•This is the first study reporting on the impacts of socio-cultural environment and lifestyle factors on the psychological health of university students in Bangladesh.•The prevalence of provisional ...depression (74.1%) and anxiety (61.9%) among the university students in Bangladesh is significantly high.•Female university students are more vulnerable to depression and anxiety disorders in Bangladesh.•Students’ depression and anxiety were inextricably linked with stress as well as university socio-cultural environment and students’ lifestyle factors such as physical inactivity, high and excessive recreational screen activity, low and high daily meal intake frequency, alcohol consumption, and derailed sleeping.
The psychological health of university students is an issue of utmost concern worldwide. Its consequences include multifaceted outcomes from complex interactions of sociocultural, environmental, and individual lifestyle factors. This research explores the impacts of socio-cultural environment and lifestyle factors on the psychological health of university students in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
A 15-month follow-up was carried out among 1140 university students from April 2016 to November 2017. Data were collected by using a pre-developed questionnaire, consisting of socio-demographic information, comprehensive lifestyle information, and psychological health information including a nine-item scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for assessing the level of depression, and a 7-item scale, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) for assessing the level of anxiety. The collected data were analyzed by using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software, version 22.
With time, there was a 22.5% increase in the prevalence of provisional depression and a 27.1% increase in the prevalence of anxiety. In terms of demographic factors, findings revealed that students dissatisfied with university culture were significantly more likely to experience depression (B = 5.13, p<0.01, β=0.33) and anxiety (B = 4.69, p<0.01, β=0.34). ‘Being female’, ‘being students of social sciences faculty’, ‘dissatisfaction with current education, financial condition and future career’ were found to be significant predictors of students’ psychological disorders. In terms of lifestyle factors, participants with high and excessive recreational screen time were significantly more vulnerable to depression (B = 1.25, p<0.01, β=0.097 and B = 1.75, p<0.01, β=0.12) and anxiety (B = 0.86, p = 0.02, β=0.08 and B = 1.22, p<0.01, β=0.096). Additionally, ‘weekly physical inactivity’, ‘dissatisfaction with daily sleep’, ‘short and long sleep duration’, ‘low and high daily meal intake frequency’ and ‘alcohol consumption’ were inextricably linked with students’ depression and anxiety.
The prevalence of provisional as well as major depressive and anxiety disorders among university students in Bangladesh is significantly high and augmented in nature. This study provides significant information about the adverse impacts of university socio-cultural environment and students’ lifestyle factors on their psychological health conditions.
This study aims to explore the variances in communication behaviours among undergraduate students within the social-cultural context. A total of 104 participants (40 lecturers and six managers) ...were selected from two universities, namely Hue University of Science and Hue University of Education. The collected data was subsequently evaluated. The findings suggest that there are slight differences between male and female students. This study highlights significant differences in involvement among Kinh ethnic students and students from other ethnic groups. Furthermore, the geographical location and sociocultural environment of a region significantly influence the communication behaviors and preferences of students. Students demonstrate higher mean scores in diverse communication activities as compared to lecturers. The results highlight the significance of gender, ethnicity, geographic location and student status in influencing students' participation in communication. Recognizing and addressing these differences can help in the development of effective communication strategies, the development of inclusive environments and the encouragement of positive social interactions among various groups of students. The implications for students' well-being, academic success and intercultural competency might be explored in more detail in further studies by examining the fundamental variables that lead to these differences.
The article examines the relation between the architecture of a public square and the level of its social activity. The concept of a place’s sociocultural environment and its influence on the ...popularity and attractiveness of the area in the city are analyzed in detail. It is suggested that vibrant urban life could be restored using a method of sociocultural programming of city squares by changing the physical conditions of the environment for different scenarios of space use. Emphasis is placed on identifying architectural means for the implementation of sociocultural programmes that create opportunities for various forms of social interaction and everyday and festive activities of people in the public square.
The main objective of this study is to present the role of the socio-cultural environment through the ideology of the specification of conjugal roles, on the entrepreneurial performance of women in ...the Cameroonian context. By adopting a qualitative approach using multiple case studies, semi-structured interviews were carried out on a sample of ten (10) female entrepreneurs from the city of Douala. The thematic content analysis was carried out using the Nvivo 10 software. From this analysis, it mainly emerges that inequalities linked to gender, residential proximity between the entrepreneur and her in-laws constitute the factors that lead to a counter-performance of women in entrepreneurship. However, the involvement of the spouse in domestic tasks promotes the achievement of entrepreneurial objectives by women entrepreneurs.
Environments shape people, and at the same time, people are attracted to environments that fit their characteristics because fit facilitates the achievement of people’s desired life outcomes, such as ...relationship satisfaction, work success, and well-being. In this article, we outline how persons and environments can fit, the relevance of fit and misfit for different life outcomes, and the benefits and pitfalls of different (mis)fit measures. We propose three directions for future research: (a) the use of both subjective and objective (mis)fit measures; (b) the consideration of complex dynamics between person and environment characteristics via pathways through multiple biological, experiential, behavioral, and social layers across the life span; and (c) the integration of insights from different disciplines, including psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and genetics, to move the field forward.
Over the last few decades a growing awareness of the role of firms in society has emerged and, consequently, a call for a different approach towards accounting and accountability. Among various ...proposals, Integrated Reporting (IR) represent the more recent and ambitious one (Songini et alii, 2015), even if some critical matters have to be dealt with by companies involved in its implementation (Songini et alii, 2006). Amongst them, some Authors have already highlighted that it is necessary to introduce a cultural change in order to develop a new approach with reference to the measurement and communication (Songini et alii, 2015). In this sense, in recent years critical and interdisciplinary research has significantly challenged the predominantly technical and a-political view of business and accounting. This has led to growing consensus that the most valuable insights are gained from studying practices in the organizational and broader social settings in which they operate, i.e. their cultural context. On the basis of the above, Islam does represent a strongly important field of study for the cultural context into which IR could develop. In effect, in Islamic thought, it is believed that Adam, the progenitor of the human race and Islamic prophet-was appointed Trusteeship (khalifa) or guardian of the planet Earth; in addition, a concept unique to man is amana or trust (Rizk, 2014). Allah offers amana to the heavens, to the earth, to the mountains - to the rest of creation - who all refused; only mankind was foolish enough to accept it. A trust entails one who entrusts and a trustee. Qur’an is embodied with the principles of moderation, balance and conservation, which are the core of sustainable development and provide a framework for discernment, without which there would arguably be no limits to waste, extravagance or greed both individual as well as corporate (Rizk, 2014). Further exploration does suggest that the accountant, and hence accounting, is actually given a very key role. The person that is described as accountant or Muhtasib in Islam is the one responsible for making sure that business is not harming the community (Kamla et alii, 2006). Tawheed (unity) stimulates the desiderata of an explicit public commitment to reasonable and comprehensible accounting – full and relevant disclosure – in the public interest, as such an explicit commitment becomes a charge in relation to which those formally regulating accounting can be held accountable. The paper is mostly theoretical, yet it offers fruitful practical insights since only a truthful assessment of the cultural pattern, as such as Islam, can lead to a conscious approach towards sustainability. This paper offers insights for future research on the broad field of social and environmental issues, as well as Integrated Reporting, since it suggests to take always in account – when addressing issues and potentialities of non financial reporting – the cultural and religious pattern.
Drawing from the S-O-R perspective, this paper proposes a theoretical model explicating the mechanism whereby social media usage functions on customers' engagement in cross-cultural social commerce ...by employing a mixed-method approach including SEM and fsQCA analysis technique. Analysis of the data collected from 135 countries' 2058 international students indicates that social media usage, either for information or socializing purpose, exerts positive effects on international customers' engagement in social commerce through the conduit of cultural identity change, and social support positively moderates the relationships between two dimensions of social media usage and cultural identity change. The analysis of fsQCA further augmented the robust results reached from SEM and identified four types of configurations that trigger customers' engagement in cross-border social commerce. Research implications and limitations are also discussed.
Tourism must be planned and developed differently from what is customary today, as growth in rigid economic terms is still prioritised over the cultural and socioecological sustainability of lived-in ...cultural and natural environments. The global ecological crisis can no longer be ignored by tourism developers and investors – or by tourists. The seventeen authors of this book are from a variety of disciplines and fields of expertise. Through research-driven and profession based knowledge on different aspects of tourism planning in Finland and elsewhere, they offer transformative perspectives and practical applications for responsible tourism planners, investors and political decision-makers to utilise. Through the book’s overarching themes – learnings from the history of tourism planning, wellbeing, participation, building and architecture, people and infrastructure – it addresses a general audience, professional communities, and academic communities. The book’s urgent quest is to prevent tourism from remaining one of the causes for the greatest problem of all time, the worsening baseline of living conditions on Earth.
Prolonged myelination in human neocortical evolution Miller, Daniel J; Duka, Tetyana; Stimpson, Cheryl D ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
10/2012, Letnik:
109, Številka:
41
Journal Article
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Nerve myelination facilitates saltatory action potential conduction and exhibits spatiotemporal variation during development associated with the acquisition of behavioral and cognitive maturity. ...Although human cognitive development is unique, it is not known whether the ontogenetic progression of myelination in the human neocortex is evolutionarily exceptional. In this study, we quantified myelinated axon fiber length density and the expression of myelin-related proteins throughout postnatal life in the somatosensory (areas 3b/3a/1/2), motor (area 4), frontopolar (prefrontal area 10), and visual (areas 17/18) neocortex of chimpanzees (N = 20) and humans (N = 33). Our examination revealed that neocortical myelination is developmentally protracted in humans compared with chimpanzees. In chimpanzees, the density of myelinated axons increased steadily until adult-like levels were achieved at approximately the time of sexual maturity. In contrast, humans displayed slower myelination during childhood, characterized by a delayed period of maturation that extended beyond late adolescence. This comparative research contributes evidence crucial to understanding the evolution of human cognition and behavior, which arises from the unfolding of nervous system development within the context of an enriched cultural environment. Perturbations of normal developmental processes and the decreased expression of myelin-related molecules have been related to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. Thus, these species differences suggest that the human-specific shift in the timing of cortical maturation during adolescence may have implications for vulnerability to certain psychiatric disorders.
Purpose: This research aims to study the impact of three drivers of employee experience (cultural environment, technological environment, and physical environment) toward employee performance.
...Theoretical framework: This study will focus on association between various drivers of the employee experience which support in enhancing employee performance at the workplace. This study integrates ACE technology, COOL physical spaces, and CELEBRATED culture as the three categories of employee experience that was constructed by Morgan (2017), while the three aspects of employee performance (task, adaptive, and contextual performance) are based on Pradhan & Jena (2017).
Design/methodology/approach: This study was designed by using quantitative approach. The study sample size is 201. The sampling method is using simple random sampling. The collected data was used to examine the model by using the Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS).
Findings: The empirical findings have demonstrated that the proposed research framework shows that there is positive significant effect of cultural environment on employee performance. The finding also shows that there is no effect of physical environment and technological environment on employee performance.
Research, Practical & Social implications: This study is beneficial for the leaders to focus on the important drivers of employee experience that impact on employee performance. In short term, this organization needs to focus on cultural environment instead of physical environment and technological environment in order to increase the employee experience. In long term, this organization need to analyze whether employee expectation about physical and technological environment already meet their expectation.
Originality/value: It is not all employee experience drivers (cultural environment, technological environment, and physical environment) has impact toward employee performance.
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