Life Expectations Research Articles

The relationship between working in the "gig" economy and perceived subjective well-being in Western Balkan countries.

The combination of accelerated digitalization and the recent COVID-19 crisis has increased the number of remote workers worldwide to unimaginable proportions. Among the large number of remote workers that execute their projects from home, there is a significant number of permanently self-employed remote workers, usually referred to as freelancers. Despite the importance of this kind of business activity for modern project management society, perceived drivers of freelancing are still unknown. The goal of this paper was to shed some light on the general subjective well-being of freelancing activity and investigate differences concerning gender, age, and education. The study was performed in late 2020 and included 471 freelancers from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro that participated in an online questionnaire evaluating their subjective well-being while participating in the "gig" economy. Factor analysis was used as a primary statistical method and two major groups were identified: (1) Impact of working from home on a freelancer's personal life and health and (2) Fulfillment of expectations in the economic and professional sense. Gender was found not to be significant for overall work satisfaction. However, older freelancers proved to be more satisfied with the fulfillment of economic and professional expectations, which correlate with years of professional experience. Another conclusion is that more educated freelancers are generally less satisfied with both groups of drivers - fulfillment of personal life and professional expectations. Understanding how the combination of occupations, technological infrastructure, and demographic characteristics in the region has affected the well-being of freelancers may help policymakers and organization owners, as well as future entrepreneurs, better prepare for this model of work in the future. It also increases the possibility of exploring individual dimensions of wellbeing useful for targeting interventions at the level of each country separately. In line with this, the present study contributes to the existing body of knowledge and the impact of hybrid models of work on the subjective well-being of workers in the "gig" economy.

Reflections on welcome and induction: exploring the sources of students’ expectations and anticipations about university

ABSTRACT This paper discusses different sources of students’ expectations of university, beginning with a thematic analysis of 21 semi-structured interviews with a diverse set of students at a UK University. We find that students draw on several different sources to develop their ideas of what university will be like; some of these sources are trusted more than others, and some present a more realistic view. The broader challenge of independence emerges as a contributory factor in students’ sense of successful transition to university, mediated by different types of socio-cultural capital. We draw upon Ulriksen’s distinction between ‘expectations’ and ‘anticipations’, as one that illuminates how much influence universities can realistically have in shaping prospective students’ ideas about university life. We show that universities must be open and realistic in the information and support they offer to incoming students, in order to help students form expectations of university life that are accurate and more likely to be met. Universities are also likely to benefit from understanding individual students’ expectations better, via personalised support.

Leaving a Pupil Referral Unit in Wales: Care Experienced Young People and their Post-16 Transitions

Care experienced young people are more likely to leave compulsory schooling with fewer qualifications than their non-care experienced peers. They continue to be over-represented in school exclusion figures and are more likely to attend alternative provision such as pupil referral units (PRUs). Transitions at 16 can be difficult, particularly when support systems are lost. As such, these young people are at greater risk of homelessness, criminality and suicide, on leaving compulsory education. The risks associated with these transitions are heightened even more for those leaving alternative provision. Exploring what factors can support the transitions of PRU learners into post-16 destinations is an important line of enquiry. This article discusses qualitative findings from the first year of a three-year mixed methods study involving research with 14 PRU learners. It explores young people’s reflections on their educational journeys so far and their expectations for life after the PRU. The findings highlight how experiences of school exclusion can impact negatively on future trajectories. Despite this, the participants were still able to foresee and describe ambitious plans, supported in part by caring PRU professionals and positive role models in their lives. The article concludes by considering the factors that may facilitate or create barriers to sustainable transitions for this cohort of young people, as they begin to leave the PRUs.

The Problem of Re-Employment of Under-Aged Elderly People in China and its Solutions

The aging of the population is a significant trend in the development of our society and the underlying background of our labor market for a longer time. Since 2022, China will add more than 12 million older adults every year and will enter a stage of accelerated aging since then. After entering an aging society, the size of China's elderly population will continue to expand, the pace of population aging will gradually accelerate, and the population structure will become unbalanced. Although the aging of the population is irreversible, it can also be an opportunity for us because the elderly population is a vast social resource, especially in the context of the increasing educational level of the elderly population. There is a segment of older people who mostly have the advantage of knowledge, experience, and skills, are still in good health, have great expectations of a happy life, and have a more significant potential to play a role. This segment of the younger age group can still be an essential part of society's workforce.

Invisible Geographies: A Study of Migration and Male Homoeroticism in Tijuana through Spinozist Affects

AbstractAffect-based studies consider that peoples’ lives and behaviors cannot be entirely grasped and understood by rational choice models. The main goal of this article is to understand how factors like sexuality and migration affect the relations between people and spaces. Following Spinoza’s Ethics and subsequent interpretations, the article considers that bodies are influenced by previous interactions and act accordingly, and that space is a relational mode of substance perceived through attributes and modes affecting individuals and articulating the relationship of space, sexuality, and migration. This research studies same-sex-attracted men who moved to Tijuana, Mexico. Results show that affects (expressed through actions and passions) inform people’s relations to space based on their valorization of life events and expectations; that the meanings of space are personally constructed, relational, volatile, and invisible to others; and that most interviewees didn’t feel comfortable avowing to the gay identity but identified themselves as such, since, to some extent, gayness can escape from the moral stigma of male-male interaction in Latin America.

Existential experiences and perceptions of death among children with terminal cancer: An interpretative qualitative study

Background: Exploring the experience and understanding of death in children with terminal cancer is important to provide them with appropriate care. However, most studies have focused on the perspectives of parents and healthcare professionals, and few have focused on the end-of-life experiences of children. Aim: To advance the understanding of end-of-life experiences and perceptions of death in children with cancer. Design: Interpretative qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Setting/participants: The study was conducted at the department of oncological surgery, Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine. Ten children aged 8–17 with terminal cancer were included in the study. Results: Four major themes (and eight sub-themes) were identified from the findings: (1) helplessness in the face of death (loneliness, loss of control); (2) desire to connect with the world they left (reluctantly to be forgotten, sense of self-worth); (3) perceptions and attitudes toward death (separating from loved ones, embracing death); (4) expectations of future life (promoting comfort, fulfilling wishes). Conclusions: Children with terminal cancer have a strong sense of loneliness and a desire to connect with the world they have left behind. Differences in children’s perceptions and attitudes about death suggest that healthcare professionals should focus on their experiences and needs and provide personalized palliative care services to children and their families to improve their quality of life.

Proyeksi Tingkat Kematian di Indonesia Menggunakan Metode Holt-Winters Smoothing Exponential dan Moving Average

Inaccurate predictions would cause the insurance companies to incur huge losses and may lead to expensive premiums for which low-income consumers are unable to insure themselves. The ability to predict mortality rates accurately allows the insurance companies to take preventive steps to introduce new policies with reasonable prices. It is hoped that by carrying out mortality projections, losses caused by longevity risk in the life insurance industry would be minimized. This study used secondary data obtained from the World Health Organization (WHO) website in the Mortality and Global Health Estimates category with the sub-topic Life Table by Country Indonesia. In this paper, several models are used to predict the mortality rate in a case study population in Indonesia, namely the Moving Average and Exponential Smoothing forecasting methods. The results obtained are the best method for predicting mortality rates is by using the Exponential Smoothing method with the MAPE value of Exponential Smoothing is smaller than the MAPE value on the Moving Average. The results of this mortality projection will later be used to obtain the distribution of life expectations and the premium price of life annuities.

Ten Perspectives of the Gáppte: Materializing Different Ways of Being Sámi

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among the Lulesámi, a subgroup of the indigenous Sámi of northern Fennoscandia, this article explores the relationship between indigenous identity and dress. The gáppte, traditional dress, is a central visual marker of the Sámi, yet on a personal and everyday basis this symbolism enters into dialogue, and sometimes conflict, with people’s life experiences, emotions, interests and expectations. Understandings and experiences of the gáppte are placed within a context in which the Sámi community at times is experienced as fragmented and where a history of colonialism and discrimination has left lasting imprints. As shown in the article, narrations of dress unfold how relationships that for long have been marked by oppression and discrimination raise specific forms of awareness as well as questions around what constitutes the self, and how such self can or should be expressed. Through ten different perspectives of the gáppte, the article reveals how different ways of being Sámi become negotiated and materialized through dress.

Stories to Wake Up: Women Narratives Reconstructing Themselves as Sociohistorical Subjects

This article reports on a research conducted at a private university in Colombia, as part of an English language course in which the topics of study addressed the culture and history of Colombia and Boyacá through art. Narratives from three female students were analyzed, from a decolonial perspective, to observe their processes of reconstruction as sociohistorical subjects taking into account their experiences in the contexts where they study, live in, and come from. The data for this research was gathered inside and outside the classroom through learners’ diaries and dialogical interviews held with the researcher. Narratives served the purpose of making visible elements of those processes and allowed to explore three of them: (1) The construction of particular relationships in and with the world; (2) a perception of unity of past, present, and future; and (3) a sense of their personal and spiritual growth in time. Nevertheless, the narrative of each participant had unique features and values. The results showed that each female had specific anecdotes constructing their experiences, relationships, and plans in their world. One conclusion of the study refers to how the relevance of family, context, childhood memories, and life expectations offer meaningful and memorable topics of discussion within English language lessons for undergraduate learners.

Evidence of environmental urban design parameters that increase and reduce sense of place in Barcelona (Spain)

Urban planning design considers sense of place attributed to the environment because it is important to quality of life and influences citizen support for planning proposals. In this paper, the physical and geographic characteristics that increase and decrease levels of sense of place were analyzed. Mediation effects of prior expectations and belief in urban legends attributed to specific environments were controlled for. A total of 1727 residents from 10 different districts of the city of Barcelona participated. Empirical urban parameters were measured for each district (e.g., hectares of parks and rate of streets with noise above 60 dB) and the weight with which they predicted levels of sense of place was objectively quantified. Perceived quality of life and residents' positive expectations of green spaces were measured also. Structural equation modeling (SEM) assessed theory relating green environments to sense of place and tested which urban elements had a detrimental effect. When including the mediating effects of prior expectations and perceived quality of life, urban parameters related to green spaces predicted increases in sense of place between 11% and 40%. Decibels, pedestrian streets, and the number of police arrests predicted systematic reductions in sense of place between 18% and 20%. Accordingly, the authors proposed two urban models of positive and negative feedback on sense of place. Application of these will improve urban planning by enhancing decision making efficacy.

Case Study on a Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

As a semiconductor manufacturing company, ABCtronics takes its own process and wafer health-related issues very seriously, as these issues can lead to increased costs and even major accidents. Semiconductor companies face many common problems. For the downtime problem, according to the provided data, if it is assumed that it conforms to a uniform distribution, it can be calculated that the probability of downtime is less than or equal to 5 hours is 86.75%. For the chemical impurity problem, this paper calculates the beta distribution, which shows that the company's current state of the manufacturing process is satisfactory. QRT proposes a new method (ICTM) for quality control strategies, which outperforms and replaces the original method (LATM). Then, when dealing with the related problems of the client interface, this paper chooses two distributions, namely hypergeometric and beta distributions, both of which show that the new technology adopted by ICTM can effectively improve the quality of the chips produced by the company. From the data presented in this paper, it can be deduced that the data for the time (in years) before IC chip failure conforms to the characteristics of an exponential distribution. ABCtronics has a good chance of meeting PQR system expectations for product life of six years or more. For the construction of sales data model, this paper finds and demonstrates that the multivariate linear model proposed by SMT is not very reasonable.

Review: Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop, by Alexandra M. Apolloni

Book Review| March 01 2023 Review: Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop, by Alexandra M. Apolloni Alexandra M. Apolloni. Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 336 pages. Sarah Dougher Sarah Dougher Portland State University Sarah Dougher is a writer, educator, and musician from Portland, Oregon. Her current work as a professor at Portland State focuses on strengthening the pathways for high school seniors into higher education, especially immigrant, first-generation and other historically excluded students. In addition to releasing eight albums of music, she also helped found the Rock ’n’ Roll Camp for Girls, developed educational programs for unsheltered youth in the Portland area, and has written extensively about girls, music and social change in both popular and academic venues. She is currently working on a book of essays. Email: sed@pdx.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Email: sed@pdx.edu Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (1): 133–135. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.133 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sarah Dougher; Review: Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop, by Alexandra M. Apolloni. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2023; 35 (1): 133–135. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.133 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search The vocal performance of girls and young women, whether on the stage as singers or in the performance of gendered expectations in daily life, is a complex phenomenon. We need only cast our ears towards the screams coming from the Linda Lindas, a contemporary LA-based, multiracial, riot grrrl-descendent band, who scored a viral hit in 2021 with “Racist Sexist Boy.” The song’s vast digital circulation signaled fascination, if not celebration, of the group’s full-throated musical confrontation of oppression. The range with which girls can make vocal music is wider now than it has ever been, and perhaps because of our access to personal technologies, girls can create and broadcast their voices more easily. As listeners, we are also able to access more diverse voices, should we go looking for them. Alexandra Apolloni’s Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop, gives contemporary assessments of girls’ performance and vocalized resistance... You do not currently have access to this content.

КАТЕГОРИЯ ЗНАЧЕНИЯ И СМЫСЛА В ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКОМ ДИСКУРСЕ

In the field of human sciences the category of sensing does not coincide with the category of meaning. In the field of psychology there is also no unified definition of these categories. However, it is the meaning approach to the regulation of life activity that is the most effective in terms of modeling human behavior. Since meaning is broader than sence, it is the meaning interpretation that forms the basis of the psychology of understanding. Meanings express the subjective importance of objectively represented meanings of what happens in the world around us. In existential psychology, it is possible to describe the uniqueness of human existence on the basis of meaning representations. Meanings reflect the uniqueness of personal experience and the depth of a person's feelings experienced during his or her life. At the same time, the meanings and direction of a person's individual behavioral acts should be considered from the context of both the entire lived life and future life meanings. From cultural and historical positions, meaning is a psycholinguistic category, which acquires personal content in relation to meaning. Meanings reflect correlation of motives and goals of life activity. Meanings reflect not only intellectual content, but also show the emotional content of the experienced state. In personal development, meaning reflects the nature of interactions between individual perceptions of life and societal expectations about one's place in this life. Meaning sets the individual to perform activities in a certain way. This sets the stability and purposefulness of personal development. Personal self-determination in choosing the direction of professional development has a value-semantic nature, and also depends on motivation. The system of personal meanings has a complex manifestation and multilevel hierarchical structure. Meaning should be considered as an interdisciplinary construct that reflects the understanding of subjective meaning in psychology, philosophy, and linguistics. Meaning reflects the relationship between the subject and the object. This relation expresses the place of the object in the life of the subject, and this object is highlighted in the image of the subject's world. Thanks to this regulation of behavior of the subject in relation to the given object is carried out.

Emerging and Ethical Issues of Sexual Expression and Sexual Determination in Long Term Care

There are significant differences in the attitudes and desires of Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation which cause practical and ethical dilemmas for professionals working in long-term-care. The Boomers who launched the sexual revolution during the 1960s are now into their 60s and 70s and continue to push sexual boundaries and long-term care is no exception. Baby Boomers have different expectations of life in nursing homes that is different than previous generations. In addition to Boomers, it is important for residents of all ages to preserve their sexual identities. The assumption that residents in long term care or those with dementia no longer have the desire for sexual activity or the capacity to make these decisions focuses on negative aspects of aging. To view the process of aging with a focus on emergent strengths, resilience and diversity, older adults must not only have the right but the freedom to engage in sexual activity in a fulfilling way. This presentation will discuss the assessment models that can determine cognition and capability for sexual decision making. The presenters will focus on how to ensure the rights of aging and medically impaired residents to fulfill their sexual needs and/or relationships. Finally, presenters will use real life ethical and case scenarios to engage participants and facilitate learning regarding these issues.

A Grounded Theory of Living in Two Worlds: Torres Strait Islanders’ Experience of Contemporary Migration

ABSTRACT This study explored the resettlement experiences of Torres Strait Islanders who moved to the Australian mainland. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 individuals, using a grounded theory method. Findings suggest that Torres Strait Islander contemporary out-movers are adjusting rather than assimilating to the Australian mainstream culture. The concept of “living in two worlds” required managing the crossing between the obligations of island life and demands and expectations of the mainstream. As people made sense of their experiences, out-movers developed strategies to “manage the crossings” from one world to another- the simpler lifestyle of “island life” that offered a greater sense of certainty and familiarity, and “mainstream” which may present many challenges, competing demands and expectations. While Torres Strait Islander out-movement is internal, there are similarities to international migration experiences, and like other internal movements, this movement tended to go unnoticed. Migration is an important area of social work practice that needs the attention of social workers, particularly with the predicted increases in out-movements that may occur in response to economic and climate-related change. IMPLICATIONS Torres Strait Islander internal migration is absent from social work literature. There is a gap in knowledge of how contemporary migrants experience and make sense of life on the mainland. Social work can learn from this movement to prepare for future migration responding to environmental and economic imperatives, both internally and internationally.

Anxiety and hope: a study about the caregiver overload in the care of patients with stroke

Stroke involves injury to the central nervous system, presenting most frequently as cerebral infarction and intracerebral hemorrhage. It’s an important cause of disability worldwide, being associated with high burden to the patients’ caregivers, who are, frequently, family members. In that matter, it is reported that the main caregivers of stroke patients have the same, or even greater incidence of mental illnesses, such as depression and anxiety. Therefore, we present this study protocol aiming to observe the association between the patient’s type of stroke along with the severity of their sequelae, and the levels of anxiety and hope of their caregivers, in a descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quali-quantitative approach. For that purpose, patients of both sexes, over 18 years of age, who have had a stroke and are being followed up at the Cerebrovascular Diseases Ambulatory will be randomly selected. Then, data will be collected from the caregiver through questionnaires: Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI), Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and a socioeconomic questionnaire. The ZBI analyzes psychological, financial, social and physical aspects of the caregiver’s universe, while the BAI and BHS are used to quantify the caregiver’s anxiety state, and bring information about the individual’s hope and life expectations. Information about the patient will be obtained from medical records. Finally, we hope to find useful information for health services about the reality in which they are inserted, in order to promote the creation of disease prevention measures, which is essential to improve the quality of healthcare provided.

Diagnostic Biomarkers of Diabetic Neuropathy

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease that occurs due to inadequate production of insulin or decreased effect of available insulin. Considered one of the most critical life-threatening diseases of the 21st century, the number of patients has been increasing over the past few decades. These patients suffer many problems such as neuropathy, nephropathy and rethinopathy which the first can decrease their life expectations. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is the most common complication in diabetic patients and more than one half of these patients develop nerve dysfunction through their life. The primary cause of diabetic foot disease is DPN which sleep disturbances, poor quality of life, depression and finally unemployment are the results of it. In this article, we are studying different biomarkers of diabetic neuropathy using related papers in order to consider them in diabetic patients and prevent further complications in them.

Expectations of Personal Life Development and Decision-Making in People with Moderate Intellectual Disabilities

People with intellectual disabilities have a need for personal and social development that is often unknown or poorly understood. The main motivation is the fact that students belong to a group usually excluded from the ordinary educational process. That process is replaced with measures that focus on caring for students rather than promoting their development. The objective of this research is to understand the expectations for personal development and decision-making of students with intellectual disabilities. To achieve the stated objective, a qualitative research based on two complementary approaches, grounded theory and case study, has been employed. The sample (n = 28) was drawn from a specific study program for the training and development of people with intellectual disabilities at the University of Murcia, called "We are all Campus". We aim to identify the different perceptions of their reality and potential for personal development, to understand their decision-making and what motivates them. Likewise, we investigate the self-perceptions of students with intellectual disabilities have and their understanding of their future life expectations. The main conclusions show that the training program represents an opportunity for students' progression and personal development. Thus far, the expectations of the students have remained the same, focusing on their work and social inclusion.

How Has the Pandemic Affected Social Values? From the Perspective of Pre-Service Teachers, Is it Erosion or Gain?

This research aims to examine from the perspective of pre-service teachers how values, which have a great function in ensuring social order and welfare, maintaining healthy interpersonal relations, adapting the behaviour of the individual with the expectations of social life, and preventing possible social problems, are affected by the pandemic process.The research was carried out using phenomenology method, which is a qualitative research method. The study group of the research consists of twenty-five pre-service teachers. While determining the study group, easily accessible sampling method was used. In the research, a questionnaire containing four open questions developed by the researchers was used as a data collection tool. Content analysis was used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the research, it was determined that the pandemic positively affected some values such as altruism, benevolence, solidarity, gratitude, resignation, cleanliness, giving importance to being healthy, and negatively affected some values such as hospitality, freedom, equality, kindness, perseverance, and aesthetics. On the other hand, it is seen that some values such as patience, solidarity, savings and being scientific take their place among the values that both erode and gain from due to the differences in the perspective of pre-service teachers towards life. In addition, it was concluded that the pre-service teachers have a concern that the eroded values will force humanity to face problems such as various health problems, an asocial life, emotional deprivation, depression, digital addiction, selfishness, unemployment, anxiety, and impoliteness in the future.

Health Expectations and Quality of Life After Acute Respiratory Failure: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study

Patients often have high expectations for recovery after critical illness, but the impact of these expectations on subsequent quality of life (QoL) after serious illnesses has not been evaluated empirically. Among adult survivors of acute respiratory failure (ARF), are met vsunmet expectations for health associated with self-reported QoL 6months after discharge? This was a prospective longitudinal cohort study enrolling consecutive adult patients with ARF managed in ICUs at five academic medical centers. At hospital discharge, we evaluated participants' expected health 6months in the future via a visual analog scale (VAS; range, 0-100), with higher scores representing better expected health. At 6-month follow-up, perceived health was assessed using the EQ-5D VAS, and QoL was assessed using the World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF) instrument. Participants' health expectations were categorized as having been met when perceived health at 6months was no more than eight points lower than their expectation at study enrollment. The primary analysis compared WHOQOL-BREF domain scores (range, 0-100) at 6months after discharge in patients with met vsunmet health expectations using the nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test. Secondary analysis modeled WHOQOL-BREF domain scores using multivariate regression, and sensitivity analyses assessed QoL using EQ-5D-5L index values. In the primary analysis, QoL was significantly better among participants with met vsunmet health expectations across all domains of the WHOQOL-BREF: physical health (estimated difference in scores: median, 19 [interquartile range (IQR), 12-15]; P< .001), psychological health (median, 12 [IQR, 6-18]; P< .001), social relationships (median, 6 [IQR, 0-13]; P= .02), and environmental health (median, 12 [IQR, 6-13]; P< .001). In multivariate regression, the difference between expected and perceived health remained associated significantly with the physical health domain score. Fulfillment of health expectations is associated with better QoL after ARF, suggesting a mechanism underpinning successful ICU recovery programs that incorporate normalization and expectation management.