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According to the lower birth rate and more mature demographic structure, our society is facing the problem about aging of population. The market need for long term care is getting more and more obvious in recent years, and especially the atmosphere to hire the foreign care assistant is quite common and widely-spread in Taiwan. Also by viewing the statistic survey, it is pretty obvious to know that the number about foreign worker who were imported into Taiwan is increasing year by year in a quite significant way. However the processes and paper work are with great complicated, so most of the people who have the demand of foreign care assistant will tend to apply through the international humanity agency. Then the original motive of our research is from the prospect of the agency to elevate its value of their service. Therefore at the very beginning we will focus on the related factors which influence the rate of match, and then we will go deeper to explore the more specific cause which has the relevant connection with the foreign workers¡¦ job satisfaction. In addition, we conclude that there were two significant dimensions which might influence the job satisfaction, and then they are the relationship between employer and employee, and the other dimension is about the qualification of the workers to meet the requirement and the characteristic of caring job. This thesis will utilize some questionnaires which include: performance, job satisfaction, leader-member exchange relationship, empathy, hardness and social personality. This Research used the foreign health care assistants working in Taiwan from Indonesia as samples to do the actual research. We gave out 100 questionnaires in total, and collected 93 effective. And we used SPSS statistic software to analyses the relation between every parameter.The result of study is found as follows: 1. The match rate will be demonstrated by the performance which received by the employer. 2. The Job satisfaction will influence the performance as care assistants. 3. The Job satisfaction will be influenced by the leader-member exchange relationship, empathy and social personality tendency.

Social risk elicits an internal struggle between wanting to form significant relationships (i.e., connectedness goals) and avoiding rejection (i.e., self-protection goals). The current research tested an intervention designed to reduce perceptions of risk for low self-esteem individuals (LSEs). However, the intervention did not function as anticipated and regardless of self-esteem level, participants reported lower perceived acceptance and lower state self-esteem in the intervention condition compared to the control. In a post-session two weeks following the manipulation, high self-esteem individuals (HSEs) in the intervention appear to not only recover, but actually reported significantly more perceived regard and global self-esteem than HSEs in the control. A second study investigated the impact of the intervention in light of these surprising findings. Results suggest that viewing the intervention video in a socially risky situation caused both HSEs and LSEs to experience social threat. In contrast, the control video actually served to reduce social risk.

Social risk elicits an internal struggle between wanting to form significant relationships (i.e., connectedness goals) and avoiding rejection (i.e., self-protection goals). The current research tested an intervention designed to reduce perceptions of risk for low self-esteem individuals (LSEs). However, the intervention did not function as anticipated and regardless of self-esteem level, participants reported lower perceived acceptance and lower state self-esteem in the intervention condition compared to the control. In a post-session two weeks following the manipulation, high self-esteem individuals (HSEs) in the intervention appear to not only recover, but actually reported significantly more perceived regard and global self-esteem than HSEs in the control. A second study investigated the impact of the intervention in light of these surprising findings. Results suggest that viewing the intervention video in a socially risky situation caused both HSEs and LSEs to experience social threat. In contrast, the control video actually served to reduce social risk.

Major depression disorder (MDD) is a complex and chronic disease that ranks fourth as cause of disability worldwide. About 14 million adults in the USA are believed to have MDD, and an estimated 75 % attempt suicide making MDD a major public health problem. Neuroticism has been recognized as an endophenotype of MDD; however, few genome-wide association (GWA) analyses of neuroticism as a quantitative trait have been reported to date. The aim of this study is to identify genome-wide genetic variants affecting neuroticism using a European sample. A linear regression model was used to analyze the association with neuroticism as a continuous trait in the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety and Netherlands Twin Registry population-based sample of 2,748 individuals with Perlegen 600K single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). In addition, the neuroticism-associated genes/loci of the top 20 SNPs (p < 10-4) were examined with anti-social personality disorder (ASPD) in an Australian twin family study. Through GWA analysis, 32 neuroticism-associated SNPs (p < 10-4) were identified. The most significant association was observed with SNP rs4806846 within the TMPRSS9 gene (p = 7.79 × 10-6) at 19p13.3. The next best signal was in GRIN2B gene (rs220549, p = 1.05 × 10-5) at 12p12. In addition, several SNPs within GRIN2B showed borderline associations with ASPD in the Australian sample. In conclusion, these results provide a possible genetic basis for the association with neuroticism. Our findings provide a basis for replication in other populations to elucidate the potential role of these genetic variants in neuroticism and MDD along with a possible relationship between ASPD and neuroticism.

Major depression disorder (MDD) is a complex and chronic disease that ranks fourth as cause of disability worldwide. About 14 million adults in the USA are believed to have MDD, and an estimated 75 % attempt suicide making MDD a major public health problem. Neuroticism has been recognized as an endophenotype of MDD; however, few genome-wide association (GWA) analyses of neuroticism as a quantitative trait have been reported to date. The aim of this study is to identify genome-wide genetic variants affecting neuroticism using a European sample. A linear regression model was used to analyze the association with neuroticism as a continuous trait in the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety and Netherlands Twin Registry population-based sample of 2,748 individuals with Perlegen 600K single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). In addition, the neuroticism-associated genes/loci of the top 20 SNPs (p < 10-4) were examined with anti-social personality disorder (ASPD) in an Australian twin family study. Through GWA analysis, 32 neuroticism-associated SNPs (p < 10-4) were identified. The most significant association was observed with SNP rs4806846 within the TMPRSS9 gene (p = 7.79 × 10-6) at 19p13.3. The next best signal was in GRIN2B gene (rs220549, p = 1.05 × 10-5) at 12p12. In addition, several SNPs within GRIN2B showed borderline associations with ASPD in the Australian sample. In conclusion, these results provide a possible genetic basis for the association with neuroticism. Our findings provide a basis for replication in other populations to elucidate the potential role of these genetic variants in neuroticism and MDD along with a possible relationship between ASPD and neuroticism.

Interagir avec autrui est crucial pour notre survie. Différentes études ont mis en évidence le rôle de l'ocytocine (OT) dans la sociabilité et l'affiliation. La première partie de notre travail montre qu'il y a un lien entre la concentration d'ocytocine plasmatique et l'ocytocine centrale et que les deux sont corrélées au niveau d'extraversion des individus. L'OT plasmatique corrèle aussi au volume de l'amygdale et de l'hippocampe, deux régions cérébrales importantes pour le comportement social. Nous montrons également que l'administration d'OT entraine une modification (augmentation) de la perception subjective de la sociabilité. L'ensemble de ces résultats suggère que l'OT constitue un biomarqueur de la personnalité sociale et pourrait servir au diagnostic de pathologies sociales comme l'Autisme. Nous avons étudié le fonctionnement central de l'OT et particulièrement son interaction avec la sérotonine (5-HT), impliquée elle aussi dans la régulation du comportement social. Avec la Tomographie par Emission de Positon (TEP) et grâce à un radioligand ([18-F]MPPF) spécifique des récepteurs 5-HT1A de la 5-HT nous montrons que l'administration d'OT entraine, chez le sujet sain une augmentation du potentiel de liaison (BP) du MPPF traduisant une modification de l'activité de la 5 HT au niveau du raphe, de l'amygdale/hippocampe, de l'insula et du cortex orbitofrontal, régions clés pour le traitement du comportement social. Les patients Asperger démontrent une diminution du MPPF BP par rapport aux contrôles au niveau de ces mêmes régions, différence qui s'annule par la prise d'OT. Ces résultats confirment le potentiel thérapeutique de l'OT et ouvrent de nouvelles pistes de recherche visant à intégrer la relation entre les neurotransmetteurs dans les futurs traitements. L'ensemble de ce travail place l'ocytocine au coeur de la physiologie du comportement social et suggère son utilisation tant au niveau du diagnostic que de la prise en charge de l'Autisme / Interacting with others is crucial for human fitness. In the past decade, there has been a growing interest for oxytocin (OXT) and its implication in social behavior. In the first section of this work we show that peripheral and central concentrations of OXT are correlated. Peripheral and central OXT are also correlated with subjects’ extraversion and with the volume of amygdala and hippocampus, two brain regions important for the regulation of social behavior. Interestingly, we show that OXT intake increases the subjective perception of subjects’ sociability. These findings suggest that OXT can be considered a biomarker of social behavior, thus opening the possibility of using this hormone in the screening process of psychiatric disorder like Autism. In a second section, we focused on the central action of OXT and in particular its interaction with another neurotransmitter also essential for social behavior: the serotonin (5-HT). We assessed OXT effect on the central serotoninergic activity in healthy subjects using the Positon Emission Tomography (PET) thanks to a radiotracer ([18-F]MPPF) specific for the 5-HT1A receptors and known to be localised in brain regions important for social processing. Our results show that oxytocin administration increases MPPF binding potential (BP) in raphe nuclei, right amygdala, hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex. Interestingly, Asperger patients showed a decrease in MPPF BP in these regions compared to controls. This difference disappeared after oxytocin. These results strengthen the role of oxytocin in social behavior and underline the therapeutic potential of this neuromodulator for psychiatric disorders implicating both serotonin and oxytocin dysfunctions

O presente estudo versa sobre os discursos policial, jurídico, psiquiátrico e jornalístico produzidos acerca de um jovem, autor de um quíntuplo homicídio em família (patri-matri-fratricídio). O dossier sobre o caso, e ainda mais três explicações para a conduta violenta, oriundas do campo psi, foram analisados a partir da arqueologia, genealogia e ética foucaultianas visando esclarecer os motivos e os modos de construção destes discursos. O estudo permitiu constatar que as diferentes instâncias sociais solidarizaram-se para forjar uma representação do homicida compatível com o consagrado modelo da psicopatia - a ausência de remorsos, a incapacidade para a empatia, a frieza afetiva e a insensibilidade moral; também, que produções do campo psi prestam-se a dar referendo científico às conclusões sociais que retratam os homicidas como seres malignos, portadores de aberrações biológicas que os incapacitam a desenvolver adequadamente a afetividade e a moralidade, condenando-os aos atos criminosos violentos. Estas constatações, discutidas pelo prisma das contradições da sociedade contemporânea, deixam vislumbrar parte daquilo que se obnubila por estes discursos: remetendo ao plano biológico as determinações da conduta irracional e violenta, poupa-se de crítica o ordenamento sistemático das relações sócio-econômicas. Em conclusão, apresenta-se como imperativo derivar para a ciência psi a injunção de conhecer e denunciar as interveniências dos planos individual e coletivo em toda e qualquer conduta humana - o mais irracional e violento dos crimes cometido por um homem, guarda obrigatoriamente os traços da irracionalidade e violência do sistema social que o envolve; aperceber-se deles é condição de transformá-los. / This present study considers the police, legal, psychiatric and journalistic speeches about a young man who is the author of a quintuplet family homicide (patricide-matricide-fraticide). The dossier about the case, and three explanations else for the violent behaviour from the psy area, were analysed from the archaeological, genealogical and ethical foucaultian considering to clear up the cause and way these speeches were constructed.The study has allowed to show up the different social resort to join forces to forging a representation of the murderer with the stablished model of psychopath - no remorses, the incapacity for empathy, coolness affection and moral insensibility; it is also to show that productions of the psy area are suitable for giving scientific endorsement to the social agreement that show the murderer as evil beings who are owners a such of biological aberrations that make them incapable of developing the affecting and morality and to sentence them to criminal violent actions. All these observations were talked about by the point of view of the contemporany society contradictions and they let to glimpse part of that are hided by those speeches: the systematic order of social economical relations indulgences itself of criticism when it sends the determinations of irrational and violent behaviour to the biological area. As conclusion, it shows the necessity to deduce to the psy science the obligation to knowing and denouncing the interference between individual and collective plans in all human behaviour - the most of irrational and violent crimes commited by a man hides traces of irrationality and violence of social system that involves it. The capacity of see the traces is the conditions to be able to change them.

O presente estudo versa sobre os discursos policial, jurídico, psiquiátrico e jornalístico produzidos acerca de um jovem, autor de um quíntuplo homicídio em família (patri-matri-fratricídio). O dossier sobre o caso, e ainda mais três explicações para a conduta violenta, oriundas do campo psi, foram analisados a partir da arqueologia, genealogia e ética foucaultianas visando esclarecer os motivos e os modos de construção destes discursos. O estudo permitiu constatar que as diferentes instâncias sociais solidarizaram-se para forjar uma representação do homicida compatível com o consagrado modelo da psicopatia - a ausência de remorsos, a incapacidade para a empatia, a frieza afetiva e a insensibilidade moral; também, que produções do campo psi prestam-se a dar referendo científico às conclusões sociais que retratam os homicidas como seres malignos, portadores de aberrações biológicas que os incapacitam a desenvolver adequadamente a afetividade e a moralidade, condenando-os aos atos criminosos violentos. Estas constatações, discutidas pelo prisma das contradições da sociedade contemporânea, deixam vislumbrar parte daquilo que se obnubila por estes discursos: remetendo ao plano biológico as determinações da conduta irracional e violenta, poupa-se de crítica o ordenamento sistemático das relações sócio-econômicas. Em conclusão, apresenta-se como imperativo derivar para a ciência psi a injunção de conhecer e denunciar as interveniências dos planos individual e coletivo em toda e qualquer conduta humana - o mais irracional e violento dos crimes cometido por um homem, guarda obrigatoriamente os traços da irracionalidade e violência do sistema social que o envolve; aperceber-se deles é condição de transformá-los. / This present study considers the police, legal, psychiatric and journalistic speeches about a young man who is the author of a quintuplet family homicide (patricide-matricide-fraticide). The dossier about the case, and three explanations else for the violent behaviour from the psy area, were analysed from the archaeological, genealogical and ethical foucaultian considering to clear up the cause and way these speeches were constructed.The study has allowed to show up the different social resort to join forces to forging a representation of the murderer with the stablished model of psychopath - no remorses, the incapacity for empathy, coolness affection and moral insensibility; it is also to show that productions of the psy area are suitable for giving scientific endorsement to the social agreement that show the murderer as evil beings who are owners a such of biological aberrations that make them incapable of developing the affecting and morality and to sentence them to criminal violent actions. All these observations were talked about by the point of view of the contemporany society contradictions and they let to glimpse part of that are hided by those speeches: the systematic order of social economical relations indulgences itself of criticism when it sends the determinations of irrational and violent behaviour to the biological area. As conclusion, it shows the necessity to deduce to the psy science the obligation to knowing and denouncing the interference between individual and collective plans in all human behaviour - the most of irrational and violent crimes commited by a man hides traces of irrationality and violence of social system that involves it. The capacity of see the traces is the conditions to be able to change them.