This paper presents the RST-AQ, a 22-item scale to measure the affective states related to the three motivational systems postulated by Reinforcement Sensitivity theory (RST-AQ): the Behavioral ...approach system (BAS), Behavioral inhibition system (BIS), and the Fight-Flight-Freeze system (FFFS). The three subscales are internally consistent. Results show an overall support for construct validity of our RST-AQ measure. The correlations of the RST-AQ subscales with other measures demonstrate a good convergent and divergent validity with regard to the subscales of BAS and BIS. The RTS-AQ Scale provides researcher with the first instrument to measures the affective states of the RST theory.
Purpose: This report is intended to conduct for the purpose of determining the relationship between the perceived risk, trust and convenience and on the adoption of mobile banking. The objectives of ...this study were to determine the factors that influence or affecting the people to adoption of mobile banking and what facilities and obstacles that they are facing by using the mobile banking what are the impacts of perceived risk, trust and convenience by adopting the new technology of mobile banking in Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan Design/Methodology/Approach: This research has an explanatory focus. The research utilized a casual survey design and employed a quantitative approach. A total of 102 participants were selected from three universities located in Larkana, Sindh: Sindh University Larkana Campus, QUEST Larkana Campus, and SZABIST Larkana Campus. A standardized questionnaire was used to get the necessary data from the students. In addition to private data, a set of eighteen closed-ended questions similar to the 5-piont scale were employed. The research tool is explained along with potential results based on the selected questionnaire. Findings: Results concluded that there is significant relationship between predictors and response variables, whereas, the effect of predictor variable of adoption of mobile banking is analyzed through multiple regression which concluded the results that there is weak positive relation of predictor on response variable for adoption of mobile banking in the region. Implications/Originality/Value: The study offers fresh perspectives on the adoption dynamics of mobile banking, particularly in Sindh, Pakistan's interior.
Resumen: El presente texto busca introducir una interrogante referida al lugar que ocupa la filosofía dentro de la escena contemporánea, abriendo así una problematización respecto a si esta es capaz ...de responder a las demandas y exigencias que le impone el presente. En esta medida proponemos repensar la noción de filosofía desde un encuadre que rescata sus dimensiones prácticas, materiales y afectivas, visibilizando el impulso transformador que esta puede tener respecto de los sentidos habituales asociados a la producción disciplinar, vinculada a la división tradicional entre teoría y práctica, abriéndola así hacia una dimensión que reconozca el rol implicante - creativo e interventivo - que la filosofía posee en la producción de la realidad.
Abstract. This text seeks to introduce a question related to the place that philosophy occupies within the contemporary scene, thus opening a problematization regarding whether it can respond to the demands imposed on it by the present. In this regard, we seek to rethink the notion of philosophy from a standpoint that rescues its practical, material, and affective dimensions, making visible the transformative impulse that it can have with respect to the usual meanings associated with disciplinary production linked to the traditional division between theory and practice, thus opening it to a dimension that recognizes the implicating (creative, interventional) role that philosophy has in the production of reality.
In this commentary of Dr. Kernberg's important paper I highlight the importance of affects as motivators, particularly the SEEKING system. I question the utility of libido and aggression as the two ...superordinate constructs. And, I suggest incorporating defensive operations and defense mechanisms.
This paper explores disabled people's experiences of 'everyday' hate within and around their home. The characteristics of the home make it a particularly interesting site of analysis, as many of the ...features offer protections and risks simultaneously. Moreover, the home is a particularly important space within our everyday lives, particularly for disabled people who may encounter marginalization within other social spaces. In this article, I consider how encounters within the home shape the way in which the space is made, and how disabled people are able to be within them. I explore the home as a space where persistent and repeated violence can occur, which in turn, shapes how bodies come to occupy (or not), their homes and to what meanings the home takes on. In an attempt to explore this, I offer different conceptualizations of the home as a site of refuge, control and containment, avoidance, and resistance.
•We use qualitative research to locate the everyday affects of transport in Dhaka.•Lived experiences of safety are entangled in human & non-human elements of travel.•Understanding power of affects in ...transport can help reconfigure safety for women.
By examining the lived experiences of 30 female bus commuters in Dhaka using in-depth qualitative approaches, this paper argues for an enhanced understanding of socio-cognitive undercurrents of gendered mobilities. By privileging a feminist-affective lens, and tracing the emotionally and politically charged everyday negotiations of space, power struggles, (dis) comfort, and encounters between gendered bodies, the paper contends that women’s agency to act and respond to harassment in public transport is contingent on multi-scalar assemblages comprising socio-technical infrastructures, lifestyles, cultural histories, personal dispositions and situated knowledge. Moreover, by applying assemblage thinking and affect theories in transport spaces, the study links discussions on gender, violence and mobility beyond the common economic tropes as is common in transport studies of the Global South.
This review outlines the processes followed by New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) when developing its Thoroughbred Welfare Assessment Guidelines. It accepted that guidance on welfare management ...must be based on up-to-date knowledge of how animal welfare is understood scientifically. NZTR established an expert panel to facilitate this process. First, major changes in animal welfare science thinking over the last 40 years were considered. For example, the separate biological function and affective state orientations were later accepted as dynamically interacting elements within the body operating as an integrated whole entity; conceptual problems with the Five Freedoms framework led to the formulation of the Five Provisions and Welfare Aims paradigm and development of the Five Domains Model for assessing nutritional, environmental, health, behavioural and mental facets of animal welfare; and the initial major focus on negative experiences evolved to include both negative and positive experiences. The Five Domains Model was very effective for illustrating up-to-date understanding of animal welfare and its use demonstrated how comprehensive animal welfare assessments may be conducted. The NZTR panel followed a sequential approach that included an update on animal welfare thinking and the Five Provisions and Welfare Aims paradigm; the generic Five Domains Model was refocused specifically on equids; a detailed model assessment of equine welfare practices was conducted; enhanced equine welfare practices were emphasised by comparing them to inadequate welfare practices; guidelines were framed in terms which provide domain-specific advice on provisions that achieve positive welfare; other domain-specific guidelines were focused on welfare-compromising consequences of inadequate provisions; and welfare-appropriate conditions were clarified for all stages of a Thoroughbred's life cycle (in work and rest) to facilitate exercising a life-long duty of care. Finally, the guidelines were expressed in general terms to avoid them becoming overly detailed and unwieldy. They therefore do not address specific welfare issues such as use of whips, bits, spurs and tight nosebands, however the Five Domains Model may also be used for these specific purposes. The guidelines, and the way they were formulated, provide an example of one approach which other organisations may find immediately useful, or which may stimulate them to devise their own approaches when progressing such equine welfare initiatives.
The present study explored the mediating roles of affects and coping strategies in the relationship between mindfulness and burnout among a sample of French healthcare professionals. A total of 180 ...professionals (mean age = 30.10 years) from various health and social care centers in different parts of France completed a questionnaire that contained measures of mindfulness, emotional experience (positive vs. negative affects), coping strategies, and the three dimensions of burnout. Results indicated that trait mindfulness protects healthcare professionals from burnout (especially the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization dimensions). In addition, coping strategies and affects mediate the link between trait mindfulness and emotional exhaustion. More specifically, participants with a low degree of mindfulness reported more negative affects and greater use of emotion-focused coping strategies. These findings suggest that trait mindfulness and positive affects help these professionals maintain a high level of personal accomplishment through the use of problem-focused coping strategies. Based on our results, recommendations could be drawn up to protect healthcare professionals from burnout and enhance their personal accomplishment.
La présente étude explore le rôle médiateur des affects et des stratégies d'adaptation entre la mindfulness et le burnout auprès d'une population française de soignants. Au total, 180 personnes provenant de différents centres de santé en France ont complété un questionnaire qui contenait des mesures évaluant la mindfulness, les expériences émotionnelles (positives ou négatives), les stratégies d'adaptations et les trois dimensions du burnout. Les résultats indiquent que le trait mindfulness protège les professionnels de santé du burnout (particulièrement l'épuisement émotionnel et la dépersonnalisation). De plus, les stratégies d'adaptations et les affects ont un effet médiateur entre le trait mindfulness et l'épuisement émotionnel. Plus précisément, les participants avec un faible degré en mindfulness reportent davantage d'affects négatifs et des stratégies d'adaptations centrées sur les émotions. Ces résultats suggèrent que le trait mindfulness et les affects positifs peuvent aider les professionnels à avoir un plus haut niveau d'accomplissement personnel au travail et utiliser des stratégies d'adaptation centrées sur le problème. Sur la base de nos résultats, des recommandations pourraient être élaborées pour protéger les professionnels de santé du burn-out et favoriser leur accomplissement personnel au travail.
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This study puts forward the idea that mindfuness, considered a personality trait, protects against burnout. The feelings of positive affects and the treatment of stressful situations by the problem promotes this protection.
The article focuses on infrastructures as heterogeneous assemblages. Our claim is that to examine something as elusive as data infrastructure calls for an epistemological and methodological approach ...consistent with the fluid ontology of the object of study. Moreover, we assert that there is no position of exteriority from which to critique data infrastructures. Our question is thus primarily methodological: How might we analyse the relational and heterogeneous nature of data infrastructures in a way that both problematizes and builds on the impossibility of exteriority? We examine two dispositions of data infrastructures: first comes their provisional, dispersed and entangled character, and second, the affective attachments imbued therein. Overall, this paper, first, returns to the ontological and theoretical perspectives on what data infrastructures are; second, makes a contribution to the methodological question of how to study them; and, third, develops a means of critique that do not locate the analyst outside the object of the critique, reminding us of the immanent relationality of data infrastructures and of the necessity to take these seriously in the methodological approach. The paper works with the existing literature on data infrastructures and research methods in education policy analysis, and with our own research data and first-hand experiences.
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