Resilient Character Research Articles

What drives First-Generation College Students to be resilient in pursuing higher education in Africa?

This study explored First-Generation College Students' (FGCS) resilience in pursuing higher education in Ghana. FGCS is conceptualised as learners whose parents did not complete or attend university and who encountered challenges that could have impaired their resilience to pursue higher education in Ghana. This paper employed a conceptual framework built from the Ecological and Resilience theories to investigate FGCS’ resilience in pursuing higher education and how this resilience manifests to ensure FGCS's success. The study used a phenomenological design and Snowballing to interview 12 selected participants at a large public university in Ghana. The findings demonstrate how the resilience of FGCS in higher education is influenced by personal, societal, family, and institutional factors, which have resulted in the formation of self-agency and a range of resilient character traits. This paper recommends that a collaborative effort between universities, the Ministry of Education, and policymakers in Ghana and abroad is needed to influence FGCS policies and practices that reach to such vulnerable groups in the higher education environment.

A biography of Dr James Hayward Rolling Jr: A man of transformation

People are equally moulded into who they will become by negative as well as positive experiences throughout their lives. From growing up in a rough neighbourhood, to being bused to an all-white school, to dealing with an abusive father, a resilient character developed into Dr James Haywood Rolling Jr, from an early age. These difficult events laid key foundations which shaped him and gave him the fuel to help others see potential in their own lives. This article, compiled from his various published writings, including his memoir Growing up Ugly, is a biography documenting his current life events, and how these events influenced his beliefs and ideas found in his writings.

Short Food Supply Chain and Resilience: An Analysis during COVID-19 Pandemic in Inner Areas of Campania Region

COVID-19 pandemic highlighted food systems’ fragility, especially concerning global trade. On the other hand, the pandemic underlined the resilient character of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs), as citizen-consumers continued to buy through such sales channels, in order to limit virus spread, and farms developed innovations and rapid strategic responses. In a fragile context, such as that of inner areas, SFSC may represent, for farms, a significant competitive tool to increase their resilience. This study aims to investigate the degree of resilience of farms in inner areas of Campania Region (South Italy) and the role of SFSC during the pandemic. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of wineries in inner areas of Campania in order to detect their resilience score, which was measured, according to literature, through three variables: effectiveness, flexibility, and responsiveness. A linear regression was run to identify variables affecting farms’ resilience. Results show that both farmers’ and farms’ characteristics turned out to affect farms’ resilience score, such as the turnover, the use of SFSC, and farmers’ age and education. This study’s findings could be helpful for decision-making in the development of inner areas, and for providing targeted policies to manage unexpected events in different scenarios.

Freedom on the Frontier: Sharon Butala’s Novel <i>Wild Rose</i> as Existential Autofiction

In Wild Rose (2015), the seventh novel by Canadian prairie author Sharon Butala, the protagonist—young wife and aspiring homesteader Sophie Hippolyte—expresses profound anguish, rejection of upbringing and religion, and headstrong desire to remake herself on the prairie frontier of southwestern Saskatchewan in the mid-1880s. The novel marks a turn in Butala’s fiction toward atheistic existential philosophy, a progression from a questioning to a rejection of organized religion and an emphasis on complete freedom. This turn was prompted by her suffering and questioning as Butala dealt with the rather sudden death of her husband, the loss of her way of life on, and intimate connection with, the prairie landscape, and the need to remake herself. Indeed, Wild Rose can be considered “existential autofiction” in which Butala fictionalizes her experience of loss and her rejection of religion (specifically Catholicism) via Sophie, one of her most resilient characters, who seeks freedom on the frontier.

‘Storytelling is storytelling’: Resilience, gender and screenwriting in Fair City

This article explores the resilience of soap screenwriters and the resilient characters they create in soap opera through interviews with screenwriters on the Dublin-based soap opera Fair City (1989–present). The article also draws on an interview with Brigie de Courcy, executive producer of Fair City, to highlight the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on soap operas. The interview reveals inherent characteristics of the soap genre, including the habitual viewing of its audience and the ways in which the soap narrative relies on the physical proximity of its actors. The interview also reflects the genre’s resilience and the resilience of the people who work within it.

Strategic Emphasis on Service-Based Business Models During the Corona Crisis: Are Customer Solutions a Curse or Blessing for Manufacturing Firms?

Firms increasingly rely on service-based business models, such as customer solutions, to strengthen their market position and secure robust revenues in competitive environments. While extant research has shed light on the financial implications of service-based business models in general, no empirical research has yet explored whether a strategic emphasis on customer solutions pays-off or backfires in a global crisis such as the corona pandemic. As theoretical arguments lend support for both, favorable and unfavorable consequences of a strategic emphasis on customer solutions during a pandemic crisis, this study creates a unique dataset of 565 U.S. manufacturing firms and analyzes the revenue implications of customer solutions during the crisis peak. Results demonstrate the resilient character of customer solutions. Manufacturing firms with a strategic emphasis on customer solutions experience on average $30 million less revenue decline during the pandemic. A finer-grained view distinguishes different types of customer solutions and uncovers mixed performance effects. While customer solutions generally help manufacturers to weather the crisis, resource-intensive turnkey solutions have a negative effect on firm revenues. These insights help managers to understand the financial implications of customer solutions and navigate successfully through a health-based crisis.

Theorems to explore the nature of cyber attacks on power system voltage stability

Abstract Smart electric grids are practising flexible, reliable and robust operations during delivery and consumption of power. However, these grids are highly vulnerable to a wide range of cyber attacks due to the deployment of an extensive communication network. In this paper, the nature of cyber attack on given power system based on proposed cyber attack models and theorems is analysed by utilizing steady state voltage stability (L index). Further, a cyber attack factor is introduced which may mislead the bus voltage stability virtually. The proposed cyber attack models and theorems are validated by executing cyber attacks on WSCC 9 bus and IEEE 14 bus test systems by using Siemens PSS/E and MATLAB softwares. Through the proposed theorems, the paper exposes and quantifies the threat of cyber attacks in the electric power grid. The simulation results reveal that the proposed cyber attack models may misrepresent the bus voltage stability, thereby misleading the energy management centre (EMC) operator into taking incorrect countermeasures. The above incorrect actions may force voltage instability which further leads to major interruptions in the electric power supply and possible cascading failure of the electric power grid. Moreover, the proposed theorems and rigorous simulations presented in the paper support the EMC operator in intelligently identifying a cyber attack, thereby enabling development of appropriate corrective actions during such cyber attacks on the smart electric grid. Thus, the concept of proposed methodology could best assist the power system operator to build detection algorithms for discrimination of cyber attacks from electrical faults towards strong electric grid resilience character.

Penyuluhan Kepada Orang Tua Tentang Membangun Karakter Resiliens Pada Anak Sejak Dini

Counseling to parents about building resilient character in elementary school children. An outreach activity that aims to provide information to parents on the importance of building resilient character in children. Resilience character is a child's ability to adapt to all environmental conditions. Resilient character needs to be built from an early age so that children have a strong mentality and do not give up easily. This extension activity uses a survey method using a questionnaire before the extension begins and after the extension is carried out. A survey questionnaire to find out the understanding of parents' guardians about the character of resilience before being given counseling and understanding of parents after counseling and the benefits of participating in the counseling. The results of the counseling show that of the 30 parents of parents who took part in the counseling, they did not understand what resilient character was. After counseling, all parents understand the character of resilience, express the benefits of resilience and various opinions in fostering resilient character in their children.

Post-pandemic tourism resilience: changes in Italians’ travel behavior and the possible responses of tourist cities

PurposeSince the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, the travel sector has faced an intense challenge, making tourism one of the most affected sectors at the time of writing. Based on the results of a survey administered to a sample of 700 Italian tourists, this paper aims to acquire an empirical understanding of key challenges for the travel and tourism sector in the coming months and the possible responses of tourist cities.Design/methodology/approachTo study tourism after the pandemic, OUT (University of Naples Tourism Research Center) has created an online survey to answer the following questions: What will tourism be like after the pandemic? What will the main changes in travel behaviors be? What role will new information technologies play in future tourism? Are there territorial differences based on the spread of the virus?FindingsThe pandemic has inevitably affected everyone’s tourist choices, regardless of how much their specific area of residence has been impacted by the virus. Consequently, it will significantly influence travelers’ experiences. The Italian tourists who were survey respondents are aware that physical distancing rules will probably remain in effect for an extended time and, therefore, they cannot imagine future tourism not conditioned by these measures. This does not mean that Italians will give up tourism in the short-medium term, however. Indeed, the research data highlight the resilient character of tourism in that it is transformed but does not cease to exist.Originality/valueBy studying the future through a sociological approach, it is possible to identify how the COVID-19 emergency will impact tourism and how both the form and social meaning of mobility will be conditioned. On the basis of the data, the analysis will be directed from the present to the post-pandemic horizon, hypothesizing possible scenarios for the future of tourism and providing some possible policy indications.

Individual and experiential predictors of character development across the deployment cycle

How soldiers adapt to and change in response to the deployment experience has received a great deal of attention. What predicts which soldiers are resilient and which soldiers decline in character strengths across the deployment transition? We examined this question in two analyses drawing from the same data source of soldiers deploying for the first time (Analysis 1: N = 179,026; Analysis 2: N = 85,285; Mage = 24.6–24.7 years old, SD = 4.87; 66.5–66.9% White). Specifically, we examined how individual (e.g. sociodemographic, military) and deployment (e.g. stressful experiences) characteristics predict character development across the deployment cycle. Character strengths were assessed once before and up to three times after soldiers’ return from deployment. Reproducing previous work, we found evidence for two classes of change—a resilient class (“stable high”) and a recovery class (“persistent low”). The strongest predictor of high, resilient character strength levels was better self-rated health at baseline. The findings are discussed in the context of the mechanisms that drive character development, evidence for post-traumatic growth, and practical implications for the U.S. Army.

Teachers' psychological well-being role of emotional intelligence and resilient character traits in determining the psychological well-being of Indian school teachers

PurposeThe substance of the present study lies in analysing the extent to which intrinsic factors like emotional intelligence and resilient character traits impact the psychological well-being of school teachers. It prominences the mediating role of resilient character traits in the relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological well-being of teachers.Design/methodology/approachThis cross-sectional survey study recruits a sample of 200 school teachers across the state of Haryana, India, with the help of a convenience sampling technique.FindingsThe findings from parallel multiple mediation indicate perseverance as a significant mediator and predictor of psychological well-being among factors of resilient traits, and self-reliance emerges as an inconsistent, yet significant mediator in the relationship between emotional intelligence and well-being of teachers. The direct effect of emotional intelligence on psychological well-being also emerged as statistically significant. Additionally, the female school teachers show higher emotional intelligence and resilience as compared to the male school teachers.Practical implicationsThe research is not an unmitigated work in the exploration of a causal relationship between the study variables. However, the study draws practical suggestions for improving the perseverant and emotionally intelligent behaviour of teachers for better emotional and psychological adjustment at work. It acknowledges the role of school administration and education policymakers in furthering the betterment of teachers' psychological state for improved performance and effectiveness. Also, teamwork, stress reduction and leadership building appeared to be helpful contributors to enhance the perseverance and emotional intelligence among teachers.Originality/valueStudies in the field of school administration rarely address the psychological well-being of school teachers as their concern. This study accentuates the impact of intrinsic antecedents of psychological well-being, which is neither well conceptualised in Indian studies nor is causally related to any psychological constructs. Therefore, it remarkably contributes to the literature in the field of educational management and leadership, providing an insight into the psyche of teachers from “the Orient”.

Correlation Between Family Support and Emotional Regulation with The Resilience of Breast Cancer Patients in The City of Surabaya: A Literature Review

Introduction: Breast cancer incidence has increased recently. Breast cancer patients usually feel inconvenience, psychological impact, and unstable emotions. The purpose of this study is to review the literature on the relationship between family support and emotional regulation with the resilience of breast cancer patients.Methods: The review literature search uses a database "Google Scholar, Sinta, Jurnal Ners dan Scopus with keywords "Family Support, Emotion Regulation, Resilience, Breast Cancer, Patient" in the last ten years 2009-2019.Results: 4,434 journals then identified for titles obtained as much as 2,142 and filtered according to abstract obtained 98 remaining journals, then review the complete full-text publication of a fully detailed 46 journal The final article that was in accordance with the inclusion criteria was 19 journals (articles).There is a significant relationship between family support and emotional regulation to the resilience of breast cancer patients.Conclusion: Family support can affect the health conditions felt by breast cancer patients; good emotional regulation is needed so that the patient can survive. On the articles that have been reviewed, Family support and hope given to people suffering from chronic diseases can be mediators of the emergence of resilient characters With good emotional regulation Individuals can control emotions by monitoring, evaluating and modifying emotional reactions, thus acquired adaptive emotions and organized behavior, then forming good self-acceptance and the individual feeling confident in him, able to live a life of positive, optimistic, and confident

Chameleon Building

The research lines that are outlined for the next few years identify the most promising innovation territory for the development of resilient envelopes in materials and construction systems. In the last two decades, this research lines has fuelled the development and then the entry on the market of different materials supported by a growing demand for resilience and characterized by the adoption of different approaches: from the design of the same material to the modification of some of its characteristics, obtained by technological transfer both within the same building sector, both from other sectors already tested, from the “eco-active” ones to obtain self-cleaning surfaces, up to PCM Phase Change Material, TIM Transparent Insulation Material, Aerogel, ETFE Ethylene, a polymer made of a translucent and resilient plastic film an air cushion that inflates and deflates according to weather conditions. To this, adds the strong contribution of SMART systems that produce sensitive and responsive envelopes that define its new resilient character. Another approach inherent in the adaptive requisite of buildings is that following the dictates of Biomimetic, it directs studies towards the realization of iridescent facades in the material-functional and language responses, to the different solicitations deriving from the contexts.Assuming nature as a model, measurement we study materials and components that react to environmental stimuli in an organic and passive way. These highly adaptive strategies could substantially contribute to the realization of resilient envelopes. The use of innovative materials and systems would therefore in a certain sense “tune” the building to the climate, in fact with the right sensors and controls the building is able to respond to weather conditions in real time.

Dominant Factors Affecting the Development of Religious Values and Morals of Early Childhood in Childhood Early Education

The the development of religious and moral values for early childhood is an important foundation process to form the resilient characters for the nation's children in 25-45 years ahead. The objective of this research is to describe the achievement level of early childhood development, analysis of the dominant factors that shape the development aspects of religious and moral values of children aged 4-6 years in PAUD District Kuok, Kampar. The research methodology used in this study was a survey in the form of quantitative descriptive. The research findings show that the achievement of early childhood development rates for ages 4-6 years, from 6 indicators, it turns out that most of the children in the category developed based on expectations (BSH = 65.50%) and developed very well (BSB = 11, 36%). Meanwhile, internal and external factors are both dominant and conducive to the development of the religious and moral values toward early childhood in the Kuok Sub-District Kindergarten, Kampar. The implication needs more focused research on the values of religious and moral value development of children in the context of local wisdom in line with the motto of Kampar "Serambi Mekkah/The Foyer of Mecca", Nagari Bersendikan Sarak, Sarak Bersendikan Kitabullah dan Sunnatulloh (a city based on Sharia and Sharia-based on Qur'an and Sunnah of the prophet).

Profiling the Clostridia with butyrate-producing potential in the mud of Chinese liquor fermentation cellar

Butyrate and its derivates pertain to the key aroma contributors of strong-flavour baijiu, a kind of Chinese liquors, that is produced from grains by solid-state multispecies anaerobic fermentation in a mud cellar. Microbes inhabiting in the fermentation pit mud largely determines baijiu's flavour and quality. In order to shed light on the microbial functional groups driving butyrate production in pit mud, clone library analysis was firstly performed and the results demonstrated that Clostridia (relative abundance: 50%) and Bacilli (37%) were major groups possessing butyrate kinase (buk) pathway and Clostridia (98%) dominated butyryl-CoA:acetate CoA-transferase (but) pathway. According to Clostridial specific-16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis, we found the resilience character of Clostridial community in pit mud. Amongst Clostridial groups, 32.0% of the sequences were grouped into Clostridiales incertae sedis, followed by Heliobacteriaceae (18.3%) and Clostridiaceae 1 (8.4%). Moreover, Hydrogenispora, Sedimentibacter and Clostridium were the top three abundant genera. Relative abundance of Hydrogenispora was higher in the late days of fermentation, while Sedimentibacter exhibited higher proportion in the early days. Different from the previous studies using universal bacterial primer sets, Hydrogenispora was first reported as one dominant genus in pit mud. As for the reported potential butyrate producer Clostridium, nineteen species were obtained and ten of them were first isolated from the pit mud. Amongst them, buk was identified in eleven species by PCR analysis, while but was identified in the other seven, indicating the species-specific butyrate synthesis pathways of Clostridium. This study provides a perspective on targeting and isolating specific functional microbes in baijiu microbiota with the gene sequence-based medium prediction method.

Концептуальна площина образу непохитної жінки у романі Джойс Керол Оутс “We were the Mulvaneys”

Концептуальна площина образу непохитної жінки у романі Джойс Керол Оутс “We were the Mulvaneys”

Christopher Beeston and the Cockpit-Phoenix in Documents

The resilient character of Christopher Beeston is demonstrated during the struggles to erect and consolidate his playhouse. The proofs can be glimpsed in surviving documents analysed in this article including, for example, London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) MJ/SB/R/002, p.344. This records the arrest of the bricklayer digging the playhouse's foundations. Foundations denote a new playhouse built; other documents, however, relating to the building, record a theatre connected to an arena for fighting cocks. Yet another document records a conversion. These texts will be discussed to examine a confusing progression of understanding about the playhouse, leading scholars and those interested in reconstruction along diverse ways. Throughout all these pieces of evidence the determination of Beeston in the effort to build and succeed with the erection of his indoor venue, not far from Queen Anna's new residence in the Strand, is obvious. On a day less than a year after the building of the playhouse in Drury Lane, however, interruptions of another kind struck. On Shrove Tuesday 1617, according to reports, between 3,000 and 4,000 people rioted in at least two different parts of London. These included Drury Lane and the riot affected its theatre which was nearly destroyed. According to legal documents, some of those arrested (which never went into the 1000s) were women. Despite the arrest of the builder digging the Cockpit's foundations, legal challenges to its erection, and a riot, Beeston persevered and, ultimately, triumphed. The work of those engaged in pinpointing the Cockpit-Phoenix during the twentieth to twenty-first century will also be alluded to such as that of Graham F. Barlow, tracing plots of ground in the Drury Lane area. The question of the extent of the "success" of these kinds of effort remains, however, a subject for debate.

Race and the Aesthetics of Alterity in Mahshid Amirshahi’s Dadeh Qadam-Kheyr

Focusing on black women Qadam-Kheyr and Sorur in Mahshid Amirshahi’s novel Dadeh Qadam-Kheyr (1999), this article examines literary representations of the African-Iranian presence, and provides a critique of race and slavery in twentieth-century Iran. In light of the history of the Iranian slave trade until 1928, and the reconstruction of race and gender identities along Eurocentric lines of nationalism in Iran, the novel under scrutiny is a dynamic site of struggle between an “Iranian” literary discourse and its “non-Persian” Others. The “aesthetics of alterity” at the heart of the text is, therefore, the interplay between the repressed title-character Qadam-Kheyr and the resilient minor character Sorur, each registering Amirshahi’s artistic intervention into a forgotten corner of Iranian history.

Wzmacnianie rezyliencji poprzez bajki. Dziewczyna bez rąk braci Grimm

The purpose of this paper is to exemplify the outstanding potential of literary narrations, and particularly the fairy tales, to foster resilience among primary school students. The starting point of these reflections is the mimetic-cathartic vision of a literary narration proposed already by Aristotle and then developed by such contemporary authors as Paul Ricoeur, Alasdair MacIntyre, David Carr, etc. The specific application of the general idea, according to which great literary stories have a powerful intrinsic pedagogical potential, is depicted with the use of the example of a classic tale by the Grimm brothers, The Girl Without Hands , which is a clear mimesis in both textual and figurative sense of a resilient character. Moreover, the traumatizing circumstances against which the resilient attitude develops in the protagonist are related to family background, which makes the story particularly up-to-date at present times in which we observe an outstandingly high divorce rate as well as many other types of problems affecting large numbers of children in relation with their families. A variety of “pillars” or “factors” of resilience are easily observable in the behaviour of the “girl without hands,” which converts the story into a remarkable and encouraging example of overcoming all sort of difficulties and obstacles which our students encounter on their own way towards a more complete integration and happiness.

Psychological Capital (PsyCap) and Mental Well-being among Medical Students

Currently, PsyCap study has drawn the attention of many researchers in order to help the stressed persons to cope up with adverse environments. In light of PsyCap, present study was planned to examine the influence of PsyCap on the mental well-being of medical students pursuing either MBBS or BUMS form Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. We have given an emphasis on PsyCap in order to visualize its influence on the well-being of undergraduates of the medical students. It was observed that medicos who were more hopeful, optimistic, efficacious, and resilient have had more ability to withstand against unfavourable environmental or in other words, they perceived academic environment as being less perturbing more than likely to see in their peers with lower PsyCap. This type of resilient adaptive characters and cognitive differences is considered to reconcile the effects of stress on well-being for medical students. It was, therefore, observed that PsyCap will mitigate the effects of stress on mental well-being of medical students. In this way, PsyCap were found to be positively correlated with mental well-being of the medical students. In order to impart PsyCap among the medical student there is urgent need of conveyance of a larger scale of consistent trainings, workshop, discussions on PsyCap which is particularly adaptive to medical students that will surely resolve the issues what they find challenging.