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Aims: This paper examines the relationship between observational behavior and the observers' result assumptions, using a contained diagram that includes significant non-verbal information, such as gestures. The ability of care workers to assess a patient's mental status on the basis of nonverbal information would be considered an important skill necessary to understanding patient condition. Methods:One hundred and eleven subjects were asked to take a test exploring two types of psychological status, and their eye movements were monitored during testing. Path analysis was used to examine the relationships among eye movements, individual personalities, and test results. Results:In stimulus 1, the neuroticism of the personality was determined. In stimulus 2, openness was determined in the range of eye movement. There is a relationship between the total length of eye fixation time and the answer time at the eye fixation point. Although there was no significant influence found in stimulus 1, the openness still tended to influence the eye fixation point. Conclusions:The eye fixation point increased among those people with high openness scores. It was theorized that they attempted to obtain information from the stimulus being provided.Key words: eye movement, NEO, non-verbal communication, psychological status, visual information. T HE ABILITY TO interpret non-verbal information, including facial expressions and gestures, to determine someone's state of mind is a very important skill in mental health-care settings. It is often difficult for mentally ill people to verbally express their condition. Therefore, professionals must provide patients with an environment that allows patients to more easily express their condition; professionals must also gain insight into different conditions and desires through observation. The observation act has two stages. In the first stage, perception comes from the sensory feeling receptor. Alternatively, the recognition in the second stage involves processing the perceived information and deriving meaning from it.With regard to the first phase, the sensory receptor refers to the five human senses: sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste. People always communicate with each other, not only with words, but also by sending and receiving information through the five senses. This paper therefore focused on the visual information that becomes the center of perception for nonverbal information. A large and growing body of literature has reported on people's psychological status using visual information. Such research has

Some situations require psychiatric staff nurses to respond to service users' negativity or aggression. As a result, psychiatric staff nurses may experience anger. The current study examined how anger levels of psychiatric staff nurses triggered by anger-generating situations by service users affected nurses' confidence and attitudes. A questionnaire survey was administered among 386 psychiatric staff nurses. The questionnaire surveyed anger levels in anger-generating situations, aggressiveness, nurses' attitudes toward aggression, and self-efficacy of intervening in aggressive situations. Path analysis revealed differences between male and female nurses. Male nurses' anger in response to physical aggression was mild when they were confident in handling aggression. Furthermore, female nurses who had high confidence in intervening in an aggressive situation had low anger levels. Confidence in intervening in aggressive situations appeared to dissipate anger and ease nurses during aggressive interactions. [Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 56(9), 51-59.].

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