scholarly journals How listening to music and engagement with other media provide a sense of belonging: An exploratory study of social surrogacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Schäfer ◽  
Tuomas Eerola
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Social Motives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Partners ◽  
Social Surrogacy ◽  
Identification Processes ◽  
Watching Tv

The social surrogacy hypothesis holds that people resort to temporary substitutes, so-called social surrogates, if direct social interaction is not possible. In this exploratory study, we investigate social motives for listening to music in comparison to watching TV and reading fiction. Thirty statements about possible social reasons for the engagement with media were compiled. After 374 participants had rated their agreement with those statements, they were reduced to seven categories: Company, Shared experiences, Understanding others, Reminiscence, Isolation, Group identity, and Culture. The results propose that music is used as temporary substitute for social interaction alongside TV programs and fiction, but that it acts differently. Music listening might act as a social surrogate by evoking memories of relationship partners or through identification processes. There are overlapping motives between the domains, but the elicitation of nostalgia appears to be unique to music listening. The results motivate further investigation into the effects of music listening on socio-emotional well-being.

scholarly journals Work Coordination as a Social Interaction Process in Nursing Staff Meetings

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Eveliina Pennanen ◽  
Leena Mikkola
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Interaction Process ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Workplace Interactions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Coordination ◽  
Task Oriented

Work coordination, which here refers to organizing, planning, discussing, and negotiating work, is done through social interaction. Because coordination is essential to work quality and well-being at work, it is important to understand the processes that construct work coordination. This study aims to understand work coordination as a social interaction process by analyzing social interaction in nursing staff meetings of a Finnish hospital. Observations and approaches of inductive and descriptive qualitative analysis were used to examine eight sequential nursing staff meetings that took place in 2012. The results indicate that work coordination consisted of sense-making information, sense-making action, managing emotions, and managing positions of employees. Work coordination constructs the social reality of the workplace both on the task level and the relational level. Understanding that work coordination is not only a task-oriented process that deals with organizing practical tasks and duties but is also a process of constructing positions and relationships in work communities helps to identify and understand the possibilities that social interaction and its practices, such as workplace meetings, offer. The findings can be applied in the organizational context to evaluate and develop workplace interactions.

Influence of computer technologies on development and children's well-being

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 52-55
Author(s):  
Sabir Nurgalam Amiraliev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Home Environment ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Screen Time ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Viewing Time ◽  
The Social ◽  
Game Console ◽  
Watching Tv ◽  
The Impact

These studies provide new insights into the relationship between parenting style, home environment and the timing of children's use of new technologies. The social and physical home environment has a unique impact on children's viewing time, regardless of parenting style. Our results indicate a relatively low association between parenting style and screen time in 8-year-olds. To reduce the time a child spends watching TV or using a computer or game console, it may be important for parents to become more aware of the impact they have on their child's behavior, especially at an early age. Key words: child development, computer technology, screen time

Moments of Connection for the Disconnected: People with Negative Relations with Others Experience Less, but Benefit More from, Positive Everyday Interaction

2021 ◽  
pp. 009365022110058
Author(s):  
Andy J. Merolla ◽  
Afsoon Hansia ◽  
Jeffrey A. Hall ◽  
Shuangyue Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Intervention Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Interaction ◽  
Positive Communication ◽  
Relationship Partners ◽  
Established Relationship ◽  
Everyday Interaction ◽  
To Come ◽  
Partner Responsiveness

Analysis of over 2,000 moments of social interaction collected through smartphone-based experience sampling showed that, over a week-long period, people who have experienced negative relations with others (relative to those who have not), interacted with individuals from less-established relationships, perceived less partner responsiveness during interactions (particularly from their established relationship partners), and were more likely to report being alone than engaged in positive communication episodes. People with high negative relations with others also tended to have lower perceptions of affective well-being and relational connection, and greater perceptions of stress-related cognition, during moments of social interaction. Yet, results also indicated that while positive communication appears harder to come by for people with high negative relations with others, these individuals gain outsized benefits from positive interaction when it occurs (e.g., sharper increases in well-being and decreases in stress). This suggests that heightened negative relations with others might lead people to “hyperabsorb” the benefits of positive moments of communication. The results have implications for key perspectives on communication, relational life, and well-being (i.e., affection deprivation, appraisal, implicit vigilance, and resource insufficiency) and suggest potential routes for intervention development for people with difficult relational lives.

scholarly journals Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between Happiness and the Rise of Media Consumption During COVID-19 Confinement

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Antonio Muñiz-Velázquez ◽  
Diego Gómez-Baya ◽  
Javier Lozano Delmar
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Great Increase ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Subjective Happiness ◽  
Notable Increase ◽  
The Media ◽  
Watching Tv ◽  
The Relationship

The confinement of the population into their homes as a result of COVID-19 has entailed a notable increase in the consumption of diverse media. This exploratory study aimed to examine how the increase in media consumption was related to subjective happiness and psychological well-being. For this purpose, a questionnaire was administered to a sample of Spanish adults (n = 249; 53.8% women; aged between 18 and 75, Mage = 42.06, SD = 12.37) to assess their consumption of different media before and during confinement. Moreover, participants were evaluated for hedonic, eudaimonic, social, and experienced happiness by using the Pemberton Happiness Index (PHI). The results underlined the great increase in the consumption of TV for entertainment and social networking sites (SNS) during confinement. Furthermore, it was found that higher consumption was negatively correlated with the level of happiness, so that, people who reported greater well-being, both subjective and psychological, spent less time watching TV and using SNS. In contrast, no association was found between the level of happiness and the consumption of news (regardless of the media) and radio. Therefore, it seems that far from cultivating greater happiness, those who engaged in heavy consumption of TV entertainment and SNS during confinement were less happy than those who did so more moderately and spent more time using other media or performing other activities.

scholarly journals Work with the Social Environment of the Family in the Process of Reintegration

2020 ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Nataliia Lytvynova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Parental Care ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Important People ◽  
The Individual

The article reveals the method of working with the child's immediate environment, which helps to ensure optimal conditions for reintegration. Partnership between parents, relatives, other important people, social professionals, practical psychologists, specialists and organizations involved affects the overall well-being of the child at different levels of social interaction. The consequences of the specific conditions of keeping and living of orphans and children deprived of parental care in boarding schools, as well as the conditions necessary to achieve the welfare of the child are described. The reintegration of the child should take place as a gradual and controlled process. Constant changes in the conditions of care, forms of placement are detrimental to the child's development, the formation of attachments, so during this process you need to avoid sudden changes and conflicting decisions. The author analyzes the specifics of the process of reintegration of orphans and children deprived of parental care, identifies three levels of social interaction, characteristic of this category of children: sensory-emotional, emotional-social, social-institutional level. In this context, the process of reintegration is to some extent similar to the process of socialization of the individual, which involves the active entry of the individual into all social institutions. The technologies of compiling a map of the social environment are presented, which provides a more detailed, reasonable answer regarding the quality and functioning of the client's social relations; ecomaps, to identify a number of interactions between the client and people related to the client, relevant social institutions, the environment. Based on the analysis of interpersonal connections and relationships, the specialist identifies important and significant people for the child and together with the child explores the possibility of organizing a meeting within the social network, which can be attended by people listed in the map of the social environment.

scholarly journals Work Coordination as a Social Interaction Process in Nursing Staff Meetings

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Eveliina Pennanen ◽  
Leena Mikkola
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Interaction Process ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Workplace Interactions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Coordination ◽  
Task Oriented

Work coordination, which here refers to organizing, planning, discussing, and negotiating work, is done through social interaction. Because coordination is essential to work quality and well-being at work, it is important to understand the processes that construct work coordination. This study aims to understand work coordination as a social interaction process by analyzing social interaction in nursing staff meetings of a Finnish hospital. Observations and approaches of inductive and descriptive qualitative analysis were used to examine eight sequential nursing staff meetings that took place in 2012. The results indicate that work coordination consisted of sense-making information, sense-making action, managing emotions, and managing positions of employees. Work coordination constructs the social reality of the workplace both on the task level and the relational level. Understanding that work coordination is not only a task-oriented process that deals with organizing practical tasks and duties but is also a process of constructing positions and relationships in work communities helps to identify and understand the possibilities that social interaction and its practices, such as workplace meetings, offer. The findings can be applied in the organizational context to evaluate and develop workplace interactions.

scholarly journals Social Interaction in Public Spaces and Well-Being among Elderly Women: Towards Age-Friendly Urban Environments

2022 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 746
Author(s):  
Yingyi Zhang ◽  
Ge Chen ◽  
Yue He ◽  
Xinyue Jiang ◽  
Caiying Xue
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
The Social

The world’s population is aging and becoming more urbanized. Public space in urban areas is vital for improving the health of the elderly by stimulating social interaction. Many urban design projects are advertised as age-friendly but ignore the real needs of the elderly, especially elderly women, for social interaction in urban public spaces. Insufficient attention is paid to the physical and psychological characteristics of elderly women when shaping public space. This analysis addresses the question: What are the qualities of urban spaces which facilitate health-improving social interaction for elderly women? Methods include a case study in Beijing, field investigation, mapping, and qualitative and quantitative analysis. The survey was carried out in April 2021, and concerned 240 women aged 55–75 years. Results indicate that the social interactions of older women relate to both their physical and psychological situations. Public spaces can positively impact the psychological well-being and social participation of elderly women. Conclusions include insights regarding the relationship between social interaction and well-being among elderly women, as well as proposing a series of principles for shaping public spaces for an age-friendly urban environment.

Doing and Teaching Disciplinary Literacy with Adolescent Learners: A Social and Cultural Enterprise

2015 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Birr Moje
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Literacy Instruction ◽  
Adolescent Literacy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Disciplinary Literacy ◽  
Literacy Teaching ◽  
The Social ◽  
Support Students

In this essay, Elizabeth Birr Moje argues that educators can make radical change in student learning and well-being if they reframe teachers' work with youth as less about meeting standards and more about teaching youth to navigate the multiple literacy contexts in which they live, learn, and work. To that end, Moje offers a take on disciplinary literacy instruction that puts the process of inquiry at its center. In contrast to a frame that ignores or removes value, purpose, affect, emotion, imagination, social interaction, and the learning and challenging of cultural conventions from the work of adolescent literacy teaching, she presents a teaching heuristic designed to capitalize on the social and cultural nature of disciplinary inquiry and support students in navigating multiple literacy contexts as part of the teaching of disciplinary literacy, characterized by what she terms the 4Es: engage, elicit/engineer, examine, and evaluate.

scholarly journals Manoeuvring between interplay and context- an ethnographic study of social interaction in encounters between registered nurses, older patients and their relatives

BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anette Johnsson ◽  
Åse Boman ◽  
Petra Wagman ◽  
Sandra Pennbrant
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Older Patients ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Care Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Moment

Abstract Background Social interactions between registered nurses, older patients and their relatives are essential and play a central role in developing a successful care relationship in healthcare encounters. How nurses interact with patients affects the patient’s well-being. Limited time and demands for efficiency influence the encounter and complaints from patients and relatives often concern social interactions. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the social interaction in encounters between registered nurses, older patients and their relatives at a department of medicine for older people. Methods The study has an ethnographic approach including participatory observations (n = 21) and informal field conversations (n = 63), followed by a thematic analysis with an abductive approach reflecting Goffman’s interactional perspective. Result The result revealed a pattern where the participants manoeuvred between interplay and context. By manoeuvring, they defined roles but also created a common social situation. Nurses led the conversation; patients followed and described their health problems, while relatives captured the moment to receive and provide information. Finally, nurses summarised the encounter using ritual language, patients expressed gratitude through verbal and non-verbal expressions, while relatives verbally confirmed the agreements. Conclusion The social interaction between registered nurses, older patients and relatives was shaped by a pattern where the participants manoeuvred between interplay and context. When all participants assume responsibility for the social interaction, they become active and listen to each other. The approach adopted by nurses is crucial, thus training in communication and social interaction skills are important. When the asymmetry due to imbalance, is reduced, less misunderstanding and a satisfactory care relationship can be achieved.

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