Keep on Keepin’ On: Investigating ACES and Positivity among Bereaved Black Middle Aged and Older Adults

Many of the most damaging life events are more prevalent among Black older adults. Black people have been found to have higher amounts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), which are linked to detrimental life impacts. Additionally, bereavement occurs at a higher rate among Black people and older adults. Despite these challenges, Black older adults have been repeatedly cited overcoming these challenges. Accordingly, the present study sought to investigate whether Black middle to older aged adults who encountered two of life’s most difficult challenges (i.e. bereavement and ACEs) would still maintain positivity. 103 middle to older Black adults (M=44.72, SD=5.48, 67% male) from a larger online grief study were probed about factors including time since loss, positive outlook, and ACES. A linear regression and mediation analysis were used to analyze the data. ACES were found to significantly predict positive outlook among bereaved middle to older Black adults (F=11.46, p=.001), such that as the number of ACES increased, so did positivity in spite of bereavement. Notably, this association was not mediated by time since loss. Results from this study provide evidence that even when faced with some of life’s most difficult events, Black middle to older adults were still able to reframe their situation with a positive focus. The ability for Black middle to older aged adults to reframe their tragedies into positivity could provide a basis for the use of Positive Psychological techniques specifically within this population. Additionally, this study provides further evidence that Black people exhibit exceeding resilience.

MEDIEREA – SOLUȚIA CONFLICTELOR COLECTIVE DE MUNCĂ

In this article, the author explains that the basic rules of mediating collective labor disputes are decided by the parties together, for this it is necessary that they be honest and have a constructive attitude. These rules can refer to the duration of the mediation session, to the language used during the mediation sessions, to the abstention from accusations and accusations, to the request not to issue judgments, to the provision of the information necessary for the mediation, etc. In turn, the mediator usually includes other basic rules, such as: the rule of orientation of the parties' perspectives towards the future - in compliance with this rule the parties will talk about how they want to be treated in the future, and not about how they were treated in the future. last. This aspect maintains a positive focus of the parties on resolving the conflict, avoiding increasing tensions.

A New Internet Public Opinion Evaluation Model： A Case Study of Public Opinions on the COVID-19 in Taiwan

This research retrieved public opinions on the novel coronavirus pandemic with the aid of the DiVoMiner. The data were collected by setting keywords via qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and automated computational approach, and the collected data were analyzed subsequently. The present study divided keyword collections into three categories, namely the name of diseases, government policies and COVID-19 events. It was found the retrieved Internet public opinions on COVID-19 was the largest in number and contained the least noise when the three categories of keywords appeared at the same time. Therefore, the data of Internet public opinions = the name of diseases × (government policies + COVID-19 events). This research found that an event that happens daily will affect the number of Internet public opinions on social media and forums after it has been reported. The strong negative emotion conveyed through the Internet public opinion may turn into a positive one if the event is dealt with properly after positive focus words represent the same proportion as negative ones.

Roman Biography in The Medieval West

This chapter focuses on medieval biography in the Latin world, with a special focus on the period c. 1050–c. 1220. An overwhelmingly large part of the life-writing that survives from the medieval West—whether in chronicles, fictional narratives, letters, or Lives—sets out to display virtues as a source of admiration and inspiration. Such Lives presented ideals that were held up as a high standard and as an entirely positive focus point for the cultural memory of a group. It is shown, however, that especially the inspiration from Sallust’s Jugurtha and Catilina facilitated more complex portraits, especially in historiography, here exemplified through Adam of Bremen’s portrait of archbishop Adalbert of Hamburg-Bremen (1043–1072). The power and persistance of classical Latin ‘anthropological’ concepts are furthermore demonstrated through a comparison of William of Tyre’s ruler portraits in his Chronicon (c. 1184) and its French translation, Éracles (c. 1220).

Older age is associated with more positive reframing of memories from the spring phase of the covid-19 pandemic

Older adults often focus on positive aspects of past events, showing resiliency that runs counter to negative stereotypes of aging. We asked whether older adults would retain this positive focus even during the COVID-19 pandemic that puts older adults at particular health risk. We examined how age would relate to the experience of affect during the spring phase of the pandemic and also how it would affect their memories of that spring phase. We predicted that when reflecting on the spring phase of the pandemic, older age would be associated with an increased tendency to focus on “silver linings” and a decreased focus on negative aspects. Furthermore, we explored whether focusing on those “silver linings” would be driven by (i) more positive experienced affect during the spring-phase, or (ii) by a memory-specific effect that would persist after controlling for experienced affect. As predicted, older age was associated with increased focus on “silver linings” such as feelings of hope that the measures would reduce disease spread (p <.001) or memories of the community coming together (p <.001). These effects remained even when controlling for older adults’ more-positive affect during the spring phase of the pandemic (community coming together, p=.03, and feeling hope, p=.008). These results suggest that older adults remain resilient during the ongoing pandemic. Compared to younger adults, older adults experience greater affective well-being in the moment and also benefit from a memory-specific mechanism allowing them to view the ongoing negative event through a rosier lens.

Appreciative Inquiry as a Potential Tool to Nurture Creativity

Appreciative inquiry is an act of nurturing a group of people in a system to move into positive futures through relationship development and generative learning. The culture of a healthy institution is formed through shared values and beliefs. Appreciative inquiry gives people the experience of personal and collective power, a sense of liberation, and freedom. It enhances self-esteem and self-expression which leads to self-organization. Freedom comes with responsibilities and self-organization. Self-organizing systems take care of power inequality, balance resources, and optimize when required. Appreciative learning is the art of valuing and inquiring those possibilities that can create something profoundly new. Any innovative organization goes beyond the perceived constraints and focuses on opportunities around and evaluates internal strengths and strategises their moves. Appreciative inquiry nurtures creative and innovative thinking by fostering a positive focus.

Think Positive, Focus on Positive

The concept of psychological capital (PsyCap) has attracted a great deal of interest from both academics and practitioners and has been linked to employee attitudes, behavior, and performance at different levels of analysis. Since tourism enterprises are service-intensive enterprises, it is important for employees to recognize and develop their positive aspects. In this chapter, positive organizational behavior, psychological capital, dimensions, and studies on tourism enterprises are discussed. In addition, the importance of psychological capital in tourism sector is mentioned.

Emotional Regulation Strategies and Problem-Solving Ability among the Gifted Students in Jeddah

The present study aims to investigate the emotional regulation strategies and their relation to the problem-solving ability among the gifted intermediate and secondary students in Jeddah. It adopted the questionnaire of emotional regulation strategies (Saloum, 2015) and the personal problem-solving inventory (Heppner and Peterson, 1982). Results revealed the high level of the emotional regulation strategies among the gifted students. While "positive focus" was ranked first, "distraction" was ranked last. Results also revealed the high level of the problem-solving ability among the participants. While "personal discipline" was ranked first, "avoidance" was ranked last. Furthermore, the emotional regulation strategies were not correlated to the problem-solving ability. Although there were differences in the emotional regulation strategies due to educational stage favoring the secondary stage, there were no differences in the problem-solving ability. The study recommended activating the role of the educational institutions by increasing the attention to the emotional regulation strategies in the different stages and holding workshops and symposia to the students at schools and universities to improve their emotional regulation and problem-solving ability.

Socio-psychological characteristics of the leaders of the juvenile convicts

The problem of role differentiation of leadership among juvenile convicts is a socially significant and poorly studied problem in modern psychological science. The results of a study of 60 young men serving sentences in young offenders' institutions of the Federal penitentiary service of Russia in the age from 16 to 18 years are presented in the paper. “Leadership style” Questionnaire of R. Bale-K. Schneider (modification T.V. Bendas), “Leadership abilities” Questionnaire of E. Zharikova, E. Krushelnitskogo, “Communicative and organizational tendencies” Questionnaire of V.V. Sinyavsky and V.A. Fedoroshin, “Communicative control” Questionnaire of M. Schneider, “Emotional intelligence” Questionnaire of N. Hall, “Progressive matrix” of Raven were used to diagnosis of socio-psychological qualities of juvenile convict, as well as observations psychologists institutions and educators. The nonparametric Mann-Whitney criterion and factor analysis were applied. The results show that there are formal and informal leaders among juvenile convicts. Formal leaders stand out only in the business sphere and have a positive focus, informal leaders can be positive and negative, business and emotional. Leaders are more focused on solving problems, have developed leadership qualities, organizational and communication abilities. However, the prognostic qualities to identify a leader among juvenile convicts are not only leadership tendencies, but also the qualities of emotional intelligence, allowing to assess the situation, manage their emotions, to have a psychological impact on the state of others.