Jae Hyun Kim¹, Tae Hyun Kim^2,3,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 1-9, 2020, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2020.010995

Abstract This study investigates whether restricted participation in productive activity is associated with cognitive health in Korea. Furthermore, given the enormous socioeconomic disparities between aging and gender differences in employment, we also examine whether these associations vary by gender and age. Data from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (KLoSA) from 2006 to 2016 was used and 9,942 subjects were included at baseline in 2006. To analyze the association between restricted economic activity due to health condition and cognitive function, generalized estimating equation (GEE) model and chi-square test were used. Of the 9,942 individuals at baseline in 2006, the odds ratio… More >

Batool Mousavi^1,*, Marziye Asgari², Mohammadreza Soroush², Reza Amini³, Ali Montazeri⁴

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 11-17, 2020, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2020.010901

Abstract Mental disorders tend to be highly prevalent in war survivors. This paper examined the long-term impact of psychiatric disorders of war survivors on the level of health vulnerability among their female spouses. Interviews were conducted with a nationally representative sample of 653 of the partners of male war survivors with disabilities. The war survivors’ database information used to determine the presence of psychiatric disorders. Then the partners of survivors with (N = 333) and without (N = 320) psychological disorders were assessed via the health-related quality of life (HRQOL-SF36) questionnaire. The frequency of depression and PTSD in war survivors suffer… More >

Yun-Jung Choi^#, Eunjung Ko^#,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 19-27, 2020, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2020.010883

Abstract This study aimed to investigate the mediating effect of disaster relief workers’ job satisfaction in the relationship between their perception of survivors’ rights and their performance of human rights advocacy. Two hundred disaster relief workers in Korea were invited to complete structured questionnaires pertaining to their perception of survivors’ rights, job satisfaction, and their performance of human rights advocacy, and the relationships between these variables were analyzed using correlation and multiple regression analysis. There were significant positive correlations between disaster relief workers’ perception of survivors’ rights, job satisfaction, and performance of human rights advocacy in this study. The higher their… More >

Zhongze Guo¹, Baoguo Xie^2,*, Jingru Chen³, Fuxi Wang⁴

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.21, No.3, pp. 111-122, 2019, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2019.011040

Abstract In extant literature, considerable research has focused on the provoking effect of unfavorable work situations on counterproductive work behaviors (CWB) (i.e., abusive supervision→trigger CWB). Adopting the perspective of positive organizational scholarship and drawing on affective event theory (AET), this study examined the inhibitory effect of perceptions of favorable work situation on counterproductive work behaviors (i.e., uplifts affective events→affective well-being→inhibit CWB). Hierarchical linear modeling was used to test the hypotheses in a sample of 65 middle school teachers in China who completed daily diary method surveys over 15 consecutive working days, and got within-individual observations (level 1, N = 975) were… More >

Arooj Arshad^1,*, Mian Ahmad Hanan^2,*, Noshina Saleem³, Saima Farzooq⁴, Remsha Fatima⁵

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.21, No.3, pp. 99-109, 2019, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2019.010834

Abstract In the current digital era, public health campaigns using media has been very successful in giving knowledge and changes the attitudes of people. But till now scarce literature is available related to media campaigns about mental health. In this study Pre-Post Quasi Experimental Design using vignettes as a data collection measure were employed. The participants were categories in to experimental (n = 138) and control (n = 134) groups having 18–55 years of age to evaluate the efficiency of media mediated interventions using social media campaign in increasing Mental Health Literacy (MHL). The results from nonparametric chi-square test indicated that… More >

Ming Wang¹, Jing Liu^2,*, Qiwu Sun^3,4, Wenzhen Zhu⁴

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.21, No.3, pp. 81-97, 2019, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2019.011010

Abstract Trauma-related flashback is one of the typical symptoms of patients suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which intrudes into the body and mind of patients uncontrobaly and repeatedly. Psychodynamic theories of mechanisms of the formation and involuntary repetition of trauma-related flashback establish a foundation for most cognitive theories of PTSD. Cognitive behavioral theories of PTSD, from the initial use of behavioristic principles (e.g., conditioning, alternative learning, generalization, etc.) to explain fear conditioning to the emphasis on the roles of cognitive and behavioral factors (e.g., cognitive model or schema, completion tendency, associative network, data-driven processing, analogue representation, etc.) in the representation… More >

Jia Xu¹, Baoguo Xie^2,*, Yi Yang³, Dhandevi Maharjan⁴

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.21, No.2, pp. 69-80, 2019, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2019.010708

Abstract Employee well-being has received considerable attention over the past decades. Little has been done to examine the linkage between organizational socialization and work engagement, one of the most important indicators of wellbeing at work. Drawing upon the conservation of resources (COR) theory, we propose and test relationships between organizational socialization, employee psychological capital, work engagement, and leader psychological capital. Using data from 268 newcomers nested within 36 teams, the results show that (1) organizational socialization is positively related to work engagement; (2) employee psychological capital mediates the relationship between organizational socialization and work engagement; (3) leader psychological capital moderates the… More >

Lu Xin¹, Mengyi Li^2,*, Fangcheng Tang¹, Wenxi Wang³, Ying Zhao⁴, Xiaotong Zheng⁵

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.21, No.2, pp. 59-68, 2019, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2019.010832

Abstract In the boundaryless career era, employees tend to focus on their own needs and what they can obtain from jobs to make wise career choices and achieve a high level of career satisfaction. Using a sample of 230 Chinese employees, this study investigated the mediating effect of demands-abilities fit and needs-supplies fit in the relationship between career exploration and career satisfaction and compared the mediating effects of these two types of person-job fit. This study found that: 1) employees could achieve a higher level of career satisfaction by conducting more career exploration behaviors; 2) both demands-abilities fit and needs-supplies fit… More >

Shuhong Wang¹, Yipeng Tang^1,*, Crystal Zhang², Wenyue Pan^1,*, Huan Liu¹, Sheng Huang¹

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.21, No.2, pp. 45-57, 2019, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2019.010744

Abstract Job insecurity has been recognized for its negative effect on employee performance. Nevertheless, this study argues that, under the threat of job insecurity, employees may also be likely to seek to reduce the threat by proactively crafting their tasks and improving performance. Drawing from the perspective of Vroom’s expectancy theory, it is proposed that, only when job security is at moderate level will employees expect it as possible to make such a change to respond to the situation. Accordingly, a curvilinear mediated model is developed that links job insecurity and task performance indirectly through task crafting, and a two-waved time-lagged… More >

Ying Xu¹, Ping Guo², Wenxia Zhou^1,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.21, No.1, pp. 31-44, 2019, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2019.010742

Abstract Work engagement is a crucial positive psychological construct related to mental health. However, current self-directed and boundaryless career trend brings unprecedented challenges for organizations to foster employee engagement using traditional means. From an integrative perspective of the engagement theory and the career boundaryless theory, we built a model to test the moderating effect of person-vocation fit and trust in supervisor on the relationship between future work self and work engagement. After conducting a two-wave study with a sample of 231 employees, we found that future work-self was positively related to work engagement; and both person-vocation fit and trust in supervisor… More >