‘Feeling bad’ or ‘being bad?’ The trapping effect of effort in academic failure in a Confucian cultural context

A predicament faced by students who fail academically in East Asian Confucian societies, such as Taiwan, is being obscured by students’ outstanding performances in international academic assessments. This article proposes that there is a trapping effect of effort for these students. They are trapped in a dilemma between ‘feeling bad’ (emotional distress) for exerting too much effort and ‘being bad’ (negative image) for making little effort. Such a dilemma may be worse in the domain of academic achievement than in non-academic domains like the arts, with the former being more directly related to children’s dutiful fulfilment of parental expectations. Two consecutive studies – a scenario experiment with 700 subjects and a survey on past experiences of failure with a sample of 190 – were conducted. The results supported our hypothesis that effort becomes a double-edged sword for students who failed. They are more likely to either ‘feel bad’ or ‘be bad’ after failing academically compared to performing poorly on non-academic activities. Implications of the findings are further discussed.     

上市公司财务危机预警模型研究

本文在分析13个变量的基础上,运用Logistic回归给出了判别上市公司财务危机的一个模型。本文模型包括4个变量：毛利率、其它应收款与总资产的比率、短期借款与总资产的比率、股权集中系数;其中的股权集中系数是公司治理结构的直接表征,也是本文模型异于其他预测模型的首要区别。本方模型的回判准确率为84．52％,而对2000年新增加的“ST”公司的判别准确率则达到了95．45％。     

公司治理与财务困境预测

本文在分别借助因子分析和非参数检验方法对公司财务指标和治理因素进行统计处理的基础上,构造并实证检验了用于预测我国上市公司财务困境的两大模型,即仅是包含财务信息与融合财务信息和公司治理因素的Logistic回归预测模型。实证结果表明,作为通过了非参数检验的公司治理因素之关键特征变量——第一大股东派出董事比例,不但与公司发生财务困境的概率之间呈现显著的负相关关系,而且能够显著提高包含该变量的预测模型的回判和预测准确率。因此,公司治理信息应当是利于预测我国上市公司是否可能发生财务困境的重要因素。     

大学生精准资助下育人体系构建研究

随着精准化资助投入资金不断增加,受资助学生数量也不断增加。与此同时就有许多问题涌现,如高校贫困生评定困难、贫困资助工作质量参差不齐、贫困生出现心理困境,等等。为了更精准化地资助,我们提出通过大数据分析确定贫困生群体,建立信息化动态贫困生数据库,构建网络心理咨询、思想教育平台等方法,真正做到精准资助与育人相结合。     

Perceived workplace discrimination,coping and psychological distress among unskilled Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia

Migrant workers face many migration-related stressors that may affect their mental health. This study examines workplace discrimination in relation to psychological distress, and the role of coping among unskilled Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia. In a sample of 119 workers (39 males and 80 females), results of a hierarchical regression analysis showed that workplace discrimination was positively related to psychological distress. Both problem-oriented coping and emotion/avoidance coping were predictive of distress. While problem-oriented coping was associated with lower distress, emotional/avoidance coping was related with higher distress levels. In addition, low emotion/avoidance coping was found to buffer the adverse effect of discrimination on distress. These results are discussed in relation to the literature on coping as well as the social-cultural context of the migrants and the host country.     

财务困境成本:基于利益相关者的理论视角

从相关利益者角度对财务困境成本的研究文献进行了综述,并给出了经验证据,认为财务困境成本是指在财务困境期间内企业给相关利益者所造成的损失之和,财务困境成本可以分为股东承担的财务困境成本、债权人承担的财务困境成本以及其他相关利益者承担的财务困境成本,同时认为财务困境成本理论在我国有着广阔的发展前景。     

简论嵇康及几位嵇康式人物

以嵇康的两篇短文浅析嵇康的内心痛苦和处世态度,其痛苦和挣扎因为更具有典型性和悲剧意味,因此,从魏晋到当代的千年间,有一批嵇康式的人物出现。列举了四位嵇康式人物,他们不被社会当权者所接受,在精神上都极为苦闷,大都具有旷达狂放的个性和行为。他们对生命价值的追求,对乱世浊事的愤懑和抨击,对自我个性的坚持,已成为千百年来中国知识分子抗拒黑暗、维护自由的代表。     

Differential responsiveness to a parenting intervention for mothers in substance abuse treatment

This study examines the relationship between levels of psychological distress in substance-dependent mothers and their differential response to a dyadic parent–child intervention. A sample of 66 mothers who were receiving treatment for substance abuse, as well as a simultaneous parenting intervention, were interviewed pre and post-treatment on measures of psychological distress, adult and child trauma history, parental reflective functioning, and child social–emotional development. Additionally, clinicians provided assessments of the parent–child relationships. As anticipated, trauma histories for mothers and children, children's social emotional development, and parental reflective functioning were associated with aspects of maternal psychological distress. Kruskal–Wallis and subsequent Wilcoxson signed rank tests revealed that women with highest levels of baseline psychological distress showed significant improvements in psychological functioning post-treatment while women with moderately elevated levels of psychological distress did not. Women who were most distressed at baseline showed increased levels of parental reflective functioning post-treatment while women with moderate and lower levels of baseline psychological distress showed improvements on clinician-rated assessments of parent–child relationships. Chi Square analyses showed that parents who endorsed the highest levels of distress at baseline reported that their children's risk status regarding social–emotional development decreased post-treatment. Despite similarities in substance dependence, mothers in this sample had different needs and outcomes in the context of this parenting intervention due to variation in mental health. Given this variation, parenting interventions for substance-dependent mothers need to account for the individual differences in levels of psychological distress.     

Receptor-Recognition Mechanism of the Newly Emergent Coronavirus MERS-CoV Determined

<正>The newly-emerged coronavirus,named the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus(MERS-CoV),is highly pathogenic.Patients suffer severe pulmonary diseases,including fever,cough,and an acute respiratory distress syndrome.In some cases,the disease course is accompanied by renal failure,leading to severely high mortality.As of July 11th 2013,a total of 81 laboratory-confirmed infection cases,including 45 deaths,had been reported globally.Since the first case-report in Saudi Arabia last year,MERSCoV has now spread to affect multiple countries in the Middle East,Europe and North Africa.In addition,there has been accumulating evidence showing the limited local transmission of the virus among close contacts.Consequently,people are worried of a second potential coronavirus pandemic ten years     

Exploring Emotional Intelligence Among Master's‐Level Counseling Trainees

The authors explored the relationship between counseling trainees' emotional intelligence (EI), empathy, stress, distress, and demographics. Results indicated that higher levels of EI were associated with lower stress and distress, higher affective and cognitive empathy, and age. These findings suggest curricular integration of EI and potential utility of EI measures to evaluate students' progress throughout the program.