Social Networking Skills Research Articles

Social and emotional well-being intervention to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression among Ukrainian refugees resettled in Massachusetts.

Mental health problems are high among refugees due to their traumatic experiences of fleeing war and witnessing disasters and deaths due to violence and conflict. Refugees are exposed to various socio-cultural stressors during their migration journey before, during, and after arriving at the host country, which may increase their risk of mental health problems. Strength-based interventions may be beneficial to address their socio-cultural and psychological stressors by strengthening individual's strengths to address their problems. This study evaluated the effect of a Social and Emotional Wellbeing intervention on mental health (stress, anxiety, and depression) and emotional health outcomes (coping, self-efficacy, social support, and conflict resolution) among Ukrainian refugees in Massachusetts. We implemented intervention (once-weekly/5-week) among 31 Ukrainian refugees with pre-and post-assessment of mental and emotional health outcomes (2022-2023). The intervention consisted 5-module: managing stress and mind-body exercise, strengthening communication and social networking, problem-solving, and creating a healthy family environment. Validated scales were used to measure mental and emotional health outcomes, such as the Hopkins-Symptom-Checklist-25 for anxiety and depression and the Cohen-Perceived-Stress scale for stress. Paired t-test was used for data analysis. The pre versus post-intervention proportion reduced for anxiety (61.29% vs. 22.58%) and depression (58.06% vs. 22.58%). The mean scores significantly decreased from pre- to post-intervention by 6.26 points for stress, by 7.07 points for anxiety, and by 6.29 points for depression (both p's < .01). The mean scores significantly increased for coping (by 15.71), emotion-focused engagement (4.48), problem-focused engagement (4.80), social support (8.77), problem-focused coping self-efficacy (14.93), stop unpleasant emotions and thoughts (12.74), and friends networking (3.48; all p's < .01). The stress, anxiety, and depression were reduced, and coping, self-efficacy, and social support networking skills were improved among Ukrainians after intervention. This program should be replicated in the larger community for a wider benefit.

Towards more supportive ICT for children with autism spectrum disorders: lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted daily routines, causing isolation and quarantine. Technology has emerged as a crucial tool for sustaining essential activities, but children with autism spectrum disorders have faced distinct challenges due to their intricate interaction with it. We employed an online survey to analyse the impact of technology use in online learning, remote assistance and daily life of children with autism along COVID-19, and we have identified benefits and challenges with assistive technology exposed by the pandemic. Findings are divided in (1) seven themes where COVID-19 impacted this population the most and their relationship with technology (remote communication, learning, emotional management, entertainment management, executive functions, activities of daily living, and physical activity and motor skills), and (2) a mapping of technological categories that define the working areas specifically aimed to cover the special needs of children with autism whenever face-to-face interactions are not possible (attention, authoring tools, calculation, e-learning, emotions, entertainment, experience of self, language and communication, memory, planning and time management, social networking, and social skills). These results help provide a more well-rounded knowledge of how to improve technology to make it accessible to autistic children, to handle and avoid services interruption in similar scenarios.

ANALISIS DETERMINAN MASA TUNGGU PEKERJA TERDIDIK DI KOTA DENPASAR

The aim of this research is; 1) to analyze the influence of age, skills, social networks, and parents' socioeconomic status simultaneously on the waiting period of educated workers in Denpasar City. 2) To analyze the effect of age, social network skills and parents' economic status partially on the waiting period of educated workers in Denpasar City. 3) To analyze the role of parents' socioeconomic status in moderating the influence of social networks on the waiting period of educated workers in Denpasar CityThe number of samples in this study were 100 samples. Data collection methods used are observation, structured interviews, and in-depth interviews. The data analysis technique used is moderation regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that age, skills, social networks and socio-economic status of parents simultaneously have a significant effect on the waiting period of educated workers in Denpasar City. Age, skills, social networks and parents' socio-economic status partially have a negative and significant effect on the waiting period of educated workers in Denpasar City. Parents' socioeconomic status moderates the influence of social networks in Denpasar City.&#x0D; Keywords: Educated unemployed, waiting period, age, skill, social network, socioeconomic status of parents.&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D;

Riscos &amp; Desafios (Risk &amp; Challenges) Program in pandemic times: the students’ voice

Background: Preventive interventions are important to delay the onset of high-risk behaviors for young people's health. Regarding emerging adulthood, successful preventive programs are important to avoid high-risk alcohol consumption among university students. Riscos &amp; Desafios (Risk &amp; Challenges) Program is an extracurricular, comprehensive, and multi-component competence enhancement-based preventive intervention designed for students attending the first year of higher education. Goals: This paper aims to give voice to the procedural assessment made by students and to describe the implementation of the Program at the Faculty of Sport of the University of Porto in the second semester of the 2019/2020 school year. This implementation of a previous validated program was innovative twofold, since it has a curriculum infusion format through an optional curricular unit, and because it was developed during the period of lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: This is a mixed-method study that focus on the implementation of the Riscos &amp; Desafios Program during the second semester of 2019/20 academic year. This evaluation of the Riscos &amp; Desafios Program was done with a post-program survey, followed by univariate analysis of frequency. Complementary, an inductive analysis of qualitative data of student’s reflexive reports was carried out, using the QSR-NVIVO 12®.Results: Twenty-three first-year students who participated in the Riscos &amp; Desafios Program constituted the target group of the intervention. Most of the participants were male (n=16) aging between 17 to 21 years. Most attended all the eight sessions and 96% of them participated in seven or more sessions. At the end of the implementation, 23 post-program filled-in questionnaires, and 18 structured reflection reports, were obtained. Most of the students rated the program as very good. Several categories emerged from the thematic analysis of the 18 reports, namely (1) perceived competencies, developed in the program, including the promotion of the social support network, interpersonal and communication skills, problem-solving skills, and their importance, as factors to protect against the development of risk behaviors, (2) personal positive impacts of the program attendance and (3) gains and losses with the transition to online learning format.Discussion: Students’ considerations about the experience with the Riscos &amp; Desafios Program not only reinforced the importance and pertinence of this experience in their life trajectory, but also brought to light its relevance at this pandemic moment.

Personalized Recommendation Model for Senior Learning: A Case Study of Thai Seniors to Enhance Social Network Skills

Personalized Recommendation Model for Senior Learning: A Case Study of Thai Seniors to Enhance Social Network Skills

Significance of Co-curricular Activities to be Skilled Manpower: A Case Study on Khulna University

Debates on defining quality education in academia are not new. Nevertheless, most scholars stress out the function of quality education to promote skilled manpower. Upliftment of skilled human resources through confirming standard education largely depends on various academic and non-academic activities. Along with other things, several researchers have highlighted the importance of co-curricular activities like debating, singing, volunteering for development affairs and so on which are sometimes also considered non-academic affairs that can exert a strong influence in ensuring quality education. Contrasting with the earlier studies where the importance of co-curricular activities has got priority, this study is designed to explore how involvement in co-curricular activities has helped tertiary-level students to perform better in professional life. To do so, in a qualitative manner, this study purposively selected some alumni from Khulna University, a promising university in southern Bangladesh, who were actively engaged in co-curricular activities at undergraduate and graduate level. Through the in- depth interviews, this study found that some general soft skills like better team management, critical reasoning, public speaking and presentation skills, organizing ability, pressure management in a critical situation, successful leadership skills, and ability to take risks were acquired through co-curricular activities which had assisted the respondents to perform better in the professional arena. Besides, it was also found that better public relations and social networking skills were also other specific expertise that distinguished the respondents from their colleagues. However, the findings of this study may assist policymakers to undertake the necessary steps in adopting successful policy measures.

CHATBOT TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT A BASIC LEVEL: FROM DEVELOPMENT EXPIERENCE

The article is concerned with study of chatbots in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language. The practice of chatbots for teaching Russian as a foreign language is a new element in the development of linguodidactics. Researchers agree that chatbots will become an indispensable partner in learning foreign languages. In the field of teaching Russian as a foreign language, chatbots are just beginning to be created. Teachers make first attempts to introduce them into the educational process. Since teaching Russian as a foreign language today is generally aimed at developing communicative skills, it seems possible to introduce chatbot technologies into the teaching process. Сhatbots can help to drill speech patterns, conversation skills in social networks, to help overcome the psychological barrier in the communication in Russian. The article presents a series of chatbots "S chatbotom po doroge" which gives conversation practice for elementary language level students. Chatbots compliment a textbook of Russian as a foreign language "Doroga v Rossiyu".

Rural Migrant Women’s Informal Learning of Life Skills in Social Networks in Urban China

Life skill programs have been widely provided for vulnerable women in Third World Countries but not for the deprived rural migrant women in China. This study explored the way these women informally learned life skills in urban China and their primary sources of learning, in hopes of providing insights into possible life skill programs targeting them. A basic interpretive qualitative research was conducted by interviewing seventeen migrant women in Northwest and Central China. Findings show that these women learned certain core life skills informally as they adjusted to the urban life. They regarded rural migrant social networks as the main source of learning. Yet, their aspirations to acquire better communication and occupational skills remained mostly unfulfilled and a few of them demanded extra emotional support. This study strongly suggests life skill programs provided for rural migrant women in China to enhance their capability for self-protection, empowerment and social integration.

Personalised recommendation model for senior learning: a case study of Thai seniors to enhance social network skills

To promote senior learning, this study proposes a personalised recommendation model using the combination of performance, preference, and physical condition factors of the learners, namely the 3P personalised recommendation model. Presented in the set of pre-defined rules, it consists of learning object selection and content presentation. A total of 68 Thai seniors aged between 60 and 83 years old from senior school participated in the case study for enhancing social media skills, how to use LINE application, on electronic learning platform. The learners were required to complete all learning objects with flexible learning paces. The recommendation was given to everyone individually after having each test in a learning object. The proposed model was evaluated in learning enhancement ability and learner satisfaction. The result revealed that the recommendation provided by the proposed model could effectively enhance learning efficiency of seniors. Also, the proposed model obtained satisfaction at the 'very satisfied' level.

Emotional Intelligence, Social Networking Skills and Online Counselling Communication Effectiveness Among Students of OAU, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

With a view to providing empirical information on the factors that influence online counselling communication among Nigerian university students, this study investigated the influence of emotional intelligence and social networking skills on the effectiveness of online counselling communication among students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU). Through a descriptive survey research design, the study sampled 100 students purposively from users of the University online counselling platform, on the basis of being able to have established complete counselling interaction with any of the counsellors online during the harmattan and rain semesters of 2017/2018 session (or over a period of 12 months.). The results showed that 78.0%, 19.0% and 3.0% of the students demonstrated high, moderate and low levels of online counselling communication effectiveness respectively and that emotional intelligence has significant influence on online communication effectiveness (β = 0.790, p &lt; 0.05). The results further showed that social networking skills has no significant influence on online communication effectiveness (F = 3.457, p &gt; 0.05) and no significant interaction effect of emotional intelligence and social networking skill was found on online counselling communication effectiveness (F = 0.546, p &gt; 0.05). The study concluded that the only factor that influenced online counselling communication effectiveness among the students under study is emotional intelligence

ANALISIS EFEKTIVITAS KEPEMIMPINAN VIRTUAL KEPALA SEKOLAH DALAM MENINGKATKAN MOTIVASI KERJA GURU SEKOLAH MENENGAH ATAS

This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of the principal's virtual leadership in relation to increasing teacher work motivation in the new normal era and the factors that influence it. This type of research uses a mix of qualitative and quantitative. The research location is in SMA Nurul Jadid Paiton Probolinggo. The research sample amounted to 20 people chosen randomly from the entire research population. Data collection techniques used interviews, documentation studies and questionnaires. The data analysis technique used descriptive statistics with the t-test of one sample based on the sample used less than 30. The results of the t-test obtained an average value of 82.7% which was in the effective category. The supporting factors for virtual leadership consist of communication skills and social networking skills. The inhibiting factors consist of geographical conditions and building trust.

Healthcare Professionals' Role in Social Media Public Health Campaigns: Analysis of Spanish Pro Vaccination Campaign on Twitter.

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a great impact worldwide both on the population health but also on an economic and social level. In this health emergency, a key element has been and still is the need for information, which has become a daily concern for many people. Social media represent powerful tools for searching and gathering health-related information, thus becoming a new place where health authorities need to be present to disseminate information of preventive measures like vaccines against COVID-19, as well as try to block information against these public health measures. The main goal of this study was to analyze the role that healthcare professionals have in Twitter to support the campaign of public institutions on vaccination against COVID-19. To address this study, an analysis of the messages sent on Twitter containing the hashtag #yomevacuno, between 12 December 2020 was developed using the NodeXL software (Social Media Research Foundation, Redwood, CA, USA), focusing on content analysis of tweets and users’ accounts to identify healthcare professionals. The results show that healthcare professionals represent only 11.38% of users, being responsible for 6.35% of impressions generated by the network #yomevacuno. We can observe that traffic information generated by healthcare professionals is not significant in comparison with institutions (p = 0.633), but it is compared to common users (p = 0.0014). The most active healthcare professionals were pharmacists (40.17%), nurses (27.17%), and physicians (12.14%). Their activity (90.43% of messages) was mainly focused on sharing messages generated by other users’ accounts. From original content generated by healthcare professionals, only 78.95% had a favorable storytelling on the vaccine, but without sharing information about vaccines or vaccination. As a conclusion for this study, the participation of healthcare professionals in the dissemination and generation of information within the #yomevacuno communication strategy, led by the Spanish Ministry of Health, has been scarce. We emphasize the need to enhance communication skills in social networks to support public health campaigns through these increasingly important social media.

The Use of Social Media for the Development of Digital Literacy of Students: From Adequate Use to Cognition Tools

The study focuses on the possibility of turning social media into an effective tool to improve digital literacy and facilitate cognition. In view of this, a one-month experiment involving 268 eighth graders from two Moscow schools was con-ducted; the participants were divided into a control and an experimental group. The students were encouraged to independently search and develop social net-work skills to solve educational issues and improve cognition. Objective perfor-mance tests were conducted based on the curriculum results. According to the ac-ademic performance, the mean grade on a 12-point scale in the experimental group increased from 7.77 to 8.76 points, while in the control group the change remained within the statistical error (7.64 and 7.76, respectively). A strong corre-lation between the grades obtained in different groups (0.8 when comparing the final results in two groups) was found. The study can be put into practice within the framework of the widespread introduction of social media in school curricula as a tool to access information, develop digital literacy and the ability to use digi-tal cognition tools being supervised and supported by a skillful teacher.

Non-Technical Skills in Social Networks: The Spread of Safety Communication and Teamwork in a Warehouse.

Safety at work should be considered as the result of the daily interaction of operators. The present research wants to analyze which factors are involved in the development of social networks about safety at work. We assumed that two relational non-technical skills, such as safety communication and safety team member support, affect the in-degree and out-degree bonds of workers in social networks. One hundred and eight workers of a warehouse were the participants of the research, in which they were asked to fill out a self-reported questionnaire. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses. Results confirmed that safety communication and safety support skills play a role in determining the quantity and the quality of social bonds that workers can create at the workplace. To be specific, while safety communication was found to be associated with out-degree centrality (b = 0.24; p = 0.01), a nonsignificant relationship was found for in-degree centrality. In contrast, safety team member support was found to be associated with in-degree centrality (b = 0.28; p = 0.04). In other words, on the one hand, it was found that high levels of safety communication skills are associated with the tendency of workers to proactively search for colleagues with whom they can share information about safety. On the other hand, workers with high levels of safety support skills tend to be considered as reference points in terms of safety by colleagues, who are more prone to look for their help. Implications for both scientists and practitioners are discussed.

Precarity as a Coping Strategy of the Gonds: A Study of Insecure and Long-distance Seasonal Migration in Central India

Studies on the informal economy in India show how precarious it is to be a migrant worker in an informal economy and how migrant workers are perpetually at risk of being exploited by market forces. They show how horizontal networks in India along the exploited class of labourers have never worked due to vertical social base (Pattenden, 2010). Therefore, they call for a stronger role of the state in organising and regulating the livelihoods in rural India. On the other hand, scholars studying changing labour, land and capital relations in rural India (Breman, 2010) have shown that there is a constant precarious condition of debt that such workers have to navigate and contest. The article shows how Gonds, a Scheduled Tribe population, who are facing forest evictions and are internally displaced, have resorted to long-distance migration in India. In the absence of state provisioning and formal recourse to law due to the inability to read and write, the Gonds are left to fend for themselves. Precariousness has become a normalised way of life to avoid starvation and indebtedness. However, this article also shows that circular and seasonal migration is valued and considered to be a successful strategy for most rural households. It also involves improving social networking skills and their knowledge of the market and the work. Above all, this strategy helps Gonds to be debt-free and independent as possible.

Altered resting-state functional connectivity within the developing social brain after pediatric traumatic brain injury.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in childhood and adolescence can interrupt expected development, compromise the integrity of the social brain network (SBN) and impact social skills. Yet, no study has investigated functional alterations of the SBN following pediatric TBI. This study explored functional connectivity within the SBN following TBI in two independent adolescent samples. First, 14 adolescents with mild complex, moderate or severe TBI and 16 typically developing controls (TDC) underwent resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging 12–24 months post‐injury. Region of interest analyses were conducted to compare the groups' functional connectivity using selected SBN seeds. Then, replicative analysis was performed in an independent sample of adolescents with similar characteristics (9 TBI, 9 TDC). Results were adjusted for age, sex, socioeconomic status and total gray matter volume, and corrected for multiple comparisons. Significant between‐group differences were detected for functional connectivity in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and left fusiform gyrus, and between the left fusiform gyrus and left superior frontal gyrus, indicating positive functional connectivity for the TBI group (negative for TDC). The replication study revealed group differences in the same direction between the left superior frontal gyrus and right fusiform gyrus. This study indicates that pediatric TBI may alter functional connectivity of the social brain. Frontal‐fusiform connectivity has previously been shown to support affect recognition and changes in the function of this network could relate to more effortful processing and broad social impairments.

Supplementing the ‘College Experience’ with Program-Based Learning Communities

ABSTRACTThe objective of this study was to examine the benefits of a learning community created for first-year students enrolled in a criminal justice degree program at an urban community college in the Northeast. Quantitative and qualitative survey data were collected from three cohorts of students in the program-based learning community. Survey questions examined students’ satisfaction with the learning community structure and their perceptions of social networking and academic skills gained from participation in the learning community. Quantitative data from the college’s records were used to compare the academic progress and retention of criminal justice students in the program-based learning to other first-year criminal justice students. Our findings indicate that participants had positive experiences in the learning community reporting satisfaction with the learning community structure and significant social networking and academic benefits from their participation in the learning community. Findings also indicated that program-based learning community students exhibited greater academic progress and were retained at higher rates than other first-year criminal justice students. This study substantiates the positive impact of program-based learning communities on students’ satisfaction, their academic success toward degree completion, and retention.

Perfil e perceções dos potenciais participantes num MOOC

Os MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) são o mais recente modelo de oferta formativa. São cursos de formação online, abertos e gratuitos, e de acesso massivo. Mas serão estas características suficientes para atrair os potenciais participantes? Quais as caraterísticas dos indivíduos com maior propensão para se inscreverem num MOOC? Para dar resposta a estas e outras questões subjacentes foi adotada uma metodologia quantitativa, sob a forma de um inquérito por questionário online. O estudo foi aplicado à população adulta do distrito de Aveiro (Portugal) com mais de 9 anos de escolaridade. A amostra é composta por 424 indivíduos, e tem caraterísticas sociodemográficas equivalentes à da população em estudo. 86,6% dos participantes desconheciam o conceito MOOC, contudo não se verificam diferenças significativas nas perceções sobre os MOOC entre os que conheciam e os que não conheciam o conceito. A intenção de participar num MOOC é superior entre os mais jovens, os que têm formação superior, os mais autónomos em termos de aprendizagem, os que têm maiores competências de internet e redes sociais, os que já conheciam o conceito, e os que prevêm mudar de situação profissional. Este estudo contribui com pistas para a identificação de segmentos alvo e estratégias de divulgação para futuros MOOC a serem oferecidos em Portugal.

Randomized Trial of a Social Networking Intervention for Cancer-Related Distress.

Web and mobile technologies appear to hold promise for delivering evidence-informed and evidence-based intervention to cancer survivors and others living with trauma and other psychological concerns. Health-space.net was developed as a comprehensive online social networking and coping skills training program for cancer survivors living with distress. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a 12-week social networking intervention on distress, depression, anxiety, vigor, and fatigue in cancer survivors reporting high levels of cancer-related distress. We recruited 347 participants from a local cancer registry and internet, and all were randomized to either a 12-week waiting list control group or to immediate access to the intervention. Intervention participants received secure access to the study website, which provided extensive social networking capabilities and coping skills training exercises facilitated by a professional facilitator. Across time, the prevalence of clinically significant depression symptoms declined from 67 to 34% in both conditions. The health-space.net intervention had greater declines in fatigue than the waitlist control group, but the intervention did not improve outcomes for depression, trauma-related anxiety symptoms, or overall mood disturbance. For those with more severe levels of anxiety at baseline, greater engagement with the intervention was associated with higher levels of symptom reduction over time. The intervention resulted in small but significant effects on fatigue but not other primary or secondary outcomes. Results suggest that this social networking intervention may be most effective for those who have distress that is not associated with high levels of anxiety symptoms or very poor overall psychological functioning. The trial was registered with the ClinicalTrials.gov database ( ClinicalTrials.gov #NCT01976949).

Are Immigrants Really Lacking Social Networking Skills? The Crucial Role of Reciprocity in Building Ethnically Diverse Networks

Increasing ethnic and social diversity in cities does not translate into diverse networks of urbanites. Particularly for white middle-classes in gentrified neighbourhoods, there is evidence on boundary drawing to ‘unwanted groups’ such as ethnic minorities and lower-classes. Rarely have these studies focused on the networks of ethnic minorities, the actual diversity-bringers. I will contribute to the understanding of why and under what circumstances diversity in neighbourhoods gets translated into people’s daily practices, hence also networks, by analysing those of middle-class Turkish-Germans in Berlin. Based on interviews and network analysis, I will show that a neighbourhood’s ethnic diversity, fellow residents’ attitudes towards diversity and the built environment play an important role in building category-crossing ties. Owing to a lack of reciprocity in establishing ties, Turkish-Germans in neighbourhoods with a high share of native-Germans actually have more ties to Turks than those in a more diverse neighbourhood.