Interaction Of People Research Articles

Development and psychometric properties of the Attitudes Towards Intellectual Disability Scale in the workplace

Background: A new instrument was designed to measure attitudes towards intellectual disability in the workplace. This tool provides the opportunity to identify underlying cognitive and emotional patterns that may influence people's interaction and performance in such environments. Objective: To construct, validate, and ensure the reliability of a scale measuring attitudes towards intellectual disability, establishing its suitability in labor inclusion programs. Method: A psychometric design was used that incorporated qualitative techniques, such as focus groups and cognitive interviews, in the instrument construction phase. The content validation of the items involved the participation of 15 experts in the field, which resulted in a reduced version with 10 items distributed in two dimensions: Perception and Social Distance. Subsequently, both the validity of the internal structure and the reliability of the instrument were evaluated in a sample of 255 individuals, composed of 35% (n=88) women and 66% (n=167) men. Result: The third-factor model evaluated with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was the one that demonstrated excellent fit indices (CFI= .991; TLI=.988; RMSEA= .076; SRMR =.038), with an adequate inter-factor correlation (0.82) and adequate consistency coefficients (α=0.825; ω=0.916). Conclusion: A tool of invaluable value is presented for planning public health programs aimed at reducing stigma and promoting the socio-labor inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities.

A Quantitative Survey of Twitter's Influence on Online Business

Abstract The advancement of technology and people's interactions virtually over social media has created many opportunities for online businesses to expand their scope and maintain their cost efficiencies by targeting customers on social media platforms. Twitter is one of the businesses’ actively used social media platforms to reach customers. Businesses seem to shift their scope more towards the online side because this is where they can reach customers. Social media platforms facilitate businesses in reaching out to customers and developing their brand image through marketing strategies. The features that attract users towards using Twitter are the word-of-mouth communication generated on it and the freedom of expressing and sharing opinions. This paper investigates how Twitter has played its role in shifting the scope of businesses online and developing their brand image using it as a platform. Additionally, it aims to ascertain how online business activities have impacted customers on Twitter. We used the quantitative method to discover the influence of Twitter activities on online business, and data were collected from 80 respondents. The results have been further analysed using the Likert scale analysis, and to determine the relationship between the variable and to test the hypotheses, multiple regression has been used. The study's results showed a significant relationship between the business's engagement online on Twitter and the customer's loyalty to the brand.

Integrative Review of Black Birthing People's Interactions With Clinicians During the Perinatal Period.

Maternal morbidity and mortality disproportionately affect Black birthing people. Multiple factors contribute to these disparities, including variations in quality health care, structural racism, and implicit bias. Interactions between Black patients and perinatal clinicians could further affect perinatal care use and subsequent perinatal outcomes. This integrative review aims to synthesize quantitative and qualitative literature published in peer-reviewed journals in English within the past 10 years that address patient-clinician interactions during the perinatal period for Black birthing people in the United States. A systematic search of CINAHL, PubMed, PsycINFO, MEDLINE, and Embase recovered 24 articles that met the eligibility criteria for inclusion in this review. The following themes emerged from synthesizing Black patients' interactions with perinatal clinicians: Care Quality, Communication, Power Dynamic, and Established Relationships. Mutual respect, effective communication, and shared decision-making may be key modifiable factors to address through clinician education to improve perinatal care for many Black persons.

“What is your secret sauce to win?” – gender performance at entrepreneurial pitching

PurposeThis study aims to explore gender performance in entrepreneurial pitching. Understanding pitching as a social practice, the authors argue that pitch content and body gestures contain gender-based norms and practices. The authors focus on early-stage ventures and the hegemonic masculinities and femininities that are performed in entrepreneurial pitches. The main research question is as follows: How is gender performed in entrepreneurial pitching?Design/methodology/approachThe authors carried out the study with the post-structuralist feminist approach. The authors collected and analyzed nine online pitches with the reflexive thematic method to depict hegemonic masculinities and femininities performed at the pitch.FindingsThe authors found that heroic and breadwinner masculinities are dominant in pitching. Both male and female founders perform hegemonic masculinities. Entrepreneurs are expected to be assertive but empathetic people. Finally, there are connections between what entrepreneurs do and what investors ask, indicating the iteration of gender performance and expectations.Research limitations/implicationsWhile the online setting helps the authors to collect data during the pandemic, it limits the observation of the place, space and interactions between the judges/investors and the entrepreneurs. As a result, the linguistic and gesture communication of the investors in the pitch was not discussed in full-length in this paper. Also, as the authors observed, people would come to the pitch knowing what they should perform and how they should interact. Therefore, the preparation of the pitch as a study context could provide rich details on how gender norms and stereotypes influence people's interactions and their entrepreneurial identity. Lastly, the study has a methodological limitation. The authors did not include aspects of space in the analysis. It is mainly due to the variety of settings that the pitching sessions that the data set had.Practical implicationsFor social practices and policies, the results indicate barriers to finance for women entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurs are rewarded when they perform entrepreneurial hegemonic masculinities with a touch of emphasized femininities. Eventually, if women entrepreneurs do not perform correctly as investors expect them to, they will face barriers to acquiring finance. It is important to acknowledge how certain gendered biases might be (re)constructed and (re)produced through entrepreneurial activities, in which pitching is one of them.Social implicationsPractitioners could utilize research findings to understand how gender stereotypes exist not only on the pitch stage but also before and after the pitch, such as the choice of business idea and pitch training. In other words, it is necessary to create a more enabling environment for women entrepreneurs, such as customizing the accelerator program so that all business ideas receive relevant support from experts. On a macro level, the study has shown that seemingly gender-equal societies do not practically translate into higher participation of women in entrepreneurship.Originality/valueFor theoretical contributions, the study enhances the discussion that entrepreneurship is gendered; women and men entrepreneurs need to perform certain hegemonic traits to be legitimated as founders. The authors also address various pitching practices that shape pitch performance by including both textual and semiotic data in the study. This study provides social implications on the awareness of gendered norms and the design of entrepreneurial pitching.

Exploring Opportunities for Multimodality and Multiple Devices in Food Journaling

Digital food journaling can support personal goals, such as weight loss and developing healthy eating behaviors. However, traditional manual tracking demands great effort, often leading to lapses or abandonment. We explore opportunities for journaling with multiple input modalities and devices, leveraging people's daily interactions with a range of technologies. We report on an extended analysis of 15 participants' experiences with ModEat, a prototype supporting journaling with several input modalities on phone, computer, and voice assistants. Participants' modality and device preferences were largely influenced by their goals, but they frequently deviated from those preferences depending on device availability, perceived affordances, and characteristics of foods eaten. Participants rarely combined input modalities in entries, but some described that doing so allowed for more detailed journaling or serve as a placeholder for later. We discuss advantages and drawbacks of multimodal tracking and potential strategies for improving interactions.

The Relationships between Social Capital, Metabolic, and Behavioral Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases: A Systematic Review.

Contextual risk factors such as social capital have a vital role in affecting behavioral and biological risk factors of NCDs. We aimed to systematically identify the relationship between different aspects of social capital (SC) with metabolic, and behavioral risk factors of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This is a systematic review. The period of study was 2000-2021. We searched the English international databases, i.e. PubMed/Medline, Scopus, and Web of Science. Studies that reported NCDs' metabolic and behavioral risk factors as independent variables, were excluded. We also included studies if they analyzed the association between SC and metabolic and behavioral risk factors of NCDs. After the primary and quality appraisal process, 97 studies were entered in the final phase of the analysis. Five out of 18 studies reported an inverse association between SC and the level of alcohol drinking. Twenty-seven out of 32 studies reported a significant inverse association between SC and smoking and tobacco use, while only one study reported a significant positive association. Nine studies reported a significant inverse association between SC and high blood pressure. Three studies showed a significant inverse association between SC and diabetes. Seventeen studies indicated a significant positive association between SC and physical activity. Thirteen out of 17 studies reported a significant inverse association between SC, body mass index (BMI) and overweight. High SC, people's participation and interaction are vital in tackling NCDs. Evidence shows positive effects of SC on prevention, control and improvement of NCDs' metabolic and behavioral risk factors.

More Talk, More Support? The Effects of Social Network Interaction and Social Network Evaluation on Social Support via Social Media.

Do more friends and more frequent interactions on social media result in more social support? The impact of variables such as interaction size and frequency on the social support individuals receive via social platforms has been studied from the perspective of social networks, and some studies have focused on the role of interaction topics from the perspective of private engagement. Little research has been done on the impact of affect control embedded in social networks. The emotion-first nature of social media and the rise of affect control theory mean that this perspective deserves attention. This study examined 634 WeChat users by means of an online survey on variables related to social media use, such as social network size, interaction frequency, users' evaluation of network members, and personal topic involvement, and then tested the influencing mode of these variables on people's perceived social support through chain mediation analysis using Model 80 of the process in spss. (1) Interaction size influences perceived social support by affecting personal topic involvement; (2) Interaction frequency does not directly mediate the relationship between interaction size and perceived social support, but mediates the relationship in a chain by affecting personal topic involvement; and (3) Social network evaluation not only directly mediates the relationship between interaction size and perceived social support, but also further mediates the relationship by influencing personal topic involvement. The study confirmed the role of affective control in people's perceived social support through social network interactions. Those people talk about personal matters with individuals who have greater evaluation, potency, and activity in social networks are more likely to get perceived social support. The study draws our attention to the role of affection control in interpersonal relationships in the era of social media mediating people's daily interactions.

Over-the-top (OTT) retailing in the post pandemic world. Unveiling consumer drivers and barriers using a qualitative study

Consumers are increasingly moving from traditional television to Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming platforms. Although OTT platforms are widely used, people's interactions with them vary; some people use them eagerly, while others are hesitant. There is a need for thorough knowledge of the underlying elements that affect people's decisions to adopt OTT platforms. OTT platforms must understand the consumers' perceptions to engage effectively in customer retention and acquisition. Using the Gioia method, the study adopted the qualitative research approach to investigate the themes that emerged from the participant's responses and to frame our research into the context of users' actual experiences by utilizing the grounded-theory methodology. The extracted themes drawn from the opinion of 50 participants were found to align with the Innovation Resistance Theory (IRT) and Uses & Gratification Theory 2.0 (UGT 2.0). Aligning with the IRT theory, the barriers were classified under five sub-themes: usage, value, risk, tradition, and image. The drivers were mapped with the UGT 2.0 framework comprising of four sub-themes: modality, agency, interactivity, and navigability. Our study contributes a theoretical aspect by classifying OTT platform usage behavior in the post-pandemic period.

In search of epistemic justice. Dialogical reflection of researchers on situated ethics in studies with people living with language and/or cognitive impairment

BackgroundAcademics aim to understand the experiences of people living with cognitive and/or language impairment in their search for epistemic justice. Methods that do not rely solely on verbal information (e.g., interviews, focus groups) but also employ an attunement to the non-verbal - such as participant observation and creative methods, are seen as a suitable way to do justice to people's non-verbal interactions. However, in practice, researchers still experience ethical issues in everyday encounters with participants with cognitive and/or language impairment even when trying to address epistemic issues while employing such methods. This article aims to demonstrate 1) the importance of attending to the non-verbal in order to prevent epistemic injustice in research and 2) how a case-study approach and discussing ethical dilemmas with peers may help to unpack some of the ethical tensions that the researchers experience. Aim and methodsThis article focuses on ethical dilemmas the authors encountered during their research projects in the past. Three cases chosen by the authors illustrate these dilemmas. Dilemmas are presented as auto-ethnographical written accounts, which were discussed during ten retrospective dialogical sessions (60–90 min) organized by the research group consisting of six academic researchers. ResultsEthically sound research, in which older people living with cognitive and/or language impairment are engaged, entails much more than following procedures about informed consent, privacy, submitting a proposal to an ethics committee, and using suitable methods and techniques. Ethical issues in these studies relate to everyday situations in which researchers tried to do justice to the knowledge of people who have difficulties expressing themselves verbally, but were challenged by what they have initially experienced as ‘having it wrong,’ ‘not knowing,’ and ‘losing something in translation’ in their practice. Finally, we learned that the interactions the researchers encountered were complex. They had to constantly evaluate the appropriateness of their approach, balance rational and intuitive forms of interaction and interpretation, and consider ways of communicating the research findings. Discussion and conclusionApproximating epistemic justice in research with people with cognitive and/or language impairment requires extra effort in daily research routines. Sharing everyday ethical issues via case stories and reflecting on these issues encourages moral learning and brings new knowledge about the craftsmanship of researchers. Especially the collaborative and dialogical reflection helped the researchers to dig deeper and find words for intangible processes that often remain unaddressed. However, sharing stories about ethical issues requires mutual trust and safety because sharing and reflecting may bring discomfort, messiness, and uncertainty.

Online Travel Agent Marketing Strategy Through Social Interaction During the Pandemic COVID-19

The Covid-19 pandemic has had such a devastating impact on Online Travel Agents such as Traveloka that it has made it to the lowest phase it has ever experienced. There are government regulations that limit people's social interactions so that various strategies are carried out, from using promos or utilizing application features. The purpose of this research is to find out whether the difference in social interaction between Traveloka users before and during the Covid pandemic was significant enough to evaluate Traveloka's marketing strategy. Decreased application usage, ticket rescheduling requests to refund requests which are currently Traveloka's problems. This research is qualitative research that uses the Social Network Analysis (SNA) method using the Twitter application assisted by the Jupyter Anaconda application, Google collab, and Ghepi. From the visualization of this study, the results obtained from 3 research focuses had significant differences from social interactions using Traveloka during the pandemic. From promos that experienced a decrease in interaction during the pandemic, Traveloka Xperience experienced an increase in feature usage, and the ticket feature experienced a decline in social interaction. So that Traveloka is expected to improve the company's strategy to survive during the pandemic.

Technology protocols and new health regulations for pandemic severity control: an S-O-R theoretical risk reduction approach

PurposeDeveloped countries control pandemics using smart decisions and processes based on medical standards and modern technologies. Studies on risk-reduction and humantechnology interaction are scarce. This study developed a model to examine the relationship between citizens, pandemic-related technology and official safety practices.Design/methodology/approachThis study investigated the mediating role of new health regulations and moderating role of safety incentives due to COVID-19 case reduction in pandemic severity control. This study included 407 operations managers, nursing staff conducting pandemic testing and reporting, doctors and security personnel in China. An artificial neural network (ANN) was used to check nonlinear regressions and model predictability.FindingsThe results demonstrated the impact of the introduction of new technology protocols on the implementation of new health regulations and aided pandemic severity control. The safety incentive of case reductions moderated the relationship between new health regulations and pandemic severity control. New health regulations mediated the relationship between the introduction of new technology protocols and pandemic severity control.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research should be conducted on pandemic severity in diversely populated cities, particularly those that require safety measures and controls. Future studies should focus on cloud computing for nurses, busy campuses and communal living spaces.Social implicationsAuthorities should involve citizens in pandemic-related technical advances to reduce local viral transmission and infection. New health regulations improved people's interactions with new technological protocols and understanding of pandemic severity. Pandemic management authorities should work with medical and security employees.Originality/valueThis study is the first to demonstrate that a safety framework with technology-oriented techniques could reduce future pandemics using managerial initiatives.

Design for new perspectives in urban mobility

Urban mobility is an important property of the people that promotes access to the city. However, the current model of urban mobility generates social and environmental issues, reducing inclusivity, accessibility and health, delaying humane development of cities, resulting in urban crisis. Considering design as a tool to improve people's interaction with the environment, as it can initiate and materialise social innovations. How can design provide new urban mobility perspectives? From the empirical analysis of urban mobility issues in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo and Campinas, between 2017 and 2022, accessing definitions of mobility and questions from sustainable development and revision of literature, the work presented summarises five main aspects for the appliance of design at new urban mobility perspectives improving life quality to people, and enlist five case studies from design-mobility projects, addressing the way designers contribute in such projects.

Curriculum Models for The Arabic Language at Markaz ‘Arabiyah Pare Course | Namādzij Al Manāhij Fī Daurah Ta’līm Al Lughah Al-‘Arabiyyah Bi Markaz ‘Arabiyyah Pare

This research aims to determine the Arabic curriculum model at the Markaz Arabiyah Center Foundation, Pare, Kediri. In this study, researchers used a qualitative research approach with field research methods. The subjects of this study are all lecturers and students in this institution, where researchers present data obtained from observations and interviews described by data sources. This research data is from educational institutions, community environments, and community organizations. The qualitative research approach aims to understand the meaning of conditions and situations in people's social interactions. Researchers must be directly involved to understand these conditions and phenomena. Data from this study cannot be obtained by just one field entry but must be broad in observing events that occur in the field. The data collection methods in this study were interviews, observation, and documentation. While data analysis is carried out using the analysis theory proposed by Miles and Huberman, starting with data reduction, then data presentation, and finally, concluding. The result of this study is that there are at least four curriculum modules in this institution. First, The grammar curriculum, which is the Arabic learning curriculum, is classified according to grammar subjects. Second, the Situational approach to Arabic is taught according to the student's situation. Third, the Functional approach is learning according to a general function before teaching others. Fourth, Multidimensional approach, namely teaching Arabic in terms of linguistics, communication, and cultural aspects. All modules of this curriculum are integrated into the Arabia Center curriculum.

The mediator's role of communication skills in the effect of social skills on digital game addiction

This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of communication skills, which has a decisive role in people's healthy interaction with others, between social skills that enable the construction of social networks and digital game addiction. The study was conducted as a relational survey quantitative research model. A total of 474 university students, 232 of whom were female and 242 were male, comprised the participants of the study. The Social Skills Scale, the Communication Skills Scale, and the Digital Game Addiction Scales were used in this research. The data were analyzed using the AMOS-23 program. Results of the analysis showed that social and communication skills were strongly negatively related to digital game addiction, while communication skills were a solid mediator between social skills and digital game addiction. When the results are evaluated holistically, it is thought that digital games are an important escape area for individuals with low social and communication skills.

Lectio praecursoria: Recognizing the plurality of knowledge, values, and experiences interwoven in Mexican community forestry

During my doctoral defense at the University of Eastern Finland on January 27th, 2023, I introduced my doctoral research with the present lectio praecursoria. This lectio delves into the plurality of experiences, values and knowledge interwoven in the development of community forestry in the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico. In the last 40 years, Mexico has promoted community forestry as an alternative to forest management directed by the central government or private companies. As an alternative, community forestry is based on social justice and environmental sustainability principles, aiming for communities to use forests for social and economic development while conserving them. The research examines how forest communities have created their paths to achieve these objectives, like creating community forestry companies for wood and non-wood forest products. Based on ethnographic methods and documental analysis in the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca state, the research investigated the challenges, paradoxes and changes forest dwellers face when managing and working in their community forestry companies while conserving their forests. Furthermore, this study contributes to understanding how different environmental governing rationalities intersect when 1) socio-territorial conflicts arise, 2) women's access to productive labor is encouraged, and 3) the plural values of the forest are adapted. The lecture addresses one of the critical inquiries of this research: how various environmental governing rationalities intertwine in community forestry to shape and regulate people's behavior and interactions with forests.

The time-varying correlation between popular narratives and TRY/USD FX rate: Evidence from a DCC-GARCH model

Abstract Understanding the effects of people's interactions on social media on economic fluctuations is essential for analyzing economic dynamics and making predictions. ‘Time-varying’ and ‘time-scale dependent’ volatilities between tweets sent from Turkey containing the terms "economic crisis", "inflation", "unemployment", "economic recession", "#dolar" (also their lagged series), and TL/USD FX rate was examined with dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) GARCH model. 7.402.035 Tweet data were used for the study, and their count was averaged between the dates 01.10.2020 and 11.03.2022, and a time series of 15, 30 and 60 minutes was obtained. These series of tweets were compared with the USD/TL FX rate data for the same periods. The results show that examining -delayed relationships of up to 10 lags- 6th and 10th lag of 60 min frequency Twitter data have high level of conditional correlations with TL/USD FX rate. However, except for these series 12 of that is not dynamic but a CC process and for 105 series are statistically not significant to explain CC and DCC relationship. JEL classification numbers: G12, G17, G41. Keywords: Twitter narratives, DCC-GARCH, USD/TL FX rate, narrative economics.

Talk or something more? COVID-19 and youth discourses of participation

PurposePolitical participation of young people has been examined, but there is a lack of research about how these participation forms are interpreted and what counts as participation for young people. The study aims to identify discourses of political participation in Hungary, where the COVID-19 restrictions during 2020–2021 have confined young people's everyday interactions and political activism to the online space for an extended period. The authors’ asteroid-effect hypothesis suggests that new discourses of political participation have become more widespread, which may have reinterpreted the previous dynamics between online and offline participation.Design/methodology/approachThe authors analyse the results of six focus groups and eight interviews with young people conducted between 2021–2022 through discourse analysis.FindingsThe qualitative results show that to intellectualise the everyday discourses of youth political participation, extending its classical theories is worthwhile. While online participation has not emerged as a paramount, positive interpretational framework, a new discourse of political participation has emerged, making conversation a fundamental act.Originality/valueWhile the results are limited to Hungarian youth, the strong appearance of participation as a communicative action can have consequences to theoretical approaches of political participation. The authors believe that COVID-19 restrictions had a significant role in this change, because family talks became more politicised.

An Evaluation of Moderating Variable of “Physical Distance” among Customers on Social Servicescape and Place Attachment: Impact of Customer Loyalty in the Context of Hotel Indusrty

Customer loyalty is undeniably a significant issue in service organizations. The retention issues, especially in the hotel, are becoming challenging due to the postbreak pandemic of Covid-19. Even though Malaysia is recognized as one of the countries in the fastest recovery from this pandemic, it has given a massive impact on the hospitality industry in the coming years. The widespread movement order control (MOC) and social distance initiatives to minimize the transmission of fast spread virus in the neighboring countries, including Malaysia, have changed how the service organization operates and how customers behave that created uncertainty in future tourism. Hence this study is attempting to develop on customers’ loyalty framework for the hotel industry by considering how physical distance moderates the relationship between people's indirect interaction (social servicescape) and emotional attachment (place identity). Also, how this emotional attachment mediates the relationship between social servicescape and customer loyalty, overall, this conceptual paper could demonstrate the critical elements of social servicescape in contributing customer loyalty even in the existence of physical distance among people. In a further study, the PLS-SEM method is appropriate to analyze the proposed relationships.

The Influence of Social Media Interaction on Consumers' Purchase Intention

With the continuous development of the economy and the increasing improvement of living standards, the fitness model of sports activities can no longer fully meet the needs of modern people by means of places and time. At the same time, China has vigorously supported the policy of "Internet plus", so sports and fitness software came into being. Keep App, as one of the popular software, has aroused widespread concern in society. The SWOT analysis method is used to study the interaction form, advantages, disadvantages, opportunities, and threats. It also analyzes the impact of para-social interaction on users' purchases. The conclusion is that appropriate interaction can bring positive stimulus to people's purchase intention. The research question is based on keep software to summarize and analyze the impact of people's interaction with sellers in the process of purchasing products. To get a better sales plan. The article will combine the para-social interaction theory to discuss.

Social media and deep learning reveal specific cultural preferences for biodiversity

Abstract Social media has created new opportunities to map cultural ecosystem services (CES) related to biodiversity at large scales. However, using these novel data to understand people's preferences in relation to these CES remains a challenge. To address this, we trained a deep learning model to capture people's interactions with selected flora and fauna on Flickr as a cultural service related to biodiversity and compared this with citizen science data on iNaturalist, with photos of individual species considered as human–species interactions. After mapping the distribution of people's interactions in Great Britain on Flickr and iNaturalist, we find significant spatial differences in people's preferences on the two platforms. Using a second, pretrained deep learning model, we were also able to identify different preferences for species groups such as birds on social media versus citizen science. To better understand people's preferences, we also compared people's interactions with species richness and abundance for a group of 36 bird species, sometimes finding large differences between people's interactions and these ecological measures. Our findings demonstrate that social media can be used to include a wider range of preferences in CES assessments along‐side citizen science data. However, these preferences reflect only a limited first‐hand experience of biodiversity. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.