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Dementia is a degenerative disease characterized by progressive memory loss in the affected elderly person. In this sense, it represents a problem that not only affects the person who suffers from it, but also the family and caregivers. For this reason, the objective of this article is to describe from a psychoanalytic perspective how this disease significantly affects the family.

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Despite several efforts to address gender inequality in the workplace, women’s participation in managerial positions is still low, globally and gender-related power imbalances in the workplace continues to persist. This study explores the influence of emotional labour, power distance and social dominance orientation (SDO) on attitudes towards women in high ranking jobs. The study adopted a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design. A total of 315 employees across a wide range of the industrial sector in Southern part of Nigeria participated in the study. Data was gathered using a structured questionnaire and analysed using a three-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), independent samples t-test and hierarchical regression analysis. Findings revealed that emotional labour, power distance and social dominance orientation independently and jointly influenced attitudes towards women in high ranking jobs. (f [1, 315] =17.611; p<.05). Employees with perceived low power distance (x ̅=89.66, SD=18.68) and low social dominance orientation (x ̅=94.73, SD=20.45) significantly reported more favourable attitudes towards women in high status jobs than employees with perceived high power distance (x ̅=72.16, SD=17.04) and high social dominance orientation (x ̅=70.85, SD=12.91). Power distance, social dominance orientation and emotional labour are important in the examination of attitude towards women in positions of authority. It is therefore suggested that trainings and media campaigns to change perceptions be intensified.

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Background: Caregivers play an exceptionally important role in the lives of those they provide care for as well as to the healthcare system. The burden of caring for children with mental illness (CWMI) often falls on their caregivers, especially the mothers. Caregivers of CWMI experience significant challenges and are at an increased risk of experiencing mental distress than the general population. Resilience, emotion regulation, and social support are identified as protective factors against mental distress among caregivers. Objective: To determine the prevalence and factors associated with mental distress among caregivers of CWMI attending the child and adolescent mental health clinic at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) in Tanzania. Methodology: Hospital-based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at MNH Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. A purposive and convenient sample of 120 caregivers of CWMI attending the child and adolescent mental health clinic at MNH were recruited in the study. Interviewer-administered paperless questionnaire consisting of a socio-demographic questionnaire, self-reporting questionnaire (SRQ), 10-item Connor- Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) were used to collect data. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 28.0.1.1, where descriptive, bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted. Results: Among the 120 caregivers studied, 97 (80.8%) were female, and 43 (35.8%) were aged between 35 – 44 years. Among the 120 participants 27 (22.5%) had mental distress, 35 (29.2%) had low resilience, 22 (81.7%) had low cognitive reappraisal, 27 (47.5%) had high expressive suppression, and 5% (6) had low perceived social support. All variables with a p-value of < 0.20 in the bivariate analysis were entered into the multivariate analysis model, where the independent risk of mental distress was four times higher amongst those living out of ..........

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Exiting empirical data on female homosexuality demonstrate women who have sex with women engage in risky sexual behaviors and practices that put them at risk of woman-to-woman transmitted infections and other same-sex sex health-related problems. However, the level of risk varies among women in same-sex relationship pending on sexual risk behaviors they engage in, posing differentiated perceived and real health needs. I present perceived health needs among women who have sex with women in Tanzania. Four qualitative methods were used to collect data: in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, collecting participants’ life stories and observations. Data analysis deployed thematic approach where open systematic coding of data in the participants’ language and combining emerging emic concepts with preconceived theoretical constructs was used. With the exception of the women who identify transgender men or tomboys, women interviewed reported having similar primary and specialized health needs like their counterparts. Transgender men reported in need of affordable sex toys, lubricants and trusted healthcare providers skilled to manage their specific health needs. Deep-rooted belief that homosexual females are at low risk of HIV and other STIs coupled with a lack of awareness of the link between female same-sex sexual practices and diseases informed the poor risk perception demonstrated by women studied. I recommend for larger ethnographic and multidisciplinary (longitudinal/cohort) studies, with different designs and nationally representative samples to assess women who have sex with women’s health needs and wellbeing in the Tanzania context.

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This study aims to investigate the influence of a person's optimistic and pessimistic personality on the saving habits of household financial managers in Kupang City. To achieve the purpose of the research in question, in this study, the author took literature sources from financial management and psychology, then the relevant hypotheses were built. The data was analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) techniques using the help of SmartPLS software. This research was conducted in 2 (two) stages, namely the initial stage and the advanced stage. At the initial stage, we determine the topic and theme of the research, and formulate a research problem. In the advanced stage, conduct data collection, analysis, data interpretation and finally compile the final research report. The results of this study show that both optimism and pessimism influence saving habits through prudence in shopping.

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In this paper I present the public heath importance of vaginal douching or vaginal cleaning risk behavior among women and sexually active adolescent girls in Tanzania. I argue, vaginal douching control exclusion from sexually transmitted infections, human immunodeficiency virus and cervical cancer diagnosis, treatment and control guidelines explains, in part, why health professionals (physician, obstetricians and gynecologists) rarely advise their clients on this risk behavior. Similarly, this exclusion explains why there are limited research and (public) health interventions aiming at combating vaginal douching hazards among douching women and sexually active adolescent girls in this country. I recommend the Ministry of Health and (health) development partners to initiate, encourage and support health (medical and public health) research to generate comprehensive and informative multidisciplinary data on vaginal douching behaviors and practices and their impact to douching women’s and sexually active adolescent girls’ health and wellbeing. The goal is to generate data that would facilitate improving healthcare professionals’ ability to diagnose, treat, control, and prevent vaginal douching-related health problems and illnesses among douching women, sexually active adolescent girls and the populace in Tanzania.

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Whilst positive psychology has grown as a strand of the discipline internationally, very little positive psychology research has been conducted in East Africa. It is likely that one reason for this is the scarcity of relevant validated Kiswahili-language psychometric scales. This paper reports the process and outcomes of translation into Kiswahili, refinement, and validation of three commonly-used scales from the positive psychology domain – the Gratitude Questionnaire, Satisfaction With Life Scale, and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support – among students of the Universities of Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. Cronbach’s alpha values, mean inter-item correlations, and correlations with one another and with related measures, all yielded acceptable results. The final versions – K-GQ5, K-SWLS and K-MSPSS – appear valid and reliable, and suitable for use in research. We recommend larger scale investigation of these translations, the translation of further scales, and the development of positive psychology research in East Africa.