Psychological Value Research Articles

Planning for a Healthy Aging Program to Reduce Sedentary Behavior: Perceptions among Diverse Older Adults.

Reducing prolonged engagement in sedentary behavior is increasingly considered a viable pathway to older-adult health and continued functional ability. Community-based programs that aim to increase physical activity can improve programs’ acceptability by integrating older adults’ perspectives on sedentary behavior and healthy aging into their design. The purpose of this study was to better understand the perceptions of a diverse group of community-dwelling older adults regarding sedentary behavior and its influence on healthy aging. Six focus group discussions with forty-six participants took place across two senior centers in New York City. Self-report questionnaires about daily activity patterns, general health status, and typical sedentary behaviors were also completed by the participants and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The focus group discussions were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using inductive and deductive approaches and an ecological framework to identify salient themes. A qualitative analysis revealed that the participants were aware of the physical costs of engaging in prolonged sedentary behavior. However, many routine sedentary activities were perceived to be health-promoting and of psychological, cognitive, or social value. The insights gained can inform the development of senior-center programs and health-promotion messaging strategies that aim to reduce older adults’ sedentary behavior.

Actionable research for understanding and addressing homelessness.

Homelessness results from an interaction of structural determinants and individual vulnerabilities, creating various pathways into homelessness and having multilevel impacts. Understanding and addressing homelessness requires research that not only takes an ecological perspective but also can be translated into action. Despite research demonstrating differing needs and experience among various subpopulations, particularly marginalized groups, homeless service systems often take a one-size-fits-all approach. Additionally, homeless service systems' prioritization of the most vulnerable and chronically homeless for permanent housing programs results in a service system that operates in a state of triage, with minimal attention to prevention efforts. This special issue highlights actionable research focused on preventing homelessness and addressing disparities among marginalized groups. Included articles target homelessness at multiple levels using a combination of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches. Embedded in community psychology values, this study focuses on prevention, leverages participatory methods, relies on diverse lived experiences, and explores community-based solutions.

장학금 유형에 따른 심리적 가치 및 저축성향과 소비지출

In the present study, a line is drawn between grade scholarship and state scholarship in an attempt to examine how student recipients of a scholarship perceive the psychological value of the grant, for what purpose they seek to use the scholarship, and what implications such behaviors would have for management of scholarship. The results of the study are as follows. First, the recipients of the grade scholarship feel higher psychological value than those of the state scholarship since the grade scholarship is regarded to be the due price for their efforts and the state scholarship is deemed to have little connection with the efforts invested. Second, a stronger tendency is found to spend the grade scholarship for buying hedonic products than utilitarian products. Third, there is little distinction between the grade scholarship and state scholarship in terms of the saving amounts. Thus, it seems thus necessary to lead students to spend the grade scholarship for buying utilitarian products that are needed for the promotion of academic performance after saving a certain amount of the grade scholarship. The study focuses on grade scholarships and state scholarships, and approaches the psychological value, saving tendency, and the impact of scholarships on the type of product purchased, from the theoretical perspective of psychological and emotional accounting.

Tradisi Med-Medan di Banjar Kaja Desa Adat Sesetan Kota Denpasar Bali dalam Perspektif Filsafat Nilai Max Scheler

The culture or tradition in Bali is full of philosophical values, especially the Med-Medan tradition in Banjar Kaja, Sesetan Traditional Village, Denpasar City. However, due to the lack of literacy, people's knowledge and understanding of the tradition is only limited to euphoria. This article seeks to explore and analyze in depth the values contained in the Med-Medan tradition by using the perspective of Max Scheler's philosophy of values and using descriptive analytical methods. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that the philosophical values contained in the Med-Medan tradition are the value of enjoyment, vital or life values, psychological values and religious values. Based on the perspective of Max Scheler's hierarchy of values, religious values are priority values that residents want to achieve as a form of respect for their ancestors and devotion to God Almighty.

Protective and risk factors associated with involved fatherhood in a traditional culture

AbstractObjectiveConsistent with ecological systems theory and the heuristic model of parental behavior dynamics, the current study is focused on both individual and contextual factors that determine fatherhood involvement in the context of a traditional patriarchal culture.BackgroundFather–child interaction during the early childhood period is a salient factor in predicting later child outcomes. However, studies on antecedents of involved fatherhood are scarce, mostly concentrated on one aspect of fathering behavior, and limited to few cultural contexts.MethodData were collected from a representative urban sample of fathers of preschoolers in Turkey (N = 1,070). Different components of fatherhood involvement were assessed to project three distinct paternal behavior dimensions as care, affection, and control.ResultsFather role satisfaction, psychological value attributed to the child, and perceived family support were positively associated with involved fatherhood and higher parental warmth. Working hours per day was negatively associated with involved fatherhood, as expected. Higher life satisfaction was associated with higher positive parenting. Patriarchal views of masculinity were found to be the main predictor of parental physical punishment, controlling for all other predictors in the model.ConclusionStudy findings emphasized the importance of factors other than parenting skills that contribute to fathers' parental effectiveness.ImplicationsOur study's findings have implications for family practices and policies. For example, besides parenting skills, father support programs should also focus on other factors such as developing awareness of traditional masculinity norms and gender role prescriptions that can harm democratic family environments and childcare practices.

Goal Setting with Latinx Families of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Case Studies.

Behavioral community psychology focuses on studying issues that matter to communities, unpacking contextual factors that impact people’s behaviors, and identifying strategies to address such issues. Goal setting is one such strategy often used by behavioral psychologists. Grounded in the values of behavioral community psychology and a behavior analysis paradigm, this study illustrated two case studies of Latinx parents of children with disabilities where goal-setting strategies were implemented to promote behavior change. The first case study focused on the promotion of healthy lifestyle behaviors and routines among Latinx families of children with disabilities in the United States. The second case study examined goal setting related to youth development by parents of adolescents with disabilities in Colombia. In both cases, participants received training on goal setting and had opportunities to discuss progress toward achieving their goals, share action steps taken, and discuss the contextual challenges or barriers that they experienced. The results indicate that behavioral goal-setting procedures can be effective in helping parents attain their goals and brainstorm strategies for addressing behavioral and contextual challenges. Implications for future research advancing behavioral community psychology are discussed.

The Formation and Role of Social Belonging in On-Campus Integration of Diverse First-Generation College Students

First-generation college students (FGCS) experience high rates of attrition compared to continuing generation college students. FGCS frequently identify with several other historically marginalized identities on college campuses. The development of a sense of belonging on-campus is one of the main drivers of retention. The current study examines how sense of belonging on-campus develops during the first-year of college for different FGCS and how attitudes about on-campus relationships evolve over time. Thirteen participants were interviewed at three time points during their first year of college. Grounded theory analysis revealed four themes: 1) higher education provides a cultural learning environment; 2) multiple factors create challenges to relationship building; 3) extreme value differences create hard limits around friendships; and 4) within group friendships provide social and psychological value. Findings extend the current literature on the importance of social belonging for retention of diverse FGCS and highlight the importance of intersectionality in this work.

Sustainability of Costume Appearance: Influence of Psychological and Social Values on the Bangladeshi Young Generation

This study aimed to investigate the impact of values and numerous other social and psychological influences on the sustainability of costume appearance. According to the ideological basis of the social values theorem, information was gathered directly through current cognitive constructs, such as an individual’s opinions. Both internal and external influences of lifestyle on costume appearance are depicted within the research framework. An empirical survey was employed to collect data, including 239 respondents from 2 Fashion design universities. The analysis exhibits that internal and external values influence the Bangladeshi young generation’s costume appearance sustainability has a positive impact. It also shows, the social media factor has high significant values within this study context. However, from the psychological perspectives of costume appearance, shopping tendency, and fashion trend would have a moderate effect. Then, several future research directions can be drawn to improve the cross-cultural ideology on social and psychological values regarding costume appearance.

Implementation of Role Playing Techniques on Orde Tabung in the Model Counseling of KIPAS

The counseling process always involves counselors and clients who come from different cultural backgrounds ranging from race, ethnicity and religion. In this case, the role playing technique can help the counseling process between the client and the counselor to find solutions to the problems at hand. In this study, the contribution of the model KIPAS itself, namely self-development and problem solving counselee, with an approach that relies on aspects of culture, experience, integrating various counseling approaches in conventional approaches, elements and values of culture, psychology, religion and social. This research uses a case study approach. The object of study is in the form of book and journal literature, both digital and manual, while the data collection method is carried out by observation and documents. The results of this study are socio-historical drama scripts, themes and characterizations as well as an emphasis on preventing the emergence of problems in a person. Thus the model KIPAS is a process to help a person or individuals to understand how the process of solving problems about cultural life in today's society.

Translating science to clinical practice in correctional settings

In this paper, we will examine evidence-based practice (EBP) as a primary example of translating science into practice, and as the predominant model of clinical practice within psychology. We argue that despite the merits of EBP and its value for clinical psychology, key conceptual issues arise from the inquiry component of the EBP model. Second, we examine efforts to incorporate scientific models of psychological practice into the correctional domain, and argue that the RNR has assumed an impoverished, and therefore, problematic version of an evidence-based model of correctional psychological practice. We describe three key areas of EBP in which adhering to RNR-based model of practice is particularly detrimental: flexibility, therapeutic alliance, and psychological expertise. To further our critique of attempts to translate science to practice in corrections, we revisit the conceptual issues of the EBP inquiry process and discuss how these manifest within correctional psychology. Finally, we outline a revised formulation of the EBP inquiry process and discuss how this model can overcome current issues in the translation of science to practice in correctional psychology. In our view, the revised EBP model provides a more coherent and comprehensive model than the current approaches. • Reformulation of evidence-based practice inquiry model • Streamlines application of research to individual clients • Demonstrates pervasive role of values in correctional practice and research • Provides a more effective way of incorporating cultural factors in explanation

Your Money or Your Sense of Smell? A Comparative Analysis of the Sensory and Psychological Value of Olfaction.

In public discourse, the sense of smell is typically characterized as the least important of the five senses. However, there are very little empirical data on this topic. Recently, much more attention has been brought to the sense of smell since olfactory dysfunction is a primary and often long-term symptom of COVID-19 infection. It was therefore of interest to expand research on the perceived value of olfaction in the current cultural condition. We developed a survey that directly compared the value of the senses of smell, hearing, and vision with each other and in relation to nine common items representing digital, material, personal, and physical commodities of varying social and emotional meaningfulness (phone, $10,000, favorite social media, online shopping, favorite streaming service, dream vacation, pet, hair, little left toe). In total, four hundred and seven female and male respondents comprising two life-stage groups (college students, general public adults) participated in our online survey study during winter–spring of 2021. The results reveal that the sense of smell was perceived as vastly less important than vision and hearing and much less valuable than various common commodities. We also found that life-stage and gender mediated our findings. For example, one-quarter of the college student respondents would give up their sense of smell in order to keep their phone and nearly half of all women would give up their sense of smell to keep their hair. Our data further illustrate that the senses of vision and hearing are valued relatively similarly. A number of questions arise from the present data and suggestions for ways in which our survey can be expanded and altered to address further research are discussed.

Presentation of Modern Values of Confucianism Humanism in the Media Space

In the modern high-tech world, the mass media play a significant role in “understanding information” and “forming knowledge”, and are also of great importance in the formation and representation of collective values of society. Confucian culture is not only a system of knowledge, but also a system of values. In the face of internal and external problems, contradictions, and spiritual crisis, Chinese society relies on the basic values of Confucian culture, thereby strengthening social and political stability. The ideas of Confucian culture also have a high applied value for the regulation of modern international relations. The country is making efforts to present the basic values of humanism of Confucian culture in the country and abroad. And the media play a crucial role in this process. This determines the relevance of this work. The article reveals the modern values of humanism of Confucianism presented in the Chinese media on the example of the Internet version of People’s Daily. The chronological framework of the study is the period from 09.15.2019 to 09.15.2021. Main research methods: critical analysis of scientific literature and content analysis of newspaper texts. The author analyzes and systematizes scientific works on the chosen topic in order to highlight the ideas, main provisions, concepts, principles underlying the Confucian worldview, and their modern value interpretation ‒ both for China and the world community as a whole. The importance of the media space for the formation of the value of the individual and society is studied. The method of content analysis was applied in the study of modern values of humanism of Confucianism. The analysis shows that the Chinese media act as a platform for the presentation, interpretation and actualization of modern values of humanism of Confucianism: they pay attention to the value of Confucianism for both the individual and the collective; actualize the values of its humanistic ideas, such as “Humanity” and “Harmony”; emphasize its moral, spiritual, psychological, ideological and socio-political value of humanism; actualize its value within China itself and on a global scale. In a further study, the effectiveness of the actualization of specific values of Confucianism in the Chinese media can be more carefully considered.

Socio-psychological research of value orientations of students

The analysis of philosophical, sociological, pedagogical and psychological literature let us make a conclusion that the fundamental basis of the legal consciousness of each person is the degree of his spiritual perfection and maturity. Value and spiritual and moral prerequisites, in turn, are the basis of law, making the behavior of an individual in society expedient. The authors of the paper focus their attention on the frequent cases of delinquent behavior among young students. There is a new form of delinquent behavior, that is deviant socio-political activity. The authors of the paper see the problem of contradiction between the real state of legal consciousness of students and the lack of knowledge of the relationship of legal consciousness with individual psychological characteristics and value orientations of students. The desire to find ways to resolve this contradiction determined the purpose of the research conducted to investigate the relationship of legal consciousness with individual psychological characteristics and value orientations of Samara students who took part in unauthorized protest actions in January 2021. The paper presents the results of an empirical study of individual psychological characteristics and value orientations of students who took part in unauthorized protest actions. The results received, it was found that the subjects of the sample are really prone to delinquent behavior, they have a low level of volitional control of the affective sphere, a pronounced tendency to aggression and violence against the background of negative attitudes towards social norms and rules, the level of legal awareness is low, a positive attitude to law is not formed, and higher, spiritual values are rejected. Among the preferred values are the values of the hedonistic and gloric vector.

Self-assessment of health status and its relationship with psychological and sociocultural values in elderly residents of Petrozavodsk

AIM: To analyze the relationship between the subjective assessment of their health status by elderly citizens of Petrozavodsk and the indicators of their personal and sociocultural values.
 MATERIAL AND METHODS: Psychological characteristics, leisure activity, and subjective assessment of the health of 411 elderly people were studied through medical and sociological questioning. These people consisted of residents of the city of Petrozavodsk (men: 32.6% [n=134]; women: 67.4% [n=277]). The average age of the respondents was 64.436.57 years.
 RESULTS: Elderly citizens have predominantly internal personal characteristics: responsibility (48.42%), diligence (41.36%), and accuracy (35,04% of respondents). Responsibility (p=0.021) and accuracy (p=0.017) significantly dominate in women, and courage (p=0.001), purposefulness (p=0.002), and efficiency in business (p=0.043) dominate in men. The prioritized ways of organizing their free time are passive forms: communicating with friends and relatives (24.09%), watching TV (20.68%), and reading (17.76% of respondents). Gender specificity is determined only in the following positions: visiting exhibitions and theater and concert performances (p=0.044), reading (p=0.008), and communication (p=0.041), with a predominance of women. A satisfactory subjective assessment of the health status of older Petrozavodsk residents is in direct proportion to their sociocultural values and is not associated with their psychological values.
 CONCLUSIONS: Among the elderly of Petrozavodsk, a satisfactory subjective assessment of the state of health has a healthy significantly positive correlation with sociocultural values in the absence of a statistically significant relationship with their psychological characteristics. Responsibility, diligence, and accuracy are the leading psychological characteristics of the elderly residents of Petrozavodsk. At the same time, responsibility and accuracy prevail in women, but courage, determination, and efficiency in business prevail in men. The most frequent activities older people engage in during their free time are live communication, watching TV shows, and reading. Gender specificity can be traced only in the positions of visiting exhibition and theater and concert productions, reading, and live communication. These preferences prevail in women. The revealed trends of personal properties and sociocultural characteristics are associated with the health status of elderly people. These trends may be in demand for the construction of population strategies for medical, psychological, pedagogical, and social rehabilitation among this age cohort of the population. These strategies aim to prevent diseases and improve the quality of life within the framework of the concept of successful aging.

Recognition of Community-Based Youth Programming in Counseling Psychology Journals: A 30-Year Analysis

As a field, counseling psychology distinguishes itself through its values of building on client strengths, developmentally-informed and preventative approaches to treatment, social justice efforts to confront individual and systemic oppression, and treatment of individuals across the lifespan. Community-based youth programs offer a culturally-responsive way to advocate for and challenge the systemic inequities faced by youth today. Despite the connections between counseling psychology values and community-based programs, it is unclear how, and to what extent, the field has contributed to this literature. To address this issue, we conducted a content analysis of the three major counseling psychology journals to determine how community-based youth programs have been represented in the field. From January 1990 to March 2019 only 10 articles were published about community-based youth programming, representing only .17% of the articles published during that time period. Implications and future direction for researchers, journals, and the field as a whole are addressed.

METHOD OF EVALUATION AND SELECTION OF CANDIDATES IN THE PROJECT TEAMS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE CIVIL PROTECTION SYSTEM

Abstract. The article classifies the methods of selection and evaluation of applicants for higher education with specific learning conditions based on the Civil Defence Law. The application of the competence approach to the teambuilding process and the qualimetric evaluation method with the analysis of criteria that describe the business, psychological and personal values are generalized. The possibility of applying the qualimetric model to the relative integral value of the applicant's similarity to the requirements for inclusion in the project team is presented. A mathematical qualimetric model for assessing the competence of candidates is proposed, which carries out the orderliness of the criteria of compliance with the "portrait of the ideal candidate." decision-making in the process of selection and formation of teams. Quantitative values of applicants. Quantitative competence and qualimetric approach in the system of personnel management of higher education institutions of civil defence with specific learning conditions, namely the formalization of criteria for evaluating candidates for project teams provided a reasonable qualimetric assessment of knowledge, skills, personal qualities are an effective method of management. The subject of research is the methods of evaluation and selection of applicants, personnel management in projects of security-oriented systems. Management of projects and programs of human resources management, formation of a database of members of project BOS teams and their evaluation using the index method to optimize the processes of selection of project team members in a security-oriented system. The purpose of the article is to increase the efficiency and objectivity of the system of evaluation and selection of higher education seekers with specific training conditions of the civil protection system of Ukraine. Research methods: human resource management using HRM systems, expert information systems and index numerical indicators. The following results were obtained: a model-scheme of evaluation and selection of project candidates was developed using an expert system for further knowledge accumulation through software, an index method was proposed on the example of higher education institutions with specific training conditions for civil defence systems. Conclusions: Summarizing the data of the study, we can conclude that it is appropriate to improve the methodology for assessing applicants for higher education in civil defence with specific learning conditions through new approaches to quantifying the quality criteria QMS. The generalized model scheme of the expert information system for the selection of shots in security-oriented systems based on an index method is developed.

The Action "Wanted!": The Concept of Valency during the Early Steps of Mastering Chemistry.

We apply the theory of step-by-step concept formation (Galperin) and the theory of learning activity (Davydov) to the practice of education and teacher training. This paper describes a feasible way to teach the basics of Galperin's theory to students studying pedagogical psychology, by involving them in an exemplary educational module on combining chemical formulas according to the elements' valency values. We suggested that our students participate in an educational module which was designed as an example of how to materialize orientation components of action as the basis of concept formation. The "practical" action for mastering the valency concept was to combine the correct formula for a pair of elements, whose valency was provided, and correct the formulas made by someone else. However, the core "orientation" required an extended procedure of building a "molecule" structure with a special construction kit. The key challenge for the students was to coordinate their calculation of the number of bonds needed for the molecule, and name the exact total before they would receive their atom-tokens for constructing the model. Our workshop participants took on the role of students facing their first encounter with chemistry, and embarked on the formation sequence. At the same time they analyzed the mistakes they had made by ignoring some procedural steps. Considered through the lens of Galperin's theory, these "adult" mistakes proved how vital his theoretical principles are for educational design. Our workshop thus illustrated that the search for the proper action for concept formation within Galperin's theory framework is a challenging task. The difficulties that our participants experienced while they worked as pupils revealed the divergence of didactic approaches. The effectiveness of the concept formation approach, even within our small exemplary educational module, once again confirmed the practical value of pedagogical psychology in general, and Galperin's theory in particular.

The Application of Color Psychology in Community Health Environment Design.

The topic of health has gained importance in today's society in the context of a healthy China. The success of community environmental design is intimately correlated with everyone's physical and mental health since it is the setting for people's daily lives. At present, although the facilities and equipment of the community environment in our country are improving day by day, the important role of color psychology in the community environment has been neglected. Color has always been a part of human life and a very important component of the community environment. When it comes to the design of communal environments, the color design of various areas will have variable degrees of influence on the psychological space and perspective of individuals. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the application value of color psychology in the design of community health environments using color psychology as a scientific foundation. Additionally, the paper attempts to use color psychology as a scientific basis to study the thinking of health issues in the community environment. In addition, the results of the questionnaire survey are used to perform analysis and discussion in order to investigate the regular characteristics of the various research objects, as well as their preferences and psychological needs for color. This is done with the goal of providing empirical support for the improvement of the community environment and the health of the people living in it. In the end, the results of the questionnaire survey are compiled with four different design concepts. These design principles include functionality, naturalness, beauty, and safety. And the design intention and optimization strategy from the three directions the overall building, planting, and paving in the community healthy environment are then presented. This is done in order to create a colorful and comfortable healthy environment for the community life of people and to support the development of people's physical and mental health.

Investigating primary healthcare practitioners’ barriers and enablers to referral of patients with COPD to pulmonary rehabilitation: a mixed-methods study using the Theoretical Domains Framework

ObjectivesPulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is a highly effective, recommended intervention for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Using behavioural theory within mixed-methods research to understand why referral remains low enables...

Religion and Psychological Values in Culinary Tradition Within Local Communities of West Kalimantan

The article aims to explore culinary tradition that penetrates the public space which does not give room for tolerance because it has to deal with the rules of Islamic law. Food is perceived as being in a binary opposition: having an integration effect or being a social conflict resolution. Food is presented to the public space as a duplication of scriptural sources, a marker of tradition, an ecological balancing argument, and an indication of social shift. This paper confirms that dining tradition is proven to have an Islamic ideology. It is indicated by the ijab qabul phenomenon that accompanies the culinary tradition procession as an entity enriching the concept of fiqh among people living in coastal areas regarding the concept of food. In addition, eating and its traditions have an effect on environmental conflict resolution in the coastal areas of West Kalimantan. The traditions of food, land, houses, gatherings and reciting prayers for safety are all important ethnic characteristics in West Kalimantan. These five entities, which are perceived by the people of Kalimantan as provisions for life, have proven to be of no subjective values; they are reserved only for anyone with productive land. However, farm products in the form of food are also distributed to anyone in need. When someone has fulfilled the ber-saro'an (the invitation to eat; berontang or saprahan) in a village, they are no longer treated as “strangers”. This tradition is not only about eating but also has to do with the emergence of variants of Islamic fiqh in the coastal areas indicating psychological values.