scholarly journals Psychological Risks and the End of Career in the Event of Injury in High Performance Sport: Analysis of Cases

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 136-148
Author(s):  
K.A. Bochaver ◽  
L.M. Dovzhik
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Sports Injury ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
Psychological Risks

The paper presents the psychological aspect of sports injury in high performance sport. The significance of injury manifests itself in the disruption of everyday life, pain, discomfort, and stress, as well as the accompanying existential experiences. On the one hand, injury appears to be a routine and frequent component of the sports profession; on the other hand, its importance is enormous, and an injured athlete can end his/her professional trajectory without being able to become successful and prosperous in life outside of sport. The work emphasized four cases from the authors’ practice. They demonstrate that a high level of perfectionism and internality in the experience of injury can manifest itself in self-blame and internal conflict; successful post-traumatic growth requires a supporting environment. We indicate the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to intervention when all the key specialists and the close ones are involved in the psychological recovery of an athlete.

scholarly journals TEACHERS’ INTRAPERSONAL CONFLICTS: MOTIVATIONAL ASPECT

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Vlasenko
Keyword(s):  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Individual Values ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Intrapersonal Conflict ◽  
Motivational Aspect ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
Low Ability

This study aims at exploring psychological peculiarities of teachers’ intrapersonal conflicts in manifestation motivational sphere. The sample consists of 192 teachers (89,6% female and 10,4% male) from 13 schools in Ukraine. It is presented the analyses of internal conflicts and vakuums in motivational sphere of teachers. The results show existential and individual values prevail in respondents’motivational sphere. It was found that 42,2% of teachers had a low discoordination among things they want and need on the one hand and their possibilities on the other. It was found that 20,8% of teachers wasn’t satisfied with their current life situation, had an internal conflict. The feeling of internal conflict and low ability to self-actualization in one of teachers’ main life spheres («happy domestic life», «health», «love») were connected with high internal conflict in other life spheres of teachers. There have been identified internal conflicts in the spheres of «health» (47,9% respondents), «happy domestic life» (33,9%), «financial provided life» (27,1% ) and «love» (26% teachers). It was investigated high internal vakuums in spheres «active life» (50,5%), «interesting work» (27,1% respondents) that indicated reducing of motivation and could lead to teachers’ activity declining. Teachers that have high level of internal vakuums feel exhausted and overstressed as well as they face to high professional demands. A programme addressing intrapersonal conflict and managing low ability to self-actualization in main life spheres would be of benefit to teachers.

Pathways from adversity to wisdom

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Dorfman ◽  
Igor Grossmann ◽  
David A Moscovitch
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Folk Beliefs ◽  
Personal Strengths ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Adverse Experiences ◽  
Epistemic Humility ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
The One ◽  
Health And Well Being

Folk beliefs and philosophers have long suggested that mastering adversity contributes to growth in wisdom –adaptability to the situation, perspectivism, dialectical thinking, and epistemic humility. But existing research on outcomes of adversity suggests a puzzle. On the one hand, cross-sectional studies have found adversity leads to post-traumatic growth in personal strengths such as wisdom. On the other hand, focus on adverse experiences exacerbates negative emotions and thoughts and undermines health and well-being over time. Our chapter highlights the idea that outcomes of adversity may depend on one’s mindset when reflecting on the adverse experience. Adopting a self-distanced mindset rather than the habitual self-focused or self-immersed mindset is likely to enhance wise characteristics. We review evidence-based advances in the study of daily adversity and wisdom, specifically focusing on utilizing longitudinal and experimental methodologies, and address future questions and clinical implications of self-distanced mindsets for growth in wisdom.

scholarly journals Building High-Resolution Sky Images Using the Cell/B.E.

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 113-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Lucia Varbanescu ◽  
Alexander S. van Amesfoort ◽  
Tim Cornwell ◽  
Ger van Diepen ◽  
Rob van Nieuwpoort ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Complete Solution ◽  
Performance Potential ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
Irregular Data ◽  
Original Application ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
Data Intensive Applications ◽  
Application Specific

The performance potential of the Cell/B.E., as well as its availability, have attracted a lot of attention from various high-performance computing (HPC) fields. While computation intensive kernels proved to be exceptionally well suited for running on the Cell, irregular data-intensive applications are usually considered as poor matches. In this paper, we present our complete solution for enabling such a data-intensive application to run efficiently on the Cell/B.E. processor. Specifically, we target radioastronomy data gridding and degridding, two resembling imaging filters based on convolutional resampling. Our solution is based on building a high-level application model, used to evaluate parallelization alternatives. Next, we choose the one with the best performance potential, and we gradually exploit this potential by applying platform-specific and application-specific optimizations. After several iterations, our target application shows a speed-up factor between 10 and 20 on a dual-Cell blade when compared with the original application running on a commodity machine. Given these results, and based on our empirical observations, we are able to pinpoint a set of ten guidelines for parallelizing similar applications on the Cell/B.E. Finally, we conclude the Cell/B.E. can provide high performance for data-intensive applications at the price of increased programming efforts and with a significant aid from aggressive application-specific optimizations.

The Educational Project in the Context of High-Performance Sports

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Fabrice Burlot ◽  
Mathilde Desenfant ◽  
Helene Joncheray
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Training Project ◽  
Educational Project ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Social Balance ◽  
Adjustment Variable ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level

The requirements of performance sport are becoming more and more time-consuming for athletes. Based on the work of Rosa, the article looks into the ability of athletes to reconcile their training project and the increasing requirements of practice at a high level. To address this issue, we interviewed 63 high-level French athletes who train at the French Institute of Sport. The results show that although the training project appears to be time-consuming, it is nonetheless a source of social balance and a reassuring choice for their future professional retraining. In order to preserve this educational project in the time-consuming context of high-performance sports, athletes on the one hand implement strategies of arrangement in order to produce an acceptable timetable, and on the other hand use this temporality as an adjustment variable allowing them to better manage temporal emergencies. By giving athletes a voice, this work deconstructs the idea of the incompatibility of educational and sports projects and offers recommendations to sports institutions.

scholarly journals Relational Capital and Post-traumatic Growth: the Role of Work Meaning

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7362
Author(s):  
Ting Nie ◽  
Mi Tian ◽  
Hengrui Liang
Keyword(s):  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Relational Capital ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Work Meaning ◽  
Trust And Reciprocity ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Statistical Survey ◽  
High Level

Through a statistical survey of 760 front-line medical staff during the COVID-19 epidemic, this study attempts to explore the relationships between relational capital, psychological security, post-traumatic growth and the meaning of work. Data analysis verifies that trust, reciprocity, and identification can promote post-traumatic growth by enhancing the individual’s psychological security. A high level of work meaning can enhance the role of trust, reciprocity and identification in promoting psychological security. Work meaning has a moderated mediating effect when trust and reciprocity affect post-traumatic growth through psychological security, but no moderated mediating effect is found when identification affects post-traumatic growth through psychological security.

scholarly journals FUNDING AND PERFORMANCE OF HIGH-LEVEL INDIVIDUAL SPORT IN BENIN

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 532-537
Author(s):  
Akouete Coffi David ◽  
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Ahounouaïkpe Fifamin Judith ◽  
Hounsou Semako Julien ◽  
Dansou H. Pierre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Research Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
Individual Sports

This research work entitled Financing of high performance individual sport in Benin aims to analyze on the one hand, the effects of insufficient funding of high performance athletes in Benin on the development of individual sport and support of their elites and, on the other hand, the type of funding that would be best suited to this situation in Benin. It focuses on three sources of funding for sport: public funding, self-funding and other sources of funding. The results of the study show that, on the one hand, the insufficiency of the budgets allocated to high-performance individual sports constitutes in part an obstacle to the development of this type of sport, and on the other hand, that public funding does not favor not the improvement of the performance of high performance individual athletes, compared to other sources of sport funding.

Preferences and Civil War in Northern Uganda: Post-Traumatic Growth Reconsidered

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 433-453
Author(s):  
Matthew Lowes ◽  
Jeffrey Carpenter ◽  
Peter Hans Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Risk Tolerance ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Measures Of Risk ◽  
The One ◽  
Survey Measure ◽  
Growth Hypothesis

Abstract We exploit the largely exogenous character of abduction and displacement in northern Uganda during the recent civil war to estimate the effects of each on experimental measures of risk tolerance, altruism, trust and trustworthiness, as well as a survey measure of patience. Our analysis reveals the limitations of the ‘post-traumatic growth’ hypothesis. In most cases preferences are unaffected by these traumas and in the one domain in which we identify a significant effect, it is contrary to the hypothesis—people who were both abducted and displaced are 21 percentage points less likely to take a risk.

Chemical ecology and bioactivity of triterpene glycosides from the sea cucumber Psolus patagonicus (Dendrochirotida: Psolidae)

2008 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 817-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Muniain ◽  
R. Centurión ◽  
V.P. Careaga ◽  
M.S. Maier
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Ecology ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Sea Cucumber ◽  
Fast Atom Bombardment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Artemia Salina ◽  
Triterpene Glycosides ◽  
Chemical Methods ◽  
High Level ◽  
Main Triterpene

Information on the chemical ecology and bioactivity of chemical compounds present in the sea cucumber Psolus patagonicus is provided through an interdisciplinary approach. The specimens studied were collected from two different and very distant sampling localities: Bridges Islands (Beagle Channel, Ushuaia, 54° 48′57″ S 66° 25′00″ W) at depths of 4 to 10 m by SCUBA diving, and from the scallop beds of Zigochlamys patagonica (39° 27′10″ S 55° 56′76″ W), at depths of 110 m and 115 m (43° 47′84″ S 59° 56′80″ W) by means of non-selective dredge in the South Atlantic Ocean.The secondary metabolites were isolated from complete adults by a combination of chromatographic methods and purified by high-performance liquid chromatography. They were characterized as triterpene glycosides through extensive spectroscopic analyses (nuclear magnetic resonance and fast atom bombardment mass spectroscopy) and chemical methods. A purified fraction containing Patagonicoside A as the main triterpene showed a high level of mortality against the brine shrimp Artemia salina and revealed different antifungal activity of Patagonicoside A and its desulphated glycoside (ds-Patagonicoside A) against the fungi Cladosporium fulvum, Fusarium oxysporum and Monilia sp., compared with a potent commercial antifungal product.

scholarly journals Spirituality as a source of the individual resilience: results of the psychological study

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 649-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
R H. Ganieva
Keyword(s):  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
High Level ◽  
Depth Interviews

The article offers an analysis of the consequences of the 1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict conducted by a professional psychologist. The study involved 32 people, the relatives of those who became lost during this conflict. The object of analysis is the post traumatic growth, which was quantified on the basis of the questionnaire designed by R. G. Tеdeschi and L. G. Calhoun and adapted to the local circumstances by M. Sh. Magomed-Eminova. For in-depth interviews was used the questionnaire designed by the present author (R. Ganieva). It comprises 50 closed and open questions that imply two types of information: objective (e.g. date of birth, health, education, profession, etc.) and subjective (e.g. the level of satisfaction with life, self-identification as an individual who lives in this world, identifying what actually does mean a human life, the value of one’s life, perception of religion and self-identification within its framework, learning from positive experience, participation level in the work of the Committee, which helps to search after missing people, etc.). The in-depth interviews with relatives of those who has gone missing during the events of autumn1992 inthe Prigorodny district and the city ofVladikavkazdeal with the spiritual changes of an individual. These changes are considered to be an important component of post-traumatic growth as found among the relatives of the missing people. Analysis of the results gained has revealed that the majority of respondents (59 %) showed a high level of post-traumatic growth and demonstrated a high level of post-traumatic wisdom. Simultaneously, it was found that the acquisition and realization of the meaning of life is always associated with the outer world, as well as with the creative activity of a person, his/her subject parameters and achievements. An evaluation of the interview showed that the categories of faith and spirituality were crucial for the person’s post-traumatic growth, These categories were instrumental in maintaining psychological stability in a difficult life situation. 

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