A Nine-Item Questionnaire for Measuring the Social Disfordance of Mediated Social Touch Technologies

INTRODUCTION: Pilots are more aware of drugs and self-medication in the internet age. However, they are unaware of the effects of self-medication, which may impede their cognitive and decision-making performance. The aim of this study was to determine the awareness levels of ab initio (student) pilots on self-medication and factors contributing to the prevalence of self-medication among them. To the best of the authors knowledge, this is the first study examining ab initio pilots knowledge on medication use and the causality of self-medication among them.METHODS: A 17-item questionnaire was developed and administered online to 500 students across 5 flight training organizations (FTO) in Turkey. The response rate was 97/500. For the descriptive analysis of the data, SPSS (the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) was used.RESULTS: Based on the results, fear of medical disqualification and job loss is the most significant factor resulting in the prevalence of self-medication among ab initio pilots. Most of the ab initio pilots (88.7%, N 86) were aware of self-medication and its threat to flight safety. Furthermore, three factors influencing the level of awareness and knowledge of ab initio pilots on this subject were evaluated.DISCUSSION: All flight training organizations should educate ab initio pilots on the consequences of self-medication. Furthermore, ab initio pilots should be encouraged to consult an aeromedical examiner with any ailment before a flight.Kilic B. Self-medication among ab initio pilots. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2021; 92(3):167171.

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Sensing the Social

Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199496051.003.0003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 46-85

Author(s):

Gopal Guru ◽

Sundar Sarukkai

Keyword(s):

Social Touch ◽

The Social ◽

Abstract Term ◽

As If

Social is not an abstract term. It is one that is experienced through sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. People talk about the social as if it is something that they can experience. How can we make sense of this character of the social? In what sense could the social be real in such a way that it can be experienced? This chapter discusses many examples of how the social is accessed through these senses and how they repeatedly occur in caste experiences. The chapter goes on to discuss the experience of the social through vision, smell, sound and touch: especially bringing in how we socialize our perceptions of ‘social touch’.

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Developmental Profile of Social Communication: Findings in Typical Developing Greek Children

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica ◽

10.1159/000511901 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 73 (3) ◽

pp. 195-204

Author(s):

Ioannis Vogindroukas ◽

Evripidis Nikolaos Chelas ◽

Nikolaos E. Petridis

Keyword(s):

Social Communication ◽

Typically Developing ◽

Developmental Profile ◽

Typically Developing Children ◽

Therapeutic Goals ◽

Item Questionnaire ◽

The Social ◽

Communication Difficulties ◽

And Performance ◽

Insight Into

Objectives: The Developmental Profile of Social Communication (DPSC) is based on the communication and language development in children with social communication difficulties. DPSC facilitates understanding of the challenges these children face in social interaction, communication, and linguistic development. It utilizes clinician and parent responses to build the developmental profiles of individuals. The profile allows clinicians to determine the therapeutic goals for improved cooperation and communication in various contexts. In addition, it provides insight into the parents’ perspective. The aim of this study is to present the preliminary results of the DPSC in typically developing Greek children. Methods: The DPSC, a 112-item questionnaire, was administered to 357 parents of typically developing children aged 2–7.5 years using a 3-scale rating of answers. It was applied electronically via Google forms, and parents were able to ask for clarification on questions. All answers were categorized and then analyzed under independent variables. Results: Descriptive and hypothesis testing were used to summarize participant characteristics and performance. Findings suggest that children >7.5 years tended to develop most of the rated skills of DPSC adequately. Conclusions: It was determined that the DPSC questionnaire is an easily administered tool that enables the evaluation of the social communication abilities of children of different ages.

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Dual brain cortical calcium imaging reveals social interaction-specific wide-spread correlated cortical activity in mice.

10.1101/430306 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nicholas Michelson ◽

Federico Bolaños ◽

Luis Bolaños ◽

Matilde Balbi ◽

Jeffrey M LeDue ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Interaction ◽

Calcium Imaging ◽

Brain Activity ◽

Social Contact ◽

Cortical Activity ◽

Contact Period ◽

Wide Spread ◽

Social Touch ◽

Correlated Activity ◽

The Social

We employ cortical mesoscale calcium-imaging to observe brain activity in two head-fixed mice in a staged social touch-like interaction. Using a rail system, mice are brought together to a distance where macrovibrissae of each mouse make contact. Cortical signals were recorded from both mice simultaneously before, during, and after the social contact period. When the mice were together, we observed bouts of mutual whisking and cross-mouse correlated cortical activity in the vibrissae cortex. This correlated activity was specific to individual interactions as the correlations fell in trial-shuffled mouse pairs. Whisk-related global GCAMP6s signals were greater in cagemate pairs during the together period. The effects of social interaction extend outside of regions associated with mutual touch and had global synchronizing effects on cortical activity. We present an open-source platform to investigate the neurobiology of social interaction by including mechanical drawings, protocols, and software necessary for others to extend this work.

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What factors contribute to the meaning of work? A validation of Morin’s Meaning of Work Questionnaire

Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica ◽

10.1186/s41155-020-00167-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Anne Pignault ◽

Claude Houssemand

Keyword(s):

Career Counseling ◽

Meaning Of Work ◽

Occupational Psychology ◽

Social Sciences And Humanities ◽

Item Questionnaire ◽

The Social ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Relevant Topic ◽

Factor Α ◽

Counseling Practices

Abstract Background Considering the recent and current evolution of work and the work context, the meaning of work is becoming an increasingly relevant topic in research in the social sciences and humanities, particularly in psychology. In order to understand and measure what contributes to the meaning of work, Morin constructed a 30-item questionnaire that has become predominant and has repeatedly been used in research in occupational psychology and by practitioners in the field. Nevertheless, it has been validated only in part. Method Meaning of work questionnaire was conducted in French with 366 people (51.3% of women; age: (M = 39.11, SD = 11.25); 99.2% of whom were employed with the remainder retired). Three sets of statistical analyses were run on the data. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted on independent samples. Results The questionnaire described a five-factor structure. These dimensions (Success and Recognition at work and of work, α = .90; Usefulness, α = .88; Respect for work, α = .88; Value from and through work, α = .83; Remuneration, α = .85) are all attached to a general second-order latent meaning of work factor (α = .96). Conclusions Validation of the scale, and implications for health in the workplace and career counseling practices, are discussed.

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Lack of social touch increases anxiety and alters social behaviors in mice

10.21203/rs.3.rs-467353/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yu-Kai Ma ◽

Pei-Yun Zeng ◽

Yu-Hsin Chu ◽

Chih-Lin Lee ◽

Ching-Chuan Cheng ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Interactions ◽

Animal Species ◽

Social Behaviors ◽

Physical Contact ◽

Social Touch ◽

The Social ◽

Anxiety Levels ◽

Long Term Observation ◽

Different Levels

Abstract The importance of social interactions has been reported in different animal species. During the pandemic, although people can communicate through other sensory cues, social touch is mostly prohibited under different levels of social distance policies, which inspired us to explore the necessity of physical contact in mouse social interaction. In this study, we first conducted a long-term observation showing that pair-housed mice in a standard laboratory cage spent nearly half the day in direct physical contact with each other. Furthermore, isolation experiments demonstrated that, even with access to other sensations, prevention of social touch for one month significantly induced anxiety levels, changed social behaviors and increased interleukin-6 cytokine in the hippocampus and the serum of mice. Our study demonstrated the necessity of social touch for the maintenance of mental health in mice. This information could have important implications for human social interactions, especially the social policies during a pandemic crisis.

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The Grenoble System for the Social Touch Challenge at ICMI 2015

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - ICMI '15 ◽

10.1145/2818346.2830598 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Viet-Cuong Ta ◽

Wafa Johal ◽

Maxime Portaz ◽

Eric Castelli ◽

Dominique Vaufreydaz

Keyword(s):

Social Touch ◽

The Social

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Affective Touch Dimensions: From Sensitivity to Metacognition

10.1101/669259 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Mariana von Mohr ◽

Louise P. Kirsch ◽

Joey K. Loh ◽

Aikaterini Fotopoulou

Keyword(s):

Signal Detection ◽

Response Bias ◽

Signal Detection Theory ◽

Affective Touch ◽

Social Touch ◽

Ct Afferents ◽

Tactile Stimuli ◽

The Social ◽

Ct System ◽

First Time

AbstractTouch can give rise to different sensations including sensory, emotional and social aspects. Tactile pleasure typically associated with caress-like skin stroking of slow velocities (1-10 cm/s) has been hypothesised to relate to an unmyelinated, slow-conducting C-tactile afferent system (CT system), developed to distinguish affective touch from the ‘‘noise’’ of other tactile information on hairy skin (the so-called ‘social touch hypothesis’). However, to date, there is no psychometric examination of the discriminative and metacognitive processes that contribute to accurate awareness of pleasant touch stimuli. Over two studies (total N= 194), we combined for the first time CT stimulation with signal detection theory and metacognitive measurements to assess the social touch hypothesis on the role of the CT system in affective touch discrimination. Participants’ ability to accurately discriminate pleasantness of tactile stimuli of different velocities, as well as their response bias, was assessed using a force-choice task (high versus low pleasantness response) on two different skin sites: forearm (CT-skin) and palm (non-CT skin). We also examined whether such detection accuracy was related to the confidence in their decision (metacognitive sensitivity). Consistently with the social touch hypothesis, we found higher sensitivity d’ on the forearm versus the palm, indicating that people are better at discriminating between stimuli of high and low tactile pleasantness on a skin site that contains CT afferents. Strikingly, we also found more negative response bias on the forearm versus the palm, indicating a tendency to experience all stimuli on CT-skin as ‘high-pleasant’, with such effects depending on order, likely to be explained by prior touch exposure. Finally, we found that people have greater confidence in their ability to discriminate between affective touch stimuli on CT innervated skin than on non-CT skin, possibly relating to the domain specificity of CT touch hence suggesting a domain-specific, metacognitive hypothesis that can be explored in future studies as an extension of the social touch hypothesis.HighlightsTouch mediated by C-tactile (CT) afferents on hairy skin elicits pleasant sensationsWe combine for the first time CT stimulation with signal detection theoryBetter accuracy to detect pleasantness of tactile stimuli at CT optimal speeds on CT skinHigher confidence in ability to accurately distinguish affective touch on CT skin

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Kuwaiti Teachers' Satisfaction with the Social Studies Curriculum and Their Performance in the Classroom

Journal of Educational and Social Research ◽

10.36941/jesr-2022-0028 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 355

Author(s):

Abdullah J. Alhajri

Keyword(s):

School Districts ◽

Social Studies ◽

Teaching Methods ◽

Learning Activities ◽

Social Studies Teachers ◽

Social Studies Curriculum ◽

Teacher Gender ◽

Item Questionnaire ◽

The Social ◽

And Performance

This study investigated Kuwaiti teachers' satisfaction with the structure of the social studies curriculum and their performance in the classroom. It aimed to answer two main questions through a twenty-two-item questionnaire applied to a sample of 132 social studies teachers. The results have shown moderate satisfaction in this regard among those teachers. There were no effects of teacher gender, experience, or various school districts on the satisfaction of social studies teachers and their performance in the classroom. The researcher called for reevaluating the curriculum by its developers to pinpoint and rid it of the causes that obstruct higher teachers' satisfaction and performance, mainly its inadequacy to students' interests, needs, skills, creativity, individual differences, and practical learning activities, and up-to-date teaching methods. Received: 9 September 2021 / Accepted: 5 December 2021 / Published: 3 January 2022

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Разработка и валидизация опросника TEAQ-37 Rus («Особенности тактильного взаимодействия»): новый инструмент для оценки отношения к социальным тактильным контактам

10.31234/osf.io/bwr5v ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Elena Belovol ◽

Anton Varlamov ◽

Francis McGlone ◽

Maria Ivanova

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Autistic Traits ◽

Self Report ◽

Individual Experience ◽

Good Reliability ◽

Affective Touch ◽

Social Touch ◽

Russian Version ◽

Item Questionnaire ◽

Report Measure

[In Russian] The main objective of the study was to perform a series of validation studies on a Russian version of the Touch Experiences and Attitudes Questionnaire (TEAQ), a self-report measure recently developed to quantify individual experience and attitude to social and affective touch. TEAQ-37 Rus is a 37-item questionnaire characterized by good reliability and a clear 5-factor structure, covering the aspects of attitude to intimate touch, attitude to friendly touch, attitude to self-care, current intimate touch experiences, and childhood touch experiences. The present article describes general psychometric properties of the questionnaire and provides new data describing the links between social touch, autistic traits, and attitude to one's body image.

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