Understanding Physiological Associations With Emotional Competence

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-96
Author(s):  
Colin Hesse
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Emotional Competence ◽  
Endocrine System ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Health It ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
Communication Events ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Biopsychosocial Health

The communication discipline has long believed that emotions are a fundamental part of the human experience, becoming one of the building blocks upon which interpersonal communication events can occur. This chapter examines the various ways that emotional competence is linked to biopsychosocial health. It focuses on alexithymia, a condition where individuals are less able to understand and communicate emotions. The chapter then describes the relationships between alexithymia and a host of physiological outcome measures, including elements of the sympathetic nervous system, the endocrine system, and the immune system. It also details several neurological structures that are related to alexithymia, including socioaffective processing, interoceptive arousal, and emotion-guided decision making. Finally, the chapter concludes with some general insights about the state of research in this domain and possible future directions.

ЗНАЧЕННЯ ЕМОЦІЙНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ ОСОБИСТОСТІ У ДИСКУРСІ ЖИТТЄТВОРЕННЯ

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 198-207
Author(s):  
Євген Карпенко
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Emotional Competence ◽  
World View ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Personal Choice ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Significant Life ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Correct Implementation

У статті проаналізовано місце феномену емоційної компетентності в становленні дискурсу життєтворення особистості. Відзначено, що її засадничими ознаками є відкритість і діалогічність, що фасилітують процеси життєтворчості в інтра- та інтерпсихічному просторі та сприяють здобуттю певних експірієнтальних «знань» і формуванню відповідних комунікативних «умінь». Отже, емоційна компетентність виконує функцію орієнтації в знаково-символічній реальності внутрішнього та зовнішнього середовища і, відповідно, бере участь у прийнятті рішень стосовно них. Це сприяє реалізації функції особистісного вибору у значущих обставинах життя. Вважається, що цей вибір повинен ґрунтуватися на домінуючій екзистенційній ідентичності та релевантно реалізовуватися на всіх її рівнях: базовому, характерологічному, ситуативному. В цьому контексті емоційна компетентність виступає в якості з’єднувальної ланки між ідентичністю та її зовнішньою поведінковою маніфестацією, в якій вона, власне, й проявляється. Інтегруючи первинні емоції, емоційна компетентність сприяє формуванню системи цінностей, мотивів і світоглядних орієнтацій особистості, а також сприяє їх коректному втіленню в практиці міжособистісного спілкування і, відповідно, конструювання дискурсу власного життя. У цьому полягає ключова роль емоційної компетентності в процесі життєтворення особистості. The article analyzes the role of emotional competence in establishing the discourse of personal life creation. It has been stated that its basic features are openness and readiness to dialog that facilitate life creation processes in the intra- and interpsychic space and promote acquirement of certain experiential "knowledge" as well as formation of relevant communicative "skills". So, emotional competence has a function of orienting in sign and symbol reality of the internal and external environment and, therefore, takes part in decision-making in respect thereof. This enables realization of the function of personal choice in significant life circumstances.  This choice is considered to be based on dominant existential identity and realized in the relevant manner at all its levels: basic, characterological, situational. In this sense emotional competence forms a link between identity and its outer behavioral manifestation.  While integrating primary emotions emotional competence facilitates formation of a system of values, motives and world view of personality as well as their correct implementation in the course of interpersonal communication and personal life discourse construction. This embodies the key role of emotional competence in the process of life creation of personality.

scholarly journals Olfaction and Aging: A Review of the Current State of Research and Future Directions

i-Perception ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 204166952110203
Author(s):  
Jonas K. Olofsson ◽  
Ingrid Ekström ◽  
Maria Larsson ◽  
Steven Nordin
Keyword(s):  
Warning Signs ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Current State ◽  
Challenging Tasks ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
To Come ◽  
Health Cognition ◽  
Olfactory Abilities ◽  
And Training

Olfaction, the sense of smell, is characterized by a notable age-dependency such that aging individuals are more likely to have poor olfactory abilities. These impairments are considered to be mostly irreversible and as having potentially profound effects on quality of life and food behavior, as well as constituting warning signs of mortality, cognitive dysfunction, and dementia. Here, we review the current state of research on aging and olfaction, focusing on five topics which we regard to be of particular relevance for the field: nutrition and health, cognition and dementia, mortality, environment and genetics, and training-based enhancement. Under each of these headlines, we provide a state-of-the-art overview and discuss gaps in our knowledge which might be filled by further research. Understanding how olfactory abilities are diminished in aging, and how they may be alleviated or recovered, involves a set of challenging tasks for researchers in the years to come.

scholarly journals Beyond the building blocks: integrating community roles into health systems frameworks to achieve health for all

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Suppl 3) ◽  
pp. e001384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Sacks ◽  
Melanie Morrow ◽  
William T Story ◽  
Katharine D Shelley ◽  
D Shanklin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Health Systems Strengthening ◽  
Health It ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Health Goals ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
Community Roles

Achieving ambitious health goals—from the Every Woman Every Child strategy to the health targets of the sustainable development goals to the renewed promise of Alma-Ata of ‘health for all’—necessitates strong, functional and inclusive health systems. Improving and sustaining community health is integral to overall health systems strengthening efforts. However, while health systems and community health are conceptually and operationally related, the guidance informing health systems policymakers and financiers—particularly the well-known WHO ‘building blocks’ framework—only indirectly addresses the foundational elements necessary for effective community health. Although community-inclusive and community-led strategies may be more difficult, complex, and require more widespread resources than facility-based strategies, their exclusion from health systems frameworks leads to insufficient attention to elements that need ex-ante efforts and investments to set community health effectively within systems. This paper suggests an expansion of the WHO building blocks, starting with the recognition of the essential determinants of the production of health. It presents an expanded framework that articulates the need for dedicated human resources and quality services at the community level; it places strategies for organising and mobilising social resources in communities in the context of systems for health; it situates health information as one ingredient of a larger block dedicated to information, learning and accountability; and it recognises societal partnerships as critical links to the public health sector. This framework makes explicit the oft-neglected investment needs for community health and aims to inform efforts to situate community health within national health systems and global guidance to achieve health for all.

How Credible Is Trade Union Research? Forty Years of Evidence on the Monopoly–Voice Trade-Off

ILR Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hristos Doucouliagos ◽  
Richard B. Freeman ◽  
Patrice Laroche ◽  
T. D. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Collective Voice ◽  
Individual Outcomes ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Economics Research

This article is the second in a series to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the ILR Review. The series features articles that analyze the state of research and future directions for important themes this journal has featured over many years of publication. In this article, the authors assess the credibility of research that has tested the theoretical contests between the monopoly and the collective voice model of unions developed by Freeman and Medoff in What Do Unions Do? The authors go beyond prior analyses by examining more than 2,000 estimates that consider the effects of unions on a broad range of organizational and individual outcomes, including productivity, productivity growth, capital investment, profits, and job satisfaction. They advance our understanding of the current empirical findings and credibility of this research by using meta-statistical analysis to evaluate research quality, publication selection bias, statistical power, and heterogeneity. The authors conclude that compared to other areas of economics, research on union effects has lower bias but larger problems of statistical power. They argue that Freeman and Medoff’s monopoly–collective voice model helped produce more credible results, and they suggest ways to reduce the power and heterogeneity problems in existing research.

scholarly journals The Role of the Negative 3-H Trio in Second Language Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Chu ◽  
Xiaoxia Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Classroom Discourse ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Second Language Education ◽  
Communication Competency ◽  
Peace Psychology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Life Career

Language has been proven to strongly affect different aspects on one's life/career including his/her identity and interpersonal communication skills beyond the immediate context. Given this, now proper discourse and interlocutor's emotions are highlighted in academia. However, few studies (if any) have explored the role of negative stressors and constructs in L2 classroom discourse and interpersonal communication competency. To fill this yawning lacuna, the present study provided a glance at the impact of three negative language aspects of hate, hurt, and harm (also called negative 3-H trio) on L2 education. Moreover, it presents the definitions, origins (positive psychology, positive peace psychology), dimensions, and applications of each aspect. Finally, some implications and future directions are suggested to avid scholars in L2 and mainstream education.

Future Directions for Physiological Communication Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 326-330
Author(s):  
Amanda Denes ◽  
John P. Crowley ◽  
Lindsey S. Aloia
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Neural Activity ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Glucose Levels ◽  
Skin Conductivity ◽  
Bidirectional Associations

This handbook offered a review of cutting-edge research in the field of interpersonal communication and posed future directions to extend the literature focused on the bidirectional associations between communication and the human body. This chapter serves to summarize the handbook chapters by first reviewing biomarkers favored in communication scholarship, specifically cortisol, skin conductivity, heart rate, blood pressure, and neural activity. Next, several emerging areas of investigation are noted, namely the consideration of testosterone, oxytocin, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, immune response indicators, and plasma glucose levels. The conclusion specifies directions for future research and advocates for interdisciplinary collaborations with physiologists, neuroendocrinologists, neurologists, and other researchers studying life sciences.

scholarly journals Tannin-Based Hybrid Materials and Their Applications: A Review

Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (21) ◽  
pp. 4910
Author(s):  
Ann-Kathrin Koopmann ◽  
Christian Schuster ◽  
Jorge Torres-Rodríguez ◽  
Stefan Kain ◽  
Heidi Pertl-Obermeyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Packaging ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
High Reactivity ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Chemical Mechanisms ◽  
Organic Species ◽  
Current State ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
In Virtue Of ◽  
Potential Use

Tannins are eco-friendly, bio-sourced, natural, and highly reactive polyphenols. In the past decades, the understanding of their versatile properties has grown substantially alongside a continuously broadening of the tannins’ application scope. In particular, recently, tannins have been increasingly investigated for their interaction with other species in order to obtain tannin-based hybrid systems that feature advanced and/or novel properties. Furthermore, in virtue of the tannins’ chemistry and their high reactivity, they either physicochemically or physically interact with a wide variety of different compounds, including metals and ceramics, as well as a number of organic species. Such hybrid or hybrid-like systems allow the preparation of various advanced nanomaterials, featuring improved performances compared to the current ones. Consequently, these diverse-shaped materials have potential use in wastewater treatment or catalysis, as well as in some novel fields such as UV-shielding, functional food packaging, and biomedicine. Since these kinds of tannin-based hybrids represent an emerging field, thus far no comprehensive overview concerning their potential as functional chemical building blocks is available. Hence, this review aims to provide a structured summary of the current state of research regarding tannin-based hybrids, detailed findings on the chemical mechanisms as well as their fields of application.

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