Yoking Gnosis and Logos: On the Knowledge Function of Some Exceptional Mental States for Well-Being

The article presents the results obtained with the use of psychodiagnostic techniques that allowed to analyze and assess professional success of nursing staff, level of emotional burnout and psychological stress, manifestations of anxiety and fear of failure in order to adjust the behavior and well-being of specialists in the process of professional activity.

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Mental States of a Personality in a Didactic VR Environment

Experimental Psychology (Russia) ◽

10.17759/exppsy.2021000002 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

V.V. Selivanov

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Well Being ◽

Mental States ◽

Fundamental Importance ◽

Short Term ◽

Independent Variables ◽

3D Objects

The work is aimed at examining the influence of modern didactic programs in virtual reality (VR) on mental states in adolescence. The materials of empirical research obtained on a sample of 3—4 year students from Moscow and Smolensk universities are presented. Study 1 (N = 50) involved respondents aged 19 to 26 years. We used the methodology of AS Kulikov L.V., didactic VR programs were used as instructive independent variables. The results obtained indicate that the didactic VR environment of the highest level has a significant effect on mental states, increasing indicators on the scales of activation, excitement, tone, euphoria, and reducing asthenia. Conditions such as well-being, normal mood, calmness remain stable in immersive didactic VR. The effectiveness of VR programs in influencing mental states is determined by the successful modeling of 3D objects, high animation, interactivity, originally incorporated into the content of VR of the highest level. The data on an increase in the experience of the degree of presence in VR when using new helmets, even in short VR programs, are of fundamental importance. This indicates the possibility of the formation of addictions to VR with their repeated, short-term use.

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Medicine and Health in the Graeco-Roman World

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546497.013.0002 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Philip van der Eijk

Keyword(s):

History Of Medicine ◽

Well Being ◽

Mental States ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

Health Characteristic ◽

Science And Culture ◽

History Of ◽

Time Frames ◽

Roman Medicine

This article focuses on a number of developments that have made the place of Graeco-Roman medicine in surveys of the history of medicine. A further development discussed is that medical history now also prominently includes the topic of health, both physical and mental health and related topics such as lifestyle, quality of life, well-being, fitness, and ‘flourishing’. It identifies a number of different mental states or conditions on a scale from an optimum to a pessimum, and thus presents a good example of the scalar, gradualist view of health characteristic of Greek medicine. This article shows philosophy competing with medicine for the role of authoritative guide to health, mental as well as physical, and diagnostic as well as therapeutic. The study of Graeco-Roman medicine has profited significantly from connections and comparisons with the study of the history of medicine, science, and culture from other time frames and other parts of the world.

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How is COVID-19 Experience Transforming Sustainability Requirements of Residential Buildings? A Review

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12208732 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (20) ◽

pp. 8732

Author(s):

Galym Tokazhanov ◽

Aidana Tleuken ◽

Mert Guney ◽

Ali Turkyilmaz ◽

Ferhat Karaca

Keyword(s):

Residential Buildings ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Well Being ◽

Mental States ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Journal Articles ◽

Protective Measures ◽

Expert Opinions ◽

Living Space ◽

Significant Harm

The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing about changes, and alongside these, we can alter the way we design our living spaces. The need for a healthy and comfortable living space is essential to mental and physical well-being. The present study covers the most up-to-date documents, including peer-reviewed papers, blog posts, news, journal articles, and expert opinions, to critically review lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and evaluates the expected changes in sustainability requirements of residential buildings. Health and safety, environment, and comfort are the three main aspects of residential buildings that have been tested during quarantines and are also expected to experience major transformations toward sustainability. Residential houses should provide certain health and safety protective measures to their occupants, such as the application of new touchless technologies, having proper sanitation to diminish the probability of getting infected, and developing greener and more intimate spaces that can help recover and improve mental states. Our findings address the need to reconsider sustainability requirements for residential buildings, which will provide adequate health and safety and comfort with no significant harm to the environment.

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Darwinian Dynamics of Depression

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.3109/00048670903308611 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 43 (11) ◽

pp. 1029-1037

Author(s):

John Price

Keyword(s):

Social Relations ◽

Social Life ◽

Social Role ◽

Selection Process ◽

Well Being ◽

Mental States ◽

Social Structures ◽

Loss Of Life ◽

The Social ◽

Depressive States

Darwin's theory of sexual selection offers a challenge to psychology and psychiatry. We select each other, and have been doing so since social life first evolved. But who is selected and what happens to those who are not selected? What social structures have evolved to contain the unselected? What behaviours have evolved to manage the selection process? How do the selected relate to the unselected and what behaviours have evolved to manage this asymmetry in social relations? What mental states have evolved to characterize the selected and the unselected? These questions should be kept in mind when we observe and study the social structures, behaviours and mental states that we see displayed before us in all the variety of nature. It is suggested that a significant amount of current psychiatric disorder, especially depressive states and both social and generalized anxiety disorder, have evolved because they managed the processes of being unselected and de-selected, and maintained the unselected in that social role without loss of life or physical incapacity, and enabled the unselected to contribute to general social well-being.

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One wave or another in the pandemic: Psychological well-being during the third COVID-19 wave

10.31234/osf.io/tbcx7 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Michela Marchetti ◽

Daniele Gatti ◽

Lucio Inguscio ◽

Giuliana Mazzoni

Keyword(s):

Positive Emotions ◽

Well Being ◽

Mental States ◽

Protective Role ◽

Perceived Usefulness ◽

Third Wave ◽

The Third ◽

Data Driven Approach ◽

Restrictive Measures ◽

The Impact

After a year from the emergence of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on February 2020, between March and May 2021 Italy faced its third wave of infections. Previous studies have shown that in the first phases of the pandemic certain factors had a protective role against distress. However, as the months in the pandemic went by, people’s feelings and experiences significantly changed and little is known regarding the role of possible protective variables after prolonged pandemic situations. In the present study we aimed to investigate the impact of several behavioral variables on individuals’ mental states and emotions experienced during the third COVID-19 wave in Italy. 454 Italian adults were asked questions regarding the intensity of mental states and emotions experienced, the perceived usefulness of lockdown, the feeling of living a normal life, and the coping strategies implemented to face the pandemic. Using a data driven approach, we calculated the best model on the participation of each factor in explaining participants’ emotions and mental states. Our findings indicate that the presence of acceptance attitudes toward restrictive measures and the implementation of recreational activities helped participants face a prolonged pandemic with positive emotions.

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FORECASTING AND IDENTIFICATION OF MENTAL STATES AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING AND COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS OF CHILDREN WITH HEARING DISORDERS

Moscow University Psychology Bulletin ◽

10.11621/vsp.2020.03.14 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 314-334

Author(s):

Anna I. Akhmetzyanova ◽

T.V. Artemieva ◽

L.V. Artischiva

Keyword(s):

Hearing Impairment ◽

Communication Skills ◽

Subjective Experience ◽

Complex Structure ◽

Well Being ◽

Mental States ◽

Preschool Age ◽

General Tendency ◽

Hearing Impairments ◽

The Relationship

Relevance. The ability of children with hearing impairments to recognize and determine their own conditions and those around them, to build adequate forecasts determines the success in socializing, in their interaction with others, both adults and peers, and in establishing relationships with them, which determines the relevance of the study. The objective of the study is to determine the specifics of the relationship between the processes of identifying mental states, predicting and criteria for the success of interaction between children and other people measured by communication skills and emotional well-being / distress. The following methods were used: “Emotional faces” (N.Y. Semago), “Ugadayka” (L.I. Peresleni and V.L. Podobed), “Methodology for determining the level of development of the communicative abilities of preschool children” (N.E. Veraksa), “Scale of emotional distress and atypical behavior” (A.M. Kazmin, N.A. Konovko, O.G. Salnikova, E.K. Tupitsina, E.V. Fedina). Sample. The study involved 15 preschoolers with hearing impairment , 100 preschoolers without hearing impairment, 16 children of primary school age with hearing impairment, and 40 - without hearing impairment. Results. It was found that the processes of predicting and identifying mental states are interrelated; the relationship is mediated by other variables (emotional well-being, communication skills), the structure of the relationship is deteriorating with age in children with and without hearing impairments. The following conclusions were drawn: the structure of prognosis for children with normotypical development and hearing impairment has a general tendency in dynamics ( secondary variables fallout) and specific signs, manifested in the level of complexity and completeness of the structure; having a common foundation (subjective experience) identification and forecasting processes are interconnected only in preschool age; with time their relationship is mediated by additional variables (emotional well-being and communication skills); children with hearing impairments have a less complex structure of the relationship between predicting and identifying mental states against emotional well-being and communication skills.

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Neurobiological Bases of Social Networks

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.626337 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Mengfei Han ◽

Gaofang Jiang ◽

Haoshuang Luo ◽

Yongcong Shao

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Social Network ◽

Dopamine Receptor ◽

Functional Properties ◽

Cognitive Abilities ◽

Neural Mechanism ◽

Well Being ◽

Mental States ◽

Social Signals ◽

The Brain

A social network is a web that integrates multiple levels of interindividual social relationships and has direct associations with an individual’s health and well-being. Previous research has mainly focused on how brain and social network structures (structural properties) act on each other and on how the brain supports the spread of ideas and behaviors within social networks (functional properties). The structure of the social network is correlated with activity in the amygdala, which links decoding and interpreting social signals and social values. The structure also relies on the mentalizing network, which is central to an individual’s ability to infer the mental states of others. Network functional properties depend on multilayer brain-social networks, indicating that information transmission is supported by the default mode system, the valuation system, and the mentalizing system. From the perspective of neuroendocrinology, overwhelming evidence shows that variations in oxytocin, β-endorphin and dopamine receptor genes, including oxytocin receptor (OXTR), mu opioid receptor 1 (OPRM1) and dopamine receptor 2 (DRD2), predict an individual’s social network structure, whereas oxytocin also contributes to improved transmission of emotional and behavioral information from person to person. Overall, previous studies have comprehensively revealed the effects of the brain, endocrine system, and genes on social networks. Future studies are required to determine the effects of cognitive abilities, such as memory, on social networks, the characteristics and neural mechanism of social networks in mental illness and how social networks change over time through the use of longitudinal methods.

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Age-Related Features of the Relationship Between Sociometric Status and Mental States of Children

Development of education ◽

10.31483/r-75528 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 32-38

Author(s):

Svetlana Gurevna Krasnova

Keyword(s):

Negative Impact ◽

Pearson Correlation ◽

Statistical Processing ◽

Well Being ◽

Mental States ◽

Sociometric Status ◽

Stage Of Development ◽

Age Related ◽

Status Characteristics ◽

The Relationship

The article is devoted to identifying the relationship between mental states and the sociometric status of children in a group at preschool educational institutions. In is noted that determining the relationship between mental states and status characteristics is important in understanding the mechanisms of children's development in ontogenesis and is associated with the need to ensure emotional well-being and successful socialization of a child. The psychodiagnostic methods, adequate research goals, methods of statistical processing of experimental data (criterion r – Pearson correlation coefficient, multifunctional difference criterion φ – Fisher’s angular transformation) were applied during investigational study. The results of correlation analysis are presented in the article. The analysis of correlations allowed to identify pervasive and specific, peculiar only to a certain age stage of development, negative and positive mental states of children, depending on their status characteristics. The data obtained in the course of the study significantly enrich the existing ideas about the characteristics of preschoolers with different sociometric status. It is concluded that the presence of statistically significant differences in the frequency of manifestations of mental states allowed to determine the specifics of socio-psychological features of the states of children of different status groups. The need to take into account these ideas is associated with the fact that mental formations formed at this age are stable and persist for many years, determining the further development of the child. Negative states, creating a vicious circle, can have a negative impact on the formation of the child's relationship system in a group of peers.

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Older Adults’ Perspectives on Using Digital Technology to Maintain Good Mental Health: Interactive Group Study (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.11694 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jacob A Andrews ◽

Laura JE Brown ◽

Mark S Hawley ◽

Arlene J Astell

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Older Adults ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Well Being ◽

Mental States ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Good Mental Health ◽

Template Analysis ◽

Barriers To Use ◽

The Impact

BACKGROUND A growing number of apps to support good mental health and well-being are available on digital platforms. However, very few studies have examined older adults’ attitudes toward the use of these apps, despite increasing uptake of digital technologies by this demographic. OBJECTIVE This study sought to explore older adults’ perspectives on technology to support good mental health. METHODS A total of 15 older adults aged 50 years or older, in two groups, participated in sessions to explore the use of digital technologies to support mental health. Interactive activities were designed to capture participants’ immediate reactions to apps and websites designed to support mental health and to explore their experiences of using technology for these purposes in their own lives. Template analysis was used to analyze transcripts of the group discussions. RESULTS Older adults were motivated to turn to technology to improve mood through mechanisms of distraction, normalization, and facilitated expression of mental states, while aiming to reduce burden on others. Perceived barriers to use included fear of consequences and the impact of low mood on readiness to engage with technology, as well as a lack of prior knowledge applicable to digital technologies. Participants were aware of websites available to support mental health, but awareness alone did not motivate use. CONCLUSIONS Older adults are motivated to use digital technologies to improve their mental health, but barriers remain that developers need to address for this population to access them.

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