Difficult People Research Articles

Lockdown and liquor… the effects of COVID‐19 on alcohol consumption

Lockdown and liquor… the effects of <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 on alcohol consumption

Ideas about difficult situations and other people among students with social frustrations

The article describes the problem of psychosocial personal characteristics as predictors of the coping behavior. Over the past few decades, the world has changed beyond recognition, the current generation of students has changed, and therefore the strategies that they use to cope with the difficulties that have appeared in their lives have also changed. The ways of their adaptation to modern reality have changed in comparison with the older generation. In this regard, the study of various predictors of coping behavior, which today prevail in the modern student environment, becomes relevant. The authors used content-analysis of metaphors, tests and methods of mathematical statistics (quartiles, regression analysis, Kruskal-Wallis H-test) and discovered the dependence between social frustration, metaphors of difficult life situations and coping-strategies. So, a high level of social frustration is connected with low rational and adaptive coping strategies in difficult life situations. Various coping strategies are associated with different metaphors of difficult life situations and of their participants: “friends” and “aliens”. The metaphors reflect personal perception of these situations based on scales “short distance-long distance”, “rational value-emotional value” and on parameters “undertaking the responsibility – placing the responsibility with others”, “stereotypical or differentiated image of the situation”.

Toxic Gaslighting: On the Ins and Outs of Pollution

Outdoor images predominate in cultural conceptions of “air pollution,” whilst indoor air quality (IAQ) is typically tenfold more contaminated. Recent nonprofit research revealed that “green label” carpet contains up to 44 hazardous substances. How and why do school administrators not know this? When people speak colloquially about “toxic” schools, they typically refer to social environments whose power dynamics are manipulated by difficult people (bullies, narcissists, gaslighters, etc.). In this article, I borrow the cultural concept of gaslighting to query how and why the literal off-gassing of banal objects like carpet have escaped scientific inquiry. In dialogue with recent innovative air studies in California that blur the boundaries of in/outdoor pollution, this auto-ethnographic paper chronicles a carpet controversy at “Beacon” Elementary, a bilingual school in the Central Valley. Even as outdoor smoke from California wildfires in 2017 pushed PM2.5 levels past red into unprecedented magenta alerts, children were sickened inside school classrooms after new carpets were laid in 2017. By “outing” internal school board communication through repeated public records requests, Beacon mothers discovered how a chemical risk manager on the board manipulated confusion about patterns of pollution to dismiss the mothers’ citizen science of the chemical abuse of their children. When pollution occurs out-of-sight (in locked classrooms) or affects groups rarely studied in exposure (minors), institutions can easily deploy gaslighting techniques of doubt, denial, and disavowal of the chemical abuse of children. Given the slow (Nixon 2011), delayed, incremental, and “gaslighted” nature of modern chemical violence, even those harmed by chronic pollution may misrecognize the symptoms; those that do recognize the symptoms may be perceived or portrayed as delusional in stories worthy of Hollywood noir.

A media educational concept of the formation and continuous development of personal readiness for self-learning during the life

The continuous increase of media information volume in the personal and professional individual space with constantly improving mechanisms of its management and distribution, the accelerated penetration of media technologies into various spheres of human life and activities, the ever-growing influence of the media environment on people’s consciousness actualize the problem of preparing a person with highly developed media educational competences, that is capable for continuous self-learning. This significance is especially evident in connection with the difficult people living conditions during periods of epidemics and pandemics. The article describes the media educational concept of the formation and development of lifelong self-learning personal readiness. It assumes dynamic, factor and competence-based aspects of the realization, which accordingly take into account the stages (phases, levels) of the formation and development of this readiness, the factors of the relationship between the person and the environment of his/her development, as well as a certain content from the standpoint of acquiring the necessary personal self-learning competences. The concept will allow lecturers and universities’ administration to successfully design pedagogical activities to form a media-competent person, ready for continuous self-learning throughout life.

Guarantee system of Access to Justice in U.S.

According to a report published by the Korea Labor Institute, the income gap between low-income and high-income families was reported to have widened to the highest level in 2018. In order to meet the demands of judicial needs of the economically difficult people or marginalized groups, access to legal structures and judicial justice should be made easier. In the end, it is not an exaggeration to say that the difference between the rich and the poor is a difference in the accessibility of judicial means. Access to justice is ultimately essential for a better human life. Access to justice primarily means access to lawyers and courts and the right to judicial access means the right to equally participate in the institutions in which legal issues are discussed and found, and decisions are made. The right to judicial access means the right to equally participate in the institutions in which legal matters are discussed and found, and decisions are made. In order to strengthen the right of judicial access, it is necessary to establish an integrated platform for judicial assistance for the socially disadvantaged. Each court in the country does not need to support pro bono activities in different content and in different forms, but needs systematic and organized support for pro bono activities. To this end, it is necessary for all members of society to recognize the problems of the judicial gap, and efforts to resolve them are urgently needed.

A House Burden Score: Measuring the Workload in Therapeutic Residential Care for Young People

ABSTRACT This article is about using data from the Strengths and Difficulties questionnaire to develop a house burden score as a way of measuring the workload of a therapeutic residential care program. The development of the score ensures that residential placement selection is based on empirical data rather than on the often-used criteria of ‘where is there a vacancy?’ It may also curb comments by inexperienced staff such as ‘our house has the most difficult young people, whereas yours are easy’. The aim of the score is to ensure that a residential program is not overburdened with too many children and young people with complex emotional and behavioral difficulties to the extent that this result is a sub-standard service for all young people.

Automated Motion of a Robot based on Emotion Analysis

Several people in this world are suffering from neuro-motor disability which makes their life difficult and such people become dependent on others. In some cases, such people can speak clearly whereas in other cases their speech may not be very clear. Here, we present a solution to control the movement of such people who are not able to walk because of their disability but are able to speak clearly. Their speech is analysed, and a mapping of movement has been defined for an emotion. Further, a prototype has been built in the form of an arduino robot to demonstrate that the mapping is able to control the movement which can further be refined in future to make it more accurate and mapped with relevant movements according to the need in real-life. Other practical applications of this work include covert operation, feedback industry etc.

Treatment choice when faced with high risk of poor outcome – and response to decisions made by surrogates on their behalf

Faced with a high likelihood of poor outcome treatment choice is difficult and few people are certain about what they would, or would not, want. Recognising this we sought to explore how individuals react to hypothetical choices made on their behalf by surrogate decision-makers. We used an online survey, using a hypothetical scenario involving a 95% chance of poor outcome and 5% chance of good outcome. There were 510 participants. Most (63%) expressed uncertainty regarding preference for treatment. 37% expressed certainty (12% certainly wanting treatment and 25% certainly not wanting treatment). Seventy seven percent indicated they would be understanding or pleased if the surrogate chose to treat, while 92% were understanding or pleased with a decision not to treat by a surrogate decision maker. Patients who had expressed ‘certain’ wishes when presented with the scenario (either certainly wanting or certainly not wanting treatment) were more likely to be angry/upset when surrogates made the opposite decision. Those who had completed an Advance Care Plan (ACP) were more likely to be angry/upset when these wishes were not followed. This finding suggests it may be unrealistic to expect surrogate decision-makers to identify ‘what the patient would want’ as a binary choice between consenting to treatment or refusing treatment when chances are poor and the decision is difficult. Asking surrogates to identify choices that they believe would be likely to make the person angry or upset might be more appropriate and more effective. Most people were understanding of decisions made by surrogates (whether these matched their preference or not). This finding should be used to reassure surrogates who are required to make difficult decisions. Additionally, factors associated with patient upset/anger at surrogate treatment decisions were identified. This most commonly included those patients who had documented wishes in an Advance Care Plan that was not followed.

IoT Enabled Air Pollution Monitoring System

“Air Pollution is the major problem that we are facing now-a-days. Controlling air pollution in an area is becoming difficult and many people are facing a lot of health issues due to this increased pollution rates in the country. The increased amount of carbon monoxide (CO), smoke, carbon dioxide (CO2) have lead a severe impact on the human life. The growing number of vehicles and industries contributes to air pollution to a greater extent. This paper presents a model which helps in monitoring the air pollution through the use of internet of things (IoT) platform. Implementing it with sensors and arduino which will help the user to know about the temperature and the humidity level on the smart phone and accordingly the user can take preventive measures. Also the system detects air quality and if the amount of pollutants increased.”

APEGO AO LUGAR E AO COMPORTAMENTO PRÓ-AMBIENTAL: O RACIONAMENTO DE ÁGUA EM QUESTÃO

A escassez de água tem colocado em risco a saúde humana, sendo necessárias ações de conservação. Racionar água é uma medida adotada por cidades sob esse risco. O objetivo do estudo foi identificar quais as variáveis psicológicas, sociodemográficas e situacionais que dificultam ou auxiliam moradores no período de racionamento a conservar este recurso. A amostra foi escolhida por conveniência, constituída por 103 adultos, que responderam um questionário contendo escalas de favorabilidade às medidas de racionamento e apego ao lugar. Foram utilizados Grupos focais para acessar suas percepções sobre o racionamento. Os dados das escalas foram analisados estatisticamente, e a análise de conteúdo foi realizada nos grupos focais. Os resultados indicaram diferenças em apego ao lugar e favorabilidade dependendo do local estudado e do nível socioeconômico dos participantes. Conclui-se que os aspectos de apego ao lugar se relacionam ao comportamento pró-ambiental.

Advanced gesture recognition system using long-term recurrent convolution network

Abstract The reliable communication between deaf-dumb and normal people is difficult, because deaf and dumb people use sign language for their communication which is unknown to the normal person. In this research work, to provides solution for problem faced by deaf and dumb people. It deals with an idea of gesture image recognition. In this the concept of embedded system and image processing is combined together which is very effective. This device convert gesture image to voice. The conversion is done using Raspberry pi. Gesture image recognition is processed by implementing LRCN (Long-term Recurrent Convolution Network) algorithm.

Shining the light on eating disorders, incidence, prognosis and profiling of patients in primary and secondary care: national data linkage study.

Diagnosing eating disorders can be difficult and few people with the disorder receive specialist services despite the associated high morbidity and mortality. To examine the burden of eating disorders in the population in terms of incidence, comorbidities and survival. We used linked electronic health records from general practitioner and hospital admissions in Wales, UK within the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) databank to investigate the incidence of new eating disorder diagnoses. We examined the frequency of comorbid diagnoses and prescribed medications in cases and controls in the 2 years before and 3 years after diagnosis, and performed a survival analysis. A total of 15 558 people were diagnosed with eating disorders between 1990 and 2017. The incidence peaked at 24 per 100 000 people in 2003/04. People with eating disorders showed higher levels of other mental disorders (odds ratio 4.32, 95% CI 4.01-4.66) and external causes of morbidity and mortality (odds ratio 2.92, 95% CI 2.44-3.50). They had greater prescription of central nervous system drugs (odds ratio 3.15, 95% CI 2.97-3.33), gastrointestinal drugs (odds ratio 2.61, 95% CI 2.45-2.79) and dietetic drugs (odds ratio 2.42, 95% CI 2.24-2.62) before diagnosis. These excess diagnoses and prescriptions remained 3 years after diagnosis. Mortality was raised compared with controls for some eating disorders, particularly in females with anorexia nervosa. Incidence of diagnosed eating disorders is relatively low in the population but there is a major longer term burden in morbidity and mortality to the individual.

Employable Skills for Hospitality Graduates as Perceived Among Hotel Supervisors in Cebu City

Hospitality is one of the most significant components of the tourism industry. Graduates of hospitality management in the twenty-first century are facing an increasingly competitive and unstable employment market; thus, it is critical that they should be equipped with skills that enable them to maximize their full potential. According to Mcnair (2003), in the future, graduates will need to have greater ownership of their employable skills as well as the confidence to cope with economic upheavals in order to capitalize on career opportunities. Employable skills are those that prepare students specifically for the world of work. In common terms, they cover a range of competencies within the categories of hospitality operations skills, human resource skills, personal skills, and conceptual skills. This study relates to employers perceived of Hotel and Restaurant Management graduate skills as deemed required by need for accelerated performance levels in hospitality the businesses for fast change in the skills required of university graduates and to understand what industry needs from education and have education is accomplishing its objectives to prepare qualified graduate for the changing hospitality industry in the Philippines and it aims to determine the factor that measures the employable skills of the hotel. In the context of the findings of the study, the author concluded that the most employable skills as perceived among hotel supervisors in three departments, namely: Housekeeping Department, Front Office Department, and Food and Beverage Department were Front Office Operational Ability, Leadership skills, Communication skills, Cooperative team building, Critical thinking ability, Hands-on experience, and Strategic planning were the seven employable skills possessing a most or significant need for hotel supervisors. However, Restaurant Operational Management, Handling difficult people, Problem-solving and identification and interrelationship possess moderately crucial than their ability to perform the skills while Lodging Administration, Negotiating Skills, Computer Application and Finance and Accounting. Interestingly all four of the lowest rated employable skills in the hospitality industry are cornerstones taught, and it should still be retained because of its essential ratings among hotel supervisors.

From e-Health to i-Health: Prospective Reflexions on the Use of Intelligent Systems in Mental Health Care.

Depressive disorders cover a set of disabling problems, often chronic or recurrent. They are characterized by a high level of psychiatric and somatic comorbidities and represent an important public health problem. To date, therapeutic solutions remain unsatisfactory. For some researchers, this is a sign of decisive paradigmatic failure due to the way in which disorders are conceptualized. They hypothesize that the symptoms of a categorical disorder, or of different comorbid disorders, can be interwoven in chains of interdependencies on different elements, of which it would be possible to act independently and synergistically to influence the functioning of the symptom system, rather than limiting oneself to targeting a hypothetical single underlying cause. New connected technologies make it possible to invent new observation and intervention tools allowing better phenotypic characterization of disorders and their evolution, that fit particularly well into this new “symptoms network” paradigm. Synergies are possible and desirable between these technological and epistemological innovations and can possibly help to solve some of the difficult problems people with mental disorders face in their everyday life, as we will show through a fictional case study exploring the possibilities of connected technologies in mental disorders in the near future.

Deaf Queer world-making: A thick intersectional analysis of the mediated cultural body

ABSTRACTNyle DiMarco, a Deaf, sexually fluid celebrity, helps audiences reimagine ways of being through mediated representations of his cultural body. Within the framework of a critical intercultural communication study and through a thick intersectional approach, we analyze DiMarco’s personae as texts across three TV shows: America’s Next Top Model, Dancing with the Stars, and Difficult People. First, we attend to his moments of sexual fluidity. Next, we attend to his moments of Deaf Gain. Finally, we attend to his character’s denouncing of the hearing homonormative. Through each performance, a Deaf Queer world-making is conjured, offering discursive possibilities beyond the normative.

How can we handle difficult people?

Continuing his regular series, Steve Burnage talks us through CPD ideas that can be adapted for your school. He will offer a template for a 45-minute workshop, with free handouts and slides available on our website. This instalment looks at handling difficult people

Difficult People: Who Is Perceived to Be Demanding in Personal Networks and Why Are They There?

Why do people maintain ties with individuals whom they find difficult? Standard network theories imply that such alters are avoided or dropped. Drawing on a survey of over 1,100 diverse respondents who described over 12,000 relationships, we examined which among those ties respondents nominated as a person whom they "sometimes find demanding or difficult." Those so listed composed about 15 percent of all alters in the network. After holding ego and alter traits constant, close kin, especially women relatives and aging parents, were especially likely to be named as difficult alters. Non-kin described as friends were less, and those described as co-workers more, likely to be listed only as difficult alters. These results suggest that normative and institutional constraints may force people to retain difficult and demanding alters in their networks. We also found that providing support to alters, but not receiving support from those alters, was a major source of difficulty in these relationships. Furthermore, the felt burden of providing support was not attenuated by receiving assistance, suggesting that alters involved in reciprocated exchanges were not less often labeled difficult than were those in unreciprocated ones. This study underlines the importance of constraints in personal networks.

Jody Foster, MD with Michelle Joy, MD, The Schmuck in my Office – How to Deal Effectively with Difficult People at Work

Jody Foster, MD with Michelle Joy, MD, <i>The Schmuck in my Office – How to Deal Effectively with Difficult People at Work</i>

Working with difficult people

Sometimes you find yourself working with someone with whom you just don’t get along. Maybe their personality is grating, or their political views are different from yours. Maybe they are a font of useless knowledge. Whatever the reason, you constantly conflict. Still, you need to figure out how to work together. Evaluate. How you choose to deal with a difficult person depends on many factors, including how much you need them, how long the project will go on, and how significant the impact on your professional life will be. When you first realize there is a problem, take a long, objective look and determine the source. Is this a change in the other person’s behavior that may reverse itself, or have they always been this way and are they unlikely to change? Do they not know what they are doing, or do they just not care? Work with them. Find

Speaking of Disdain

Speaking of Disdain Kim Sagwa (bio) Translated by Bruce Fulton (bio) and Ju-Chan Fulton (bio) After I dropped out of high school I worked part-time at a convenience store not far from the school. It happened to be spring, a time when my former classmates would be prancing about their university campuses in their new outfits. Meanwhile I the high-school dropout was making 1400 wŏn an hour. One morning after the rush-hour bustle I was twiddling my thumbs when the door opened. I uttered a robotic welcome and looked up. I've seen this guy before. He pierced me with a look. It was my high school PE teacher! He wanted to buy lotto tickets. There was hardly any conversation and yet I still remember vividly the stare he threw at me, the look in his eyes as if he was gazing at the wreckage of a collapsed building. My life has changed a great deal since then. But I do remember that from time to time someone would send me the same look the PE teacher graced me with that day. Though I felt the contempt in those gazes, miraculously they didn't make me angry. Besides, enough time has passed that the memories have come to feel meaningless. Nevertheless, I have to wonder if my life can be summarized as a desperate effort to recede as far as I can from disdainful gazes. In the eyes of strangers have I tried to look fine and dandy, have I sought accomplishments I wouldn't be ashamed of? Needless to say, these days I rarely encounter the expression my [End Page 53] teacher wore that day. But I continue to be afraid, because I know that most of my accomplishments are a mere sand castle. The more occupied I am with this thought, the more eagerly I've tried to shore up that castle. And the more shoring up I've done, the more frightened I am. What if the waves swallow up that castle? I've often asked myself that. The truth is, the waves will surely come. What I'm laying out here is nothing new. Because contempt is an everyday experience for people who are born and raised in Korea. You'd have a difficult time finding people with no memories of disdain. People give and take disdain, they strive for a position where they're sheltered from it. To avoid being on the receiving end of disdain they study, they have cosmetic surgery, they go to college. To avoid being disdained they go out on dates and they spend money—not that they actually want to, you'll find them protesting. They grow weary and shudder yet they can't get out of the game. It's because humans are social creatures and the reputation they have in their group is crucial. Korean society demands too much from its members and is brutal to those who lag behind. People will kill themselves before they reach out for help. Meanwhile, they remain clueless about what might constitute a contempt-free life. They turn into beings who can do nothing without feeling disdain from others. If all we do is react to the disdainful gazes of others, then we cannot believe in ourselves. And if we come to believe that disdain is the only way to motivate others, if we become like the judge in a survival program or the mentor who purports to heal with blistering remarks, then we will never believe in others. What can we hope to build in this fashion other than a precarious sand castle? The chic buildings lining the streets are such castles, and their inhabitants wear precarious expressions. And the waves are rolling in. What has happened to us, what has made you and me abandon all trust in each other? [End Page 54] Kim Sagwa Kim Sagwa earned a BA in Creative Writing from Korea National University of Arts in 2009, and since 2008 has published eight volumes of fiction, critical essays, and travel writing. Her first novel, Mina (2008), was published in French translation in 2013 and will be published in English translation by...