Affective Bonds Research Articles

Beyond Schools: Multisensory Learning and Knowledge Acquisition in Informal Contexts—Perspectives from Rural Indonesia

It is not a new finding that much human learning takes place implicitly outside of educational institutions in informal, everyday contexts, yet these learning processes receive comparatively little systematic attention within the current anthropology of learning, education and schools. Based on long-term social anthropological research in a peasant community in rural Indonesia (Sulawesi), the article will address the complex multisensory forms of learning through which children acquire a large part of their competencies and their extensive environmental and agricultural knowledge. I will focus on the mixed-age “communities of practices” in which this knowledge is transmitted and acquired and show that affective bonds to peers and adults influence to a large extent which out-of-school areas of competence a child acquires. Building on the “embodied capital theory.” I argue that children in rural areas obtain a complex form of “ecological literacy” that encompasses not only a rich knowledge about the local ecosystems and agri- as well as horticultural processes but also a particular formation of the senses and the physical body in general (muscle size and memory, physical strength, coordination, balance, and motor skills). I shall conclude with some critical reflections on the general devaluation of the extra-curricular, non-formal, and environmental forms of learning, which can be observed not only in Indonesia but also worldwide and seems to be closely related to the global spread of Western psychological theory models about the healthy socio-emotional and cognitive development of children, supported by global institutions like UNICEF, World Bank, and Save the Children. For years, a constant increase of early childhood development programs can be observed, which aim at improving children’s school readiness, particularly in low-income countries, in order to enhance the future prospect of children. These programs, however, go hand in hand with the devaluation and oppression of indigenous knowledge systems and thus often worsen the future prospects of younger people.

부모와 성인자녀의 결속도가 부동산 자산의 증여 의향에 미치는 영향 연구

The purpose of this study is to derive the effect of the degree of solidarity between parents and adult children on the intention to donate real estate assets and suggest implications. First, it was found that the contact bond between parents and adult children did not affect the intention to donate real estate assets. Second, the functional bond between parents and adult children was found to affect the intention to donate real estate assets. Third, the unity between parents and adult children was found to affect the intention to donate real estate assets. Fourth, the affectional bond between parents and adult children was found to have no effect on the intention to donate real estate assets. Lastly, the normative bond between parents and adult children was found to affect the intention to donate real estate assets.

An attachment theory perspective of professional service providers' social bonds with their clients

Social bonds developed by professional service providers have received limited research attention. Yet how individuals in these roles build social bonds with their clients can have a significant impact on the business outcomes achieved by the professional services firm. Attachment theory is one of the most influential psychology theories which supports the development of affectionate bonds but has not, so far, been applied to professional service providers' social bonds with their clients. We conduct in-depth interviews with professional service providers to capture their experiences of developing social bonds. Our findings identify three distinct relationship roles adopted by professional service providers with their clients (manager, caregiver and partner) and uncover two social bonds: the closeness bond and the security bond, based on different characteristics. We find that relationship roles and social bonds are inter-related and that social bonds can develop authentically or be developed strategically by the professional services provider. We propose how professional services firms can benefit from this knowledge in improving their business outcomes.

Zakat of livestock in the book industry and the abscess writing Qudaamah Ben Jaafar

إنَّ الزكاة على المسلمين هو من أظهر محاسن الإسلام، لكثرة فوائدها، إذ يتحقق بها دفع حاجة الفقير، وتثبيت أواصر المودة بين الغني والفقير، لأنَّ النفوس مجبولة على حبَّ منْ أحسن إليها، وتطهير النفس وتزكيتها ، والبعد بها عن خلق الشح والبخل، وغير ذلك من الفوائد الكثيرة. والزكاة حق لله تعالى لا تجوز المحاباة بها لمن لا يستحقها؛ فإنّ الباعث لنشر هذا البحث هو النصح والتذكير بفريضة الزكاة ، التي تساهل بها الكثير من المسلمين فلم يخرجوها على الوجه المشروع مع عِظم شأنها. إنّ قدامة بن جعفر تحدث عن الزكاة مباشرة ، ولم يشهد على وجوبها بآية قرآنية أو حديث نبويً ، ولعل ذلك جاء من أنّ الزكاة احد اركان الاسلام وان وجوبها اصبح من الامور البديهية لكل مسلم لا ينكرها، لم يبين لنا قدامة شروط زكاة الابل، وانما ابتدأ مباشرة في ذكر النصاب ، وان مقدار زكاة الابل اذا بلغت النصاب، بحسب ما ذكره قدامة ، يكون من غير جنسها، اذ في كلَّ خمس من الابل شاة حتى تبلغ اربع وعشرين، وبعد ذلك يكون زكاتها من جنسها، وايده في ذلك كل من أبي حنيفية ومالك، والشافعيّ، والامام احمد، وابن حزم ، وإن الامامية خالفوا ذلك، ورأوا أنَّ في الخمس والعشرين من الأبل خمس شياه.

THE IMPORTANCE OF MEDIATION FOR RESOLVING CONFLICTS IN FAMILY LAW

Family law has as main characteristic its connection to the life of individuals, dealing with interpersonal relationships involving affective bonds and generating patrimonial, personal and assistance effects. Its repercussions are repeatedly taken to the judiciary, which is currently very saturated, causing dissatisfaction to the population. The practice of mediation is preliminary to the work of the Judiciary, but some progress, investments and studies are still necessary to ensure its maximum effectiveness. The objective of this work is to demonstrate the importance of the mediation institute as a method of solving family conflicts, highlighting their peculiarities.

Sibling Violence and Bullying Behaviors in Peers: The Mediational Role of Self-Esteem.

In the context of the existing research on families, sibling violence is a less explored area. However, it has seemingly received more attention recently, and it can assume a relevant role in understanding the maladaptive behavior of youngsters and bullying. Additionally, adolescents involved in bullying and self-esteem are associated with disruptive violence inside the family context. This study's sample consisted of 286 students, aged between 12 and 17 years, from both sexes. This study intends to explore the association between sibling violence and bullying behavior in peers and the mediator effect of self-esteem. The measures for data collection were a demographic questionnaire, the Social Exclusion and School Violence Questionnaire, The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (Portuguese version for siblings), and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. The results show a negative effect between negotiation in the sibling relationship (victimization) and social exclusion and verbal aggression related to bullying behavior. Self-esteem represents a total and negative mediator in this connection. Our results also show a variety of indirect outcomes amongst the negotiation dimension, psychological aggression and injury between siblings, and the social exclusion and verbal aggression dimensions (on the aggression and victimization scales). The results will be discussed according to the attachment theory but considering the importance of affective bonds with siblings as a predisposing factor to an adaptive development course.

Peer mentoring: an encouragement to face the challenges of remote teaching of nursing students

Objective: To describe the challenges faced in the transition to emergency remote teaching and the impacts of peer mentoring experienced by nursing students in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: A descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, was carried out with students in the Undergraduate Nursing Mentoring Program at the University of Brasilia. Data was collected using an electronic form from March to May 2022 and thematic content analysis was used to process the data. Results: Two categories emerged: 1. The adversities of remote teaching and 2. Contributions of mentoring in the context of remote teaching. Conclusion: In the face of anguish and exhaustion due to the excess of virtual activities, the challenge of transforming the household into an environment conducive to studying, and the limitations in access to technologies, mentoring was shown to be a powerful strategy for coping with remote teaching by providing embracement, a sense of belonging to the university, motivation with the course, and bonds of affection among students in a period characterized by a new teaching-learning reality.

Packing Heat: On the Affective Incorporation of Firearms

For countless citizens in the United States, guns are objects of personal attachment that provide strong feelings of power and security. I argue that a key reason for such tight affective bonds is that, under certain conditions, guns become integrated into their owners’ embodied experience. To flesh out this view, I explain (a) how firearms, as material artifacts, can become a part of the feeling body and (b) how this integration impacts one’s experience of self, others, and the world. I first apply the distinction between body-incorporation and body-extension by De Preester and Tsakiris (Phenomenol Cogn Sci 8:307–319, 2009) to delineate how guns can (and cannot) be integrated into lived bodies. I then introduce Ihde's (Technology and the life world: from garden to earth, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1990) notion of embodiment relations to elaborate on the key experiential features of technologically extended bodies and complement the previous, sensorimotor-centric accounts of bodily extension with Colombetti's (Phenomenology for the twenty-first century, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2016) concept of affective incorporation. With this theoretical framework in place, I proceed to examine the motives and affective dynamics involved in the incorporation of guns, the practices by which this incorporation is constituted, and its impact on gun carriers’ habitual comportment. In doing so, I identify two notable contradictions: first, between a desire for the power afforded by firearms and the lack in oneself that this power implies, and second, between one’s seemingly beneficial feelings of confidence/safety and potentially harmful transformations in one’s perceptions of threat. To conclude, I discuss how my analysis challenges current theorization on technologically extended bodies and consider its relevance for ongoing debates over gun policy.

Self-regulation in online string instrument lessons: Motivation, social interaction and learning environment

This article investigates selected processes of self-regulated learning (SRL) in online string instrument lessons. We explore: (i) the factors that motivate teachers and students to commence and maintain online teaching and learning, (ii) the synchronous and asynchronous social interactions that occur between teachers, students and peers and (iii) the structuring of the online/physical learning environment. The participants were five international string teachers and six students, voluntarily teaching and learning online in a non-formal educational context. Data sources include lesson observations, semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. A theoretical’ thematic analysis method was used to analyse the data. The findings indicate that the possibility of online lessons overcoming geographical barriers led to the involvement of teachers and students, and persistence came with the realisation of student performance progress. Teachers attempted to overcome the impracticability of technique-related physical manipulation by stimulating students’ mental imagery. They also reported the importance of exploring interactions through social media platforms to encourage students to seek help. To account for lessons taking place at students’ homes, teachers reinforced the importance of providing instructions to promote environmental structuring. Finally, despite the physical distance, teachers affirmed that they established bonds of affection with students.

Affective relationships with caregivers, self-efficacy, and hope of adolescents in residential care

The transition to residential care (RC) is often experienced with fear and distrust, which, associated with a feeling of punishment and abandonment, may result in pejorative attributions and self-depreciation. These feelings may reveal a greater difficulty for youth to invest in social relationships and be open to reorganizing affective bonds with alternative significant figures. Developing quality affective relationships with caregivers in residential care may work as a protective factor for the biopsychosocial development of youth. The present study aims to analyze the associations between affective relationships with caregivers and self-efficacy, and future expectations of youth in residential care, as well as to test the mediating effect of hope on the previous association. The sample included 249 youth living in residential care, aged between 12 and 18 years. The results show that the quality of affective relationships with caregivers is associated with youth self-efficacy and hopes. A partial positive mediation of hope is also found. The results are discussed considering attachment theory and its contribution to relational mechanisms to promote self-efficacy and expectations of the future of youth living in residential care. The contributions of this study to the implementation of intervention guidelines will also be discussed.

The role of Guanxi in fostering adaptability and work engagement among educators in international educational institutions.

The present study delves into the intricate relationships between individual adaptability, various dimensions of Guanxi-Ganqing, Renqing, and Xinren-and work engagement among educators working in international educational institutions across major cities in China. Guanxi refers to complex system of social networks and influential relationships that facilitate business and other dealings. Ganqing, Renqing, and Xinren represents distinct but interconnected dimensions. Ganqing refers to the emotional bonding or personal affection that is developed within a Guanxi relationship. Renqing can be understood as the norm of reciprocity or the social obligation to respond to another's needs and to maintain the balance of give and take in relationships. Finally, Xinren: This dimension represents trust and credibility in Guanxi relationships. Employing online data collection via the Qualtrics platform, the study investigates the impact of individual adaptability on work engagement, particularly examining the mediating roles of different Guanxi dimensions. Utilizing Hayes' Process Model 80 for mediation analysis, our findings demonstrate a statistically significant direct effect of individual adaptability on work engagement, thus supporting Hypothesis 1 (H1). The analysis reveals that this relationship is partially mediated by other variables within our model. Significantly, the study highlights the nuanced roles of the Guanxi dimensions of Ganqing, Renqing, and Xinren in this context. Both Ganqing and Renqing were found to amplify the effect of individual adaptability on work engagement, confirming Hypotheses 2a and 2b. However, while Xinren increased the effect size, it did not significantly mediate the relationship between individual adaptability and work engagement, leading to the rejection of Hypothesis 2c. Furthermore, our research provides new insights into the interplay between these Guanxi dimensions. Specifically, Ganqing and Renqing significantly influenced Xinren, which in turn impacted work engagement, thereby supporting Hypotheses 3a and 3b. This mediated chain model suggests a more complex interaction between these factors than previously understood. Our analysis also reveals the differential impacts of these Guanxi dimensions. Notably, Ganqing exhibited a greater influence on work engagement compared to Renqing and Xinren. This finding underscores the critical role of affective bonds in social ties and their importance in enhancing work engagement. These results, robust across statistical metrics including R, R-squared, MSE, F, and p-values, are detailed in our results section and illustrated in Figure 3. The study contributes to the understanding of how individual adaptability and various Guanxi dimensions interact to influence work engagement, offering valuable insights for both academic research and practical application in organizational settings. These findings are contextualized within Confucian values and the ongoing internationalization of education. The study thus advances the theoretical discourse while offering practical recommendations for educators and institutional policies. Limitations and future research directions are also elaborated.

Living together, loving together: pet families in the 21st century

ABSTRACT This paper explores the configuration of families between humans and companion animals, focusing on the shifting domestic dynamics and the rise of pet families in urban milieus. These configurations represent characteristic ways of living in the context of youth middleclass sectors in the 21st century. At a methodology level, we conducted a survey, 27 in-depth interviews, and a review of 3,000 profiles on social networks and dating apps of youth users from Buenos Aires and Mexico City. Over the past decades, family subjectivation devices have undergone a global transformation. While these changes coexist with classical arrangements, especially in large cities, there is an increasing prevalence of affective bonds, forms of cohabitation, economic agreements, vital commitments, and even decisions regarding having or not having children that overflow the historical meanings of the family. Therefore, the construction of analyses such as “ways of living together” seeks to decenter the family configuration as the sole matrix of analysis by linking these practices with broader transformations that can be contemplated within the realm of “the common.”

Esbozos para una construcción posmarxista en la microgestión en salud

Abstract The purpose of this article is to analyze the contributions of Mouffe and Laclau from post-Marxism, agonist democracy, and populist logic that innovated the ways of building collective identities and political viability. The potency of these theories for the micropolitical development of health management was investigated. The theoretical contributions indicate passion as the driving force of politics; they propose to sublimate conflicts into action via institutional channels, establish hegemonic practices as the capacity to articulate heterogeneous demands, and explain the capacity to configure a collective identity with a contingent leadership. The particularities of health work such as the hands-on approach, the margins of autonomy, the micropolitical exercise for its development and the organization as a professional bureaucracy, enable the proposals to be put into practice. We point out that the experience of building identities within the organization from an affective bond and the vehiculation of unmet demands reduces the discomfort in the services and promotes a stance of transformation.

Jovens aprendizes: trabalhadores efetivamente comprometidos e/ou ajustados aos papéis organizacionais?

Abstract The objective of this study was to compare levels of affective commitment and organizational consent among Brazilian young apprentices. Data was collected from 2,543 apprentices using validated scales of commitment and organizational consent. The study involved confirmatory factor analyses, results interpretation, and correlation tests. The results align with other evidence of the unidimensional structure of the constructs, confirming the affective basis of commitment and obedience in organizational consent. The overall mean of affective commitment was lower than that of organizational consent. These results indicate both a high affective bond and strong role adjustment and obedience. Given the socioeconomic reality of the apprentices and possible explanatory variables, an agenda for future studies is suggested.

Pengaruh Konservatisme Akuntansi dan Ukuran Perusahaan terhadap Peringkat Obligasi pada Perusahaan yang Terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia

The purpose of this study was to test whether accounting conservatism and company size affect bond ratings in banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2017-2021. This type of research is quantitative research using secondary data. The sample in this study were banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and ranked by PT PEFINDO as many as 21 companies. Data collection techniques in this study are observation data, literature books, journals and articles. The data analysis used in this research is panel data regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that accounting conservatism has no effect while company size affects the bond rating of banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange.

Mapping identity and place in Yongping Li’s The End of the River

ABSTRACT This article offers to postcolonial literary studies a case study of Borneo grappling with its colonial legacy and cultural identity by exploring the dynamic interplay between place and identity in Yongping Li’s two-volume novel, Da He Jin Tou (The End of the River). Using a theoretical framework rooted in postcolonial geo-humanities, including the concept of place in postcolonialism, Yi-Fu Tuan’s notion of “topophilia”, and Robert Tally’s literary cartography, the article argues that Li’s mapping of Borneo as a dynamic interactive space offers entry into a process of affective identification that transcends national borders and ethnicity. To achieve this, the article first contextualizes Li’s Borneo writing within a postcolonial spatial framework, and then proceeds to analyse the novel, highlighting a meeting between Tuan’s humanistic geography as related to place and affective bond, and Tally’s literary mapping of spatiality to demonstrate Li’s identification with the textured and affectively charged Borneo.

Glocal Borders in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast (2021)

Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical film Belfast (2021) tells the story of a young boy, Buddy, growing up in Belfast in the sectarian border zones that internally fissured the state of Northern Ireland. This article suggests that the movie’s critical success partly rests on the movie’s glocal approach to Belfast’s history, including its border zones. The film employs a number of aesthetic devices to turn the local experiences of Buddy into a global narrative about childhood, family and border zones. Among these tools are the use of self-referential framing devices, the child’s perspective and elements of nostalgia that link local history to transnational bonds of affection. By using a child's perspective, Belfast transcends the ruptures inherent in Belfast’s zones of division to create connections across cultural, ideological and physical spaces. Situated in a glocal framework, Buddy’s childhood symbolically embodies the experiences of a collective Irish diaspora, one that thinks back to its own or its family’s migrant experiences and turns it into a source of emotional belonging.

The Ambivalent Translator: Towards a History of Psychoanalytic Translations

An influential strand within modern translation studies has drawn a portrait of the translator as a deeply ambivalent figure, charged with the challenging task of preserving the foreign of the original work within the new version, and thus as inevitably torn between two languages and cultures. The case of the first English translations of Freud's work, undertaken by Abraham Arden Brill, is used here to demonstrate that a detailed historical and philological analysis of textual practices can help us situate the figure of the ambivalent translator in its proper context, namely within a historical model of translation. Retracing this model and its ramifications also has larger implications for an approach that should allow us to understand the relational, affective and institutional bonds connecting authors, translators and readers in global processes of cultural transmission of the human sciences.

Modern missionary work and Chinese women’s literacy: Amy Moore in China 1930–1949

ABSTRACT This article analyses the early work of the Australian missionary Amy Moore, who worked for the China Inland Mission for twenty years. Moore aimed to develop local Christian women leaders who would contribute to China’s spiritual and moral evolution, under the continuing guidance of the colonialism of the European powers. Moore was critical of much of the colonial interventions of Britain and others, but she did not consider that China had yet reached a state of spiritual and cultural maturity, particularly in its treatment of women. Her plan was to improve adult women’s literacy, combining her evangelical passion with influences from international movements for women’s emancipation, and campaigns to improve the condition of Chinese women. Moore’s work was also framed by international and progressive changes in the world mission movement in the interwar years. At the same time Moore responded to modernising changes within contemporary China. Improvements in health, education, and gendered relations for rural women influenced missionary women’s work. Moore shared many life experiences as young woman with Chinese colleagues and friends, yet always the bonds of affection and emotion were cut through by colonial and racial divides.

The effect of CEO locality on the cost of debt financing: the role of regional heterogeneity

ABSTRACT We examine whether chief executive officer (CEO) locality affects firms’ cost of debt. Drawing upon place attachment theories suggesting individuals develop affective bonds with their hometowns, we find robust evidence that firms employing local CEOs tend to have a lower cost of debt than those with non-local CEOs. More importantly, we find that regional heterogeneity plays an important role in shaping the relationship from economic and cultural perspectives. The effect is more pronounced in regions where the economies and marketisation are less developed. Furthermore, we show that the effect of CEO locality is stronger in regions with collectivism and regions with low social trust. Our findings hold up to numerous robustness checks and endogeneity tests. Overall, our study highlights the prominent role of the geographically segmented CEO labour markets as an intrinsic but underexplored non-contractual factor for value creation.