scholarly journals The Relative Role of Safety and Productivity in Canadian Ergonomists’ Professional Practices

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Theberge ◽  
W. Patrick Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Relative Role ◽  
Main Basis ◽  
Study Participants

Definitions of ergonomics reference its application to both productivity and well-being. Discussions in the ergonomics literature consider the correspondence between these goals in ergonomic practice and make the case for a robust conception that advances the twin agendas of safety and productivity, contrary to the dominant understanding that ergonomics is primarily concerned with safety. This article examines the professional practices as reported from a sample of 21 ergonomists from across Canada with a combined experience of 296 years. The analysis aims to understand the reported intersection of safety and productivity in the ergonomists’ work and the broader conditions that structure this negotiation. Results provide strong support for the view that ergonomics is primarily associated with safety. This is evident in the structural location of ergonomics within health and safety units of workplaces and in ergonomists’ reports that the main focus of their work is safety concerns. A minority of study participants indicated that they addressed productivity concerns in their work, either as secondary or primary outcomes of ergonomic applications. In either instance, efforts to highlight the contribution of ergonomics to production did not significantly disrupt the dominant safety-oriented perception of the field. Financial considerations were major determinants of whether recommendations were accepted and implemented. The argument for the more robust vision of ergonomics advanced within the profession reflects an effort to overcome the organizational divide between safety and productivity by stressing that, in effective ergonomics applications, safety and productivity are joined in the production process and ergonomists have a main role to play in advancing both agendas. The analysis provided here has identified significant challenges to the adoption of this position. An irony of the dominant understanding of ergonomics as oriented to safety is that this provides the main basis for its growing presence in workplaces but also limits its applications.

scholarly journals Relationship between Competency to Consent to Treatment and Psychological Well-Being: Mediating Effect of Empowerment and Emotion

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 8170
Author(s):  
Yeun-Joo Hur ◽  
Joon-Ho Park ◽  
MinKyu Rhee
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Treatment Evaluation ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Psychiatric Outpatients ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Consent To Treatment ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
The Relationship

This study was conducted to evaluate the competency to consent to the treatment of psychiatric outpatients and to confirm the role of empowerment and emotional variables in the relationship between competency to consent to treatment and psychological well-being. The study participants consisted of 191 psychiatric outpatients who voluntarily consented to the study among psychiatric outpatients. As a result of competency to consent to treatment evaluation, the score of the psychiatric outpatient’s consent to treatment was higher than the cut-off point for both the overall and sub-factors, confirming that they were overall good. In addition, the effect of the ability of application on psychological well-being among competency to consent to treatment was verified using PROCESS Macro, and the double mediation effect using empowerment and emotional variables was verified to provide an expanded understanding of this. As a result of the analysis, empowerment completely mediated the relation between the ability of application and psychological well-being, and the relation between the ability of application and psychological well-being was sequentially mediated by empowerment and emotion-related variables. Based on these findings, the implications and limitations of this study were discussed.

Education Services

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Reinert
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Relative Role ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
United Nations System

This chapter considers education services as a basic good that satisfy critical basic human needs, which allow individuals to effectively participate in society. It considers the widespread nature of education services deprivation and the consequent negative impacts for well-being and growth. The chapter examines the subsistence right to education services and the role of this right within the United Nations system of human rights. It also examines the special role of girls’ education, education quality, and accountability; and the potential role for schools to serve as basic goods provision centers. It concludes with a consideration of demand-side issues and education provisioning processes, including the relative role of public and private provision.

Finding Meaning in Life After a Cancer Diagnosis: What Is the Role of Financial Strain?

2021 ◽  
pp. 105413732110074
Author(s):  
Sarah Alonzi ◽  
Laura M. Perry ◽  
Michael Hoerger
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Financial Strain ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Finding Meaning ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Mental Well Being

Finding meaning in life is important for maintaining physical and mental well-being. Obtaining a deeper understanding of activities that patients with cancer find meaningful is essential in improving cancer care and increasing meaning in life in these individuals. The sample of the present study consisted of patients with cancer ( N = 61) who reported their levels of financial strain and listed types of activities that they found most meaningful as a part of an online study. Participants engaged in activities that could be grouped into four broad domains (companionship, personal responsibility, recreation, and existential). In addition, results showed that financial strain was associated with higher preference for activities in the existential domain and lower preference for activities in the recreation domain. Future researchers could extend this study by exploring why certain activities are found to be more meaningful and how to combat the influence of financial strain in cancer.

scholarly journals Me and My Parents: A Qualitative Study of the Role of Birth Order Child in Family

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Diesmy Humaira Biruny ◽  
Latipun Latipun
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Family ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Initial Process

Birth order is one of the most extensive human experiences and is considered to determine how smart, good, responsible, sociable, emotionally stable, and open to new experiences. Therefore, parents assume the birth orderly child is always reliable and can open the way to help his younger siblings later which makes his role very necessary in the family. This study aims to analyze how the role of the birth orderly child in the family is to find the initial process of the birth orderly child to reach his role in the family. Using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) data analysis technique, this study involved 5 study participants with criteria for children in the first birth order. The results show that with the duties and responsibilities that were carried out early on, the recognition of roles and goals in achieving the well-being of the family made the birth orderly child able to proceed and make himself a role in the scope of the family.

Depression and Suicide Ideation: The Role of Self-Acceptance for Black Young Adults

2021 ◽  
pp. 009579842110374
Author(s):  
Jasmin R. Brooks ◽  
Ijeoma J. Madubata ◽  
Rebecca D. Jewell ◽  
David A. Ortiz ◽  
Rheeda L. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Suicide Ideation ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
Study Participants

Suicide is a leading cause of death for Black young adults. Though depression is commonly linked to increased risk for suicide, empirical literature examining the depression–suicide association and intrinsic buffers for this association remains limited among Black young adults. This study sought to address this gap in the literature by examining the relationship between depression and suicide ideation among Black young adults. Importantly, this study assessed the moderating role of self-acceptance, an index of how content one is with oneself. Study participants included 123 Black young adults (63.5% female, Mage = 20.91 years, SD = 2.45 years) who completed measures evaluating symptoms of depression, suicide ideation, and psychological well-being. Multivariate regression analyses revealed that self-acceptance moderated the association between depressive symptomatology and suicide ideation ( β = −0.05, p < .01, 95% CI [-1.01, −0.11]), such that the depression–suicide ideation association was not significant for individuals who reported high levels of self-acceptance. These findings suggest that self-acceptance may be an important treatment target for interventions aimed specifically at reducing suicide vulnerability among Black young adults.

A transformative supply chain response to COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane A. Mollenkopf ◽  
Lucie K. Ozanne ◽  
Hannah J. Stolze
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Service Ecosystem

PurposeThis research employs a transformative service lens to examine the role of the supply chain ecosystem in ensuring the health and safety of employees and customers as a well-being outcome during the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThis is a conceptual paper examining the response of the supply chain to the current food crisis caused by the pandemic.FindingsBased on the service-dominant logic (SDL) paradigm, the COVID-19 examination of the supply chain ecosystem provides a foundation for further research employing a transformative lens.Research limitations/implicationsThe COVID-19 situation is primarily explored from a Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic (WEIRD) societies’ context. Future research should explore the applicability of the transformative service lens to other societies.Practical implicationsThe conceptual discussion and research agenda provide direction for researchers, practitioners and policymakers towards a transformative supply chain ecosystem.Originality/valueThis research includes the well-being of employees and customers in the service supply chain outcome measures, draws supply chain management into the TSR domain, while also solidifies a service ecosystem perspective of supply chain management.

scholarly journals Depression of married women: Exploring the role of employment status, marital satisfaction and psychological well-being

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-121
Author(s):  
Md Azharul Islam ◽  
Sayeda Amina Efat ◽  
Ayesha Binte Yousuf ◽  
Shaheen Islam
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Academic Qualification ◽  
Lower Education ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Study Participants

This study was carried out to explore the level of depression among married women. Additionally, the role of employment status, academic qualification, marital satisfaction and psychological well-being on depression was examined. Depression, marital satisfaction and psychological well-being of 200 married women were assessed. Results showed 15% of the study participants scored above the cut-off point of depression and are at the risk of depression. Employment and academic status, marital satisfaction and psychological wellbeing (GHQ-28) jointly accounted for 56.2% variability in the depression with psychological well-being (β = 0.515, p < 0.001) and marital satisfaction (β = –0.276, p < 0.001) appeared as the most influential predictors. Lower education and unemployment also associated with the higher level of depression. The model indicated if a married woman with poorer psychological well-being, lower marital satisfaction and lower educational qualification is unemployed, she is more likely to be diagnosed as depressed. Implications and future direction are discussed. Dhaka Univ. J. Biol. Sci. 25(2): 113-121, 2016 (July)

scholarly journals PERCEPTIONS OF THE LOCKDOWN: CURRENT AND RETROSPECTIVE ASSESSMENTS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Egorova ◽  
◽  
Oxana Parshikova ◽  
Daria Tkachenko ◽  
Yulia Chertkova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Negative Factors

"This article presents data from a study conducted over the course of two weeks: the last week of the lockdown and the first week after the lockdown was lifted. The study participants (undergraduate and graduate students, n=227, mean age of 21.8, 71.7% females) rated their perceptions of various aspects of the pandemic (online COVID-19 Questionnaire), as well as the problems that they experienced in the beginning and middle of the lockdown (retrospective assessments) and at the end of the lockdown (current assessments). A brief HEXACO inventory was used to measure personality traits. The results were compared with data obtained in the study conducted during the first three weeks of the lockdown. Its participants (undergraduate and graduate students, n=617, mean age of 20.4, 74.2% females) had filled out an online COVID-19 Questionnaire and a brief HEXACO inventory. The objective of the study was to identify changes in the respondents’ well-being and behavior during the lockdown, and the role of personality traits in this process. The main results of the study were as follows: Retrospective assessments of the Danger of COVID-19 and the Fear of Getting Sick relating to the beginning of the lockdown did not contradict the current assessments from that period. The perception that the lockdown brought not only restrictions but also new opportunities dropped sharply between the beginning and the middle of the lockdown and continued decreasing; concurrently, the significance of negative factors increased. Various aspects of disorganization in life were most evident around the middle of the lockdown; disorganization at the end of the lockdown declined, but remained higher than at the start of the lockdown. Perceptions of the Negative Aspects of the Lockdown, Fear of Getting Sick, and Disorganization had a positive correlation with Emotionality and a negative correlation with Conscientiousness at all stages of the lockdown."

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