scholarly journals Some Voices from Italian Youth on Well-Being: How to Cope with Job Insecurity?

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Rosy Musumeci ◽  
Chiara Ghislieri
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
Familial Support ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

’Insecure’ jobs and alternating between periods of unemployment and periods of employment under fixed-term contracts are increasingly widespread among the youth in Europe. This phenomenon is an important risk factor for young people’s well-being. Despite the growing number of studies, some issues have still not been adequately addressed. Compared to the high number of quantitative studies, the number of qualitative researches is limited: in fact, few studies have tackled this topic from a qualitative standpoint, highlighting the dynamics and the subjective processes which operate in this relationship and considering the different functions that work can have for the individual. Another aspect that has not been adequately dealt with is represented by the coping strategies that young people put in place to deal with job insecurity, and which have consequences on their well-being. The present article on the Italian case is intended to give a contribution in these directions. In particular, it analyses the way in which a group of 40 unemployed or temporarily employed young people, in-depth interviewed, subjectively describe the relationship between job insecurity and well-being, and reflects on coping strategies to face job insecurity and related perceived consequences. In doing this, the authors consider the role of individual factors, as well as of meso and macro ones, given that—for example—the national contexts have a role in influencing the way in which job insecurity is perceived and managed by individuals. The results highlight the complexity of this relationship, in which the intertwining of factors at different levels plays a very important role in determining the coping strategies and the overall well-being of people: individually, like the functions and the subjective meanings of work for the youth, but also in meso and macro terms, such as the familial support and relationships, and the institutional and public resources available.

scholarly journals The Role of Coping Strategies in Maintaining Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak in South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 194855062199059
Author(s):  
Joo Hyun Kim ◽  
Yerin Shim ◽  
Incheol Choi ◽  
Eunsoo Choi
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Growth Models ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Phase 2 ◽  
Behavioral Strategies ◽  
The Individual

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose an unprecedented challenge for the world as people strive to cope with this significant threat to their well-being. This intensive longitudinal study of the first 94 days of the COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea (Phase 1: initial outbreak, Phase 2: intense social distancing) examined individuals’ changes in well-being, in relation to their use of coping strategies and fear of infection. A sample of 10,464 South Koreans participated in surveys during Phase 1 and Phase 2, resulting in 35,846 observations. Multilevel growth models revealed a decrease in well-being while different coping strategies moderated the individual rate of change in well-being. Although preventive measures were associated with a greater decrease in well-being, cognitive appraisal and behavioral strategies predicted stable well-being during the pandemic. Coping strategies further mediated the association between fear of infection and deterioration of well-being.

scholarly journals FASION AS THE MEANS OF PERSONALITY SELF-IDENTITY

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-52
Author(s):  
Iryna Hrynyk
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Identification ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. The article carries out theoretical and empirical analysis of features of personality᾿s self-identity by means of fashion. It presents theoretical analysis of the main approaches to the interpretation of fashion and its evolution in the process of social development and describes the content characteristics of fashion as a social and psychological phenomenon and its impact on the individual identification and self-presentation. It has been determined that fashion is an important mechanism of self-presentation and identification of the individual with a certain social group. The author clarifies the scale of the fashion influence on the self-identification and self-presentation of the personality and its possible consequence revealing the psychological mechanisms of young people᾿s interest in modern fashion. The empirical study of the role and influence of fashion on self-presentation among students has been carried out. According to quantitative and qualitative analysis of the results obtained factors and the relationship between them have been singled out, which are the key to the self-identity of personality. It is confirmed that the studied groups of students perceive fashion as a means to emphasize their individuality; they have a clear need for material well-being, prestige, popularity.

scholarly journals Internal marketing and organisational performance of SMEs in the EDV industrial sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Pedro Sousa ◽  
Katarzyna Krot ◽  
Ricardo G. Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Location ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Internal Marketing ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Organisational Performance ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Distinct Features

Abstract Focusing on the industrial sector, this research aims to identify conditions for the implementation of internal marketing concepts among employees and its impact on the organisational performance. Only one study was found simultaneously integrating the two constructs. It concerned the cork processing industry alone, yet considered expanding the efforts – namely, using qualitative exploratory research in the form of 10 in-depth interviews based on a script of generally open questions – to the entire industry in the Portuguese region between rivers Douro and Vouga. The unit of analysis was constructed considering distinct features as well as activity criteria and the geographic location, thus ensuring the necessary heterogeneity. The results inform about the awareness of the internal marketing conceptualisation. The research found that all analysed enterprises had more or less structured model frames and worked with the conceptualisation of the guidance for the internal market, a strategic concern, and in some instances, this concept was an organisational desideratum in the sector. In addition to the lapse of the research according to a qualitative paradigm of exploratory nature, the main limitation is the need for objective sustainably of the results obtained through future quantitative studies to promote an integrated triangulation of their outcomes. The research allowed identifying the companies that use organisational models conducive to the individual well-being of employees and facilitating the desired orientation to the market.

International comparative study on health condition of young people

2014 ◽  
Vol 155 (34) ◽  
pp. 1353-1360
Author(s):  
Brigitta Munkácsi ◽  
Beáta Erika Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Young People ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Physical Condition ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Public Health Programme ◽  
International Comparative ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Mental Well Being

Introduction: The connection between physical condition, coping strategies and emotional intelligence is widely studied in the international literature, but comparative research data collected among Transylvanian and Hungarian adolescents are not available in contemporary psychological literature. Aim: The aim of the authors was to study health indicators, emotional intelligence and coping strategies among adolescents and analyse connections between these factors and physical condition as part of an international research. Method: The physical condition, coping strategies and emotional intelligence of 390 individuals, aged between 13 and 19 years living in Debrecen (Hungary) and Érmihályfalva (Romania) were observed. Results: adaptive (i. e. problem-focused) coping strategies used in stressful situations resulted in lower depression rates, as well as better mental well-being than the maladaptive ones such as emotional clearing, self-punishment, distraction of attention. Adolescents showing higher emotional intelligence had lower depression levels and better mental well-being. Conclusions: Institutionally initiated emotional intelligence and coping strategy development for young people may prove to be an important preventive interventional public health programme. This may serve as a basis to assist health-consciousness and personality formatting. Orv. Hetil., 2014, 155(34), 1353–1360.

Perspective on the Psychology of Self

1977 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul H. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Internal Organization ◽  
Motivational Variable ◽  
Behavioral Tendencies ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

The present perspective on the psychology of self developed out of a search for an adequate conception of the person to round out an incompleteness in a model of friendship. After a review of five major points of disagreement among self theorists, a perspective is presented which distinguishes between the self as an identifiable entity and the specific attributes the individual regards as characteristic of that entity. Processes are proposed by which the person comes to develop a conception of himself as an identifiable entity, and the way in which his self-attributions, i.e., conceptions of what that entity is like, develop and change. A key motivational variable is the individual's concern with the well-being and worth of the entity identified as self. This key variable not only has important implications for the internal organization of self-attributes but also is manifest in four behavioral tendencies that provide a motivational link between the self and dyadic and person-group relations.

Depression in Young People: A National School-Based Initiative for Prevention, Early Intervention and Pathways for Care

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Burns ◽  
Ian Hickie
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Whole School ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
School Based ◽  
National School ◽  
The Social ◽  
Whole School Approach ◽  
The Individual

Objective: To describe the national school-based initiative of ‘beyondblue’. Conclusions: The goals of the initiative are: to reduce levels of depressive symptoms in young people, to promote emotional well-being in adolescence and to increase the capacity of organisations to design, implement and evaluate interventions relevant to the prevention of depression. The theoretical framework underpinning the program will build on expertise and evidence-based research from both the education and health sectors while the proposed initiative will draw on the existing capacity of school systems. The program will target not only the specific needs of individual students but will combine this targeted approach with a whole-school approach that addresses the quality of the social climate in which the individual is situated. The intervention strategy in partnership with the education sector will seek to make changes in the schools' social and learning environments, introduce relevant and important life skills through the curriculum, and strengthen structures that promote links between the school, families and communities.

scholarly journals Nieuwe zelfstandigen en onzekerheid over de arbeidsplaats

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinka van Vuuren ◽  
John Klein Hesselink
Keyword(s):  
Sick Leave ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Independent Contractors ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Representative Samples ◽  
The Way

Independent contractors and job insecurity Independent contractors and job insecurity In this article we test the hypothesis that independent contractors experience more job insecurity then employees with a permanent labour contract. We also compare causes and consequences of job insecurity between independent contractors and employees. Finally, we test for differences in the way self-efficacy acts as a buffer between job insecurity and its negative effects on work and well-being between these groups. In this article we use the data set of a 2006 study on sick leave benefits. Two national representative samples of independent contractors and employees with a permanent labour contract were selected from this data set. The results of our study indicate that independent contractors experience about the same amount of job insecurity as employees, and that there are only some differences in causes and consequences. Employees with a permanent contract experience more negative effects. Self-efficacy did not buffer the influence job insecurity on health and well-being in both groups.

scholarly journals Fund-mapping: the investment of public resources in the well-being of children and young people in Northern Ireland

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-350
Author(s):  
Frances Kemp ◽  
Cassandra Ohlson ◽  
Anam Raja ◽  
Louise Morpeth ◽  
Nick Axford
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Young People ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Public Resources

scholarly journals Balancing flexibility and security in Europe? The impact of unemployment on young peoples’ subjective well-being

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Russell ◽  
Janine Leschke ◽  
Mark Smith
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Job Instability ◽  
Unemployment Spells ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

We examine the relationship between ‘flexicurity’ systems, unemployment and well-being outcomes for young people in Europe. A key tenet of the flexicurity approach is that greater flexibility of labour supply supports transitions into employment, trading longer-term employment stability for short-term job instability. However, there is a risk that young people experience greater job insecurity, both objective and subjective, with less stable contracts and more frequent unemployment spells. Our research draws on data from the European Social Survey and uses multi-level models to explore whether and how flexibility-security arrangements moderate the effect of past and present unemployment on the well-being of young people. We distinguish between flexibility-security institutions that foster improved job prospects and those that provide financial security.

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