Peacebuilding Through Yoga? Qualitative Assessment of a Yoga Program in a Social Housing Complex in Santa Marta, Colombia

Abstract The goal of the study was to assess perceived mental and physical health benefits of a yoga intervention for people living in Ciudad Equidad, a social housing complex in Colombia. The study participants voluntarily enrolled to complete two yoga sessions per week, each lasting 1.5 hours, during a 3-month period. Additionally, they participated in baseline and postintervention focus groups. This qualitative assessment was intended to identify perceived changes in aggressiveness, interpersonal relationships, and stress after participating in the yoga sessions. Data analysis revealed that participants perceived changes over time in relation to when they began the intervention.

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Team-Level Constructs

Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior ◽

10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-012218-015117 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 325-348

Author(s):

David Chan

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Data Analysis ◽

Future Research ◽

Methodological Issues ◽

Research Directions ◽

Substantive Content ◽

Multilevel Research ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time

Studies of team-level constructs can produce new insights when researchers explicitly take into account several critical conceptual and methodological issues. This article explicates the conceptual bases for multilevel research on team constructs and discusses specific issues relating to conceptual frameworks, measurement, and data analysis. To advance programmatic research involving team-level constructs, several future research directions concerning issues of substantive content (i.e., changes in the nature of work and teams, member-team fit, linking team-level constructs to higher-level constructs) and strategic approaches (i.e., the construct's theoretical roles, dimensionality and specificity, malleability and changes over time, relationships with Big Data) are proposed.

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Assigning Changes Over Time Using Geometric Data Analysis Methods: Application to the French “Barometer of Political Trust”

Empirical Investigations of Social Space ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-15387-8_19 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 325-344

Author(s):

Frédérik Cassor ◽

Brigitte Le Roux

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Political Trust ◽

Geometric Data ◽

Analysis Methods ◽

Geometric Data Analysis ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Data Analysis Methods ◽

Over Time

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The Importance of an Updating Internal Representation of the Environment in the Control of Visual Sampling

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A ◽

10.1080/14640748508400918 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 533-551 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

A. J. Maule

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Information Sources ◽

Internal Representation ◽

Test Session ◽

Extra Information ◽

Visual Sampling ◽

Observing Response ◽

The Moment ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time

Theories of visual sampling have been founded on the assumption that human monitors use an internal representation of the environment, which changes over time in accordance with the person's expectations. Experimental evidence supporting this view is equivocal since it is based on sampling performance averaged over long periods of a test session. Two experiments are reported that use the instrumental observing response as an index of sampling. Subjects were set to discover critical events presented to three information sources, and these events were preceded by varying amounts of extra information, which affected event predictability. A procedure for data analysis was developed to evaluate the relation between sampling behaviour and the moment-to-moment changes in the states of the sources. Results supported the view that sampling was dependent on a constantly updating internal representation of the environment.

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Propagation and update of auditory perceptual priors through alpha and theta rhythms

10.1101/2020.08.14.250514 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Hao Tam Ho ◽

David C. Burr ◽

David Alais ◽

Maria Concetta Morrone

Keyword(s):

Sensory Information ◽

Time Resolved ◽

Decision Bias ◽

Perceptual Performance ◽

High Stimulus ◽

Auditory Experience ◽

Study Participants ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

The Brain ◽

Over Time

AbstractTo maintain a continuous and coherent percept over time, the brain makes use of past sensory information to anticipate forthcoming stimuli. We recently showed that auditory experience in the immediate past is propagated through ear-specific reverberations, manifested as rhythmic fluctuations of decision bias at alpha frequency. Here, we apply the same time-resolved behavioural method to investigate how perceptual performance changes over time under conditions of high stimulus expectation, and to examine the effect of unexpected events on behaviour. As in our previous study, participants were required to discriminate the ear-of-origin of a brief monaural pure tone embedded in uncorrelated dichotic white noise. We manipulated stimulus expectation by increasing the target probability in one ear to 80%. Consistent with our earlier findings, performance did not remain constant across trials, but varied rhythmically with delay from noise onset. Specifically, decision bias showed a similar oscillation at ~9 Hz that depended on ear congruency between successive targets. This suggests rhythmic communication of auditory perceptual history occurs early and is not readily influenced by top-down expectations. In addition, we report a novel observation specific to infrequent, unexpected stimuli that gave rise to oscillations in accuracy at ~7.6 Hz one trial after the target occurred in the non-anticipated ear. This new behavioural oscillation may reflect a mechanism for updating the sensory representation once a prediction error has been detected.

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Working Towards Peace Through Yoga: Qualitative Assessment of Yoga Program in a Social Housing Complex in Santa Marta, Colombia

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2927188 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Laura Liivano

Keyword(s):

Social Housing ◽

Qualitative Assessment ◽

Housing Complex

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Examining the Relationship Between Self-Perceptions of Person, Role, and Social Identity Change and Self-Concept Clarity

Imagination Cognition and Personality ◽

10.1177/0276236618792267 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 425-451 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael J. Carter ◽

Sara Bruene

Keyword(s):

Past Research ◽

Social Identities ◽

Self Concept ◽

Identity Change ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Self Perceptions ◽

Study Participants ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

The Relationship ◽

Over Time

Past research in the literature on the self has addressed how self-concept clarity changes over time. In this study, we use a cross-sectional research design to examine the relationship between self-perceptions of identity change and self-concept clarity, showing how fluctuations in self-concept clarity relate to two discrete dimensions of perceived identity change: the magnitude and direction of change. A survey was administered to 854 study participants that measured perceived changes in 12 discrete identities (four person, four role, and four social identities) over a 6-month period. The results reveal that generally the more severe one's perceived experience of identity change, the lower their degree of self-concept clarity. However, when the direction of one's perceived identity change is progressive (i.e., developing into an identity) rather than regressive (i.e., exiting out of an identity), one's degree of self-concept clarity increases.

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Comparison of two devices for measuring exercise transcutaneous oxygen pressures in patients with claudication

VASA ◽

10.1024/0301-1526/a000454 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 44 (5) ◽

pp. 355-362 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Marie Urban ◽

Alban Fouasson-Chailloux ◽

Isabelle Signolet ◽

Christophe Colas Ribas ◽

Mathieu Feuilloy ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Oxygen Pressure ◽

Optical Sensors ◽

Chemical Sensors ◽

Transcutaneous Oxygen ◽

Starting Values ◽

Two Systems ◽

Transcutaneous Oxygen Pressure ◽

New Sensors ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time

Abstract. Summary: Background: We aimed at estimating the agreement between the Medicap® (photo-optical) and Radiometer® (electro-chemical) sensors during exercise transcutaneous oxygen pressure (tcpO2) tests. Our hypothesis was that although absolute starting values (tcpO2rest: mean over 2 minutes) might be different, tcpO2-changes over time and the minimal value of the decrease from rest of oxygen pressure (DROPmin) results at exercise shall be concordant between the two systems. Patients and methods: Forty seven patients with arterial claudication (65 + / - 7 years) performed a treadmill test with 5 probes each of the electro-chemical and photo-optical devices simultaneously, one of each system on the chest, on each buttock and on each calf. Results: Seventeen Medicap® probes disconnected during the tests. tcpO2rest and DROPmin values were higher with Medicap® than with Radiometer®, by 13.7 + / - 17.1 mm Hg and 3.4 + / - 11.7 mm Hg, respectively. Despite the differences in absolute starting values, changes over time were similar between the two systems. The concordance between the two systems was approximately 70 % for classification of test results from DROPmin. Conclusions: Photo-optical sensors are promising alternatives to electro-chemical sensors for exercise oximetry, provided that miniaturisation and weight reduction of the new sensors are possible.

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