Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü / Social Sciences Institute
http://hdl.handle.net/11727/1394
2024-03-29T00:10:05ZIn COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries
http://hdl.handle.net/11727/10681
In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries
Sarioguz, Eyluel; Karaarslan, Cemre
The COVID-19 pandemic (and its aftermath) highlights a critical need to communicate health information effectively to the global public. Given that subtle differences in information framing can have meaningful effects on behavior, behavioral science research highlights a pressing question: Is it more effective to frame COVID-19 health messages in terms of potential losses (e.g., "If you do not practice these steps, you can endanger yourself and others") or potential gains (e.g., "If you practice these steps, you can protect yourself and others")? Collecting data in 48 languages from 15,929 participants in 84 countries, we experimentally tested the effects of message framing on COVID-19-related judgments, intentions, and feelings. Loss- (vs. gain-) framed messages increased self-reported anxiety among participants cross-nationally with little-to-no impact on policy attitudes, behavioral intentions, or information seeking relevant to pandemic risks. These results were consistent across 84 countries, three variations of the message framing wording, and 560 data processing and analytic choices. Thus, results provide an empirical answer to a global communication question and highlight the emotional toll of loss-framed messages. Critically, this work demonstrates the importance of considering unintended affective consequences when evaluating nudge-style interventions.
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZHow patients perceive healthcare services: A case of Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad - Pakistan. SERV Service QUAL Quality
http://hdl.handle.net/11727/10337
How patients perceive healthcare services: A case of Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad - Pakistan. SERV Service QUAL Quality
Ali, Muhammad
A field study was conducted in Ayub Teaching Hospital in the outpatient department, to evaluate the level of service quality offered by the healthcare services with a view to identifying the relationship between service quality dimensions and overall service quality. The researchers used the SERVQUAL instrument for the purpose of assessing the quality of the service offered by the healthcare workers at the outpatient department in Ayub Teaching Hospital. A sample of 246 patients in the outpatient department participated in the questionnaire survey. Descriptive statistics were used to find out mean values and variance between actual values from perceived values. To assess the strength of model regression, the aforementioned technique was adopted. The study results showed that there exists a gap between patients' expectation and actual services offered by the healthcare workers. There were five dimensions that were assessed: tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy. The results revealed that patients are dissatisfied with three dimensions (tangibles, reliability and assurance), but they are satisfied with the other two dimensions (responsiveness and empathy). This research adopts the marketing concept to measure the healthcare services. The SERVQUAL tool was modified as per need to meet the requirements in accordance with the nature and scope of the research. Patients' attitudes toward service quality dimensions were the concern of the research. To get a comprehensive evaluation of service quality, healthcare providers have to be considered in future research. Based on the findings of this study, Ayub Teaching Hospital's (ATH) management is in a position to recognize the patients' perceptions about the healthcare services and offer them service accordingly. Results can be used by management and government policymakers regarding healthcare to bring better and more effective services. Consequently, based on the results, new structure can be designed by adopting strategies that improve the quality of services in order to provide effective services and gain patients' satisfaction and propensity to further recommend the services of healthcare to other patients. This study investigates the healthcare quality in a small area in Pakistan. Pakistan is a developing country. Future research can adopt the SERVPREF technique, which is a more developed technique than SERVQUAL in order to measure service quality as it provides a two-factor solution for the dimensionality of health service quality.
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZA Cross-Sectional Survey on Consequences of Nurses' Burnout: Moderating Role of Organizational Politics
http://hdl.handle.net/11727/9960
A Cross-Sectional Survey on Consequences of Nurses' Burnout: Moderating Role of Organizational Politics
Basar, Ufuk; Basim, Nejat
AimThe aim of the study was to assess whether perceptions of organizational politics (defined as self-serving behaviours at the expense of others) influence the prospective associations between nurses' burnout and its consequences, namely, intention to quit and neglect of work.
BackgroundResearchers have previously investigated relationships between nurses' burnout, intention to quit, neglect of work and perceptions of organizational politics in different research models and from different perspectives. As far as we know, no studies have considered whether nurses' perceptions of organizational politics moderate the influence of burnout.
DesignA cross-sectional survey using self-report questionnaires.
MethodData were collected by questionnaire from a sample of 456 nurses from six private hospitals in Ankara, Turkey in March 2015. Four different previously designed scales were used to measure research variables (burnout, intention to quit, neglect of work and perceptions of organizational politics). Following confirmatory validity and reliability analyses of data collection instruments, descriptive statistics for each research variable were analysed. Structural regression models were created to assess relationships among variables.
FindingsBurnout resulted in intention to quit and neglect. Intention to quit partially mediated the association between burnout and neglect. Burnout gave rise to intention to quit slightly more strongly in nurses who had greater perceptions of organizational politics.
ConclusionThis study uncovers and emphasizes the moderating role of perceptions of organizational politics in consequences of burnout. This may help hospital managers and nurses to improve costs, efficiency, satisfaction and productivity.
2016-01-01T00:00:00ZEkolojik bir malzeme olan pişmemiş toprağın sanat ve mimaride dünü ve bugünü
http://hdl.handle.net/11727/8720
Ekolojik bir malzeme olan pişmemiş toprağın sanat ve mimaride dünü ve bugünü
Yıldırım, Ceren
İnsanlar kendilerine bir konut yapabilecekleri bilgi ve beceri düzeyine ulaşmadan,
yaşadıkları mağaraların yüzeylerine doğal pigmentler, toprak bazlı boyalarla resimler
yapmış, çevrelerindeki temel maddelerden biri olan toprağı suyla karıştırarak
şekillendirmiş, doğayı ve kendilerini rölyef ve heykellerle tasvir etmişlerdir. Zamanla
çeşitli yerel malzemeleri toprakla bir araya getirerek inşa ettikleri evlerini yine topraktaki
minerallerden elde ettikleri boyalarla renklendirmiş, hikâyelerini ve gözlemlerini
duvarlarına yansıtmış, toprakla kültürel izler bırakmışlardır. Bu izleri takip ettiğimizde,
özellikle çevre ve sağlık sorunları yaşadığımız günümüzde, sağlıklı, sürdürülebilir,
ekolojik malzeme ile tasarım ve bunu destekleyen, kökeni 1960’lara dayanan ekolojik
sanat ve estetiğinin toplumda çevre anlayışı ve duyarlılığı yaratmak adına önemi
görülmektedir. Yeniden doğal çevreye uyumlu, sürdürülebilir şekilde var olma anlayışı
günümüzde kadim malzemelerin farklı bir söylev içerisinde ön plana çıkmasına sebep
olmaktadır. Bu malzemeler, antik çağlardan itibaren insan hayatının bir parçası olsalar da
endüstriyel malzemelerin ve hızlı üretim-tüketim döngülerinin içerisinde geri planda
kalmıştır. Katkı malzemeleriyle uyumlu, zengin reçetelendirilme olanağı olan toprağın
plastik bir malzeme olarak sınırları geniştir. İnsanın toprakla yaratım ve şekillendirme
süreci, bu şekilde karşılıklı olarak çevresiyle kurduğu ilişkinin nitel ve nicel yönleri
çalışmanın sorgulama alanı kapsamındadır.
Endüstriyel yaşamda bedeninden ve beden aracılığıyla oluşan dünya algısından
uzaklaşan insanın günümüzde bedensel üretim biçimlerine dayanan zanaatlara ve yerel
malzemelere ilgisi artmaktadır. Zanaat ve sanat sınırında üretirken bedeni ve çevresiyle
ilişkilenen insanın toprağı malzemeleştirerek kültürel bir araca dönüştürmesi, estetik ve
kullanışlı bir malzeme olarak toprağın geçmişten günümüze plastik sanat ve mimari
alanlarından örnekler üzerinden sınırları, temas ettiği malzemelerle birlikte incelenmiş,
ortaya ham toprağın insanlık tarihi içerisinde bir resmi konulmuştur.
Çeşitli malzemeler arasından pişmemiş toprağın seçilme nedeni yazarın çalışma
alanları olan yerel, ekolojik malzemeler ile mimari ve toprak ile mimari resim konularıyla
ilişkili olmasıdır. Tezin Giriş ve Araştırma Hakkında bölümlerinden sonra üçüncü bölümde,
pişmemiş toprağın tarih öncesi çağlardan itibaren hikâyesi, dördüncü bölümdeyse
günümüzde sanat, tasarım, mimari ve sergilemede önemi çeşitli örnekler üzerinden
incelenmiştir. Geçmişten günümüze, günümüzden geleceğe malzeme aracılığıyla bir köprü kurulması adına çeşitli üretim biçimleri ve yeni teknolojik gelişmelerle ortaklıkları kişisel
olarak seçilen örnekler üzerinden araştırılmıştır. Bu bölüme toprak kültürüyle ilgili pratik
veya kuramsal olarak çalışan sanatçı, mimar, arkeolog ve tasarımcılarla yapılan söyleşilerle
katkıda bulunulmuştur.
Günümüzde pişmemiş killi toprağın önemi, gelişimi ve teknik potansiyelleri ortaya
konularak konunun sürdürülebilir bir gelecek için yaygınlaşması adına bir farkındalık
yaratılması istenmektedir. Değerlendirme sonucunda sosyal, kültürel ve sanatsal bağlam ve
mekânların, doğal bir malzeme olan pişmemiş toprağın duyurulması adına önemi
vurgulanmaktadır.
Before people reached the level of knowledge to build houses, they painted the
caves with earth-based materials and minerals. They depicted nature and themselves with
reliefs and sculptures by mixing earth with water. In time, they painted the walls that they
also built with earth and local materials; reflected their stories, observations on these
earthen walls, leaving cultural traces. Following these traces until today, where we are
facing environmental and health problems, together with sustainable design solutions with
natural materials; ecological art and aesthetics, whose origins date back to 1960s are
important to create environmental awareness. To be more sustainable and compatible with
nature brings up ancient materials in a different discourse today. Although being a part of
human life since ancient times, these materials’ve been pushed back in context of rapid
production-consumption cycles. Earth combines harmoniously with variety of additives
and has rich prescription feature. Thus It’s flexible as a plastic material. During the shaping
process of earth, the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the reciprocal relationship
between human, environment and material are within the scope of this thesis.
A picture of raw earth in human history, transformation of the material into an
aesthetic and useful cultural tool with its limits and possibilities, various intersections with
other materials are put forward by examining the materializing of earth through examples
from plastic arts and architecture on the border of art and craft. The reason for choosing
raw earth among various materials is its relation to the professional area of the author
which is architecture with local and ecological materials and earth wall paintings.
After Introduction and About the Research; In the third part of the study, the story
of raw earth from prehistoric times; In the fourth part of the study, the importance of raw
earth in plastic arts, design, architecture and exhibition are examined. To build a bridge
between past, present and future through the material, various production techniques and
partnerships with new technologies are explored through various examples. Contribution to
this section is made through interviews with artists, architects, archaeologists, designers
who practically or theoretically work with raw earth.
By putting forth the importance, development and technical potentials of raw earth,
It is intended to raise awareness to spread the subject for a sustainable future. As a result, the importance of social, cultural and artistic contexts and spaces like museums for the
notice of raw earth are emphasized.
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