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Hong Kong: The role of spousal support, Pui-yee Lai, So-kum Tang, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
One-hundred-and thirty-four recently delivered Chinese women participated in a longitudinal
study over a 6-month interval to determine prevalence and socio-psychological factors of
disordered eating in the postpartum period. Participants in general displayed more severe eating
disturbances in the postpartum than prepartum period, with the percentage being 6.6% and 14.4%
respectively using the EDI-2 (Garner, 1993). Multiple regression analyses revealed that eating
disturbances and inadequate spousal support during pregnancy were significantly related to
disordered eating after childbirth. Prepartum depressive symptoms and quality of mother-child
relationship were significantly correlated with postpartum disordered eating but this relationship
became nonsignificant in regression analyses.
4132.7 Physical and mental health symptoms according to Indonesian shop floor workers in
vehicle manufacturingng industry, Lieke Waluyo, Post Graduate Program in Psychology
Gunadarma University, Indonesia
This article is part of an ongoing study about Physical, Mental Health and Social well being.For
this purpose 77 workers were interviewed. Their educational background varies from elementary
school to university studies and among them were 3 women. At the time data was collected
Indonesia started to have economic problems and the workers were afraid to be laid off. The range
of answers for physical symptoms was between 1-5, while for mental symptoms it was 1-8. The
highest percentage for physical health symptoms was feeling light and not drawsy and for mental
health symptoms it was good social relations.
4132.8 Health risk behaviours and health care needs among people with psychiatric illness,
Loranie Leas, Marita McCabe, Deakin Unversity, Australia
This paper presents findings from two studies. Study 1 explored differences between people with
psychiatric illness (PPI) (N=144) and the general population (N=151) in levels of low-fat diet,
exercise and smoking. Study 2 investigated barriers and health care needs of PPI (N=60). The
prevalence of overweight, cigarette smoking and sedentary lifestyle were significantly greater
among PPI than the general population. Major predictors were limited social support, knowledge
of correct dietary principles, lower self-efficacy, psychiatric symptomatology and various
psychotropic drugs. The findings demonstrated that PPI over-used medical services but under-used
preventive services due to inaccessibility, lower satisfaction and knowledge of services.
4133 ORAL
Industrial/organizational psychology
Chair: Mahesh Deshmukh, India
4133.1 Linking corporate strategy, human resource practices and organizational peorformance:
An exploratory study, Kailash Bihari Lal Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur,
India
This paper explored the relationship of strategy, HR practices and performance in fifty-two
manufacturing and software companies. Data were collected from top management, and HR
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