Subjective social well-being of employees with different socioeconomic statuses

Thepurposeof the research is to specify differences in the subjective social well-being of an organization’s employees with different socioeconomic statuses. The following methodshave been used to conduct the empirical research (n=38): theoretical analysis and generalization of scholarly views of the problem; empirical methods: “Questionnaire of Subjective Social Well-Being” (T.V. Danylchenko); “Questionnaire of Subjective Economic Well-Being” (V.O. Khashchenko); the methods of statistical analysis: correlation analysis; F-test. Results.The authors have established statistically significant correlations between the criteria of subjective social well-being and subjective economic well-being, namely, between the scales “Social visibil-ity”, “Social remoteness” and the indices of economic optimism, economic anxiety, and financial deprivation. It has been confirmed the statistical interdependence between the scales “Emotional acceptance” and “Family well-being index”. The research has determined differences between employees’ groups, which were divided according to socioeconomic status (managers and “performers”), on the following scales: “Social visibility”, “Positive social perceptions”, and “Economic optimism index”. Conclusions.The employees with higher socioeconomic status recognize their influence, the capability to settle problems, the availability of social ties, financial, economic, material, and social resources due to which they are confident when coping with stressful situations, have a positive economic expectation, a high level of efficient social functioning. The employees with low socioeconomic status are mainly characterized by unsatisfactory emotional and social relations, a failure to actively influence their social environment; they feel economic anxiety about their finances and the future.Keywords: social status, employees of organization, economic well-being, subjective economic well-being, mental well-being.

KRIVIČNOPRAVNA ZAŠTITA ŽIVOTNE SREDINE U ZAKONODAVSTVU REPUBLIKE SRBIJE I STANDARDI EVROPSKE UNIJE

With the raising of the social visibility of numerous forms of injury and endangerment of the environment, as well as the raising of people's awareness of the need for wider and more intensive environmental protection, a special group of crimes aimed exclusively at environmental protection is being formulated. Criminal protection of the environment should be viewed through the basic three characteristics of criminal law - its fragmentation, accessory and subsidiarity in order for this protection to be justified and to represent the ultima ratio in environmental protection. This position is taken both in the national criminal legislation and at the level of the European Union, within the framework of whose rich legislative activities in this field the states are again appealed to criminalize and prosecute crimes against the environment, when other measures of social reaction to damage and destruction of the environment does not give satisfactory results. Comparing the criminal offenses against the environment contained in the Criminal Code of Serbia with the actions whose incrimination is proposed within the EU regulations, it can be noticed that the domestic legislation is essentially harmonized with EU law. What remains "uncovered" is criminal law protection against noise, given that noise protection is regulated in domestic legislation within the framework of misdemeanor law.

Big Five Personality Traits and Motivation in Learning Mandarin as Foreign Language

The present study aims to develop a model illuminating the relationship between student personality traits and motivation towards learning Mandarin as a foreign language. A model framework consisting of five exogenous variables and one endogenous variable of motivation are examined in the present study. Sample of 260 undergraduates taking Mandarin language at public university in East Malaysia was used as respondents for the present work. The path analysis revealed that the big five personality traits significantly influence and explained 52% of the variance in students' motivation. The analysis further indicates that extraversion and conscientiousness produce the strongest correlation with students' motivation. The results inferred that students who enjoy social visibility and self-discipline are also who will be motivated to learn the Mandarin language. Findings also demonstrated that agreeableness positively influence motivation, and neuroticism, as expected, produce negative direct relations with motivation towards learning Mandarin as a foreign language. On the contrary, the present study did not find any correlation between openness and motivation. The implications of this study are also discussed and interpreted within the context of what educators could do to encourage students' motivation. Keywords: Big five, Extraversion, Mandarin language, Neuroticism, Personality traits.

Interrogating (In)visibilities

Critical attention to invisible disability raises interesting questions about the social and corporeal (in)visibility of disability. The article conceptualizes invisible disability in relation to the visible body, while maintaining the category’s ties with social visibility. To explore invisible disability, economies of visibility—originally proposed in black feminist media scholarship—is developed as a lens to explore the connections between (in)visible embodiment and social visibility in media texts. The lens is used to examine the representation of characters with invisible disability and visible disability in the case study of the popular Australian soap opera Home and Away. The examination illuminates economies of visibility as a productive way of grappling with how invisible disability vexes the visual binary of disabled/able-bodied.

Key population size estimation in Nigeria: applying novel Bayesian methods for analysis of three-source capture-recapture data (Preprint)

BACKGROUND Nigeria has the fourth largest burden of HIV globally. Key populations (KP) including female sex workers (FSW), men who have sex with men (MSM), and people who inject drugs (PWID) often have poor social visibility and are more vulnerable to HIV than the general population due to stigma, discrimination, and criminalization of KP-defining behaviors. Reliable, empirical population size estimates (PSE) are needed to guide focused and appropriately scaled HIV epidemic response efforts for KP. We used novel approaches to sampling and analysis to calculate PSE in Nigeria. OBJECTIVE We sampled the population using three-source capture-recapture (3S-CRC) and analyzed results using Bayesian nonparametric latent-class models to generate median PSE with 80% highest density intervals. METHODS During October–December 2018, we used three-source capture-recapture (3S-CRC) to estimate the size of KP in seven United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) priority states in Nigeria. Hotspots were mapped before 3S-CRC started. We sampled FSW, MSM, and PWID during three independent captures approximately one week apart. During encounters in KP hotspots, distributors offered inexpensive and memorable objects to KP, unique to each capture round and KP type. In subsequent rounds, participants were offered an object and asked to produce or identify objects received during previous rounds (if any); affirmative responses were tallied upon producing or identifying the correct object. Distributors recorded responses on tablets and uploaded to a secure server after each encounter. Data were aggregated by KP and state for analysis. Median PSE were derived using Bayesian nonparametric latent-class models with 80% highest density intervals for precision. RESULTS We sampled approximately 310,000 persons at 9,015 hotspots during three independent captures in all seven states. Overall, FSW PSE ranged from 14,500-64,300; MSM PSE, 3,200-41,400; and PWID PSE, 3,400-30,400. CONCLUSIONS This study represents the first implementation of these 3S-CRC sampling and novel analysis methods for large-scale population size estimation in Nigeria. Overall, our estimates were larger than previously documented for each KP in all states. The current Bayesian models account for factors (i.e., social visibility and stigma) that influence heterogeneous capture probabilities resulting in more reliable PSE. The larger estimates suggest a need for programmatic scale-up to reach these populations at highest risk for HIV.

“La racaille,” a performed figure in French contemporary youth

In France, la racaille is a stereotyped figure of a young (usually identified as Arab or Black) man who lives in a suburban cité (social housing estate) . I have repeatedly met la racaille during my ethnographic studies on heterosexual romantic relationships among 15- to 20-year-old youngsters from three different social backgrounds—working class in cités (2002–2005), working class in villages (2008–2011), and bourgeoisie in Paris (2016–2020). I encountered it in the form of a performed figure—object of speech, clothing choices, gestures, movements, and ways of speaking. This presence reveals a collective fascination in which various negative judgments are mixed with shared admiration for its high social visibility. Stylish and powerful, la racaille is fascinating, at any rate because it embodies an exaggerated masculinity that is untroubled and unquestionable.

In the Limelight? Interpreters’ Visibility in Transborder Interpreting

This paper explores photographs that were taken along the Austrian and Slovene border between 2015 and 2018 as ethnographic records of a specific field of interpreting. The photographs show interpreters who helped bridge communication barriers in situations when the mass displacement of refugees from the Middle East resulted in an increased demand for interpreters for a range of languages that had previously not been as sought after. The photographs come from a corpus of pictures and accompanying texts that were compiled through a picture search in digital media. Drawing on the constructs of (in)visibility and bodily semiotics, a set of chosen examples is analysed qualitatively, using a visually oriented approach to examine interpreters’ positionality and agency in transborder humanitarian interpreting. The results suggest a high degree of interactional agency and visibility, but less social visibility.

Social value orientation and conspicuous conservation: A moderated mediation analysis

Conspicuous conservation is hard to explain using conventional altruistic theories. In this study I explored whether the relationship between environmental behaviors and proself value was mediated by public self-awareness. Further, I examined the moderating effect of social visibility in the direct and indirect relationship between a proself social value orientation and environmentally beneficial purchasing behavior. Participants in the study were two groups who were presented with two products that had different levels of social visibility. The results demonstrate that proself value was positively related to environmentally beneficial purchasing behavior both directly and also indirectly through public self-awareness. In addition, when consumption of the product was socially visible, the relationship between proself value and environmentally beneficial purchase was strengthened. These findings imply that when product consumption has a high level of social visibility, emphasizing the psychological benefits for the consumer could be an effective persuasive technique in promoting green consumerism.

Dead men tell no tales: the role of cultural transmission in demographic change

The paper explains long-term changes in birth, death rates, and in attitude to personal consumption by evolution of preferences by means of cultural transmission. When communities are culturally isolated, they are focused on population growth, which results in large fertility and welfare transfers to children, limited adult consumption, and lack of old-age support. With increasing cultural contact across communities, successful cultural traits induce their hosts to increase their social visibility by limiting fertility and increasing longevity via higher individual consumption. Empirical analysis confirms that social visibility, as measured by the number of language versions of Wikipedia biographical pages, is associated with fewer children and longer lifespan. The presence of notable individuals precedes reduced aggregate birth rates.