Families with a member enrolled in palliative care often strive for a “good death”, though perceptions as to what constitutes this concept vary according to socio-cultural and psychological factors. This cross-sectional study examined adult children’s perspectives on a good death for parents and the predictive role of filial piety, gratitude, and indebtedness. Sample consisted of 133 adult children of parents enrolled in palliative care units from Romania. Results indicated that participants reported the strongest agreement with the pride and beauty domain of a good death. Filial piety (r = .81, p <.001) and gratitude (r = .55, p <.001) were positively associated with a good death for the parent, while indebtedness was negatively associated (r = -.29, p < .001). Adult children’s filial piety (β = .57, p < .001) and gratitude (β = .15, p = .035) were significant predictors of a good death for their parents, but their indebtedness was not (β = -.13, p = .06). These findings highlight the importance of considering moral-relational orientations when examining how adult children conceptualize desirable end-of-life conditions for their parents.
The primary aim of this study is to examine the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction among cabin crew members through the mediating role of work-family conflict (WFC), drawing on the literature on gender roles and the job demands-resources model. In this context, the study investigates the extent to which job stress influences employees’ job satisfaction and whether WFC functions as a mediating mechanism in this relationship. Furthermore, we assess the moderating role of gender to highlight the experiential differences between male and female cabin crew members. To achieve this, we conducted the research with a sample of 344 cabin crew members employed in two commercial airlines operating in Turkey. We performed moderated mediation analyses using the PROCESS macro developed by Hayes (2018). The findings reveal that WFC plays a significant mediating role in the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction. In addition, the results confirmed the moderating effect of gender, indicating that the negative relationship between WFC and job satisfaction was significant only among female cabin crew. Overall, the results provide both theoretical and practical implications, particularly in the context of gender roles and the development of policies addressing WFC.
This study examined the association between future time orientation and social generativity in emerging adulthood using a final sample of 1,570 Serbian participants aged 18 to 29 years (M = 20.80, SD = 2.64; 68.6% women). We tested a theoretically informed mediation model in which future time orientation predicted social generativity indirectly through life project dimensions. Results showed that the impact dimension of future orientation was positively associated with social generativity, both as a total effect (β = .32, p < .001) and as a direct effect (β = .17, p = .001). In contrast, the distance dimension was not significantly related to social generativity, either as a total effect or as a direct effect. The impact dimension significantly predicted both life project identification (β = .50, p < .001) and life project involvement (β = .60, p < .001), whereas only life project involvement significantly predicted social generativity (β = .24, p = .001). The only significant indirect effect was observed for the pathway from future orientation impact dimension to social generativity through life project involvement (β = .14, 95% CI [.138, .246], p < .001). Although with some limitations, these findings suggest that an action-oriented view of the future, rather than the perceived temporal extension of the future, is meaningfully linked to socially generative tendencies among emerging adults.
In times of teacher shortages, a compelling need arises to explore the motivations of preservice teachers in pursuing a teaching career, alongside other factors impacting their career decisions and perceptions of the profession. Although scholars agree there is a link between personal values and motivation in general, literature that specifically relates motivation for a teaching profession and basic human values is scarce. This study sought to fill this gap by investigating latent profiles of preservice teachers based on their motivation for the teaching profession and basic human values. The FIT-Choice scale and the PVQ-21 were administered to 445 preservice teachers from Serbia. A latent profile analysis identified five profiles. On a maladaptive-adaptive continuum, Disengaged (7% of participants) and Utility driven (18%) profiles are closer to the maladaptive pole, the Independent (16%) is in the middle, while Conventional optimists (29%) and Progressive idealists (30%) are closer to the adaptive pole. The profiles also differ in their perceptions of the profession and their satisfaction with career choice, which supports the validity of the profiles. Conventional optimists and Progressive idealists perceive the career as more demanding but report the highest satisfaction with teaching as a career choice. The least satisfied with teaching is the Disengaged profile, characterized by the lowest levels of intrinsic and social utility motivation. The obtained differences in value priorities allow drawing better grounded predictions of subsequent behaviour, compared to the profiles extracted solely on the basis of motivations for the teaching profession.
Although empathy is generally treated as a prosocial force, research on intergroup empathy bias (IEB) shows that empathic responses are often stronger toward ingroup than outgroup members, and that such selectively distributed empathy can produce negative outcomes. To clarify how this arises, we conducted a systematic review of IEB studies focusing on how empathy is elicited and measured. Following PRISMA guidelines, we identified 120 studies across 85 articles. Neuroscientific studies were the most numerous (58% of the articles) and typically used physical pain stimuli to elicit empathy, consistently detecting IEB in neural responses but rarely in explicit ratings. Whether bias was observed in behavioral studies depended on the task. The literature is characterized by problematic assumptions of equivalence across task types, unexplored connections to related fields, and underdeveloped explanations of neural-behavioral discrepancies. We recommend critically evaluating operational definitions before discussing practical applications.
