Alcohol, Young People and Urban Life

The relevance of the study is associated with the study of viability resources of young city dwellers in the context of growing urbanization processes. The article presents theoretical and empirical research data regarding the problem of operationalization of the phenomenon of social and psychological satiety, which is a psychological state generated by peculiarities of the urban environment. The article presents concept description, gives data on its operationalization, formulates the hypothesis and shows some results of its empirical verification. The purpose of the study is to identify and analyse the interconnection between emotional experiences and preferred coping strategies with the state of satiety with living conditions in a metropolis in a group of young people. The major hypothesis of the study involves an assumption that there is a connection between feelings of satiety caused by the intense influence of the phenomena of the urban environment on the psyche and behavior of respondents, and their preferred methods of coping with the satiety situation. The study involved 159 people aged 19 to 30 years. Research methods: questionnaires developed by the authors and aimed at studying manifestations of social and psychological satiety (T. V. Drobysheva, I. V. Larionov). The questionnaire was used to identify socio-demographic characteristics. It is shown that in the group of respondents the state of socio-psychological satiety with living conditions in a metropolis is experienced as a feeling of apathy, boredom, irritation caused by imposed contacts with strangers, advertising activities of trading companies and overpopulation of the city. These phenomena of urban life are perceived by young people as violating their psychological privacy and making them want, first of all, to leave, to change the environment or activity, to find new forms of leisure or other places to spend their free time. The results found in the work indirectly indicate the protective function of socio-psychological satiety, expressed through the desire of respondents (young city dwellers) to reduce the intensity of negative emotional experiences related to living conditions in a metropolis. The questionnaires developed by the authors in the course of the study are of practical importance for researchers of the urban environment.

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Prospects for the Development of Russian Cities in the Context of the Education-Related Migrationof Young People

REGIONOLOGY ◽

10.15507/2413-1407.105.026.201804.742-763 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 742-763 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Albina A. Beschasnaya ◽

Nadezhda N. Pokrovskaya

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Urban Development ◽

Urban Life ◽

Psychological Climate ◽

Practical Significance ◽

First Year ◽

First Year Students ◽

Cultural Effects ◽

Study Results ◽

Urban Settlements

Introduction. Modern urbanization is characterized by uneven development of territories as well as by differentiation of cities in terms of population growth or decline rates. An important role in this belongs to young people who move to other cities in order to ensure the best possible self-fulfillment and comfortable living. The relevance of the study is determined by the emergence of the potential of polarization development of cities and adjacent territories, which forms the effect of socio-economic destabilization in the regions as a whole. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the prospects for the development of cities that are not included in the category of “megalopolis” in the context of the academic mobility of young people. Materials and Methods. The analysis of the data of the 2002 and 2010 All-Russia Population Censuses and of the 2014 and 2017 micro-censuses of the population, as well as a survey of first-year students enrolled in institutions of higher education in St. Petersburg in 2017 became the empirical basis of the study. Results. The study has demonstrated the centripetal migration attitudes of young people, which increases the risks of negative prognoses for the development prospects of the cities they leave. The problematic and attractive aspects of the cities where many students are living have been revealed, as well as the potential and directions of urban development, and the attitude of young people to the changes and their own participation in them. The areas of non-economic measures for the development of urban settlements have been identified, which make it possible to form a positive socio-psychological climate and image. Discussion and Conclusion. The data obtained make it possible to conclude that the trend of the unbalanced development of Russian cities still remains. Factors of life in a megalopolis, attractive to resettlement and modeling of young people’s life plans, are determined by the activity of the population and the city authorities in such areas as economy, culture, social sphere, centripetal movement of resource flows, and the production of innovations that have economic and socio-cultural effects. The practical significance of the research results is lies in the identification of problem areas in the functioning of cities and the determination of areas of urban development for the formation of aspects of urban life attractive for young people.

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Satellite Imaging of Global Urbanicity relates to Brain and Behavior in Young People

10.21203/rs.3.rs-155206/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Gunter Schumann ◽

JIAYUAN XU ◽

Xiaoxuan Liu ◽

Alex Ing ◽

QIAOJUN LI ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Prefrontal Cortex ◽

Young People ◽

Population Density ◽

Urban Life ◽

Depression Symptoms ◽

General Measure ◽

Brain And Behavior ◽

And Behavior ◽

The Impact

Abstract Urbanicity is a growing environmental challenge for mental-health. While the impact of urban life on brain and behavior might be distinct in different sociocultural conditions and geographies, there might exist features shared between regions. To investigate correlations of urbanicity with brain structure and function, neuropsychology and mental illness symptoms in young people from China and Europe, we developed a remote-sensing satellite-measure termed ‘UrbanSat’ quantifying population-density, a general measure of urbanicity. UrbanSat is correlated with brain volume, surface area and brain-network-connectivity in the medial prefrontal cortex and cerebellum, which mediate its effect on perspective-taking and depression- symptoms. Susceptibility to high population-density is greatest during childhood for the cerebellum and from childhood to adolescence for the prefrontal cortex. As UrbanSat can be generalized to different geographies, it will enable assessing the impact of urbanicity on mental illness and resilience globally, especially in young people where prevention and early interventions are most effective.

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Young People, Alcohol, and Urban Life

Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets ◽

10.1093/obo/9780199791231-0206 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Samantha Wilkinson

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Urban Life

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A Small Festival for Small People

Theatre Research in Canada ◽

10.7202/1068258ar ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 40 (1-2) ◽

pp. 64-82

Author(s):

Heather Fitzsimmons Frey

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Public Sphere ◽

Daily Life ◽

Early Years ◽

Urban Life ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Very Young Children ◽

The Arts ◽

Personal Experiences ◽

Structure Programming

The WeeFestival, English Canada’s first performance festival dedicated to children from ages 0 to 5, acts as an advocate for the early years demographic and for the artists who create for them through three key elements of festival structure: programming, space, and creative/artistic exchange. Engaging with research by Ben Fletcher-Watson, Lise Hovik, Matthew Reason, and Adele Senior, this article uses company archives, artist interviews, and the writer’s personal experiences to analyze how the WeeFestival temporarily establishes an alternative public sphere that challenges policy-makers, funders, and artists to rethink relationships between arts, very young citizens, and urban life. Even though very young citizens may not initially know that they want to experience art, the festival attends to the interests and responses of young people, demonstrates respect for their capacity to be emotionally and intellectually engaged by artful and thoughtful productions, and establishes festivalized spaces that put an alternative public sphere into action, gesturing to the possibility of real social change. Taking into account the significance of programming for artists, educators, and policy-makers alongside the significance of meaningful audience-artist exchange, the analysis suggests that events like the WeeFestival have the capacity to gently shift how urban dwellers perceive very young children and the way they interact with the arts in daily life.

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“鱼龙混杂 yúlóng-hùnzá” - fish and dragons (bad and good people) mixing together: young people, urban life and alcohol, drinking, drunkenness in China

Urban Geography ◽

10.1080/02723638.2021.1950375 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-30

Author(s):

Mark Jayne ◽

Chen Liu ◽

Gill Valentine

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Alcohol Drinking ◽

Urban Life ◽

Good People

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Understanding the urban life pattern of young people from delivery data

Computational Urban Science ◽

10.1007/s43762-021-00027-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Yining Qiu ◽

Jiale Ding ◽

Mengxiao Wang ◽

Linshu Hu ◽

Feng Zhang

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Urban Youth ◽

City Planning ◽

Activity Patterns ◽

Housing Prices ◽

Food Delivery ◽

Urban Life ◽

Floating Population ◽

High Tech ◽

Life Pattern

AbstractYoung people are the backbone of urban development and an important pillar of social stability. The growth of young floating population in China has given rise to urban land expansion. Understanding the urban life pattern of urban life for young people benefits rational and effective land expansion. In this article, we introduce food delivery data into the process of exploring behavioral patterns of urban youth in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The dynamic time warping (DTW) distance-based k-medoids method is applied to explore the main activity areas and activity patterns of the urban youth population. The results indicate that many young people from Hangzhou work in Internet companies, and most of work hotspot areas are observed in high-tech parks. The existence of overtime work is proved. Combined with the housing price data in Hangzhou, it is found that young people consider both housing prices and education environment when choosing where to live. The analysis combined with road network data reflects the planning characteristics of the city, also looks into differences between the actual city functions and the planning map. The proposed methods can provide useful guidance and suggestions for city planning.

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