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Eating disorders and morningness-eveningness preferences are presumed to be associated with each other. We tested this hypothesis in an adolescent population using a questionnaire for morningness (CSM) and three scales of the EDI-2: drive for thinness, bulimic behavior, and body dissatisfaction. After controlling for age and BMI, we found a positive association between eveningness and all three scales; evening-oriented girls reported higher values in eating disorders. There was a positive correlation between body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness on the one side and bedtimes during the week and on the weekend on the other, again supporting the view that eveningness and eating disorders are associated. The association between circadian preference and eating disorders thus emerges already in adolescence.

In this paper we report preliminary findings from two user studies that on the one hand investigate how prosodic parameters of synthetic speech can influence the perceived impression of the speakers personality and on the other hand explores if and how people attribute personality to objects such as typical products of daily shopping. The results show that a) prosodic parameters have a strong influence on the perceived personality and can be partially used to achieve a desired impression and b) that subjects clearly attribute personalities to products. Both findings encourage us to continue our work on a dialogue shell for talking products.

A large and growing percentage of working adults has one or more chronic health conditions (CHCs). One under-appreciated issue for workers with CHCs is experiencing competing, incompatible pressures from the need to manage one's health condition and the need to manage one's work responsibilities. We refer to this as work-health management interference (WHMI). Despite its potential significance to the working lives of many people, scarce research has addressed WHMI. In this study, we explained the construct of WHMI, developed and evaluated a WHMI measure, and tested its relationships with work-related outcomes. We found support for time-and energy-based WHMI in workers with CHCs using qualitative (N = 35) and quantitative (including lagged) data samples (N = 204, N = 250, and N = 158). As expected, time-and energy-based WHMI positively related to work-family conflict and health condition severity, and negatively related to boundary flexibility. Energy-based WHMI predicted variance in work burnout beyond time-based WHMI and work-family conflict in all three samples, and energy-based WHMI predicted variance in work withdrawal beyond time-based WHMI and workfamily conflict in two of three samples. Energy-based WHMI also predicted variance in perceived work ability beyond time-based WHMI and work-family conflict. A high level of WHMI signals a need for intervention for the individual (through education, coaching, job accommodations, etc.) and/or the organization (through supervisor training, implementing flexibility, etc.) to promote healthier and more sustainable employment for affected individuals.

Both supervisor and supervisee behaviour patterns contribute to increase the risk of injury when older siblings supervise younger ones.

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