The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on our lives can no longer be neglected, and thus, understanding this phenomenon and how humans interact with it is becoming more important than ever. The study emphasizes one of the psychological characteristics that helps us in accepting AI and using it to its fullest, namely the psychological resilience that each of us, and in particular emergency service workers, possesses in different proportions. The analysis of the relationship between the two dimensions (psychological resilience and AI) highlights, among other things, the importance of how organizations can use this interaction to achieve a framework for developing the psychological resources of their employees so that they are increasingly receptive to the use of AI in their work, pursuing the benefits it brings. The study is conducted on 89 emergency service workers and focuses on the positive and highly statistically significant relationship between psychological resilience and attitudes towards AI. The study also particularly emphasizes the relationship between tenacity and self-efficacy, self-confidence, ability to learn from life experiences, rapid recovery from negative events, social and family resources as dimensions of psychological resilience in relation to attitude towards IA of emergency workers.
Background: The number of studies with the application of scales, such as Attitudes Toward Obese Persons Scale (ATOP), on morbid obese patients are limited. Therefore, we wanted to examine the attitudes toward obese people through the eyes of morbid obese patients. Methods: Between October 2019 - April 2020, 70 female and 20 male, morbid obese patients, who were admitted to the general surgery department to be evaluated for bariatric surgery were included in this study. These 90 morbid obese patients were asked to fill out ATOP, which included 20 statements. Results: The mean ATOP score of all morbid obese patients was 63.44±18.58 (range:19-116). The mean ATOP score of female patients was 63.47±20.34 (range:19-116), whereas the mean ATOP score of male patients was 63.35±10.69 (range:43-80) (p=0.98). The frequency of the responses given by the male and female patients to the third statement, which was “Most obese people are more self-conscious than other people” pointed out a statistically significant difference (p=0.02). Conclusions: Based on ATOP scores gained from morbid obese patients, 60% of morbid obese patients did not feel as happy as non-obese people, whereas 74.4% of the morbid obese patients thought that obese people were not as healthy as non- obese people. Moreover, ATOP scores which were slightly higher than 60 points in both female and male morbid obese patients indicated that morbid obese patients had neither negative nor highly positive attitudes toward obese people.
