Socio-cultural Environmental Factors Research Articles

ANALYSIS MODEL OF SOCIO-CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT ON CRIMINALITY RATE: A RURAL CASE STUDY

Objective: Criminality in Indonesia is still a serious problem that threatens public safety and order. A study was conducted to analyze how improving the socio-cultural environment can reduce crime in Indonesia. Method: This study uses primary data obtained from 100 respondents who are detainees in several police stations, and uses logistic regression analysis to test the influence of several socio-cultural environmental factors. Results: The results of the analysis show that the social environment in the form of increased employment, family relationships, and ethnicity can reduce the incidence of repeat criminality in Indonesia. This finding highlights that it is necessary to pay attention to socio-cultural environmental factors in designing crime prevention and response policies. Conclusion: The conclusion of this study is that special attention should be paid to factors such as employment, family relations, and ethnicity in crime prevention and control efforts. Research Implications: A well-integrated policy strategy can also help reduce crime rates in an area.

Sociocultural environmental factors and childhood stunting: qualitative studies – a protocol for the Shared Values theme of the UKRI GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub

IntroductionStunting is a significant and growing global problem that is resisting scientific attempts to understand it in terms of direct nutrition-related determinants. In recent years, research included more complex, indirect...

Influence of Socio-Cultural Environmental Factors on Business Performance

There are things, events, or situations that occur that affect the way a business operates, either in a positive or negative way. These things, situations or events that occur affect the organizational performance in either positive or negative ways are called driving forces or environmental factors. This study thereby aims at studying the impact of socio-cultural environmental factors on business performance using International Breweries Plc., Ilesha, Osun State, Nigeria as a case study. Sample of 40 respondents derived from the company were put for study from various sectors of the company using stratified random sampling. The analysis was done with the aid of a descriptive statistical tool and categorical regression analysis for inference with the aid of IBM Statistical Package for Social Statistics (SPSS) version 23. It was found that socio-cultural environmental factors have a positive impact on business performance. It is therefore recommended that effort should be made to improve on advertisement based on the studied environmental factors identified.

Changes in Chinese adolescent college students' psychological security during 2004-2020: A cross-temporal meta-analysis.

Psychological security is the outcome of interaction between individuals and society, and it is an important indicator reflecting adolescent mental health and self-growth. Previous studies have paid more attention to external security, but less attention to individual's internal psychological security. In addition, few previous studies have examined the changes of psychological security over time and the influence of socio-cultural environmental factors on psychological security. A cross-temporal meta-analysis was performed using papers that measured the psychological security level of Chinese adolescent college students between 2004 and 2020. Moreover, a time-lag analysis was conducted to define whether the macro-social indicators can explain the changes in Chinese adolescent college students' psychological security. (1) A total of 85 papers was included in the final sample (included 48,817 Chinese adolescent college students); (2) the scores of psychological security and its two sub-dimensions were significantly negatively correlated with the year, indicating that Chinese college students' psychological security declined significantly over time; (3) seven macro social indicators from the socioeconomic environmental, social connectedness and overall social threats can predict the changes in college students' psychological security; (4) the psychological security of male and female college students decreased over time, but the gender difference was insignificant. Evidently, social changes play an important role in predicting changes in Chinese college students' psychological security. The results can provide a research basis for the mental health education of adolescent college students, and also provide an explanation perspective for the increasingly serious "involution" phenomenon among Chinese college students.

Wrong Brains at the Wrong Time? Understanding ADHD Through the Diachronic Constitution of Minds

ObjectivesThe purpose of this theoretical analysis of current research on ADHD is to provide an account integrating executive functional profiles with its broader structural neurodevelopmental profile.MethodsComparative theoretical analyses between executive functional deficit disorder models of ADHD and results from default mode network fMRI data. This was followed by an analysis of the temporal profile of ADHD and phase synchronous neural assemblies.ResultsComparative analyses suggest disparities within executive functional deficit disorder models and discontinuities between executive functional and structural profiles of ADHD. Analysis of the temporal signature of ADHD provides a potential avenue for integrating different profiles by means of anchoring executive functions within inherent diachronic neurocognitive organization.ConclusionsThe analyses provided suggest that executive functional deficits in ADHD arise from much broader idiosyncrasies, rooted within the inherent diachronic organization of neurocognitive function, and whose challenges must be understood in conjunction with socio cultural environmental factors.

Interactions between genes and socio-cultural environmental factors: Examination with evidence from social psychology, neuroscience, and endocrinology

Interactions between genes and socio-cultural environmental factors: Examination with evidence from social psychology, neuroscience, and endocrinology

An Analysis of the Socio-Cultural Environment and Performance Influences on Manufacturing Enterprises in Nigeria

<em>This study examined the socio-cultural environment and performance of manufacturing enterprises in Nigeria. The specific objectives are: to ascertain the extent to which each of the five decomposed variables of socio-cultural environment of lifestyle change, attitude, consumerism, values, norms, and authority relationship of the people relate to performance of manufacturing enterprises. This survey study used the correlational research design to ascertain the degree of the magnitude of the relationship between the studied variables. A structured questionnaire was administered on the sample of N=300 distributed evenly amongst the six geopolitical sectors of the country. The study found a significant negative relationship between lifestyle change of the society and the performance, a significant negative relationship between attitude of the society and the performance, a significant positive relationship between consumerism and the performance, a significant negative relationship between the values and norms of the society and performance, and a significant negative relationship between authority relationship and the performance of manufacturing enterprises. For these manufacturing enterprises to improve their performance, there must be a proactive effort to understand and consciously appreciate the interplay of the socio-cultural environmental factors. The study recommends that the government and community leaders look at the socio-cultural environmental factors that influence people’s perceptions. </em>

The Influence of the Socio-cultural Environmental Factors on the Marketing of Cultural Institutions of Latvia

The article deals with the socio-cultural factors of the macro-environment which can influence on the production and distribution of cultural products in Latvia. Among the main factors the level of education, social stratification, attitude in the society towards charity and culture as a whole are emphasized. Using the materials of the European studies and the results of the carried out survey of visitors of the state institutions of culture of Latvia, the authors carry out a comparative analysis of the influence of social and cultural factors on the European and Latvian market of the cultural products.

I.4. Workshop: Environment and mental health of children

Environmental factors such as physical and chemical, built and sociocultural environmental factors are associated with children’s mental health and neurodevelopmental processes. The session is jointly organized by the three sections of Child and Adolescent Health (part one), Environment and Health (part 2) and …

Human adaptability studies at high altitude: Research designs and major concepts during fifty years of discovery

This report presents a perspective on the broad research trends in the biology of human populations at high-altitude and their contributions to the improved understanding of evolution and adaptation. A focus is on the research that has occurred over the past 50 years of anthropological fieldwork on the Andean, Tibetan, and, to a lesser extent, the East African plateaus. With an emphasis on fieldwork studies, this report presents and illustrates major concepts and research designs in published high-altitude studies. Early use of a single population-multiple stress research design focused on Andean Quechua, sometimes in comparison with European or admixed Andean-European samples. That design identified physical and sociocultural environmental factors including cold and under nutrition as well as high-altitude hypobaric hypoxia. Researchers accumulated evidence supporting the hypothesis of four modes of adaptation to a complex Andean highland environment: cultural, acclimatization, developmental, and genetic. The discovery that Andean biological patterns were not replicated among Tibetan highlanders stimulated research on the extent and origins of the contrasts. It also shifted emphasis to a multiple population - single stress study design. The discovery of oxygen-homeostasis-associated genetic loci and traits in all multicellular animals has transformed high-altitude research. Paradoxically, genomic analyses identifying the pertinent biological pathways are likely to return interest to environmental factors other than hypoxia. Details of the proximate mechanisms, the biochemical, and physiological processes underlying the three modes of biological adaptation are accumulating. Better understanding of oxygen-homeostasis processes leads to questions about crossadaptation with other environmental factors. The particulars of the ultimate mechanisms, the evolutionary, and microevolutionary history underlying the population differences are also emerging. For example, similar hemoglobin phenotypes among Tibetan and Ethiopian Amhara highlanders associate with different genetic loci and the variants at those loci are present in most populations regardless of altitude. Continuing fieldwork is urgent because modernization and migration are changing the traditional ways of life and patterns of exposure to the environment among highlanders everywhere.

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The purpose of this research is to contemplate chronological changes of Korean actress facial image and fashion from 1960s to 1990s and to identify Korean women's ideal beauty reflected through the times. Adjectives describing representative actresses of each studied decade were collected from major newspapers and magazines. Korean women's ideal beauty was divided into 4 sub-types such as youthful, pure, sophisticate, and sexy images. As a result of analyzing actress facial image and fashion, youthful and pure beauties were found consistently over the studied periods. Representative characteristics of sophisticate and sexy beauties have been changed over the studied periods which were influenced by socio-cultural environment factors. The result of this research can provide meaningful sources for historical drama, celebrity marketing strategy planning, and personal image consulting.

Environmental determinants of healthy eating: in need of theory and evidence

In order to promote healthful nutrition, insight is needed into the determinants of nutrition behaviours. Behavioural determinant research and behavioural nutrition interventions have focused mostly on individual-level motivational factors. It has been argued that the individual's socio-cultural and physical environments may be the main determinants of nutrition behaviours. However, the theoretical basis and empirical evidence for environmental determinants of nutrition behaviours are not strong. The present paper is a narrative review informed by a series of systematic reviews and recent original studies on associations between environmental factors and nutrition behaviours to provide an overview and discussion of the evidence for environmental correlates and predictors of nutrition behaviour. Although the number of studies on potential environmental determinants of nutrition behaviours has increased steeply over the last decades, they include only a few well-designed studies with validated measures and guided by sound theoretical frameworks. The preliminary evidence from the available systematic reviews indicates that socio-cultural environmental factors defining what is socially acceptable, desirable and appropriate to eat may be more important for healthful eating than physical environments that define the availability and accessibility of foods. It is concluded that there is a lack of well-designed studies on environmental determinants of healthful eating behaviours. Preliminary evidence indicates that social environmental factors may be more important than physical environmental factors for healthful eating. Better-designed studies are needed to further build evidence-based theory on environmental determinants to guide the development of interventions to promote healthful eating.