Remote Religion / Remote Region: Practicing and Researching Remote Religion in the Andaman Islands

Remoteness is an attribute that has often been negatively attached to island-spaces like the Andaman Islands, separated from the Indian mainland by the vast Bay of Bengal, located at the ‘liquid borderlands’ of South and Southeast Asia. The Covid-19 pandemic, on the other hand, has popularised the use of ‘remote’ methods of enabling religio-social interaction. The islanders of these geographically ‘remote’ locations use these ‘remote’ ways of connecting to perform their religious practices and maintain their faith networks, which is otherwise compromised due to the pandemic-induced restrictions on social gatherings. By exploring the ‘online’ global faith networks of the little-known Matua religion, as well as, the social, technical and logistical constraints in the devotees’ access to ‘remote’ religion, the paper addresses two questions: first, how do individuals play out their identities, both as islander and as devotee, ‘online’; second, what are the corresponding technological and logistical conditions that enable their ‘presence’ and who are the ‘absent’ actors. Drawing from remotely collected data, particularly online ethnography and telephonic interviews, the paper explores the mediating role of technology in destabilizing, as well as, solidifying concepts of remoteness and isolation, particularly in the peripheries of nation, during times of restricted mobility.

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Low Altruism as a Cause of Ostracism

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.653217 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Lianqiong Huang ◽

Yingge Zhu ◽

Denghao Zhang

Keyword(s):

Social Responsibility ◽

Direct Effect ◽

Laboratory Experiments ◽

The Other ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Social ◽

Questionnaire Surveys ◽

The One ◽

The Relationship

This study focused on the causes of ostracism and explored the relationship between altruistic personality traits and ostracism. Using a combination of questionnaire surveys and laboratory experiments, results showed that: individuals with lower altruism were more vulnerable to be ostracized than those with higher altruism (Study 1 and Study 2). The relationship between altruism and ostracism was partially mediated by social responsibility (Study 3). When facing a low-altruistic target, the source would infer that the social responsibility level of this target was also low, thereby leading the ostracism intention to the target. Empathy did not moderate the relationship between altruism and ostracism. On the one hand, empathy did not moderate the direct effect of altruism on ostracism (Study 2); on the other hand, it also did not moderate the mediating role of social responsibility (Study 3). The strengths and limitations of this research are also discussed.

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Supplemental Material for The Social Legacies of Conflict: The Mediating Role of Mental Health With Regard to the Association Between War Exposure and Social Capital of Burundian Refugees

Psychology of Violence ◽

10.1037/vio0000348.supp ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Capital ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Social

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The social legacies of conflict: The mediating role of mental health with regard to the association between war exposure and social capital of Burundian refugees.

Psychology of Violence ◽

10.1037/vio0000348 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 40-49

Author(s):

Roos Haer ◽

Florian Scharpf ◽

Tobias Hecker

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Capital ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Social

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Mediasi Kepuasan Kerja dan Stres Kerja pada Hubungan antara Program Jamsostek dan Kinerja Karyawan Studi Kasus pada Perusahaan Swasta di DIY dan Solo

Jurnal Maksipreneur Manajemen Koperasi dan Entrepreneurship ◽

10.30588/jmp.v3i1.89 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 75

Author(s):

Eny Sulistyowati ◽

Totok Danangdjojo

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Social Security ◽

Job Stress ◽

Work Stress ◽

Program Performance ◽

Social Security Program ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship

This study aims to explain the influence of the Social Security program on performance and job satisfaction and job stress as a mediating variable. In addition, this study also describes the effect of job satisfaction on the performance and the effect of work stress on performance. The relationship of each variable in this research is to be measured by conducting a survey on 145 employees of private companies that included in Social Security program on DIY and Solo. Then the path analisys used to test the effect of social security program performance in mediation by job satisfaction, performance and job stress, job satisfaction, and examines the effect on the performance and the effect of work stress on performance. The results showed that the social security program significant positively affects job satisfaction and performance. Job satisfaction was also positively and significantly affect performance. Even though mediating role of job satisfaction in the relationship between social security program performance partial. Because merely direct relationship between social security program with greater performance than the mediating role of job satisfaction. Social Security program did not significantly affect the stress of work, as well as job stress did not significantly affect performance. Therefore, the mediating role of work stress on the relationship between social security program with the performance did not occur. Individual differences and work experience may be a factor that causes no significant relationship between the two variables.

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The path of support-to-sales: mediating role of seller collaborative information exchange in social commerce

European Journal of Marketing ◽

10.1108/ejm-11-2019-0823 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Li Chen ◽

Fengxia Zhu ◽

Murali Mantrala

Keyword(s):

Information Exchange ◽

Instrumental Support ◽

Trade Volume ◽

Social Commerce ◽

Content Type ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Social ◽

Source Data ◽

Negative Effect

Purpose This paper aims to systematically investigate the direct and indirect effects of four types of support – peer instrumental support, peer emotional support, platform business support and platform communication support – on seller trade volume in social commerce. It also aims to uncover the path of support-to-sales of the seller from a platform perspective and provides a more complete picture of the social commerce phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses multi-source data including primary survey data and secondary data on trade volume to test the hypotheses. PROCESS mediation model is used to analyze the multi-source data set. Findings This study finds that the positive effects of peer instrumental support, platform business support and platform communication support on seller trade volume are fully mediated by seller collaborative information exchange. Also, peer emotional support has a significant negative effect on seller trade volume and collaborative information exchange can serve as a buffer to mitigate the negative effect. Research limitations/implications The authors provide new insights into what types of support are or are not conducive to improving transaction volume of individual sellers and highlight the mediating role of seller information exchange in this value generation process in social commerce. These findings advance current knowledge of how seller interactions increase value in social commerce. The chosen research setting may limit the generalizability of the findings of this study. Practical implications This paper offers valuable implications for social commerce platforms on how to better serve their sellers to achieve high growth. Specifically, the findings suggest that platforms should encourage instrumental support and information exchange among peer sellers. In addition, platforms should expand seller support from a single-focus on sellers’ business to a dual-focus on both sellers’ business and socialization in social commerce. Originality/value This paper fulfills an identified need to study how sellers can better derive value from the social interactions and how social commerce platforms can effectively influence transactions, support sales and serve as a selling platform.

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Father Presence and Adolescents’ Resilience: The Mediating Role of Failure Learning

Psychological Reports ◽

10.1177/00332941211029611 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 003329412110296

Author(s):

Yue Yu ◽

Xueyan Wei ◽

Robert D Hisrich ◽

Linfang Xue

Keyword(s):

Middle School ◽

Middle School Students ◽

Significant Positive Correlation ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

The Other ◽

Mediating Effects ◽

School Students ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Father Presence

In this study, we aimed to investigate the association between father presence and the resilience of adolescents, and whether failure learning mediates this association. Specifically, we obtained in-depth details on the relation between father presence and adolescents’ resilience by examining the mediating effects of four subfactors of failure learning: failure cognition, reflection and analysis, experience transformation, and prudent attempt. For this purpose, we used the questionnaire to access Chinese middle school students’ father presence, resilience, and failure learning. In total, six hundred and twenty-six valid questionnaires were collected. The results were as follows: (1) there was a significant positive correlation between father presence, failure learning, and resilience; (2) failure learning played a mediating role between father presence and adolescents’ resilience; (3) the mediating effect of experience transformation and prudent attempt (two subfactors of failure learning) between father presence and adolescents’ resilience was significant, while the mediating effect of failure cognition and reflective analysis (the other two subfactors of failure learning) was insignificant.

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Revisiting Health in Colonial Bengal: A Literary Overview (1880 -1930)

Journal of Education and Vocational Research ◽

10.22610/jsds.v3i11.724 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3 (11) ◽

pp. 374-377

Author(s):

Tinni Goswami Bhattacharya

Keyword(s):

Social Economic ◽

The Other ◽

Vernacular Literature ◽

Public Health Policies ◽

British Raj ◽

The Social ◽

Cultural Tensions ◽

The One ◽

Active Link

The essential theme of this paper is to highlight the condition of health and hygiene in the British Bengal from the perspective of official documents and vernacular writings, with special emphasis on the journals and periodicals. The fatal effects of the epidemics like malaria and cholera, the insanitary condition of the rural Bengal and the cultivated indifference of the British Raj made the lives of the poor natives miserable and ailing. The authorities had a tendency to blame the colonized for their illiteracy and callousness, which became instrumental for the outbreak of the epidemics. On the other, in the late 19 th and the beginning of the 20th, the vernacular literature played the role of a catalyst in awakening health awareness, highlighting the issues related with ill health, insanitation and malnourishment. More importantly, it became an active link between the society and culture on the one hand, and health and people on the other. The present researcher wants to highlight these opposite trajectories of mentalities with a different connotation. The ideologies of the Raj and the native political aspirations often reflected in the colonial writings, where the year 1880 was considered as a landmark in the field of public health policies. On the other, the dichotomy between the masters and the colonized took a prominent shape during 1930s. Within these fifty years; the health of the natives witnessed many upheavals grounded on the social, economic and cultural tensions.

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Social representations of the Coronavirus and causal perception of its origin. The role of reasons for fear.

10.31234/osf.io/2dawr ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Patrick Rateau ◽

Jean Louis Tavani ◽

Sylvain Delouvée

Keyword(s):

Social Representations ◽

Social Representation ◽

The Other ◽

French Population ◽

Causal Perception ◽

The Social

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic (between 26 March and 2 April 2020), we analysed (n=1144) the social representations of the coronavirus and the differentiated perceptions according to the origins attributed to the appearance of the virus (Human vs Non-Human and Intentional vs. Unintentional) in a French population. The results show that the social representation is organized around five potentially central descriptive, anxiety-provoking and globally negative elements. But death and contagion are the only stable and structuring elements. The other elements vary according to the reason attributed to the object of fear. Depending on how individuals attribute the origin of the virus, social representations of it vary not only in terms of their content but also in terms of their structure. These results indicate how important it is to consider the perceptions that individuals share about the human (vs. non-human) and intentional (vs. unintentional) origin of an object of fear in the analysis of their representation of that object.

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Brand Embarrassment: Antecedents and Outcomes Variables

Proceeding of Japan International Business and Management Research Conference ◽

10.31098/jibm.v1i1.228 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Paterne Micha MBELANGANI MBAN ◽

Sevtap ÜNAL

Keyword(s):

Brand Image ◽

The Other ◽

Interpersonal Influence ◽

Social Approval ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Negative Feelings ◽

The Relationship ◽

Brand Hate

The present study aimed to investigate the role of negative feelings on the consumer buying decision. The influence of a brand image, the need for social approval, and negative brand self- expressiveness on brand embarrassment, as well as the influence of embarrassment on brand hate and brand detachment, mediated by interpersonal influence, were investigated. Findings revealed that brand image and the need for social approval do not have any influence on brand embarrassment, while the negative brand self-expressiveness does predict brand embarrassment. On the other side, the findings revealed that brand embarrassment creates brand hate and brand detachment. And, interpersonal influence has a mediating role in the relationship between brand image-brand detachment, negative brand self-expressiveness-brand hate, and negative brand self- expressiveness-brand detachment.

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