scholarly journals Exhaustion, Adversity, and Repression: Emotional Attrition in High-Risk Activism

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Alejandro M. Peña ◽  
Larissa Meier ◽  
Alice M. Nah
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sociology Of Emotions ◽  
Emotional Challenges ◽  
Risk Environments ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Strategic Factors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

The article proposes the notion of emotional attrition to capture the process through which activists working in high-risk environments may develop a lasting state of emotional exhaustion caused by protracted exposure to adversarial conditions. Combining insights from clinical psychology and the sociology of emotions, it outlines a novel framework to understand the relationship between activism, emotions, and disengagement. We argue that activists can develop an emotional state characterized by dispiriting emotions and disengaging attitudes that affect their well-being and ability to sustain their activism. This argument is grounded on an in-depth analysis of more than 130 interviews with local human rights activists in Colombia, Kenya, and Indonesia. By examining their experiences and pressures in relation to the arena of repression, their immediate social circle, and the broader sociopolitical and cultural context, we shed light on the complex intersections between activists’ emotional challenges and the range of contextual and strategic factors shaping their work and lives.

Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being in Public Health Law and Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (S1) ◽  
pp. 37-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Krueger ◽  
Nathaniel Counts ◽  
Brigid Riley
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Collective Impact ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Health And Well Being

This article discusses the relationship between stress, physical health, and well-being in cultural context, offers examples of laws, policies, and programs to promote mental health and well-being, and examines how collective impact supports mental health and well-being.

scholarly journals Zadowolenie z życia słuchaczy uniwersytetów trzeciego wieku

e-mentor ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
Artur Fabiś ◽  
◽  
Aleksandra Błachnio ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Critical Areas ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Family ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
The Relationship

The article aims at describing the relationship between the educational activity of the elderly and a more optimal way of experiencing their aging. That link can be justified by a higher measure of the overall level of satisfaction with their lives. The purpose of the study described in the paper was an in-depth analysis of the components of life satisfaction among actively learning seniors. A questionnaire survey was conducted with the voluntary participation of 405 third age university students (U3A). The authors collected data on the critical areas comprising individual well-being, illustrating the diversity in the experience of old age among active mature learners. Only 6.8% of the U3A learners are not satisfied with their life achievements. The study revealed that seniors with four or more children were most pleased, suggesting that self-actualization in the family and educational domains need not be competitive. The analysis of the health component of life satisfaction showed a clear overrepresentation of seniors with the good psychophysical condition. In general, successful ratings of the component measures of life satisfaction among the members of the researched group predominate.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ETHNOCULTURAL EMPATHY AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR (OCB) AMONG PUBLIC SERVANTS IN SABAH

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (42) ◽  
pp. 469-481
Author(s):  
Razima Hanim Osman ◽  
Mariny Abdul Ghani ◽  
Norzaliza Alis
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Positive Relationships ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Ethnocultural Empathy ◽  
The Relationship

Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) throughout literature provides evidence that benefits both employees and the organizations in terms of increasing the level of employees' well-being, work satisfaction, customers' satisfaction as well as the quality of work performance. Hence, it is important to understand the possible reasons behind the occurrence of OCB to increase the likelihood of employees engaging in OCB. Based on the prosocial motivational concept, empathy is the main motivator to helping behaviors thus open up the possibility of linkage between empathy and extra-role behaviors such as OCB. Moreover, this linkage is important for public employees especially those who are working in organizations that have multi-ethnic employees as well as providing services to meet vast societal needs and demands. The present article set out to examine the relationship between ethnocultural empathy and OCB among public employees in Sabah. A cross-sectional survey was used to gather a response of 213 public employees who are working in the Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara Negeri Sabah (JPN) based on the selected districts in Sabah. Results showed positive relationships between organizational citizenship behavior-individual (OCBI) with empathic awareness (EA) dimensions. Results also showed positive relationships between organizational citizenship behavior-organization (OCBO) with empathic feeling and emotion (EFE). By focusing on the aspect of culture in empathy such as ethnocultural empathy can help researchers to understand how culture influences the cognition and emotions of individuals to understand other people's experiences especially those who have a different cultural and ethnic background. Apart from that, the concept itself strengthens the ability to understand the thinking and feeling of others in their cultural context thus increases the likelihood to perform extra-role behavior such as OCB.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Cultural Intelligence and Psychological Well-being with the Moderating Effects of Mindfulness: A Study of International Students in Taiwan

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Tzu-Ping ◽  
Chang Wei-Wen
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
The Relationship

According to Ministry of Education of Taiwan, numbers of international students studying in Taiwan gradually increased. However, studies showed that their learning outcome is significantly influenced by their psychological well-being (PWB). Therefore, this study examines the factors affecting PWB. In this study, cultural intelligence (CQ) is seen as a potential predictor for PWB. CQ is defined as the ability to deal with different cultural context, and it includes four dimensions, namely cognitive CQ, metacognitive CQ, motivational CQ and behavioral CQ. Besides, as people pay more attention to unfamiliar exotic things when being abroad, their consciousness on the present moment, so-called mindfulness, plays an important role for their well-being. Therefore, mindfulness is examined as a moderator in the relationship between CQ and PWB. Quantitative approach is applied in this study. The samples are 110 international students studying in Taiwan. The self-report questionnaire composed by Ryff’s 18-item scale, Cultural Intelligence Scale and Mindful Attention Awareness Scale is distributed on-line. The collected data go through descriptive analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis. Results show that metacognitive CQ and PWB has a significant relationship with an R2 of .231. Besides, motivational CQ is positive related to PWB with an R2 of .142. According to the statistic result of this study, future research can put efforts on how to enhance metacognitive and motivational CQ, like designing related cultural program courses before students’ departure, in order to better international students’ PWB.

scholarly journals Examining the Relationship between Hukou Status, Perceived Neighborhood Conditions, and Fear of Crime in Guangzhou, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9614
Author(s):  
Fengrui Jing ◽  
Lin Liu ◽  
Suhong Zhou ◽  
Guangwen Song
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Disorder ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Neighborhood Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Non Local ◽  
The Relationship

Fear of crime can lead to lower satisfaction with life and subjective well-being. The indicators of fear of crime vary from the social and cultural context, and the hukou (household registration) status causes unequal rights between local hukou and non-local hukou residents in China. To improve people’s perception of safety, this study takes hukou as an indicator of social vulnerability and examines the relationship between hukou, perceived neighborhood conditions, and fear of crime in China. A binary logistic regression model was used to analyze the 1727 residents garnered from the 2016 Project on Public Safety in Guangzhou Neighborhoods (PPSGN) in Guangzhou, China. The results show that women, victimization experience, physical and social disorder, and neighborhood policing are associated with residents’ fear of crime. Although hukou status has no statistically significant effect on fear of crime, hukou status significantly moderates the influence of perceived neighborhood conditions on fear of crime. That is, perceived neighborhood conditions’ effects on fear are conditional on one’s hukou status: non-local hukou, perception of the social disorder has more of the detrimental effect on fear, and perception of social integration has less of the helpful effect on fear. In sum, this study adds to the international literature by revealing the conditional effect of the hukou on fear in a Chinese city.

Age-friendly urbanism: intertwining ‘ageing in place’ and ‘place in ageing’

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (6) ◽  
pp. 601-619
Author(s):  
Yi Sun ◽  
Mee Kam Ng ◽  
Tzu-Yuan Stessa Chao
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Residential Satisfaction ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Ageing In Place ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Material Form ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
New Urban Agenda

Urbanisation and population ageing are two critical trends identified in the New Urban Agenda. Understanding the relationship between environment-related experiences and well-being is conducive to achieving an age-friendly urbanism. We argue that place, as a location, a material form and an expression of value, is an essential component of this relationship. Physical and social environments shape socio-spatial experiences and hence one’s well-being, bearing significant implications for the current policy movement of ageing in place. Environment comprises contexts whereby older people develop sentimental and emotive links to the place they live. Such links give rise to residential satisfaction and place attachment, the psychological experiences that highlight the importance of place in ageing. The article calls for research and planning practices to shed light on policies concerning age-friendly urbanism.

The Impact of Cultural Festivals on Subjective Well-Being of the Visitors: Case Study of Alva’s Virasat, A National Cultural Festival in India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valsaraj Payini ◽  
Jyothi Mallya ◽  
Vasanth Kamath ◽  
Blessy Prabha Valsaraj ◽  
Badrinarayan Srirangam Ramaprasad
Keyword(s):  
Purchasing Power Parity ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Music Experience ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This research endeavor examined the relationship between cultural festival experience and subjective well-being among festival attendees. In this connection, this study captured the perceptions of 192 festival attendees’ attending the cultural festival of ‘Virasat’ in India on the four sub-dimensions of festival experiences (i.e., music experience, festival atmosphere, social experience, separation experience) and subjective well-being. Accordingly, this study adopted structural equation modeling (SEM) and hierarchical regression analysis to examine the relationship between the study constructs. Results that emerge from this study point towards the presence of a significant positive relationship between cultural festival experience and subjective well-being. Further, of the four dimensions of festival experience, music experience and separation experience, in that order, were found to be the most potent predictors of subjective well-being. Social experience and festival atmosphere only minimally augmented predictability of subjective well-being over and above music experience and separation experience. Accordingly, the findings of this study are expected to aid cultural festival organizers to design events that elicit exhilarating festival experiences which, in its turn, is expected to augment subjective well-being among event attendees. Further, drawing extensively from subjective well-being research in India that suggests that factors like socio-demographics, personal characteristics, economic conditions, and purchasing power parity contribute only moderately, if not significantly, to the levels of subjective well-being among the residents in India, the findings of this study situates cultural festival experience as a possible trigger that augments subjective well-being among Indians in a collectivist cultural context.

scholarly journals Intelligence and culture: how culture shapes what intelligence means, and the implications for a science of well–being

2004 ◽  
Vol 359 (1449) ◽  
pp. 1427-1434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Sternberg ◽  
Elena L. Grigorenko
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theories Of Intelligence ◽  
Folk Theories ◽  
Successful Intelligence ◽  
Main Message ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Relationship

This paper discusses the relationship between culture and intelligence. The main message of the paper is that intelligence cannot fully or even meaningfully be understood outside its cultural context. Behaviour that is considered intelligent in one culture may be considered unintelligent in another culture, and vice versa . Moreover, people in different cultures have different implicit (folk) theories of intelligence, so may not even mean the same thing by the word. The relationships between different aspects of intelligence can vary across cultures, with correlations that are positive in one setting proving to be negative in another. The paper opens with a general discussion of issues regarding the relationship between the two concepts. It then describes the theory of successful intelligence, which motivates our work on the interface between culture and intelligence. Finally, the article draws some conclusions.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP OF FRAILTY, FEAR OF FALLING, AND DEPRESSION WITH HRQOL IN HIGH-RISK OLDER ADULTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S877-S877
Author(s):  
Michelle A McKay ◽  
Linda Copel ◽  
Catherine Todd-Magel
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Physical Functioning ◽  
Fear Of Falling ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Mental Functioning ◽  
Community Dwelling Older Adults ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract One in four older adults fall every year. Falls result in negative outcomes including decreased health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Frailty, fear of falling, depression, and HRQoL are not routinely screened in high-risk community-dwelling older adults. Continued study of modifiable fall risk factors is warranted due to varied reported prevalence rates, inconsistent definitions and the persistent high rate of falls resulting in poor HRQoL. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between frailty, fear of falling, and depression with physical and mental functioning and well-being measures of HRQoL in community-dwelling older adults 55 years of age and older. A cross-sectional correlational design and chart review were conducted. The sample consisted of 84 primarily African American (81%) nursing home eligible members of the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) program. Data were analyzed with correlational statistics, multiple linear, and hierarchical regression models. Physical functioning and well-being measures were significantly decreased when compared to the general population. Increased frailty, fear of falling, and depression were associated with decreased physical and mental well-being. In the regression model, frailty and fear of falling were significant predictors of decreased physical functioning and well-being, and depression was a significant predictor of decreased mental functioning and well-being. This study provides clarification of the relationship between frailty, fear of falling, and depression with HRQoL in high-risk older adults. Screening for common modifiable risk factors can assist in the development of targeted interventions and treatments to improve HRQoL in high-risk older adults.

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