Romantic conflict narratives and associations with psychological relationship aggression in emerging adult couples

This cross-sectional study aimed to understand how emerging adult couples interpreted relationship conflicts, and whether such meaning making was associated with psychological relationship aggression and moderated by gender. We specified the I Cubed model of relationship aggression to examine how in the context of recounting relationship conflicts, the impellance factors of anger and break-up anxiety might increase and the inhibition factor of perspective taking might decrease the likelihood of relationship aggression. Each partner in 126 couples was interviewed separately about their unmet relationship needs. Narrative-based measures of impellance and inhibition were obtained as well as self-reported psychological relationship aggression and satisfaction. Although gender was not a moderator, there was some support for associations of impellance and inhibition factors with aggression. Extending prior work using couple observations and diary methods, we found that interpreting conflict events in terms of anger and perspective taking was related to relationship aggression while controlling for relationship satisfaction. Consistent with the I Cubed model, there were actor effects such that anger ratings were an impellance factor that increased and perspective taking was an inhibition factor that decreased the likelihood of aggression. Our findings suggest that narrating past conflicts related to unmet needs is a task that involves the management of anger associated with more relationship aggression. The efficacy of relationship education programs for emerging adult couples might be improved by focusing on skills to decrease anger and facilitate perspective taking.

BUILDING SOLIDARITY VALUES BETWEEN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN STRENGTHENING NATIONAL INTEGRATION (Community Study in Rumak Village, Kediri Regency, West Lombok Regency)

The purpose of this study is: (1) to find understanding to build values solidarity between immigrant community with local community in strengthen national integration at community in Rumak Village Kediri District West Lombok Regency (2) to find understanding supplementary and inhibition factor to build values solidarity between immigrant community with local community in strengthen national integration at community in Rumak Village Kediri District West Lombok Regency.The method of research use kualitatif approach with description method. Meanwhile the technique in collecting the data is in-depth interview, obervation, and documentation. Furthermore data analysis conducted completely during data collection in very focus of activities and every finishing data collection. The result of research such as: (1) to build values solidarity between immigrant community with local community in strengthen national integration at community in Rumak Village Kediri District West Lombok Regency, such as: mutual cooperation, repeated recitation of the confession of faith, belangar, betalet or betuqa, pilgrimage, and bicycle sport (2) to find understanding supplementary and inhibition factor to build values solidarity between immigrant community with local community in strengthen national integration at community in Rumak Village Kediri District West Lombok Regency, such as: communication and good social relation between immigrant community with local community. Relation approach between immigrant community with local community is part of important from supplementary factor to build social solidarity. Inhibition factor to build values solidarity in strengthen national integration are community to have pragmatics life style, hedonism and materialisticly. AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui (1) upaya untuk membangun nilai-nilai solidaritas antara masyarakat pendatang dengan masyarakat lokal dalam memperkuat integrasi nasional pada masyarakat di Desa Rumak Kecamatan Kediri Kabupaten Lombok Barat (2) faktor-faktor pendukung dan penghambat dalam memperkuat integrasi nasional pada masyarakat di Desa Rumak Kecamatan Kediri Kabupaten Lombok Barat. Pendekatan penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode diskriptif. Teknik pengumpulan data dengan menggunakan tekinik wawancara , observasi dan dokumentasi. Selanjutnya analisa data dilakukan pada saat pengumpulan data yang dilakukan secara menyeluruh. Hasil penelitian ini adalah (1) Upaya membangun nilai-nilai solidaritas antara masyarakat pendatang dengan masyarakat lokal dalam memperkuat integrasi nasional adalah: gotong royong, kegiatan tahlilan, belangar, betalet atau betuqa, ziarah haji dan kegiatan olahraga sepeda santai. (2) Faktor pendukung dalam membangun nilai-nilai solidaritas antara masyarakat pendatang dengan masyarakat lokal dalam memperkuat integrasi nasional adalah adanya komunikasi dan relasi sosial yang baik antara masyarakat lokal dengan masyarakat pendatang. Sedangkan faktor penghambat adalah masyarakat cenderung mempunyai gaya hidup yang pragmatisme, hedonis dan materialis.

Nanogold for In Vitro Inhibition of Salmonella Strains

The pathogenic strains of Salmonella typhi, paratyphi, and typhimurium are the major cause of typhoid and food poisoning in children and adults in developing countries. According to WHO estimation, 22 million cases of typhoid fever and 200,000 related deaths occur worldwide each year with an additional 6 million cases of paratyphoid fever estimated to occur annually with the highest incidence in children, resulting in a high death rate. The high use of antibiotics has also given rise to drug-resistant strains. Hence, it was of importance to assess the inhibition and quick detection of pathogenic strains of Salmonella. This study aims to investigate the chemically synthesized gold nanoparticles (GNPs) for its antibacterial activity against clinical isolates of S. typhi and S. paratyphi including food sample isolates. The GNPs were characterized using visible color change, UV-Vis spectrophotometry, FTIR, XRD, DLS, FESEM, TEM, and zeta potential. The plasmon peak at 525 nm and 535 nm confirmed the synthesis of gold nanoparticles. The size of the chemically synthesized gold nanoparticles (GNPs) were in the range of 40-60 nm, while FESEM and TEM images revealed that the GNPs were spherical in shape. For antimicrobial activities, five of the Salmonella strains were isolated from fish and egg samples, while the other seven were S. typhi and S. paratyphi from clinical samples. The inhibition factor for GNPs showed higher inhibition against S. paratyphi, while the inhibition factor for S. typhi were found to be higher than Ciprofloxacin-30. This is the first study of the antibacterial efficacy of GNPs against pathogenic strains of Salmonella. The obtained results suggest that nanobioconjugated gold may be of interest in the detection of typhoid and high potential use in areas in biomedicine as an alternative to antibiotics.