Determinants of physical activity habit formation: a theory-based qualitative study among young adults.

Purpose: Engagement in physical activity significantly contributes to reducing the onset and severity of chronic diseases. Nonetheless, establishing habits around this behaviour remains a persistent challenge. This research endeavours to discern the determinants influencing the formation of physical activity habit among young adults in Israel, drawing upon a socio-ecological model.

Winning isn't everything: Guilt proneness and competitive vs. non-competitive motivation.

Objective: Guilt proneness is associated with both high motivation to succeed and enhanced concern for others. However, in competition, achieving success requires harming others' interests, which demotivates guilt-prone individuals. Given the prevalence of competition in social and professional life, we examine the relation between guilt proneness, general motivation, and competitive motivation.

How national leaders keep 'us' safe: A longitudinal, four-nation study exploring the role of identity leadership as a predictor of adherence to COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions.

Objectives: To investigate whether citizens' adherence to health-protective non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic is predicted by identity leadership, wherein leaders are perceived to create a sense of shared national identity.

Design: Observational two-wave study. Hypotheses testing was conducted with structural equation modelling.

Identity Leadership, Employee Burnout and the Mediating Role of Team Identification: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development Project.

Do leaders who build a sense of shared social identity in their teams thereby protect them from the adverse effects of workplace stress? This is a question that the present paper explores by testing the hypothesis that identity leadership contributes to stronger team identification among employees and, through this, is associated with reduced burnout. We tested this model with unique datasets from the Global Identity Leadership Development (GILD) project with participants from all inhabited continents. We compared two datasets from 2016/2017 ( = 5290; 20 countries) and 2020/2021 ( = 7294; 28 countries) and found very similar levels of identity leadership, team identification and burnout across the five years.

A trouble shared is a trouble halved: The role of family identification and identification with humankind in well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered health-related anxiety in ways that undermine peoples' mental and physical health. Contextual factors such as living in a high-risk area might further increase the risk of health deterioration. Based on the Social Identity Approach, we argue that social identities can not only be local that are characterized by social interactions, but also be global that are characterized by a symbolic sense of togetherness and that both of these can be a basis for health.

Professional characteristics and work attitudes of hospital nurses who leave compared with those who stay.

Aim: To compare characteristics and attitudes of nurses who resigned and those who remained in two Israeli hospitals and assess the reasons for leaving.

Background: Nurse turnover is a current global problem in health care system, especially given the severe nurse shortages. Retention of nurses requires an understanding of the characteristics of the resigning nurses, their attitudes and their reasons for leaving.

The effect of regulatory focus and time preference on the dual process of physical activity: A cross-sectional study among nurses.

Aims: To examine the dual process of physical activity adoption among nurses and its relationships with two personal orientations-regulatory focus-the tendency to focus on promotion (vs. prevention) goals and time preference as measured by delay discounting: the tendency to overvalue immediate rewards over long-term ones.

Background: The dual process theory suggests that both conscious and non-conscious processes influence the adoption of physical activity.

At Least I Tried: The Relationship between Regulatory Focus and Regret Following Action vs. Inaction.

Regret is an unpleasant feeling that may arise following decisions that ended poorly, and may affect the decision-maker's well-being and future decision making. Some studies show that a decision to act leads to greater regret than a decision not to act when both resulted in failure, because the latter is usually the norm. In some cases, when the norm is to act, this pattern is reversed.

Regulatory focus and adherence to self-care behaviors among adults with type 2 diabetes.

The aims of this study were, first, to test the association between regulatory focus of adults with type 2 diabetes and their adherence to two types of self-care behaviors - lifestyle change (e.g. physical activity and diet) and medical care regimens (blood-glucose monitoring, foot care and medication usage).

Attitudes toward expanding nurses' authority.

Background: In recent years, an increasing number of care procedures previously under the physician's authority have been placed in the hands of registered nurses. The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of nurses towards expanding nurses' authority and the relationships between these attitudes and job satisfaction facets, professional characteristics, and demographics.

Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted between 2010 and 2011 in three major medical centers in Israel.

Life-threatening event reduces subjective well-being through activating avoidance motivation: a longitudinal study.

Drawing on the approach-avoidance theory, we have examined the role of avoidance motivation in explaining the negative effects of a life-threatening event on subjective well-being (SWB). Residents of the south of Israel were surveyed during heavy missile attacks in January 2009 (T1; n = 283), and again after 6 months (T2; n = 212) and 1 year (T3; n = 154). During the missile attacks, we also surveyed a group from the center of the country (T1; n = 102), not exposed to the attacks.

[Job satisfaction, intention to leave and leaving the practice of medicine among physicians in Israel: a survey of physicians receiving their licenses in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006].

Introduction: There is recent evidence that physicians are increasingly dissatisfied with the medical profession and are leaving the profession.

Goals: To measure job satisfaction and the rate of Leaving the profession among physicians recently licensed in israeL.

Methods: A telephone survey among 733 doctors; graduates of medical schools in Israel who received their license in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.

Feedback, the various tasks of the doctor, and the feedforward alternative.

Objectives: This study aims to alert users of feedback to its dangers, explain some of its complexities and offer the feedforward alternative.

Methods: We review the damage that feedback may cause to both motivation and performance. We provide an initial solution to the puzzle of the feedback sign (positive versus negative) using the concepts of promotion focus and prevention focus.

Factor analysis of the Beer Sheva Psoriasis Severity Score (BPSS).

Background: The Beer Sheva Psoriasis Severity Score is a novel instrument for the assessment of psoriasis severity, designed for use in routine clinical conditions.

Objective: To identify the main factors of the BPSS.

Methods: The sample used to study the BPSS comprised 70 patients with psoriasis vulgaris treated by climatotherapy at the Dead Sea.

Advanced and specialist nursing practice: attitudes of nurses and physicians in Israel.

Background: With the introduction of new and advanced nursing roles, the nursing profession is undergoing dynamic change. Realizing changes will be easier to accomplish if the nursing community and other healthcare professionals welcome the process. Recently the nursing staff mix in Israel has been undergoing a transformation: encouraging registered nurses to enhance their status by acquiring academic degrees and advanced professional training, and initiating the adoption of new nursing roles.

Effectiveness of climatotherapy at the Dead Sea for psoriasis vulgaris: A community-oriented study introducing the 'Beer Sheva Psoriasis Severity Score'.

Background: Climatotherapy at the Dead Sea (CDS) is a therapeutic modality for moderate to severe psoriasis vulgaris.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of CDS in patients with psoriasis, using the PASI score and a novel simplified tool for the assessment of psoriasis - the Beer Sheva Psoriasis Severity Score (BPSS).

Methods: A total of 70 patients with psoriasis vulgaris were treated by CDS.