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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"mental load"”.
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The Motherhood Contract: Mental Load, Moral Risk, and Gendered Care In Contemporary Parenting and Digital Culture
… ideals, mothers predominantly bear the “mental load.” This study introduces the idea of a motherhood contract: implicit expectations that mothers are responsible for managing children’s needs. Two research questions guide this study. (1) What are parents’ experiences of managing the …
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The visible and invisible dimensions of gender inequality in the Global South. Three essays on time use, mental load, and depression.
… Exploiting longitudinal, satellite, and experimental data, this thesis analyzes causes and consequences of three important dimensions of gender inequalities: the unequal division of time between spouses; mental load (the management behind household activities); and depression. What emerges is …
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An Examination of a Potential Moderator of the Relationship Between Thought Suppression and Preoccupation with Previously Suppressed Thoughts
… were assigned to one of three experimental conditions (suppress-worry, suppress-positive, control). Those in the suppression groups were asked to distract themselves from target thoughts using minor worries vs. positive thoughts whereas the participants in the control condition were …
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The Comparative Study On The Effects Of Virtual Reality In The Application Of Case-Based Learning Approach While Studying The Human Heart
… The participants also subjectively rated the mental load they used while studying the material. The researcher recruited twenty-nine nursing students from Midway University. No significant difference in the mean scores of both groups found while studying the anatomical structure of the mitral …
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Examining Mothers' Return-to-Work Experiences Following Maternity Leave and the Perceived Impact on Their Careers
… and professional identities, have an increased mental load, and experience intense emotions when they return to work. Also, their self-perceptions and how they perceive others view them have short and long-term impacts on their careers and motherhood.
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Effects of Increases in Mental Workload on Avoidance of Ground Hazards
… quantities of information and increases in mental workload might cause distraction, reduce attention to dangers in the immediate environment, and threaten soldier survival. The purpose of this laboratory investigation was to quantify the effects of increases in mental workload on one of the …
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Understanding Group Use of Communication Technologies in an Unanticipated Incident Environment
… including cohesion, goal commitment, fit, mental load, and satisfaction. Attitude change, cognitive dissonance, attention, and communication modalities are identified to develop the hypotheses. In the factorial experimental design, the letters-to-numbers task is used, since it approximates …
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Foraging memory: Retrieving words from one and from two semantic categories
… The goals of this investigation are to uncover mental factors that may affect memory production during memory search and to use this knowledge to guide a prediction of foraging production. Prior to testing, four such mental factors were identified: a time cost when producing an initial item from …
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Physiological recovery from night-call duty - a field study of physicians
… shift work and chronic health effects. Mental and physiological activation naturally accompanies night-call duty, but the crucial issue, from a health perspective, is whether the activation is sustained post-call. Studies of physicians show that night-call duty can be detrimental to …
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Interactive Effects of Physical and Mental Workload: A Study of Muscle Function, Capacity and Exertion Type
Workers experience combined physical and mental demands in their daily jobs, yet the contribution of these concurrent demands in the development of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) is not clearly understood. There is a need to understand how concurrent demands interact with different …
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Motor Learning Effects of Two Types of Stressors: Implications for Practice Specificity
Various types of stress have been found to have both positive and negative effects on motor performance (Szalma & Hancock, 2011; Van Gemmert & Van Galen, 1997). One potential explanation for these diverse findings is that stress increases the amount of neuromotor noise in the system (Van Gemmert, …
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Events prediction in electroencephalographic signals
… extensive training of the user, putting a mental load on the user. The present study aims to investigate simple, but powerful, event detection methods requiring minimal training and the use of a protocol involving natural movements. Scalp EEG data was recorded from nine participants using …