Re-appraising the situation and its impact on aggressive behavior: Theoretical and applied implications

Extant research has tested the processes explicating how individuals use re-appraisal (an emotion regulation strategy) to down-regulate negative emotions, including anger. However, no research has tested how re-appraisal is related to aggressive behavior despite several theoretical claims regarding its relations. Three studies tested the general hypothesis that re-appraisal will be negatively related to aggressive behavior while also testing what variables moderate and mediate these relations. Using a cross-sectional design, Study 1 found that re-appraisal was negatively related to aggressive behavior and that re-appraisal significantly mediated the relations between known aggression-related variables (e.g., vengeance, anger) and several indices of aggressive behavior. Study 2 used an experimental design to further test the findings in Study 1. Employing a mixed factorial design, some participants were provoked, praised, or given no feedback from a same-sex partner on an essay writing task. Some participants were then given mitigating information - information that should cue re-appraisal processes - regarding the feedback prior to completing an aggressive and prosocial behavioral measure. Results showed that provoked participants who did not receive the information were significantly more aggressive than those provoked participants who received the information. Revenge motives significantly mediated these relations and trait levels of re-appraisal moderated these mediated effects. Study 3 was an intervention designed to reduce vengeance by teaching participants how to re-appraise. Results showed that participants who were low at baseline levels of re-appraisal and were in the intervention condition had the highest increase in re-appraisal. Most importantly, the largest decrease in vengeance was observed for participants who were in the intervention condition and had the highest increase in re-appraisal. Overall, these findings suggest that re-appraisal is negatively related to vengeance and aggressive behavior

Do We See Eye to Eye? Moderators of Correspondence Between Student and Faculty Evaluations of Day-to-Day Teaching

Students and instructors show moderate levels of agreement about the quality of day-to-day teaching. In the present study, we replicated and extended this finding by asking how correspondence between student and instructor ratings is moderated by time of semester and student demographic variables. Participants included 137 students and 5 instructors. On 10 separate days, students and instructors rated teaching effectiveness and challenge level of the material. Multilevel modeling indicated that student and instructor ratings of teaching effectiveness converged overall, but more advanced students and Caucasian students converged more closely with instructors. Student and instructor ratings of challenge converged early but diverged later in the semester. These results extend our knowledge about the connection between student and faculty judgments of teaching

University of New Mexico (UNM) Internal Medicine Triage Hospitalist Pilot

Introduction At UNM Hospital, ~50% of patients are admitted to the Internal Medicine (IM) service. Significant delays occur at the time of admission. These delays contribute to numerous downstream consequences, including poor patient care, increased hospital complication rates, decreased patient and provider satisfaction, and increased patient length of stay. IM admission times are calculated as the time between the ED “Consult to Inpt Medicine” order and the IM “Admit/Observation Order” (for which the IM “Bed Request” can serve as a surrogate). Median and average admission times are 4 hours 42 minutes and 5 hours 50 minutes, respectively. According to Hospital Compare, UNM is a one star facility. Admission delays contribute to this poor rating under “Timely and Effective Care” sub-category. By 8/1/2020, this project aims to decrease the time between the EM “Consult to Inpt Medicine” and IM admission order set to less than 2 hours on average. Intervention The Internal Medicine department staffed a new Triage Hospitalist position on eight days between November 1st and December 31st 2019. The Triage Hospitalists are responsible for the expedited evaluation and admission of ED patients, the clinical care of ED patients awaiting admission to IM, the evaluation and transfer of patients from critical care and surgical services to IM, and the distribution of new patients and transfers to the different IM services. Qualitative feedback on pilot program strengths and weaknesses was collected from ED and IM clinicians throughout the pilot via REDCap. On pilot days, the Triage Hospitalist recorded multiple data points using REDCap, including patient name, MRN, patient arrival time, “Consult to Inpt Medicine” order timestamp, start time of attending to attending handoff, estimated duration of attending to attending handoff, final admission decision, and “Bed Request” order timestamp. Retrospective chart review identified “Admit/Observation” timestamp, “Discharge Patient” timestamp, and recidivism. Adhering to the Plan-Do-Study-Act framework, data prompted continuous pilot improvement. Exemplar changes include requiring an attending to attending handoff for admissions, requiring the “Consult to Inpt Medicine” order being placed before the attending to attending handoff starts, and integration of TigerConnect into the ED IM communication pathway. Now fully implemented, the triage hospitalist position will be staffed by an IM attending physician from 7am-10pm between January 1st and June 30th, and 24 hours per day thereafter. Results 75 patients were evaluated by the Triage Hospitalist during the 8 pilot shifts. The “Consult to Inpt Medicine” order was placed by the ED 28.6% of the time. Maximum delay between “Consult to Inpt Medicine” order timestamp and start time of attending to attending handoff was 7 minutes. Average duration of the attending to attending handoff was 3.41 minutes. Attending to attending handoff occurred at the patient’s bedside 60.7% of the time. Average time from ED’s “Consult to Inpt Medicine” order to IM “Bed Request” order was 40 minutes. Median and average time between IM “Bed Request” and the IM “Admit/Observation Order” was 1 hour 50 minutes and 2 hours 22 minutes, respectively. 56 (75.7%) patients were admitted to IM and 16 (24.3%) patients were dispositioned elsewhere. 5 patients (6.7%) were discharged from IM the following day. 1 patient (1.3%) was transferred to another service following admission to IM. 1 patient (1.3%) was re-admitted within 72 hours of discharge from IM. Qualitative feedback from ED and IM clinicians was overwhelmingly positive

Examining the Impact of Climate Change Film as an Educational Tool

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of film in communicating issues related to climate change. While previous studies demonstrate an immediate effect of a film post-screening, this study also considered if a film can inspire long-term effects, and if supplemental educational information plays a role on participant understanding. Design/methodology/approach: Using surveys, we assessed undergraduate students’ climate change responses pre-, immediately-post, and 9-weeks post watching the climate change documentary The Human Element (Prod. Earth Vision Institute, 2018). In the 9-week interim before the final survey, half of the participants received weekly information on climate change via a custom website, while the other half served as a control. Nonparametric statistical tests were completed in SPSS to determine significant changes across all three surveys. Findings: Friedman tests and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks tests demonstrate statistically significant self-reported impacts on climate change responses such as of motivation, concern, and understanding immediately post-screening. At 9-weeks, 3 × 2 Mixed ANOVAs demonstrate that the group that received the website reported statistically significantly higher understanding than those in the control group. However, the website has no statistically significant effect on other responses like motivation and concern. Originality/value: These results highlight the important power of film’s visual appeals in framing climate change. We also show that there is a long term effect of film on participant understanding. The study also prompts questions about current models of climate change education, which emphasize objective understanding, often without viable support structures to help students’ concern and motivation to act

Helping and hurting others: Person and situation effects on aggressive and prosocial behavior as assessed by the Tangram task

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136251/1/ab21669.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136251/2/ab21669_am.pd

Further development of high-sensitivity targeted MRM Assays for peptide and protein quantification

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Fork of Fork of Emerging Adulthood Measured at Multiple Instituions

This project is the host of the EA and Politics Survey Project organized by Alan Reifman in 2004. There are over 1300 cases from 14 samples at 10 distinct institutions. Theorists interested in reanalyzing the data are invited to submit a proposal to use the data