scholarly journals Can we talk? Design Implications for the Questionnaire-Driven Self-Report of Health and Wellbeing via Conversational Agent

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raju Maharjan ◽  
Darius Adam Rohani ◽  
Per Bækgaard ◽  
Jakob Bardram ◽  
Kevin Doherty
Keyword(s):  
Self Report ◽  
Conversational Agent ◽  
Health And Wellbeing

Associations between the awakening responses of salivary α-amylase and cortisol with self-report indicators of health and wellbeing among educators

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 98-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deirdre A. Katz ◽  
Mark T. Greenberg ◽  
Patricia A. Jennings ◽  
Laura Cousino Klein
Keyword(s):  
Self Report ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
The Awakening

scholarly journals Do work beliefs moderate the relationship between work interruptions, wellbeing and psychosomatic symptoms?

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoi(e) Zoupanou ◽  
Leif W. Rydstedt
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
General Health ◽  
Delay Of Gratification ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Psychosomatic Symptoms ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Work Interruptions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to explore the moderating effects of work beliefs in the relationship between work interruptions and general health, wellbeing and reports of psychosomatic symptoms. Self-report data were gathered from 310 employees from different occupational sectors. Results revealed that beliefs in hard work and morality ethic moderated the positive appraisal of work interruptions and acted as protective factors on impaired general health and wellbeing. The relationship was stronger among employees who endorsed strong beliefs in hard work and did not have regard for morality/ethics as a value. Likewise, beliefs in delay of gratification and morality/ethics moderated positive appraisal of work interruptions and reduced psychosomatic complaints. More specifically, the relationship was stronger among employees who had strong belief in the values of delayed gratification and weaker morality/ethics. These findings indicate that organisations should adopt work ideology or practices focused on work values particularly of hard work, delay of gratification and conformity to morality as protective factors that reduce the impact of work interruptions on employees’ general health and wellbeing.

scholarly journals Sleep, mental health and wellbeing among fathers of infants up to 1 year postpartum: A scoping review

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Wynter ◽  
Lauren Francis ◽  
Richard Fletcher ◽  
Nyanda McBride ◽  
Eileen Dowse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sleep Disturbance ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Infant Sleep ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Causal Direction ◽  
Safety Compliance

BackgroundSleep disturbance among adults has consequences for their health and functioning. Among mothers of infants, there is evidence that fatigue and sleep disturbance are significantly associated with depression, anxiety and impaired relationships with partners and infants. It is not known whether consistent evidence of such associations exists for fathers. The aim of this review was to describe what is known about fathers’ sleep and its associations with mental health and wellbeing, in the first 12 months postpartum. Methods A scoping review was conducted, searching MEDLINE complete, Scopus, PsycINFO and CINAHL complete, from 1990 to 13 May 2019. Reference lists of relevant reviews were also searched. Articles were included if they were published in English, and reported on sleep among men cohabiting with their infants from birth to 12 months. ResultsThirty-six papers reporting on 31 separate studies met inclusion criteria. Sleep constructs and assessment of these varied greatly. While some measures of fathers’ sleep improved, fathers’ fatigue increased significantly with increasing infant age. In adjusted analyses, fathers’ sleep problems were associated with poorer mental health, relationships with infants and partners, and safety compliance at work. ConclusionsFurther research on fathers’ sleep in the first postnatal year is recommended, including: validation of brief self-report measures to assess sleep disturbance and fatigue; well-designed longitudinal studies to clarify the causal direction of associations between infant sleep, fathers’ sleep and fathers’ wellbeing; and development of interventions to improve fathers’ sleep, for example by supporting parents to address infant sleep problems.

Social Media Analytics to Predict Depression Level in the Users

2019 ◽  
pp. 199-215
Author(s):  
Mohammad Shahid Husain
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Social Media Analytics ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
The World ◽  
Web Forums ◽  
Depression Level

As people around the world are spending increasing amounts of time online, the question of how online experiences are linked to health and wellbeing is essential. Depression has become a public health concern around the world. Traditional methods for detecting depression rely on self-report techniques, which suffer from inefficient data collection and processing. Research shows that symptoms linked to mental illness are detectable on social media like Twitter, Facebook, and web forums, and automatic methods are more and more able to locate inactivity and other mental disease. The pattern of social media usage can be very helpful to predict the mental state of a user. This chapter also presents how activities on Facebook are associated with the depressive states of users. Based on online logs, we can predict the mental state of users.

scholarly journals Assessment and diagnosis of social phobia in the clinic and the community

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD G. HEIMBERG
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Phobia ◽  
Clinical Global Impression ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Psychological Medicine ◽  
Do So ◽  
Assessment And Diagnosis

I have been asked to comment on the three articles on social phobia in this issue of Psychological Medicine. The three papers in one way or another concern themselves with important issues in the assessment and diagnosis of social phobia (also known as social anxiety disorder; Liebowitz et al. 2000). I do so with the caveat that I am an author on one of the papers and do not claim the same degree of objectivity in examining my own work as I do in examining the work of others. The three papers concern the psychometric evaluation of a modified version of the Clinical Global Impression (CGI) (Guy, 1976) in a sample of persons with social phobia (Zaider et al. 2003), the development of a self-report screening questionnaire for social phobia (Newman et al. 2003) and the characteristics of social phobia in the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing (NSMHWB) (Lampe et al. 2003).

scholarly journals Sexual harassment and assault among university students in Norway: a cross-sectional prevalence study

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. e026993
Author(s):  
Børge Sivertsen ◽  
Morten Birkeland Nielsen ◽  
Ida E H Madsen ◽  
Marit Knapstad ◽  
Kari Jussie Lønning ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
University Students ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
College And University ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
The Past

ObjectiveThe aim of the current study was to provide estimates of both overall and specific forms of sexual harassment among male and female college and university students.Design and settingData stem from a recent national student health survey from 2018 for higher education in Norway (the SHoT study (Students’ Health and Wellbeing Study)).Participants50 054 full-time students (69.1% women) aged 18–35 years participated, yielding a response rate of 31%.Main outcome measureSexual harassment was defined according to Norwegian legal regulations, and was assessed by self-report on seven items covering verbal, non-verbal and physical sexual harassment. We also collected data on the timeframe and frequency of the sexual harassment, in addition to the formal position of the perpetrator of the harassment.ResultsLifetime sexual harassment was reported by 24.2% (women 31.3%, men 8.0%), while 16.7% (women 21.6%, men 5.7%) reported having been sexually harassed within the past year. The most common forms of lifetime (ever having experienced) sexual harassments were ‘sexual expressions, suggestions or comments about your body’ and ‘unwanted touching, hugging or kissing’ (both 15.4%), while rape and rape attempt were reported by 3.4% and 2.1%, respectively. Exposure to all forms of past-year sexual harassments was significantly more common among women and the youngest age cohorts. Fellow students committed the past-year sexual harassment in 18%–29% of the instances, while a university staff member was reported to have committed the harassment in 0.6%–4.6% of cases.ConclusionGiven the potential consequences suffered by those exposed to sexual harassment and assault, both the institutions and student welfare organisations should intensify their efforts to put the theme on the agenda and provide both legal and health services to victims of sexual harassment. The low response rate means that care should be taken in interpreting and generalising the findings to the whole student population.

scholarly journals Three Gaps and What They May Mean for Risk Preference

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Hertwig ◽  
Dirk U. Wulff ◽  
Rui Mata
Keyword(s):  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Risk Preference ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Future Work

Risk preference is one of the most important building blocks of choice theories in the behavioural sciences. In economics, it is often conceptualised as preferences concerning variance of monetary payoffs, whereas in psychology risk preference is often thought to capture the propensity to engage in behaviour with the potential for loss or harm. Both concepts are associated with distinct measurement traditions: Economics has traditionally relied on behavioural measures, while psychology has often relied on self-reports. We review three important gaps that have emerged from work stemming from these two measurement traditions: First, a description–experience gap which suggests that behavioural measures do not speak with one voice and can give very different views on an individual’s appetite for risk; second, a behaviour–self-report gap which suggests that different self-report measures, but not behavioural measures, show a high degree of convergent validity; and, third, a temporal stability gap which suggests that self-reports, but not behavioural measures, show considerable temporal stability across periods of years. Risk preference, when measured through self-reported preferences—but not behavioural preferences—appears as a moderately stable psychological trait with both general and domain-specific components. We argue that future work needs to address the gaps which have emerged from the two measurement traditions and test their differential predictive validity for important economic, health and wellbeing outcomes.

scholarly journals The role of teacher’s health culture in the formation of students’ hardiness

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 00070
Author(s):  
E.A. Yugova ◽  
M.A. Yugova
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Stress Resistance ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
University Level ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Difficult Situations

The relevance of the researched problem is determined by the necessity to improve the teacher’s culture of health and wellbeing affected by the growing functional loads leading to the stressful situations that influence the human health status and life expectancy. The article is aimed at proving the necessity to form hardiness of the students, particularly, through the teaching/learning process. The situation is conditioned by low stress resistance of university students and consequently by their decreased self-preservation and low life expectancy. The research method is students’ self-report based on the S. Cohen and G. Willianson Perceived Stress Scale questionnaire (stress resistance self-evaluation) that allows to prove the necessity to form hardiness exactly in the age group under consideration [1]. The didactic methods are the classroom discussion and the role-play. The article discloses and corroborates the pedagogical approaches to the human hardiness formation that are used during the vocational education at the university level and are necessary to overcome life difficulties evolved during the personal ontogenesis. The article can be of practical value to educators, psychologists, psycho-physiologists, and other professionals dealing with support and assistance to those students who experience problems in difficult situations.

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