post-pandemic circumstances, after the imposed possibility of choosing a vaccine brand. Our study aimed to map the function (promotive, protective, risk, vulnerability) of a set of personal psychological aspects in the intention to vaccinate among people holding different social roles regarding the vaccination. We surveyed three samples of people: healthcare providers (HPs), parents, and laypeople, within the post-pandemic context. Negative vaccine attitudes lower intention to vaccinate in all regression models (all βs ranging from -0.128 to -0.983, all ps < 0.01). The main results indicate that, regardless of the sample/social role, there is a shared attitudinal core for positive vaccination intention. This core consists of [high] trust in large corporations, government, and healthcare systems, as well as perceived consensus on vaccine safety/efficacy and experience of freedom (protective factors), and [low] vaccination conspiracy beliefs, trust in social media, and choice overload (risk and vulnerability factors, respectively). There are no common promotive factors of intention to vaccinate: for parents, perceived consensus on vaccines, and trust in corporations and the healthcare system, play such roles; for HPs, the experience of freedom is obtained as a unique promotive factor. In contrast, for laypeople, no unique promotive factors were found. Our findings provide insights into the function of psychological factors of vaccination intention across different social roles, particularly healthcare providers, parents, and laypeople, and emphasize the need for tailored immunization interventions in the post-pandemic landscape.

Prevalence and Determinants of Self-medication among Attendants of Primary Health Care Centers in Abha City, Saudi Arabia

Objectives: To determine the prevalence and determinants of self-medication practices among attendants of primary healthcare centers (PHCCs) in Abha City, Saudi Arabia. Methods: The researchers interviewed 400 patients attending Al-Numees PHCC. A data collection sheet was constructed for data collection, which comprised participants’ personal features and self-medication practices. Results: About one-third of participants practiced self-medication during the last year, mostly 1-3 times (22.5%). The main motive toward self-medication was a previous positive personal experience with the medication (31.4%), while the main complaint was having minor ailments (41.5%). Analgesics were mainly sought (47.9%), with pharmacists being the main advice providers (50.2%). The condition of 70.7% improved after self-medication. Self-medication was significantly more practiced by older participants (p=0.028), males (p=0.016), Saudis (p=0.001), and both illiterate and university-educated participants than others (p=0.018). It was also significantly influenced by participants’ occupation, being highest among retired participants (100%). Conclusions: Self-medication is commonly practiced in Abha City, mainly due to having prior experience. It is mainly practiced when having a minor ailment. Analgesics are the most frequently purchased drugs for self-medication. Pharmacists are the main source of advice for self-medication. Determinants of more practice of self-medication include older age, male gender, Saudi nationality, and educational level. Key Words: Self-medication; prevalence; primary health care.

Large PET/CT dataset statistics for the correlation between torso organ standardized uptake value and personal physiological features

ABSTRACT Background: The knowledge of [18F] fluoro-deoxy-glucose (18F-FDG) uptake range in normal torso organ is useful for metabolic disease diagnosis and treatment planning. This study aims to reveal the relationship between torso organ uptakes and personal physiological features, so as to quickly calculate the normal uptake value for patients according to his/her own physiological parameter. Materials and Methods: This study collected 767 18F-FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) images of normal people. The regions of torso organs were segmented and the mean values of classical body weight-normalized standard uptake value (W-SUV) and lean-body-mass-normalized standard uptake value (L-SUV) were calculated for each organ. The Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression formulas were calculated to reveal the influence of physiological features on W-SUV and L-SUV. Comparison between W-SUV and L-SUV were also conducted in terms of the correlation strength, regression confidence and inter-hospital consistency. Results: This study obtains the regression formulas for normal organ uptake calculation according to personal physiological parameters. The analysis reveals that lean body mass is the major factor affecting the uptakes of most organs (R &gt; 0.5). It is also worthy to find that the L-SUV formulas have better prediction confidence and inter-hospital consistency than the W-SUV, indicating the advantage of L-SUV for organ uptake evaluation. Conclusion: Compared to the previously similar studies, this study clarifies the influential factors of torso organ 18F-FDG uptake. We derived detailed formulas for computing individually adapted normal organ SUVs. The comparison between L-SUV and W-SUV also highlights the stability and reliability of L-SUV for cross-center organ uptake analysis.

Russian and Chinese national personalities: based on the material of phraseological units, proverbs and sayings with the concept of "family"

This article is devoted to the characteristics of Russian and Chinese national personalities based on the material of phraseological units, proverbs and sayings with the concept of "family". The subject of this study is the Russian national personality (RNL) and the Chinese national personality (CNL). The object of the study is the universal and national-specific linguistic and cultural features of Russian and Chinese national personalities. The practical significance of the work lies in the fact that the lexico-semantic and linguocultural analysis of phraseological units, proverbs and sayings of family subjects can be used in educational activities in courses of lexicology, linguoculturology, linguistic and cultural studies, sociolinguistics. The provisions and conclusions of the study can be applied in lexicographic practice in compiling dictionaries of phraseological units, as well as in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language, spreading Chinese culture in Russia. To solve the problem, the following research methods are used: the method of continuous sampling of material from dictionaries of the Russian and Chinese languages, the method of linguistic and cultural commentary and the comparative-contrastive method. Russian and Chinese national personalities are considered for the first time in the article, which has not previously been described in a comparative aspect, the traditional spiritual and cultural value of the family of Russian and Chinese personalities is analyzed for the first time, their stereotypical ideas and attitudes towards marriage, love, woman, man, wife, husband, parents, children, and relations to relatives are indicated which indicate common or different cultural attitudes among representatives of both linguistic cultures. This is the scientific novelty of this study. The study shows that phraseological units, proverbs and sayings with the concept of family recorded in Russian and Chinese lexicographic sources differ in quantitative and substantive terms. Russian and Chinese personalities view such traditional family values as marriage, love, woman, man, wife, husband, parents, children, relatives, etc. in different ways. For the Chinese, family and kinship relations are of great importance, the preservation of which is carried out with the help of such cultural values as marital harmony, procreation, filial piety, fraternal friendship, peaceful family relations.

Supervised Learning of Physical Activity Features From Functional Accelerometer Data.

We propose a new health informatics framework to analyze physical activity (PA) from accelerometer devices. Accelerometry data enables scientists to extract personal digital features useful for precision health decision making. Existing methods in accelerometry data analysis typically begin with discretizing summary counts by certain fixed cutoffs into activity categories. One well-known limitation is that the chosen cutoffs are often validated under restricted settings, and cannot be generalizable across populations, devices, or studies. We develop a data-driven approach to overcome this bottleneck in PA data analysis, in which we holistically summarize a subject's activity profile using Occupation-Time curves (OTCs), which describe the percentage of time spent at or above a continuum of activity count levels. We develop multi-step adaptive learning algorithms to perform supervised learning via a scalar-on-function model that involves OTC as the functional predictor of interest as well as other scalar covariates. Our learning analytic first incorporates a hybrid approach of fused lasso for clustering and Hidden Markov Model for changepoint detection, then executes refinement procedures to determine activity windows of interest. We evaluate and illustrate the performance of the proposed learning analytic through simulation experiments and real-world data analyses to assess the influence of PA on biological aging. Our findings indicate a different directional relationship between biological age and PA depending on the specific outcome of interest. Our bioinformatics methodology involves the biomedical outcome of interest to detect different critical points, and is thus adaptive to the specific data, study population, and health outcome under investigation.

The interpretation and grammatical representation of animacy

Abstract: We are used to thinking about person, number, and gender as features to which the grammar is sensitive. But the place of animacy is less familiar, despite its robust syntactic activity in many languages. I investigate the pronominal system of Southeastern Sierra Zapotec, identifying an interpretive parallel between animacy and person. Third-person plural pronouns, which encode a four-way animacy distinction in the language, exhibit associativity, a cluster of interpretive properties that have been argued also to characterize first-and second-person plural pronouns. Building on Kratzer’s (2009) and Harbour’s (2016) theories of person, I propose a plurality-based semantics for animacy that captures their shared properties. The compositional mechanism underlying this semantics ties person and animacy features to a single syntactic position inside the noun phrase. This enables an understanding of these features’ shared relevance to syntactic operations, including those underlying pronoun cliticization. In these Zapotec varieties, it is constrained both by person (in the well-known person-case constraint) and by animacy.

COMPARATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF MEANS OF NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION IN UKRAINIAN AND VIETNAMESE CULTURES (ON THE MATERIAL OF A FILM STORY «POEM ABOUT THE SEA» BY O. P. DOVZHENKO)

The purpose of this article is to identify and compare non-verbal means of communication in Ukrainian and Vietnamese traditions based on the film story «Poem about the Sea» by O. P. Dovzhenko and its translation into Vietnamese. The object of the research is linguistic units indicating non-verbal behavior in Ukrainian and Vietnamese traditions, as presented in this film and its Vietnamese translation. The subject of the research is the general and personal features of perception and the use of gestures, facial expressions, gaze, intona- tions, and other non-verbal means in the process of communication. Compara- tive, semantic, cognitive, linguistic, and cultural analyses, paraverbal analysis, and the descriptive method are applied. As a result, their pragmatic meanings were determined, signs of similarities and differences, features of translation, and correlations based on the level of equivalence in artistic works were identified. A number of equivalent, background, and non-equivalent means in Ukrainian and Vietnamese languages were revealed. Conclusions and prospects of the study. Non-verbal language reflects the national character and each nation can have its own characteristics. In the works of fiction, the translator and the editor tried to convey the non-verbal behavior of the characters in such a way that the equiva- lent situations and units that most adequately convey the behavior of people of another culture in the Vietnamese language prevailed. The linguistic realiza- tion of non-verbal means is described by means of verbal means such as verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs, and accompanied by epithets, metaphors, idioms and punctuation marks. Understanding the ethnocultural features of non-verbal language is necessary for an adequate understanding of Ukrainian-Vietnamese communication and for those who work on translations of literary texts from Ukrainian to Vietnamese and vice versa. In today’s world, this field of research is becoming more and more relevant and promising

Personal Features and Their Impact on an Individual’s Hardiness

Hardiness characterizes the degree of formation the ability to withstand a stressful situation, maintain internal balance, without reducing the success of activities and is the foundation of personal characteristics. The purpose of the study is to identify personal resources and determine their impact on hardiness. Methods of the research. The following methods were used to identify personal resources and determine their impact on hardiness: Maddi’s Hardiness Scale; Shostrom’s Personal Orientation Inventory; Sheldon’s Self Determination Scale; Crumbaugh Purpose in Life Test; Ryff’s Scales of Psychological Well-being; Wiesbaden Inventory for Positive Psychotherapy and Family Therapy. The sample of our study consisted of 807 people, aged from 14 to 70 years, different in terms of education, professional employment, specialty, family and social status and from different cities and villages of Ukraine. The results of the research. It was investigated that the values of the hardiness indicators components are expressed at an average level and are within the normal range. The average level of hardiness (68.2%) prevails among the respondents. It has been found that the hardiness predictors are meaningfulness of life, autonomy, self-acceptance and self-confidence. We established the relationship between hardiness and personal resources, which include primary and secondary abilities, using the correlation analysis. All components of hardiness have been shown to correlate with primary capacities such as time, contact, trust, hope, sexuality, and love. Diligence, reliability and thrift are influential among the secondary abilities. Conclusions. The analysis of personal resources proves that meaningful life goals are the resource for the hardiness development. The components of hardiness are related to self-determination, self-organization, psychological wellbeing, and the reality and awareness of life goals. The leading role in the hardiness development belongs to personal resources. The resources that influence hardiness are determined using variance analysis: love, contacts, hope and trust.

Latent classes of alcohol and cannabis use among adults with binge-spectrum eating disorders: Associations with eating disorder symptom severity and personality features.

Alcohol and cannabis use are prevalent among individuals with binge-spectrum eating disorders (B-ED) and vary in terms of frequency and associated problems. The current study aimed to identify latent classes of alcohol and cannabis use patterns among B-ED and examine associations between latent classes and demographic characteristics, eating disorder symptoms, and personality features. Participants (N=236) were treatment-seeking adults with B-ED who completed a clinical interview of eating pathology and self-report measures of alcohol and cannabis use in the past 3months, alcohol and cannabis-related problems, and personality features (i.e., impulsivity, affect lability). Latent class analysis identified three heterogeneous classes, labelled as (a) Low Alcohol, (b) Moderate Drinking and Problems with Occasional Cannabis Use, and (c) No Alcohol and Cannabis Use. Latent classes significantly differed in terms of substance use engagement and problems, demographic characteristics, dietary restraint, impulsive personality features, and affect lability. Study findings support heterogeneity in alcohol and cannabis use among B-ED and suggest patient characteristics and clinical severity associated with specific substance use presentations. Future research should replicate results using larger, diverse samples engaging in a broader range of alcohol and cannabis use symptoms.

We are just 10 feet away! How does location-based advertising affect consumer-brand engagement?

Location-based advertising is continuing to grow in popularity among brands and retailers to deliver marketing messages and promotions. However, little is known about how and why these ads generate brand engagement. This study fills this gap. This paper indicates that two important features of location-based advertising (LBA)—location congruency and personalization—influence brand engagement and that the underlying mechanism behind this relationship is consumer brand identification. Further, it shows it is not only the personalization feature of these ads that increases its effectiveness, but the ad should also be location-congruent to make it effective. The conceptual model is tested by manipulating location-congruency and personalization features of LBA in two different contexts. This study is among the first to provide empirical evidence that LBA increases brand engagement and to uncover the theoretical mechanism of this relationship.