scholarly journals Conceptualisation of the pandemic situation by the recovered people

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 72-82
Author(s):  
Irina O. Kuvaeva ◽  
Alexandra M. Strelnikova
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Viral Disease ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Ways Of Coping ◽  
The Social ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Coping

The article is devoted to the study of the concept of the pandemic and coping behaviour. Two groups of participants are the following – the recovered respondents (n=57) and those who have not had a new coronavirus infection (n=57). The concept of the pandemic in psychological interpretation is a mental model that reflects objectified and subjective-evaluative characteristics and affects the choice of copings in a specific difficult situation. Based on the expert work, the relevant objectified and subjective-evaluative characteristics of the pandemic concept were identified. The conceptualisation of the pandemic is diagnosed using a directed associative experiment (the stimulus included the word “pandemic”), the pictographic technique and the “Ways of Coping Questionnare” by Richard S. Lazarus and Susan Kleppner Folkman. It was revealed that youth understood the pandemic as a global restriction caused by a viral disease, accompanied by negative emotions and coping by individual means of protection/distancing. The recovered participants considered the pandemic as a long viral disease a person suffers in isolation accompanied by fear, horror, loneliness, fatigue. Women who had been ill conceptualised the pandemic in emotionally-coloured characteristics and more often searched the social support than men (p=0.036). Men interpreted the pandemic as a widespread treasonous disease. The resource of the individual protective equipment, positive rethinking and social support in overcoming a specific difficult situation (the COVID-19 pandemic) is shown.

Demographic Factors as Predictors of Coping Strategies among Police Officers

2000 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
George T. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Ways Of Coping ◽  
Coping Responses ◽  
Ways Of Coping Questionnaire ◽  
And Coping

This study examined the effects of demographic factors on coping responses among police officers. A sample of 233 police officers completed the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (Folkman & Lazarus, 1988). The regression analysis showed that the higher the reported educational attainment, the more police officers reported coping which was emotion-focused and seeking social support. The rank of the officer was directly related to reported emotion-focused coping. These results are discussed relative to research on the relations of demographic factors and coping responses among police officers.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF SOCIAL COMMERCE CONSTRUCTS, SOCIAL SUPPORT, AND TRUST IN COMMUNITY ON SOCIAL COMMERCE ACTIVITIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
Amir Hidayatulloh
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Social Commerce ◽  
The Social ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
The Individual

This study  aims  to  analyze  social  commerce  constructs, social  support,  and  individual  trust in the  community   in   social   commerce   activities.   Social   support   includes   emotional   support  and informational  support.  The population  was  social  media  users, while  the  samples were  social media users who had made purchase at least two transactions through social media. The sampling technique was convenience sampling. Totally, 162 respondents were involved. Hypothesis testing was  done using  Warp PLS. This study  reveals that individual  trust in  the community  can be built directly  through  the social  commerce  constructs. These  constructs affects both  emotional  support and information support, in which they will ultimately affect the individual trust in the community. Furthermore,  social  commerce  intention  is influenced  by  individual  trust in  the community  and emotional  support.  However,  information  support does not  affect  the social commerce  intention.

LEGAL BASIS OF SOCIAL GUARANTEES FOR MEDICAL WORKERS AFFECTED BY CORONAVIRUS INFECTION (COVID-19)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
S.N. Puzin ◽  
◽  
S.S. Memetov ◽  
I.V. Dedeneva ◽  
O.V. Khorkova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Insurance Fund ◽  
Social Insurance Fund ◽  
The Social ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government

The article discusses current regulatory legal acts and clarifications on their application on social support for doctors, paramedical and junior medical personnel of medical organizations, ambulance drivers directly working with patients with a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19). The federal laws, Decrees of the Government of the Russian Federation, and Orders of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of social support are analyzed. The article contains material on the possible types of medical examinations, systematizes the existing state guarantees for compulsory state insurance for certain categories of medical workers, and the possibility of obtaining the necessary documents from medical organizations and medical and social examination institutions for submission to the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation.

The Relationship of Coping Style to Dysphoria, Anxiety, and Anger

1998 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 783-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry L. Whatley ◽  
April C. Foreman ◽  
Steven Richards
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Trait Anger ◽  
Ways Of Coping ◽  
Course Grades ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines Problem-focused Coping and Emotion-focused Coping, as measured by the Revised Ways of Coping Checklist, in relation to Dysphoria, Anxiety, Anger, Social Support, and course grades in psychology. Women university students ( N = 245) were assessed two times six weeks apart. Problem-focused Coping was significantly negatively correlated with scores on the Center for Epidemiological Studies–Depression scale and with scores on the Self-rating Anxiety Scale at both time periods. Emotion-focused Coping was significantly positively correlated with scores on these scales and with scores on the State-Trait Anger scale at both times. Emotion-focused Coping was significantly negatively correlated with scores on the Social Support Questionnaire at both times and significantly negatively correlated with grades.

Social Support, Burnout Syndrome and Occupational Exhaustion among Mexican Traffic Police Agents

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 585-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Aranda Beltrán ◽  
Manuel Pando Moreno ◽  
José G. Salazar Estrada ◽  
Teresa M. Torres López ◽  
María Guadalupe Aldrete Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Traffic Police ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Shifts ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
The Individual

The consequences of work-related stress on health are worrisome, and by the same token, so is Burnout Syndrome. However, it has been shown that social support can prevent, reduce or even combat individuals' responses to stress.A descriptive, transverse study was carried out with the objective of determining the prevalence of both Burnout Syndrome and receiving social support for traffic police in Mexico. 875 traffic police participated in the study, men and women alike, from all work shifts, day and night. Three questionnaires were administered: one to record sociodemographic and professional data, as well as the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the modified Diaz Veiga Social Resources Inventory. Our data analysis obtained frequencies and percentages and also identified associations between the study's variables.The prevalence of Burnout Syndrome was found to be 54.9% among the study's participants. The social support networks designated as “low or poor” were shown to be associated with Burnout Syndrome, with p values less than .05, an odds ratio (OR) greater than 1 and a confidence interval that did not include the number one.In spite of the strong network of social support reported by participants, it seems that those social effects were not strong enough to combat Burnout Syndrome, and some resolution strategy ought to be implemented at the individual, group and organizational levels.

scholarly journals Can Social Support Overcome the Individual and Structural Challenges of Being a Sex Offender? Assessing the Social Support-Recidivism Link

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly R. Kras
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
Partner Support ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Parole Officer ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Sex Offense ◽  
Depth Interviews

Social support is important for individual’s successful reentry; however, little is known about how it operates or is influenced by individual and structural factors. Understanding how social support matters for individuals convicted of a sex offense is especially important as they may have a different reentry experience due to the nature of their crime and post-conviction restrictions. This study examines the nature and effects of instrumental and expressive social support from family, friends, intimate partners, and parole officers on recidivism for a sample of men convicted of sex offenses using mixed methods. Results show that family, friend, and intimate partner support had no effects on recidivism, however participants reporting a positive relationship with their parole officer were more likely to return to prison. Qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews sheds light on how the nature of these relationships might explain the social support-recidivism link in a high stakes population.

scholarly journals DISEASE REPRESENTATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COPING STYLES IN ADOLESCENTS WITH TUMOURS OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-140
Author(s):  
Natal’ya Ye. Kharlamenkova
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Musculoskeletal System ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Experience Of Stress ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Relationship

The investigation results of the disease representation and its relationship with the coping styles in adolescents (n = 43) with tumour of the musculoskeletal system are discussed. The data obtained before and after surgery for the removal of the musculoskeletal tumour were compared. The results expected in accordance with the hypothesis that estimates of physical and emotional states dominate in adolescents disease representations have not been confirmed. It is shown that disease representation correlates with the social support and coping resources (motivation for recovery) and practically does not include the characteristics of the child’s physical and emotional states. A comparison of the relationship between disease representation and coping styles in subgroups of adolescents with different levels of stress revealed the following differences: with a low level of stress, the motivation for recovery as the child’s internal resource is correlated with an active search for social support which at the stage after surgery, begins to be supported by different styles of coping behaviour – solving the problem and reference to others; intense experience of stress significantly limits the possibilities of a teenager which correlates its disease with the physical and emotional problems solved by passively waiting for help from loved ones. Own resources to cope with difficult life situations in adolescents with high levels of stress are not widely available.

scholarly journals Coping Strategy, Social Support, and Psychological Distress Among University Students in Jakarta, Indonesia During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zarina Akbar ◽  
Maratini Shaliha Aisyawati
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
University Students ◽  
Coping Strategy ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Research Criteria ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the world for a year, where a study in China showed that the disease increased psychological distress among adolescents and college students, such as anxiety about the academic setback, economic effects, and impact on their daily life. However, a further study examining the impact of the disease on the mental health of students is required. Social support is the most vital psychosocial protective resource, where effective coping can reduce stress levels and prevent individuals from experiencing more severe psychological distress. Therefore, this study investigated the coping strategy, social support, and psychological distress among university students in Jakarta who are also the epicenter of COVID-19 in Indonesia. The psychological distress and coping strategy variable were measured through the Hopkins Symptoms Checklist-25 (HSCL-25) and the COPE Brief instrument, respectively. Meanwhile, the Multidimensional Perceived Social Support-12 instrument was used to measure the social support variable. The study was disseminated via an online form and the number of research subjects included 250 students who matched the research criteria, including DKI Jakarta domicile and active students registered in the area that were confirmed to be COVID-19 positive. According to the results, coping strategies and increased social support were significantly correlated with decreased psychological distress and may serve as the basis for interventions.

Alexithymic Traits as Predictors of Difficulties with Adjustment in an Outpatient Cohort of Expatriates in Tokyo

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isao Fukunishi ◽  
James Wogan ◽  
Douglas Berger ◽  
Tomifusa Kuboki
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Toronto Alexithymia Scale ◽  
Adjustment Difficulties ◽  
The Social ◽  
Poor Social Support ◽  
And Coping

The purpose of this study was to examine whether alexithymic characteristics, which are thought to be related to poor coping with stress, would be associated with variables thought to reflect adjustment to life abroad. The subjects were 56 expatriates living in Tokyo, Japan. The Expatriate Adaptation Inventory, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, and the Social Support Questionnaire of the Stress and Coping Inventory were given to the subjects. Scores on alexithymia were significantly associated with dissatisfaction with life abroad, higher satisfaction with life in one's home country prior to departure, and higher ratings on the perception of poor social support. An alexithymia variable, difficulty identifying feelings, was a significant predictor of dissatisfaction with life abroad and satisfaction with life in the home country. The results suggest that, because alexithymia was associated with lower satisfaction with life abroad and higher satisfaction in the home country prior to departure, it may be a predictor of adjustment difficulties when individuals live abroad. Empirical confirmation is needed.

The Individual and the Social

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Erikson
Keyword(s):  
Social Forces ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Scene ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Continuous Field

This chapter considers a second approach to the sociological perspective, which has to do with the effort to make clear that the social scene and the individual persons who compose it can be viewed as quite different entities. Sociologists know how to approach their subject matter as an assembly of parts. At the same time, they are cognizant of the fact that the social world, in essence, is a continuous field of force—a thing of drifts and tides and currents and flows. Human beings are all caught up in those drifts and flows, often without knowing that to be so. Autonomy is not a quality gained by asserting it to be so (“we believe in free will”). It is a quality to be gained by becoming aware of and coping with the social forces that make up the world in which we live.

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