scholarly journals Znaki na czarnym płótnie, czyli o estetyce przemijającego piękna i o twórczej melancholii Charles’a Baudelaire’a

Wielogłos ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Magdalena Siwiec
Keyword(s):  
Negative Dimension

[Signs on Black Canvas, or Charles Baudelaire’s Aesthetics of Transient Beauty and Creative Melancholy] This article focuses on Charles Baudelaire’s poetics of negativity which exploits absence, blackness, negation, defectiveness, associated by the poet in a paradigmatic way with melancholy and the aesthetics of transient beauty. The basis of the proposed interpretation is the paradoxical metaphor of luminous blackness (a black sun, a radiance without source, a black star, a black canvas), which the poet exploits in his metatextual works. The paper focuses on poems in which Baudelaire approaches that which is beyond the limits of expressibility and is symbolised by blackness and emptiness. Baudelaire’s melancholic poetry appears as a poetry about poetry, a poetry that is paradoxical in the sense that it contradicts stillness, acedia, and creative stagnation, while retaining its negative dimension, rising up against itself.

Internet Pornography Addiction and Effects of Excessive Pornography Consumption: A University Tunku Abdul Rahman Undergraduate Student Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahsha Vaksalla
Keyword(s):  
Female Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Negative Dimension ◽  
Internet Pornography ◽  
Pornography Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Population ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Pornography Addiction ◽  
Positive Effect

Pornography is a debatable subject, both in Malaysia and around the world. Some feel it is harmless while others feel it is damaging. Pornography can bring about its own impact to the viewers. In Malaysia, the trend of viewing pornography among youngsters’ has been increasing. Studies have also shown Pornography can lead to unhealthy behaviors as a result of too much viewing. This study was conducted to discover the addiction level and the consumption effects on students at a Malaysian University. The researchers used purposive sampling to distribute questionnaires. The Scale used was the Internet Pornography Addiction Test and the Pornography Consumption Effects Scale consist of Positive and Negative dimension used to conduct the research. The research population (N=120) was students’ from University Tunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia. There were significant relationship between the addiction and consumption. There were significant differences between the Positive and Negative Dimension as well. The Negative Effect Dimension is higher than the Positive Effect Dimension. There were significant differences between male and female students towards pornography addiction. However, there were not any significant differences among the genders in internet consumption. Male scored higher than female in the Internet Pornography Addiction. There were no significant differences between gender in the Positive and Negative Dimension.

Housing and Health Transition in Thailand

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 311-328
Author(s):  
S. Friel ◽  
A. J. McMichael ◽  
T. Kjellstrom ◽  
T. Prapamontol
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Health Transition ◽  
Epidemiologic Transition ◽  
Thai Population ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
Negative Dimension

Abstract Over the past half-century, Thailand's health profile has been undergoiog an epidemiologic transition in association with various fundamental societal changes, shifting from one with a predominant burden of communicable disease to one in which noncommunicable diseases and accidents now predominate. The primary question is why have the disease rates in the Thai population changed? Answering this question requires an examination of the underlying transitions in social and contextual factors. This paper explores, using published data, how housing conditions, as one set of environmental health risks, have undergone transition in recent years and how this change maps on the health-transition process. A combination of economic development, urbanization, modernization, and increased health literacy resulted in a range of health-protecting changes in housing design and materials. Pre-eminent among such changes are improvements in household sanitation and in equipment, ventilation, and fuel pertaining to indoor cooking and heating. In tropical countries like Thailand, gains have been made in mosquito-proofing houses and in minimizing open pools of water to combat the risks of malaria, dengue fever, and other mosquito-borne infections. Meanwhile, the growth in shantytown and slum housing around the urban fringe, often in precarious environmental settings, introduced a negative dimension to the evolving profile of housing-related health risks, whereas the urban sprawl of modern residences creates health risks that are due to traffic crashes and the lack of walking in daily transport.

Differential Biomarkers of Negative Dimension in Schizophrenia

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 1697 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Garcia-Portilla Gonzalez ◽  
L. García-Álvarez ◽  
E. Díaz-Mesa ◽  
P. Burón-Fernández ◽  
S. Al-Halabi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Dimension

scholarly journals COMT-by-Sex Interaction Effect on Psychosis Proneness

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta de Castro-Catala ◽  
Neus Barrantes-Vidal ◽  
Tamara Sheinbaum ◽  
Artal Moreno-Fortuny ◽  
Thomas R. Kwapil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Susceptibility Gene ◽  
Psychotic Experiences ◽  
Comt Genotype ◽  
Comt Val158met ◽  
Negative Dimension ◽  
Psychosis Proneness ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Male Subjects

Schizotypy phenotypes in the general population share etiopathogenic mechanisms and risk factors with schizophrenia, supporting the notion of psychosis as a continuum ranging from nonclinical to clinical deviance. Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) is a candidate susceptibility gene for schizophrenia that is involved in the regulation of dopamine in the prefrontal cortex. Several recent studies have reported a sex difference in the impact of COMT genotype on psychiatric and cognitive phenotypes and personality traits. The present study investigated the association of COMT Val158Met (rs4680) with psychometric positive and negative schizotypy and psychotic experiences in a sample of 808 nonclinical young adults. The main finding was that sex moderates the association of COMT genotype with the negative dimension of both schizotypy and psychotic experiences. Male subjects carrying the Val allele tended to score higher on the negative dimension of both trait and symptom-like measures. The results from the present study are consistent with recent work suggesting an association between negative schizotypy and diminished prefrontal dopamine availability. They support the idea that a biological differentiation underlies the positive and negative schizotypy dimensions. Additionally, these findings contribute to the growing literature on sex-specific effects of COMT on the predisposition to psychiatric disorders and personality traits.

scholarly journals Mapping the Customer Experience Management Strategies for Customer Loyalty in Retail Hypermarket Jabodetabek

The Winners ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Jerry Marcellinus Logahan ◽  
Janita Sembiring Meliala ◽  
Iskandar Putong
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Lower Quadrant ◽  
Negative Dimension ◽  
Customer Experience Management ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
Retail Chains ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Group 1

Today, competition in the global market has become increasingly difficult and and at the same time products and services provided by retail companies tend to be similar. So in such circumstances, customers expect not only satisfied with the products and services, but also the pursuit of the perfect shopping experience during the shopping process. The purpose of this study was to devise a customer experience management strategy at a hypermarket retailer Carrefour, Hypermart, Giant, and Lotte Mart. Both overall and per hypermarket retail chains that have the same character. The method used is Factor Analysis, Multi Dimension Scaling (MDS). The object of research is the hypermarket retail customers in Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi to sample 360 people. The results of MDS mapping CEM variable per retail hypermarket retail hypermarket seen no one who is in the first quadrant in which the dimensions 1 and 2 positive namely Gianthypermarket retail. Tthere are three retail hypermarket located in quadrant 2 wherein the dimensions of 1 positive and 2 negative dimension namely retail Carrefour, Hypermart and Lotte Mart. In MDS can be classified Group 1 are the outlets; Group 1 are GPS (Giant Plaza Semanggi), CLB (Carrefour Lebak Bulus), CPH (Carrefour Permata Hijau) and HPV (Hypermart Pejaten Village) which leads to a positive value. While other outlets in group 2 are CCB (Carrefour Cibinong Bogor), GBT (Giant BSD Tangerang), GMD (Giant Margo city Depok), HPB (Hypermart Pondok Gede Bekasi), HJT (Hypermart JACC Thamrin), LRP (Lotte Mart Ratu Plaza), LKG (Lotte Mart Kelapa Gading), LF (Lotte Mart Fatmawati) have in common in the lower quadrant (negative).

The Association between Marital Status and Psychological Well-being: Variation across Negative and Positive Dimensions

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (11) ◽  
pp. 2179-2202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tze-Li Hsu ◽  
Anne E. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Never Married ◽  
Negative Dimension ◽  
Environmental Mastery ◽  
Better Than

Marital status is associated with psychological well-being, with the married faring better than the formerly and never-married. However, this conclusion derives from research focusing more on negative than positive well-being. We examine the association between marital status and negative well-being, measured as depressive symptoms, and positive well-being, measured as autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relations with others, self-acceptance, and purpose in life. Using Wave 2 of Midlife in the United States (2004–2006; n = 1,711), we find that the continuously married fare better on the negative dimension than do the formerly married. The results for some measures of positive well-being also reveal an advantage for the continuously married, compared with the formerly and the never-married. However, results for other positive measures indicate that the unmarried, and the remarried, fare better—not worse—than the continuously married. Further, some results suggest greater benefits for remarried or never-married women than men.

Power and Influence Strategies in Violent and Nonviolent Marriages

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Hanson Frieze ◽  
Maureen C. McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Influence Strategies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Negative Dimension ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

How important is the use of physical violence in determining the balance of power within marriage? Do women in violent marriages make more use of indirect strategies in attempting to persuade their husbands than do women in nonviolent marriages? Is marital satisfaction related to influence styles? These questions are investigated by looking at decision making in couples and how this is related to the forms of influence strategies used by wives and husbands in violent and nonviolent marriages. Data from in-depth structured interviews with 137 self-identified battered wives and 137 comparison wives, some of whom were also found to have experienced violence from their husbands, are used to answer these questions. Results indicated that women with violent husbands used more influence strategies overall, although these women had less overall power in terms of decision making than did women with nonviolent husbands. The relationship of influence strategies to decision making was different for women with violent husbands than for those whose husbands were not violent. As expected, the use of coercive strategies related negatively to marital happiness, whereas positive strategies were positively predictive. Violence and other negative strategies should be included in future research on influence strategies in close relationships, and a positive–negative dimension should be included as a way of categorizing influence strategies.

Light-Hearted Negative Terminology Used in Computer Education and Related Skill of Noncomputer Users

2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin J. Lemmon ◽  
Newna J. Caltabiano
Keyword(s):  
Computer Anxiety ◽  
Computer Training ◽  
Computer Education ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Negative Dimension ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Related Skill

Theory suggests that light-hearted but negative phrases and terminology used in computer literature and course titles may have a negative effect on noncomputer users. This study tested the effect of providing the suggestion of a negative dimension of computer ability labelled with a category of “Computer Dummy” and also the relation between computer ability and computer anxiety. The study incorporated 37 noncomputer users, 17 men and 20 women whose mean age was 52.1 yr. Scores on a self-report questionnaire indicated that 23 of the nonusers responded on the negative dimension of computer ability and included themselves in the category of “Computer Dummy.” Also, belief about ability and belief about computer training were associated with computer anxiety for noncomputer users.

U-shaped curve of psychosis according to cannabis use: New evidence from a snowball sample

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 1331-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antía Brañas ◽  
María L Barrigón ◽  
Nathalia Garrido-Torres ◽  
Salvador Perona-Garcelán ◽  
Juan F Rodriguez-Testal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Age Of Onset ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Psychotic Experiences ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Negative Dimension ◽  
Alcohol And Other Drugs ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Relationship

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) assessed using the Community Assessment of Psychic Experience (CAPE) questionnaire and the pattern of cannabis use in a non-clinical sample collected by snowball sampling. Methods: Our sample was composed of 204 subjects, distributed into three groups by their cannabis use pattern: 68 were non-cannabis users, 40 were moderate cannabis users and 96 were daily cannabis users. We assessed the psychotic experiences in each group with the CAPE questionnaire; and then controlled for the effect of possible confounding factors like sex, age, social exclusion, age of onset of cannabis use, alcohol use and other drug use. Results: We found a significant quadratic association between the frequency of cannabis use and positive (β = −1.8; p = 0.004) and negative dimension scores (β = −1.2; p = 0.04). The first-rank and mania factors showed a significant quadratic association ( p < 0.05), while the voices factor showed a trend ( p = 0.07). Scores for the different groups tended to maintain a U-shape in their values for the different factors. When we adjusted for gender, age, social exclusion, age of onset of cannabis use, and use of alcohol and other drugs, only the first-rank experiences remained significant. Conclusions: We found there was a U-shaped curve in the association between cannabis use and the positive and negative dimensions of the CAPE score. We also found this association in mania and first-rank experiences.

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