Significance Of Social Factors Research Articles

Gambling, social integration and sources of strain in cases of suicide: exploring police investigation reports

In this qualitative sociological study we explore the significance of social integration and social strain in gambling suicides. There is evidence that gambling and suicidality are associated. Mental distress is common among people experiencing gambling harm. Indebtedness and financial losses are also associated with suicidality among people experiencing gambling harm. The significance of social factors and social context on gambling suicides is understudied. Social integration theory proposes that social ties, such as marriage, can protect people from suicide. Strain theory explains suicide by social factors causing strain. Our research question is: How are social integration and different sources of strain related to cases of gambling suicides? The data consists of police investigation reports of 21 suicide cases. The data was analyzed with thematic content analysis. The results show variation in the social integration and strain the deceased experienced before their deaths. None of the deceased were without social ties. The entanglement of different sources of strain was manifest. The results suggest that a typology consisting of four categories of suicide contexts can be distinguished by the respective strength of integration and the number of different strains. We conclude that gambling policy with a focus on harm prevention is also a matter of suicide prevention.

Significance of Social Factors in the Marketing of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods. A Case of Unilever

Significance of Social Factors in the Marketing of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods. A Case of Unilever

Decision-Making in Virtual Reality Sports Games Explained via the Lens of Extended Planned Behavior Theory.

This study aims to determine whether the effect of interactivity on participation in virtual sports has risen because of the COVID-19 pandemic and if there is a difference in decision-making. The significance of social factors may be highlighted even more as a rationale for using virtual reality (VR) sports apps throughout the prolonged COVID-19 epidemic. A model was built based on the literature to describe the intention to participate in VR sports, and eight associated hypotheses were established. A sample of 301 submissions from a user poll on Korea's cycling information sharing website was used for our analysis. SPSS 23.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA) and AMOS 18.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA) were used to validate Hypotheses 1-8 using a multigroup structural equation model (SEM) analysis and multigroup analysis. Although some hypotheses were not validated, the impact of perceived interaction presented as an extra variable altered based on the group participating before and after the COVID-19 epidemic, and the study's goal was achieved. Given that information technology has evolved by overcoming physical space and socio-cultural constraints to create a society that connects people, the importance of online interaction, such as networking and competition between users, will be emphasized in the VR sports field in the future.

Designing for the post-pandemic era: Trends, focuses, and strategies learned from architectural competitions based on a text analysis.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made the built environment an important source of prevention and control, architects and scholars have thus been seeking countermeasures since the beginning of the outbreak. As design and construction cycles are long, only a few completed cases and evidence-based studies are available for reference. However, massive architectural competition works have emerged, which always been the soil for discussion and practice of cutting-edge design issues. These contain a vast number of ideas for solutions from various design dimensions-including cities, buildings, and facilities-and provide a great deal of materials worth analyzing and summarizing. Therefore, the exploration of competitions will provide us with public health intervention directions, strategies and a rethinking of the built environment. Using a text-mining approach, we analyzed 558 winning entries in architectural competitions related to the pandemic response, exploring specific issues, populations involved, coping strategies, and trends that emerged as the pandemic evolved. Our results show that the strategies proposed can be grouped into 17 keywords, with modularization being the most frequent strategy and related strategies like rapid assembly, flexible space, etc. are also took a significant percentage of the use. Further, we explored the technical orientation, year, territory, target groups, and target problems of the works which lead to a series of cross-comparison relationships. The results indicate that indirect impacts caused by the pandemic gained more attention and flexible Solutions were used more often highlighted the consensus when adapting to the uncertainties. The focus on the spiritual dimension is increasing year by year reflected the spiritual influences were gaining traction and the indirect impacts gradually showed up over time. The research will provide a strategy reference for the design response to the pandemic, as well as help understand the influence and significance of social factors behind the divergence of issue focuses and strategic tendency in different regions and times.

User participation in decision-making – a qualitative intervention study on mental health professionals’ experiences

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to describe mental health professionals’ experiences of changes in attitudes towards, and knowledge about, users of mental health-care recovery and decisional participation in clinical practice after an educational intervention.Design/methodology/approachUsers of mental health care want to participate in decisions regarding their own mental health care. Shared decision-making as a method is coherent with recovery orientation in mental health services and results in better-informed patients and fewer conflicts regarding decisions. A qualitative intervention study was designed to evaluate changes in attitudes and knowledge about mental health recovery in Sweden. Nine participants were interviewed, and the data were analysed by content analysis.FindingsThree categories were generated from the analysis: Increased theoretical knowledge, changing attitudes about practical approaches and the significance of social factors in recovery.Originality/valueWhen shared decision-making is to be implemented in mental health, professionals need to gain knowledge about recovery and need to adopt changed roles as health professionals. Educational interventions therefore seem necessary if such changes are to happen.

Plant recognition by Northern Khmer children in Ban Khanat Pring and Ban Ramboe Villages, Surin Province, Thailand

ABSTRACT This article arises from a project that explores the acquisition of ethnobotanical knowledge in Northern Khmer-speaking communities in northeast Thailand, in response to the wish expressed by villagers to preserve their knowledge of the surrounding Takah Forest. This phase of the project consisted of a quantitative pictorial recognition test, using photographs of 111 plants previously documented, with twenty-eight young participants from Ban Khanat Pring and Ban Ramboe villages. We found that useful plants (edible or medicinal) are the most frequently recognized. We tested the significance of social factors, gender and age group for predicting plant recognition among children. We found no significant difference in the scores according to gender, but counter to our expectations, the Bayesian statistics reveal it is extremely likely (91% probability) that younger children recognize more plant tokens than older children. These results suggest an erosion of local ethnobotanical knowledge as children enter their teenage years. Individual variability in recognition is further examined in the project’s next phases, using interviews with the children and the ethnographic knowledge of each child’s family. This study will serve in developing initiatives with the communities that can enhance knowledge transmission and maintenance among this group.

G149(P) Significance of Social Factors in Determining Outcomes in ADHD

AimsTo ascertain whether social risk factors have a significant association with complex ADHD and assess the relative role played by biological risk factors and coexisting neurodevelopmental disorders. This will enable...

Social factors and A&E attendance

In the third part of his series on trends in A&E attendance, Mike Walsh focuses on the significance of social factors and finds considerable influence being exerted by employment status and gender. Unemployed people comprised a disproportionate number of attenders, while women formed the larger group suffering injuries related to accidents in the home. The author urges nurses to take social factors into consideration when planning care.

Children and Nuclear War: A Methodological Note

I hope I may be allowed to start this paper in a personal vein. During a long career as a student and teacher in social psychology, two of issues that have been of great concern to me are: first, psychological aspects of international relations; and second, significance of social factors in causation of mental disorders and preservation of mental health. These two concerns became intertwined for me when I participated in formation of World Federation for Mental Health, in London in 1948. 1 was one of authors of its first publication, Mental health and world citizenship [1], which included these words: ' 'The goal of mental health is to enable people to live together in one world. In course of recent exacerbation of cold war and accompanying proliferation of nuclear weapons by two superpowers, it has become all too clear that in such an atmosphere this particular goal of mental health is, at least for time being, the impossible dream. If anything is to be done in this connection, first step should logically be to determine consequences of this situation for people's mental health, particularly young people's. In preparing a paper for annual meeting of American Psychological Association in 1983 , published in The American Psychologist in 1984 [2] under title Public opinion and nuclear war, I reread