Psychosocial Reality Research Articles

Factors that Hinder the Development, Organization and Resizing of the New Socio-Econimic and Psycho-Social Reality in the Post COVID-19 Era in Kosovo

Purpose: This study examined the factors that hinder the development, organization and resizing of the new socio-economic and psycho-social reality in the Post-Covid-19 era in Kosovo. Theoretical framework: Social transformations in the new re-dimensioning and dynamics of the modernity of life are bringing more and more innovations in the perception and judgment that people are making about the new social reality post-covid-19 and the accompanying challenges, especially in Kosovo. Method: The methodology with quantitative path and correlative scope was used, which was administered in a questionnaire in which 100 respondents answered. Also, reports, documents from the author, agencies were used through which we got a better understanding of the difficulties that Covid-19 has brought to people's lives. Results and conclusion: The statistical processing of the data allowed to conclude that the Post-COVID-19 period has brought a series of changes in the re-dimensioning of the new reality of life. First, in the emotional and psycho-social level of dealing with the consequences and secondly with personal and family economic recovery. In addition, the results show that the COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by restrictions on physical activity, social and financial problems, freedom of movement and even mental consequences accompanied by forgetfulness. Research implications: Practice of coping with COVID-19 and the post-covid period have shown stressful results. Almost, a considerable part of the respondents still continue to face limitations which have left psycho-social and emotional consequences in their lives. Therefore, this research has been developed in the post-pandemic period with conditions and limitations to deeply understand the re-dimensioning of the new social reality of Post-Covid-19. Originality/value: This questionnaire had 10 items respectively. They were also shown to be very reliable for application.

Women's health access in the context of forced migration in Portugal: vulnerabilities and adaptation

Introduction: This article presents the findings, related with the vulnerabilities regarding access to health services felt by refugee women, of a research project conducted in Portugal between 2020 and 2022 as part of the Masters in Intercultural Relations program at Universidade Aberta. Objective: The overall goal was to gain a better understanding of the psychosocial reality of women who arrived in Portugal as a result of forced migration, focusing on the main difficulties of the migratory and adaptation journey - highlighting vulnerabilities related to health and access to health services at the present article - and the protective factors that facilitated their processes of resilience, adaptation, and social integration. Methodology: To that end, the protagonists' meanings for their experiences were revealed through nine semi-structured and in-depth interviews with women from Iraq, Syria, and Libya. Results: The investigation uncovered a number of vulnerabilities caused by migratory experience and gender belonging, which justified the intersectional analysis. The findings reveal a number of challenges in the host country, This article is going to focus on the findings concerning health, specifically, the reported vulnerabilities and difficulties related with the access to health care services. Conclusions: The current investigation led to the conclusion that there are serious flaws in Portugal in terms of ensuring full access to health care for forced migrant women, highlighting as major obstacles: a lack of information in a language other than portuguese, a lack of command of the portuguese language, a lack of knowledge about how health institutions work, and a lack of sensitivity and intercultural skills in care.

Делінквентність як прояв патопсихологічного стану трансформаційного суспільства під час переходу від тоталітаризму до демократії

The article examines the nature of delinquency as a manifestation of the pathopsychological state of society in the conditions of transformational changes. The general background of this relationship is the visible weakening of social norms and institutions regulating and disciplining people’s behaviour through transformational processes, which leads to the denial of the authority of existing social norms and provokes various forms of deviant behaviour. Therefore, the psychological (psychosocial) aspect, which covers the individual and the collective conscious and unconscious nature of social behaviour, comes to the forefront of the knowledge of the new – Postmodern social situation. For the analysis of transitional processes and the social situation as a whole, the authors use both the established concept of the Modern era – “social identity” and introduce a new one, corresponding to the realities of the postmodern era, the concept of “societal identity” as a multidimensional psychosocial reality, which is measured by the author’s BAD methodology. It is about its six binary scales-oppositions, which measure such qualitative features of the social system as: “extroversion – introversion”, “emotionality – pragmatism”, “irrationality – rationality”, “intuitiveness – sensory”, “externality – internality”, “executiveness – intentionality”. Monitoring the trends of changes in these qualitative characteristics during the years 2002–2023 provided an opportunity not only to establish the fact of the birth and subsequent dominance of a new type of “social identity” in Ukraine but also to determine the “landmarks” of the irreversibility of the process of social transformation, which became: the “Orange Revolution” (2004), the “Revolution of Dignity” (2013–2014), the Russian-Ukrainian war (2014–2023), especially its final phase – Russia’s large-scale aggression against Ukraine (2022–2023). The latter seems to be the equifinal moment of social transformation, which brings victory for Ukraine while turning into a strategic defeat for Russia. This defeat is accompanied by the criminal nature of the delinquent behaviour of the military and politicians, which is caused by the pathopsychological state of Russian society with its conformist behavioural colouring, which is based on the archetypal tradition of the “oprichnina” of the Muscovite state of the 16th century, during the reign of Ivan 4th the Terrible.

A Study of the Adolescents’ Psychological Potential Actualization Model

The socio-psychological situation in Ukraine has undergone significant changes. A global pandemic, harsh quarantine measures, war, insufficient public information, stigmatization of public opinion, high risks to public health – have all created a new psychosocial reality of life for both adults and young people. It is obvious that these problems and their manifestation in totality have affected young people’s life in various aspects. An anonymous voluntary survey of high school teachers conducted in 10 schools in different regions of Ukraine (Prykarpattia, Central and Northern) revealed a decrease in student activity (360 students aged 14-17) by 40% (attendance, willingness to learn and participate in educational activities), significantly reduced success (by 35%) during the distance learning period. The parents’ survey results show that young people’s feelings of fear (89%), anxiety (84%), aggression (58%), and depression (52%) are significant. A study of the structural characteristics’ of the specific manifestations of young people’s psychological potential was conducted between 2016-2020 which involved 2022 participants on a voluntary, anonymous basis. The young people’s psychological potential comprised the following components: motivational, emotional, value, and behavioral. The results showed a 40% decline in indexes on average over 2020-2021. A 4-stage young people’s psychological potential actualization model focusing on diagnostic, psycho-corrective, formative, and recreational-assertive aspects was developed based on the “Children`s Camp Zefir” recreation program and the adolescents’ psychological center “Alternative”. The model, implemented for the second year 2021-2022, currently displays significant results for increasing psychological indicators.

Approaching and Re-stating the Question of Global Anxieties: Some Suggestions for Psychology and Therapy Studies

Anxiety caused by the psychosocial reality of war, pandemic, natural disasters, or poverty, among other factors, may be studied from two kinds of methodological premises: first, the deep and unencumbered perception of anxiety as a metacognitive process indicating diminution in energy levels and normative expression or behaviors of individuals. The subject finds oneself in a situation that is out of sync with the environment, and experiences low emotive valence. Anxiety is cognitively visible as a state of depression that continues to intimidate and demoralize the person. It represents a dispirited state of the individual as it encounters a world of depleted resources, and as it constantly fears for its existence or survival. The collective cognitive fear that underlays human survival also creates preconditions for global anxiety. Global anxiety is a global category – an obscure, introspective moment in the lives of peoples within a territory or among migrant populations across frontiers. Secondly, it could indicate toward historically localized expressions and as such anxiety could be studied pluralistically – as its pre-conditions arise in times and locations. Yet on the whole, if we were to analyse the causal variants or consequences of anxieties on a quantitative scale, we could possibly determine how conditions conducive to emotional redressal could be procured or administered for well-being and the Human devolopment index. In either case, the need to identify, analyze and alleviate the pressures and tensions causing anxiousness, and to diminish or palliate physiological conditions that induce anxiety remain our conscious rudder for anxiety studies.

(Re)significations of the Cuiaba port landscape: Implementation of historic tourism

To speak about the quarter of Porto, in Cuiabá, is like tracing a bias in the history of Mato Grosso, which started there, in Porto Geral (General Port) at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Beyond the exponential historical value, the quarter has a proper dynamic, a psychosocial reality developed from the movement led by shipments and landings and, later, by the Fish Market that there is installed on behalf of the facility in the landing of fish, fruit and vegetables comings from "river down". This article focuses on the urban reality of the quarter that grew to the edge of Vila Real do Bom Jesus, with the proposal to discuss the abandonment allowed by the public power, one of the reasons for the exit of traditional families, who had left backward only huge houses, slowly invaded by prostitution, the allurement of children for sex and by the trafficking of narcotics. The proposal is to analyze the Docks Area, aiming to (re)signify it with an architectural revitalization of the neighborhood to meet, more specifically, the demand interested in historic tourism.

Care, Compassion, & Controversy: Supporting Children in a Covid-19 Vaccine Pod through Music Therapy & Child Life

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a trajectory punctuated by controversy, from understanding the virus itself to the development of therapeutics and a vaccine. The offering of vaccination to children through a destination Covid-19 vaccine pod foregrounded the need for procedural support within a psychosocial reality of children and families navigating the pandemic. Children receiving the Covid-19 vaccine benefitted from a synthesis of music therapy and child life services into a comprehensive approach that proved essential for not only the child, but for personal caregivers, and very often the nursing staff administering the vaccine itself.
 This article presents the praxis of psychoeducational interventions, psychotherapeutic support, and procedural support including both pre- and post-procedural interventions to support children receiving the Covid-19 vaccine,

Services School of Psychology in Brazil: challenges and possibilities for clinical practices in times of pandemic

In this theoretical essay, the authors, based on their experiences as teachers, researchers, psychologists and internship supervisors seek to situate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of the Brazilian population and on clinical practices in schools of Psychology in the country, as well as reflecting on the elasticity of demand and listening trainee and supervisor in that context. Therefore, they theoretically discuss the role of the school service in the undergraduate training of the psychologist and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the provision of services by students. Based on several questions about the psychosocial reality of the pandemic and the need for planning, regulation and training for remote practices throughout the training of the psychologist, propose new managements for individual psychotherapy and other modalities of clinical practices, in the sense that school services meet social demands in times of pandemic crisis and better prepare their students for a job market increasingly taken over by remote relationships and services.

Association between stuttering and psychosocial complications in Saudi Arabian individuals: A pilot study.

Stuttering is a multifaceted speech disorder that affects the interpersonal communication. It has a significant psychosocial impact on individuals who stutter and on their families. Stuttering is associated with substantial psychosocial morbidity, including social or generalized anxiety, stigmatization or discrimination, impaired self-image, and poor quality of life. Psychosocial morbidity, such as the one reported among stuttering individuals, may provoke suicidal ideation that varies with gender, age, geographic region, and psychosocial reality. The present research aimed to determine the association between stuttering and psychosocial complications in Saudi Arabian individuals. This study targeted a total of 107 male patients with stuttering. Only 59 of them fulfilled both inclusion and exclusion criteria. The researchers formulated a valid questionnaire to obtain quantifiable data for analysis. The questionnaire consisted of 76 questions spanning various domains. Following the data collection, a quantitative analysis was carried out. A total of 79.5% of the participants were adolescents or young adults between the ages of 16 and 26. Among them, 17.8% had a later onset of stuttering. The age of onset tended to be higher than 5 years, with over 80% of respondents reporting an age of onset in the last 5 years of their age. Among the participants, 57.6% reported a positive family history of stuttering. The present study reports that patients who stutter (PWS) are at a higher risk of developing negative thoughts leading to suicidal attempts due to social anxiety and depression. Therefore, future studies should be designed to establish the relationship between stuttering and suicidal thoughts in order to establish policies that may improve the quality of life of those who stutter.

School of Anak Laut (Sea Children): Educational Philanthropy Movement in Bajo Community of Three-Coral World Center

This article provided an anlytical description of the Muhammadiyah philanthropic movement to the Bajo community in Wakatobi. There were three important points hacked in this study, namely: (1). Why did Muhammadiyah choose the domain of education for its philatropical movement in the Bajo community? (2). what was the pattern of Muhammadiyah's educational philanthropic movement in the Bajo community? (3). what was the Bajo community's response to the Muhammadiyah-based pure Islamic education philanthropy movement? Data collection was done through in-depth interviews, observation and documentation. Analyzing data used hermeneutic phenomenology approach. The results showed that the choice of moving in the realm of education by the local Muhammadiyah community was due to the essence of the education movement as a fulcrum for determining the quality of human resources, on the other hand expensive quality education services made most Bajo children to choose to go to sea rather than go to school. The choice of educational philanthrophy by Muhammadiyah was also due to the psycho-social reality of local children who were suspected of "experiencing" an inferiority complex when they interacted with the mainland children's community. The philanthropic movement pattern implemented by the local Muhammadiyah community was based on the philanthropic social movement, namely to form awareness of the local community about the urgency of education for future life continuity by relying on a belief system or religious basis. The smart work of the Muhammadiyah community combined with the positive action approach made the pure Islamic idea could be transformed into the Bajo cultural space through education and teaching in a natural humanistic manner, without causing controversy.
 Keywords: Educational Philanthrophy, Bajo Community, Educational Philanthrophy Movement

The Coupling of Pain, Anxiety, and Stress

The Coupling of Pain, Anxiety, and Stress Abstract. There is considerable neurobiological, clinical and epidemiological evidence that the systemic phenomena of anxiety and pain closely interact. Both perceptions trigger stress activation processes and are in turn modulated by long-term stress. This overview illustrates the coupling of pain, anxiety and stress with some clinical examples. The relations shown here should help us to gain a holistic view of the individual patient and his/her psychosocial reality, in which nociceptive, affective and vegetative symptoms are often interdependent and mutually reinforcing each other.

Mothering Death: A Psychosocial Interpretation of Breast Cancer Biography

In this article I take as my point of departure a puzzle presented by a woman who had an apparently ‘bizarre’ reaction to a breast cancer diagnosis. In the clinic, she had exclaimed: “I would rather die than lose the breast!”. My aim is to unpack layers in this woman’s embodied and enculturated experience, with a view towards developing a psychosocial interpretation of breast cancer biography. The single case on which the present study is based, was extracted from a larger longitudinal data set which allowed me to follow ‘Ella’s’ transition from diagnosis to survivorship. I relied on five sources of data to unfold the case: two participant-generated texts (expressive writing and a Breast Biography), two interviews, and my own field notes. The two texts that Ella wrote provided a participant-led frame for depth-hermeneutic group interpretation sessions, the first of which, synergistically, produced a scenic voicing of latent content in the sub-text of Ella’s expressive writing: the fantasy of mothering death. This subsequently became a lead for my further interpretation of the case, and for methodological reflections on the value of shared thinking in qualitative data interpretation. Crucially, and with some bearing on the current healthcare context, this interpretive study sheds light on what goes on beneath the surface of an apparently ‘irrational’ and ‘recalcitrant’ patient, evidenced by Ella’s entry into what I call a ‘vortex of suffering’. Findings point towards her suffering as an expression of a psychosocial reality, against the backdrop of hope and ideals contained within a psychosocial imaginary that revolves around biomedical cure and reparation.
 
 Keywords: breast cancer biography; the breast; psychosocial studies; depth-hermeneutics; vortex of suffering; psychosocial reality

ЦІННІСНИЙ ПОТЕНЦІАЛ ПІДЛІТКА

The article deals with the relevance of the assessment and development of the value potential of a modern adolescent. The approaches to the problem are analyzed, including on the territory of the European scientific community. The influence of the value potential of the adolescent on the nature of the adolescent's behavior in modern psychosocial reality is shown. The life-meaning orientations of adolescents were investigated according to the Life-meaning orientations test of D.A. Leontiev. A thorough study of instrumental and terminal values was carried out using the tests of M. Rokich and I. G. Sanin. Their influence on the life spheres of the personality of a teenager is analyzed. The connection between the actual values and meanings of adolescents with the leading activities and the social situation of personality development in adolescence is shown. The importance of the development of the value and meaning sphere of a teenager and the realization of his value potential has been proved.

Journalistic clichés under the conceptual “umbrella” of isotopies: “linguistic pathologies in vogue” or “mirror-words” of psychosocial reality?

The present paper examines the dominant isotopies under which linguistic clichés emerge in the context of the intense media coverage of the current COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis of the linguistic automatisms excerpted from the online journalistic discourse proved to be prolific in identifying additional features of the linguistic “behaviour” of clichés. Furthermore, the investigation facilitated our understanding of the underlying motivations, implications, and potential effects triggered by the use of specific prefabricated structures. As a general remark, the analysis of these dominant overused schemes revealed how media institutions overuse, under the pressure of the international model, specific lexico-semantic isotopies which exploit prefabricated structures from distinct fields: war, particularly the area of pyrotechnic elements (“explosion of new cases”, “huge explosion of Covid cases”), the semantic area of natural disasters subsumed to liquidity (“a new wave of COVID”, “anti-Covid control wave”, “death wave”, “a wave of hateful comments”, “wave of infections/confirmations/illnesses”, “flood of accusations/fines”, “tsunami of COVID-19 patients/displacements”). We have also identified journalistic automatisms circumscribed to the isotopy of the economy (“epidemiological balance”), ranking and sports competition (statistical clichés: “top of infections”, “Covid top”, “top Covid infections”, “European top of Covid evolution”, “vaccine race”, among others), disaster (clichés of melodramatic excess, salient to tabloid journalism: “disaster”, “chaos”, “nightmare”, “COVID-19 drama”). For the present article, we channeled our investigative effort only towards the first two dominant isotopies. To achieve these objectives, we proposed a two-dimensional research model. Specifically, we correlated the data obtained through conjugating linguistic micro-parameters (semantic, stylistic features, lexical and morpho-syntactic patterns) and macrolevel variables (pragmatic, psycholinguistic aspects, perspectives derived from the sociology of media communication, critical analysis of discourse, among others). The investigation results revealed that these linguistic patterns, analyzed under the conceptual “umbrella” of isotopy, can function as rhetorical and lexico-semantic strategies through which journalists activate the receptors’ affective responses. Consequently, media discourse can trigger and maintain artificial states of anxiety, panic, and restlessness. Over time, this journalistic operation leads, through the impact of obsessive repetition, to the passive consumption of media representations and cultural stereotypes, of preconceived ideas.

The dramatic writing workshop as a mediating practice between literary creation and social phenomenon

The workshop of theatrical writing can be understood as a literary and artistic mediation practice because it can allow people to open themselves to cultural objects that they do not usually frequent. The playwright Luc Tartar met with several groups of teenagers to conduct writing workshops aimed at developing their taste for literature, transforming their relation with writing and develop their sensitivity to theatre. The writing workshops were then able to bring to light the psychosocial reality of youth while they gave material to the production of the playwright who thus found an artistic material in direct contact with this youth. This device based on an interaction that informs about the sociology of youth and invites to reassess the processes of literary creation from a mix of practices. This mediation can be thought in terms of literary engagement because it creates a space of sociability and exchange for young people and is imbued with it, participating in the legitimation of this social category.

Theorizing the virus: abjection and the COVID-19 pandemic

PurposeUsing Kristeva's theory of abjection, this article analyzes the psychosocial reality of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, advancing the understanding of exclusion and stigmatization as forms of social abjection.Design/methodology/approachThe article applies abjection to understand how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is both a medical emergency but also a cultural challenge. The analysis is structured in three dimensions: (1) the transgressive potential of the virus, (2) forms of cultural coping with its threat and (3) the moral order of abjection.FindingsThe virus is an existential challenge to cultural boundaries and subjectivity. Strategies to prevent its further spread (e.g. handwashing, “social distancing” and closing national borders) are thus culturally significant. The virus triggers the processes of abjection, (re-)establishing challenged boundaries and exclusionary social hierarchies. Collateral consequences of protective measures vary across regions and social groups, creating and exacerbating social inequalities.Research limitations/implicationsPractices of abjecting the virus go far beyond handwashing, masking, etc. The virus, an invisible enemy to be expunged, is also a hybrid of threatening pathogen and human body; it is not the virus but people who experience exclusion, discrimination and disrespect. Thus, cultural sociology must address the moral economy of abjection.Social implicationsAs Kristeva insists, the abject threatens both the subject and the symbolic order. Overcoming social abjection means recognizing and strengthening individual and community agency and requires understanding vulnerability as an anthropological condition, enacting caring relationships and acting in solidarity.Originality/valueThis article demonstrates that abjection is a suitable theoretical tool for analyzing the social dynamics of the COVID-19 crisis.

Propuesta de intervención, a través de técnicas de intervención en Musicoterapia, para favorecer la mejora de la autoestima en contextos educativos en riesgo de exclusión social

Este artículo trata de exponer un uso de la música con una clara función terapéutica, que busca mejorar la calidad de vida en un determinado colectivo con problemas de autoestima que giran en torno a su realidad psicosocial. Diversas investigaciones manifiestan que la musicoterapia favorece el aumento de la autoestima en el alumnado, lo cual permite afianzar conceptos y el entendimiento sobre la problemática y necesidad de estos menores. Se ha tratado de corroborar la importancia de englobar la musicoterapia en los centros escolares como medida de apoyo al alumnado, especialmente a aquellos con problemas de autoestima, otorgando a la educación emocional un lugar en las aulas, estableciendo, asimismo, un lugar a la inclusión de todo el alumnado.

ПРОЦЕС ПРОФЕСІЙНОЇ ІДЕНТИФІКАЦІЇ ПСИХОЛОГІВ У ПРОФЕСІЙНО-ОСВІТНЬОМУ ПРОСТОРІ

У межах формату статті окреслено основні аспекти процесу професійої ідентифікації в контексті професійного становлення особистості та багатомірність дефініцій “освітній простір” і “професійно-освітній простір”. Подано тлумачення професійної ідентифікації та професійної ідентичності як психологічних категорій. Наведено нові погляди на професійний супровід майбутніх психологів під час навчання, а саме: проаналізовано проблеми професійної ідентифікації як складової професійної підготовки майбутніх психологів з урахуванням різних галузей професійно-освітнього простору (професійного, середовища навчального закладу, ринку психологічної професії в Україні, психологічної сфери в світі). Проведене теоретичне дослідження дає підстави для певних висновків про те, що процес професійної ідентифікації майбутнього фахівця відбувається в професійно-освітньому просторі, котрий розглядається як феномен психосоціальної дійсності, який описує професійну й освітню сфери в їх взаємовідносинах і просторовому вимірі: як простір взаємозв’язків та взаємозалежностей, як простір намірів і цілей з їх практичною реалізацією й осмисленням.

Smartphones and their use by teenagers and young adults - differences and similarities: A case study

Advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) promoted social media and social networking sites as an integral part of the psychosocial reality of modern people, especially the younger ones. This is an unprecedented form of networked lived experience, where people are always connected and always available through various social media platforms. How do teenagers who grew up in a given technosocial context perceive modern reality as compared to the slightly older young adults who, nevertheless, experienced a slightly different technosocial environment as children? Is there a kind of “generation gap” even among people who differ marginally in their age? In this case study we attempt a preliminary investigation of the field by conducting four ethnographic interviews with two teenagers and two young adults. Preliminary qualitative analysis showed increased use of smartphones by the participants, mostly for communication reasons and mainly through online services and social media. Both teenagers and young adults emphasize the effects of technology on everyday life and point out the potential risks, even though they remain optimistic for the future impact on human life. Our findings indicate that there are differences between the two age groups as regards their preferences for specific social media platforms and social apps.

Pathways of Personality Development: Following Lev Vygotsky’s Guidelines

The paper presents a theoretical reconstruction of Lev Vygotsky’s project on theory of personality development and highlights Vygotsky’s relevance and heuristic value for the personality psychology of our days, especially positive psychology. The authors focus on several aspects of Vygotsky’s heritage. 1. The general concept of personality within a non-classical framework. 2. The idea of self-mastery as the central explanatory concept and its relation to the modern concept of agency. 3. The role of self-reflective awareness in personality development. 4. Personality development pathways in challenging conditions. In Vygotsky’s works personality was implicitly constructed as the most integral higher mental function, while self-mastery or self-regulation was its central feature. Vygotsky’s principle of mediation states that the structure of human activity is mediated by physical or mental tools that break the S — R links and make it possible to master one’s own behavior and mental processes. By utilizing speech as a system of signs that enables the process of mastering the psychosocial reality, self-reflection makes a new basis for more complicated forms of higher mental processes that possesses more degr ees of freedom as compared with the lower ones. The law of compensation is discussed in the context of aggravated conditions of personality development, where personality answers to social boundaries, and thus achieves alternative trajectories of development. The sociocultural paradigm is thus consistent with modern thought on positive and personality psychology.