Twitch Users' Motivations and Practices During Community Mental Health Discussions

Live streaming is a form of media that allows streamers to directly interact with their audience. Previous research has explored mental health, Twitch.tv and live streaming platforms, and users' social motivations behind watching live streams separately. However, few have explored how these all intertwine in conversations involving intimate, self-disclosing topics, such as mental health. Live streams are unique in that they are largely masspersonal in nature; streamers broadcast themselves to mostly unknown viewers, but may choose to interact with them in a personal way. This study aims to understand users' motivations, preferences, and habits behind participating in mental health discussions on live streams. We interviewed 25 Twitch viewers about the streamers they watch, how they interact in mental health discussions, and how they believe streamers should discuss mental health on live streams. Our findings are contextualized in the dynamics in which these discussions occur. Overall, we found that the innate design of the Twitch platform promotes a user-hierarchy in the ecosystem of streamers and their communities, which may affect how mental health is discussed.

Kurban Bagi Orang Toraja Dan Kurban Dalam Alkitab

The author raises this title departs from concerns about the problems that occur in the life of the Toraja people, especially regarding the culture of mantunu. Outside criticism emphasizes the abuse of motivation in rituals, which results in large-scale slaughter of animals. Another impact is the increasing gambling in the tedong silaga arena (buffalo fighter) which is carried out before a series of Rambu Solo’ ceremonies are held. The author then reviews theologically-sociologically to answer this problem. After the authors conducted the research, the saroan group sociologically is one of the causes of the slaughter of largescale animals today, with various motivations in them. Even if the cause is covered or wrapped in the value of respect for parents. But in reality these values have begun to be displaced by social motivations, such as the demands of saroan, to maintain a good name, as an identity of wealth, and as a cultural habit for the Toraja people. Based on theological observations, the truth is that your mantunu is not against the Christian faith, as long as your family is not motivated by things that do not respect or obey God. Abstrak: Penulis mengangkat judul ini berangkat dari keprihatinan terhadap masalah yang terjadi dalam kehidupan orang Toraja, khususnya menyangkut budaya mantunu. Berbagai kritik dari luar menegaskan mengenai penyelewengan motivasi dalam ritual tersebut, yang mengakibatkan penyembelihan hewan yang berskala besar. Dampak lainnya ialah semakin meningkatnya perjudian di arena tedong silaga (kerbau petarung) yang dilakukan sebelum serangkaian upacara Rambu Solo’ dilaksanakan. Penulis kemudian meninjau secara teologis-sosiologis guna menjawab permasalahan ini. Setelah penulis melakukan penelitian, secara sosiologis kelompok saroan merupakan salah-satu penyebab penyembelihan hewan bersakala besar saat ini, dengan berbagai motivasi di dalamnya. Sekalipun penyebab tersebut ditutupi atau dibungkus dalam nilai penghormatan terhadap orang tua. Tetapi pada kenyataannya nilai tersebut mulai tergeserkan oleh motivasi-motivasi sosial, seperti tuntutan saroan, untuk mempertahankan nama baik, sebagai identitas kekayaan, dan sebagai adat kebudayaan bagi orang Toraja. Berdasarkan peninjauan teologis, maka sesungguhnya mantunu tidaklah bertentangan dengan iman Kristen, sejauh keluarga yang mantunu tidak dimotivasi oleh hal-hal yang tidak menghormati atau mentaati Allah.

How Social Identity Affects Entrepreneurs’ Desire for Control

In order to obtain a better understanding why some entrepreneurs retain more control over their venture than others, this article analyzes the relationship between the social identity of the entrepreneur and her/his desire for control. In fact, entrepreneurs face an important tradeoff between attracting resources required to build company value and retaining decision-making control. Yet, we currently lack insight into whether and how entrepreneurs’ social motivations shape this trade-off. This study draws on social identity theory and a unique sample of 148 buyout entrepreneurs, as this setting confronts aspiring entrepreneurs directly with the value–control tradeoff. In our logistic regression, we find that entrepreneurs with a strong missionary identity, where venture creation revolves around advancing a cause, hold a higher desire for control. We do not observe a significant relationship between entrepreneurs having a Darwinian (driven by economic self-interest) or communitarian (driven by the concern for the community) identity and the desire to control their venture. When adding the moderating role of the portion of personal wealth the entrepreneur is willing to invest in her/his venture, the relationships between having a Darwinian or missionary social identity and the desire for control become significantly positive when the entrepreneur is looking to invest a larger portion of her/his wealth.

Consumer engagement in value co-creation within virtual video game communities

With the emergence of the gaming industry as the most empowering form of entertainment, video game online communities have become a refuge for many users who are looking to fulfil specific needs, leading them to participate in creating their own experiences. Drawing upon the uses and gratifications theory, this research aims to understand the motivations behind consumer engagement in value co-creation within digital game distribution services (exp. Steam), and how it affects loyalty. To the extent of the author’s knowledge, little research has addressed this question within the gaming industry. We conducted an online survey administered to video game platforms users, through which 195 valid answers were collected. Findings suggest that hedonic along with personal and social motivations have positive influence on user’s engagement to co-create value, which in return increases their loyalty behavior.

Between “Medical” and “Social” Egg Freezing

Egg freezing has led to heated debates in healthcare policy and bioethics. A crucial issue in this context concerns the distinction between “medical” and “social” egg freezing (MEF and SEF)—contrasting objections to bio-medicalization with claims for oversimplification. Yet such categorization remains a criterion for regulation. This paper aims to explore the “regulatory boundary-work” around the “medical”–”social” distinction in different egg freezing regulations. Based on systematic documents’ analysis we present a cross-national comparison of the way the “medical”–”social” differentiation finds expression in regulatory frameworks in Austria, Germany, Israel, and the Netherlands. Findings are organized along two emerging themes: (1) the definition of MEF and its distinctiveness—highlighting regulatory differences in the clarity of the definition and in the medical indications used for creating it (less clear in Austria and Germany, detailed in Israel and the Netherlands); and (2) hierarchy of medical over social motivations reflected in usage and funding regulations. Blurred demarcation lines between “medical” and “social” are further discussed as representing a paradoxical inclusion of SEF while offering new insights into the complexity and normativity of this distinction. Finally, we draw conclusions for policymaking and the bioethical debate, also concerning the related cryopolitical aspects.

Evidence for a dual-process account of over-imitation: Children imitate anti- and prosocial models equally, but prefer prosocial models once they become aware of multiple solutions to a task

Children imitate actions that are perceivably unnecessary to achieve the instrumental goal of an action sequence, a behavior termed over-imitation. It is debated whether this behavior is based on the motivation to follow behavioral norms and affiliate with the model or whether it can be interpreted in terms of a behavioral heuristic to copy observed intentional actions without questioning the purpose of each action step. To resolve this question, we tested whether preschool-aged children (N = 89) over-imitate a prosocial model, a helper in a prior third-party moral transgression, but refuse to over-imitate an antisocial model, the perpetrator of the moral transgression. After first observing an inefficient way to extract a reward from a puzzle box from either a perpetrator or a helper, children over-imitated the perpetrator to the same degree as they over-imitated the helper. In a second phase, children were then presented the efficient solution by the respective other model, i.e. the helper or the perpetrator. Over-imitation rates then dropped in both conditions, but remained significantly higher than in a baseline condition only when children had observed the prosocial model demonstrate the inefficient action sequence and the perpetrator performed the efficient solution. In contrast, over-imitation dropped to baseline level when the perpetrator had modelled the inefficient actions and the prosocial model subsequently showed children the efficient solution. In line with a dual-process account of over-imitation, results speak to a strong initial tendency to imitate perceivably irrelevant actions regardless of the model. Imitation behavior is then adjusted according to social motivations after deliberate consideration of different options to attain the goal.

Psychological Background of Age Differences in the Adaptation of Ukrainian Winterers to Living Conditions in Antarctica

The relevance of the article stems from the fact that every year for 26 years, the expedition of winterers goes to the Ukrainian Antarctic Station “Vernadsky Research Base” to carry out scientific research. Their effective adaptation to extreme conditions of life provides qualitative psychological diagnostics and psychological recommendations. The purpose of this article is to provide a theoretical justification and empirical evidence of the specific features of Ukrainian winterers’ age in the process of adaptation to the Antarctica conditions. To achieve the results of the study, the article uses the method of sociometric measurement J. Moreno, method of distributing topics by rank, questionnaire. The authors of the article analysed scientific works on the research problem, clarified the concept of “adaptation” and “adaptability” and age limits of the groups of winterers, described methodological tools and conducted empirical research on the specific features of the age of winterers groups during the adaptation. The article justifies the distribution and identifies groups of high, medium and low adaptability to life under extreme conditions in Antarctica. The authors analysed both the data from the empirical study and the interviews with the surveyed winterers. The study’s conclusions are: senior winterers have more experience adapting to extreme conditions than younger generations. They can build better interpersonal relationships in a closed community and easily carry distance from home and homesickness. The study revealed that senior persons (especially representatives of the “Generation of winners’ children”) motivate wintering in Antarctica with a desire for self-fulfilment, being worthy representatives of Ukraine on a distant continent, and feeling responsible for discharging their duties. After all, they are governed by more professional and social motivations that help to better adapt to extreme conditions. The practical value of the work is to develop tools for psychological diagnosis and to provide guidance on the selection of winterers among candidates for wintering

Expectation of Selfishness From Others in Borderline Personality Disorder

Social difficulties are apparent in borderline personality disorder (BPD). Behavior in BPD is characterized by mistrust and expectations of malevolence from others. We examined whether there is an asymmetry between their social behavior and their belief about other people’s social motivations. Subjects completed a task where they had to allocate money between themselves and an imagined other they will not meet and interact with. In addition they also had to report their expectations about how the imagined other would solve the task. We hypothesized that even though BPD patients will act in a prosocial way, they will expect selfish behavior from the other. We used the Slider Measure of social value orientation (SVO) and also created a modified version of the measure to examine the discrepancy between the subjects’ own SVO and their expectations from other people. We compared the results of thirty clinically diagnosed BPD patients to a matched sample of healthy participants. Our results show that the BPD group’s selfishness expectations significantly outweigh the expectations of selfishness in the HC group (U = 269, p = 0.007). This result further supports the mistrust and negativity bias observed in various aspects of social interactions in BPD.

The Role of Community Centers in Promoting the Sport Practicing in Saudi Society – The Descriptive Study on Community Centers in Jeddah –: دور مراكز الأحياء في تعزيز الممارسة الرياضية لدى المجتمع السعودي – دراسة وصفية على مراكز الأحياء بمدينة جدة –

This study aims to reveal the role of the community centres in promoting sports activities the in Saudi society, and to identify the motives that enhance practicing sports in the Saudi society, and to identify the obstacles that limit practicing sports in the Saudi society, and in order to reach these goals the study relied on the descriptive approach and on the questionnaire tool for collecting data, and the sample members were beneficiaries of sporting activities in community centres in Jeddah. The study concluded that community centres have increased practicing sports among Saudi society, and that individuals who benefit from sports activities in community centres are mostly the age group between 19-30 years old, the study has also found that practicing sports activities decreases when the age variable increases. Entertainment motivations for practicing sports have obtained the highest rating among beneficiaries of sports activities in community centres, where it has scored more than health, psychological, and social motives, the study has also found that social motivations enhance sports practice in Saudi society, especially the tendency of those who actually practice sports in the community centres to play sports with other people. And finally; the study points to the bearing that a percentage of the sample members find "societal obstacles" limiting the physical exercise of Saudi society to some degree.