The Resilience of Families with Cerebral Palsy Children: Implications for Social Protection

There are generally agreed by both professional workers and laymen that the resilience of families is influenced by emotional climate of the family. This study aims to provide an overview of resilience in families with children who have cerebral palsy, who attend YPAC (Foundation for Disabled Children), which is the only centre for cerebral palsy services in Jakarta. Qualitative research was used to analyse a case study featuring three (3) separate families, with each family having two (2) children with cerebral palsy. The result of this study describes the Family Resilience by looking at risk factors and protective factors in families with Cerebral Palsy children and all their limitations. Risk factor is the condition of the informant, who has insufficient and unstable income. On the other hand, family members also receive discrimination regularly, and even experienced physical violence. Meanwhile, protective factor is a source of strength from their personality or values of each member of the family, commitment, and support from the surrounding environments, such as extended family, friendship groups, neighbours, and institutions. Social support becomes a source of strength for the family and keeps their fight with their children with cerebral palsy. Apart from internal factors, their relation to their environment also supports the family’s resilience.

Settling down without settling: Perceived changes in partner preferences in response to COVID-19

The goal of this study was to explore the positive association between concern related to COVID-19 and single individuals’ perceived changes to their partner preferences. In addition, we investigated the mediating role of fear of being single. Results indicated that people with greater COVID-19 concern perceived an increase in the importance of stability, family commitment, and physical/social attractiveness, as well as fear of being single. Fear of being single only negatively predicted the importance of physical/social attractiveness, whereas it positively predicted the importance of stability and family commitment. Thus, in most cases, people with a greater concern for COVID-19 perceived themselves to become more selective, even when they exhibit higher levels of fear of being single.

Family commitment and performance in private family firms: moderating effect of professionalization

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to examine the interplay between family commitment as a family-centric resource and professionalization of the organization as a firm-centric resource to determine how the two phenomenon come together to enhance business performance in the context of privately held family firms.Design/methodology/approachDeploying the theoretical lens offered by the resource-based view, a conceptual link is developed between family commitment to the firm and firm performance with the potential moderating influence of firm professionalization. The hypotheses are tested using data collected from 357 privately held medium-to-large family-owned manufacturing companies in Bangladesh. The data are analyzed through structural equation modeling using SmartPLS (v.3.2).FindingsThe data analysis suggests that in absence of the moderator; professionalization, family commitment has a positive and significant association with firm performance. While in the presence of the moderator the above relationship is substantially stronger. The findings indicate that when family-specific resources and firm-specific resources are synchronized, it enhances performance of the family firm and puts it on a strong economic footing toward a more sustainable future.Research limitations/implicationsCross-sectional nature of the study exposes it to the specter of common method bias despite the fact that procedural remedies were initiated to minimize the impact of such occurrence. Furthermore, data were collected from a single individual in each organization. Therefore, a longitudinal study with data obtained from multiple individuals at different levels of the organization would possibly yield more robust findings.Practical implicationsLeaders of family firms may find pertinent clues from the outcome of this study. Particularly, the confluence of family commitment to the firm as a family-specific resource and professionalization as a firm-specific resource can be valuable, rare, difficult to imitate and substitute source of competitive advantage for the family business organization.Social implicationsSurvival of family businesses is vital to the global economy as one of the primary drivers of global gross domestic product growth and source of new employment. Policymakers can benefit from the findings of this study to customize policies to nurture growth of family enterprises and incentivize family firms to adopt professionalization through better governance and transparent managerial procedures.Originality/valueA nuanced understanding of how family commitment and firm professionalization combine to significantly improve performance of family firms has not been dominant in the literature. Therefore, findings of this study carry special theoretical implications, because it suggests that both family-specific features and firm-specific features are necessary for enhanced levels of firm-centric business outcomes such as economic performance.

Emotional and Behavioural Engagement among Spanish Students in Vocational Education and Training

The purpose of this study is to analyse the importance of student engagement in Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Spain. In accordance with this concept, we analyse how emotional engagement (relations with teachers, relations with peers, family support for learning, and perception of family commitment) influences the behavioural engagement (school effort and commitment, school indiscipline) in academic activities of students in basic and intermediate VET. The sample comprises 1180 students (65.4% male), 28.8% in basic VET and 71.2% in intermediate VET, ranging in age from 14 to 19 years. Data analysis bases on linear regression and regression trees enable the prediction of behavioural engagement according to the subdimensions of emotional engagement, sociodemographic characteristics of the subpopulations, and level of studies. Significant differences were found (t(1013.8) = 8.37, p < 0.001) for the variable of sex (a higher value in females), and variable of the level of studies (t(579.1) = 3.60, p < 0.001) in behavioural engagement. All correlations between the indicators for the behavioural and emotional dimensions were significant. The results provide favourable profiles of behavioural engagement related to having good relationships with the teaching staff, being female, and being enrolled in intermediate VET. These findings imply the reorientation of educational intervention.

Dificuldades na reabilitação protética de paciente pediátrico com Displasia do Ectoderma – relato de caso

Ectoderma dysplasia is a syndrome characterized by malformation in the tissues derived from the embryonic leaflet ectoderm, causing changes in the epidermis and its accessory structures, such as hair, hair, nails, teeth and glands. The dental surgeon, in most cases, is the first to suspect this syndrome due to dental absences, which can vary from simple agenesis or even anodontics. Therefore, the alveolar bone does not develop very well and the ridge has an unfavorable morphology for a good rehabilitation. The present work aims, through a clinical case, to describe the difficulty of prosthetic rehabilitation in a patient with Ectoderma Dysplasia in preschool age (3 years), due to the absence of teeth. The treatment defined for this patient was the protocol proposed in the most current bibliographic references, which consists of rehabilitation as early as possible, through the manufacture of upper and lower removable prostheses, in order to enable better nutrition, phonetics, facial expressions and social interaction. After the finalized treatment, we conclude that the early prosthetic rehabilitation, although recommended in the literature, must first be evaluated individually, as it depends on the minimal cooperation of the patient and total family commitment for the success of the treatment.

The Carrier Caregiver

For the Carrier caregiver, caregiving is an opportunity to fulfill family duty and demonstrate family commitment through sacrifice and hard work. A HIGH and COLD conformity pattern reveals an obligation to care for other family members, an implicit understanding that illness requires immediate family mobilization, and a belief that gatekeeping is necessary to sustain and preserve family functioning. The LOW and WARM conversation pattern exposes unclear rules for talking about illness. There is inconsistency in topics discussed, ideas are disjointed, and specific circumstances when talk about illness is considered permissible. Self-restraint among family members inhibits open sharing, and nondisclosure is considered honoring family. As protector of the care recipient, the Carrier caregiver is task-driven and focuses on keeping the illness a private family experience.