Emotional Make-up Research Articles

Student-teacher relational entitlement and its association with students' and teachers' characteristics.

One's sense of entitlement-the subjective perception of what one deserves from another person-can contribute to social attitudes and behaviour in positive or negative ways, depending on the way in which one construes this subjective sense. Previous work has examined how adolescents' sense of entitlement towards their parents contributes positively or negatively to their well-being. In this study, we extend this line of research and focus on adolescents' sense of entitlement towards another important authority figure-teachers, while examining its associations with both students' and teachers' characteristics and implications for students' functioning at school. We adapted the Adolescents' Sense of Relational Entitlement towards Parents scale to tap students' relational entitlement towards their teachers. We then examined the factor structure of the adapted scale and its associations with students' and teachers' relevant psychological measures in three samples (N = 1588). Findings confirmed the three-factor structure of student-teacher entitlement. Studies 2-3 also revealed that students' sense of entitlement was associated with both students' variables (e.g., psychological well-being, self-esteem, perceptions of teachers' acceptance of them and students' school engagement) and teachers' emotional difficulties. Study 3's findings indicated that students' sense of entitlement was associated with their school engagement. Students' sense of entitlement towards teachers seems to be associated with teachers' emotional makeup and attitudes towards students. In addition, this subjective sense is associated with students' school engagement. These findings suggest that there is theoretical value and practical implications for further unpacking both teachers' and students' factors associated with students' sense of entitlement and examining its association with academic functioning at school.

Hannah Claire Haines, 1891–1974: Not the Average “Militant Female”

Hannah Claire Haines, 1891–1974: Not the Average “Militant Female”

‘Patient death really changes your emotional make-up’: the effects of patient death and dying on speech therapists’ and audiologists’ practice and well-being

ABSTRACT Speech therapists and audiologists (ST&As) may encounter patient death and dying in their professional practice. However, there appears to be a dearth of research internationally and in South Africa regarding the potential of impact of these experiences on their professional performance and personal well-being. This paper aims to provide insight into the potential influence, and mitigation strategies, of patient death and dying on ST&As’ professional practice and personal well-being. Utilizing a qualitative research inquiry and analysis, 25 ST&As were interviewed to obtain insight into their experiences of patient death and dying and their interviews were transcribed and underwent narrative thematic analysis. The results suggest that ST&As experienced feelings marked by guilt, despondence, fear, avoidance, and emotional exhaustion. To alleviate these negative emotions, participants employed self-talk, engaged in physical activities, took leave of absence from work, and balanced their personal and professional lives to maintain their professional practice. Some of the ST&As sought support from healthcare professionals who they worked with, and they formally debriefed with counsellors, if it was a work requirement. By participants embracing caring concepts into their professional practice and personal well-being, it resulted in them experiencing negative emotions in instances of patient death and dying. However, receiving professional training on patient death and dying and social and organizational support and engaging in self-care practices in these instances, may mitigate these negative emotions.

Descartes’s Ethics: Generosity in the Flesh

This paper focuses on the emotional make-up of Descartes’s generous person. Described as having complete control over the passions, the generous person is not passion-free; she feels compassion for those in need but unable to bear their misfortunes with fortitude, hates vice, takes satisfaction in her own virtue, etc. To bring to light the coherence of the generous person’s emotional configuration, a compare and contrast analysis with Descartes’s deficient moral type, the abject person, is provided. Real life as well as literary examples (Queen Christina of Sweden, Descartes himself and Kadhy Demba, one of the main characters of Marie NDiaye’s novel Trois Femmes Puissantes) further refine the portrait of Descartes’s generous person and show that generosity is achievable by anyone who uses their will well. Descartes’s position on harmonizing the passions is reconstructed as a developmental trajectory: harmonizing the emotions is possible courtesy of God who put this sphere of created affairs under our jurisdiction; harmonizing the passions is required since the alternative is sub-optimal (souls enslaved and miserable); finally, harmonizing the emotions is satisfying. Since, as the above examples demonstrate, in the process of making their emotional composition coherent, different people take different routes and thus “create for themselves a personal, quite personal ideal,” acquiring Cartesian generosity points the way to Nietzsche’s later notion of self-creation.

Thank You for Hearing My Voice - Listening to Women Combat Veterans in the United States and Israeli Militaries.

The military service of combat soldiers may pose many threats to their well being and often take a toll on body and mind, influencing the physical and emotional make-up of combatants and veterans. The current study aims to enhance our knowledge about the combat experiences and the challenges that female soldiers face both during and after their service. The study is based on qualitative methods and narrative analysis of in-depth semi-structured personal interviews with twenty military veterans. It aims to analyze the narratives of American and Israeli female combat soldiers regarding their military service, with emphasis on the soldiers’ descriptions, in their own words, about their difficulties, challenges, coping and successes during their service and transition to civilian life. A recurring theme in the interviews with the veterans of both militaries was the need to be heard and the fact that societies, therapists, and military institutions do not always truly listen to female veterans’ experiences and are not really interested in what actually ails them. Our research suggests that conventional methods used in research relating to veterans might at times be inadequate, because the inherent categorization might abstract, pathologize, and fragment a wide array of soldiers’ modes of post-combat being. Moreover, female veterans’ voices will not be fully heard unless we allow them to be active participants in generating knowledge about themselves.

MOVIES AND SERIES: AN AID FOR SECONDARY LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

English, though an adopted language in colonized countries like India, has deep cultural roots there. Not only has English enriched the languages of these nations but has also lend itself to the medium of creative expression in these countries. It has become part and parcel of intelligence as well as emotional makeup of the educated people there. It is the language required by the world for greater understanding. Today, the compulsions of learning English are no longer nearly political but scientific and technological. Watching videos is always entertaining. Apart from entertainment, video watching is thoroughly a teaching and learning process. Therefore English language acquisition can be made easy with videos as an aid. The research seeks to prove how far videos help in language acquisition and the quantitative research analyses a sample group of children belonging to the age group of 8-10 years

Whither Humanity? Emotional Mind Begs Rational Assessment

Rami Gabriel and Stephen Asma’s book The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition sketches an ambitious research agenda that centers the explanation and understanding of human experience in our embodied, emotional makeup. It argues for a new evolutionary paradigm that naturalizes the understanding of mind, knowledge, and culture, and emphasizes the affective over the cognitive. I argue that they mischaracterize the role that rationality and philosophical theories of rationality play in understanding and shaping our experience. Furthermore, I argue that the book is insufficiently critical about the emotional origins of the theories it explores, which leads to its uncritical acceptance of androcentric ideas and it all but ignores the great and growing problems of group-based inequality whose roots are in the overriding effect of affect.

Women’s Mental Health in India: An Analysis through the Gender Lens

As opposed to the traditional biomedical view of health, the social model of health defines it essentially, as a positive concept which significantly hinges on and is impacted by the social settings, personality of the individual , as well as physical capacities.’ It is in this context, mental health issues among women in general and Indian women in particular, as a subset of the larger corpus of health concerns needs to be inevitably understood and contextualised in the societal and cultural milieu within which women operate. One of such important societal constructs that seems to have a significant impact on mental and emotional health and experience of women is the the construct of gender and its corollaries like gender roles, expectations, demeanour, stereotypes etc. The social construct of gender engineers a woman’s position in the social hierarchy and also has a prominent bearing on her social and personal life experiences. Consequently, socio-cultural context and gender need to be understood as powerful decisive factors of one’s mental and emotional make-up that colludes with other variables like age, family, educational attainment, occupational structure, income and social support etc. The paper attempts to study the mental health concerns among women in India by especially, trying to locate its causes in the socio-cultural factors amid which the women live. Conclusively, the paper tries to highlight various suggestions for developing holistic solutions towards the improvement of mental health of women.

Women’s Mental Health in India:An Analysis through the Gender Lens

As opposed to the traditional biomedical view of health, the social model of health defines it essentially, as a positive concept which significantly hinges on and is impacted by the social settings, personality of the individual , as well as physical capacities.’ It is in this context, mental health issues among women in general and Indian women in particular, as a subset of the larger corpus of health concerns needs to be inevitably understood and contextualised in the societal and cultural milieu within which women operate. One of such important societal constructs that seems to have a significant impact on mental and emotional health and experience of women is the the construct of gender and its corollaries like gender roles, expectations, demeanour, stereotypes etc. The social construct of gender engineers a woman’s position in the social hierarchy and also has a prominent bearing on her social and personal life experiences. Consequently, socio-cultural context and gender need to be understood as powerful decisive factors of one’s mental and emotional make-up that colludes with other variables like age, family, educational attainment, occupational structure, income and social support etc. The paper attempts to study the mental health concerns among women in India by especially, trying to locate its causes in the socio-cultural factors amid which the women live. Conclusively, the paper tries to highlight various suggestions for developing holistic solutions towards the improvement of mental health of women.

Education as a Catalyst of Personality Development: A Case Study of ‘Omar bin Khattāb (R.A)

The individual’s personality, character, thinking, skills and habits depends upon education. Education helps in the growth and boost the qualities of an individual such as physical, mental and emotional make-up as well as temperament and character. This paper enlightens the significant role of education in developing and mounting the personality of ‘Omar Ibn alKhattāb (R.A). He was one of the most powerful and influential Muslim caliphs. His vibrant ideology of superiority of principles and laws made him eminent among his acquaintances. He was a man of determination and a mission, therefore, he thought, evaluated and acted according to it. He established a system of justice, morality, education and training. He was born as an ordinary‘Omar but education and guidance of Islam made him “‘Omar The Great”. This paper ends with the note that a balanced, successful and well-adjusted personality can be designed only by educating the individuals. Educational institutions, religious organizations and enrich culture play an important role in shaping the sturdy personality as is evident in case of ‘Omar(R.A).

Взаимосвязь психологической готовности к материнству и эмоциональных особенностей беременных женщин

Взаимосвязь психологической готовности к материнству и эмоциональных особенностей беременных женщин

Emodiversity: Robust predictor of outcomes or statistical artifact?

This article examines the concept of emodiversity, put forward by Quoidbach et al. (2014) as a novel source of information about "the health of the human emotional ecosystem" (p. 2057). Quoidbach et al. drew an analogy between emodiversity as a desirable property of a person's emotional make-up and biological diversity as a desirable property of an ecosystem. They claimed that emodiversity was an independent predictor of better mental and physical health outcomes in two large-scale studies. Here, we show that Quoidbach et al.'s construct of emodiversity suffers from several theoretical and practical deficiencies, which make these authors' use of Shannon's (1948) entropy formula to measure emodiversity highly questionable. Our reanalysis of Quoidbach et al.'s two studies shows that the apparently substantial effects that these authors reported are likely due to a failure to conduct appropriate hierarchical regression in one case and to suppression effects in the other. It appears that Quoidbach et al.'s claims about emodiversity may reduce to little more than a set of computational and statistical artifacts. (PsycINFO Database Record

Maternal beliefs in children’s bilingualism: A case study on Korean mothers in the United States

This study examined maternal beliefs in children`s bilingualism. Five Korean mothers who were raising young bilingual children in the United States were interviewed. The findings in this study showed that the Korean mothers believed in children`s bilingualism had positive values. They perceived Korean- English bilingualism as a positive influence on children`s well-being, children`s emotional makeup with their family, and children`s educational development. They played a critical role in teaching Korean in various ways based on their positive beliefs. However, they worked individually on their children`s bilingual education and had difficulty in receiving support from the school or the community. They needed support from the school system to maintain their beliefs. The results of the study suggested that American mainstream schools should work together with parents from minority groups and foster a supportive environment for Korean-English bilingual children.

From the Editor

From the Editor

Emotional Practice and Bodily Performance in Early Modern Vampire Literature

ABSTRACT The belief that sufferers of “bad” death were able to return from the grave and haunt the living circulated widely in early modern Europe. There are many such accounts of “revenants” attacking the unwary as they slept, spreading disease among local communities, and causing further deaths. For the townsfolk among whom revenants walked, the destructive nature of the undead corpse was never in doubt. Decapitation, staking, and/or cremation were the main methods used to prevent the deceased's influence from spreading. While contemporary scholars came to dismiss “vampires” as being a product of an unenlightened mind-set, little emphasis has been placed on the importance of the emotional makeup of the local community in propagating such beliefs. With reference to recent research on practice theory and the concept of “emotional contagion,” this article will explore the relationship between ill-performed death, social stress, and the agency of the troublesome dead.

Young Victims Telling their Stories of Sexual Abuse in the Emergency Department

Among young children, child sexual abuse is a common type of maltreatment. Child sexual abuse (CSA) is an important national public health problem that has a devastating impact on the emotional and psychological makeup of the child, family, and society. The purpose of this analysis is to explore the young victim's own stories of disclosure of child sexual abuse and is an exploratory case study using reported assault histories of victims of CSA between the ages of 6 and 14, taken in the immediate wake of the assault. The data were extracted from the hospital records of child victims treated in an emergency department between 2006 and 2010. This qualitative research, using thematic analysis, explored the stories of sexual abuse for children as told by them. Two themes emerged regarding the experience of sex abuse and the immediate outcomes on the children: (1) Abuse Circumstances, which included the child's level of awareness of child sexual abuse, predisposing factors, and the perpetrator's preparation (physical, behavioral, and verbal tactics), and (2) Physical/Psychological Suffering associated with disclosure. These have important implications for all service and health care providers.

Denture acceptance among newly rehabilitated elderly population in old age homes in South India.

Introduction:Elders in old age homes are mainly those who have been abandoned by their family and have one or more physical or mental disabilities. It is a major challenge for the dental professional to plan oral health strategy for this group of patients.Aim of the Study:Aim of the present study is to observe and determine the acceptance of new dental prosthesis among the elderly residing as inmates of 3 old age homes in Mangalore City.Materials and Methods:This cross-sectional study was conducted using a survey proforma. Information regarding their experience with the new denture, 1-month, 3 months and 6 months after denture insertion was gathered. Statistical analysis of the data was done using the Chi-square test with the P < 0.05 considered significant.Results:One hundred and eighty-three residents out of a total of 400 residents in 3 old age homes were denture wearers. Among them, 101 (55.2%) were females, and 82 (44.8%) were males. Dental prosthesis whether worn regularly, discomfort, retention, cleansing of denture during a period of 1-month, 3 months and 6 months was found to be significant satisfaction with the prosthesis, denture adhesives used, food accumulation during a period of 1-month, 3 months and 6 months was found to be nonsignificant.Conclusion:The emotional makeup of the patient must be taken into consideration during the entire procedure. We must understand that the success of the prosthesis depends mainly on the patient's confidence in the dentist rather than the quality of the prosthesis.

In Their Own Words: Mental Health and Quality of Life of West African Refugees in Nigeria

Refugees are exposed to extreme stressors and are therefore at risk of mental health and social problems. Other issues refugees have to cope with include the loss of their country, culture, language, profession, family, friends, and future plans. Much of the studies that have been done on refugee mental health have not attempted to explain what these experiences mean to these individuals. Thus, this study provides explorative data on the mental health and quality of life of West African refugees living in Nigeria in order to understand their views and perspectives. This study carried out in 2010 employed qualitative methods; a total of four focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted among adult male and female refugees purposively selected at the Oru Refugee Camp, Ogun State, Nigeria. Respondents described quality of life as a major determinant of mental health status. Most of the participants believed that women were more predisposed to mental ill health due to their sensitive emotional make-up. Factors identified by respondents as affecting mental health and quality of life among refugees included poverty, unemployment, physical health, housing and environment, discrimination, stigmatization, and insecurity. Refugees rated their mental health and quality of life as poor due to the aforementioned factors. Recommendations were made to the international community, national and local governments to invest more on education, provision of vocational and entrepreneurial skills as well as adequate housing in order to improve the mental health and quality of life of refugees.

Comparative study on individual′s performance orientation and their aura life color

Background: The purpose of this study is to analyze the individual's performance orientation based on their aura life color. Methods: For the present study, a questionnaire was framed to assess seven aura colors based on eight components, such as approach to physical reality, mental attitude, emotional makeup, social style, personal power and leadership style, financial choices, career options and spirituality, and individual's performance orientation factors: loyalty, workaholic and goal-orientation. Data from 189 respondents was drawn from service (academic and hospital) and manufacturing (textile and auto component) sectors in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (India). Results: The questionnaire was subjected to reliability analysis and found to be reliable. The Independent Sample T Test analysis was done between aura life colors of higher (violet, indigo, blue, green) and lower (yellow, orange, red) order chakras with all performance orientation factors. It is inferred that individuals in aura life colors of higher order chakras are comparatively more loyal and goal-oriented when compared with individuals in lower order chakras. Similarly, it is identified that there is significant difference between individuals with violet - red, blue - red and green - red aura life colors with performance orientation factors. The result of which is, violet respondents are goal-oriented and blue respondents are found to be loyal when compared with respondents of red aura life color. Also, green respondents are found to be workaholic and goal-oriented when compared with respondents of red aura life color. Conclusion: The results of this study will guide researchers, in how performance can be improved by progression of individuals in aura life colors of lower order chakras to higher order chakras through spiritual management techniques.

Relationships that emerged through participation in a Year 9 experiential education program

Introduction In my recent doctoral studies into the way organised personal development learning experiences outside the classroom may lead to changes in the way Year 9 students engage in their classroom-based learning, three main themes were explored: organised personal learning experiences outside the classroom; Year 9 students as a cohort having special needs; and adolescent learning engagement. Interpretation of the data gathered for this study led to the emergence of a thread referring to the building of relationships between students and their teachers, students and their peers and students and their learning. Other threads to emerge included such themes as personal development, experiential learning, metacognition and transference of learning and are beyond the scope of this article. Literature Mention is made here of literature relating to the three themes that emerged from my doctoral studies focus. A more detailed discussion of the themes is found in my thesis, Experiential education and learning engagement for year nine students: a case study (Robinson, 2013). Personal development learning experiences outside the classroom The discussion of personal development and its relationship to outdoor and experiential education is ongoing. Proponents suggest there is significant personal development (Allen-Craig & Miller, 2007; Hattie, Marsh, Neill, & Richards, 1997; Hewison & Martin, 2010; Martin & Fleming, 2010; McLeod & Allen-Craig, 2007; Neill, 2008; Robinson 2013). Some critics suggest that such claims may be assumed rather than actual, having more to do with the beliefs of the researchers and respondents and, even if they were real the likelihood of them being transferred to other contexts, is debatable at best (Brookes, 2002, 2003a, 2003b, 2004; Brown, 2010; Harmin, 2002; Web, 2003; Zink & Dyson, 2009) and "should be treated cautiously, if not sceptically" (Brookes, 2003a, p. 49). This debate is ongoing but should be seen as a 'both/and' rather than an 'either/or' discussion with the best of both arguments included into OE and EE programs at every opportunity for the best possible outcome for participants. Year 9; a significant time in adolescent development Dealing with adolescents around fourteen years of age is known as a difficult time for parents and teachers (Bissett, nd.). From my experiences as a teacher of adolescents for over 30 years it could be said to be a difficult time for the young people as well. Major changes are occurring in their physical, emotional and social makeup (Cole, Mahar & Vindurampulle, 2006a). The desire to find the limits of both themselves, and context in which they find themselves, sometimes pushes them to participate in what might be seen as dangerous, risky, or socially unacceptable behaviours (Brown & Knowles, 2007). An important contributor to special needs of this age group is that the brain of young adolescents is undergoing huge changes with "blossoming" and "pruning" occurring in cycles across the development cycle (Brown & Knowles, 2007; Cole, et al., 2006a; Dahl, 2004). The resultant turmoil this causes is often expressed in unexpected behavioural exchanges and are responsible for the discovery of this second upsurge of brain development during adolescence proposing the "use it or lose it" principle to describe the "pruning-down process" (Cole, et al., 2006a, p. 5). Regarding this process Cole, et al (2006a) makes the comment "If this principle holds true, then the environment and the types of activities that adolescents engage in may have a significant impact on how the brain develops during this stage" (p. 5). Learning engagement and adolescents The Melbourne Declaration (2008) identifies the importance of engagement in learning for middle years students in the statement: The middle years are an important period of learning, in which knowledge of fundamental disciplines is developed, yet this is also a time when students are at the greatest risk of disengagement from learning. …