Workplace problems,mental health and substance use

Little is known about how workplace problems may influence diagnosable mental health and substance use (MHSU) disorders. We examine the associations between three common workplace problems (experiencing problems with co-workers, job changes and perceived financial strain) and three MHSU disorders (mood, anxiety and substance abuse/dependence). The analysis utilizes longitudinal data on a sample of working-age adults from the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. These data are well suited for our research objective as the survey was specifically designed to study MHSU disorders. Results show that experiencing these workplace problems is associated with an increased risk for mental health disorders, but not substance use disorders. Importantly, various robustness checks and sensitivity analyses demonstrate that our findings cannot be not fully explained by omitted variables, reverse causality or sample attrition.     

Centralized Private Sector Planning: An Institutionalist’s Perspective on the Contemporary U.S. Economy

It is well accepted among Institutionalist and Post Keynesian scholars that portfolio investment markets are driven by agents' expectations rather than "the fundamentals." This explains, it is argued, why asset and currency prices are so much more volatile than and often clearly out of line with what we would otherwise consider to be their underlying determinants. What is rarely addressed, however, is how those expectations are formed. This paper fills the void by proposing a specific view of agents' expectations based on the mental model they employ to understand currency movements. The paper derives this schematic by examining market participants' psychological propensities and the world view of the subculture of which they are members. It will be shown that the model is consistent with the salient features of the foreign exchange market and it is employed to explain the dollar's fall from 2001 through 2008.     

The Italian contribution to early economic dynamics

Abstract

Contrary to the prevailing literature, the study of economic dynamics began at the end of the nineteenth century, at least four decades before Hayek's and Samuelson's essays on dynamic equilibrium, as Pareto's dynamic insights prove. Throughout this early phase of the discipline, economists interested in dynamic studies put forward a wide spectrum of suggestions. This paper investigates the lines of research that sprang from the Italian debate either according to or in opposition to the Paretian mechanistic legacy, aiming to show that a growing awareness of subjective variables’ role weakened the mechanistic faith of the strictly Paretian followers, pushing them toward probabilistic analysis, anchoring dynamics to uncertainty and disequilibrium.     

Length of stay and mental health of the immigrant population in Spain: evidence of the healthy immigrant effect

This article analyses the relationship between how long immigrant populations reside in the country of destination and the state of their mental health. The empirical approach to this relationship relies on data from the Spanish National Health Survey 2011–2012. The results confirm a Healthy Immigrant Effect that tends to decline in accordance with how long the immigrant stays. Immigrants who have been residing for less than 10 years in Spain have better mental health than the national population as a whole. It is important to study health disparities among the foreign population and how these evolve to ensure that it has access to health services and that its health care needs are met.     

论大学生心理健康教育

要提高高校思想政治工作的实效性，必须从关注大学生心理健康入手。由此。分析了当代大学生心理问题的现状，提出了加强大学生心理健康教育的措施。     

论和谐社会建设与公民心理健康

和谐社会建设与心理健康之间有着密不可分的关系,社会和谐是公民的根本保证,而公民的心理健康水平又反过来影响社会的和谐程度,二者相互渗透,相互影响,相互制约,相互促进。加强与改进公民心理健康工作,大幅度的提高公民的心理健康水平,是社会主义和谐社会建设的重要内容。     

论高校教师心理压力的调适

分析了高校教师心理压力的主要表现,即精神紧张、忧虑以及由困惑产生的迷茫。指出心理压力产生的根源在于日益严密的教师考核制度、人才模式、用人机制的改变以及环境发展条件的制约;提出以积极的心理暗示克服自卑、建立科学的人性化管理机制和加强思想教育疏导与自我教育相结合的调适高校教师心理压力的三种方法。     

概念整合理论对通感的阐释

通感现象不仅是一种修辞手法,更是人类普遍的认知方法。感觉者在具体情景中,某一感官受到刺激的同时会将记忆背景中相关的另一感觉特征激活,形成原创结构,经过组合、完善、扩展三个整合运作进程,产生通感现象。通感意义建构过程是动态的概念整合过程。     

关于高职高专院校《大学生心理素质教育》课程改革的初步思考

本文论述了对高职高专大学生心理素质教育课程改革的初步思考，根据教学改革实践，重点对课程改革需要解决作出了的问题进行了阐述。     

不确定性决策的逻辑心智模型研究

提出了非根本不确定性决策逻辑心智模型和根本不确定性决策逻辑心智模型,它们分别能够说明包含频率信息表征的惯例决策与单一决策。论证了坚持唯一决策逻辑立场的决策理论的缺陷。二元不确定性决策逻辑心智模型理论对于社会科学的认知转向,包括认知经济学的兴起,具有重要的方法论意义。