WORKING CONDITIONS: WHEN THE RACE FOR PERFORMANCE TURNS SELF-MEDICATION INTO DOPING BEHAVIOR

Author(s):  
Audrey Moco-Daijardin ◽  

"The objective of this research was to better understand the link between self-medication and doping behaviors at work (Hautefeuille,2008). More precisely, we wanted to explore how individuals at work practiced self-medication (Fainzang,2012) and how contextual and individual factors could influence their consumption behaviors at workplace. We know that doping behavior could emerge when there is an objective to be achieved or an obstacle faced by the individual (Laure, 2000). To verify this assumption, we have tried to answer this question: “how self-medication could be diverted to doping purposes?”. To study this more closely, we built a methodology based on two tools. First, 17 interviews with workers were done to identify and evaluate the elements and mechanisms derived from working conditions and consumption behaviors, which may explain the consumption behavior at work and, moreover, the doping. Our results allowed us to see that the self-diagnosis phase play an important role in the consumption behavior of individuals. These initial results helped us to create an online questionnaire to which 219 participants responded. For this second tool, we applied a network analysis, using JASP 10.02 software to help us to visualize and understand the link between self-medication and doping behavior. The results of our research indicated that contextual and individual factors had an impact on the psychological state of individuals at work, leading them to develop consumption at work. We have also seen that the practice of self-medication also contributes to the establishment of consumption behavior at work."

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Patricia Rojas Martinez

El presente artículo es resultado de una investigación que se realizó con el objetivo describir los elementos que conforman la satisfacción laboral y determinar cómo este factor influye en el clima organizacional de los empleados de las principales universidades sucreñas; la investigación se llevó a cabo en las principales universidades de Sucre (Colombia) que cuentan con sede propia tomándose para ello una muestra de 120 docentes.. Los resultados referentes a las condiciones laborales no son las mejores, además con respecto a la estabilidad laboral, no se garantiza a los colaboradores su permanencia en la organización; con relación a la autorrealización, no hay apoyo suficiente para su crecimiento profesional y las capacitaciones son. Para dar solución a dicha situación se concluye que es necesario implementar estrategias direccionadas a brindar más motivación a los colaboradores organizando capacitaciones de acuerdo al desempeño que se quiera fortalecer en cada docente de esta manera se fundamentar así el clima organizacional y la satisfacción laboral factores que determinen el grado de bienestar de los individuos. ABSTRACTThis article has as objective to describe the elements that make up the job satisfaction and determine how this factor influences the organizational climate of the employees of the main universities sucreñas; the research was conducted at major universities with its own headquarters of the department of Sucre, taking a sample of 120 teachers. Regarding working conditions are not the best, and with respect to job security is not guaranteed to reviewers their stay in the organization in relation to the self, there is sufficient support for their professional growth and training are scarce. To provide a solution to these situations it is concluded that it is very necessary to implement strategies routed to provide more motivation to the collaborators, constantly training according to the performance that you want to strengthen in each teacher and in this way substantiate to the organizational climate and job satisfaction as factors that determine the degree of well-being that the individual experience.


2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-36
Author(s):  
Vaia Touna

This paper argues that the rise of what is commonly termed "personal religion" during the Classic-Hellenistic period is not the result of an inner need or even quality of the self, as often argued by those who see in ancient Greece foreshadowing of Christianity, but rather was the result of social, economic, and political conditions that made it possible for Hellenistic Greeks to redefine the perception of the individual and its relationship to others.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Wiesner

With a conscious attempt to contribute to contemporary discussions in mad/trans/queer/monster studies, the monograph approaches complex postmodern theories and contextualizes them from an autoethnographic methodological perspective. As the self-explanatory subtitle reads, the book introduces several topics as revelatory fields for the author’s self-exploration at the moment of an intense epistemological and ontological crisis. Reflexively written, it does not solely focus on a personal experience, as it also aims at bridging the gap between the individual and the collective in times of global uncertainty. There are no solid outcomes defined; nevertheless, the narrative points to a certain—more fluid—way out. Through introducing alternative ways of hermeneutics and meaning-making, the book offers a synthesis of postmodern philosophy and therapy, evolutionary astrology as a symbolic language, embodied inquiry, and Buddhist thought that together represent a critical attempt to challenge the pathologizing discursive practices of modern disciplines during the neoliberal capitalist era.


Author(s):  
Joshua S. Walden

The book’s epilogue explores the place of musical portraiture in the context of posthumous depictions of the deceased, and in relation to the so-called posthuman condition, which describes contemporary changes in the relationship of the individual with such aspects of life as technology and the body. It first examines Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to view how Bernard Herrmann’s score relates to issues of portraiture and the depiction of the identity of the deceased. It then considers the work of cyborg composer-artist Neil Harbisson, who has aimed, through the use of new capabilities of hybridity between the body and technology, to convey something akin to visual likeness in his series of Sound Portraits. The epilogue shows how an examination of contemporary views of posthumous and posthuman identities helps to illuminate the ways music represents the self throughout the genre of musical portraiture.


Author(s):  
Daphna Oyserman

Everyone can imagine their future self, even very young children, and this future self is usually positive and education-linked. To make progress toward an aspired future or away from a feared future requires people to plan and take action. Unfortunately, most people often start too late and commit minimal effort to ineffective strategies that lead their attention elsewhere. As a result, their high hopes and earnest resolutions often fall short. In Pathways to Success Through Identity-Based Motivation Daphna Oyserman focuses on situational constraints and affordances that trigger or impede taking action. Focusing on when the future-self matters and how to reduce the shortfall between the self that one aspires to become and the outcomes that one actually attains, Oyserman introduces the reader to the core theoretical framework of identity-based motivation (IBM) theory. IBM theory is the prediction that people prefer to act in identity-congruent ways but that the identity-to-behavior link is opaque for a number of reasons (the future feels far away, difficulty of working on goals is misinterpreted, and strategies for attaining goals do not feel identity-congruent). Oyserman's book goes on to also include the stakes and how the importance of education comes into play as it improves the lives of the individual, their family, and their society. The framework of IBM theory and how to achieve it is broken down into three parts: how to translate identity-based motivation into a practical intervention, an outline of the intervention, and empirical evidence that it works. In addition, the book also includes an implementation manual and fidelity measures for educators utilizing this book to intervene for the improvement of academic outcomes.


Author(s):  
David Wendell Moller

This chapter details the vicissitudes of race and poverty shaped J. W. Green’s upbringing in the Deep South as well as his adjustment to urban living as an adult. His lack of education, employment opportunity, and personal empowerment led to a “life on the streets.” Stoic faith saw him through a life and death in poverty. Mr. Green teaches us that everyone comes to this phase of life with strengths to cull from their cultural and spiritual beliefs. Mr. Green also teaches us that dignified dying does not require the unfettered exercise of personal autonomy, although a deep and abiding respect for the self-worth of the individual is necessary.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-114
Author(s):  
Karoline Gritzner

AbstractThis article discusses how in Howard Barker’s recent work the idea of the subject’s crisis hinges on the introduction of an impersonal or transpersonal life force that persists beyond human agency. The article considers Barker’s metaphorical treatment of the images of land and stone and their interrelationship with the human body, where the notion of subjective crisis results from an awareness of objective forces that transcend the self. In “Immense Kiss” (2018) and “Critique of Pure Feeling” (2018), the idea of crisis, whilst still dominant, seems to lose its intermittent character of singular rupture and reveals itself as a permanent force of dissolution and reification. In these plays, the evocation of nonhuman nature in the love relationships between young men and elderly women affirms the existence of something that goes beyond the individual, which Barker approaches with a late-style poetic sensibility.


2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-401
Author(s):  
Volker Kaul

Liberalism believes that individuals are endowed a priori with reason or at least agency and it is up to that reason and agency to make choices, commitments and so on. Communitarianism criticizes liberalism’s explicit and deliberate neglect of the self and insists that we attain a self and identity only through the effective recognition of significant others. However, personal autonomy does not seem to be a default position, neither reason nor community is going to provide it inevitably. Therefore, it is so important to go beyond the liberal–communitarian divide. This article is analysing various proposals in this direction, asks about the place of communities and the individual in times of populism and the pandemic and provides a global perspective on the liberal–communitarian debate.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yadgar Taha M. Hamakhan

Abstract The popularity of self-service technologies, particularly in the banking industry, more precisely with electronic banking channel services, has undergone a major change as individuals' lifestyles develop. This change has affected individuals’ decisions about accepting any new Information Technology, and Information Communications Technology services that are electronically mediated, for example, E-Banking channel services. This study investigates the effect of Individual Factors on User Behaviour, and the moderating role of Trust in the relationship between Individual Factors, and User Behaviour based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology. This research proposes a model, with a second-order components research framework. It improves current explanations of the acceptance of electronic banking channel services. Furthermore, this study highlights the role of trust on the acceptance of electronic banking channel services, which is the most crucial consideration in customers’ decisions to accept electronic banking channels services. Thus, trust is the spine of the system in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Data were collected using an online questionnaire that received 476 valid responses from academic staff who work at the University of Sulaimani. The model tested data using the Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modelling approach. The results show that Individual Factors have a positive effect on User Behaviour. Besides, results show that trust moderates the relationship between Individual Factors and User Behaviour.


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