Personal Understanding Research Articles

Blonde (2022)

Blonde (2022)

Empowerment Education Programmed for Teenagers as Health Cadres On Reproductive Health Awareness in Bojonegoro, Indonesia

Puberty makes adolescents aware of their potential and become more expressive in exploring their sexual organs and behaviour. The increasing number of adolescent reproductive health issues, especially those related to personal hygiene, the provision of information, services and health education to adolescents is very important. The solution to the problem of lack of knowledge about the function of reproductive organs is done by increasing counselling on the introduction of the reproductive system, female personal hygiene, male personal hygiene, unwanted pregnancy and understanding STIs & HIV/AIDS by using the concepts of input, process, outcome and impact. The method used in community empowerment activities is in the form of counselling activities for adolescent health cadres at Al Munawar Islamic Boarding School as many as 30 students. The purpose of this community service is to increase the knowledge and skills of adolescent cadres through training and the formation of adolescent cadres aware of reproductive health at Pondok Pesantran Al Munawar Kunci Village, Dander Kab. Bojonegoro. After the provision of Health Education, the results of activities in the form of Increased knowledge obtained Pre test and Post test scores obtained. The average value of the Pre Test is 51.75 and the average Post test is 82.88, there is an increase in knowledge of 31.13% trainees, on Skills in Counseling or IEC on Adolescent Reproductive Health obtained The average value of IEC is 84.38 and the results are 66.7% very good results. The implication of this research is the active role of adolescents and the community in increasing Adolescent Health Knowledge about reproductive health so as to produce a healthy young generation in preparing their reproduction

‘Feeling what I write’: researching disability and leisure with experience of living with a disability

ABSTRACT Our different experiences of the world can alter how we carve our identities and sense of place within it. Thus, many have argued that writing and sharing our personal experiences in research can often help us give others a different understanding of the world. Having a personal experience of a phenomenon can also assist researchers in the formulation and conceptualisation of their different ideas during the research process. However, whilst valuable, researchers’ different memories and recollections can negatively impact the research process as well. Sometimes different memories and recollections can alter what we see within our research and how we see what is happening in the real world. Therefore, this research note explores how our embodied experiences of a phenomenon can affect our research. It will centre around my own experiences of living with a disability, listening to those of other disabled people, my ever-changing professional and personal understanding of leisure, and how my own personal experiences have affected my interactions with disability and leisure research over the years.

The Affordances of the Translator

This article explores affordance-theoretical readings of Walter Benjamin’s “Task of the Translator,” looking first at Aleksei Procyshyn’s mobilization of Anthony Chemero’s “radical embodied cognitive science” approach to affordances, in which, as Procyshyn summarizes it, “language use is an enactive process of meaning creation, which affords an appropriately situated and capable agent specific potentials for further action.” A closer look shows not only that Procyshyn has not drawn on the full potential of Chemero’s theorization, but that Chemero himself has not developed a 4EA-cogsci affordance theory fully—and that the application of affordance theory to Benjamin ultimately doesn’t work without a complex reframing of both Benjamin and affordance theory. Specifically, toward the end of Benjamin’s essay he moves toward a more personalized understanding of human translators as situated agents—notably Friedrich Hölderlin, but also Martin Luther, Johann Heinrich Voß, A. W. Schlegel, and Stefan George—and another pass through Wilhelm Dilthey’s hermeneutical theory of the Zusammenhang des Lebens (“nexus/intertwining of life”), which Benjamin invokes by name, helps flesh out both an affordance theory of translation and an extended application to Hölderlin’s Sophocles translations. The historical chain from Dilthey through Husserl and Merleau-Ponty to Varela, Thompson, and Rosch’s The Embodied Mind ties hermeneutics, phenomenology, and 4EA cognitive science together under the rubric of the affordances of the translator.

Awakening takes place within: a practice-led research through texture and embodiment

This article explores contextual research and creative design methodologies to understand the relationship between the researcher’s embodied approach and the produced artefact. The question of: ‘How might I honestly depict my own embodied textural world to awaken others?’ frames the project in a way which allows the designer/researcher to produce work organically and honestly. Encompassing different navigational directions and frameworks of information allows personal understanding to pervade through. The ideas of place, nostalgia, storytelling and texture are explored throughout the physical artefacts of a textural archival book ‘Awaken’ and a series of posters. The methodology of a heuristic-led enquiry activated by embodiment enabled the translation into something more significant than an abstract thought. Exploring the contextual knowledge of texture and its multi-sensory ability, nostalgia and embodiment, frames the project in the broader context allowing for a critical work commentary.

Time perspective and self-stigma in schizophrenia

Background Time perspective (TP) offers a new understanding of human personality, postulating that there are individual differences in how our mind assigns our experiences to different time categories. This concept may shed new light on the role of personality traits in shaping vulnerability to the internalized stigma. Aim In this paper we propose a novel approach to clarifying the underpinning of self-stigma by empirically exploring its links with TP. Method We conducted a cross-sectional study among 86 patients with ICD-10 diagnoses of paranoid schizophrenia to validate the predictive role of TP for self-stigma. We used the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI), Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness scale (ISMI) and Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS). Results We found significant positive correlations of self-stigma with Past-Negative, Future-Negative and Present-Fatalistic TP categories and negative correlation with the Future-Positive category. The hierarchical regression analyses revealed that two TP categories and Deviation from the Balanced Time Perspective (DBTP) are significant predictors of self-stigma over and above sociodemographic and clinical control variables. Conclusion. The results of the study confirm the hypothesis that TP opens new possibilities to understand proneness or resistance to self-stigmatization, and this may provide a basis for novel approaches to anti-self-stigma interventions.

Motive-Specific Affective Contingencies and Their Relevance for Personality and Motivated Behavior

Individuals differ in the tendency to derive pleasure out of motive-specific incentives, such as being socially included or attaining power. Multiple theoretical approaches have proposed that such motive-specific positive affective contingencies (PACs) are central building blocks of motive dispositions and personality more broadly. In the current research, we put this claim to test and investigated individual differences with regard to motive-specific PACs in the affiliation and power domains. We measured PACs via spontaneous emotional reactions to motive-specific cues, as assessed by affect ratings and electromyographic (EMG) recordings of smile responses. Both of these PAC operationalizations were highly internally consistent and moderately to highly stable across time. Furthermore, motive-specific PACs were linked in a manner consistent with theory to measures of motive dispositions and to personality traits with motivational underpinnings (i.e., extraversion, agreeableness, and narcissism). Finally, in the affiliation domain, motive-specific PACs were linked to objectively assessed, key motivational outcomes (i.e., attentional orientation, behavior in daily life, and in the laboratory). Taken together, the findings underscore the relevance of affective contingencies for the understanding of personality and motivated behavior.

Монголын нууц товчооны зүйрлэлийн жишээг танихүйн үүднээс тайлбарлах нь

Any form of metaphor is a basic expression of the person's understanding and thinking and the expression of the culture. Basic Theory of analytical methodology of Linguistic analysis the selected method designed ancient history of nomadic Mongolian and literature analyzed examples of metaphor of the Mongolian Secret History. These are only model of the author's world as the examples from human life that define the characteristics of Mongolians.
 These metaphors came from the daily life of the nomadic Mongolians and their real world and shows how their thinking transmitted through the metaphor.

Object Relations–Informed Psychotherapy: Introduction to Festschrift Honoring Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.

Object Relations–Informed Psychotherapy: Introduction to Festschrift Honoring Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.

The Effectiveness of the Solution-Focused Brief Counseling Approach to Increase Social Awareness in Class VIII A Students at Enrekang 2 Public Middle School

Social awareness is a process in which a person understands and understands a situation that makes the individual himself aware and understands very well what is happening and what will happen. Facts on the ground show that students at SMP Negeri 2 Enrekang have experienced a decline in social awareness. This is why researchers offer solutions to increase students' social awareness by using SFBC counseling (solution-focused brief counseling). The use of this approach places more emphasis on short counseling times and has a lot of research that proves its effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to determine the application of the approach and the effectiveness of the solution-focused brief counseling approach in increasing social awareness among students at SMP Negeri 2 Enrekang. The research method used in this study is a quantitative research method with a one group pretest-posttest research design. The sample used in this study were 10 students in class VIII A at SMP Negeri 2 Enrekang. The results showed that the use of the SFBC approach with the scaling question technique had an effect on increasing students' social awareness compared to without using the SFBC approach with the scaling question technique.

Проблематика и поэтика повести «Человек и камень» А. Теппеева

The aim of the research is to identify the peculiarities of the range of problems and poetics of the novella "Man and Stone" by one of the brightest representatives of the Balkarian literature of the second half of the XX - early XXI century Alim Teppeev (1937-2010). It is the first time in national literary studies that an attempt to explore this work from the specified perspective has been made, which accounts for the scientific originality of the paper. As a result of the research, the range of priority problems has been de-termined, the specifics of the conflict, the ideological-artistic singularity of the novella have been revealed. In the course of the analysis, the spiritual-moral and humanistic ranges of problems, which are subjected to an innovative interpretation by the author, are noted as the key ones. Among the problems actualised in the narrative, the problems of the spiritual opposition of "fathers and sons" and sacrifice / willingness to sacrifice have been determined. The ideological confrontation between the representatives of the older and younger generations has been considered as the basis of the main conflict line of the novella. The research has also revealed the artistic means for embodying the main idea of the work, has determined the significant role of details-symbols in the reference of the main characters’ images. The paper provides an opportunity to greatly expand the understanding of the creative personality of the writer.

Toward a better understanding of the causal effects of role demands on work-family conflict: A genetic modeling approach.

Over the past several decades, there has been considerable interest in the theoretical causes of work-family conflict (WFC). Most studies have focused on situational determinants, often ignoring the role of personal factors such as disposition and heritable elements. We increase understanding of person versus situation influences on WFC through estimation of the relationship between role demands and WFC after controlling for genetic confounding, measured personality traits, family confounds, and other stable dispositions. Based on twin data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS), we examine the role of genetic factors in explaining variation in WFC (both work interference with family [WIF] and family interference with work [FIW]). Results support WFC has an additive genetic component, accounting for 31% [95% CI 18%, 45%] and 16% [95% CI 2%, 30%] of the variance in WIF and FIW, respectively. In addition, we test two competing hypotheses with regard to the relationship between role demands and WFC. Results support the phenotypic causal relationship for WIF, consistent with the notion the relationship between work demands and WIF reflect situational processes. However, results support the genetic confounding hypothesis for FIW, indicating observed relationships between family demands and FIW are primarily due to genetic factors. Our results provide new insights into the nature of WFC relationships and underscore that ignoring the influence of heritability can bias estimates of role demand effects in WFC research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

Political Personalization And Polyarchic Systems: The Opening To Representativeness?

This paper represents an analytical resource of the phenomenon of political personalization in electoral campaigns, from the accommodation of political forces in polyarchic systems. In this way, it is based on Robert Dahl's proposal by considering that democratic government systems are, rather, polyarchies and that a multitude of interests, starting points and political forces converge in them that have led to a kind of re-understanding. of the relationship of candidates and political parties in order to continue to be valid in the political arena and win the citizen vote. The central thesis of the paper is that political personalization should not only be understood as the maximization of the personal attributes of those who aspire to win electoral contests, but also as a result of the loss of partisan identities in an increasingly plural and diverse sociopolitical context. . Therefore, the main objective of the document is to establish an analytical route that favors the understanding of political personalization as a result of a complex network of political circumstances that have promoted electoral campaigns that tend to maximize personal qualities and attributes within the framework of polyarchic systems.

The realising of religion moderation in Tareqa Al-Yusriyyah As-Siddiqiyyah Ash-Shadhiliyyah

This study aims to clarify certain ideas regarding Al-Yusriyyah Ash-Shdhiliyyah Siddqiyyah Tariqa and its function in religious moderation. Tareqa can be a new formula in realising harmony in religious diversity, in which the teaching principle of Tariqa is the spirit of improving moral and character. This is very important in living in diversity. By implementing Tariqa, a person understands religion not only from the outward side but also from the inner part of religion, so that it is expected to be able to find the substance, namely, the true truth that is universal. From this point of view, the Sufism paradigm seems to have advantages that the person is more tolerant of differences, both internal and external. A field study was conducted to achieve the objective of this research. Particularly, this study used an interdisciplinary approach, that is, a combination of religious and social approaches. A participatory observation, deep interviews and documentations were employed to collect the data of this study. The subjects of this research were adherents of the Tariqa in Cairo, Egypt and Indonesia. This study reveals that Tariqa has teachings and values in realising religious moderation in a plural society. This Tariqa could be an agency of religious moderation. The significance of this study is to prove the power of Tariqa and Sufism as agents of change in plural societies against extremist and intolerable attitudes both between devotees of particular religions and between adherents of different religions. Accordingly, it can promote a peaceful and tolerant way of life and reduce violence. This study supports earlier research that suggested Sufism as an option for governmental action in a plural society to counteract radicalism and intolerance.Contributions: The results of this study are expected to contribute to providing suggestions to the stakeholders in dealing with the rise of religious intolerance and radicalism both globally and locally. Moreover, the ritual, doctrinal and social interaction of Tareqa Al-Yusriyyah As-Siddiqiyyah Ash-Shadhiliyyah can be a source of reference and inspiration for the policy of stakeholders in deradicalising religion and creating religious moderation.

INSON – MADANIYATLAR CHORRAHASIDA

Understanding the world, a person understands himself. By be-coming aware of himself, he understands the world and his place in it. He feels harmony with the existence in which he lives. This process is carried out through the personal cultural prism of a person, which is created as a result of the environment in which he was born, grew up and matured. That is, a person looks at the world through his beliefs, moral rules, tradi-tions, value system and native language. These situations are explained in science using the terms cultural picture of the world and linguistic picture of the world.This article provides an explanation of the concept of culture, the interaction of cultures, the processes of inculturation and acculturation. Information is given about the main differences between these processes, what changes occur in cultures as a result of the interaction of cultures, and what factors influence these changes. A person’s entire life is analyzed at the intersection of different cultures.

Managing, theorizing, and policymaking in an age of sociopolitical uncertainty: Introduction to the special issue

The last 15 years have brought a fracturing of the relative stability of the post-Cold War world, an era characterized by the ascendance of free markets, consumer choice, globalization, and social change valuing individual autonomy. This move away from the placid waters of the 1990s is being driven by a combination of formal and informal sociopolitical actors and in both coordinated and uncoordinated forms at the local and global levels. However, while these historical currents we are seeing may be different in form, content, and nuance, it is hardly a radical departure from previous instances of instability in global commerce. This special issue examines the rise of sociopolitical uncertainty and how it matters for international business and policy. Following on the heels of other recent research into social movements, civil society, and the actions of insiders and outsiders, we call for greater understanding of political personalities, actors, and movements in altering the landscape for international business.

Voices from the war: Some notes on the emotional experience of the war in Ukraine told by two Ukrainian psychoanalysts

What is the real experience of war? How does our mind react to the sudden threats and losses of our lives, homes, and beloved objects? What understandings can it offer to make sense of the atrocities it witnesses? What adjustments can we carry out in these circumstances? Two colleagues from Kharkiv, Ukraine, and affiliated to the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Study Group and the Institute of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Study Group help us to shed light on these questions by sharing their personal experience and understandings of the current war that started on February 24, 2022 when the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. This contribution aims to report their voices and the emotional experience of encountering their stories in order to provide readers with an unsaturated and unmediated contact with at least some aspects of the reality of war.

Lecturer Attitudes on Cross-Cultural Practices in EFL Online Teaching

Most studies on the link between cross-cultural values and language teaching conducted in online settings almost always draw on students’ perspectives, yet few focus on how the attitudes of higher education lecturers in the conduct of this program. Therefore, this study aims to investigate EFL lecturers’ attitudes toward cross-cultural practices during EFL online teaching. A qualitative approach with observation and semi-structured interviews via face-to-face and online meetings is used to collect the data in this research. Using purposive sampling, this study employs four EFL lecturers from Muhammadiyah university as selected participants based on their experiences in teaching cultural-integrated classes at both offline and online schemes. The study discovered that EFL lecturers understand cross-cultural practices in EFL online teaching to be associated with personality traits, language roles, and understanding of local culture as a way to incorporate cross-cultural knowledge into their teaching. To foster effective interaction in the class, lecturers focus on conveying opinions and maintaining communication by understanding with whom to speak, where to speak, and ways to speak. These essences and fundamental attributes influence cross-cultural practices in EFL online teaching. The study reveals that cultural differences, incorrect expressions such as a lack of appropriate word choices, and a mismatch of verbal and nonverbal language can cause cross-cultural teaching barriers. Furthermore, the need to create an authentic environment, increase intercultural knowledge, and eliminate cultural stereotypes is to be addressed as cross-cultural teaching strategies in an EFL online teaching context.

The Possible Role of Apathy on Conflict Monitoring: Preliminary Findings of a Behavioral Study on Severe Acquired Brain Injury Patients Using Flanker Tasks

The diagnosis of apathy, one of the most common behavioral changes after acquired brain injury (ABI), is important for improving clinical understanding and treatment of persons with ABI. The main aim of this study was to determine the possible role of apathy in conflict monitoring, by using choice reaction time tasks. Methods: We examined behavioral responses of conflict monitoring during three different flanker tasks in 10 severe ABI patients with or without diagnosis of apathy (3 M, mean age = 56.60; 3 M, mean age ± SD = 58.60, respectively), and 15 healthy controls (9 M, mean age = 54.46) Reaction times (RTs), accuracy, and global index of performance (GIP) were analyzed for each task. Results: Only apathetic ABI patients showed a significant difference from healthy subjects (p-value ≤ 0.001), while the performance of patients without apathy was not significantly different from that of healthy controls (p-value = 0.351). Healthy participants had higher accuracy in comparison to both ABI patients with (p < 0.001) and without (p-value = 0.038) apathy, whilst slower RTs were shown by ABI patients without apathy in comparison to both healthy subjects (p-value = 0.045) and apathetic ABI patients (p-value = 0.022). Only patients with apathy exhibited a significantly higher number of missing trials (p-value = 0.001). Conclusions: Our results may suggest a potential link between apathy following severe ABI and conflict monitoring processes, even though further investigations with larger sample size are needed.

Edukasi Penatalaksanaan Insomnia pada Penderita Hipertensi

Introduction: Patients with hypertension often complain of dizziness/headache, sore or heavy neck and insomnia. People who suffer from hypertension have a risk of poor sleep disorders or insomnia. Patients with hypertension cannot sleep well or insomnia due to dizziness, difficulty breathing, noise and difficulty starting to sleep.&#x0D; Objective: The purpose of this public service activities is to provide education about how to reduce insomnia in people with hypertension so that their sleep quality is better.&#x0D; Method: This public service was conducted by measuring the level of insomnia in patients with hypertension using the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) questionnaire. The activity was carried out for 2 days on 9-10 September 2022 in the working area of the Bendo Health Center, Kediri Regency. The counseling participants totaled 27 people. After the assessment is carried out, then proceed with providing counseling or education about the management of insomnia experienced by people with hypertension.&#x0D; Result: The results of the interview showed that most of the people (44%) as many as 12 people had good knowledge. The level of education is one of the sociocultural factors that can affect a person's knowledge and understanding of information. A high level of education can enable individuals to access and understand information about health so that someone who has the knowledge to choose strategies in overcoming insomnia. If a person's level of education is low, it will hinder the development of a person's attitude towards receiving information and newly introduced values.&#x0D; Conclusion: Nurses as health workers who play a role in promotive functions, try to do prevention through education so that complications do not continue and get worse. Efforts to overcome insomnia by means of reflexology, relaxation techniques, changing sleep/wake schedules, drinking milk before bed and avoiding nap habits. The family plays an active role in providing motivation, supervision and assistance to a family member who suffers from chronic diseases such as hypertension.