scholarly journals Med students of various study years structural substantive peculiarities of health behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Chizhkova

This paper presents the structure and descriptive content attitude peculiarities health behavior among 1st, 3rd, and 6th-year med students. With the use of the complex questionary "Health behavior" by R.А. Berezovskaya as well as the empirical data interpretation and mathematical-statistical processing hypothesis about structural substantive differences of an interrogated phenomenon among med students of various study years were confirmed. But the assumption about the leading part in the structure of the axiological-motivational component relationship was confounded. This component plays a bonding part between knowledge and personality health behavior. For each study year, specific health behavior features are determined by the formula: I know – I don’t worry. I know – I do (for 1st study year); I know – I worry – I do (for 3rd study year); I know – I don't worry. I know – I do. I worry – I don’t do (for 6th study year). The axiological-motivational component has an indirect effect on the health behavior structure through other components separate block-questions: 1st year – cognitive and behavioral; 3rd – cognitive and emotional; 6th – emotional and behavioral. The substantive components' content of health behavior is observed for 1st-year students with the life experience taken to account, for 3rd-year students – by the gradual life knowledge and behavior modes displacement with acquired special knowledge and skills, for 6th-year students – by the general "professionalization" of health behavior and reliance on the competencies formed in the learning process in the core doctor assets. The general structure of health behavior for all med students has a pronounced “knowledgeable” nature with the leading part of the cognitive component in combination with positive emotions and individual actions of self-preserving behavior. The axiological-motivational component in the general structure of the attitude, presented in isolation from the available knowledge, experienced feelings, and executed behavior, confirms the conclusions in the scientific literature that for young people health and a healthy lifestyle is a possibility rather than a desirable model of behavior in which the value of health is actively declared by all, but is realized only by a small part of students.

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Muhammad Heru Arie Edytia ◽  
Zulhadi Sahputra ◽  
Mirza Mirza

This paper explains the idea of inception space from Inception (2010), a movie directed by Christopher Nolan, to explore the inception space potential in designing architectural space. Inception space is an architectural space design mechanism that translates the essential experience of space users as an effort to implant idea in the form of positive emotions. In other words, the architectural space is a medium of inception to a space user or a target (mark). The main purpose of inception space design is to affect the target (mark) by planting the idea ‘secretly’. The target is unaware of the intervention and considers the idea presented itself. This process becomes the beginning of an idea to grow in one's mind the beginning of mindset and behavior change. In other words, architects or planners can apply this mechanism to design and influence users so that the design success rate can be improved. The main design keywords as part of the inception process are perception, memory, scenario, layer, and labyrinth. The development of design methods of inception space can be explored and applied to different targets and contexts by applying these design keywords. For example, this design mechanism can be applied to people with dementia who experience memory and visuospatial deficit through wayfinding programming.


Author(s):  
Lukasz D. Kaczmarek ◽  
Todd B. Kashdan ◽  
Maciej Behnke ◽  
Martyna Dziekan ◽  
Ewelina Matuła ◽  
...  

AbstractWhen individuals communicate enthusiasm for good events in their partners' lives, they contribute to a high-quality relationship; a phenomenon termed interpersonal capitalization. However, little is known when individuals are more ready to react enthusiastically to the partner's success. To address this gap, we examined whether positive and negative emotions boost or inhibit enthusiastic responses to partner's capitalization attempts (RCA). Participants (N = 224 individuals) responded to their partner's success. Before each capitalization attempt (operationalized as responses following the news that their partner won money in a game), we used video clips to elicit positive (primarily amusement) or negative (primarily anger) or neutral emotions in the responder. We recorded emotional valence, smiling intensity, verbal RCA, and physiological reactivity. We found indirect (but not direct) effects such that eliciting positive emotions boosted and negative emotions inhibited enthusiastic RCA (smiling intensity and enthusiastic verbal RCA). These effects were relatively small and mediated by emotional valence and smiling intensity but not physiological reactivity. The results offer novel evidence that positive emotions fuel the capitalization process.


Author(s):  
Angela G Brega ◽  
Rachel L Johnson ◽  
Sarah J Schmiege ◽  
Anne R Wilson ◽  
Luohua Jiang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Health literacy (HL) is the “ability to find, understand, evaluate and put information to use to improve decision making and, ultimately, improve health and quality of life.” Parents with limited HL are less likely to follow recommended parental oral health behaviors. Purpose We tested a theoretical framework designed to clarify mechanisms through which HL may influence parental oral health behavior. The framework proposed that HL: (a) has a direct effect on parental oral health knowledge, beliefs (i.e. self-efficacy; perceived susceptibility, severity, benefits, barriers), and behavior; (b) influences beliefs indirectly through knowledge; and (c) influences behavior indirectly through knowledge and beliefs. Methods We analyzed cross-sectional data from a randomized controlled trial designed to reduce dental decay in American Indian children (N = 521). Parents completed survey questions assessing sociodemographic characteristics, HL, and parental oral health knowledge, beliefs, and behavior. Path analysis was used to test the framework. Results HL exerted significant direct effects on knowledge and beliefs but not behavior. HL had significant indirect effects on all beliefs through knowledge. Significant indirect effects of HL on behavior occurred through self-efficacy (estimate: 0.99, 95% CI: 0.42, 1.83, p = .005), perceived barriers (estimate: 0.73, 95% CI: 0.29, 1.43, p = .010), knowledge to self-efficacy (estimate: 0.57, 95% CI: .31, 0.98, p = .001), and knowledge to perceived barriers (estimate: 0.24, 95% CI: 0.09, 0.47, p = .012). Conclusions HL exerted an indirect effect on parental oral health behavior, with knowledge, self-efficacy, and perceived barriers being the primary constructs linking HL to behavior.


2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris van Venrooij ◽  
Tobias Sachs ◽  
Mariska Kleemans

Abstract To reduce negative emotional responses and to stimulate prosociality, constructive journalism promotes the inclusion of positive emotions and solutions in news. This study experimentally tested whether including those elements indeed increased prosocial intentions and behavior among children, and whether negative emotions and self-efficacy are mediators in this regard. To this end, children (N = 468; 9 to 13 years old) were exposed to an emotion-based, solution-based, or non-constructive news video. Results showed that emotion-based and solution-based news reduced children’s negative emotions compared to non-constructive news. No direct effects for prosocial intentions were found, but solution-based news led to less prosocial behavior (i. e., money donated) than emotion-based and non-constructive news. Moreover, negative emotions served as a mediator, self-efficacy did not. The more negative emotions were elicited by a news story, the higher the prosocial intentions and behavior. In conclusion, a constructive style of reporting helps to reduce children’s negative emotional responses but subsequently hinders prosociality.


Author(s):  
Muntasir Muntasir ◽  
Anderias Umbu Roga ◽  
Pius Weraman ◽  
Ketut Mahendra Kuswara ◽  
SP. Manongga ◽  
...  

Activities of implementing research results for many audiences have been carried out in the form of socialization of the delivery of scientific knowledge material in the form of counseling and strengthening hygiene and health behavior for informal sector workers in order to remain productive during the situation and conditions of the 2019 Covid pandemic in Lasiana Kupang Ntt which have been carried out efficiently and carefully. . Community service method with the following stages: 1) planning and design of activities; 2) supply of materials as needed; 3) pre-implementation preparation and implementation of activities; 4) delivery of counseling materials and socialization of strengthening the character of hygiene and health behavior for informal sector workers to remain productive during the situation and conditions of the 2019 Covid pandemic in Lasiana, Kupang Ntt; 5) questions and answers and brainstorming and suggestions from implementers and target partners; 6) Field monitoring by monitoring supervisor; 7) results of evaluation from community partnership activities and 8) the final report of the activity. The output of this activity is knowledge and understanding for informal sector workers affected by Covid 2019, especially construction workers and temporary workers in Lasiana, Kupang city, to always carry out healthy patterns and behavior, especially clean and healthy living habits and provide humanitarian assistance in form of food needs, masks and hand sanitizer.


2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (11) ◽  
pp. 1394-1416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Semenza

This study draws upon Kaplan’s theory of self-attitude and deviant response to examine the relationship between health behavior and juvenile delinquency. The analysis, examining data from the Monitoring the Future 2013 study, shows that health behavior is associated with multiple forms of delinquency even after accounting for illness, as well as pertinent demographic and individual factors. The findings support the position that health behaviors have a distinct theoretical relationship with delinquency related to self-attitude, separate from the effects of illness. The article builds upon prior work regarding physical health and delinquency, demonstrating that a healthy lifestyle may decrease the likelihood of delinquency through an improvement in self-attitude.


Author(s):  
Gabriella Nagy-Pénzes ◽  
Ferenc Vincze ◽  
János Sándor ◽  
Éva Bíró

The importance of puberty on later health status and behavior is indisputable, which also means that it is worth making intervention efforts during this period of life. However, whether better health-related knowledge is correlated with favorable health behavior in adolescents is an important, still unanswered question. Our objective was to examine this relationship. The participants were ninth-grade secondary school students. Data were collected using anonymous, self-administered questionnaires. The knowledge-related questions were compiled by the authors, while the questions concerning eating habits, physical activity, demographic and socioeconomic data were taken from the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children survey. The relationship between knowledge and behavior was investigated with structural equation modeling adjusted for gender, age, and socioeconomic status. The results demonstrated a good fit to the data, but better knowledge was not related to behavior in our sample. This finding suggests that adolescents’ health behavior is highly influenced by the living context; therefore, appropriate knowledge is necessary but not sufficient to improve adolescents’ behavior. Hence, comprehensive health promotion programs could provide solutions for encouraging healthy behavior.


2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 03044
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Skachkova ◽  
Lyudmila Klimenko

Based on applied research, the article analyzes the indicators of subjective well-being of scientific and pedagogical workers of leading Russian universities. The empirical basis of the study is the results of 8 focus groups with the participation of over 60 university employees and the data of a mass survey of 246 teachers from federal universities. The concept of research on subjective well-being includes the study of a person's cognitive affective assessment of various aspects of his life. The results of the study show that among the university staff surveyed, situational positive emotions prevail over negative feelings, and the level of happiness is slightly higher than the average for the Russian population as a whole. At the level of the cognitive component, quite critical assessments by university teachers of their socio-economic status and working conditions are recorded. However, the importance of economic well-being for university staff is inferior to the values of interesting work, realization of abilities, and recognition of colleagues and students. At the same time, modern education reforms can negatively affect the professional well-being of university employees, as the workload is growing the risks are increasing with the risks of switching to a part-time job or job loss.


Author(s):  
Rubén Trigueros ◽  
José M. Aguilar-Parra ◽  
Adolfo J. Cangas ◽  
Rosario Bermejo ◽  
Carmen Ferrandiz ◽  
...  

Included among the basic objectives of Physical Education (PE) classes is the consolidation of habits of a healthy lifestyle among adolescents. However, the main studies in this field have focused on cognitive aspects related to students during these classes, yet they ignore the role that emotions can play in the adoption of future habits. Objectives: To analyze how emotions (emotional intelligence and emotional state) can influence the resilience and motivation of adolescents, as well as academic performance and adoption of healthy lifestyle habits. Methodology: 615 secondary school students between the ages of 14 and 19 participated (M = 16.02; SD = 1.57) in the study. A structural equations model was developed using the main variables and by applying some of the principles of Self-Determination Theory. The results show that emotional intelligence is positively related to positive emotions and negatively related to negative emotions. Positive emotions positively predict both self-motivation towards physical education classes and resilience. Resilience positively predicts self-motivation. Finally, self-motivation acts as a predictor of both academic performance and regular participation in physical activity. Conclusions: This study successfully shows the importance of focusing on emotions in PE classes inasmuch as emotion increases the tendency to get good grades and maintain active lifestyle habits. In this sense, focusing on the emotions of students in PE could prove quite beneficial.


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