Alcoholism as a Threat to Social Security and the Issue Among Academic Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-254
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Bereźnicka
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Home Education ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Risky Behaviours ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems ◽  
Harmful Effects

The article briefly analyses the problem of alcoholism as a threat to social security, taking into account its prevalence, as well as its impact on physical and mental health and social relations. Firstly, it identifies the harmful effects not only on addicts but also on their families and society as a whole. Secondly, the results of the author’s research on young people’s attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism have been presented. Finally, conclusions and suggestions have been developed. The study showed that many respondents knew alcoholics, and in some cases, these were close relatives. As far as their own experiences are concerned, they prove to be very diverse. The misuse of alcohol does not seem to be very common among university students, however, the problem exists and calls for some resolutions, e.g.. in aspects such as very young age of their alcohol initiation, problem drinking, binge drinking, or risky behaviours of youth under the influence of alcohol. In addition to many initiatives undertaken as part of preventing and counteracting alcohol-related problems (such as necessary cooperation of some government and local institutions), emphasis should be put on education in this area. This must include home education, starting as early as possible, and complementary school education. Especially the former seems to be the cheapest and the most effective way to deal with the discussed issue. Also, parents should find support at their children’s schools in that area. Furthermore, activities carried out in order to raise social awareness are needed, e.g. through media which have a significant influence on young people.

scholarly journals From Cannabis to Problem Drinking? Use and Abuse from Youth to Adulthood

2014 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christer Hyggen ◽  
Torild Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Total N ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Adult Roles ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems

AbstractAIMS – The transition from youth to adulthood is associated with changes in the consumption of drugs and alcohol. The aim is to explore the process of “maturing out” of high levels of alcohol consumption, substance use and alcohol related problems from youth to adulthood. We are particularly interested in the relationship between the use of cannabis and alcohol consumption in relation to indicators of adult roles and responsibilities and alcohol-related problems over the life-course. METHODS – We used data from the longitudinal panel survey Arbeid, Livsstil og Helse (ALH). The data contains information on alcohol and drug consumption, alcohol related problems and a range of indicators of adulthood like marriage and parenthood from surveys repeated in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1993, 2003 and 2010. The sample was nationally representative for the cohorts born 1965–1968 and thus contains individual histories from youth (17–20 years) to adulthood (42–45 years) with response rates ranging from 80% in 1985 to 53% in 2010 (total n=1997). RESULTS – Alcohol consumption is found to be substantially higher among users of cannabis than among non-users throughout the period from youth to adulthood. The use of cannabis, the level of alcohol consumption and probability of experiencing alcohol related problems decrease as the cohorts grow older. Alcohol related problems are still associated with the level of involvement with cannabis: those with a current or previous involvement with cannabis report more alcohol related problems. Taking into account the decreasing trend of alcohol related problems with age we find that becoming a parent and/ or getting married reduces the risk of experiencing such problems.

scholarly journals PREVALENCE OF PROBLEM DRINKING AND ALCOHOL RELATED PROBLEMS AMONG TEAM SPORTS PLAYERS

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
S A Medvedev ◽  
Yu P Zverev
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Basketball Players ◽  
Psychometric Instrument ◽  
Russian Version ◽  
Professional Soccer ◽  
Typical Day ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems

The aim of the present study was to assess the reasons and the pattern of alcohol consumption and the prevalence of alcohol related problems among professional soccer and basketball players. Psychometric instrument included Russian version of "AUDIT". The results demonstrated presence of significant alcoholization of sportsmen, which was reflected in the absence of responders abstaining from alcohol, preference for strong alcoholic beverages, high mean "AUDIT" score (7,4 ± 3,1) and alcohol consumption (401,7 ± 271,2 ml of ethanol per month). About one third of sportsmen consumed alcohol at dangerous level. The typical pattern of alcohol consumption was characterized by frequent intake of alcohol and consumption of 5 and more drinks on a typical day of drinking. About 93% of athletes experienced alcohol related problems.

Globalization of Peace

2021 ◽  
pp. 313-327
Author(s):  
Jackie Smith
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Grassroots Initiatives ◽  
Interstate System ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Violent Conflicts ◽  
Harmful Effects

Conventional scholarship on peace and peacebuilding fail to consider how the capitalist world-system is implicated in the structural violence that fuels violent conflicts around the world. This helps to account for the widespread failures of state-led peacebuilding interventions. Although social movement and civil society actors are deemed critical to successful peacebuilding, they are typically denied meaningful roles in shaping these processes. Yet subaltern groups are critical agents pressing for attention to latent conflicts before they escalate into violent confrontations, and they work to reduce violent conflicts and their harmful effects on communities. By shifting our gaze from the realm of states and the interstate system, we see an array of forces working “from below” to articulate projects to transform social relations in ways that Oliver Richmond calls “peace formation.” Global human rights discourses have provided a unifying framework and focal point for these grassroots initiatives, which eschew mainstream notions of rights as formal protections for individuals while advancing new foundations for transformative peacebuilding based upon “people-centered human rights.”

Justice, Respect, and Recognition in Mental Health Services

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Brodwin
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Psychiatric Survivor ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Harmful Effects

This chapter raises a key question for the interdisciplinary study of health and justice: is dialogue possible between theoretical models and first-person testimony about the harms caused by injustice? To consider this question, the chapter examines the claim that disrespect—the systematic devaluation of others in a way that excludes them from reciprocal social relations—is a form of injustice. The philosopher Stephen Darwall and social theorist Axel Honneth conceptually elucidate the links between justice, respect, and recognition. Their normative arguments offer a high-order conceptual framework for recognizing people’s equal worth as human beings (and the harmful effects of denying such recognition). This chapter compares their abstract frameworks with a landmark autobiography by a founder of the psychiatric survivor movement. The search for commensurability between these texts exposes the precise difference between experience-far and experience-near genres of ethical expression. This chapter adopts a similar approach as DeBruin et al. (this volume) in examining popular cultural discourses in light of formal theory. Both chapters take seriously the lay narratives and forms of ethical argumentation that circulate outside the academy. Both envision a plural ethics of justice and health that acknowledges how ordinary people interpret and respond to institutionalized oppression in health-care services.

Alcohol Expectancies in Relation to Personality and Aggression among Juvenile Delinquents in Northern Russia

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-130
Author(s):  
Roman A. Koposov ◽  
Vladislav V. Ruchkin ◽  
Martin Eisemann ◽  
Pavel I. Sidorov
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Juvenile Delinquents ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Drinking Behavior ◽  
Alcohol Expectancies ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Alcohol Prevention ◽  
Northern Russia ◽  
High Level ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems

The relationships between alcohol expectancies, level of alcohol use, alcohol-related problems, aggression, and personality factors in 198 Russian male juvenile delinquents were assessed. A clustering procedure was used in order to establish main patterns of alcohol expectancies, yielding three major clusters. Level of alcohol use, alcohol-related problems, aggression, and personality factors were compared across the identified clusters. It was established that juvenile delinquents with a high level of positive alcohol expectancies and aggression represented a risk-group for higher involvement in drinking behavior as well as problem drinking, which in turn are related to specific personality traits. Implications of these findings for alcohol prevention among the youth are discussed.

Workfare: conditioning the attitudes of benefit recipients towards social security?

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Humpage ◽  
Simone Baillie
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Welfare Dependency ◽  
Election Study ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Over Time

Have increasing levels of conditionality fundamentally changed the attitudes of the unemployed towards social security, work obligations and welfare dependency? Both neopaternalist and governmentalist theorising suggests that workfare policies should have shifted this group's conceptions of self-interest over time yet previous evidence has been rather mixed. This article makes a fresh contribution to the literature by drawing upon New Zealand Election Study data (1990–2014) and New Zealand qualitative data (2007–2008; 2014) to analyse the attitudes of “undeserving” unemployed benefit recipients who are subject to work obligations over 21 years and by comparing their attitudes to those of “deserving” benefit recipients not subject to work obligations (the retired and students) and wage/salary earners. It finds a notable hardening of unemployed people's attitudes towards some welfare dependency propositions over time and evidence of “self-governing rationalities” being adopted by some unemployed individuals but, overall, attitudes amongst this group remain nuanced and ambivalent.

Physical and Mental Health Functioning of Urban HIV-Infected and Uninfected Mothers with Problem Drinking

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noelle R. Leonard ◽  
Marya Viorst Gwadz ◽  
Charles M. Cleland ◽  
Lauren Rotko ◽  
Karla Gostnell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Functioning ◽  
Health Functioning

scholarly journals PENERAPAN PANCASILA PERSPEKTIF ISLAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-101
Author(s):  
Husnul Khotimah
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Right ◽  
Social Dependence ◽  
Islamic View ◽  
Open Concept

Regarding Pancasila Values ​​in the Islamic View, the first and second precepts constitute the Metaphysical Fundation, the third and fourth precepts constitute the Instrumental Fundation, and the fifth precepts constitute justice. Therefore we must do: mahasabah (evaluation), murakabah (guarding / supervising), and muhawalah (getting around) Islam as a religion that upholds egalitarianism, which is an open concept of solidarity and social dependence (ta`awun). Islam recognizes the right of all humans to live properly in terms of health, clothing, food, housing and social efforts that are needed regardless of differences in background. Islam also emphasizes the right of everyone to social security at the time of unemployment, illness, disability, widow / widower, elderly or disadvantaged. This standard of living is only possible in a healthy social order, where individuals with individuals, individuals with groups, and groups with groups maintain strong social relations. This has become the spirit of Islam in being responsible and sacrificing one another in order to create a community that shares, helps and helps each other. The piety of the faithful as slaves to Allah (‘abd Allah) boils down to a direct impact on piety in social-horizontal relations. These two aspects characterize the balance of Islamic teachings. Therefore, what should be our thoughts together is that the values ​​of Pancasila are substantially not in conflict with or even in accordance with Islam.

scholarly journals Coping with COVID-19 Stressors: Adverse and Protective Factors Responding to Emotions in a Chinese Sample

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Xu ◽  
Xinfeng Zhang ◽  
Danni Liu ◽  
Qiang Li ◽  
Yanping Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Influence Factors ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Chinese Sample

Background: The potential roles of affective responses to environmental stressors in individuals' physical and mental health are complex and multi-faceted. This study, then, explores Chinese citizens' emotional responses to COVID-19-related stressors and influence factors which may boost or buffer such effects. Methods: From late March to early June (2020), a cross-sectional study was conducted using an anonymous online questionnaire included demographic characteristics, COVID-19-related stressors related to individuals' daily functioning, and the self-assessed impact of protective and adverse internal factors on emotions. Results: 1,662 questionnaires were received from residents in 32 Chinese provinces classified by prevalence level according to COVID-19 infections. Among the 17 positive and negative emotional responses, agglomerative hierarchical clustering revealed four subclassifications: (1) stress relations; (2) missing someone relations; (3) individual relations; and (4) social relations. Additionally, heightened regional prevalence levels positively corresponded to intensity of stress relations. Lowest intensity of social relations was found in the areas surrounding Wuhan and coastal areas. Specially, economic- and work-related stressors as well as negative self-perceptions (e.g., suppression, emotionally unstable, self-denial) implicated in negative emotions. While positive emotions were tied to demographic characteristics (e.g., high education, young age and male) and protective traits (e.g., creativity, sympathy, social responsibility), and inversely linked to relationships- and pandemic-related stressors, etc. Conclusion: Associations were clearly noted among Chinese residents' emotions to specific stressors during pandemic. Providing appropriate psychological resources/supports during future or extended public health crises may help offset the cognitive burden of individuals striving to regain an adequate level of normalcy and emotional well-being.

scholarly journals FUNCTIONAL BASIS OF ACTIVITIES OF SUBJECTS SOCIAL SECURITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4(106)) ◽  
pp. 238-242
Author(s):  
А. І. Дерев’янко
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Strict Compliance ◽  
The Law ◽  
Compliance With The Law ◽  
Law Making

The purpose of the article is to determine the system of functioning of social security entities on the basis of doctrinal approaches. The article analyzes the theoretical approaches to understanding the functions of subjects in the field of public safety. Generalizations are made, the corresponding classification of key functions is carried out. It is established that the functions of subjects in the field of social security should be divided into: 1) main or basic functions - ie material, which determine the object of public safety, ie social relations in a particular area of human activity and determine ways to influence them; 2) secondary or derivatives, which include those that are determined by the very legal status of a subject in the field of public safety. It is concluded that the law-making function means the issuance of regulations of various legal nature to establish formal rules and procedures for ensuring public safety in a particular sector of the economy. These acts are binding acts, the content of which is to comply with safety rules in these areas and differs on the basis of the peculiarities of application and the actual signs of influence on the state of public relations. The law-making function is expressed in ensuring public safety, through the issuance of acts, based on monitoring and coordination in this area. The operational and executive function is to ensure public safety by means of exercising powers in the field of sectoral public security. This function is formed due to two activities to ensure public safety. The operational component is defined as responding to various types of threats and dangers of public safety. Executive, in turn, means strict compliance with the law on public safety, which is the responsibility of the relevant public safety entity.

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