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Development and Validation of the Workplace Affective Events Survey
No full textBackground
Work, a central aspect of human life, serves vital economic and social functions. There is a burgeoning interest in positive emotions in the workplace, which can enhance creativity, foster social connections, and improve problem-solving abilities. These emotions are pivotal in key organizational outcomes, including employee performance and health. Despite the extensive examination of factors like job satisfaction and workplace stressors, a knowledge gap exists regarding the everyday workplace events that influence emotions and their contribution to overall workplace emotional health. The present study introduces the Workplace Affective Events Survey (WAES), a new tool that can facilitate the advancement of research in this field.
Purpose
This study aimed to develop a tool to assess daily workplace events that lead to positive or negative emotional responses and the intensities of such responses. The study also examined the relationship between these events and the associated affect-intensities with trait affect, and social companionship at work for convergent validation.
Methodology
The tool development entailed a multi-phase approach which encompassed item generation, content validation, pre-pilot trials, and pilot testing of the WAES. Participants were entry and mid-level service sector employees aged 25-55 years. Themes generated using focus group discussions and one-to-one interviews were mapped against a known taxonomy of workplace affective events. Expert validation and pre-pilot trials helped in refining the final items. The main phase engaged 300 individuals from nine service industries across 29 organizations in an urban metropolitan city in India. WAES was administered alongside standardized measures of trait-affect and workplace social companionship.
Results
WAES subscales demonstrated acceptable reliability. Participants reported positive daily affective events more often than negative ones, with the average intensity of positive emotions surpassing that of negative emotions. Notably, trait affect scores and social companionship exhibited significant correlations with daily affective events and their intensity.
Conclusions
The WAES offers a novel tool to investigate daily emotional experiences in the workplace. The data suggest that a within-person disposition such as trait-affect might play a lesser role in generating positive affective events than contextual factors. These findings underscore the value of creating work environments that consistently nurture positive emotional experiences.The present study was carried out by the first author as one part of her doctoral work under the guidance of the other two authors at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, India. She carried out the PhD work at NIMHANS, with funding support from the University Grants Commission (UGC) India
Hip hop stroke: Statewide dissemination and implementation of an evidence-based stroke preparedness intervention
No full textRegulatory requirements governing Stroke Center accreditation include community stroke education; however, these efforts are often suboptimal and lacking evidence-based approaches. The goal of this trial is to disseminate an evidence-based stroke preparedness program targeting elementary school children, Hip Hop Stroke (HHS), to New York State’s Stroke Systems of Care. Using a Hybrid-Effectiveness Implementation Type 3 design, and guided by Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), we aim to disseminate HHS to a heterogeneous (urban, suburban, and rural) population of schools via 47 New York State Stroke Centers through a partnership with the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH). We will: 1) identify contextual factors, such as barriers and facilitators, which influence uptake of the program at the Stroke Center and local school levels, 2) determine whether Stroke Center implementation of the HHS program leads to increased stroke preparedness of local students; 3) assess the determinants of high performance implementation and effectiveness under real world practice conditions, and 4) evaluate the costs associated with HHS program implementation. Community education is an underdeveloped component of Stroke Systems of Care. This study aims to address this gap by studying contextual factors that impede or facilitate the uptake of an evidence-based community education program across a heterogeneous population.Journal ArticleFinal article publishe
A Kpc-scale radio polarization study of PG BL Lacs with the uGMRT
No full textFunding Information: We thank the referee for their constructive suggestions that have improved the manuscript. JB, PK, SG, and SS acknowledge the support of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, under the project 12-R&D-TFR-5.02-0700. PK acknowledges the support of the Centre for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, as a visiting scientist. TH was supported by the Academy of Finland projects 317383, 320085, 322535, and 345899. EL was supported by the Academy of Finland projects 317636, 320045, and 346071. We thank the staff of the GMRT that made these observations possible. GMRT is run by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. We acknowledge the support of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, under the project 12-R&D-TFR-5.02-0700. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This research has made use of the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France (DOI: 10.26093/cds/vizier). The original description of the VizieR service was published in 2000, A&AS 143, 23. Funding Information: We thank the referee for their constructive suggestions that have improved the manuscript. JB, PK, SG, and SS acknowledge the support of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, under the project 12-R&D-TFR-5.02-0700. PK acknowledges the support of the Centre for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, as a visiting scientist. TH was supported by the Academy of Finland projects 317383, 320085, 322535, and 345899. EL was supported by the Academy of Finland projects 317636, 320045, and 346071. We thank the staff of the GMRT that made these observations possible. GMRT is run by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. We acknowledge the support of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, under the project 12-R&D-TFR-5.02-0700. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This research has made use of the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France (DOI: 10.26093/cds/vizier). The original description of the VizieR service was published in 2000, A&AS 143, 23. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s).We present here uGMRT band 4 (∼650 MHz) polarization images of 8 BL Lac objects belonging to the Palomar-Green (PG) ‘blazar’ sample. A large fraction of the sources (∼ 63 per cent) reveal core-halo radio structures with most of the polarization detected in the inner core-jet regions. PG1101 + 385 and PG2254 + 075 exhibit a ‘spine-sheath structure’ in polarization. The core-halo and ‘spine-sheath’ structures are consistent with the Unified Scheme suggestion that BL Lacs are the pole-on beamed counterparts of Fanaroff–Riley (FR) type I radio galaxies. PG1418 + 546 and PG0851 + 203 (OJ287) show the presence of terminal hotspots similar to FR type II radio galaxies. They were also found to be low-spectrally peaked BL Lacs, supportive of the ‘blazar envelope’ scenario for BL Lacs and quasars. Fractional polarization ranges from 1 to 13 per cent in the cores and 2 to 26 per cent in the inner jets/lobes of the sample BL Lacs. Compared to the varied radio morphology of quasars from the PG ‘blazar’ sample, the BL Lacs appear to be less diverse. A comparison of the inferred core magnetic (B-) field structures on arcsec(kpc-) scales w.r.t. the Very Long Baseline Interferometry jet direction does not reveal any preferred orientation, suggesting that if large-scale ordered B-fields exist, they do so on scales smaller than probed by the current observations. However, the presence of polarized emission on arcsec-scales suggests that any mixing of thermal plasma with the synchrotron emitting plasma is insufficient to fully depolarize the emission via the internal depolarization process.Peer reviewe
