scholarly journals Resilience: A “Psychosocial” Competency and Its Role in the Pathways of University Students in Intercultural Research (Pre and Post-COVID19)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Miriam Aparicio
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
University Education ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
Intercultural Research ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Rapid changes to the workplace, even more so after the pandemic, demand education in competencies different from strictly disciplinary competencies, competencies which allow the individual to deal with emergencies and which imply a renewal of professional and institutional identity, favoring restructuring, employability and professionalization focused on future needs. In this paper, the focus is on what the author describes as a “psychosocial competency” in light of her theory, or Resilience. Like resilience, this theory, the Three Dimensional Spiral of Sense, involves three interacting and self-sustained levels: micro (individual), meso (organizational) and macro (national). We present two studies in which the impact of Resilience was observed: a) on academic achievement for delayed students, associated with institutions that do little to promote resilience and b) its importance in the shared representations of university students with respect to the competencies necessary for facing new challenges in the workplace. This group was taking part in a bilateral exchange program in France. COVID-19 suddenly placed them in an emergency situation, which demanded flexibility and the ability to adapt (stranded, without financial or health resources and lacking psychosocial support). Both research studies refer to the Quality of university education as regards Achievement, Professionalization, Identity and Employability. Both reveal deficiencies in the education system in terms of coping with crises. The methodologies, respectively, were quantitative (bivariate and multivariate level) and qualitative (techniques: interview and hierarchical evocation). The results of both studies show: a) the relevant role of Resilience with respect to Achievement; b) the lack of development in this regard. Finally, with a view towards transfer and intervention, a proposal is made to create and/or improve resilience and other psychosocial competencies by means of agreed-upon psychosocial support programs.

Exploring entrepreneurial orientation and intentions among technical university students

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 718-736
Author(s):  
Swagatika Sahoo ◽  
Rajeev Kumar Panda
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of the contextual antecedents on the individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) of university graduates, which, in turn, affects their entrepreneurial intentions (EIs). Design/methodology/approach Primary data were collected in the form of 510 valid responses from engineering students across two technical universities in India, through a structured questionnaire consisting of scales adapted from the extant literature, and the data were empirically validated in this study. The reliability and validity measures of the constructs were validated through the confirmatory factor analysis, and the proposed hypotheses were validated using structural equation modelling. Findings The results of this empirical analysis validate that the contextual antecedents have a significant positive impact on students’ entrepreneurial orientation (EO), which, in turn, has a significant positive influence on EIs. Research limitations/implications This analysis depicts the significance of EO as a perceptual driver at the individual level and substantiates that the availability of resources such as startup capital, access to business information, social networks and supportive university context significantly affects the decision-making process of an individual to venture into an otherwise uncertain occupation of entrepreneurship. Practical implications The study has the likely potential to help university administrators and policymakers to allocate resources, develop strategies and provide effective entrepreneurial learning in entrepreneurship-oriented courses aimed at honing entrepreneurial skills and self-confidence of the university students. This holistic model can be used as a tool for resource planning and prioritising in order to provide the desired contextual support essential for fostering the IEO of the university students towards adopting entrepreneurial career, thereby assisting them to achieve their career goals and the broader objective of nation-building. Originality/value This study adopts an innovative approach to empirically validate the EO construct at the individual level, which has been studied at the organisation (firm) level till today. This research explores the relevant contextual antecedents and analyses their impact on IEO as well as the explanatory capacity of IEO to explain students’ EIs in the contextual backdrop of universities in a fast transitioning economy like India.

scholarly journals Crowd Evacuation Behaviour Modeling and Simulation in 3D Platform

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1187-1192
Keyword(s):  
Exit Time ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Crowd Simulation ◽  
Evacuation Simulation ◽  
Evacuation Time ◽  
Building Evacuation ◽  
Crowd Evacuation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Safe Condition

Crowd simulation is an active research domain and is crucial for simulating crowd behaviour in certain condition such as normal or panic situation. The simulation is to show the interaction between the individual in a crowd. Nowadays, there are many kinds of scenarios as well as simulation softwares that can be adapted to simulate a crowd simulation such as during emergency situation e.g. building evacuation. Crowd simulation in three-dimensional platform is fairly important in order to have a more realistic looks and movement of the crowd in one particular environment. The evacuation simulation is useful for the crowd in one confinement to seek for a safe exit path in shortest time possible and thus increase the occupant’s safety. The evacuation time is said to be in safe condition if all the evacuees successfully can get through the exit in minimal time. To aid in minimal exit time, the concept of faster-is-slower (bottleneck) must be solved as it can lead to more waiting time or delay during evacuation process. In this paper, it will discuss about the crowd simulation behavior, crowd simulation based on agent-based model, existing crowd simulation tools and the result of simulating the three-dimensional (3D) crowd evacuation time based on a number of exits variation in panic situation. The tools used to carry out the experiment is Anylogic software whereby the results show that it adheres to shorter evacuation time when the number of exit increases. The 3D layout design was following the original layout the faculty’s lower ground floor where the classrooms are mostly resided. The simulation is useful in order to estimate of evacuation time with different total number of exits to alleviate the faster-is-slower effect in case of any emergency situation happens at the faculty building.

scholarly journals University Students’ Experiences of the Use of Mlearning as a Training Resource for the Acquisition of Biomechanical Knowledge

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 479
Author(s):  
Ignacio López-Moranchel ◽  
Evelia Franco ◽  
Belén Urosa ◽  
Patricia Maurelos-Castell ◽  
Esther Martín-Íñigo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Real Life ◽  
University Education ◽  
General Evaluation ◽  
Relevant Effect ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Post Trial ◽  
The Impact

Mobile learning (mLearning) is now being increasingly used in university education, with positive impacts on the motivation and predisposition of students when learning. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the use of mobile applications as a learning resource in applied biomechanics, with regard to attitudinal variables (interest, motivation, applicability and learning experience) and its efficacy in the learning of general physics contents. A quasi-experimental design was proposed, with the random assignment of participants to experimental and control groups, with the post-trial measurement of a sample of 76 university students studying Applied Biomechanics, who were given an ad-hoc questionnaire in order to evaluate attitudinal aspects, as well as a test of knowledge. With regard to attitudinal aspects, higher scores were observed among the group which used the applications as learning instruments (the experimental group) when evaluating their interest in biomechanics (t = 2.79; p < 0.05; d = −0.641), the applicability of the applications in real life (t = 7.34; p < 0.001; d = −1.687) and the general evaluation of the practical sessions (t = 6.45; p < 0.001; d = −1.481). At the conceptual level, significant differences were observed in the contents worked on with the KinematicLab Jump© application. Our results show the positive effect of the use of applications on important attitudinal aspects in the learning of university students, without any relevant effect on the acquisition of conceptual learning.

An Essential Service Decision Model for Applied Behavior Analytic Providers During Crisis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Colombo ◽  
Michele Wallace ◽  
Rachel S. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Decision Model ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Behavior ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Essential Service

In the United States, applied behavior analysis (ABA) is broadly recognized as a medically necessary treatment for individuals diagnosed with autism and related disorders (Association of Professional Behavior Analysts, 2020). We argue that this designation should not be called into question in the light of a particular disaster and that it is critical to consider that an interruption of services can have long-lasting effects on the treatment of the individual (practitioners are ethically obligated to uphold the continuity of services while doing no harm). This dilemma might be ameliorated by a decision model that considers the prioritization of immediate needs, vulnerability of clients, and competency of service providers. Just as the medical field prioritizes immediate needs during crisis situations and defers routine appointments (e.g., physicals, check-ups, etc.), the ABA field can make similar evidence-based decisions. The purpose of the current paper is to provide a decision model for ABA practitioners who find themselves questioning the need for essential service delivery during the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The impact of this model goes beyond the needs of this crisis and can be applied to any emergency situation where services are at risk of interruption.

Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
University Education ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Jerusalem was the object of intense study and devotion throughout the Middle Ages. This book illuminates ways in which the city was represented by Christians in Western Europe, from the 600s the 1500s. Focusing on maps in illuminated manuscripts and early printed books, it also considers views and architectural replicas, and treats depictions of the Temple and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre alongside those of Jerusalem as a whole. The chapters draw on new research and a range of disciplinary perspectives to show how such depictions responded to developments in the West, as well as to the shifting political circumstances of Jerusalem and its wider region. One central theme is the relationship between text, image and manuscript context, including discussion of images as scriptural exegesis and the place of schematic diagrams and plans in the presentation of knowledge. Another is the impact of trends in learning, such as the reception of Jewish scholarship, the move from monastic to university education, and the creation of yet wider audiences through mendicant preaching and the development of printing. The book also examines the role of changing liturgical and devotional practices, including imagined pilgrimage and the mapping of Jerusalem onto European cities and local landscapes. Finally, it seeks to elucidate how two- and three-dimensional representations of the city both resulted from and prompted processes of mental visualization. In this way, the book is conceived as a contribution to manuscript studies, the history of cartography, visual studies and the history of ideas.

scholarly journals Personal Financial Literacy among University Students studying Engineering

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 669-692
Author(s):  
Sirli Mändmaa
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Financial Education ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Financial Responsibility ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Current

Nowadays financial literacy is essential as in a society much of the financial responsibility has shifted from governments to the individual. The findings of earlier studies show that university students are not knowledgeable about personal finance and their financial skills needs improvement. This study analyzed the survey results of 536 university students to assess the financial literacy, the impact of educational and demo-graphical characteristics to the participants' financial literacy, and the students' financial opinions and choices. Results of regression analyze showed that statistically significant impact to the financial literacy had factors: academic discipline, level of education, gender, nationality, age and the choices to have a current account, a debit card, and investment services. Students studied in the Faculty of Civil Engineering compared to others, had higher knowledge in finance, especially female students. These results of study give the direction for future research and enable to enhance financial education. 

scholarly journals Gender Specifics of Personality Component in the Structure of Career Potential of University Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.N. Vasilyeva ◽  
A.V. Scherbakov
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
University Students ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
University Education ◽  
Professional Orientation ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Career Growth ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Male Subjects

The article presents data of a study on gender differences of the personality component in the structure of career potential in future managers. Identifying the level of career potential components formation at the initial stage of university education allows to outline a program of harmonization of career potential and to implement it at each stage of university education, taking into account the age, personal characteristics and professional orientation of the students. The study involved 234 students aged 18—19 years, 117 males and 117 females. It was revealed that the male subjects, as compared to the female subjects, showed higher developmental levels of motivational, regulatory and emotional characteristics of the personality component in the structure of their career potential, which in the future could become the basis for their rapid career growth. The articleconcludes that there’s an obvious need for the development and implementation of programmes supporting the individual career path in university students.

EXPRESS: Enhanced Recognition of Emotional Images is not Impacted by Post-Exposure Exercise-Induced Arousal

2021 ◽  
pp. 174702182110549
Author(s):  
Veronica M Smith ◽  
Poppy Watson ◽  
Steven Most
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Aerobic Exercise ◽  
Memory Consolidation ◽  
Cardiovascular Fitness ◽  
Post Exposure ◽  
Exercise Induced ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Better Than

Research suggests that aerobic exercise (i.e., exercise aiming to improve cardiovascular fitness) promotes cognition, but the impact on memory specifically, is unclear. There is some evidence to suggest that as little as one session of post-learning exercise benefits memory consolidation. Furthermore, memory may be particularly facilitated by exercise when the individual is emotionally aroused while encoding stimuli. The current study tested whether exercise after exposure to neutral and emotional images improved memory consolidation of the items among university students. Ninety-nine students were randomly instructed to either exercise or not exercise after viewing a set of images that were positive, neutral, and negative in valence, and they were later tested on their memory. Although emotional images were remembered better than non-emotional images, the results suggested that exercise did not influence this effect or enhance consolidation of the items overall. Explanations and implications for these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Haunted Psychologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 243-281
Author(s):  
Barbara Greene
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Student ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Senior Year ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
Series Design ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

The anime adaptation of the light novel franchise Bakemonogatari was released in 2009. The story revolves around the character Araragi Koyomi, a high school student in his senior year who encounters a powerful vampire during a school break and is transformed into a semi-supernatural being himself. However, this is not merely an example of a supernaturally-focused anime, but rather is a discussion on the impact of capitalism on the subjectivity of the individual. The narrative and experience of viewing Bakemonogatari is a commentary on the trauma of postmodernity and otaku consumption’s failure to remediate the objectification of consumer-capitalism. The series’ design and narrative choices is designed to attract otaku, to whose consumption these patterns are designed to appeal, and thereby give warning to otaku concerning the potential dangers posed by their approach towards media. The characters in this series are possessed by Specters who dredge up and yet simultaneously suppress this traumatic state of existence in a world without catharsis and without justice. Otaku, attracted to moe-kyara to escape the drudgery and misery of the three-dimensional world, are shown that this escape itself is a form of harm—like Araragi, they turn meaning into a form of self-flagellation and heap untold suffering on the moe-kyara towards which they are inextricably drawn.

scholarly journals Person-centred mental health care: the challenge of implementation

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Gask ◽  
P. Coventry
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Unique Experience ◽  
Three Dimensional Models ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Within mental health care, ‘person-centredness’ has been generally interpreted to convey a holistic approach with an attitude of respect for the individual and his/her unique experience and needs. Although it has been possible to demonstrate that professionals can acquire such skills through training, the impact on clinical outcomes has been more difficult to demonstrate in randomized controlled trials. Indeed what is becoming increasingly apparent in the literature is the need to acknowledge and address the degree of complexity that exists within the health care system that militates against achieving satisfactory implementation and outcomes from person-centred mental health care. In addressing this, we must develop and work with more sophisticated and three-dimensional models of ‘patient-centredness’ that engage with not only what happens in the consulting room (the relationship between individual service users and healthcare professionals), but also addresses the problems involved in achieving person-centredness through modifying the way that services and organizations work, and finally by engaging families and communities in the delivery of health care. A truly meaningful concept of ‘people-centredness’ encompasses how the views of the population are taken into consideration not only in healthcare but also in health and social care policy, and wider society too.

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