scholarly journals Validation of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire-Long Version II (COPSOQ II) in Greek employees

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. e977
Author(s):  
Eleni Zigkiri ◽  
Maria Charalampopoulou ◽  
Anastasia Kokka ◽  
Flora Bacopoulou ◽  
Christina Darviri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Risk ◽  
High Educational Level ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Entire Study ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
High Educational

The aim of this study was to validate the long second version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ II) in the Greek language. The study was carried out in two phases following a mixed-method design. Six hundred and fifty-two Greek employees (response rate 93.3%) responded in the second phase of the study, either online or in writing. Both types of participation to the study were confidential for the participants and the companies as well. Most participants were females (68.1%), married (47.4%), aged 30-49 years (60.9%), with high educational level (60.4%). The majority were occupied in the health and the social care services (37.4%) and employed by the private sector (63.2%). Internal consistency of the GR-COPSOQ II was assessed with the Cronbach alpha criterion (Cronbach’s a) and it was acceptable (0.8>α>0.7) for most of the scales. Mean scores were high in many scales that describe exposure to psychosocial risk factors at the workplace. Construct validity was established by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) for the entire study sample and scales. In conclusion, the Greek version of the COPSOQ-II (GR-COPSOQ II) has good psychometric properties and can be recommended as a valid tool for the assessment of psychosocial risk in Greek employees.

scholarly journals Phonological distortion as a humorous strategy in Folarin Falana’s comedy skits

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronke Eunice Adesoye
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Entertainment Industry ◽  
High Educational Level ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Phonological Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
High Educational

Various studies exist on the social functions of humour and such studies have been carried out in diverse fields that range from the humanities to the sciences. In linguistics specifically, research shows that humour has been studied from the perspectives of syntax, pragmatics and semantics; moreover, there is a dearth of studies on the creation of humour through phonological processes. Therefore, this study aims to investigate humour and how it is achieved using phonological processes. The study engages mainly qualitative methods of analysis. Five comedy skits were purposively selected from Folarin Falana’s (Falz the Bahd Guy) eleven collections. These were chosen on the basis of their internet popularity among Nigerians; this popularity was determined on the basis of the rates of downloading the skits. McGraw & Warren’s (2010) Benign Violation Theory was used to account for the phonological violations in the comedies. The various phonological processes that were violated include liaison, deletion, insertion, monophthongisation, coalescence and vowel strengthening. It is argued that the phonological distortions are deliberately made to achieve humour in these Nigerian comedies, especially when the high educational level of the artist is considered. Also, there anti-Anglicism and pro-Nigerianism in the data as the artist identifies himself with Nigeria(ns) and creates a niche for himself in the entertainment industry using the phonological peculiarities among Nigerians’ language use, especially the Yoruba tribe. He also creates different personalities to project different messages which are not only peculiar to Nigeria but to the world, using these personalities to portray people’s feelings and views of the world and how these influence their attitudes.

scholarly journals Público visitante de Museos. El caso en Antioquia- Colombia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 5766-5775
Author(s):  
Mónica María Valle Flórez ◽  
Claudia María Giraldo Velásquez ◽  
Sandra Zapata Aguirre
Keyword(s):  
Group Communication ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
High Educational Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Museum Experience ◽  
The University ◽  
High Educational

Los museos son unos de los espacios culturales más mediáticos del panorama social contemporáneo, de allí su interés por comprender las necesidades, valores y expectativas de sus visitantes para pensar estrategia de marketing, comunicación e innovación.   En este artículo  se presenta el análisis del público visitante de un Museo en el Departamento de Antioquia- Colombia.  El estudio se realizó en alianza estratégica entre el Grupo de investigación en Comunicación- GIC, del Politécnico Colombiano Jaime Isaza Cadavid y el Grupo Empresarial y Turístico GIET, de la Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia. Se utilizó metodología mixta, se aplicaron cuestionarios y se realizaron grupos focales. En esta ponencia se presenta solo los resultados cuantitativos.    En el estudio se encuentra que la ocupación de la mayoría de los visitantes es estudiante, seguida de empleado y trabajadores independientes. Emergen como nuevo perfil de visitante la empleada doméstica y el jubilado. El visitante nacional asiste con su familia o con amigos. Prefiere espacios en los que pueda conversar a los que se requiera silencio. Los extranjeros tienen alto nivel educativo, prefieren una experiencia museística cognitiva, introspectiva o artística, el nacional opta por la experiencia social. Se presenta una tendencia por experiencias de ocio que permitan la relajación y el entretenimiento.  A los museos se les presentan oportunidades y retos que les implica cambios sustanciales de su concepción clásica de museo.   Museums are one of the most media cultural spaces of contemporary social landscape, hence the interest in generating strategies to connect, loyalty and attracting public. In this paper the analysis of the visitors of a museum in the Department of Antioquia, Colombia is presented. The study was conducted in strategic partnership between the Research Group Communication- GIC, the Politecnico Colombiano Jaime Isaza Cadavid and GIET and Tourism Business Group, of the University Institution Greater School of Antioquia. mixed methodology was used, were applied questionnaires and focus groups were conducted. This paper presents quantitative results alone. The study found that the occupation of most visitors is a student, followed by employee and self-employed. Emerge as a new visitor profile and the maid retired. The national visitor attends with family or friends. He prefers spaces where you can talk to those requiring silence. Foreigners attending alone, have high educational level. Unlike foreigners who prefer a more cognitive, introspective or artistic museum experience, the national opt for the social experience. a tendency for leisure experiences that allow relaxation and entertainment is presented. A museums are present both opportunities and challenges involved were substantial changes in its classical conception of the museum.

Initial Northern Iroquoian Coalescence

2018 ◽  
pp. 89-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Birch ◽  
Ronald F. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Regional Networks ◽  
Village Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Village

Northern Iroquoian societies experienced two phases of community coalescence, one in the thirteenth century, which brought semi-sedentary populations together into the first true villages, and a second phase two centuries later that created large palisaded settlements. This chapter is primarily concerned with the first wave of village formation and the changes in social organization and gender and power relations that accompanied the transition to sedentism. This included more formalized decision-making at the village level as well as the development of recursive entanglements between regional networks defined by kin- and clan-based relations and materialized through ritual and mortuary programs. We argue that transformations in the social and physical labor performed by males and females at the village and regional levels is key to understanding this transition.

Victims as Actors of Social Control: An Empirical Inquiry in France and Some Implications

1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renée Zauberman ◽  
Philippe Robert
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
The Social ◽  
Screening Question ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Detailed Questionnaire

This article presents some preliminary results of the first French national victimization survey. Investigations into victimization are mainly used in France to determine the social profile of victims, as well as their behaviour and attitudes. The survey was implemented in two phases: a screening question on a national sample of 11,000, followed in the second phase by 1,049 victims answering a detailed questionnaire on their attitudes and behaviour. Besides ordinary property and personal offences, family violence and offences related to consumption and business life were included. For each of those types of victimization, the authors detail the specific socio-demographic characteristics of victims in order to compare these profiles. Finally they present data on the consequences of victimization and on the different resources to which victims turn. These results are used to document a discussion on criminal policy issues; in particular, passivity of the police confronted with individual complaints against unidentified offenders; and the considerable transformations in the protection of private property, which blur the traditional borders between state and private sectors.

Group Responses To Specially Skilled Individuals in a Macaca Fascicularis Group

Behaviour ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 107 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 241-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduard Stammbach
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Macaca Fascicularis ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lower Ranking ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Two Phases

The aim of this study was to investigate the capability of monkeys to assess special characteristics in conspecifics. In a first phase I ascertained that all members of a colony of longtailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) were able to attain food by manipulating a one lever apparatus, thus introducing the "tradition" of lever pulling. Then, experiments were carried out on subgroups of the colony where only one of the lower ranking subgroup members was trained to succeed in a more complex task where three levers had to be pulled in a correct sequence. Eight specialists were established in sequence. These specialists became food producers for themselves and for the other group members. Each trial of a specialist's series was carried out in two phases. In the first, the food phase, the food dispensing apparatus was active and responses of other subgroup members to the food producing specialist were observed. In the second, the social phase, the apparatus remained inactive and observations focused on social interactions of the subgroup. As expected, primarily high ranking subgroup members attempted to participate in the food rewards gained by the specialist. It is shown that high ranking animals began to hold back their initial chasing of the specialist from the food site in course of the trials and were soon tolerated to sit near the subordinate food producer. Furthermore, some of the non-specialists began to follow or even to pass the specialist when he was approaching the apparatus to manipulate the levers. These non-specialists thus indicated that they were able to anticipate later actions. In seven out of 55 specialist-non-specialist relationships all predicted changes in social interactions occurred. In the majority of the dyads in which a change in social affiliation was registered an increase of grooming or spatial proximity was positively correlated with the amount of benefit gained from the specialist. In the social phase of the trials the non-specialists gave more grooming to the food producers and maintained spatial proximity even in this second phase. To conclude: At least some of the group members became aware of the skills of the specialists and adapted their behaviour accordingly as if to maximize benefits from their skills. Previous studies had already suggested that monkeys know about social position, social relationships and kinship of group members. This study adds a new aspect of knowledge, namely knowledge on capabilities and skills of others. Differential knowledge allows monkeys to select partners optimally according to their skills and social position.

scholarly journals Construction and Validation of Social Citizenship Index

Health Scope ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirtaher Mousavi ◽  
Ayoub Nafei ◽  
Hassan Rafei ◽  
Malihe Shiani ◽  
Mohammad Ali Mohammadi Gharehghani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Phase ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Z Score ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Standardized Index ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Cutting Point

Background: Social citizenship means creating a situation in which everyone can develop their full potential. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the social citizenship index with its various dimensions in selected countries. Methods: This study used a mixed-methods approach consisting of two phases. In the first phase, social citizenship items were extracted based on a systematic review of previous studies and interviews with experts using direct content analysis. In the second phase, the standardized index was assessed by performing the validity and reliability tests. To combine the dimensions, their values were standardized using the Z score. To analyze the data, factor analysis and normality tests were used. Results: The social citizenship index was categorized into four main dimensions, including health and education, livelihood, economic-political prosperity, and open society. In this study, 125 countries were categorized based on the Social Citizenship Index. The selected countries were classified into three categories based on the opinions of the research group and the cutting point of statistical quartiles: high (32 countries), medium (62 countries), and low (31 countries). Conclusions: It can be concluded that the social citizenship index with four main dimensions and 26 variables is a new tool that allows countries to be compared in the areas of providing welfare services to their citizens.

scholarly journals Kroppens stemthed - en undersøgelse af stress i hverdagslivet

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-78
Author(s):  
Charlotte Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Logical Analysis ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Public Organization ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Common Term ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Analytical Approaches

The body’s inflextion: a study of stress in everyday life Stress is a common term in our langu¬a¬ge of everyday life. This article discus¬ses the results of an empirical investiga¬tion of stress experiences in everyday life. Data were collected by means of interviews with 36 employees of a public organization. The analysis of the data was conducted in two phases: a pheno¬menological analysis of the qualitative dimensions of stress and an analysis of social and cultural aspects structuring these stress experiences. The results presented here concern the first phase whereas the second phase only is indi¬cated by an example. The phenomeno¬logical analysis yielded a distinction be¬tween three phenomenological struc¬tures, metaphorically termed, ‘fight’, ‘blocking’ and ‘boiling over’. These re¬sults are discussed in relation to such phenomenological concepts as intentio¬nality, time, subjectivity and moods. The analysis of the social and cultural aspects structuring the experiences of stress illustrates that actor’s interpreta¬tion of stress experiences is structured by the dominant discourse of stress, but resistance towards this discourse is found. In conclusion, the results of the two analytical approaches are latched together: the results of the phenomeno¬logical analysis suggest a base for the construction of a new discourse of stress in everyday life; the results of the soci¬al and cultural analysis suggest that ac¬tors might be receptive for other dis¬courses than the available discourses of stress.These results taken together urge us to develop new discourses of stress in everyday life.

Shorter Lives with Poor Health: The Toll on Spain’s Less Educated Population

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Amand Blanes ◽  
Sergi Trias-Llimós
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
High Educational Level ◽  
Inequalities In Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Health And Mortality ◽  
High Educational

More than three years separate life expectancy at the age of 30 in more educated groups compared with those with low levels of education. Recent decades have seen considerable advances in the longevity of the Spanish population but these improvements mask the persistence of significant inequalities in health and mortality. Socioeconomic level is a discriminating factor in the health status of individuals throughout their lives and education is one of the most frequently used indicators in studies on social inequalities in health and mortality. In addition to being an indirect variable of the socioeconomic situation, educational level largely conditions the lifestyles and health preferences of individuals as well as their use of the resources of the social and healthcare system. In this issue of Perspectives Demogràfiques, we discuss the present-day differences in health and mortality in Spain according to educational level. These inequalities can be summarised as a threefold penalisation of less educated individuals in comparison with those with a high educational level: a) lower life expectancy; b) greater inequality in age at death; and c) a smaller proportion of years with quality of life.

scholarly journals VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY CONSTRAINTS AT PRESCHOOL

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-101
Author(s):  
Jamilah Mohd Basir ◽  
Azizah Zain ◽  
Zaharah Osman
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Instrument Reliability

Malaysia is the second-largest country for childhood obesity problems in Asian countries. This polemic indirectly caused children less active in physical activity. The purpose of this study was to identify the validity and reliability of factors affecting the constraints of physical activity in preschool. Factors that interfere with physical activity in preschool are due to teacher’s factor, preschool environment factor and physical activity equipment factor. A total of 75 preschool teachers were involved in this study. Therefore, to ensure that this questionnaire is reliable and valid, two phases of validity have been implemented. The first phase of the validation phase was carried out by providing a questionnaire to two experts, a language specialist, and an early childhood education expert. After obtaining expert reviews, all of the reviews were improved to further the second phase of the study. The second phase is the instrument reliability phase. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 23.0 application was used to obtain Cronbach’s Alpha scores. Findings show that all items have high reliability because the value of Cronbach Alpha’s questionnaire obtained α = 0.854.

Accurate Detection and Quantization of Leaf- Diseases through Soft Computing

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 236-247
Author(s):  
Divya Srivastava ◽  
Rajitha B. ◽  
Suneeta Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Bacterial Blight ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Computationally Efficient ◽  
Stage Of Disease ◽  
Accurate Detection ◽  
Two Phases

Diseases in leaves can cause the significant reduction in both quality and quantity of agricultural production. If early and accurate detection of disease/diseases in leaves can be automated, then the proper remedy can be taken timely. A simple and computationally efficient approach is presented in this paper for disease/diseases detection on leaves. Only detecting the disease is not beneficial without knowing the stage of disease thus the paper also determine the stage of disease/diseases by quantizing the affected of the leaves by using digital image processing and machine learning. Though there exists a variety of diseases on leaves, but the bacterial and fungal spots (Early Scorch, Late Scorch, and Leaf Spot) are the most prominent diseases found on leaves. Keeping this in mind the paper deals with the detection of Bacterial Blight and Fungal Spot both at an early stage (Early Scorch) and late stage (Late Scorch) on the variety of leaves. The proposed approach is divided into two phases, in the first phase, it identifies one or more disease/diseases existing on leaves. In the second phase, amount of area affected by the disease/diseases is calculated. The experimental results obtained showed 97% accuracy using the proposed approach.

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