scholarly journals The Relational Fit in Organizational Interventions—What Can Organizational Research Learn from Research in Psychotherapy?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 8104
Author(s):  
Malene Friis Andersen ◽  
Karina Nielsen ◽  
Jeppe Zielinski Nguyen Ajslev
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Organizational Interventions ◽  
Therapist Factors ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
The Way

There is a growing interest in organizational interventions (OI) aiming to increase employees’ well-being. An OI involves changes in the way work is designed, organized, and managed. Studies have shown that an OI’s positive results are increased if there is a good fit between context and intervention and between participant and intervention. In this article, we propose that a third fit—the Relational Fit (R-Fit)—also plays an important role in determining an intervention’s outcome. The R-Fit consists of factors related to 1) the employees participating in the OI, 2) the intervention facilitator, and 3) the quality of the relation between participants and the intervention facilitator. The concept of the R-Fit is inspired by research in psychotherapy documenting that participant factors, therapist factors, and the quality of the relations explain 40% of the effect of an intervention. We call attention to the importance of systematically evaluating and improving the R-Fit in OIs. This is important to enhance the positive outcomes in OIs and thereby increase both the well-being and productivity of employees. We introduce concrete measures that can be used to study and evaluate the R-Fit. This article is the first to combine knowledge from research in psychotherapy with research on OIs.

Strategic threats to energy security as risks of quality of people's life

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 730-744
Author(s):  
V.I. Loktionov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Economic Well Being ◽  
The Way

Subject. The article reviews the way strategic threats to energy security influence the quality of people's life. Objectives. The study unfolds the theory of analyzing strategic threats to energy security by covering the matter of quality of people's life. Methods. To analyze the way strategic threats to energy security spread across cross-sectoral commodity and production chains and influences quality of people's living, I applied the factor analysis and general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis. Results. I suggest interpreting strategic threats to energy security as risks of people's quality of life due to a reduction in the volume of energy supply. I identified mechanisms reflecting how the fuel and energy complex and its development influence the quality of people's life. The article sets out the method to assess such quality-of-life risks arising from strategic threats to energy security. Conclusions and Relevance. In the current geopolitical situation, strategic threats to energy security cause long-standing adverse consequences for the quality of people's life. If strategic threats to energy security are further construed as risk of quality of people's life, this will facilitate the preparation and performance of a more effective governmental policy on energy, which will subsequently raise the economic well-being of people.

scholarly journals EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF DENSITY ON ACCESS TO LOCAL FACILITIES IN URBAN NEIGHBOURHOODS

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan Nurul Mardiah Wan Mohd Rani
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Local Services ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Local services and facilities in residential neighbourhoods play an important role towards the social sustainability of local residents. It is believed that having good provision and access to these local services and facilities would contribute significantly to the quality of life and residents’ well-being. The form of the neighbourhood influences the way people live in the neighbourhood. The way people settle in neighbourhood’s shapes the quality of life, the richness of the local economy, the level of social cohesion, the level of safety and the amount and the kind of human activities in public spaces. Different urban forms can have very different degrees of sustainability. Density is one of the urban form elements that have been research numerous times and proven to have an influence on the neighbourhood sustainability. Density is the most easily measured urban form element either at a macro level (city) or micro level (neighbourhood). This research discusses the impact of density on the micro scale through estimating its influence on access to local facilities. Through the use of household survey and supported by observation survey, this study findings on the impact of density on access and use of local facilities. The study concludes with establishing the findings of the survey to reflect and fit into the body of knowledge and how it would improve the guidelines and policy on social sustainability in improving the urban living as a whole.

DISTANT TRACK OF ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS ON THE GENETIC-REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL OF GENERATIONS

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-98
Author(s):  
Lazareva N.V.
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Load ◽  
Reproductive Potential ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The State ◽  
Genetic Monitoring ◽  
Acceptable Solution ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Results

The paper discusses and highlights the promising modern environmental problems that affect pollution and environmental destruction, affecting the health status of the population. The deterioration of the situation cannot be justified and compensated for by the positive results of the progress of civilization - today the decaying environment is gaining more and more weight even in comparison with the well-being and economic prosperity of developed countries, affecting the dynamics of the state of health. The studies carried out to determine the relationship between the development of psycho-somatic morbidity and environmental factors of environmental pollution are confirmed by a direct correlation dependence. Studies of the evolution of populations and species are described in detail under the increased pressure of mutations caused by pollution of the biosphere of an atomic and nuclear agent. However, until now, these studies have not been carried out with the required depth and scope. The proposed human genetic monitoring sets itself the task of determining the volume and dynamics of the hereditary health disorders in people caused by the influence of the genetic load. It has been proved that the main, methodologically, when working on genetic monitoring of a person is that an increase in the number of genetic pathologies in the population can be established only when reliable quantitative data are obtained. Thus, an absolutely acceptable solution to the contradictions between the quality of health and the state of the ecological situation has not yet been proposed.

scholarly journals Biodanza: revisión sistemática sobre los beneficios de una práctica emergente en la promoción de la salud y el bienestar (Biodanza: systematic review of the benefits of an emerging practice in the promotion of health and well-being)

Retos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Altamirano Quevedo ◽  
Estefanía Castillo Viera ◽  
Iván Rodríguez Pascual
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Revisión Sistemática ◽  
Quantitative Design ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
Body Expression ◽  
Work And Health

  La Biodanza es una disciplina emergente que parece estar relacionada con la salud y el bienestar. Basada en un sistema integrador de disciplinas como la danza, la música y sobre todo la expresión corporal, que permite a los participantes adaptar su nivel inicial y sus capacidades. Para conocer los beneficios que aporta la práctica de biodanza se hace necesario la revisión sistemática de la literatura científica. El objetivo fue realizar una revisión sistemática de la literatura científica sobre biodanza y su relación con la salud. Método: se identificaron los estudios en las bases de datos Web of Science y Scopus hasta enero de 2020. Se seleccionaron las investigaciones de diseño cuantitativo, publicadas en inglés o castellano. Tras el cribado, se identificaron nueve artículos que cumplían los criterios de inclusión. Resultados: la biodanza muestra resultados positivos sobre la salud de mujeres con fibromialgia, así como en población general y niños. Las variables analizadas fundamentalmente fueron depresión, ansiedad, calidad del sueño, manejo del dolor, o inteligencia emocional. Conclusiones: los estudios muestran una relación positiva entre los practicantes de biodanza y algunos parámetros de salud, especialmente variables referidas al bienestar, así como una clara utilidad en el trabajo comunitario y la promoción de la salud. Los estudios son escasos y las muestras no son aleatorias, por lo que no se pueden generalizar fácilmente los resultados. Abstract. Biodanza is an emerging discipline apparently related to health and well-being. It is based on an system integrating disciplines such as dance, music, and, particularly, body expression, which allows participants to adapt their initial level and abilities. In order to know the benefits of the practice of biodanza, it is necessary to systematically review the scientific literature related to it. Objective: this article aims to systematically review the benefits of biodanza on health. Method: the studies were identified in the databases until December 2018. Quantitative design research, published both in English and Spanish, were selected. Nine articles meeting the inclusion criteria were identified. Results: biodanza shows positive results on the health of women with fibromyalgia, as well as in the general population and children. Depression, anxiety, quality of sleep, or emotional intelligence were among the health variables analyzed. Conclusions: the studies show a positive relationship between biodanza practitioners and some health parameters, especially wellbeing variables. Biodanza seems to have also a clear utility in community work and health promotion. The studies are still scarce and the samples are not random, so the results cannot be easily generalized.

scholarly journals Badania dotyczące dzieciństw(a) – perspektywa praw dziecka

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Ewa Jarosz
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
New Type ◽  
Social Pedagogues ◽  
The Way

Research concerning children and childhood has been developing on the background of the evolution of different narrations (discourses) about a child. After the Convention on the rights of the child, narrations on the children’s rights and then about child well-being and the quality of children’s life became the very meaningful. As a consequence, a new type of research on childhood has been developing which has some specific foundations as for the object and procedures used. In the paper an attempt to expose main methodological assumptions of the new paradigm is presented, the role of subjective treatment of children in research and some patterns of childhood studies. This paradigm is dedicated to pedagogues, especially social pedagogues, as the way of researching childhoods close to their perception of studies as socially engaged and as interdisciplinary in the spectrum of exploration.

scholarly journals The Overview of International Research on the Effects of Being a Child in the Conditions of Institutionalisation: How to Achieve Positive Results

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-84
Author(s):  
G.V. Semya
Keyword(s):  
Current Model ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Adequate Care ◽  
Negative Factors ◽  
Positive Results

The review is devoted to research in the field of institutionalization of children left without parental care, and aims to determine what improvements can be made to ensure the best result in the development of children in these conditions. The current model of institutionalization based on deprivation, negative factors of development, seems limited and outdated. The results of the research are considered within the framework of the bioecological model of development of W. Bronfenbrenner. The analysis of publications shows that there is convincing evidence that the quality of institutional care at the exosystem level has a significant impact on the well-being of children and provides long-term positive results in the physical, cognitive, behavioral and emotional development of the child. The review shows that when institutional care is combined with certain protective factors, it does not always lead to negative consequences in the child’s development. Countries that set higher standards of institutional care for children, and specialists who apply measures that correspond to the identified predictors of full-fledged development, can see that institutional care can be a viable option when adequate care based on a foster family is not possible.

scholarly journals Editorial

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-8
Author(s):  
Maryory Astrid Gómez Botero ◽  
Sebastián Isaza Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The world's population increases every year and resources are limited, consequently the humanity faces the need to reinvent the way of living. As population grows, it is expected that in the coming years, the majority of people will live in urban areas. Thus urgent need to have cities where the well-being of people and the sustainability of the environment can be guaranteed [1]. In the last decade, the integration of sensor technologies, mobile internet, and information technology, has allowed the development of countless systems seeking to achieve the aforementioned objectives for the cities of the future. A Smart City can be defined as one that is able to take advantage of its own data, produced during its daily operation, in order to generate new information that allows it to improve its management and be more sustainable, more competitive, and offer better quality of life, thanks to participation and collaboration of all agents involved [2].

scholarly journals Too Much ‘Stuff’ and the Wrong Space: A Conceptual Framework of Material Possessions

Interiority ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-242
Author(s):  
Elena Marco ◽  
Katie Williams ◽  
Sonja Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Way

Space for living in new build houses in the UK is at premium and households have more stuff than ever before. The way this stuff is accommodated in dwellings can significantly affect residents’ quality of life and well-being. This paper presents a new conceptualisation of material possessions that could be of use to those involved in housing design. Three universal characteristics of material possessions; value, temporality and visibility are used to identify the space in the home that possessions might require. A conceptual framework that integrates these characteristics with spatial information about the interior of the home is developed. The paper argues that the conceptual framework could help designers, policymakers and house builders to better understand first the nature of material possessions, and second how those possessions could be accommodated in contemporary homes, ultimately supporting improved quality of life and wellbeing for households.

The Linguistics of Health and Agriculture

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-38
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Aurora Popescu
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Natural Products ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Balanced Diet ◽  
The Way

Abstract The present article focuses on the importance of natural products on the human body. Based on various researches, our aim is to highlight the consequences that a proper and balanced diet impacts on the quality of life. Based on Schopenhauer’s saying that 10% of our happiness is based on health, our intention is to identify the products that impact human chemistry. Studies prove that the way we eat can have an influence of between 30% to 50% with regard to the onset of various types of cancer. What we eat can influence the illnesses our bodies would create within 10, 20, 30 years. More recent studies show that our mind is responsible for our psychological and physical well being. Also, we focus on how rural agricultural development could lead to economic growth for the country.

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