Personal Nature Research Articles

"Going Forward Like a Grandmother in the Snow": Personal Survival Strategies, Motherhood, and Nature as Resources for Mothers Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence.

After suffering interpersonal violence (IPV), women survivors can access various interdisciplinary services and programmes to guide their recovery. Nevertheless, many vulnerable women postpone seeking help, sometimes indefinitely. Motherhood especially complicates help-seeking because mothers often want to protect both the perpetrator and their children. Understanding women's resilience, resources, and capacities in surviving IPV, however, could guide the development of helpful services that women actually access. Thus, in our study, we sought to explore the agency, resources, and reinforcing survival experiences of survivors of IPV. Our data, gathered in Finland during the COVID-19 pandemic, consisted of 12 narratives of mothers told in Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interviews that were subsequently subjected to thematic analysis. Five themes describing personal resources, motherhood, and nature were identified under the overarching metaphor of "going forward like a grandmother in the snow". Recognising the agency, resources, capacities, and coping mechanisms of women who have suffered IPV can help in developing professional outreach programmes, promoting women's early access to useful resources, and, in turn, helping them to stop the possible intergenerational transmission of violence.

Personality Types and Traits—Examining and Leveraging the Relationship between Different Personality Models for Mutual Prediction

The popularity of social media services has led to an increase of personality-relevant data in online spaces. While the majority of people who use these services tend to express their personality through measures offered by the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), another personality model known as the Big Five has been a dominant paradigm in academic works that deal with personality research. In this paper, we seek to bridge the gap between the MBTI, Big Five and another personality model known as the Enneagram of Personality, with the goal of increasing the amount of resources for the Big Five model. We further explore the relationship that was previously reported between the MBTI types and certain Big Five traits as well as test for the presence of a similar relationship between Enneagram and Big Five measures. We propose a new method relying on psycholingusitc features selected based on their relationship with the MBTI model. This approach showed the best performance through our experiments and led to an increase of up to 3% in automatic personality recognition for Big Five traits on the per-trait level. Our detailed experimentation offers further insight into the nature of personality and into how well it translates between different personality models.

Connecting social work research with policy and practice: issues of people, power and politics

This article builds on a scoping review of the international literature of community–academy partnerships in social work and is illustrated with a narrative case study reflecting on experiences of managing transitions between research, practice and policy in the context of partnership work with care leavers in Italy. Arising from the literature and case material, we conclude by identifying four areas for further consideration: the constituents of ‘meaningful’ outcomes; the personal and political nature of power; the temporal characteristics of partnership practice; and the complex challenges of inclusivity.

Memory and Reflection

Abstract This article discusses five little-known texts by Czesław Miłosz that remained unpublished until 2020. Written between 1946 and 1968, they have been recovered from archival collections only recently and published in Miłosz's Z archiwum. Wybór publicystyki z lat 1945–2004 [From the archive: Selected journalistic writings, 1945–2004]. My discussion focuses on Miłosz's statements concerning the Holocaust, with particular emphasis on the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (April-May 1943). I argue that the testimonies left by Miłosz in the form of poems, essays, and journalism create a community of memory, while also revealing empathy and solidarity with the victims of genocidal violence. Miłosz emerges here not only as an eyewitness to the atrocities and a firm opponent of antisemitism, but also as a moral witness. Despite some controversies of a personal and political nature, a telling example of Miłosz's attitude towards the Jewish insurgents who died in Warsaw are his words in a 1979 letter to Jerzy Giedroyc: “I will not be able to cope with my life because an honest man should have gone to the Warsaw ghetto and died there.”

Hume’s Functionalism

This paper claims that Hume is committed to a rather sophisticated form of functionalism. This claim is based upon the following arguments: first, Hume’s characterization of objects such as vegetables and animal bodies in terms of their functional identity, and their underlying analogy with the identity we ascribe to persons or selves, implies that an absolute constancy is not part of the essential nature of persons. Rather, what corresponds to this assumed metaphysical constancy is functional identity. Second, Hume’s distinction between the question concerning the substance of the mind on the one hand, and the questions concerning the local conjunction and cause of our perceptions, on the other, has much in common with, and anticipates, the much-celebrated functionalist distinction between the ontology and metaphysics of the mind.

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Discursive Synergy of Verse Speech

The article deals with a new aspect of research in modern linguistics – the problem of the synergetic paradigm. In contemporary Kazakh linguistics, defining the synergetic nature of the text, when considering the text as a synergetic process, is currently one of the topical issues. In this regard, how interdisciplinary processes in scientific research with an interdisciplinary approach prove to be effective in the study of «systemicity, complexity» at the present stage of scientific development, modern linguistics reveals the effectiveness of the new synergistic approach in linguistic research in the context of language ~ discourse. It is known that language as a means of cognition, relying on its communicative function, develops individuals, linguistic personalities. The individual creative linguistic personality also uses the means of artistic expression to unlock the rich potential of words, using them with a different meaning, transforming their tone and colouring. Linguistic symbols, which are formed by language, are the cognitive and informational core that characterises spiritual and material culture, an instrument of revival of the spirit. The units of language are a national phenomenon, reflecting the worldview, existence, spiritual culture of the people, providing information about their everyday life, environment, mentality, psychology and socio-political views. Thus, it is shown that the works analysing the language of poetry in the anthropocentric aspect are structured according to the nature of linguistic personality as the animating means (words) in the functional-dynamic content of artistic speech. The article synergy of the poems of the poet M. Makataev is determined using the formula proposed by E. Muratova to determine the synergistic coefficient of the text (SK = A/N). The article uses concrete examples to reveal the poetic power and linguistic features of M. Makatayev's works, his artistic features with an emphasis on the use of ideological vocabulary, the significance of the poet's poems and the synergetic nature of his work.

Распространение экстремизма в молодёжной среде по причине информационного инфантилизма

Introduction. The presented paper examines the reasons for the development of youth extremism. In this study the author draws attention to information infantilism typical for young people today. Starting from «being determines consciousness» the author points out the objective reality of active youth involvement in virtual world. As active users of the Internet, young people join in cyber interaction: communication, exchange of information of both personal and group nature.
 Specific features of virtual interaction combined with personal immaturity lead to the fact that young users, not being fully aware of legal consequences of their actions, verbally or visually express ideas that fall under the definition of extremism stated in the Federal law № 114 of 25 July 2002 «On counteracting extremist activities», as well as become victims of recruiters to extremist groups, which actively operate in the information space and through communication in social networks, on dating sites.
 The aim of the paper is to consider information infantilism as one of the causes of dissemination of extremism through virtual environment. This theoretical construct proposes to reflect the specifics of communications in virtual environment and the characteristics of individuals, which together create prerequisites for their involvement in extremist activities and dissemination of extremism.
 Methodology. The problem was examined through the prism of psychological knowledge, which makes it possible to uncover the underlying features of human psychology that contribute to involvement in extremist activities in the virtual environment.
 Methods and techniques. The research was based on general scientific methods.
 Results. Theoretical study substantiates the concept of «information infantilism», which is one of the reasons for the dissemination of extremism through the virtual space.
 Scientific novelty: the author introduces the term «information infantilism», which is proposed to be considered as one of the psychological causes of involvement in extremist activities and the spread of extremism.
 Practical significance of the new concept is that it can be used in the process of education of youth and in the prevention of extremist crimes.

Путь в «страну без дорог»

The work is devoted to reflections on the text of A.A. Zinoviev’s dystopia “The Global Humant Hill”. The main ideas of the work, the general trends in the development of civilization outlined in the novel are traced. The close connection of the thoughts and ideas reflected in the work with the pressing problems of the development of modern society is noted. The danger of dehu­manization of human society, submission to social standards, blindly following the path of material progress is shown. The author of the article believes that one of the main problems described in the dystopia is connected with a lack of un­derstanding of the true nature of the human personality, the psychological depth of a person, his moral, spiritual basis, ignoring which leads to disastrous conse­quences. Attention is drawn to the importance of subordinating scientific and technological development to the ideas of human welfare, to critical and skepti­cal attitude to progressive technocratic social models associated with digitaliza­tion, computerization, artificial intelligence. Zinoviev’s novel is seen as a warn­ing to younger contemporaries and future generations, for whom a collision with a complex of problems associated with a new stage of human society develop­ment is inevitable.

Content Analysis From a Gender Perspective of Comments Received by Spanish Science YouTubers

One of the main features of videos that popularise science on YouTube is the ability to interact with the videos and the YouTubers who generate them. However, some types of interaction are often not gender neutral. In order to identify whether there are gender differences in the type of comments posted on YouTube channels that popularise science, a content analysis of nine such channels hosted by Spanish macro influencers was conducted. A total of 221 videos and 18,873 comments were analysed to identify and classify comments of a personal nature relating to physical appearance, tone of voice, or intellectual capacity, among other aspects. The results show that 7.5% (1,424) of the total number of analysed comments were comments of a personal nature addressed to the channel’s host. Of the videos hosted by women, 95.3% contained at least one positive comment related to their physical appearance, compared to 27% in the case of men. Gender differences were mainly found in negative comments regarding the presenter’s intellectual ability or personality, with women most likely to receive them. These results show that women who face media exposure are more vulnerable to negative sexist comments, which may deter them from professionalisation in this area.

Upravljanje konfliktima u sestrinskoj kliničkoj praksi

Introduction: Conflicts are a social phenomenon and occur in all organizations where people work. So, they are inevitable even among nurses, because the work they do is very responsible and stressful. Conflicts of a personal nature are not uncommon, and they are produced by intimacy in the workplace.Methodology: The study was conducted among 146 nurses employed at the Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo. The study is descriptive, analytical andcomparative. The original author’s questionnaire created on the basis of professional and scientific literature was used as a study instrument. The goal of thestudyisto determine if the conflict situations in nursing clinical practice are related to the dissatisfaction of nurses with working conditions, lack of motivational techniques, poor communication in the team and superior-subordinate relations.Results: Most respondents state that conflict situations are short-lived and do not affect work. Respondents pointed out that the most commoncauses of conflict are poorcommunicationand personal contempt of colleagues (71 or 48.6%), violations of labor regulations and non-performance of work obligations (68 or 46.6%), differences in education (39 or 26.7%), etc. The most common manner that nurses use to resolve conflicts is to exchange information in order to reach a joint decision, to negotiate and seek compromises.Conclusions: Conflicts are manifested in the form of negative emotions, so in this regard, they can have significant negative consequences, and contribute less toimprovement or have a positive effect on the work environment. Communication conflicts between nurses are detrimental to teamwork - negative confrontation between two sides, often revealing anger, not talking for a longer period, or personally standing out at the expense of the other side.

Perceptions and implications for cervical screening and self-collection: A qualitative exploration of never and under-screened Queensland women.

Over 70% of cervical cancers are detected in women not currently screening. Queensland Health wanted to better understand the drivers of screening to inform our planning and capitalise on self-collection as an option to reach under-screened women. In 2020 Queensland Health commissioned qualitative research to explore barriers and enablers to cervical screening with never-screened and under-screened women in Queensland (with under-screeners defined as having last screened more than 4 years ago and being more than 2 years overdue). Additionally, the research explored the acceptability of self-collection amongst this cohort. A mixed methods qualitative approach of online focus groups and in-depth interviews was employed. Online focus groups were conducted with under-screeners. In-depth telephone interviews were conducted with never-screeners due to the anticipated personal nature of their reasons for not screening. A total of 51 Queensland women aged 30 to 50 years participated in the research. Queensland women cited several negative experiences and aspects of the current program, as well as barriers in their social and personal lives that limited screening intention and behaviour. Barriers and enablers to cervical screening identified in this research have been classified into four categories: structural, knowledge and attitudinal, social, and personal. The research identified more factors associated with nonparticipation than participation. However, the research did uncover a range of potential enablers to encourage screening, some of which related to the program design. SO WHAT?: The concept of self-collection was broadly well accepted by research participants, particularly by never-screeners. Recommendations resulting from this research include communications, systems, and eligibility changes, particularly regarding the availability and benefits of self-collection.

The King’s Gambit: Rationalizing the fall of the Templars

What can the fall of the Knights Templars teach us about medieval institutions? We highlight that the Templar’s annihilation results from the institutional shock of Pope Clement V’s decision to relocate the papacy from Italy to France. Prior to the relocation, an equilibrium persisted for more than a century where the Templars made loans to more powerful kings, with the reassurance that they were protected by the Church. The decision of Pope Clement V to relocate the papacy to France altered the Church’s relationship with the French Crown and imposed substantial constraints on the Church’s ability to safeguard one of its most important monastic orders, the Knights Templar. In a dynamic game scenario, we model Clement V and Philip IV’s decision making, emphasizing important choices that led to the Knights Templar’s demise. This historical episode illustrates the relationship between credible commitments and religious legitimacy, and the precarious and personal nature of pre-modern political institutions.

Mari folk Songs in the Artistic Structure of S. G. Chavain's Novel "Elnet"

The article examines the folklore intertext of the novel "Elnet" by the classic of Mari literature Sergey Grigoryevich Chavain at the level of folk songs, reveals their place in the artistic structure of the novel text, analyzes their role in revealing the people's perception of the world and the nature of the creative personality of the intellectual-Mari, in the expression of the author's ideas. The song texts of the novel, directly borrowed from folklore or reworked by the author, as well as created by Chavain himself in the likeness of the content and stylistics of folk-poetic works, give the artistic narrative romantic sublimity, poetry, drama and national specificity, strengthen the author's concept of the world and character. The methodology of the research is determined by the structural and semantic analysis of the works. The article for the first time identifies and describes in detail the semantic and typological components of the folklore-song intertext of Chavain's novel "Elnet", its significance for the expression of its artistic content. It is proved that the song texts of the novel mostly reveal the traditional cultural way of life of the Mari people, their natural existence, orientation to myths and ideals (labor songs; ritual songs: wedding, including lamentation songs; lyrical, mainly love and orphan songs). They are directly related to the national issues of the novel and the author's concept based on the uniqueness of the Mari people and their culture. A lot of space is occupied by songs that highlight the difficulties of the pre–revolutionary social life of the Mari people, the inequality of ethnonational existence, which became the reason for the formation of revolutionary predilections in the popular environment (recruiting - about seeing off to war, orphans, lamentations). This folklore intertext helps to clarify the ideological and moral quest of Mari in the pre-revolutionary era, the search for ways of social and national liberation brewing in the depths of the people.

Radical Revisions of the Punctum

Essay| March 01 2023 Radical Revisions of the Punctum: Roland Barthes After Fred Moten and LaToya Ruby Frazier David Markus David Markus David Markus is a multidisciplinary writer and educator who teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. He is the author of Notes on Trumpspace: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Fantasy of Home (2022). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2023) 50 (1): 15–23. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2023.50.1.15 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 David Markus; Radical Revisions of the Punctum: Roland Barthes After Fred Moten and LaToya Ruby Frazier. Afterimage 1 March 2023; 50 (1): 15–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2023.50.1.15 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 ContentAfterimage Search Few reflections on the power of photography are as memorable as Roland Barthes’s discussion, in Camera Lucida (1981), of the “Winter Garden Photograph” of his deceased mother. It is on the basis of this “unreproducible” image that Barthes is able to reassure himself that photography is capable of capturing the truth of an individual. The decision not to include the photograph among the book’s images underscores the intensely personal nature of Barthes’s project, as does the telling confession that emerges from these somber passages. Following his mother’s death, we learn, Barthes struggled to concern himself with the fate of humanity in its totality. “My particularity could never again universalize itself,” he writes.1 As Fred Moten suggests in In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003), the inward retreat marked by these well-known reflections is symptomatic of greater limitations within the French author’s thinking about the visual... You do not currently have access to this content.

Exploring the Efficacy of an Online Training Programme to Introduce Mental Health Recovery to Carers

Family carers often support people with mental ill-health, however, there is a dearth of research on the importance of recovery to mental health carers. This article describes the delivery and qualitative evaluation of an online training programme on recovery to a group of eleven carers. The participants considered their understanding of the meaning of recovery, differentiating between its personal and clinical nature. They highlighted the importance of carer involvement in the service users’ professional support, alongside the need for carers to participate more widely in service development. Finally, the participants found the training useful in enabling them to recognise their own needs in a caring journey, particularly valuing its delivery by a service user and carer trainer. This study is limited by the small number of participants in this programme; however, this series of connected studies suggests its potential to be rolled out more widely, possibly embedded in Recovery Colleges.

On Individual Style of Pedagogical Activity of a Lecturer of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines of a University

In this article, on an interdisciplinary (at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, pedagogy) basis, the individual style of pedagogical activity of a teacher of social and humanitarian subjects in higher education is studied. It is substantiated that the essence of the individual style of pedagogical activity of a teacher of social and humanitarian disciplines is subjectively perceived anthropology, reflexivity and interpretability. These qualities, logically, should have unconscious (Jungian Self) and existential (in the logic of M. Heidegger refers to DaSein) roots, and does not refer to the Jungian person. A person may include professional competencies that are not used in other activities. It is shown that the personal nature of social and humanitarian knowledge is as follows: firstly, since the anthropological turn, the human personality has been put in the basis of this field of knowledge, and secondly, even if these sciences are engaged in the study of the facts of reality, but their specificity lies in the interpretation, which is personal, subjective, and thirdly, the individual nature of human perception of culture and spirituality. It is concluded that, contrary to the conclusion that can be drawn from the scientific literature, the teacher's personality is not identical to the profession - professional interest arises in connection with its essence (Self, existence, DaSein), which is reflected in the individual style of pedagogical activity, while essence is not equivalent to professional pedagogical competence. It is also necessary to clarify that the article does not mean every empirical teacher of social and humanitarian disciplines, but one who, firstly, is a fairly competent specialist in this field of knowledge, and secondly, perceived the values of social and humanitarian knowledge as his own. personal, thirdly, has a personal predisposition (introvert) to the social sciences and humanities.

Perceptions of teachers regarding the significance and level of implementation of sexual education content for ethnic minority students in Vietnam

Comprehensive sex education is one of the most critical tools for providing young people with the knowledge they require to make wise decisions. Sex education has a reputation for being delicate due to the intimate and personal nature of the topic. A survey involved 45 administrators (including principals, vice principals and heads of expertise), 15 teachers of social science disciplines and 15 classroom teachers. The results indicated that the importance of sex education for ethnic minority students was not appreciated by teachers and that the implementation level of sex education content and its form were low and ineffective. The study highlights topics that educators must consider when establishing strategic plans for successful and acceptable sex education in a societal context or with ethnic minority students.

What is Nature-Based Medicine and What Does It Do?

One's personal health and well-being can improve with activity in natural environments or decline without it. Many chronic illnesses to which personal nature deficiency contributes-including anxiety, depression, attention deficit, diabetes, hypertension, myopia, and obesity-have been exacerbated with the pandemic. That those illnesses may be preventable, treatable, and even reversible with an added nature-based approach may seem novel, but it is not. Though the field of nature-based medicine is just emerging in the U.S., it has been taught and practiced in Asia and the EU for decades. As the prescriptive, evidence-based use of natural settings and nature-based interventions, it aims to prevent and treat disease and improve well-being. Nature-based medicine blends particular activity in nature with the science of medicine to attempt to empower self-care safely, effectively, and happily. Its vision is to be readily available to all, regardless of proximity to blue (water-related) or green (land-related) space. The common sense of nature-based medicine belies its scientific evidence base, which is growing but not well-known, so it may seem unfamiliar to prescribe nature to patients. It will take education, training and practice to help patients access nature-based medicine and to help clinicians prescribe it.

Review: Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism, edited by Denise D. Meringolo

Review: <i>Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism</i>, edited by Denise D. Meringolo