Attributional style and depressive symptoms among children.

The reformulation of helplessness theory proposes that an insidious attributional style accompanies and predisposes depressive symptoms. The present study investigated predictions of the reformulation among 96 8–13 yr olds who completed the Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ) and Children's Depression Inventory twice, 6 mo apart. 83 of their parents completed the adult ASQ and the Beck Depression Inventory at their children's 2nd testing. Children who attributed bad events to internal, stable, and global causes were more likely to report depressive symptoms than were children who attributed these events to external, unstable, and specific causes. This depressive attributional style predicted depressive symptoms 6 mo later, suggesting that it may be a risk factor for depression. Children's attributional style for bad events and their depressive symptoms converged with those of their mothers but not their fathers. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Culturally competent interventions for abused and suicidal African American women.

This article focuses on interventions with low-income, African American women who are survivors of domestic abuse and who have made one or more suicide attempts. The authors review the literature on domestic abuse and suicidal behavior in African American women, and discuss the association between abuse and suicide in this population. Next, they propose an integrated theoretical model for understanding suicidal behavior as one possible coping response to the stress of a domestic abuse situation. The model utilizes concepts from the literature on stress and coping as well as stages of change. A culturally sensitive group treatment intervention that is based on the theoretical model is presented. The intervention focuses on ensuring women's safety, increasing coping skills and resource mobilization, and promoting supportive relationships in a manner that is consistent with each woman's sociocultural context. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

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Anthropogenic impacts in North Poland over the last 1300 years — A record of Pb, Zn, Cu, Ni and S in an ombrotrophic peat bog

Lead pollution history over Northern Poland was reconstructed for the last ca. 1300 years using the elemental and Pb isotope geochemistry of a dated Polish peat bog. The data show that Polish Pb-Zn ores and coal were the main sources of Pb, other heavy metals and S over Northern Poland up until the industrial revolution. After review of the potential mobility of each element, most of the historical interpretation was based on Pb and Pb isotopes, the other chemical elements (Zn, Cu, Ni, S) being considered secondary indicators of pollution. During the last century, leaded gasoline also contributed to anthropogenic Pb pollution over Poland. Coal and Pb-Zn ores, however, remained important sources of pollution in Eastern European countries during the last 50 years, as demonstrated by a high ²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁷Pb ratio (1.153) relative to that of Western Europe (ca. 1.10). The Pb data for the last century were also in good agreement with modelled Pb inventories over Poland and the Baltic region.     

Unshakable loyalty in the food sector: sustainable customer retention. Empirical study of organic food consumers in Germany

Because of high competitive pressure in the food sector producers and retailers constantly increase their marketing efforts to convince consumers of their own products, services, brands or stores. One of the main goals is to generate loyal consumers because they are less likely to switch to competitors and more tolerant of price increases than non-loyal consumers. But what is true consumer loyalty? Repurchases are often used as an approximate indicator of loyalty. But the marketing literature emphasises that to identify ??true loyalty?? it is important to consider both consumers?? purchasing patterns as well as consumers?? underlying attitudes. Thus, true loyalty includes both a behavioural component, which results in repeated purchases, and an attitudinal component, which results in a dispositional commitment to a product, brand, or company and associates a unique value with it. However, regarding the food sector and the characteristics of food products, the question arises whether the above mentioned strict definition of true consumer loyalty can be applied to the food sector. Our paper aims to empirically test this question. To do so we conducted 27 semi-structured in-depth interviews with regular customers of a German organic food retailer in March/April 2009.     

The impact of CHP generation on CO2 emissions

The combined generation of heat and power (cogeneration) is praised by many as a technique for reducing the emissions of CO₂ in industrialized nations. This is generally true but not always. In this article we discuss the impact of some major variables on the CO₂ emission reduction capacity of cogeneration. Two sets of variables are predominant: the characteristics of the CHP process and the composition of the electricity generation sector. We highlight the interaction between the two sets of variables with the help of diagrams.     

Stand der Technik: Anschmierungen in Radial-Zylinderrollenlagern

Forschung im Ingenieurwesen - Anschmierungen innerhalb von Wälzlagern zählen zu den Verschleißarten, die bis heute nicht vollständig verstanden wurden. Bekannt ist, dass...