Conflict-Induced Migration and Economic Opportunities: The Integration of Yemeni Migrants in Indonesia Amidst the Ongoing Yemeni Crisis

In recent times, the phenomenon of migration has increasingly emerged, particularly within Arab societies, and for various reasons. Wars, conflicts, poverty, and security instability that afflict Arab communities have driven families and individuals to successive waves of forced or voluntary migration, as it became the only refuge from a bitter reality. Migration has been directed toward advanced and prosperous countries and societies whether Arab or foreign with great hopes for a peaceful and comfortable life. However, they soon faced the problem of identity and the challenge of economic and social integration within host societies. The study aimed to examine the complex issues associated with migration, focusing on the question of identity and the social and economic integration of migrants into host communities. It also sought to identify the most important challenges faced by migrants on both individual and collective levels, particularly those related to reconciling their original identity with a new one. The study further explored the major difficulties surrounding this integration process, while identifying the key facilitating factors for achieving optimal social and economic integration. In addition, it reviewed some of the theories that explain integration and presented the most important strategies that can help migrants adapt effectively in host societies. Among the key findings of the study is that migrants suffer from psychological conflicts arising from the attempt to preserve their original identity while adapting to the identity of the new society, leading to what is known as a “fragmented identity.” The study also showed that limited language skills, social discrimination, restriction of migrants to low-wage sectors, and facing inequality in employment opportunities are among the major obstacles hindering integration and limiting their participation in the social and economic life of host societies

Introduction: Successful aging was defined as reaching old age with a healthy physical condition, good cognitive, and having a positive and fulfilling social life. This is supported by the existence of psychological, social, and physical factors that can influence successful aging in the older adults. The aim of this study was to describe the determinants of successful aging in older adults based on psychological, social and physical factors. Methods: The compilers of this systematic review are based on literature studies from various electronic databases, including PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, ScienceDirect, Springer Link and ProQuest by conducting a comprehensive review using PRISMA guidelines and The Center for Review and Dissemination and the Joanna Briggs Institute Guideline as a guide in qualitaty assessment of several journals. Results: A total of 9 articles were analyzed. The determinants identifed for successful aging include including: Physical factors such as physical activity, muscle strength, and walking speed. Psychological factors such as mental health, optimism, and resilience. Social factors such as social support, social participation, and positive interpersonal relationships. Conclusions: It is concluded that there are several psychological, social, and physical factors that influence a person's success in aging well or successful aging. By paying attention to these factors, it is hoped that the elderly can maximize their potential to achieve successful aging and maintain a good quality of life while aging. Keywords: Successful Aging, Older Adults, Determinants Introduction: Successful aging was defined as reaching old age with a healthy physical condition, good cognitive, and having a positive and fulfilling social life. This is supported by the existence of psychological, social, and physical factors that can influence successful aging in the older adults. The aim of this study was to describe the determinants of successful aging in older adults based on psychological, social and physical factors. Methods: The compilers of this systematic review are based on literature studies from various electronic databases, including PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, ScienceDirect, Springer Link and ProQuest by conducting a comprehensive review using PRISMA guidelines and The Center for Review and Dissemination and the Joanna Briggs Institute Guideline as a guide in qualitaty assessment of several journals. Results: A total of 9 articles were analyzed. The determinants identifed for successful aging include including: Physical factors such as physical activity, muscle strength, and walking speed. Psychological factors such as mental health, optimism, and resilience. Social factors such as social support, social participation, and positive interpersonal relationships. Conclusions: It is concluded that there are several psychological, social, and physical factors that influence a person's success in aging well or successful aging. By paying attention to these factors, it is hoped that the elderly can maximize their potential to achieve successful aging and maintain a good quality of life while aging.

We review the effects of war on HIV and STI transmission and critically appraise short- and medium-term approaches to prevention. Our intent is to stimulate thinking about the potential for increased HIV/STI transmission in current and future armed conflicts with particular reference to Afghanistan and to encourage timely interventions to prevent a worsening HIV epidemic in Central and South Asia. (excerpt)

Conflict-induced migration is a key driver of global food insecurity. Over the past decade, prolonged conflicts have displaced millions of people. This crisis plunged millions into acute hunger, deepening existing vulnerabilities and severely restricting access to food and livelihoods across Yemen. This study aims to investigate the relationship between conflict-induced migration and food insecurity in Yemen, focusing on how displacement exacerbates hunger and malnutrition among affected populations. This study analyzed responses from 13,891 individuals across 22 governorates, using data from the Yemen Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2022-2023. The two primary indicators of food insecurity - specifically, hunger frequency and instances of not eating for a full day - were examined. Additionally, Negative Binomial Regression was employed to model the over-dispersed count data while controlling for factors such as sex, age, education, household size, urban-rural location, and wealth. The findings revealed that approximately 24% of respondents experienced hunger, while about 12% went without food for an entire day. Moreover, conflict-induced migration substantially augmented the incidence of hunger (IRR = 1.262; 95% CI: 1.111-1.435) and going without eating for an entire day (IRR = 1.251; 95% CI: 1.032-1.516), though international migration to Yemen decreased food insecurity. Additionally, being female, having higher education, and belonging to wealthier households were protective factors against food insecurity, while urban residence significantly increased the likelihood of hunger (IRR = 2.231; 95% CI: 1.990-2.501) and meal skipping (IRR = 3.657; 95% CI: 3.086-4.335). Conflict-induced displacement is associated with worsened food insecurity, escalating hunger, and deprivation among displaced people, underscoring the immediate necessity of targeted humanitarian interventions in Yemen. Policy measures must prioritize the re-establishment of food systems and livelihoods in affected regions to alleviate the intensifying hunger crisis.

The influence of psychological, social and contextual factors on recovery following a sport-related knee injury: a scoping review

Pathways to well-being: Untangling the causal relationships among biopsychosocial variables.

Virtual meeting platforms have been identified as the golden bullet to deliver the learning materials to students during the COVID-19 pandemic. While this is evident across thousands of universities across the globe, the literature is scarce on what impacts the continued use of these platforms during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this research develops a theoretical model to examine the impact of psychological, social, and quality factors on the continuous intention to use these platforms. Unlike the previous adoption studies, which mainly relied on structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis, the developed model was validated through a hybrid approach using SEM and artificial neural network (ANN) based on data collected from 470 students. The hypotheses testing results indicated that psychological, social, and quality factors have significant positive impacts on the continuous intention to use virtual meeting platforms. The sensitivity analysis results revealed that psychological factors have the most considerable effect on the continuous intention to use virtual meeting platforms with 100% normalized importance, followed by quality factors (72%), and social factors (31%). The contribution of this study lies behind the development of an integrated model that considers the psychological, social, and quality factors in understanding the continuous intention to use virtual meeting platforms during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

This study longitudinally investigated psychological and social risk factors consistent with the Theory of Triadic Influence (TTI) as predictors of adolescent smoking transitions. Among 4218 adolescents, five psychological risk factors (i.e., parent-noncompliance, friend-compliance, rebelliousness, low achievement motivation, and thrill seeking) were assessed in 9th grade (age 14), two social influence risk factors (i.e., parents' and close friends' smoking) were assessed in Grades 3 (age 8) and 9 (age 14), respectively. Adolescent smoking transitions occurring between the 9th and 12th (ages 14-17) grade interval. The probabilities contributed by each of the five psychological risk factors to the overall probability of making a specific smoking transition were: 22% to 27% for the transition from never to trying smoking, 10% to 13% for the transition from trying to monthly smoking, and, for three of the five risk factors, 11% to 16% for the transition from monthly to daily smoking. For predicting trying smoking, the probability contributed by these psychological factors was greater than the probability contributed by each parent's and close friend's smoking. Parent-compliance had a higher contribution to the probability of trying smoking when an adolescent's parent smoked (p < .05), whereas friend-compliance had a higher contribution to the probability of trying smoking when an adolescent's friend smoked (p < .001). These psychological and social factors have an important influence on adolescent smoking transitions. Implications for TTI and smoking prevention interventions are discussed.

This research is qualitative research using a life story approach. The informants of this study were seven Indonesian Muslim women and one Christian who married a Japanese man living in Japan. The study analyzes how religious identity is negotiated in the marriages of Japanese men and Indonesian women. The previous research informants were three Indonesian women who married Japanese people in Indonesia. The prior research indicates that all Japanese husbands follow the religion of their Indonesian wives. This study finds that all Japanese husbands, before marriage, follow the religion of their Indonesian wives. Still, after marriage, some continue to follow the informant's religion, while others return to their previous religion. Seven informants kept their religion, but one person converted to the religion of a Japanese husband. Two informants entered marriages with different religions. One informant who did not want to follow her husband's religion had a severe conflict because of the intervention of the informant's mother-in-law. Husbands generally do not question the religion of their wives, but disputes arise in cases where Japanese husbands adhere to a particular religion. The Indonesian wife's family and several Japanese husband's families also intervened in the religious negotiations. The religious change of Japanese men before marriage is initially more of a consideration for the smooth running of the marriage process. Research on intermarriages between Indonesians and Japanese is minimal. Research like this needs to be done because the number of intermarriages is increasing. This research brings valuable knowledge to prospective Indonesian and Japanese intermarriages.

Kitcher attempts to stake out a middle ground between two extremes. On one side, logical empiricism and a broader took it for granted that every scientist is a rational agent, having all available information in mind, and making scientific decisions in terms of those reasons alone, so that science always changes for the right reasons. These mistaken claims missed the extent to which changes in the history of science have not been based on logic; they ignored social and psychological factors as wholly irrelevant to the problems of the analysis of the purely scientific. At the other extreme are those who maintain that everything about science is shaped by social factors, omitting such old-fashioned philosophical virtues as objectivity, realism, and progress. For example, in Kitcher's view, they miss the fact that the inability of a new scientific approach to solve all problems may be only temporary and not permanent indications of underdetermination, the problems being solvable only after considerable further work. By merging the best of both approaches while avoiding the excesses of each-by recognizing that psychological and social factors enter into scientific processes, even though objective considerations can ultimately prevail-Kitcher claims that we can enjoy many oldfashioned philosophical virtues without abandoning important recent insights from sociologicallyand psychologically-minded writers. (127). It is not clear precisely what his middle ground is. He could be seen as maintaining a strong thesis, that, being inextricably involved with psychological and social factors, philosophical issues cannot be separated out and dealt with independently; it is necessary to include psychological and social factors. But on the other hand, he might be taken as advocating a weak thesis, that it is merely advisable to include them: though they can be ignored, we do so at the risk of committing the same sorts of errors as Legend and logical empiricism. On either interpretation-whatever his view of the possibility of considering the philosophy-of-science issues separately-Kitcher clearly rejects the idea that it is necessary to analyze some alleged purely scientific aspects independently of the psychological and social aspects of science and scientific change before proceeding to the inclusion of those aspects.

This research aims to analyze the influence of psychological, social and financial factors on job satisfaction using case studies on 183 State Madrasah Aliyah (MAN) teachers in Bireuen Regency. This research takes the form of a survey with a questionnaire instrument as a data collection tool, using associative descriptive research. Problem analysis through a statistical approach, namely the path analysis model. The results of the research show that (1) there is a causal relationship between psychological and social factors of 0.593, (2) there is a causal relationship between social and financial factors of 0.562, (3) there is a causal relationship between teacher finances and psychological factors of 0.514. So the magnitude: (a) the direct and indirect influence of psychological factors on teacher job satisfaction is 50.2%, (b) the direct and indirect influence of social factors on teacher job satisfaction is 48.3%, and (c) the direct and Indirect financial factors on teacher job satisfaction were 53.38%. Apart from that (d), it can be seen that the influence of psychological, social and financial factors together on the job satisfaction of MAN teachers in Bireuen Regency is 61%.

Evaluation of student's emotional state: Assess the role of social and psychological factors in manifestation of depression and anxiety symptoms

본 연구는 서울시민의 삶의 만족도에 관한 연구로서, 삶의 만족도에 대한 고용 형태(창업자/임금근로자)와 사회적(사회자본) 및 심리적 요인(자기효능감)의 상대적인 영향력을 살펴본 연구이다. 서울시복지패널 데이터를 이용한 실증 연구 결과, 심리적 요인의 영향력이 가장 컸으며, 경제적 요인(가계소득 수준), 사회적 요인 순으로 나타났다. 고용 형태 역시 삶의 만족도에 유의한 요인이었는데, 임금근로자가 창업자에 비해 삶의 만족도가 높았고, 임금 근로자의 경우 경제적 요인이외에 자기효능감과 규범, 비공식네트워크 참여도, 비영리기관 신뢰도가 삶의 만족도에 유의한 영향을 미쳤다. 창업자는 경제적 및 심리적 요인과 사회적 요인 중에서 규범만이 유의하였다. 끝으로 연구 결과를 토대로 일자리 창출과 시민들의 삶의 만족도 향상을 지향하는 정책 실무자들을 위한 실천적 시사점을 제시하였다. It is about the study of life satisfaction with type of employment(entrepreneur/paid employee), social factor(social capital), and psychological factor(self efficacy) in Seoul. The empirical results using Seoul Welfare Panel showed that psychological factor was the most powerful, and economic (household income levels) and social factor were in order. Type of employment was also significantly affected on life satisfaction, and paid employee's life satisfaction was higher than entrepreneur's one. In case of paid employee, psychological(self-efficacy) and social(norms, informal networks of participation, non-profit trust) factor in addition to the economic factor were significantly. In case of entrepreneur, economic and psychological factor and only norm among social factors were significant. Finally, The implications for politicians and local public officials were reported.

BackgroundConflict-induced migration is a key driver of global food insecurity. Over the past decade, prolonged conflicts have displaced millions of people. This crisis plunged millions into acute hunger, deepening existing vulnerabilities and severely restricting access to food and livelihoods across Yemen.ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate the relationship between conflict-induced migration and food insecurity in Yemen, focusing on how displacement exacerbates hunger and malnutrition among affected populations.MethodologyThis study analyzed responses from 13,891 individuals across 22 governorates, using data from the Yemen Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2022–2023. The two primary indicators of food insecurity — specifically, hunger frequency and instances of not eating for a full day — were examined. Additionally, Negative Binomial Regression was employed to model the over-dispersed count data while controlling for factors such as sex, age, education, household size, urban-rural location, and wealth.ResultsThe findings revealed that approximately 24% of respondents experienced hunger, while about 12% went without food for an entire day. Moreover, conflict-induced migration substantially augmented the incidence of hunger (IRR = 1.262; 95% CI: 1.111–1.435) and going without eating for an entire day (IRR = 1.251; 95% CI: 1.032–1.516), though international migration to Yemen decreased food insecurity. Additionally, being female, having higher education, and belonging to wealthier households were protective factors against food insecurity, while urban residence significantly increased the likelihood of hunger (IRR = 2.231; 95% CI: 1.990–2.501) and meal skipping (IRR = 3.657; 95% CI: 3.086–4.335).ConclusionConflict-induced displacement is associated with worsened food insecurity, escalating hunger, and deprivation among displaced people, underscoring the immediate necessity of targeted humanitarian interventions in Yemen. Policy measures must prioritize the re-establishment of food systems and livelihoods in affected regions to alleviate the intensifying hunger crisis.

This study investigates the shift in consumer purchasing patterns from traditional markets to modern meat outlets in Majene Regency, a region located in a province with a low Human Development Index (HDI) but designated as an educational center in West Sulawesi, Indonesia. In recent years, Majene has seen an influx of expatriatess with higher education, knowledge, and income, likely influencing local purchasing behaviors. This research examines the factors contributing to the observed shift in meat purchasing patterns, focusing on cultural, social, personal, and psychological factors that affect purchasing decisions. Data were collected from 100 respondents, all homemakers, over one month from June to July 2024. Homemakers were chosen due to their primary role in household purchasing and decision-making regarding market selection and meat processing. Structural Equation Modeling with Partial Least Squares (SEM PLS) analysis was conducted using WarpPLS 7.0 software to determine the influence of cultural (X1), social (X2), personal (X3), and psychological (X4) factors on purchasing decisions (Y). The results indicate that psychological factors exert the highest level of significance on purchasing decisions, with a coefficient of 0.557, followed by cultural factors (0.165), social factors (0.050), and personal factors (-0.082). The prominence of psychological factors may be attributed to the profile of respondents, many of whom are lecturers and private sector employees from outside Majene. This demographic shift and perceptions of higher quality and safety at modern outlets have encouraged transitioning from traditional markets to modern meat outlets. These findings contribute to understanding consumer behavior changes in small-city contexts and offer insights into the role of psychological and demographic factors in shaping retail preferences in developing regions.