The Mediating Effect of Dispositional Gratitude on the Relationship between Religious Struggles and Self-Esteem: Preliminary Results

In comforting or distressing circumstances, individuals tend to have various perceptions of themselves. It seems that religious comfort and religious distress correlate differently with people’s self-esteem. Since the relationship between religiosity and self-esteem is not only direct but can be mediated by other factors that are recognized as buffers against adverse situations, our main goal was to verify whether dispositional gratitude may have an indirect effect on the association between both variables. The research involved data from 254 participants aged 18 to 25 (M = 21.24; SD = 2.09) and included 192 women (76%) and 62 men (24%). To measure the title variables, we used: the Religious Comfort and Strain Scale (RCSS), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), and the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6). The results showed that people who consider religion as a source of comfort express positive attitudes toward the self and recognize others’ kindness, as well. In contrast, people who consider religiosity as a cause of fear, stress, and internal strain tend to display a lower subjective sense of personal worth and lower appreciation of the positivity around them. Moreover, gratitude had a mediatory effect on the relationships between religious comfort/negative emotions toward God and self-esteem.

A STUDY BY GENDER IN HAPPINESS AT WORK IN SPANISH FINANCIAL SECTOR

Using a survey of working-age Spanish citizens in 2020, we established a measure of organizational ethics based on the possible discrepancy between citizen’s personal happiness and their happiness at work. The analysis focused on one of the essential economic sectors in the face of the pandemic, the financial sector. These workers demand organizational ethics with clear values in social responsibility and training, going beyond the achievement of a socially acceptable income. Other socio-demographic variables, such as gender, are of great interest for the analysis, being able to identify wage inequality and job satisfaction, which are more pronounced in the financial sector. Women are less happy at work, because of their job position and personal worth, thus being a key line to continue investigating in terms of corporate social responsibility and search for happiness of human capital. KEYWORDS: happiness at work, gender, quality of life, ethics, pandemic.

Bimbingan Konseling Bimbingan Konseling dalam Meningkatkan Atribusi Belajar Siswa-Siswi SMPN 1 Pleret Bantul Yogyakarta

This study aims to see how school counselors (counselors, BK teachers) improve student learning attribution at SMPN 1 Pleret, Bantul. Attribution which is understood as something that exists in a person formed by students then influences the psychological dimension of hope for success, self-efficacy, and affect. And also affect behavior, namely choice, perseverance, and the level of movement of students' efforts in learning. This research is motivated by the majority of students who are not able and have not been able to find something unique in themselves, so that the need for guidance and counseling as a method of understanding students will be important and their personal worth as a person. This research method uses interviews, observations and classroom actions where the researcher is involved in the counseling guidance activities. Counseling guidance model is done in groups, from the group can switch to individual counseling actions. The results showed that counseling guidance in improving student learning attribution at SMPN 1 Pleret Bantul can be said to be good, by meeting the standards of the process of implementing counseling guidance that has been worked out, so as to achieve the desired target.

Critique’s Loss of Aura

This chapter mentions the first part of The Communist Manifesto, in which Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels acclaimed the revolutionary character of the industrial matrix that has resolved personal worth into exchange value for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions. It also discusses Charles Baudelaire who complimented the defetishization of moral values in which the predominance of the auratic made worse. The serial matrix returns the Kantian use value of critique to the expanded circulation of exchange value in process, with respect to which its use value would be no more than an aestheticizing accessory. The chapter explains how the aura is assembled as an accessory in a planetary “cooperation” that adds more and more functions that are directly governed by capital. It also analyzes the fictional de-aurization of critical activity and revolution carried out by Marx in the sixth, unpublished chapter of “Capital.”

Discount of Person, Meaning, and Motive

There are three types of Social Level discounting that can interfere with bonding and intimacy during relationship building - the Discount of Person, Meaning, and Motive. These can be a block in any friendship, family, romantic or business partnerships. They discount in others the OK potential of who they are, of what they say, and why they say it - and what they could be. The same discounts of personal worth, potential and hope will also apply internally in the transactional relationship with oneself at the psychological level.

Being a C-student is the new normal: a literature review on grades, self-worth, and mental wellbeing

The competitive application process for manyCanadian engineering schools can lead to enrollingcohorts of students where nearly everyone is accustomed to having above average grades. Anecdotally, instructors frequently observe a difficult transition to earning average or below average grades. This may be due to students strongly basing their sense of personal worth on academic performance. Declines or variability in selfworth or self-esteem can impact mental wellbeing.Given the widely reported prevalence of mentalhealth concerns and counselling usage at Canadianuniversities, we chose to explore the connections between receiving lower than expected grades, self-worth and mental wellbeing as well as possible interventions that instructors could employ to help students manage this transition.

Still Here, Writing, Trying to Be a Part of the Conversation

Feeling the pervasive power of Neoliberalism with each sentence, I trace its damage to our political landscape, to our university environment, and to my sense of personal worth. The essay, cast in the negative, offers hope with its final gesture toward the dialogic.