Psychological/social acceptance

Breach of confidentiality Confidentiality of data requires safeguarding information that has been given voluntarily by one person to another. Some research requires access to the participants hospital, school, or employment records. Such access is generally acceptable as long as the researcher protects the confidentiality of that information. The IRB should be aware that a breach of confidentiality could result in psychological or social harm. 

These authors conclude that African American students at historically black colleges and universities tend to have positive social and psychological environments comparable to those experienced by white students at historically white colleges and universities. They argue that students generally thrive in enviromnents where they are valued, socially cormected, protected and accepted. In short, Allen and Wallace assert that historically black colleges and universities... 

Acceptable levels of comfortable living, tolerable levels of drug side effects and the limit of maximum exercise are decided by patients with LBP. Symptomatie, pharmaceutical and supportive therapies combined with endurance exercises are the mainstay of patients with LBP. The financial and social and psychological burdens of LBP are enormous on a personal, national, and global seale. 

Treatment is best approached by using a disease model in which alcoholism is considered a chronic medical disorder and not simply a psychological or social problem. As with any other chronic illness, relapse is a normal part of the recovery process. Because the etiology of alcoholism is unknown and it afflicts a heterogeneous population, therapeutic strategies must keep in mind that some will not respond to more accepted forms of management. In this context, agents that reduce one s desire to drink may be important adjuncts (406). 

All foods for humans must provide some life-sustaining elements. These elements are the nutrients that supply energy after being metabolized in the body and those that are essential for the body to carry on this metabolism. Other qualifications for a food are its psychological and social effects. Many foods are eaten as a habit, custom, or tradition but all foods must possess acceptable physical attributes, i.e., color and texture, and desirable taste and palatability. 

For example, in certain cultures specific rites and rituals may involve a pain that is readily accepted by the people within that particular society. Scientists believe that people in these cultures experience that pain to a far lesser degree than others from different cultures would if they underwent the same experience. In such cases, the ability to focus on other aspects of the ritual, such as its social or religious ramifications, may act as a psychological sedative that helps the individual better tolerate the pain or, perhaps, feel no pain at all. The expectation of pain also determines how much pain is felt. Two people, for example, may go to the dentist the person who has greater anxiety about the experience is likely to feel a greater amount of pain. Tension and emotional states may also cause biochemical changes that lower the amount of endorphins (naturally occurring opiates) produced by the brain. 

A 1967 amendment to the regulations of the Social Security Act restated For purposes of this subsection, a physical or mental impairment is an impairment that results from anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities which are demonstrable by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic techniques. In 1976, this fictitious truth —plainly inconsistent... 

Co-worker compensatory behaviors may also be determined by how well the coworker knows the new employee (Burt et al. 2008). The acquisition of knowledge about a new employee is at the basis of the finding that similarity between a new employee and co-workers is likely to prompt acceptance (e.g., loardar 2007 Ziller and Behringer 1960). Basically, if the new employee appears to share similar values, interests and attitudes to exiting co-workers— he or she is likely to be liked and responded to in a positive way. This result is consistent with findings from basic social psychology research which have demonstrated that individuals tend not... 

Peters, E. Slovic, P. 1996. The role of affect and worldviews as orienting disposition and acceptance of nuclear power. Journal of applied social psychology, 26 1427—1453. 

Although contact dermatitis uncommonly leads to hospitalization, and minor degrees of contact dermatitis are often accepted as a normal hazard of life, the occupational, domestic, social, and psychological implications of OCD may be considerable. It must be... 

For this reason a systematic analysis or a consistent theory of risk acceptance in the exact sense of a rational system of humans, respectively social motivation and readiness to take risks, is not merely wanting completely thus far [9-24]. It cannot be expected either from future progress of empirical social sciences or social psychology—neither as a computation system for decision-making nor as a yardstick system for democratic" justification of demands to take risks—nor as an instruction... 

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