LEISURE OF STUDENT YOUTH: RESULTS OF MONITORING RESEARCH

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 102-120
Author(s):  
Alina V. KULMINSKAYA ◽  
Lyubov D. ZABOKRITSKAYA
Keyword(s):  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Middle Urals ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Humanitarian Engineering

The article presents the results of the eighth stage of monitoring the socio-cultural development of youth. It has been carried out for over 25 years under the guidence of Yu. R. Vishnevsky. The sample size of the last stage consisted of 2,000 third-year students of intramural studies at the universities of the Middle Urals. Quota parameters are gender and study programs of respondents (humanitarian, engineering, socio-economic and natural sciences). The purpose of the article is to record the changes that have occurred in the structure of students leisure activities since 2016. The sample of 2016 is compiled by the same principles, n = 1,827. The theoretical part of the article reviews approaches to defining the concept of leisure, its types and main factors that affect the structure of preferences when choosing leisure activities. The results of the article include the dynamics of student interest in leisure activities for the period from 1995 to 2020. An increase in the number of leisure activities per respondent was revealed, as well as an increase in interest in activities related to digital technologies. A decrease in interest was noted in active forms of leisure such as tourism, outings, sports. Interest in leisure activities related to social interaction, both in direct and indirect form, remains. The close attention is paid to the comparison of data from 2016 and 2020, since it was during these years that the most complete range of students’ activities was formed. The influence of the respondent’s gender on the choice of leisure activities has been also analyzed. The respondents have been grouped according to several classifications of leisure. Based on the classifications, an interest in recreational activities and the preservation of the recreational function of leisure are noted.

Digital Technologies in Everyday Life of the Russians

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
O. V. Kuchmaeva ◽  
M. Yu. Arkhipova
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Classification Tree ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Telecommunication Networks ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Modern Technologies

The development of innovations changes the usual living environment of people, affects their standard of living and lifestyle. The purpose of the article is to identify the main factors that determine the attitude of the Russians to innovations and contribute to their spread in everyday life. Findings based on the data of sample surveys, in particular the Comprehensive survey of living conditions of the population (2016), sample Federal statistical observation on the use of information technologies and information and telecommunication networks by the population (2018), and the materials of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) and the authors’ research conducted in 2017 in Moscow and the Moscow region. The authors used a set of methods for statistical data analysis. The application of the classification tree method revealed the main factors that influence the use of innovative technologies in everyday practice. Factor analysis was used to determine the specifics of Internet use by the Russians. The two-step cluster analysis procedure allowed to form two typology groups (clusters) of respondents depending on their use of such innovative practice as distance financial services. A positive attitude to innovation and information and communication technologies is determined by the experience of using modern technologies in the educational process, the age and interest (readiness) of respondents to use innovations and digital technologies in everyday life. The attitude to innovation is largely determined by the psychological characteristics of the respondent, their willingness to accept innovations. Although innovative practices such as tablet use and distance financial services are widely distributed, their prevalence is determined by similar factors. At the macro level, the parameters of the image and quality of life in various types of settlements, and the involvement in modern technologies in the workplace have an impact. The social and professional status of the person plays a more crucial role than the type of economic activity.

The “Audible Word” in the Media Preferences of Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4-2) ◽  
pp. 400-419
Author(s):  
Svetlana Storozheva ◽  
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Natalia Mikidenko ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Media Preferences ◽  
Book Format

The development of digital technologies creates the conditions for a new stage in the development and dissemination of audio culture. Radio plays have been replaced by audiobooks, audio podcasts, and audio series. The book market is experiencing an "audio explosion". There is a steady growth of interest in audiobooks, which compete with musical content. The authors of the article turn to the study of the current state of the culture of the "audible word". This article examines the audiobook reading of student readers, who were socialized under the conditions of the large-scale spread of digital technologies. The aim of the research: to consider audioreading in the context of leisure and educational practices of young people. The study is based on theoretical approaches that consider the phenomenon of audio consumption in modern media (V.Y. Bal', M.Y. Gudova, J.P. Melentieva, V. Erlmann, W. Hagen, A. Kassabian, J.F. Lehmann). The study examined students' perceptions of audiobook reading, its place in leisure and educational practices. The authors conducted a sociological study (December 2020) with the participation of 85 students in order to identify the perceptions of audiobook reading. Qualitative methodology of analysis of answers to open-ended questions was used for the study. The design questionnaire included questions on preferred types of reading, use of audiobook reading in educational and leisure practices, reasons for interest in audiobook reading and possibilities of audiobook reading as a type of educational content. The study identified students' preferences in the choice of book format (paper, electronic, audiobooks), students' ideas about the reasons for wide distribution of audiobooks, advantages and limitations of audiobooks, convenient contexts for daily life, practices of using audiobooks in educational and leisure activities. The authors consider the potential of audiobooks in the organization of educational and leisure activities of students.

scholarly journals Research on the Impact of Tourism Development on the Sustainable Development of Reservoir Headwater Area Using China’s Tingxi Reservoir as an Example

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 3311
Author(s):  
Chih-Chien Shen ◽  
Chou-Fu Liang ◽  
Chin-Hsien Hsu ◽  
Jung-Hul Chien ◽  
Hsiao-Hsien Lin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Verification Method ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of tourism development on the sustainable development of Tingxi Reservoir. Based on tourism impact theory, 804 questionnaires were statistically validated and analyzed, followed by a semi-structured interview with five respondents, and finally examined by a multivariate verification method. The study found that not only did development fail to raise land and housing prices, develop leisure activities, improve medical facilities, and supplement police manpower, but it also increased consumer costs and environmental damage. There were also problems such as insufficient interpreters, parking and rest facilities, and ineffective management of communication channels, bicycle facilities, and tourist waste, which did not help youths to return to their hometowns. Furthermore, due to the disparities in the performance of leisure opportunities, medical and health care, spatial planning, and cultural development, there were different opinions among the stakeholders. Suggestions: (1) Satisfy the needs of different stakeholders; (2) Improve the environmental literacy of tourists and provide more garbage cans; (3) Develop additional scenic spots to divert tourists; (4) Stabilize prices and attract investment from enterprises; and (5) Increase the participation of residents in community development to supplement industrial manpower.

scholarly journals Ranking of Heritage Building Conversion Alternatives by Applying BIM and MCDM: A Case of Sapieha Palace in Vilnius

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavlovskis ◽  
Migilinskas ◽  
Antucheviciene ◽  
Kutut
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Multiple Criteria ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Relative Significance ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Building Conversion

A balance (symmetry) between socio-cultural and socio-economic benefits as a part of the economic, social, and cultural development policy of each city and country should be assured when converting built heritage. To anticipate building conversion priorities and opportunities, modern technologies can be employed. However, currently the activity of reconstruction of heritage buildings is part of the construction domain wherein modern digital technologies have been the least ever applied. Therefore, photogrammetry and the 3D modeling of existing heritage buildings was suggested. A case study of Sapieha Palace, built in the Baroque style in 1689–1691 in Vilnius, Lithuania was explored in this research. The applied technologies and software (Agisoft Photoscan, Autodesk ReCap and Autodesk Revit) allowed for the creation of a high quality and accurate model involving both the textured exterior of the building and the interior layout. In addition, the valuable features of a building were identified and marked in a three-dimensional digital model. Based on the model, the authors formulated possible conversion alternatives of the building and identified the associated decision-making criteria, as well as determined their relative significance by an expert survey method. The authors suggested the application of the multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) method under uncertainty, namely the rough weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS), for ranking alternatives according to multiple criteria. Therefore, the suggested integration of modern digital technologies and decision-making models helps to assure the rational conversion decision of built cultural heritage based on high accuracy data as well as contributing to the sustainable development of engineering processes.

How Digital Gaming Enhances Non-Formal and Informal Learning

2011 ◽  
pp. 395-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Aranda ◽  
Jordi Sánchez-Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Digital Gaming ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning

This study presents the results of three investigations on the use of digital gaming in non-formal (leisure institutions) and informal (household context) education. These are: (1) an empirical enquiry on the uses and perceptions of Spanish teenagers in relation to digital technologies as tools for leisure and socialization, (2) an intervention in a public school in Barcelona, in which this chapter analyzes the introduction of video games in the context of leisure activities, and (3) a workshop for families to discuss the cultural and social significance of the use of video games in the household. The results of these experiences have allowed for observation of the youth in their environment and verification that their uses of technology and attitudes towards digital gaming have a great potential for non-formal and informal learning.

Changes in the Provision of Family Care to Frail Older People in Familistic Welfare States: Lessons From Israel and Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 972-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aviad Tur-Sinai ◽  
Georgia Casanova ◽  
Giovani Lamura
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Informal Care ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Care Provision ◽  
Frail Older People ◽  
Unpaid Care ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Main Factors

Objective: Our article aims to investigate changes in the rate of informal care provision, which occurred in Israel and Italy in the last decade. In addition, we analyze typology and magnitude of the main factors contributing to explain the probability of providing informal care. Method: We used data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) at two selected time points (2006/2007 and 2015). Results: The probability of offering social support to elder family members who live outside the household has been trending down substantially over the years. The likelihood of providing unpaid care is significantly higher when one performs volunteer or charitable work and/or engages in leisure activities, and the importance of these two variables has been growing over the years. Discussion: Israel and Italy have experienced over the years a remarkable decline in the share of older adults providing informal care. The article helps to identify which factors have been associated with this phenomenon.

The Study on Development Crisis of Folk Sports Discipline System

2010 ◽  
Vol 171-172 ◽  
pp. 450-453
Author(s):  
Min Hang Liu ◽  
Chu Tao Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
System Development ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Active System ◽  
System Evolution ◽  
Sports Programs ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Negative Factors ◽  
Development Crisis

This study took systematic science as key researching angle, which took folk sports as a gradually evolution active system, and regarding disciplines development as the key motivation on folk sports system evolution. Through the distinguishment from internal and external negative factors of folk sports system, the author thought that the main factors of restraining folk sports disciplines system development existing in three areas: the first area is the developing strategic crisis of disciplines; the second one is the crisis of folk sports disciplines construction and disciplines system; and the last one is the local folk sports cultural development crisis. The study points out that only to construct sound disciplines system of folk sports in China, which can get sustainable development, if rather not, a great number of excellent traditional cultural folk sports programs face to be extincted, this manner is beneficial and great significance to reserve and pass down the traditional folk sports.

scholarly journals Digital school: Searching for Explanatory Models. Part 2

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 80-95
Author(s):  
Sergei Alevtinovich Smirnov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Behavioral Model ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Explanatory Model ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. The purpose of the article is to consider the consequences of the virtual shift or virtual inversion, which has led to blurring the structure of the act of development proposed within the framework of cultural-historical psychology. In this regard, the problem is the need to develop an alternative to this phenomenon of inversion, and returning a person (both a school student and an adult mediator) their basic roles as subjects of development. Materials and Methods. The conceptual ideas of cultural-historical psychology including the idea of mediation, objective action, the semantic field, the role of an adult as a mediator in an act of development, were used as a methodological background of the research. Results. The article is the second part of the author’s previous publication. The paper considers the concept derived from L. S. Vygotsky’s cultural-historical psychology, which is proposed to be adopted as a basic one in order to build an explanatory model used by the author to describe and comprehend the phenomenon of transformation of the human development process in the new reality of the digital environment. The article introduces the basic principles and provisions, the explanatory model is built on, concerning the role of symbolic-instrumental mediation in human development, the role of an adult as a mediator, the structure of the act of thinking and the act of development, the basic mechanism of mastering a person's behavior, which permeates the formation of higher mental functions. The author compares this explanatory model and the behavioral model used in most modern research investigations that examine the impact of digital technologies on schoolchildren and students. The language of the model of cultural-historical psychology is used to clarify the reality of the current virtual shift (virtual inversion), according to which the main provisions that play the role of supports in the cultural-historical model are subjected to radical revision and transformation, due to which the process of human cultural development is called into question. In this regard, the author proposes to use the resource and project potential of cultural-historical psychology in order to develop new models on its basis, build a new research and project agenda that returns the main ideas of cultural-historical psychology within the framework of a new mixed hybrid reality, where digital technologies are becoming the tools of personal development. Conclusions. In conclusion, the work offers a cultural task for the further development of cultural-historical psychology. It is proposed to restore the adult-student relationship, restore the idea and the role of the semantic field for teaching a subject action, restore children's communities within the new social-digital hybrid reality, where digital technologies do not act as means enslaving students, but as smart mediators-assistants.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic as a Threat to Ukraine’s Socio-Economic System: Materialization Features, Indicators and Consequences

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Ganna Kozachenko ◽  
Yuriy Pogorelov ◽  
Oleksandr Olshanskyi ◽  
Maiia Kramchaninova ◽  
Victoria Vakhlakova
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Process Approach ◽  
Dual Use ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The One

The purpose of the paper is operationalization of development processes’ concepts in terms of threats to a government’s socio-economic system on an example of a specific threat that is currently actively materializing itself – COVID -19. The research aims at structuring the process of threat’s development to a government’s socio-economic system. It shows negative changes in Ukraine’s socio-economic system, their indicators and consequences inherent to the last stage of the threat’s development process – the materialization stage. At all stages of any threat’s development process, close attention has to be paid to catalysts and inhibitors – factors whose influence accelerates or inhibits the development of the threat. Regarding the COVID-19 pandemic threat’s materialization, inhibitors can only be the decisions and actions of Ukraine’s government and institutions combined with the dual-use economic model (improving the pandemic situation, mitigating its consequences, on the one hand, preventing the deepening of the economic crisis and bankruptcy of domestic business, on the other). The results of studying the process of a threat’s development lay the methodological principles for development of the Strategy Ensuring Ukraine’s Economic Security. The development of a threat to a government’s socio-economic system from perspective of the process approach has not been systemically explored. The scientific researches of the article’s authors lay the fundamental ground in this direction of economic securitology.

scholarly journals Workaholism, Burnout and Career Stagnation: An Analysis of Barriers to Motivation among Faculty of Public Sector Universities in Quetta

2020 ◽  
Vol V (IV) ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Hira Shabbir ◽  
Saubia Ramzan ◽  
Jameel Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
Main Factors

This paper aims to recognize the factors that hamper the motivation among teaching staff of public sector universities in Quetta. The study was conducted by surveying 303 people who were a part of the teaching sector. The questionnaire was administered to all the participants and respondents recognized three main factors that are barriers to motivation such as burnout, workaholism, career stagnation and with the inclusion of mediating variable (self-efficacy). Two major tests were applied, such as; multiple regression to compute the effect of one variable on other variable and bootstrapping was applied to compute mediation indirect effect. The results indicated a significant negative effect of burnout, workaholism and career stagnation on motivation. The results also stated the significant indirect effect of mediating variable; however, educational institutions handling with motivational factors should pay particularly close attention to variables that hamper one's motivation. Deciding to aid, an educational institution should be preceded by an in-depth analysis of what the teaching faculty perceive to be the barriers to their motivation.

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