Social Belonging as a Predictor of Surgical Resident Well-being and Attrition

Fitness as a healthy lifestyle implementation helps to improve the social, mental and physical well-being components. Several scientists have indicated that there is a connection between social belonging and physical activity (PA) as the structural component of a healthy lifestyle (Walseth, 2006; Walseth & Fasting, 2004; Antonsich, 2010; Yuval-Davis, 2006; Anthias, 2006; Pinquart & Sorensen, 2001; Everard et. al., 2000). That is why the goal of the research is to develop and apply a social belonging promotion programme for women in fitness programme and to determine the changes in the lifestyle structural component health promoting PA. 10 women involved in fitness classes in small groups (2-4 people) participated in the case study, where in addition to PA social belonging promotion events were organized for all women together. In order to evaluate the structural components of social belonging and PA level and type, questionnaires adapted in Latvia and a semi-structured interview was used. Applying the social belonging promotion programme for women in fitness creates statistically significant changes in such structural components as sense of commitment (p<0.01), perception of interpersonal relations (p<0.01). By additionally promoting social belonging in fitness, women perceive the group better, are willing to spend more time with it; that, in turn, positively affects the willingness to be physically and socially active on a daily basis.

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Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity

Global Perspectives ◽

10.1525/001c.11867 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Katharina Lima de Miranda ◽

Dennis J. Snower

Keyword(s):

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Well Being ◽

Technological Advance ◽

Economic Prosperity ◽

Human Needs ◽

Environmental Performance Index ◽

Left Behind ◽

Social Belonging ◽

Material Gain ◽

New Perspective

This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being—solidarity (S) and agency (A)—to be considered alongside the standard indexes of material gain (G) and environmental sustainability (E). The four indexes—SAGE—form a balanced dashboard for evaluating well-being. The solidarity index covers the needs of humans as social creatures, living in societies that generate a sense of social belonging. The agency index involves people’s need to influence their fate through their own efforts. While “economic prosperity” (material gain) is conventionally measured through GDP per capita, “social prosperity” can be measured through our solidarity and agency indexes, alongside environmental sustainability that is measured through the Environmental Performance Index. The SAGE dashboard is meant to provide a “sage” approach to assessing well-being, since it aims to denote sagacity in the pursuit and satisfaction of fundamental human needs and purposes. Many of the prominent challenges of the 21st century, including the dissatisfaction of population groups who feel left behind by globalization and technological advance, may be viewed in terms of a “decoupling” of economic prosperity from social prosperity. We present a theoretical model that provides a new perspective on the welfare effects of globalization and automation. The dashboard is meant to provide an empirical basis for mobilizing action in government, business, and civil society to promote a recoupling of economic and social prosperity.

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A brief social-belonging intervention in college improves adult outcomes for black Americans

Science Advances ◽

10.1126/sciadv.aay3689 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (18) ◽

pp. eaay3689 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Shannon T. Brady ◽

Geoffrey L. Cohen ◽

Shoshana N. Jarvis ◽

Gregory M. Walton

Keyword(s):

Community Involvement ◽

Psychological Intervention ◽

Adult Life ◽

Black Americans ◽

Well Being ◽

First Year ◽

Adult Outcomes ◽

Social Belonging ◽

Long Term Follow Up ◽

The Life Course

Could mitigating persistent worries about belonging in the transition to college improve adult life for black Americans? To examine this question, we conducted a long-term follow-up of a randomized social-belonging intervention delivered in the first year of college. This 1-hour exercise represented social and academic adversity early in college as common and temporary. As previously reported in Science, the exercise improved black students’ grades and well-being in college. The present study assessed the adult outcomes of these same participants. Examining adult life at an average age of 27, black adults who had received the treatment (versus control) exercise 7 to 11 years earlier reported significantly greater career satisfaction and success, psychological well-being, and community involvement and leadership. Gains were statistically mediated by greater college mentorship. The results suggest that addressing persistent social-psychological concerns via psychological intervention can shape the life course, partly by changing people’s social realities.

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A Social-Belonging Intervention Benefits Higher Weight Students’ Weight Stability and Academic Achievement

Social Psychological and Personality Science ◽

10.1177/1948550620959236 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 194855062095923

Author(s):

Christine Logel ◽

Joel M. Le Forestier ◽

Eben B. Witherspoon ◽

Omid Fotuhi

Keyword(s):

College Transition ◽

Well Being ◽

Grade Point Averages ◽

First Year ◽

Psychological Interventions ◽

Healthy Weight ◽

Intervention Trial ◽

Grade Point ◽

Social Belonging ◽

Weight Stability

Psychological interventions can narrow college achievement gaps between students from nonstigmatized and stigmatized groups. However, no intervention we know of has investigated effects for one highly stigmatized group: people of higher bodyweights. We analyzed data from a prematriculation social-belonging intervention trial at 22 colleges, which conveyed that adversity in the college transition is normative, temporary, and nondiagnostic of lack of belonging. Nine months postintervention, higher weight participants in a standard belonging treatment had higher first-year grade point averages (GPAs) than controls and maintained more stable weights, an indicator of physical well-being. Effects of a belonging treatment customized to specific colleges were directionally similar but nonsignificant. Exploratory analyses revealed that effects did not differ by race and that weight effects were driven by women. Together, results show that higher weight students contend with belonging concerns that contribute to a weight gap in GPA, but belonging interventions can raise GPA and promote healthy weight stability.

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Identity Denied: Comparing American or White Identity Denial and Psychological Health Outcomes Among Bicultural and Biracial People

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ◽

10.1177/0146167218788553 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 416-430 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Analia F. Albuja ◽

Diana T. Sanchez ◽

Sarah E. Gaither

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Psychological Health ◽

Well Being ◽

White Identity ◽

Significant Variance ◽

Dual Identity ◽

Stress Study ◽

Social Belonging ◽

The Relationship

Because bicultural and biracial people have two identities within one social domain (culture or race), their identification is often challenged by others. Although it is established that identity denial is associated with poor psychological health, the processes through which this occurs are less understood. Across two high-powered studies, we tested identity autonomy, the perceived compatibility of identities, and social belonging as mediators of the relationship between identity denial and well-being among bicultural and biracial individuals. Bicultural and biracial participants who experienced challenges to their American or White identities felt less freedom in choosing an identity and perceived their identities as less compatible, which was ultimately associated with greater reports of depressive symptoms and stress. Study 2 replicated these results and measured social belonging, which also accounted for significant variance in well-being. The results suggest the processes were similar across populations, highlighting important implications for the generalizability to other dual-identity populations.

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WISATA KULINER SEBAGAI FENOMENA SOSIAL DAN KEKUATAN PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI (Sebuah Studi Market)

Firm Journal of Management Studies ◽

10.33021/firm.v5i2.1117 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 147

Author(s):

Hernawati Retno Wiratih

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Well Being ◽

Capabilities Approach ◽

Social Phenomenon ◽

Group Interest ◽

Gender Education ◽

Social Belonging ◽

Self Actualization ◽

Market Production ◽

Growth Economic

Humans are unique creatures (Descartes, 1596-1650) humans are creatures who think (cogito); doubts about its existence the cogito ergo sum are answered which is building a relationship with their environment to develop themselves as human beingsm, wherever men have lived together there has been some group interest in food, traveling, and pleasure. This interest as group grows becomes more complex, and places in charged with the chance and challenge of feeding and offering is created. Human capital is not only a factor in economic growth, but also an effect of it or of developments generated by economic growth. The process of economic growth can explain much of the observed variation in the structure distribution among culinary foods as a social phenomenon. The global spread culinary industries produced benefit development of well-being in many areas. The contribution of culinary to economic well-being depends on the quality and revenues of the culinary that offer. The trend of world community todays there is an interest increase of most of people, with their own reasons, they like to spend their time to the food court even a while. Due to the result of research shows that with 180 respondents from any reasons we try to study (ages of group of respondents, gender, education, occupation, the living area, their related Activities Culinary for. Lunch and or dining out is growing form of half of informal form and leisure where meals are consumed not out of necessity but also important sustainable positioning in ever more complex for pleasure and to build a relationships, the occasion are part of the leisure experiences as much as the food itself as social-belonging, esteem, and self-actualization (Hierarchy of Needs, Maslow, 1954), and event cultural object. In Sen’s capabilities approach which holds a person’s capability to have various functioning vectors and to enjoy the corresponding “well-being achievements” to the best indicator of welfare (Sen, 1985) means that culinary as social phenomenon growth amplifies the positive impacts of rotation economic and market production at the same time welfare too. Key Words: Culinary, Leisure and Esteem, Self-Actualization, Growth Economic.

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Perceived Value of a Program to Promote Surgical Resident Well-being

Journal of Surgical Education ◽

10.1016/j.jsurg.2017.04.006 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 74 (6) ◽

pp. 921-927 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Arghavan Salles ◽

Cara A. Liebert ◽

Micaela Esquivel ◽

Ralph S. Greco ◽

Rebecca Henry ◽

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Keyword(s):

Perceived Value ◽

Well Being ◽

Surgical Resident

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Extending our Understanding of Social Belonging: College Students' Use of Technology, Psychosocial Well-Being, and Sense of Community in University Life

10.22371/05.2010.013 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

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Sara Henry

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Sense Of Community ◽

Well Being ◽

Use Of Technology ◽

Social Belonging ◽

University Life

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Bridge or Hurdle?

Intersections ◽

10.17356/ieejsp.v5i4.578 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Christine Steiner

Keyword(s):

Learning Environments ◽

School System ◽

Immigrant Students ◽

Well Being ◽

Children And Youth ◽

School Aged Children ◽

School Based ◽

Strong Focus ◽

Social Belonging ◽

German School

The massive influx of refugees in 2015 and 2016, among them many school-aged children and youth, sped up the debate about Germany as a country of immigration, in particular about the fairness and social inclusiveness in the German school system. As in many other European countries, in Germany newly immigrated students without knowledge of German initially attend preparatory classes. The strong focus on learning German and the separation of the students from native-born peers are seen to hinder both their educational progress and social belonging within school. Based on data from a survey of newly arrived students conducted in 2018 and with regard to the students’ well-being, this paper examines the question as to whether or not attending a preparatory class is an obstacle to integration within the school community. The findings show that immigrant students generally have a good relationship with their new classmates and teachers and feel well at school. Attending a preparatory class does lead to some restrictions, i.e., it limits the chance to establish friendships with native-born schoolmates. At the same time, there are also advantages connected with learning in separate learning environments.

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