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This study was designed to discover whether the psychological types of the nurses are appropriate
with their work field, identify the main causes of job stress and to discover whether seniority has
any influence towards job stress. Findings concluded that workload was the main cause towards
job stress and there was a relationship with ambiguous job description which was highly
significant at the .01 level with r = .906. In addition, the result also demonstrated that senior
nurses were less susceptible to job stress. There was no high level of job stress among the sample.
3063.73 Socio-psychological study of personal traits, contributory to success in investing, Vitali
Muhortov 1 , Vladimir Udakov 2 , 1 Moscow Humanitarian University, Canada; 2 Institute of
Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences,
The comparative analysis of U.S. and Russian investors; problems showed. Those included:
Selectivity of decision making Dealing with conflicting ideas; Irrationality; Retrospective
explanation of events; Risk perception; Various attitudes; Selective perception; Information
overload and misinterpretation; Illusion of knowledge and control; Predictions. Expectations;
Psychological anchors in the market; Overtrading (excitement); Acting on impulse; Investor
sentimentality; Market effects: Endowment effect; Disposition effect; Sunk cost effect;
House-money effect; Snake-bite effect; Break-even effect; Mistakes admission; Loss (regret)
aversion; Emotional detachment; Reaction under stress. The psychological traits of successful
investors discussed. The vector of further research pointed.
3063.74 The impact of self-esteem levels on leisure time activities, Fariba Zarani, Iran
To examine the impact of self-esteem levels on leisure time activities,483 students were included
in this study. All students were asked to complete Cooper Smith self-esteem Inventory and leisure
time activities Checklist. The results showed that students’ self-esteem had a positive significant
relation to out-door activities, intellectual activities, cooperative behaviors and literacy interests.
Students’ self-esteem was also shown to have a negative association with aimless and disorganized
activities. Results and implications are discussed in terms of personality and social development
theories.
3063.75 Is there a negative physical self schema: Coding preferences and priming effects for
college students, Hong Chen, Xi-ting Huang, Southwest China Normal University, China
Three computer-based experiments evaluated the impact of perceived negative physical self (NPS)
on information processing. In Experiment 1(N=124), participants with a higher reported NPS
showed a coding preference for body-related words compared to control words. These findings
were partially replicated using body-related pictures in Experiment 2(N=60). In Experiment
3(N=124), participants had slower reaction times in remembering body-related words compared to
remembering control words in a priming effect design. Together results support the hypothesis that
there is a negative physical self-schema. Implications are also discussed in relation to the
reflection block aspect of restraint theory.
3063.76 A research on the factors related to time perspective, Houchao Lv, Southwest China
Normal University, China
The present research was to explore the relationship between time perspective (TP) and several
related factors. Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (revised), Time Management Disposition
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