scholarly journals Indicators of Pre-Suicidal State of Minors in the Internet Space

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
E.S. Ponomareva ◽  
V.V. Delibalt
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cognitive Errors ◽  
Online Behavior ◽  
The Past ◽  
Child Questionnaire

The article aims to describe potential indicators of pre-suicidal state of minors manifesting in online-behavior that were revealed in the empirical study which involved 43 respondents aged 13-15 (M=14.19). The subjects for the study were selected among the teenagers who had responded to our advertisement messages published in various groups on the VKontakte social network. The following methodologies were used: UCLA Loneliness Scale (version 3) (D. Russell, L. A. Peplau, M. Ferguson); Beck Hopelessness Inventory; WHO-5 Well-being Index (1998); Cognitive Errors in Online Communication (I.S. Luchinkina); Sentence Completion for Events from the Past Test (SCEPT) (F.Raes et al.); Individual Typological Child Questionnaire (L.N. Sobchik). The data obtained lead to conclude about the characteristics of the profile related to presence of a distinct pre-suicidal condition: a tendency towards increase in the proportion between the number of subscriptions where suicide is mentioned (including those associated with corresponding emotions, as well communities collecting suicide-related art) and the total number of subscriptions. The number of comments on one's page is inversely proportional to the severity of one's pre-suicidal condition.

scholarly journals Social Network Sites and Well-Being: The Role of Social Connection

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna L. Clark ◽  
Sara B. Algoe ◽  
Melanie C. Green
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Extensive Body

In the early days of the Internet, both conventional wisdom and scholarship deemed online communication a threat to well-being. Later research has complicated this picture, offering mixed evidence about how technology-mediated communication affects users. With the dawn of social network sites, this issue is more important than ever. A close examination of the extensive body of research on social network sites suggests that conflicting results can be reconciled by a single theoretical approach: the interpersonal-connection-behaviors framework. Specifically, we suggest that social network sites benefit their users when they are used to make meaningful social connections and harm their users through pitfalls such as isolation and social comparison when they are not. The benefits and drawbacks of using social network sites shown in existing research can largely be explained by this approach, which also posits the need for studying specific online behaviors in future research.

scholarly journals Role and Involvement of Parents in the Cybergrooming Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-159
Author(s):  
A.S. Medvedeva ◽  
E.G. Dozortseva
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Parental Behaviors ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Online Behavior ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Sexual Activities

Parents are the main protectors of the child from the dangers of the Internet, including cybergrooming. However, when faced with cybergroomers, not all parents behave optimally. The article discusses the roles that parents can play in such situations. Particular attention is paid to situations when a parent is used by a criminal to influence a child and involve him in sexual activities; the concept of «parent-mediated cybergrooming» is proposed. The empirical study is a analysis of materials from criminal cases, consisting of 33 transcripts of Internet communications between parents and cyber groomers. Typical parental behaviors are described. Three groups of parents were identified depending on their online behavior and the corresponding potential victimization of their children. The conclusion was made about the predominant desire of parents to protect their children (60.7%). However, some parents put their children at risk (15.1%) or direct danger (24.2%) of cybergrooming and other sexual abuse. Variants of prevention of involvement of minors in cybergrooming, including through communication with their parents, are proposed.

scholarly journals «I» as «Other» on the World Wide Web: from «I»-Representation to «I»-Identification

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-156
Author(s):  
Elena Ryaguzova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Applied Aspect ◽  
The World

The article presents results of the empirical study aimed at investigation of I-representations of active social network users on the World Wide Web and those who use the Internet as the information resource only. Based on our conception of personal representations of “I-Other” interaction, we analyzed specific peculiarities of the communicative environment on the World Wide Web (discursiveness, orientation towards self-representation of a personality to Other, publicity, responsiveness, performativity), and identified that they contribute to development of various personal I-representations, which gradually become I-identifications and transform into a new model of personal identity. The applied aspect of the problem under study can be realized in psychological programs of communicative competence and personal development trainings, in solving practical problems concerning optimization of real interpersonal interactions and interrelations, in understanding of Other’s personality and developing harmonious personal identity.

scholarly journals The Ecology of Unsheltered Homelessness: Environmental and Social-Network Predictors of Well-Being among an Unsheltered Homeless Population

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7328
Author(s):  
Mary-Catherine Anderson ◽  
Ashley Hazel ◽  
Jessica M. Perkins ◽  
Zack W. Almquist
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
General Health ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Homeless Population ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
The Past

People experiencing homelessness (PEH) face extreme weather exposure and limited social support. However, few studies have empirically assessed biophysical and social drivers of health outcomes among unsheltered PEH. Social network, health, and outdoor exposure data were collected from a convenience sample of unsheltered PEH (n = 246) in Nashville, TN, from August 2018–June 2019. Using multivariate fixed-effects linear regression models, we examined associations between biophysical and social environments and self-reported general health and emotional well-being. We found that study participants reported the lowest general health scores during winter months—Nashville’s coldest season. We also found a positive association between the number of nights participants spent indoors during the previous week and general health. Participants who spent even one night indoors during the past week had 1.8-point higher general health scores than participants who spent zero nights indoors (p < 0.01). Additionally, participants who experienced a conflict with a social contact in the past 30 days had lower emotional well-being scores than participants who experienced no conflict. Finally, women had worse general health and emotional well-being than men. Ecologically framed research about health and well-being among PEH is critically needed, especially as climate change threatens to increase the danger of many homeless environments.

scholarly journals At the Top of the Tree? Surveying Conference Interpreters as an Elite

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (38) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Antony Hoyte-West
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
The Internet ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Economic

In spite of the crucial role that conference interpreters play in the world of international affairs and diplomacy, the concept of conference interpreters as an elite has not attracted significant academic interest to date. Building on the author’s previous work (Hoyte-West, 2021), which examined the historical and theoretical aspects of the intersection between conference interpreting and elite sociology, this article reports on the findings of an empirical study with practising conference interpreters. Given increasing interest in sociological aspects of the translational professions, this study is both necessary and timely. In terms of data gathering, snowball sampling was used to disseminate an internet-based survey among professional conference interpreters, with the aim of determining whether conference interpreters viewed themselves as members of an elite. The internet-based survey received 120 responses from freelance, staff, and retired conference interpreters. Using an overwhelmingly quantitative approach, the data was analysed and tabulated, before being subsequently discussed and compared with Khan’s (2012) framework of elite resource areas (political, economic, cultural, social network, and knowledge-based), which had previously been applied to the professional sphere of conference interpreting by the author. As such, it was noted that conference interpreters generally did not view themselves as members of an elite; however, further qualitative research in this area remains both desirable and necessary.

scholarly journals Not all Online Sexual Activities are the Same

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Ramón Barrada
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Young People ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sexual Activities ◽  
Problematic Use ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Types

Young people’s use and participation in online sexual activities (OSA) has increased in the past two decades and has changed their behavior in the area of sexuality. The existing literature has some important limitations, concerning the assessment of the construct and its orientation toward problematic use, while ignoring its healthy use or social participation and its relationship with well-being. The main objective of this study was to analyze the relationships between the three types of OSA (compulsive, isolated, and social) proposed by Delmonico and Miller, as well as offline sexual behavior, and psychosexual well-being. It was also necessary to evaluate the factor structure of the Internet Sexual Screening Test (ISST). Participants were 1,147 university students of both sexes, aged between 18 and 26 years, who completed a battery of online questionnaires. The main finding of the study is that, when controlling for other online sexual behavior, different types of OSA evaluated relate differently to offline sexual behavior and to psychosexual well-being, and that most young people made healthy use and participation of OSA. It also presents a new structure of the ISST. The discussion emphasizes the need to recognize the positive consequences of OSA to implement programs for the promotion of sexual health.

scholarly journals Opportunities and Risks of Students’ Information-Educational Online Activity

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
N. Lyz’ ◽  
O. Istratova ◽  
A. Lyz’
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
Internet Resources

Purpose of the study. In modern dynamic conditions, education should be directed to the future, have openness and redundancy in relation to the assigned pedagogical tasks, the existing educational students’ needs, the current state of society, economy, and labor market. Ensuring such a quality of education is impossible without Internet resources and information technology, without the organization of students’ online activity. The purpose of this article is to consider the variety of opportunities for students’ educational activities in the Internet, to present a typology of the risks of such activities, to suggest ways to overcome risks and ensure its effectiveness and safety. Materials and methods. The opportunities and risks of informationeducational activity are summarized based on the analysis of scientific papers and the results of an empirical study. In the process of study, we used methods of theoretical analysis and systematization, empirical survey and methods of descriptive mathematical statistics. Empirical study conducted on a sample of the first-year IT-students (N = 174) using the questionnaire method. Results. The variety of types of information-educational activities (educational-cognitive, search-cognitive, communicative-cognitive, informational-creative, entertaining-cognitive) and the advantages of online learning compared to classroom learning are presented. A typology of information-educational activity risks based on two grounds is given. According to object, the risks to student health, development and emotional well-being and the risks of loss of performance are identified. According to localization, external risks associated with the organization of the Internet and online educational activity (congestion of the information space, manipulative technologies in the supply of information, content risks, communication risks, cyber risks, inaccurate Internet content, poorquality educational and methodological support of the educational process, lack of feedback, technical and methodological support), and internal risks associated with the psychological and pedagogical students’ characteristics (instability of the worldview, internal prerequisites for exposure to content and communication risks, internal prerequisites for Internet addiction, aimless and unskillful activity in the Internet space, ineffective cognitive styles and critical thinking, lack of desire for self-development, the prevalence of external educational motives, difficulties of self-regulation, lack of volitional qualities, narrow interests, digital incompetence) are highlighted. Conclusion. Ways of overcoming risks and ensuring the effectiveness and safety of information-educational activity are proposed: 1) promotion lifelong education as a way of existence, development as a value, education as a significant capital; 2) creating excess information-educational environments and educational Internet resources (in relation to the pedagogical tasks and the modern students’ learning needs); 3) development of psychological stability, digital and educational students’ competence; 4) pedagogical management of students’ activities in the Internet (organization, support, control). The possibility of using technological solutions for students’ information-educational activities management is pointed out. At the same time, the important role of lecturers in this process is emphasized.

scholarly journals Connected at Sea: The Influence of the Internet and Online Communication on the Well-Being and Life Satisfaction of Cruise Ship Employees

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 2840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Radic ◽  
Antonio Ariza-Montes ◽  
Felipe Hernández-Perlines ◽  
Gabriele Giorgi
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cruise Ship ◽  
Family Needs ◽  
Cross Sectional

This study aims to elucidate the idiosyncratic effects of the Internet and online communication on the well-being and life satisfaction of cruise ship employees. Cross-sectional surveys and covariance-based structural equation modelling tools were used. In addition, univariate variance analysis was used to address the effects of socio-demographic variables (years of service on a cruise ship, working department on a cruise ship, gender, age, educational level and place of residency) on latent variables of the conceptual model. The conceptual model draws on existing theory and previous research and was empirically tested on a sample of cruise ship employee internet users. Result show that while being onboard a cruise ship, employees experience strong social pressure to be constantly available and they fear of missing out on important information and life events. Thus, relatedness to friends and family needs satisfaction is of paramount importance for cruise ship employees because they are fully aware that they are dispensable and replaceable to cruise ship companies, however to their friends and family, they are indispensable and unique. Moreover, employees who engage in other tasks/activities while taking part in online communication with friends and family exhibit reduced performance, which leads to poor interaction and social dissatisfaction. Lastly, employees experiencing under-reciprocating exchanges show significant negative effects on their well-being. Overall, the results provided several important theoretical and practical implications relevant to cruise tourism and human resource management.

scholarly journals SUSTAINABLE WELL-BEING: AN EMPIRICAL EXPLORATION ON HUMAN NEEDS AND HUMAN INTERDEPENDENCY

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aisyah Abu Bakar ◽  
Syahriah Bachok ◽  
Mariana Mohamed Osman ◽  
Mansor Ibrahim ◽  
Muhammad Faris Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Statistical Difference ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Central Regions

This study is a part of an ongoing research to discover subjective indicators of sustainable well-being for Malaysia. Initial findings recognized two important notions of subjective measures of sustainable well-being. The first notion suggested that sustainable well-being manifested in human interdependency. The second notion suggested that human interdependency is attained when human needs are fulfilled. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs was adopted to indicate the stages and examples of each needs. There were eight stages of human needs which were adapted into 24 common human needs substituted under eight components of three human needs dimensions. The dimensions were (i) basic necessities, (ii) complimentary needs, and (iii) desired opportunities. It was hypothesized that human needs influence the level of human interdependency. This paper delivers an empirical analysis testing the effects of human needs on human interdependency. The study intends to determine the influence of human needs on human interdependency. Questionnaire survey was conducted and 894 reliable samples were gathered. 192 Independent Sample T-Tests were conducted to determine statistical difference in levels of eight components of human interdependency, between respondents who claimed difficult and respondents who claimed easy to attain 24 human needs in the past year. There were statistically significant differences in most of the components of human interdependency between groups of 24 human needs. The empirical study conducted in the central regions of a developing and multicultural country, Malaysia, is a useful reference to subjective well-being studies piloted in areas of similar characteristics.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-15
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Network Systems ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
The Past

In the past five decades or so there has been a massive increase in the populations living in urban areas across the globe. Apart from natural disasters, which push individuals to urban areas, industrialization as a result of globalization also contributes to movement of people, causing internal migration. Such movements bring with them specific problems of settling down, overcrowding, and demands on urban resources, which often cannot keep up with needs. Insecure employment or unemployment with frayed personal and social contacts can further contribute to stress and psychiatric disorders. Medical resources are often concentrated in urban areas. Increasingly, more attention is being paid to well-being in urban areas by changing urban design and creating more urban spaces. Changes in social network systems and support and care create further difficluties in caring for those who develop psychiatric disorders. This chapter sets the scene for the book and highlights major issues.

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