scholarly journals Anomalous Self- and World Experiences in Depersonalization Traits: a Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Ciaunica ◽  
Elizabeth Pienkos ◽  
Estelle Nakul ◽  
Luis Madeira ◽  
Harry Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Core Features

This paper proposes a qualitative study exploring anomalous self and world-experiences in individuals with high levels of depersonalization traits. Depersonalization (DP) is a condition characterized by distressing feelings of being a detached, neutral and disembodied onlooker of one’s mental and bodily processes or even of reality itself (‘derealization’). Feelings of depersonalization are extremely common in the general population, yet under-acknowledged and under-examined. Our findings indicate the presence of a wide range of anomalous experiences traditionally understood to be core features of depersonalization, such as disembodiment and disrupted self-awareness. However, our results also indicate experiential features that are less highlighted in previous work, such as faster time perception and blurriness of the self/other boundaries which may play a key role in altering one’s sense of self and sense of presence in the world. Our qualitative study provides an in-depth examination of self-reported disturbances of one’s relatedness to one’s self and the world, thereby shedding further light on the nature of altered subjective experiences in DP. In doing so, this paper draws attention to key aspects yet overlooked that may prove valuable for potential diagnosis and therapy. We conclude by highlighting limitations of this study and a number of open questions that further work needs to address in the future, in order to better understand this condition and to improve the quality of life of those experiencing depersonalization.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Issue: Legumes as Food Ingredient: Characterization, Processing, and Applications

Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1525
Author(s):  
Alfonso Clemente ◽  
Jose C. Jimenez-Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Grain Legumes ◽  
Sensory Profile ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Food Ingredient ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Lactic Bacteria ◽  
Essential Food

Legumes are major ingredients in the Mediterranean diet, playing an essential role in developing countries. Grain legumes, such as lentil, chickpea, pea, lupin and beans, among others, are recognized as good sources of proteins, starch, fiber, vitamins and minerals for human nutrition, being an essential food crop for people worldwide. Due to their nutritional and techno-functional properties, legumes are widely used by the food industry as ingredients in a wide range of products for general and specific groups of the population, including vegetarians, diabetics or celiac patients. The Special Issue “Legumes as Food Ingredients: Characterization, Processing, and Applications” covers key aspects regarding the nutritional quality of legume flours and their derived products, as well as the health benefits of some of their bioactive components. The amounts of antinutritional components, such as certain allergens that might pose risks to sensitized consumers, are reported to be reduced by processing. Several pretreatments, including fermentation with lactic bacteria and yeasts, are used to improve the nutritional and sensory profile of the legume-derived products, increasing their acceptance by consumers.

Psychotherapy supervision conducted by videoconferencing: a qualitative study of users’ experiences

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 33-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deede Gammon ◽  
Tore Sørlie ◽  
Svein Bergvik ◽  
Tordis Sørensen Høifødt
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Psychiatry Residents ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Psychotherapy Supervision ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Wide Range

Psychiatry residents in Norway have 70 hours of mandatory psychotherapy supervision to develop insights into the therapeutic relationship. Six supervision pairs (six candidates and two supervisors) conducted five videoconferencing-based supervision sessions (384kbit/s) and five face-to-face sessions alternating weekly for 10 sessions. Following completion of the 10 sessions for candidates and supervisor B, and the 50 sessions for supervisor A, all subjects completed a semi-structured interview within two weeks. The eight subjects reported a wide range of experiences and attitudes. The results suggested that the quality of supervision can be satisfactorily maintained by using videoconferencing for up to half of the 70 hours required. The precondition for this estimate is that the pair in question have met face to face and established a relationship characterized by mutual trust and respect. Further studies, which include supervision pairs not having previously established relationships, are needed in order to indicate the generality of this precondition. The most obvious implication of this study is the potential for implementing decentralized models for recruiting and educating psychiatrists.

Election Forecasts in 1984: How Accurate Were They?

1985 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Lewis-Beck
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Election Forecasting ◽  
Personal Favorite ◽  
World Series ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Do So

One autumn out of four, election forecasting surpasses baseball as America's national pastime. Then, everyone wants to know who will win, and everyone has a guess. Now, with the ballots carefully counted, forecasters await their awards. Below, I evaluate the quality of a wide range of 1984 presidential and congressional forecasts. The evaluation proceeds from nonscientific to scientific approaches, although this distinction is sometimes blurred. To lower the level of suspense, I should say that some forecasts turned out to be quite good. By way of conclusion, I offer a set of rules for selecting a high-quality forecasting instrument.Lucky GuessesMany popular election forecasting rules take advantage of chance, which has been working in their favor. Perhaps the most famous is the World Series forecast, which says, “If the American League wins the World Series, then the Republican presidential candidate will win.” This technique was accurate from 1952 to 1976, missed in 1980, but worked again in 1984 with the victory of the Detroit Tigers. A lesser known rule of this type, which is my personal favorite, is based on the Beaujolais wine harvest. Accordingly, “If the Beaujolais vintage looks bad, then the Republican will take the presidency.” This has held post-1960, and continues to do so with the poor 1984 crop (yielding a wine too light, with little color). There are other such rules that relate more directly to the candidates themselves and, in that sense, have more verisimilitude.

scholarly journals SPIRITUALITAS SANG NABI (Analisis nilai dekonstruksi dalam puisi prosa Sang Nabi karya Kahlil Gibran)

Spiritualita ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zuhdi
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
World View ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Modern Logic ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The World ◽  
Love Marriage

There is no one ever doubts the quality of Kahlil Gibran as a poet or man of letters. His great name is the guarantee of his literature works’ quality. Almost every work, most of them are prose poetry, gain great success, and one of the indications is by translating into various languages in the world, including Indonesian. One of his most success works and receives international acknowledgment as well as his own admission as his best work is The Prophet. The Prophet includes many lessons bearing deconstruction values, which has been proven in this study. Deconstruction values within The Prophet is still inherent in each statement of its main character (Al Mustafa/Gibran) about topic concerning with many kinds of human problems, such as love, marriage, child, friendship, beauty, happiness, sadness, work, religion, and even death. In this study those values were contrasted or compared to various realities in form of text and social fenomena of the community in order to find their contradictions or similarities. This qualitative study used moral approach because its review material is intrinsic aspect of a literature works related to values. While the analysis technique used content analysis because it tried to disclose, understand, and catch the massage beneath the literature work. While the “knite” used to cut and disentangle its values is deconstruction. Deconstruction is an idea which strive to cope the world view which has been boxed all along within a normative understanding that this world consists of two opposing elements, such as rational-irrational, traditional- modern, logic-illogic, good-bad, man-women, and so on. Then deconstruction tries to look for gaps or alternatives between the two opposing elements. Thus, deconstruction is not always extreme in its meaning: confirm or nullify.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMATION OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND PECULIARITIES OF BUILDING A PERSONAL MYTH IN TEEN AGE

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Personal Myth ◽  
The World

The article analyzes the attention to the deep essence of myth as a scientific phenomenon, which is the primary form of awareness of the world both in ontogenesis and in human phylogenesis. The myth is interpreted as a special way of mastering the world, which directly affects the socialization of an individual at different stages of his development. The features of the influence of family myth as the initial form of personality mythologization on the formation of a teenager’s own myth are studied. The existence of such function as the mythologization of family stories and stories in the structure of personality consciousness determines the constructive or destructive possibilities of forming own image, and in general can affect the assimilation and use of basic behavioral patterns of personality. The role of an adolescent’s self-relation to the formation of a personal myth is clarified, which is expressed in the context of a person’s ideas about the content of the “Self” as a generalized sense of self. Adolescence is sensitive to the development of self-identity and the development of reflection as an indisputable thought process that is aimed at self-awareness, analysis and understanding of all components of a person’s life, which include: actions, speech, feelings, abilities, interpersonal relationships, character and so on. A generalized description of the components of the structure of mythological consciousness is provided: the awareness of attitudes, restructuring of stereotypes, reflexive ability, as a qualitatively new level of personality selfawareness, as a stage of growing up. The factors contributing to the formation of an effective personal myth, as well as the factors of the problem of formation of an effective personal myth among teens, are identified. It is shown that the existence of such a function as the mythologization of family stories and stories in the structure of family consciousness may be similar to the function of socio-cultural myth, expressed in a smaller format, which determines constructively or destructively the possibilities of forming someone’s own image, and in general can influence and cause the use of basic behavioral patterns of personality.

Spotrebiteľská gramotnosť a falšovanie medu. Časť II.

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-10
Author(s):  
Frantisek Olsavsky
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Value ◽  
Slovak Academy ◽  
Shopping Behavior ◽  
Consumer Decisions ◽  
Conscious Decision ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
World Markets ◽  
The World ◽  
World Organization

In the process of shopping behavior, consumer decisions are influenced by a wide range of factors as well as the decisions of the consumer himself. In this article, attention is paid to consumer literacy. It interacts in the range of psychographic factors of motivation, perception, learning, belief and attitudes to the extent that the consumer makes a conscious decision about the preferences of the product, its quality or brand. Cultivating consumer literacy enables the consumer to make informed choices. There are not only benefits on the site of the consumer, but also on the site of the producer, or even the whole industry. The aim of the paper is to identify the importance of consumer literacy in the purchase of bee honey in the context of its fraud. The article identifies unfair practices of honey fraud and devaluing its nutritional value. These are currently a common practice, reflected in the reduced quality of honey offered on the Slovak and world markets. The paper is based on the findings of a honey quality survey carried out by the Institute of Molecular Biology of the Slovak Academy of Science and the measures of the world organization of beekeeping associations Apimondia on honey fraud. Subsequently, measures are proposed to increase consumer literacy when buying bee honey.

scholarly journals Management of Malnutrition in Older Patients—Current Approaches, Evidence and Open Questions

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothee Volkert ◽  
Anne Marie Beck ◽  
Tommy Cederholm ◽  
Emanuele Cereda ◽  
Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older Patients ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Geriatric Syndrome ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Conflicting Evidence ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Patient Groups ◽  
Enteral And Parenteral Nutrition

Malnutrition is widespread in older people and represents a major geriatric syndrome with multifactorial etiology and severe consequences for health outcomes and quality of life. The aim of the present paper is to describe current approaches and evidence regarding malnutrition treatment and to highlight relevant knowledge gaps that need to be addressed. Recently published guidelines of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) provide a summary of the available evidence and highlight the wide range of different measures that can be taken—from the identification and elimination of potential causes to enteral and parenteral nutrition—depending on the patient’s abilities and needs. However, more than half of the recommendations therein are based on expert consensus because of a lack of evidence, and only three are concern patient-centred outcomes. Future research should further clarify the etiology of malnutrition and identify the most relevant causes in order to prevent malnutrition. Based on limited and partly conflicting evidence and the limitations of existing studies, it remains unclear which interventions are most effective in which patient groups, and if specific situations, diseases or etiologies of malnutrition require specific approaches. Patient-relevant outcomes such as functionality and quality of life need more attention, and research methodology should be harmonised to allow for the comparability of studies.

scholarly journals The Implementation of E-Procurement in Indonesia: Benefits, Risks, and Problems

INFERENSI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-304
Author(s):  
Nurus Sa'adah
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
New Model ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
The World ◽  
Internet Support

E-procurement was a new model of muamalah applied in the procurement in several countries in the world. Indonesia was implemented from 2010, but the implementation was not maximal. Proven there were still doubts to use this modern muamalah model. So, this research aimed to find information on how e-procurement was implemented in Indonesia. Data were obtained from a questionnaire containing a list of structured and open questions provided to government agency procurement officers, provider staff, and secondary data from e-procurement research in several local governments in Indonesia.  The results showed that the implementation of e-procurement reduced fraud. Benefit (maslahah) e-procurement was proven to be more than the risk (mafsadat). There were still doubts about sharia in the implementation of procurement due to a lack of information. The implementation of e-procurement still needs the attention to strengthening the quality of procurement officials, regulations, supervision, and internet support so that e-procurement success.

scholarly journals The impact of Euro 2012 on the development of municipalities hosting national teams – the case of Gniewino

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Łukasz Robert Karski ◽  
Joanna Danuta Jedel
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
European Football ◽  
Conference Centre ◽  
The Impact

The UEFA European Football Championship, held in 2012 in Poland, has brought a wide range of benefits, including the development of the recreation infrastructure and hotel facilities across the country. The championship has changed the way Poland and Poles are perceived by Europeans and has also contributed to improving the standard of living for inhabitants of many Polish towns and cities. The aim of this article is to evaluate the impact of Euro 2012 on the development of the Sports and Conference Centre in Gniewino and how it has affected the quality of life of its residents. The study is based on the analysis of literature and source documents as well as opinions collected in a survey of 450 respondents who answered a questionnaire consisting of 9 closed questions in December 2012. The findings indicate that the Sports and Conference Centre in Gniewino is currently one of the leading training centres for major football clubs from countries around the world. It can also be concluded that the organization of the Euro championship has had a positive impact on the quality of life of residents of Gniewino.

scholarly journals Office Administration Technology Skill of Vocational School on the 21st Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Hanisa Sismaya Lestari ◽  
Mia Aulia
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Vocational Schools ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

<p class="Titleofthepaper">In the 21st century education becomes more important to ensure students have the life skills and careers, learning and skills Databank as well as expertise in information technology and the media. Information technology is developing rapidly in a wide range of areas, including administrative services office. Records management is one of the activities of the Office of administrative services in a wide range of new. Vocational schools are required to generate human resources have the skills to use information technology. Electronic archive of educational practice to become one of the basic competencies taught in vocational schools in Office administration skills. Competencies expected to produce human resource who are competent and ready to compete in a globalized world. This method is used in this research is descriptive in the tests. The quality of education of a country can be seen from the data of the human development index (HDI) liquid size comparison of life expectancy, literacy, education and reduce the standard of living for all countries around the world. HDI data results in the year 2015 shows that Indonesia is number 35 with 70.1 rating from 41 countries around the world. This shows that the quality of education in Indonesia is still low compared with other countries.</p>

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