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employees answered. Qualitative analysis of the answers revealed that the possibilities to
influence are experienced limited. In addition to analysing the same data (1619 items) experienced
possibilities to affect leadership contained 18 different themes. The most typical theme was to tell
the superior about the employee's personal need, goals and wishes. The second most typical theme
was to communicate well and be active in meetings.
5104.4 Leaders as coaches: Motorola’s cascading model, Judith Blanton, RHR International,
USA
In order to create a more performance oriented culture, Motorola University revised its learning
and development model to focus on integrating three strategies: experience, feedback and
education. A major global initiative was created to train master coaches in 9 countries on 4
continents. This presentation describes the overarching conceptual framework of the Global
Coaching Project. The model combines training workships with on-site and phone coaching by
outside psychologists to develop internal coaches who, in turn, coach other employees. Case
examples illustrate the training process and recommendations are provided for other companies
that might want to implement such a program.
5105 ORAL
Health psychology
Chair: Winnie W. S. Mak, Hong Kong, China
5105.1 A study on the adaptive problems of freshmen, Fucai Zhao, Shouying Zhao, Xianfeng
Li, China
A questionnaire was used to investigate 569 freshmen’s adaptive conditions on their learning,
everyday life and interpersonal relationships. The adaptive problems of the freshmen are present
in the negative learning attitude, lack of learning interests and ability of taking care of themselves,
being inadaptable to the teaching and learning methods and the interpersonal relationships in
universities, Among them the problems in the interpersonal relationships occupy the first, learning
problems comes second. The adaptation time in the interpersonal relationships is the longest. And
the effects of sex, majors, town and country and characters to the adaptation were studied.
5105.2 A study on the relationship among comparisons, desire and satisfaction, Hongfei Yang,
Jing Chen, China
Three studies were done to explore the casual influences of comparisons, desire on satisfaction
and verify that desire functions as a mediator between comparisons and satisfaction. Study 1
showed that the correlation between desires and satisfaction was significant. Study 2 showed that
the correlations among social comparisons, comparisons with the past, desire and satisfaction were
significant. Study 3 showed that social comparisons, comparisons with the past and desire have
causal influences on satisfaction. Desire, however, has a greater effect on satisfaction.
Comparisons especially social comparisons influence satisfaction indirectly through desire.
5105.3 Cross-cultural examination of help-seeking: The role of causal attribution of mental
illness, face concern, and stigma, Winnie W. S. Mak, Sylvia Xiaohua Chen, The Chinese
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