Coping with unemployment: The impact of unemployment on mental health, personality, and social interaction skills

The present study aimed at identifying the extent of practicing social interaction skills by Jordanian elementary school students in accordance with Carl Orff’s approach to music education. The study’s population consists from all the male and female music teachers who teach at primary levels in public and private Jordanian schools (i.e. 350 female and male teachers). In order to collect the required data, the researchers developed a questionnaire that consists from 50 statements.It was concluded that the level of practicing the social interaction skills by Jordanian elementary school students is low from the perspective of the sampled teachers. That is because the total arithmetic mean is 1.80. As for the total standard deviation, it is 0.71. In addition, the means of all the questionnaire statements are within the moderate and low levels. In the light of the study’s results, the researchers recommend the following:Promoting the role of the music education at private and public schools. The researchers also recommend providing all the necessary means and instruments for facilitating and improving the educational processHolding more training courses for teachers regularly by the ministry of education about the music education strategies and methods.

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Teaching Social Interaction Skills with Stealthy Training Techniques

Procedia Manufacturing ◽

10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.973 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 4036-4043

Author(s):

Scott Flanagan ◽

Zachary Horn ◽

Camilla Knott ◽

Frederick Diedrich ◽

Kent Halverson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Interaction ◽

Training Techniques ◽

Social Interaction Skills ◽

Interaction Skills

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Impact of acculturation and psychological adjustment on mental health among migrant adolescents in Guangzhou, China: a cross-sectional questionnaire study

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022712 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (5) ◽

pp. e022712 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lishuo Shi ◽

Wen Chen ◽

Jennifer Huang Bouey ◽

Yanwei Lin ◽

Li Ling

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Interaction ◽

Psychological Adjustment ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Structural Equation Models ◽

Questionnaire Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Internal Migrant ◽

Migrant Adolescents ◽

The Impact

ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to examine the pathway and associations among acculturation (ie, language, social interaction and lifestyle), psychological adjustment and mental health of internal migrant adolescents in China.DesignCross-sectional questionnaire study.SettingSix private migrant junior high schools located in Tianhe and Baiyun districts in Guangzhou were chosen as the study sites.ParticipantsA total of 1122 migrant adolescents aged 11–17 years old completed the study.Main outcome measuresMental health was measured by using the Social Anxiety Scale for Children (SASC) and major depression disorder (MDD) in a Brief Child and Family Phone Interview. Acculturation and psychological adjustment were measured by a self-designed and verified questionnaire. Multiple regression models and structural equation models were performed to analyse the association among acculturation, psychological adjustment and mental health while controlling for participant demographic characteristics.ResultsThe average MDD score for boys was 8.78 (SD=2.17) and for girls was 8.56 (SD=2.22), while the average SASC score for boys was 14.67 (SD=3.72) and for girls was 13.41 (SD=4.01). Psychological adjustment had a direct positive effect on MDD (p<0.001, β=0.30) and SASC (p<0.001, β=0.28), and it was the key variable fully mediating the impact of acculturation components on MDD and partly mediating the impact of acculturation on SASC, whereas lifestyle showed a direct negative effect (p=0.003, β=−0.17) on SASC. Of the three acculturation components, lifestyle had the strongest influence on psychological adjustment (p<0.001, β=0.37 and 0.51), followed by social interaction (p<0.001, β=0.24 and 0.13) and language (p<0.001, β=0.17 and 0.11).ConclusionsThe association between acculturation and the mental health of internal migrant adolescents was complex and could be mediated by psychological adjustment. Interventions such as promoting local language and social interaction are needed to enhance psychological adjustment and further improve the mental health of migrant adolescents.

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