scholarly journals Budget Education and Management as a Necessity for Well-Being and Financial Stability: Cluster & MDS Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
Enkeleda Lulaj
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Budget Management ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Financial Decision ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Use Of Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

From antiquity to modernization, the budget is portrayed as one of the main factors in economic and social life. This paper analyzes the relationship between education and budget management as a necessity for well-being and financial stability. This shows that the use of knowledge during the budget cycle management depends on the education and combination of many factors coming from the environment where the individual or family operates. Here it is explained how Cluster and MDS analysis in interaction with other statistical tests explain the similarities or the differences between the observation groups from Kosovo, Western Balkan countries and European Countries (KO & EU & WBC), related to emergency funds, saving, registration of transactions of revenues or expenditures, financial decision-making, control and budgetary practices. The research is argued from empirical findings giving a new approach through detailed recommendations for variables of observation groups on the personal budget.

Social Capital and Subjective Quality of Life

2018 ◽  
pp. 174-185
Author(s):  
Monika Mularska-Kucharek
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Subjective Quality Of Life ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mental Well Being ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter describes how in recent decades, the concepts of social capital and quality of life have attracted the interest of both theoreticians and creators of social life. Both on the micro-, meso- and macrosocial levels, social capital has been viewed as one of the key elements of human well-being. Its positive influence on social well-being has been underlined by academics, practitioners of social life. In this chapter, the authors evaluate the relationship between social capital and the mental well-being of individuals. Through empirical analysis, the results of a representative research conducted among residents of one of the biggest Polish cities were examined. This concludes that social capital and social interaction are essential to the health of the individual.

scholarly journals A new understanding of health and a healthy lifestyle: a holistic and existential-humanistic approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Ekaterina I. Akimova ◽  
◽  
Anatoly G. Madzhuga ◽  
Raisa V. Shurupova ◽  
Elena L. Bueverova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Value Of Life ◽  
Physical Aspect ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Natural Interaction ◽  
Fundamental Goal ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Confronting current challenges, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, and striving to create a hopeful future – an era of life and active longevity – determine an urgent global need to implement the principles of humanity and create a new understanding of health and a healthy lifestyle, correlated with a fundamental respect for the dignity of life. Based on the idea of the relationship between health and a healthy lifestyle through the inherent value of the individual, embodying the intrinsic value of life, basic contradictions were identified: the contradiction between the understanding of health as a state of physical, mental, and social well-being and a healthy lifestyle, which focuses on the physical aspect of health, omitting the spiritual component; the contradiction between the numerous proposed strategies for a healthy lifestyle and the lack of a fundamental goal that expresses its value-semantic result. In the aspect of philosophical-methodological ideas about health and a healthy lifestyle, their essential binding element was defined – the good that embodies the result of the ultimate aspiration of a person. The resolution of the basic contradictions revealed in the analysis of philosophical-methodological ideas about health and a healthy lifestyle made it possible to present new, clearer definitions of health and a healthy lifestyle: health is a good that allows a person to embody the value of life in a specific reality; a healthy lifestyle is an individual way of life, which is based on a person’s respect for the dignity of life and creates a benefit to him/herself and others, gaining the joy of existence. A new concept of a healthy lifestyle was developed, which defined the joy of existence as its fundamental goal, implemented by a person through the creation of good for oneself and others in a system of socio-cultural and natural interaction based on respect for the dignity of life.

scholarly journals Awareness and Availment of Benefits of Senior Citizens in A Highly Urbanized City

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-160
Author(s):  
Louieze Gerald C. Gerolin ◽  
Anabelle S. Palic
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Senior Citizen ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
Full Support ◽  
Social Pension ◽  
The Relationship

Republic Act (RA) 9994, otherwise known as the Expanded Senior Citizen Act of 2010, was enacted into law to provide more benefits to the elderly and deliver full support to their well-being (Inabangan et al., 2019). The benefits are essential as most of them no longer hold jobs, and financial stability can be challenging if not fatal. The current laws and policy provisions on food and medicine discount and the granting of a social pension to underprivileged senior citizens are only palliatives at best. However, they stretch the limited incomes of these individuals and their supporting families who live below the poverty level. The purpose of the study is to assess the level of awareness and extent of availment on the benefits under RA 9994 of senior citizens in a highly urbanized city of Negros Occidental as well as the relationship between awareness and availment. Likewise, explore the challenges encountered by senior citizens in availing their benefits under RA 9994.

Byron and Weltliteratur

2018 ◽  
pp. 19-39
Author(s):  
Nicholas Halmi
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Engagement ◽  
Narrative Poems ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The ageing Goethe was fascinated with Byron whom he called the greatest poetic talent. Though suspicious of Byron’s Philhellenism, Goethe found in Byron an openness to encounter non-English cultures, an attentiveness to national histories and in interest in the relationship of the individual to social life. Byron’s self-contextualising, self-historicising narrative poems constitute a parallel to Goethe’s own literary campaigns for cross-cultural engagement in the 1810s and 1820s and, despite Byron’s alienation from England, offer hope for the prospects of what Goethe was to call “world literature”.

scholarly journals Bearing the Weight of Imprisonment: The Relationship Between Prison Climate and Well-Being

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 1385-1404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther F. J. C. van Ginneken ◽  
Hanneke Palmen ◽  
Anouk Q. Bosma ◽  
Miranda Sentse
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Unit Level ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Individual Perceptions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Little is known about the relative influence of shared and individual perceptions of prison climate on adjustment to incarceration. This study investigated the relationship between prison climate and well-being among a sample of 4,538 adults incarcerated in the Netherlands. Prison climate dimensions were considered both as prison unit-level variables and as individual-level perceptions. Multilevel analysis results showed that most variance for well-being is found at the individual rather than the unit level. This implies that it does not make much of a difference for well-being in which prison unit someone resides. Positive effects of prison climate on well-being were primarily found for individual perceptions of prison climate, rather than for the aggregate unit measures. More research is needed to determine whether this finding holds true in other countries. The findings confirm the importance of disentangling the contribution of prison climate at the individual and group level.

Social transfers in Poland in the context of monetary and multidimensional poverty

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-26
Author(s):  
Adam Szulc
Keyword(s):  
Social Indicators ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equivalent Income ◽  
Subjective Evaluations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Transfers ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines the impact of the social transfers on well-being distribu-tion in Poland in 2010 and 2014. The main purpose is to assess the relationship between the distribution of benefits and of well-being, the impact of benefits on social indicators (i.e. the incidence and intensity of monetary and multidimensional poverty) as well as the influence of benefits on the behaviour of beneficiaries. The individual well-being is measured by means of equivalent income as well as by multidimensional indicator, including also consumption, dwelling quality, household appliances and subjective evaluations of the economic position. The study is based on data for 2010 and 2014 from the household budget survey of Statistics Poland. The comparison of the distribution of transfers and well-being indicates that the benefits are definitely pro-poor, irrespectively to the method of comparison and well-being measure. In 2014, as compared to 2010, higher reduction of poverty due to the transfers took place, in spite of the reduced number of recipients. However, the estimation of the net effect of the benefits including behavioural responses suggests strong demotivation effect.

scholarly journals Ambiente familiar positivo y bienestar personal: comparación entre población urbana y rural/Positive Family Environment and Personal Well-being: Comparison Between Urban and Rural Populations

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 225
Author(s):  
Fernanda Durón-Ramos ◽  
Cesar Octavio Tapia-Fonllem ◽  
Victor Corral-Verdugo ◽  
Blanca Silvio Fraijo-Sing
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Rural Populations ◽  
Physical Context ◽  
The Family ◽  
Order Factor ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

<p><strong>Español</strong></p><p>El ambiente familiar se considera uno de los contextos más importantes en la vida de las personas. El presente estudio centró su interés en el bienestar personal que este ambiente sociofísico genera en sus habitantes. El objetivo general fue identificar la relación que existe entre el ambiente familiar positivo (AFP) y el bienestar personal en individuos que viven en zona urbana y rural. La muestra estuvo conformada por 202 personas, de las cuales 68% eran de sexo femenino y 32% del masculino. Las edades oscilaron entre 18 y 76 años con una media de 34.7 (DE = 14.3). Se utilizó un instrumento para medir factores del ambiente sociofísico de las familias y el bienestar personal. Se llevó a cabo el análisis de confiabilidad, estadísticos descriptivos y comparativos, así como un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales. Los resultados comprueban que existen diferencias en algunas dimensiones sociofísicas del ambiente familiar entre las personas que habitan en zona urbana y aquellos que residen en área rural. Además, se probó que el factor de orden superior denominado ambiente familiar positivo se encuentra significativamente relacionado con el bienestar de los individuos.</p><p><strong>English</strong></p><p>Family environment is considered one of the essential contexts in life; one of the reasons is because people spend most of their quality time in the home. This study focused its interest in the positivity that this socio-physical context generates in the individual. The study aimed at identifying the relationship between the construct called a positive family environment and the personal well-being of people living in urban and rural contexts. A sample of 202 people gave their answers, 68% woman, and 32% man, the age was between 18 y 76 years old with a mean of 34.7 (SD = 14.3). The instrument combined scales to measure socio-physical components in the family environment and personal well-being. Reliability, descriptive, and comparative analyses, as well as a structural equation model were performed. Results showed the existence of differences between people living in urban and rural zones on most of the socio physical dimensions of the family environment. A higher-order factor was formed with physical and social aspects, this variable is called a positive family environment, and it is significantly related to personal well-being.</p>

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 Features of Students Ideas about Life Success

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-153
Author(s):  
Olena Stroyanovska ◽  
Liubov Dolynska ◽  
Nataliia Shevchenko ◽  
Svitlana Yermakova ◽  
Liudmyla Matiash-Zaiats ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Energy Status ◽  
Personal Motivation ◽  
Career Growth ◽  
Life Success ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Material Values ◽  
Level Of Motivation

The article presents the results of the analysis of scientific research studying the problem of life success and the features of the ideas about it among students of different genders and specialties. The features of understanding of success, successfulness, success in life, as well as the process of achieving it, which is determined by personal motivation for changes and development, accompanied by the energy status of activity, a positive emotional state, leading to the achievement of the desired goal in a certain area of social life and the well-being of the individual, have been determined. The results of the ascertaining experiment confirm the research assumption that the peculiarities of students' ideas about success in life are determined by their gender and the choice of professional specialization. It was found that girls and boys mainly focus on material values, their own self-realization and career growth, which can hinder the maximum comprehensive implementation and high quality of life of the individual in the future. Achieving goals and money as part of life's success are often high on the minds of students, regardless of their specialization. The exceptions are lawyers, for whom self-realization is more important, TV journalists, for whom money comes first, and actors, for whom the most important thing is to satisfy their needs and respect others. Most students assess their level of life success as medium or low, which can reduce their level of motivation, self-esteem, self-efficacy in the implementation of aspirations and requires the development of special psychological recipes to optimize the process of achieving their life success.

scholarly journals Predictive Ability of Self Compassion in Psychosocial Outcomes of Caregivers of Persons With Dementia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 986-986
Author(s):  
Claire Grant ◽  
Katherine Judge
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Psychosocial Outcomes ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Dementia Caregivers ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Modifiable Factor ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia (IWDs) often face increased rates of depression, anxiety, and burden because of their role as caregiver. Self-compassion, a construct centered around self-kindness and understanding has not been well studied within the caregiving population. The present study was aimed at understanding the relationship between self-compassion and the psychosocial outcomes of burden, depression, and anxiety. Strong relationships between self-compassion and these outcomes have been established in other populations, but these relationships have not been studied with the dementia caregiving population. A diverse sample of dementia caregivers providing over 5 hours of care per week were recruited through CloudResearch and MTurk (N = 99). Participants were aged 18 to 69 years (M = 38.61) and 66.7% were female. 67.7% were White, 13.1% were Black, and 8.1% were Asian. 73% were children/in law or grandchildren/in law of the individual with dementia and 12% were a close friend of the individuals with dementia. The individuals with dementia had an average age of 73.88 years. Results of multiple regression models showed that self-compassion was a significant predictor of depression (β = -.25, p = .025), anxiety (β = -.36, p = .001), and burden (β = -.25, p = .023) even while controlling for other constructs including self-esteem, types of coping, and IWD impairment level. Self-compassion will be discussed as a novel contribution to the caregiving literature in furthering our understanding of well-being predictors and how to target self-compassion as a modifiable factor for offsetting the negative impacts of caregiving.

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