scholarly journals The role of social virtual world in increasing psychological resilience during the on-going COVID-19 pandemic

2022 ◽  
Vol 127 ◽  
pp. 107036
Author(s):  
Iman Paul ◽  
Smaraki Mohanty ◽  
Rumela Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Virtual World ◽  
Psychological Resilience

Psychological Resilience Provides No Independent Protection From Suicidal Risk

Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danica W. Y. Liu ◽  
A. Kate Fairweather-Schmidt ◽  
Richard Burns ◽  
Rachel M. Roberts ◽  
Kaarin J. Anstey
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Resilience Factors ◽  
First Time

Abstract. Background: Little is known about the role of resilience in the likelihood of suicidal ideation (SI) over time. Aims: We examined the association between resilience and SI in a young-adult cohort over 4 years. Our objectives were to determine whether resilience was associated with SI at follow-up or, conversely, whether SI was associated with lowered resilience at follow-up. Method: Participants were selected from the Personality and Total Health (PATH) Through Life Project from Canberra and Queanbeyan, Australia, aged 28–32 years at the first time point and 32–36 at the second. Multinomial, linear, and binary regression analyses explored the association between resilience and SI over two time points. Models were adjusted for suicidality risk factors. Results: While unadjusted analyses identified associations between resilience and SI, these effects were fully explained by the inclusion of other suicidality risk factors. Conclusion: Despite strong cross-sectional associations, resilience and SI appear to be unrelated in a longitudinal context, once risk/resilience factors are controlled for. As independent indicators of psychological well-being, suicidality and resilience are essential if current status is to be captured. However, the addition of other factors (e.g., support, mastery) makes this association tenuous. Consequently, resilience per se may not be protective of SI.

Presence, Environment, and Sound and the Role of Imagination

2019 ◽  
pp. 667-681
Author(s):  
Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Actual World ◽  
Sensory Input ◽  
The World ◽  
Visual Dimension ◽  
The Creation ◽  
First Person Shooter ◽  
Selection Of

Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard addresses the role of sound in the creation of presence in virtual and actual worlds. He argues that imagination is a central part of the generation and selection of perceptual hypotheses—models of the world in which we can act—that emerge from what Grimshaw-Aagaard calls the “exo-environment” (the sensory input) and the “endo-environment” (the cognitive input). Grimshaw-Aagaard further divides the exo-environment into a primarily auditory and a primarily visual dimension and he deals with the actual world of his own apartment and the virtual world of first-person-shooter computer games in order to exemplify how we perceptually construct an environment that allows for the creation of presence.

scholarly journals Multimodal Imaging Analysis Reveals Frontal-Associated Networks in Relation to Individual Resilience Strength

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1123
Author(s):  
Shulan Hsieh ◽  
Zai-Fu Yao ◽  
Meng-Heng Yang
Keyword(s):  
Multimodal Imaging ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Multiple Regression Model ◽  
System Level ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Cognition And Emotion ◽  
Individual Resilience ◽  
Predictive Role ◽  
Imaging Properties

Psychological resilience is regarded as a critical protective factor for preventing the development of mental illness from experienced adverse events. Personal strength is one key element of resilience that reflects an individual’s reactions to negative life events and is crucial for successful adaptation. Previous studies have linked unimodal imaging measures with resilience. However, applying multimodal imaging measures could provide comprehensive organization information at the system level to examine whether an individual’s resilience strength is reflected in the brain’s structural and functional network. In this study, MRI was used to acquire multimodal imaging properties and subscales of personal strength in terms of resilience from 109 participants (48 females and 61 males). We employed a method of fusion independent component analysis to link the association between multimodal imaging components and personal strength of psychological resilience. The results reveal that a fusion component involving multimodal frontal networks in connecting with the parietal, occipital, and temporal regions is associated with the resilience score for personal strength. A multiple regression model further explains the predictive role of frontal-associated regions that cover a visual-related network regulating cognition and emotion to discern the perceived adverse experience. Overall, this study suggests that frontal-associated regions are related to individual resilience strength.

Positive And Negative Aspects Of The Psychological Impact Of The Virtual World

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (05) ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
Rakhimova I.I. ◽  
◽  
Mukhiddinova U.A. ◽  
Bеrdiqulоvа G.N. ◽  
Suleymanova D.I. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
National Values ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Individual

In today's age of the Internet, computers and mobile phones for people of all ages are available in almost every home. In addition, in today’s world-wide pandemic, the use of the Internet for education and all aspects of cultural, socio-economic life as well as games such as games is growing rapidly. This, in turn, has a psychological effect on the individual, both positively and negatively on our society and national values. In this article, I have tried to highlight the positive and negative aspects of the internet world that affect the individual. In the article we will focus on the role of the virtual world in human life, the need not to depend on it, to use it for useful purposes.

scholarly journals The Role of Extracurricular Activities in Psychological Resilience Development Among Primary Class Students from their Teacher’s Point of View in Private Schools in Amman Governorate: دور الأنشطة اللاصفية في تنمية المرونة النفسية لدى طلبة الصفوف الأساسية في المدارس الخاصَّة بمحافظة العاصمة عمّان من وجهة نظر معلميهم

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (39) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hana’a Khaled Al-Raqqad, Suzan Mohammed Bushnaq
Keyword(s):  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Analytical Methodology ◽  
Academic Qualification ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities

The study aimed to identify the role of extracurricular activities in psychological resilience development among students in basic grades in private schools from the point of view of their teachers in the capital city of Amman, as well as to find out of differences between estimations means of primary grades teachers contribution extent of extracurricular activities in psychological resilience development due to (Gender, academic qualification, and years of experience). In order to achieve study objectives, descriptive analytical methodology was used. The research also used psychological resilience scale. The research sample consisted of 273 male and female students. In order to answer the research questions, different statistical techniques were used through the (SPSS), Social Packaging Statistical System. The research concluded that there is a role of extra-curricular activities in psychological resilience level with a mean(2.33 out 3 ). The research results indicated that there are no differences in extra-curricular activities roles in the role of extra-curricular activities in the physical resilience to gender. The results also indicated that there differences in extra-curricular activities role in psychological resilience, due to variables (educational level, gender, years of experience, and age). The study recommended a set of recommendations.

scholarly journals How Gig Worker Responds to Negative Customer Treatment: The Effects of Work Meaningfulness and Traits of Psychological Resilience

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
He Xiongtao ◽  
Lu Wenzhu ◽  
Luo Haibin ◽  
Liu Shanshi
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Interpersonal Interaction ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Hierarchical Multiple Regression ◽  
Work Meaningfulness ◽  
Service Sabotage ◽  
Trait Resilience ◽  
Survey Approach ◽  
Practical Implications

The negative interpersonal interaction between customers and platform gig workers has become a problem for platform owners and government. This study investigates the role of negative customer treatment in the context of gig work and its impact on gig workers’ sabotage behavior. A questionnaire survey approach was used in the study, collected three-wave survey data from 258 Chinese gig workers including food-deliver platform workers and app-based ride-hailing drivers. Both effects of the mediation and moderation were tested, all of which find support, using hierarchical multiple regression by SPSS22.0. Results indicate that negative customer treatment can also predict gig workers’ service sabotage through work meaningfulness. Furthermore, positive customer treatment acted as an effective safeguard against the effects of negative customer treatment on employee service sabotage. Trait psychological resilience can also mitigate the effects of a low level of work meaningfulness. The manuscript’s focus provides an interesting angle to the previous research, especially the inclusion of work meaningfulness and trait resilience, on negative customer treatment in the context of gig work. This study contributes to further broaden the perspective of conservation of resource (COR) theory for individual intrinsic motivation analysis. Practical implications for platform management and government governance have also been discussed in this manuscript.

scholarly journals The Flâneuse in the Virtual City: Exploring "Lost Angeles"

1969 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zena Bibler
Keyword(s):  
Virtual World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Primary Mode ◽  
Virtual City ◽  
Kinesthetic Information ◽  
The City

In this essay, I contemplate the role of video gamer as flâneur in Lost Angeles, a three-hour video work by Lee Tusman that captures the wanderings of gamer Derm McGuigan within the virtual world of Los Santos. With the help of Lena Hammergren’s “The re-turn of the flâneuse” I will consider how the video, originally conceived of as a project of “virtual flânerie,” might fall more accurately under the domain of the flâneuse, who uses the kinesthetic as a way to enter previously inaccessible spaces. As McGuigan moves his avatar through Los Santos, he integrates stimuli from the game with his own physical memories, indexing a series of other places and times as he goes. Lost Angeles also complicates the concept of the flâneuse through the presence of the avatar, who serves as the primary mode of navigation, but also offers kinesthetic information to the player. These relationships become more intricately entangled with the entrance of an additional set of spectators that watch McGuigan and his avatar via a live stream. Through this aggregation of wanderers, the flâneuse becomes unstable and multiplies, producing numerous other embodied relationships with the city of Los Santos and the body of the avatar [Which begs the question: Who and where is the flâneuse?] In this essay, I hope to demonstrate how, the proposal of Lost Angeles (to broadcast the wanderings of an expert gamer in a virtual space) collides with the structure of Grand Theft Auto (which invites the player into an ambiguous inside-and-outside location within Los Santos) and produces not one flâneur, but numerous flâneuses who traverse the virtual city via kinesthetic association with the avatar’s movements.

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