Human Characteristics Research Articles

UNDERSTANDING CONSUMER BEHAVIOR WITH COMPULSIVE BUYING DISORDER OF DIAMOND PRODUCTS IN INDONESIA DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Human character is unique, especially in making purchasing decisions about what his "needs" look like. Interestingly, during this pandemic, based on data in the world, the purchase of luxury products tends to decline, and consumers prefer to meet life support products, in order to survive, but this does not apply to some consumers in Indonesia, where in reality there is an increase in purchases of luxury goods, one of which is only diamond products. This behavior is identified as compulsive buying behavior, and to understand the decision-making process both cognitive and affective dissonance of compulsive buyers. This study used an in-depth interview approach and a saturation point method in extracting information, where this research showed that many buyers were motivated by affective factors, and experienced new problems after making a purchase, despite still making repeated product purchases. This study used profiles of subjects from various classes, from the upper class to the lower class, who had obsessive compulsive behaviors on the buying behavior of gem products.

Analysis of Values in Rwanda Lower Primary Grade Children's Storybooks

This study examined the values embedded in Rwanda lower primary grade children’s storybooks accredited by Rwanda Basic Education Board (REB). The data sources are the stories in grade one, grade two and grade three. Sixty storybooks were analyzed qualitatively using content analysis. The data were analyzed in frequency (f) and percentage (%). The findings show that there are 40 values contained in the 60 analyzed storybooks. The results also show that many books contain human characters compared to non human characters. The percentages of the mostly presented values in the stories are as follows: ‘forgiveness’ (9.4%), ‘environment protection’ (7.8%), ‘friendship’ and ‘dignity of manual work’ (4% each), ‘cleanliness’ and ‘self-study’ (5.5% each), ‘house work duty’ (4.7%) and ‘happiness’, ‘peace’ and ‘helpfulness’ (3.9 % each). The least presented values in the stories, with the percentage of 0.8% each, are: ‘curiosity’, ‘flexibility’ ‘appreciation of cultural values’, ‘reverence of old age’; ‘justice’, ‘self-respect, ‘animal love’, ‘love of mother tongue’, ‘play’, courtesy’, ‘love’, ‘simple living’, ‘respect’, ‘prayer’, ‘courage’, and ‘democratic decision making’. However, there are some core values to be taught in Rwanda schools which were found absent in the studied stories: ‘patriotism’, ‘tolerance’ and ‘solidarity’. It was suggested that these core values absent as well as the least presented values be more presented in future storybooks since they are needed for helping Rwandan children to shape their identity as Rwandans.

Fear of the Queen’s Speed: Trauma and Departure in The Winter’s Tale

The essay applies trauma theory to early modern understandings of grief and its contagious after-effects to provide new ways to think about the figuring of trauma’s reach into individual embodied minds and their environments, and about its larger impacts on narrative structures, theatrical spaces, and the people who populated them. To do so, I turn to Shakespeare’s most deliberately tricky play, The Winter’s Tale, and to its undeniably traumatized Queen Hermione, who defies the laws of time, space, and motion to an extent unmatched by any other human character in his canon. The essay explores how Shakespeare imagines and mobilizes the aggrieved Hermione; and how her departure and repeated, belated returns play out different forms and effects of traumatic response. These include the gaps and eruptions endemic to the processes of accommodating the impossible and listening to stories that are structured around absence and aporia. It is my contention that in his later play he was experimenting with how those effects could spill out beyond the brains and bodies of trauma’s original victims, and transform the people and spaces beyond them.

Research on the relationship between college students' employability and IT skills training based on mixed research methods.

In the Internet era, there is a mismatch between the skill demands of the IT industry in China and the employment prospects of computer science graduates. The COVID-19 pandemic has particularly highlighted co-existing challenges for industry recruitment and student employment. Many education institutions see IT skills training as a way to solve this conflict. The present paper employs a mixed methods approach to explore factors regarding computer science students' employability. The study used a questionnaire informed by an indepth literature review, full scale development theory and the theory of competency-based education. Reliability analysis and factor analysis methods were used to assess component reliability and structural validity. A total of 323 valid questionnaires were collected and subjected to mean and variance analyses to explore significant differences, including in terms of gender, in student employability. The results show that: (1) employability is divided into nine factors; (2) IT skills training can improve employability; (3) the employability level of computer science students who participate in IT skills training is high; (4) there are significant gender differences in professional ethics, scientific spirit and job-seeking skills, but no significant gender differences in humanistic qualities, computer cognition and operation skills, software design and development skills, system use and innovation skills, sustainable development capacity and teamwork skills. The identification of student employability factors can help education institutions to improve their training and can be used as a standard for students' self-evaluation and selfimprovement. The paper also provides suggestions for education institutions about how to set up IT skills training programmes to enhance students' future employment prospects in the IT industry.

Teaching Reform and Research of "Microcontroller Application Technology" Course Based on " Ideology and Politics leading and practice running through"

Combining the fundamental task of national moral education and the characteristics of modern vocational education for students, the teaching mode of "Ideology and Politics leading and practice running through" is proposed, taking the course "Microcontroller Application Technology" as an example. Through the analysis of teaching in the past year, students' awareness of socialist core values, patriotism, humanistic qualities and behavioral norms have been significantly improved; the classroom atmosphere is active and the two-tier division has been significantly reduced; and the skills development ability and dual creativity level have been significantly improved.

Digital Educational Strategies to Teach Skin Self-examination to Individuals at Risk for Skin Cancer

ABSTRACT Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, and early detection of melanoma may lead to diagnosis of thinner and more treatable cancers, resulting in improved survival rates. This study examined the effects of message interactivity (high vs. low) and imagery (cartoon, real human character, or customized imagery preference) on accuracy of identifying abnormal skin lesions (ASL) and skin self-examination (SSE) intention. This study employed a 3 (cartoon character vs. real person vs. customization) x 2 (high interactivity vs. low interactivity) between-subjects online experimental design. Participants at risk for skin cancer were randomly assigned to one of the six conditions and completed a survey after reviewing the educational materials. Univariate analyses were conducted to detect group differences on the accuracy of identifying ASL and intention to conduct SSE in the next 3 months. Among 321 participants who completed the study, the mean age was 36.61 years, 56.7% were females, 76.1% had a college or higher degree, and over 60% self-identified as non-Hispanic White. Individuals in the high interactivity and customization group (compared to the low interactivity and cartoon group) were more likely to accurately identify ASL. Individuals in the high interactivity and customization or low interactivity and real person imagery groups (compared to the low interactivity and cartoon group) reported higher intention to conduct SSE in the next 3 months. These results suggest that customization and interactivity may be beneficial for educational programs or intervention design to improve both melanoma identification and SSE intention.

Dieren lezen in hedendaags proza voor jong en oud. Antropomorfisme versus anthropodenial

In the field of animal studies, there has been an ongoing tradition of critique of anthropomorphism in (literary) representations of animals. To some extent, this critique is understandable: in order to emancipate the animal, this form of human appropriation should be questioned. However, the dangers of anthropomorphism have been qualified by scholars who point out that not anthropomorphism, but rather anthrophodenial – the a priori rejection of any similarities between humans and animals – might hinder an inclusive ecology in which humans and animals are interconnected. In this article, we illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of both anthropomorphism and anthropodenial through an interpretation of five contemporary Dutch literary texts – two children’s books and three novels – in which animals play an important role. Specifically, we analyze stories revolving around a relationship between a human character and a dog as a companion species. Focusing on the ontological, political and narrative dimensions of these stories, we analyze, respectively: to what extent they suggest a binary opposition between human and non-human beings; how they reflect relations of power; and which narrative techniques are employed to represent animals.

Reframing Humanist Tragedy in The Tiniest Thing

Tragedy is defined by Aristotle as a self-fulfilling prophecy, inciting fear and pity in an audience through a hero’s error of judgement, or hamartia. Anthropocentric climate change may likewise be viewed in similar terms, born out of the limitations of the humanist paradigm. Yet in an age of climate catastrophe, how might theatre represent this reality without reinforcing the same humanist logic of privileging human suffering? As a playwright, I have long grappled with how best to dramatise climate change: a phenomenon that seems beyond the scope of human-centred drama. At the same time, the Anthropocene is by definition a human-created problem, and the emotional impact of our doom-laden future bears a tangible human effect. When choosing a form, then, for my own new play about this topic, something of a balance seemed important to me: a human-centred approach that might nonetheless recontextualise human suffering within a more earthly timescale. My resulting new play, The Tiniest Thing, is a middle-class Australian family drama that is rudely interrupted by the natural world. As a forest emerges from a pantry, long grass appears beneath the living room carpet, and dead birds begin to fall from the ceiling, the human characters refuse to see what is right in front of their eyes – until one character, Susan, begins to let the outside world in. Ultimately concerned with the politics of perception, The Tiniest Thing asks: is it possible for humans to perceive an objective reality, or do we always choose what we want to believe? And how might rigid ideologies become our own hamartia in the face of climate catastrophe? I view these questions within the context of bringing an eco-critical dramaturgy to my playwriting, primarily through my use of structure, contrasting deep ‘planetary’ time with the ‘human’ time of the unfolding plot, inspired by the Arctic Cycle plays of Chantal Bilodeau. By seeking to show two different realities at once, I hope to evoke a world on stage in which the same phenomena are perceived by the human characters in vastly different ways, reframing their suffering within a wider ecological context.

그림책 등장인물의 성별에 대한 유아들의 인식

Objectives This study aimed to examine how children perceive the gender of human and non-human characters while reading picture books.
 Methods Children’s perception was observed through reading out two different picture books for 48 children of Y kindergarten and S kindergarten in S city, in a primary large-group session and secondary small-group session, then a repetitive and active verbal interaction afterward.
 Results Children displayed a tendency to perceive the gender of the human characters in picture books based on social constructs. Male children largely focused on references to conventions and social constructs, whereas female children focused on visual features such as reference to illustrations, colors, clothes, and physical attributes. In the case of non-human characters, social constructs and references to illustrations had an equivalent degree of influence on the perception of gender. Male children used references to conventions as evidence to perceive the characters’ gender, while female children used references to illustrations and clothes.
 Conclusions By understanding children’s perception of the gender of human and non-human characters in picture books, this study can contribute to composing a children’s literary education curriculum that pursues diversity to diminish gender stereotypes, and deepening meaningful literary interactions with children from the perspective of gender sensitivity.

Do Stereotypes Ever Come? (through examples of the Macedonian Chlildren’s Literature)

Tales / Stories can be both regressive and progressive, and conservative and emancipatory, some of them even radical, but they are not at all a naive reading and are not without consequences in terms of having a manifest social impact and an educational dimension. From the second half of the 20th century, and especially now at the beginning of the 21st century, serious shifts and changes have been observed in the understanding and interpretation of classic fairy tales / stories on the one hand and the creation of new “modern” fairy tales / stories on the other hand. Fairy tales reflect man’s longing for stability, peace, love, but also for personal and social realization. This paper deals with children’s books by two Macedonian authors (of recent production) and through their reading tries to reexamine the stereotypes about sex / gender roles, as well as about the orderliness of society and interpersonal relations. Emphasis is placed on Bistra Georgieva’s “The Story of Otto, Otto and Otto” with illustrations by Monica Carretero in which diversity to be embraced is represented not through human characters but through anthropomorphized birds and “The Superwitch, the Cat and the Six Magic Cookies” by Biljana S. Crvenkovska (a modern story about a modern witch). Both books try to stimulate a tolerant spirit in children (as well as adults) and promote diversity. But despite the fact that they openly promote the destruction of stereotypes, the question remains whether the refutation of specific (old) stereotypes does not give birth to some other (new) stereotypes?

PERANCANGAN MOTIF BATIK TULIS KONTEMPORER UNTUK DIAPLIKASIKAN PADA COVID COVER KIT

This research is based on research data that has been carried out by Nuniek Mawardi as a consultant for Indonesia Trend Forecasting (ITF), during this pandemic period everyone is affected, directly or indirectly, so there needs to be innovative thinking to create new products that society needs today. One of them is innovating to redesign the Covid cover kit. The purpose of this research is to realize a contemporary patterned Covid cover kit with batik tulis with the theme of the 3M movement. The design method for the Covid cover kit starts with collecting references for various kinds of similar products on the market through field observations and online shop surveys. Furthermore, conducting a series of trials consisting of material testing, sewing technique trials, and visual trials. The results of this study can be concluded several things: (1) The Covid cover kit consisting of masks, gloves, and coats has a function to protect the wearer from Covid-19 when traveling and make the wearer look attractive or fashionable. (2) The process of creating and visualizing 3M themed batik is the same as the process of batik tulis in general and using the colet technique, but the motif focuses on visualizing the Covid-19 and human characters related to the 3M movement. (3) The impact of testing of materials and sewing techniques, especially on the batik coating material used, has an effect on the consideration of the application of motifs on the Covid cover kit.

Relationship between medical narrative ability and humanistic care quality among oncology nurses

Relationship between medical narrative ability and humanistic care quality among oncology nurses

Mengenal Sastra Anak Melalui Pembelajaran Bahasa Indonesia di Kelas VII dalam kurikulum 2013 Sekolah Menengah Pertama

Learning Indonesian is a learning that has an important role in terms of knowledge, emotions and attitudes. Learning Indonesian with material related to literary works in the form of children's literature. Children's literature is part of the 2013 curriculum in Indonesian language learning. This research method uses literature study as data collection. The results of the analysis of research on children's literature in learning Indonesian in grade VII curriculum 2013 high school, namely children's literature into reading that can stimulate children's imagination according to the end and the child's psyche. Fantasy stories are stories whose plot development uses a causal basis as a form of moral message and combines logic with things that don't make sense. A fable is a traditional story in which the character is an animal about the life of an animal which is intended as a personification of human character that contains a moral message. Witty rhymes are rhymes that aim to entertain and have value or are humorous without offending others and as a means of socializing. The role of children's literature is to become a medium for teachers to introduce good attitudes and behavior and things that are not accepted in society with the characters in fables and fantasy stories. Keywords: Indonesian language learning, children's literature, the role of children's literature

Human Character Based on Ki Ageng Suryomentaram Teachings and Its Implementation in Guidance and Counseling Services

Abstract: The Indonesian nation as a large nation consisting of various religions, ethnicities, and cultures, of course, deserves to have the aspiration to have a basic human philosophy paradigm based on Indonesian culture based on dialogue between the soul sciences that live in Indonesian human cognition. This study aims to present the concept of basic human philosophy in the teachings of Ki Ageng Suryomentaram. The research method uses Gadamerian hermeneutics in a qualitative approach. The collected data is then analyzed using Parts and Whole analysis and then checked the validity of the data through the stages of credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability. The results of the study describe human philosophy based on basic needs, essence, existence, and the structure of the human personality. The conclusion of the research refers to the basic human philosophy based on local wisdom for the science of guidance and counseling. Abstrak: Bangsa Indonesia sebagai bangsa besar yang terdiri dari berbagai macam agama, suku dan budaya, tentunya layak jika memiliki cita-cita memiliki paradigma filsafat dasar manusia berbasis budaya khas Indonesia dengan berlandasakan dialog antara ilmu-ilmu jiwa yang hidup dalam kognisi manusia Indonesia. Penelitian ini bertujuan menyajikan konsep filsafat dasar manusia dalam ajaran Ki Ageng Suryomentaram. Metode penelitian menggunakan hermeneutika Gadamerian dalam pendekatan kualitatif. Data yang telah terkumpul dianalisis menggunakan analisis Parts and Whole dan selanjutnya dicek keabsahan datanya melalui tahapan kredibilitas, transferabilitas, dependabilitas dan konfirmabilitas. Hasil penelitian menjabarkan filsafat manusia berdasarkan kebutuhan dasar, esensi, eksistensi, dan struktur kepribadian manusia. Kesimpualan penelitian mereferensikan filsafat dasar manusia berbasis kearifan lokal untuk ilmu bimbingan dan konseling.

Enkele opmerkinge oor die studiegebied van die Kommunikasiekunde

A few remarks concerning the field of study of communication science. To account for the nature of any special science is not itself a special scientific concern, as it needs a basic philisophical perspective. It is not sufficient to define the uniqueness of the scientific endeavour in terms of features like systematics, verification/falsification, method, and the so-called relation between a knowing subject and a study-object. Any concrete entity (object') functions at different modes of being (modal- ities), such as the numerical mode (aspect), the spatial modality, the sensitive sphere (sometimes passively as a sensed object), the logical aspect (for instance as something analizable, i.e. identifiable and distinguishable), the sign-aspect (for example its name), the social aspect, etc. The fundamental question therefore is not, what object is scientifically studied, but from what angle (aspect, mode) is this or that entity approached? These different modalities do indeed serve as special scientific approaches (points of entry) to reflect on concrete reality. In order to think scientifically, one has to focus one's attention on a specific modal perspective, disregarding other modal directions of approach. Because abstraction as such occurs frequently in our non-scientific daily life, it is not sufficient to qualify scientific activities. In fact, abstraction and analysis imply each other. To analyse anything implies an act of identification and and abstraction concerns the identification of something for some characteristic) by disregaring (ie. distinguishing it from) non-relevant things for features) Scientific acuvities display a specific kind of analysis, namely modal analysis (abstraction) However, the identification of a modality delimiting the field of study of a special science always implies that one must simultaneously distinguish it from other modalities. This stresses the necessity of e philosophical view on the coherent diversity of modal aspects The uniqueness of these modal aspects explains the inherent limits of conceptual definition in the final analysis, every definition depends on primitive indefinable terms. This insight is lofts applied to the notion of communication and explored in the direction of the disclosed suure of the sign-mode An account is given of the implied object-object object subject relation of communication in the socially disclosed sign-aspect. To explain the nature of various types of communication an appeal is made to different kinds of social intercourse, classified as consociational, communal and associational relationships. The conditions of meaning (presupposing choice) and interpretation point to the typical human character of communication as it is conceived of in this analysis.

Ekokritika i Zarobljenik šumske kuće Anđelke Martić u izdanju Eko Vjeverice

The introductory part of the article aims to briefly present the main ideas of ecocriticism, a relatively new theoretical approach to the study of literary texts, and also provide basic information about a special publishing project launched at the beginning of the 1990s byMladost publishing house—Eko Vjeverica ( Eco Squirrel ), a book series intended for children. After that, the focus of the analysis is shifted to one of the titles from the series, Zarobljenik šumske kuće ( Prisoner of the Forest House ), a collection of stories written by a Croatian author Anđelka Martić. The main research issues in this article, which are at the same time the basic guidelines of ecocritical approach in the analysis of literary works, relate to the study of fundamental ecological values implied by the word “nature”—what nature is in a given context, in which way nature is experienced and perceived by human characters and how that perception has changed over the years, and also how the world around us acquires meaning through textual representations of nature.

Analisis Konflik dalam Perspektif Freud dan Relevansinya dengan Pabrik Semen di Rembang

This study aims to analyze the conflict of Sigmund Freud's perspective and it’s relevance to the cement factory in Rembang. This research method used a case study qualitative approach. The informants of this research consisted of 20 people, both from the support and contra of the cement factory. The data collection used unstructured interviews. Data analysis used three steps from Miles and Huberman. The results of this study indicate (1) human characters in conflict are divided into three categories, namely the id, ego and superego, which in Fisher's language are also referred to as stages of conflict; (2) the cement factory conflict in Rembang, seen from the emotional pattern, contains three group characteristics, namely the silent group, the moving group and the resisting group. The conclusion of this study showed that each conflict will experience escalation depending on the pattern of emotions. The emotions increase along with the contradictory productivity of conflict issues.

Derrida, Nationalism, and Jane Austen’s Emma

ABSTRACT Jacques Derrida’s discussion of the parergon provides a way of understanding the thematic interests and structural peculiarities of Emma. The most striking of these peculiarities is the novel’s resistance to its protagonist’s pre-eminence: Emma repeatedly retracts and reasserts Emma as heroine, presenting her by turns as a parergon and an ergon. The concept of the parergon gives purchase on how artworks, including novels, attempt to distinguish their insides from their outsides—to distinguish what is necessary or intrinsic to the work from what is dispensable or extrinsic. Nationalist ideology is both a way of managing relations between insides and outsides and a way of dissimulating their mutual contamination. Representing human characters as parerga, Emma ironically demystifies the nationalist ideology that it sometimes evokes. Austen shrewdly exposes the bad faith of the novel’s Francophobic gestures, which usually relate to conflicts between Frank Churchill and George Knightley, but also inform Emma herself. Austen’s demystification of English nationalism becomes most conspicuous in her multilingual wordplay and in her description of the visit to Donwell Abbey.

Desire Education

This study explores the traces of the desire for education historically and phenomenologically in Indonesia amid secularism and nationalism discourse. Several questions can be asked regarding the portrait of education amid the crush of secularism and nationalism. For example, what was the picture of the world of education and humans (as well as society) who were in the crush of secularism and nationalism? To address this question, I focus on the scope of locality, religious primordialism, and corruption as the primary problem. These three sections are reviewed to show the role of the desire for education in forming secularism and nationalism. Decentralization is a critical part of exploring the influence of locality in the formation of secularism and nationalism. Narratives of religious authorities show how religious primordialism affects the formation of secularism and nationalism.; on corruption, we are dealing with a systemic culture of corruption in both regional and central governments. Based on the three factors, I would like to highlight the portrait of education at that time and its role. From here, I move on to offer education on the desire that I borrowed from Timothy Schroeder to talk about motivation, enjoyment, and recognition that can shake and build human character. From this, I argue that education on desire is vital to manage human beings from the desire for hatred (religious), the desire to dominate, and the desire for political-economic satisfaction.

The Role of Teachers in Realizing the Goals of Islamic Education

This research was motivated by the condition of the secular education system which creates an education system that is far from the goals of Islamic education, marked by the non-optimal role of the teacher. The purpose of this study is to determine the role of teachers in realizing the goals of Islamic education. This present study employed a qualitative approach in the form of a literature study. Based on the results of the discussion, the purpose of education in Islam is to foster human character, by forming an Islamic personality (Syakhsiyyah Islamiyyah), mastering Islamic philosophy, and mastering the sciences of life (science, technology, and expertise). Therefore, in the learning process, teachers have an important role in realizing educational goals. The role of the teacher is not only the transfer of knowledge but the teacher should be able to be a role model for personality. It resulted from the teaching method chosen by the teacher. Teachers must apply directly teaching methods, such as exemplary good behavior and character, teaching the Shari'a gradually, not excessively, paying attention to the different conditions of each learner, the method of conversation and logical considerations, the method of analogy and similitude, imagery method, a method by combining words and hand signals, targhib and tarhib methods (motivation and threats).