Creativity, Establishment, and the Self

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
Trever Hagen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
The Self ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
The Core ◽  
Music Making

This chapter outlines how acts of state oppression repressed environmental conditions that contradictorily enabled the expressive practice of “truth to self.” This repression heightened forms of collective awareness of an Underground “way of life” and points to how the politics of music-making is an emergent and embodied phenomenon. I trace how musicking came to be crafted within the Merry Ghetto, showing how practices (composing to lyrics, listening to records, playing with spirit, adapting poems as lyrics, writing and thinking about music) were linked to aesthetic phenomena (out-of-tune, rough and ragged sounds, sing-song recitation, heavy bass lines, screamed vocals, raw, unmusical sounds) that provided models, through contrast and comparison structures, for learning dispositions (how to feel and know “establishment,” “truth to self,” historical commitment, rejection) in the Merry Ghetto. This chapter considers some of the core building blocks of cultural ecologies by asking how music mediates knowledge production, commitment-making, and ontological security. I explore the “life sustaining” qualities of a habitat built through music that in fact have more to do with well-being, mental health, and protection than with protest and revolution. In short, it addresses music as a material of “cocooning,” as a form of protection.

scholarly journals Furloughs, Teleworking and Other Work Situations during the COVID-19 Lockdown: Impact on Mental Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 2898
Author(s):  
Israel Escudero-Castillo ◽  
Fco. Javier Mato-Díaz ◽  
Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Exogenous Shock ◽  
Work Location ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Market Status ◽  
Mental Well Being ◽  
Labour Market Status

As a consequence of the Spring 2020 lockdown that occurred in Spain due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people lost their jobs or had to be furloughed. The objective of this study is to analyse the influence of the latter changes in labour market status on psychological well-being. For this purpose, an ad-hoc questionnaire featuring socio-demographic and mental health criteria was created. Granted that the pandemic can be viewed as an exogenous shock, the bias caused by the bidirectional problems between the work situation and mental well-being can be tackled. Results indicate that the lockdown exerted a greater negative effect on the self-perceived well-being of unemployed and furloughed persons than on those in employment. Moreover, among those in continuous employment, teleworkers experienced a lesser degree of self-perceived well-being post lockdown as compared to those people remaining in the same work location throughout the COVID-19 crisis. Finally, the lockdown provoked worse effects on the self-perceived well-being of women as compared to men, a result that appears to be related to gender differences in household production. In conclusion, these results could be especially relevant given that the evolution of the pandemic is having ongoing effects on employment and, therefore, on the mental health of workers.

scholarly journals Depression Survivors Among Emerging Adults: Their Healing Journey

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Wei Zhe Pui ◽  
Jamayah Saili
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
The Self ◽  
Healing Journey

This qualitative study explored the healing process of depression survivors among emerging adults with effective coping strategies utilised by them. A semi-structured interview was conducted on participants aged between 18-28 years old. A theme narrating the experience of the depression survivors were identified: The journey of healing - Crawling out of the quicksand. The survivors emphasised that to achieve healing, everything starts from within the self, and they had been putting in a lot of their extra efforts in helping themselves heal. They all went beyond recovery, where their efforts illustrated their focus on healing, thriving, and achieving optimal well-being upon recovery. Significantly, the relevance and applicability of the building blocks of Seligman’s PERMA model of well-being towards those efforts taken were revealed in the study. .

scholarly journals Restoring the Self in the Language of Beauty and Balance: Esther Belin’s Of Cartography

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (11) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Ewelina Bańka
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Visual Artist

The article analyzes the collection of poetry, Of Cartography, by Navajo poet and visual artist Esther G. Belin. In the collection, the poet explores the concepts of home and the self, merging her urban experience with traditional Navajo teachings. Written in a mixture of English and Navajo, the collection abounds in experimental poems with structure directly referring to the Navajo view of the cosmic reality. Grounded both in the Navajo philosophy of Beauty and Balance and modern, urban experience, Belin’s story can be interpreted as a healing rite that aims at restoring hózhǫ́: an ideal Navajo way of life which centers on the spiritual, physical, emotional, and psychological well-being of an individual and his/her community.

Quest and Identity within a Religious Ideological Surround

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Watson ◽  
Ronald J. Morris ◽  
Ralph W. Hood
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Quest Scale ◽  
Definition Of

Current controversies over religious orientation center on issues that appear to be partially nonempirical, normative, and sociological. These issues, in other words, may be ideological. In exploring this possibility, the present study had different religious orientation types evaluate items from the Quest Scale. For a group with an intrinsic commitment, a number of items proved to be antireligious in their implications while one was proreligious. This intrinsic interpretation of Quest also predicted relative mental health, including superior identity formation; and this was especially true for intrinsic subjects themselves. For no other type was the self-definition of Quest as robustly or as discriminatively linked to psychological well-being. The original Quest Scale was tied to poorer self-functioning. Overall, these data demonstrated the importance of measuring not just personal beliefs, but the personal meaning of those beliefs as well.

scholarly journals Self-Transcendence as a Buffer Against COVID-19 Suffering: The Development and Validation of the Self-Transcendence Measure-B

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul T. P. Wong ◽  
Gökmen Arslan ◽  
Victoria L. Bowers ◽  
Edward J. Peacock ◽  
Oscar Nils Erik Kjell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
True Self ◽  
Transcendence Measure ◽  
History Of ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
Development And Validation

The age of COVID-19 calls for a different approach toward global well-being and flourishing through the transcendence suffering as advocated by existential positive psychology. In the present study, we primarily explained what self-transcendence is and why it represents the most promising path for human beings to flourish through the transformation of suffering in a difficult and uncertain world. After reviewing the literature on self-transcendence experiences, we concluded that the model of self-transcendence presented by Frankl is able to integrate both of the characteristics associated with self-transcendence. Afterward, we discussed how the self-transcendence paradigm proposed by Wong, an extension of the model by Frankl, may help awaken our innate capacity for connections with the true self, with others, and with God or something larger than oneself. We presented self-transcendence as a less-traveled but more promising route to achieve personal growth and mental health in troubled times. Finally, we presented the history of the development and psychometrics of the Self-Transcendence Measure-Brief (STM-B) and reported the empirical evidence that self-transcendence served as a buffer against COVID-19 suffering. The presented data in the current study suggested that the best way to overcome pandemic suffering and mental health crises is to cultivate self-transcendence.

Noble metal nanoclusters-decorated NiFe layered double hydroxide superstructure as nanoreactors for selective hydrogenation catalysis

Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (34) ◽  
pp. 17780-17785
Author(s):  
Hao Zhang ◽  
Xiaoying Guo ◽  
Xun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Selective Hydrogenation ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
The Self ◽  
Nanometer Scale ◽  
Metal Nanoclusters ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
Double Hydroxide ◽  
Noble Metal Nanoclusters

The ability to conduct the self-assembly of nanometer-scale building blocks is the core issue in achieving “bottom-up” fabrications of desired superstructures.

More than Welfare: The Experiences of Employed and Unemployed Ontario Basic Income Recipients

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ferdosi ◽  
Tom McDowell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Pilot Site ◽  
Housing Stability ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Use Of Health Services

AbstractThis article explores the experiences of employed and unemployed Ontario Basic Income recipients in the Hamilton and Brantford pilot site. Integrating data from surveys and interviews, the self-reported outcomes of both groups are summarized. These outcomes pertain to employment, physical health, mental health, use of health services, food security, housing stability, financial well-being and social activities. The article highlights the difference in the degree of improvements between recipients who were working before and during the pilot versus those who were not employed at both times. Its broad conclusion is that both groups reported significant benefits, but it was recipients who were continuously employed that reported the greatest improvements. This suggests that basic income could be an important policy tool to improve the lives of low-income and precarious workers in Ontario and perhaps elsewhere.

scholarly journals A Mobile App for the Self-Report of Psychological Well-Being During Pregnancy (BrightSelf): Qualitative Design Study

10.2196/10007 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. e10007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Doherty ◽  
Marguerite Barry ◽  
José Marcano-Belisario ◽  
Bérenger Arnaud ◽  
Cecily Morrison ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Maternal Mental Health ◽  
Perinatal Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Health Technologies

Background Maternal mental health impacts both parental well-being and childhood development. In the United Kingdom, 15% of women are affected by depression during pregnancy or within 1 year of giving birth. Suicide is a leading cause of perinatal maternal mortality, and it is estimated that >50% of perinatal depression cases go undiagnosed. Mobile technologies are potentially valuable tools for the early recognition of depressive symptoms, but complex design challenges must be addressed to enable their use in public health screening. Objective The aim of this study was to explore the issues and challenges surrounding the use of mobile phones for the self-report of psychological well-being during pregnancy. Methods This paper presents design research carried out as part of the development of BrightSelf, a mobile app for the self-report of psychological well-being during pregnancy. Design sessions were carried out with 38 participants, including pregnant women, mothers, midwives, and other health professionals. Overall, 19 hours of audio were fully transcribed and used as the basis of thematic analysis. Results The study highlighted anxieties concerning the pregnancy journey, challenges surrounding current approaches to the appraisal of well-being in perinatal care, and the midwife-patient relationship. Designers should consider the framing of perinatal mental health technologies, the experience of self-report, supporting self-awareness and disclosure, providing value to users through both self-report and supplementary features, and designing for longitudinal engagement. Conclusions This study highlights the needs, motivations, and anxieties of women with respect to technology use in pregnancy and implications for the design of mobile health technologies.

scholarly journals Psychological well-being of COVID positive patients during quarantine in a South Indian Private Hospital

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-41
Author(s):  
Sudakshina Chakrabarti
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Private Hospital ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Depression Score ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Disturbed Sleep ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
South Indian

Background: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to unparallel hazards to mental health globally. Many countries around the world have introduced quarantine measures. Quarantine has changed not only the plans of most people, but also their way of life. The greatest impact of quarantine is experienced by COVID positive patients who are isolated in a hospital. The aim of the study: to explore psychological well-being of COVID positive patients during quarantine in a private hospital. Materials and Methods: In this study, 100 patients who were COVID positive were requested to fill the Quality of Life Questionnaire. A pre-validated questionnaire was used to assess the depression score amongst COVID positive patients. The analysis of the answers and respondent opinions was conducted using the Pearson method, which produced statistically relevant results. Results: The studied aspects of mental health patients: sleep, appetite, crying spells; happiness and hope for the future; ability to concentrate and focus and getting disturbed easily by trivia; support received from family and friends; overall outlook of life and ability to stay happy in solitude. As a result, qualitative indicators of the patients’ mental health during quarantine in a private hospital were obtained. Conclusions: The data obtained showed that patients managed to stay happy and eat well but they talked less, had disturbed sleep and did not look forward towards a hopeful future. Some were able to shake away the blues with family, friends on Online Media but some got depressed and got crying spells and thought that their life was a failure. The study concluded that patients on quarantine were often depressed. Many patients might benefit if psychological counselling and support are employed during quarantine measures.

scholarly journals Self-Esteem and Personality Traits as Predictors of Mental Well Being

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bindu Kumari ◽  
Rajnee Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
Good Mental Health ◽  
Mental Well Being

Mental Well-Being is an integral part of good mental health and indicator of the ability of the individuals to cope up with daily stresses and work productively. Many predisposed and acquired factors influence the Mental Well-Being of an individual. The present study investigated the Self- Esteem and Personality traits as the predictors of mental well being. The results indicated that Neuroticism, Extraversion and Openness to experience came out as significant predictors of Mental Well-Being.

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