Psychological Attachments Research Articles

로컬콘텐츠 기획자 뿌리내림 과정과 특성

This study explores the process of embeddedness and characteristics of local content planners, focusing on Chengdu City in China.
 To achive this, we first examined the contextual differences of local contents planners entering the two countries by referring to the Korean case, and then conducted a theoretical examination of the concept and characteristics of local content creators they create, and embeddedness for closer analysis. Based on this, we selected Caihong Street in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, as the research site and conducted field visits and in-depth interviews with local content planners who are active in the research site.
 As a result, we found that local content planners in the case area entered the area voluntarily due to low rent and the existence of a network of neighbors working in the same field, and that the locality of the area, which is distinct from other areas, is an attractive factor that attracts local contents planners.
 In the early stages of embeddedness, we found that informal networking with residents and building rapport with residents in terms of understanding the local culture and context are important, depending on the specific demand characteristics. The role of local content created in this phase is to express and visualize local 'everydayness', contributing to the formation of psychological attachments as well as physical connections with local residents. On the other hand, the local content created in the closeness stage of embeddedness contributed to the expansion of the creative community by building an organic environment of the local community by linking residents and external actors. However, local brand-oriented local content aimed at enhancing the image of the local area may be weighted more toward economic effects than social and cultural effects, and some public-related local content has a limited role in implementation due to the complexity of regulations and systems.
 This study aims to add meaning to the current debate on the potential of local creators in Korea, which is being actively discussed not only in China but also in Korea, by laying the academic foundation for the direction of policy support for sustainable fostering and support, and for maintaining an ecosystem for self-reliant and long-term activation of local content creators.

Introduction to Michael A. Hogg's SPSSI Kurt Lewin Award Address

Introduction to Michael A. Hogg's SPSSI Kurt Lewin Award Address

The Role of Pedagogy Assistance in Increasing Prospective Student Self-Efficacy in College Preparation

In the concept of lifelong education, there are certain principles that underlie various exercises, activities and engagements that can be considered as a contribution to values education, and these will form the basis for lifelong education programs and activities. Learning in lifelong education is recognized in different forms at each age stage and can contribute to their desire to enhance personal development and creativity as they age. This lifelong education is a contribution to opening up and increasing sophistication in broadening the understanding of certain values for all students, during their study period. Lifelong education seeks to explore ways and means by which students can be encouraged to develop and grow well as individual beings and social agents, throughout their lives. In the process of lifelong learning, parents as individuals can obtain information and knowledge informally during their lives as parents. Parents as two individuals who generally have biological and psychological attachments, and have material responsibility for children's education, have an important role in determining the steps of children's education. For this reason, the knowledge that parents have about education majors and career planning will greatly help children as prospective students in tertiary institutions to consider the best education they will take to achieve the careers that have been planned beforehand. There are several other considerations that support research related to methods of increasing parental knowledge about colleges and careers for children's career planning, namely a great opportunity for parents to continue learning so they can direct and plan their children's future careers appropriately and accordingly. This is closely related to the principle of lifelong education. This research will be conducted using a qualitative research approach. This approach is commonly used to view human behavior as having its own meaning and implications. Through this approach, the author wants to see how the influence of knowledge possessed by parents about college and career can help children plan their future career properly and precisely.

Is cancer treatment immune from partisan conflict? How partisan communication motivates opposition to preventative cancer vaccination in the U.S.

ABSTRACT Cancer impacts the lives of Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike. While we might therefore expect cancer vaccines to have bi-partisan appeal, experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic suggest that partisan psychological attachments motivate some Americans to reject life-saving preventatives, even amid unprecedented public health threat. In a demographically representative survey of N = 1,959 US Adults, I tracked how intentions to receive preventative cancer vaccines (currently undergoing clinical trials) vary by partisan identity. I also fielded a pre-registered RCT that varied exposure to partisan/bi-partisan cancer research funding “credit claiming” messages. I find that cancer vaccines are already politically polarizing, such that Republicans are less likely than Democrats to intend to vaccinate. I conceptually replicate these findings in application to a second hypothetical vaccine for non-communicable illness; experimental preventatives for Alzheimer’s disease. Critically, I find that when elite Democrats claim credit for funding cancer research, Republicans become even less likely to intend to vaccinate. Collectively, these results suggest that partisan asymmetries in vaccine uptake extends to developmental vaccines that could prevent life-threatening, non-communicable disease.

Ethics and deontology in medical psychology

Abstract. The sphere of influence of medical psychology is constantly expanding, which is due to the relevance of mental health problems for modern society and the presence of social demand for psychological assistance. Ethics in medical psychology as one of the types of professional ethics is a set of principles of regulation and norms of behavior of medical psychologists and physicians, determined by the specifics of their activities and the role and position they occupy in society. The concept of medical deontology also includes the system of relationships established in the course of treatment between a doctor and a patient, a medical psychologist and a patient. Deontology is the study of the proper behavior of medical personnel. The subject of deontology in medical psychology is the principles of proper attitude not only towards an individual but also towards society. Referring to the ethical aspects of medical psychology, the modern models of medical ethics are analyzed: the Hippocratic model (V-IV centuries BC) – the key principle of which is: "Do no harm"; the model of Paracelsus (XV-XVI centuries) – the principle of "Do good". This model implements paternalism (pater) as a type of relationship between a medical psychologist and a patient, characterized by positive psychological attachments and social and moral responsibility, "healing", "divinity" of the contact between a medical psychologist and a patient; deontological model (XVIII-XIX centuries) is a set of "proper" rules that correspond to a particular field of medical practice; biomedical ethical model (60-70s of the XX century) considers medicine in the context of human rights. It has been established that medical psychology in all its sections is based on general medical ethical principles. Medical psychologists face specific ethical issues in their work. This is the question of the need to inform the subject about the purpose and content of the psychological examination before it is conducted. Secondly, a medical psychologist must adhere to the rule of "boundaries" (the limit of acceptable behavior). Given the specifics of interpersonal interaction between a medical psychologist and a patient, it is necessary to clearly define professional boundaries of communication during psychological counseling and psychotherapeutic meetings. Thirdly, the formation of emotional attachment of the patient to the medical psychologist, which is one of the characteristics of professional interpersonal interaction, can be a difficult ethical issue. Therefore, a medical psychologist should control the interaction with the patient, being aware of their professional actions, so that emotional support does not interfere with providing the patient with the means to independently cope with difficulties and realize their life goals.

Contextualising the Determinants of Job Embeddedness in the Higher Learning Institution with the Lenses of African Culture

The researcher investigated how African culture and additional factors contributes to job embeddedness in the higher learning institution. 12 participants, including academics and nonacademics, formed part of the study at a higher learning institution. In-depth interviews were carried out, and the data collected were analysed utilising thematic content analysis. The main results of the participants' perception are that they are embedded in their current job influenced by the African culture (Ubuntu). Additional influences of job embeddedness discovered in the current study are spiritual wellbeing, African culture and spiritual wellbeing, embedded to the community through Ubuntu, emotional and psychological attachments. The conceptual framework with the lenses of industrial and organisational psychology is then formulated as part of the practical implications. Future research recommendations are also provided in the current paper.

Integration and Satisfaction Among Resettled Bhutanese in Australia

Bhutan’s population design out of unfounded fears led to eviction of over 20% of the country’s population, mostly Nepali speakers. It was not an ethnic cleansing. It was a Bhutan’s best effort to avoid democracy and respect human rights. The efforts to return to Bhutan failed. Most of them are now resettled in developed countries. The data included in this article were driven from primary research conducted by the author in August 2018. It was found that the lives of the resettled Bhutanese people have germinated with new hopes and new vision for future. They have embraced their new country and connection with Bhutan is gradually eroding. The connection would have benefited both resettled Bhutanese and Bhutan. This paper provides basic background of the Bhutanese refugee issue but focuses primarily on integration of resettled Bhutanese in South Australia, their psychological attachments with Bhutan and Australia, and the way they are coping up with language challenges, cultural shocks and identity issues.

Should Doctors Know Their Patients' Attachment Style? A Psychological Perspective and its Impact on Cardiac Surgery Outcomes.

Objective To increase our understanding of the psychological attachment styles in order to develop a preventative strategy that could potentially improve patients’ perioperative outcomes.Methods A comprehensive literature search was performed utilizing major electronic databases. The search was done from inception to January 2019. All of the relevant papers have been extracted and critically appraised in this review.Results Understanding the psychological aspects of patients is crucial for a satisfactory postoperative outcome. Depression and anxiety have been shown to increase both mortality and morbidity after coronary artery bypass graft surgery, independently of medical factors, although the behavioural and biological mechanisms are poorly understood. Psychosocial assessment is an important part of the pre-transplant evaluation process. The majority of individuals undergoing a transplant have significant psychosocial problems and can either be deferred or denied the transplant until these psychosocial issues are approached and managed. Psychological distress has been shown to affect long-term prognosis of cardiac patients and as a result, it should be addressed during follow-up of cardiac arrest survivors due to cardiac cause. Several studies have considered different approaches and analyses of different psychological attachments, and the understanding of such parameters perioperatively could possibly minimise perioperatively complications.Conclusion Since psychological distress affects long-term prognosis of cardiac surgery patients, it should be addressed during follow-up of cardiac arrest survivors due to cardiac cause.

What demographics matter for organisational culture, commitment and identification?

PurposeThe purpose of this study to establish what demographic characteristics (gender, generations and organisational tenure) play a role in employee perceptions of organisational culture, commitment and identification in Russian public organisations.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected electronically from 248 employees of two public organisations. Three questionnaires were used.FindingsOrganisational tenure plays a central role in the way how employees perceive organisational culture; tenure also shapes the levels of both commitment and identification. The specific finding of Russian settings is that the longer employees work for a company, the lower the levels of psychological attachments they demonstrate, while it is not the case for some existing international results. The other findings correspond with those in international studies, in which women were more psychologically attached to the organisation and showed a higher level of identification and lower rates of negative forms of this concept than men did. The older the employees are, the higher the level of identification they express.Practical implicationsManagers working in Russian settings can struggle with engaging and retaining employees. Understanding the demographic effects can help alleviate these challenges.Originality/valueBased on empirical findings, this paper contributes to the literature on organisational socialisation by providing evidence of the damaging effects of the length of organisational tenure on psychological attachment to the company (in the form of commitment and identification). Additionally, tenure is the shaping factor of employee perception of organisational culture.

Normal feline behaviour: … and why problem behaviours develop.

Practical relevance: Cats are descended from a solitary, territorial ancestor, and while domestication has reduced their inherited tendency to be antagonistic towards all animals larger than their typical prey, they still place more reliance on the security of their territory than on psychological attachments to people or other cats, the exact opposite to dogs. Many feline problem behaviours stem from perceived threats to this security, often due to conflicts with other cats. Others are more developmental in origin, often caused by inadequate exposure to crucial stimuli, especially people, during the socialisation period. Strongly aversive events experienced at any age can also contribute. A third category comprises normal behaviour that owners deem unacceptable, such as scratching of furniture. Evidence base: This review identifies three areas in which basic research is inadequate to support widely employed concepts and practices in feline behavioural medicine. First, classification of cats' problem behaviours relies heavily on approaches derived from studies of their behavioural ecology and, to some extent, extrapolation from canine studies. Few studies have focused on cats in the home, the environment in which most behavioural disorders are expressed. Secondly, cats' chemical senses (olfactory and vomeronasal) are far more sensitive than our own, making it difficult for owners or clinicians to fully comprehend the sensory information upon which they base their behaviour. Thirdly, although the concept of psychological distress is widely invoked as an intervening variable in behavioural disorders, there are still no reliable measures of distress for pet cats in the home. Global importance: Psychological distress of some kind is the primary cause of many of the behavioural problems presented to clinicians, but surveys indicate that many more cats display the same clinical signs without their owners ever seeking help. The welfare of this 'invisible' group could be improved by veterinarians taking a more proactive approach to educating their clients about the behavioural needs of pet cats.

Reincarnation: Mechanics, Narratives, and Implications

This essay explores the mechanics associated with rebirth, noting differences between Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain narratives. It examines the concept of subtle body and the liṅgam in Sāṃkhya. According to the Hindu tradition, the remains of the departed person, when cremated, merge with clouds in the upper atmosphere. As the monsoon rain clouds gather, the leftovers mingle with the clouds, returning to earth and eventually finding new life in complex biological cycles. According to Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism, the remains of a person take a ghostly form for 49 days until taking a new birth. According to Jainism, the departed soul immediately travels to the new birth realm at the moment of death. According to Jain karma theory, in the last third of one’s life, a living being makes a fateful choice that determines his or her next embodiment. The 20th century Hindu Yoga teacher Paramahamsa Yogananda, in his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, provides an alternate description of a twofold astral and causal body. One hallmark of the Buddha and of the 24 Jain Tīrthaṅkaras was that they remembered all the lives they had lived and the lessons learned in those lives. The Buddha recalled 550 past lives and used these memories to fuel many of his lectures. Mahāvīra remembered his past lives and also the past lives of others. Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra states that through the perfection of giving up all things, including psychological attachments, one spontaneously will remember past lives. In the Yogavāsiṣṭha, a Hindu text, Puṇya remembers the past lives of his grieving brother as well as his own prior experiences.

My virtual friend: A qualitative analysis of the attitudes and experiences of Smartphone users: Implications for Smartphone attachment

As mobile phones have evolved into Smartphones, they have become more than simple communication tools; transforming into personal assistants, entertainment devices and information gateways. There is a need to understand how this rapid transformation and complexity of Smartphone uses have impacted on users’ relationship with their phones. This study presents a thematic analysis of three focus group discussions around attitudes and experiences of owning and using Smartphones. Themes that emerged included a bifurcation in attitudes to Smartphones as simultaneously materialistic objects, and ones which users express anthropomorphic and sentimental views about. Participant accounts reflected the evolution of Smartphones from functional communication devices, to informational and recreational tools. Participants discussed using Smartphones to alleviate boredom and that device usage had become habituated for some users. However, context determined Smartphone use with some participants using them to feel secure while away from familiar settings. Participant accounts provide rich insights into different Smartphones uses and infer numerous implications for understanding why some users develop strong psychological attachments to them. Findings also imply that users may not be attached to the device itself, but rather the affordances on offer. The implications of these findings, for example in the assessment of Smartphone addiction, are discussed.

LOCAL ECONOMIC VOTING AND RESIDENCE-BASED REGIONALISM IN SOUTH KOREA: EVIDENCE FROM THE 2007 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

AbstractRegional bloc voting in South Korea has been ascribed to voters’ psychological attachments to birthplace. This article seeks to expand the existing discussion of regionalism by showing that economic conditions in voters’ places of residence affect vote choices at the individual level and produce clustering of votes at the aggregate level in South Korea. While the idea of residence-based regionalism has previously been suggested, empirical scrutiny of the idea has been limited. Exploiting a Bayesian multilevel strategy, this article provides evidence that short-term economic changes at the province level affected voters’ choices in the 2007 presidential election in South Korea, independent of the long-term political affiliation between regional parties and their constituents. The positive association between local economic conditions and vote choices remains significant, controlling for perceptions of national economic conditions and other individual level covariates such as age and political attitudes.

Possession Work on Hosted Digital Consumption Objects as Consumer Ensnarement

This article extends prior critical discussions of digital prosumption by demonstrating that prosumer-reliant online business models represent new ways to valorize consumer labor through the creation of digital consumption objects (DCOs) that are simultaneously enacted as assets by companies, and as possessions by consumers. We argue that this multiplicity means that consumers’ “possession work” no longer serves to separate these objects from the market sphere, as proposed in prior literature. This produces a new form of consumer lock-in as consumers’ efforts to singularize DCOs ensnare them within market relations. We compare consumer ensnarement to other forms of lock-in mechanisms including psychological attachments seen in “brand love,” proprietary tie-ins, and access-based market systems in order to consider the implications of such ensnarement mechanisms. We propose that while, for companies, ensnarement is as an attractive mechanism for ongoing valorization of consumers’ “free labor,” it presents significant consequences for ensnared consumers who may be subject not only to ongoing financial exploitation but also to restricted and unstable interactions with digital possessions that may hold significant personal meaning.

Political and Spiritual Migration: The Adaptive Formation of Religious and Partisan Attachments among Latino Immigrants in the United States

AbstractImmigrants to the United States often fail to develop partisan identities, which can be a political impediment. While the development of partisanship has received substantial attention in the existing literature, further research is needed to understand the origins of partisanship for new immigrants who lack the socialized psychological attachments that drive partisanship for many Americans. I theorize that preceding changes in salient social identities may facilitate the formation of partisan attachments as an adaptive response to a new environment. Specifically, I contend that religious conversion, an adaptive change in one's religious identity, increases the probability of political adaptation among Latino immigrants, the largest immigrant group in the United States. Using data from a 2006 Pew survey of Latino religious life, I show that conversion among Latino immigrants is associated with a greater partisan identification, which suggests religious conversion may function as an intervening adaptation in the evolution of partisanship.

Stimulating Psychological Attachments in Narrative Games

Aim. This article aims to help game creators discover ways to make players feel involved, and engage with game characters. It outlines how players can have rich playing experiences with multi-faceted, dynamic, and interactive characters. Background. We consider two kinds of relationships: the first between the player and their avatar and the second between the player (as represented by their avatar) and non-player characters. More broadly, the article will provide information on the reasons why players engage with game characters and factors that enhance such engagement. Method. We synthesize findings as assessment criteria, for formative evaluation of an emerging game design. The research focuses on players’ experiences and opinions about the factors that make games an enjoyable experience for them, or, conversely, do not. We asked two groups of first-year Irish undergraduate games students to select and play two games and record in diary style their reactions, impressions, feelings, and reflections. We then analyzed what seemed to be generating positive and negative reactions. We used content analysis to analyze the players’ diaries of their experiences and self-analysis. Conclusion. This article thus examines the issues significant to players in relation to factors that engage them in narrative games, focusing on what makes dynamic, engaging, and interactive characterization. We envisage that this study will assist game creators in developing more responsive characters and overall engaging games.

The Attachments of New York City Caribbean Indian Immigrants to Indian Culture, Indian Immigrants and India

The primary objective of this paper is to examine Caribbean Indian immigrants' cultural, social and psychological attachments to Indian immigrants in New York City and to India through the perspective of the ‘proximal host’. The major findings, based on the results of census and survey data, show that respondents have almost completely lost the Indian language, but have moderately preserved Indian popular culture such as music, Hindu religious practices and English-language Indian media. Moreover, few maintain close ties with Indian or other South Asian immigrants, preserving strong ties mainly with other Caribbean Indian immigrants. In addition, the findings indicate that they have little psychological attachment to India or Indian immigrants. A majority identify with their Caribbean country of origin, with fewer than 20 per cent identifying as Caribbean Indian. Moreover, the vast majority would cheer for their Caribbean national-origin team rather than the Indian team in a hypothetical cricket match between the two. The secondary objective—to analyse the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of Caribbean Indian immigrants in New York City—makes an important contribution to the literature by providing solid statistical data on their demographic and socio-economic characteristics and ethnic attachment. It also significantly contributes to studies of ‘twice-migrant’ groups' attachments to their proximal hosts—a very important but neglected topic—by showing how to measure three components of ethnic attachment using multiple indicators.

The Peak at the Nadir: Psychological Turmoil as the Trigger for Awakening Experiences

International Jo nal of Transpersonal Studies, 32(2), 2013, pp. 1-12 A study of 161 temporary awakening experiences showed that over 23% were triggered by, or associated with, intense turmoil and distress (Taylor, 2012b). Examples of some of these turmoil-induced awakening experiences are given, illustrating the wide variety of traumatic experiences involved. (The type of trauma was found to be less important than its intensity.) These temporary awakening experiences are contrasted with permanent suffering-induced transformational experiences (SITEs). A distinction is made between a primary shift, involving the establishment of a new self-system (which occurs in SITEs), and the secondary shift which may occur after temporary awakening experiences, when the individual’s self-system remains fundamentally intact, but she or he experiences a shift in perspective and values. Possible reasons for the connection between psychological turmoil and awakening experiences are discussed, arguing that the experiences cannot simply be explained away as self-delusion or a psychological defense mechanism. It is suggested that there is a connection between turmoil-induced awakening experiences and the dissolution of psychological attachments, together with an intensification of energy.

English

  This paper explores and examines the different perceptions, attitudes and practices by the large and small plot-holder farmers in the Umguza-Bulawayo peri-urban. The study emanates from the fact that there is lack in the uniformitarian approach in increasing subdivisions of plots in the Umguza-Bulawayo boundary. Some plot-holders, who are commercial-biased, are ready to subdivide their pieces of land while others are resisting it. The resistors have their strong reasons for not letting go their land. The reasons include title and livelihoods. Such resistance is expected yet little remains understood in both literature and practice of clinging to land at the city-edge as the urban boundary shifts into rural space. The paper has been written on the basis of the land speculation theory which postulates that farmers will try as much as possible to keep the land they have always held until the speculative prices are offered to them yet the social and psychological attachments to pieces of properties and assets are often downplayed. It seeks to map the other arguments for or against this theory, in a bid to advocate for a midway approach to urban expansion processes that respect the rights of landholders. Landholders have planning rights. The paper makes use of data gathered via in-depth interviews with the landholders between June and November 2011.   Key words: Urban expansion, peri-urban, subdivision, livelihoods, planning conflicts.

Mark and Syria? An Assessment

One argument advanced for the Syrian, rather than Roman, provenance of Mark’s Gospel concerns geographical proximity to the 66-70 war. This article evaluates this largely unexamined argument, concluding that the attempt to sustain Syrian provenance on the basis of geographical proximity to the events narrated in Mark 13 fails to persuade. This argument cannot show unique correspondences between text and context, and the equation of great effects with geographical proximity fails the tests of Philo’s narrative concerning Gaius’ threat to the temple, contemporary experience, and contemporary attachment theory (Kirkpatrick) that highlight the key role of psychological attachments that are not restricted by geography.