scholarly journals Highly-Skilled Migrants, Gender, and Well-Being in the Eindhoven Region. An Intersectional Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Camilla Spadavecchia ◽  
Jie Yu
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Migration Strategies ◽  
Migratory Status

The shortage of skilled labor and the global competition for highly qualified employees has challenged Dutch companies to develop strategies to attract Highly Skilled Migrants (HSMs). This paper presents a study exploring how well-being is experienced by HSMs living in the Eindhoven region, a critical Dutch Tech Hub. Our population includes highly skilled women and men who moved to Eindhoven for work or to follow their partner trajectory. By analyzing data according to these four groups, we detect significant differences among HSMs. Given the exploratory nature of this work, we use a qualitative method based on semi-structured interviews. Our findings show that gender plays a crucial role in experienced well-being for almost every dimension analyzed. Using an intersectional approach, we challenge previous models of well-being, and we detect different factors that influence the respondents’ well-being when intersecting with gender. Those factors are migratory status, the reason to migrate, parenthood, and origin (EU/non-EU). When all the factors intersect, participants’ well-being decreases in several areas: career, financial satisfaction, subjective well-being, and social relationships. Significant gender differences are also found in migration strategies. Finally, we contribute to debates about skilled migration and well-being by including an intersectional perspective.

Patterns of Social Relationships and Psychological Well-being among the Elderly

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Takahashi ◽  
Junko Tamura ◽  
Makiko Tokoro
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Type Method

On the premise that social relationships among elderly adults differ in terms of the most significant, dominant figure, this study aimed to examine: (1) whether there were qualitative differences in supportive functions between family-dominant and friend-dominant affective relationships, and (2) whether “lone wolves”, who were deficient in human resources, had difficulties in maintaining their well-being. A total of 148 Japanese, over the age of 65, both living in communities and in institutions were individually interviewed about their social relationships using a self-report type method, the Picture Affective Relationships test, and their well-being was assessed using Depression, Self-esteem, Life satisfaction, and Subjective health scales. Results showed that there were no differences in psychological well-being between family-dominant and friend-dominant participants, but those who lacked affective figures had lower scores in subjective well-being than did their family-dominant and friend-dominant counterparts. The generalisation of these findings to other cultures is discussed.

Social workers implementing social assistance in Spain: reshaping poverty in a familialistic welfare state

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-184
Author(s):  
Sergio Sánchez Castiñeira
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Grey Zone ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Emotional Approach

This case study analyses some of the processes that are restructuring public social assistance in the inequality regime that emerges from the recent economic recession in Spain. It shows how social workers turn what could be an inefficient public program into an active social policy through a cognitive, normative and emotional approach. A highly qualified and vocational workforce compensates meagre institutional support and lack of opportunities by instilling in the new poor new knowledge, abilities and attitudes to access basic informal resources from the local context. However, social workers’ agency could eventually contribute to confine clients within the material and symbolic limits of an expanding grey zone with scarce opportunities and diminished well-being, between inclusion and exclusion. This research is based on semi-structured interviews (17) and focus groups (8).

Exploring the Everyday Lives of Children in Winnipeg, Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-561
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Huynh ◽  
Ashley Stewart-Tufescu
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
And Control

Over the past decade there has been a call to action for researchers to explore children’s subjectivities in the context of well-being. How children understand and experience well-being in a Canadian context was examined in this study. Twenty-one children between 8 and 12 years of age participated in semi-structured interviews facilitated by the Life Story Board™. Three main themes emerged: (1) freedom and control, (2) child rights and social supports, and (3) children’s participation as social actors. Results from this study highlighted the importance of children needing to feel heard by parents and teachers; children being recognised as rights-holders with opportunities to actualise their rights; and children having meaningful opportunities to participate in matters which concerns them in everyday life as important components of subjective well-being. Results may serve to inform child-serving professionals, policymakers, and parents and guardians about how school-aged children from this Canadian context conceptualize and experience well-being.

Culture and Well-Being

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigehiro Oishi ◽  
Ulrich Schimmack
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Gross National Product ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
National Product ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Good Society ◽  
Wealth Of Nations

What is a good society? Philosophers from Plato to Bentham have argued that a good society is a happy society—namely, a society in which most citizens are happy and free from fear. Since the publication of The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith in 1776, most economists have implicitly assumed that a happy society is a materially wealthy society. Thus, gross national product and related indices became the most popular indicators of the well-being of nations from the 1950s to date. Recently, however, prominent economists as well as political scientists, sociologists, and psychologists have shown that a happy society is not only a materially wealthy society but also a society in which citizens can trust one another, have a sense of freedom, and have close social relationships. The inquiry into the psychological wealth of nations, or the subjective well-being of nations, helps answer a fundamental question in philosophy and social sciences for millennia: “What is a good society?”

scholarly journals Emociones positivas del alumnado de Educación Secundaria en las prácticas de baloncesto en Educación Física (Positive emotions of the students of Secondary Education in the practices of basketball in Physical Education)

Retos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 556-564
Author(s):  
Felipe Nicolás Mujica Johnson ◽  
Ana Concepción Jiménez Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Motor Task ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Sports Culture ◽  
Alternative Teaching

  La investigación de las emociones en Educación Física se debe a la necesidad de comprender los diferentes significados que dichos estados psicológicos pueden representar. El objetivo de esta investigación fue interpretar la percepción y atribución del alumnado sobre las emociones positivas para el bienestar subjetivo durante la práctica de baloncesto en Educación Física, en función del tipo de tarea motriz, el género y el centro educativo. Para aproximarse al fenómeno emocional, se ha decidido utilizar una metodología cualitativa. Participaron 20 alumnas y 24 alumnos pertenecientes a dos centros educativos de la Comunidad de Madrid. Los datos fueron recogidos por medio de entrevistas semi-estructuradas y diarios personales, los cuales se sometieron a un análisis de contenido deductivo-inductivo con ayuda del programa informático Atlas.ti 7.5. Los resultados muestran 18 códigos o atribuciones emocionales que se refieren a la alegría, el entusiasmo, la seguridad y la diversión. Según el tipo de tarea motriz, el género y el centro educativo se identificaron diferencias y similitudes, destacando el rol de la competencia y la relación con una cultura deportiva de baloncesto en cada centro educativo. Se concluye que, para promover el bienestar subjetivo del alumnado en las prácticas de baloncesto en Educación Física, podría ser adecuado aplicar modelos de enseñanza alternativos del deporte, estrategias adaptativas y un clima de logro orientado a la tarea. Abstract: Investigation of emotions in Physical Education is due to the need to understand the different meanings that these psychological states can represent. The objective of this research was to interpret the perception and attribution of the students about the positive emotions for the subjective well-being during the practice of basketball in Physical Education, depending on the type of motor task, gender and educational center. To approach the emotional phenomenon, it has been decided to use a qualitative methodology. 20 girls and 24 boys from two educational centers in the Community of Madrid participated. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews and personal diaries, which have been subjected to a deductive-inductive content analysis with the help of the Atlas.ti 7.5 software. The results indicated 18 emotional codes or attributions found for joy, enthusiasm, security and fun. According to the type of motor task, gender and educational center, differences and similarities are identified, highlighting the role of competition and the relationship with a basketball sports culture in each educational center. It is concluded that, to promote the subjective well-being of the students in the practices of basketball in Physical Education, it could be appropriate to apply alternative teaching models of sport, adaptive strategies and a climate of achievement oriented to the task.

scholarly journals Strategies to effectively control Aggression: A case study

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kartiki Porwal
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Relational Aggression ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Physical Form

Individuals who are socially connected are happier and healthier than their more isolated counterparts. Over the past few decades, researchers have established that both the quantity and quality of our social relationships are unequivocally important when it comes to our physical and mental health, and our risk of mortality. Although the link between social relationships and mental health is well established in a couple, we have only just begun to identify explanations for this link. Recently, social scientists have discovered that the link between social relationships and health is explained by our behaviours (e.g., smoking, exercise, diet), various psychosocial factors (e.g., social support, mental health, cultural norms), and physiological processes. Aggression in marital relationship is defined as a manipulative, physical or non-physical form of aggression meant to negatively impact the development of relationship by social exclusion or harming the social status of a victim by spreading or behaving negatively. Research findings suggest that even infrequent experiences with relational aggression victimization are associated with lower subjective well-being such as depression, loneliness, and positive affect. This case study investigates the existence of relational aggression in a couple and the relationship between relational aggression and own subjective well-being. The participant in the study is married and from nuclear family. The study tries to investigate aggression level through the case study method and relaxation, yoga, meditation techniques used which was used to resolve the aggression and helps to achieve well being.

scholarly journals Highly Skilled Migrants from Central Asian States at the Russian Labor Market

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-204
Author(s):  
Vladimir Mukomel
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Cis Countries ◽  
Second Wave

The article examines the features of employment in the Russian labor market of highly skilled labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The main attention is paid to their economic activities, occupations, wages and labor intensity in comparison with similar characteristics of less skilled Central Asian labor migrants and highly skilled migrants from other post-Soviet states. It is concluded that highly skilled migrants from Central Asia, being more successful than their less skilled compatriots, lose in competition for the best jobs to highly skilled migrants from other countries. Special attention is paid to the behavior of highly skilled Central Asian migrants during the pandemic in 2020, when they demonstrated a high potential for adaptation to the extraordinary transformation of the labor market. Regarding the situation as temporary during the first wave of the pandemic (spring 2020), confident in their ability to find a job in Russia and not wanting to leave it, highly qualified Central Asian migrants did not err in their expectations, strengthening their position in the Russian labor market. During the second wave of the pandemic (autumn 2020), their optimism, based on assessing the possibilities of finding a decent job in Russia, satisfaction with conditions and wages, increased even more. The empirical base of the study was the results of sociological surveys of labor migrants from the CIS countries, Ukraine and Georgia in 2017, as well as during the first and second waves of the pandemic (2020).

Meaningfulness as a Mediator of Subjective Well-Being

2000 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Compton
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Canonical Correlations ◽  
Internal Locus Of Control ◽  
Community Residents ◽  
Significant Mediator

In a sample of 347 university students and community residents, measures of meaningfulness, self-esteem, internal locus of control, positive social relationships and optimism were given to predict subjective well-being, i.e., measures of happiness, life satisfaction, and affect balance. Correlations, canonical correlations, and structural equation modeling supported the hypothesis that meaningfulness is a significant mediator between personality variables and subjective well-being.

Self-reported hearing difficulty, subjective well-being and social relationships among older adults in Ghana

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Alfred E Yawson ◽  
John Tetteh ◽  
Isaac Adomako ◽  
Phaedra Yamson ◽  
Kafui Searyoh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Unhealthy Lifestyle ◽  
Hearing Difficulty

Background: Hearing difficulty negatively impacts individual relationships with family and friends and other social relationships. Objective:This research was conducted to determine the factors significantly influencing self-reported hearing difficulty (SHD) and further to assess the influence of SHD on social relationship among older adults in Ghana. Methods: World Health Organization’s Studyon Global AGEing and Adult Health Ghana dataset for older adults 50 yr. and above was used for this study. Social relationship and hearing difficulty were the primary and secondary outcomes respectively. A modified Poisson with Mahalanobis distance matching within propensity caliper was employed to determine the different influences on social relationships by SHD. All analysis was performed using the statistical software Stata Version 15 and with a confidence interval (CI) of 95%. Results: The prevalence of SHD among older adults in Ghana was 19.5% (95%CI=16.9-22.3). Rao-Scott test of association showed that all covariates (demographic characteristics, self-rated health, quality of life, life satisfaction and unhealthy lifestyle) were significantly associated with SHD (p<0.05). Sensitivity analysis showed that, SHD predicted a significantly decreased probability count of social relationship among older adults with SHD [adjusted prevalence ratio(95%CI)=-0.08(-0.15-0.02)]. Binary and ordinal outcomes showed that among the older adults with SHD, only 35% and 70% respectively were likely to have a good social relationship [adjusted odds ratio (aOR) (95%CI)=0.65(0.46-0.90) and aOR (95%CI)=0.70(0.51-0.96)respectively]. Conclusion: Overall, the prevalence of hearing loss in older adults in Ghana was 19.5%, and was higher among older adult females. This high prevalence of SHD had significant negative effect on social relationships among the older adults. In line with global efforts to reduce effect of hearing loss, it is imperative that, clinical assessment of hearing loss should always consider the social characteristics of the older adult.

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