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Liebmann, Marian. "Art Tables at refugee drop-in centres: From exclusion to belonging." Journal of Applied Arts & Health 14, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 117–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00131_1.
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This article describes the Art Table at a drop-in centre for asylum seekers and refugees. It shows how a non-verbal approach can offer an opportunity for members to experience self-expression, companionship and healing in a safe space. This is illustrated by four stories of members and their artwork. The structure, approach and materials are described, followed by a discussion as to whether this work should be defined as art therapy or art and well-being. Issues specific to refugees are highlighted. The article concludes by highlighting the importance of community building and relational social justice.
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Miller, Chris. "Observations on Belonging and Brotherhood in All-Male Catholic Schools." Boyhood Studies 16, no. 1 (June 1, 2023): 65–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2023.160105.
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Abstract “Brotherhood” is used for marketing all-male Catholic schools and is often synonymously with “belonging.” This article examines those terms from three perspectives—the academic literature, the students’ views, and the views of faculty and staff—to define them. Regarding school, belonging can be defined as being affiliated with the institution, being personally accepted, respected, and included in the social environment. In Catholic schools, belonging is fostered through religion classes, religious art, statues, crucifixes, and displays of student work that illustrate beliefs and practices of the Catholic life, as well as social justice projects. The elements of brotherhood are a shared experience that unites the members and is consistent with the values of the group, group members caring about each other with a desire to see the members of the group succeed, and members taking responsibility for the group and making sacrifices when necessary.
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Segers, Ruth, Karin Hannes, Ann Heylighen, and Pieter Van den Broeck. "Exploring Embodied Place Attachment Through Co‐Creative Art Trajectories: The Case of Mount Murals." Social Inclusion 9, no. 4 (November 30, 2021): 116–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i4.4403.
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The built and living environment in the Flemish region in Belgium is evolving noticeably. It is densifying at an ever‐faster pace and, along the way, becoming increasingly unfamiliar to its inhabitants. Many people face profound difficulties in autonomously and positively dealing with such drastic changes, causing their feeling of home to waver. Triggered by these challenges and supported by the local authority of a Flemish town, the experimental and co‐creative art project Mount Murals set out to stimulate new embodied interactions between and among local residents of various ages and backgrounds and with their built environment. These include remembering place‐related sentiments, being aware of body language that plays between participants while co‐creating and sensing an invigorating stimulus when seeing results. Awakening intrinsic appreciation in people for their own environment and associated social relationships stimulates an inclusive dealing with estranged relationships in space. Referring to the relational neuroscience principles attachment, co‐creating and co‐regulating as a modus of relational resonating, we explore how and under which conditions Mount Murals’ co‐creative art trajectory supports an evolving embodied place attachment, an essential element of the sense of belonging, in participants. By embedding assets inherent to art creation in action research and starting with meaningful everyday objects, Mount Murals carries forward an art expression that considers the co‐creation process and its co‐creative products as equally important.
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Reading, Anna. "Moving hearts: How mnemonic labour (trans)forms mnemonic capital." Memory Studies 14, no. 1 (February 2021): 95–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698020976465.
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This study explores how memory forms may be understood through an economic lens tracing how the labour of remembering adds value to and (trans)forms memories. The study focuses on embodied memories and imaginaries of migration and belonging and the ways in which these are (trans)formed through mobile and social media witnessing into a collective living archive and into objectified memory forms that include art works and digital artefacts situated within global mnemonic commodity chains. Empirically, the article draws on an arts-based collaborative research project, ‘Moving Hearts’ carried out with the UK Migration Museum in 2016–2018 that examined embodied, artistic, and institutional memories and imaginaries of migration. Theoretically, the article builds on the growing body of research in memory studies on the economies of memory, bringing together a political economy approach to memory and work within participatory arts to provide insights into how memory forms may be understood through mnemonic labour and mnemonic capital. Specifically, it shows how the mnemonic labour of participants making, carrying and walking with clay hearts transforms memories of migration and belonging into new kinds of mnemonic capital.
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Knowles, Megan L., Nathaniel Haycock, and Iqra Shaikh. "Does Facebook Magnify or Mitigate Threats to Belonging?" Social Psychology 46, no. 6 (November 2015): 313–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000246.
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Abstract. Previous research has yielded mixed findings regarding the interpersonal causes and consequences of Facebook use. The current research examines the role of belonging needs in motivating Facebook use and the protective value of Facebook following exclusion. In four studies we: manipulated exclusion and observed participants’ behavioral preferences (Study 1); measured participants’ belonging needs and their Facebook use (Study 2); and manipulated exclusion, exposed participants to either their Facebook photos/pages or control photos/pages, and measured need satisfaction and aggression (Studies 3–4). We found that exclusion motivated computer-mediated communication, and belonging needs predicted Facebook use. Also, exposure to Facebook protected excluded individuals’ social needs and mitigated aggressive behavior. Altogether, these studies suggest that Facebook is a powerful tool that allows individuals to reaffirm their social bonds.
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Vella, Kellie, Daniel Johnson, Vanessa Wan Sze Cheng, Tracey Davenport, Jo Mitchell, Madison Klarkowski, and Cody Phillips. "A Sense of Belonging: Pokémon GO and Social Connectedness." Games and Culture 14, no. 6 (July 20, 2017): 583–603. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555412017719973.
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The free-to-play mobile game Pokémon GO’s (PGO) use of real-world mapping encourages play in public spaces, opening up the possibility of greater engagement with other players, local communities, and surrounds. This study conducted a series of interviews ( N = 15) and collected online social forum reports of gameplay ( N = 880), in order to determine what the social outcomes of play may be and what mechanisms might be facilitating the social connectedness. Thematic analysis revealed that playing PGO produced a sense of belonging, linked to a sense of place, as well as facilitating conversations with strangers and strengthening social ties. This was due to the use of accessible technology able to be integrated into daily routines, shared passion for the game, and mechanics that encouraged players out of their homes. “Shared passion” was tied to the nostalgic connection many players felt for the franchise. This study shows how gameplay can build social connectedness through real-world engagement.
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Ramkumar, Bharath, and Rebecca M. Dias. "Sustaining traditional textile art among the Indigenous Nongtluh women of north-eastern India: An interpretative phenomenological analysis." Fashion, Style & Popular Culture 00, no. 00 (March 30, 2021): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fspc_00075_1.
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Indigenous textile artisans have, for centuries, maintained traditional methods of textile making that is central to their livelihood and cultural identity. However, the increasing commodification of indigenous textiles around the world has threatened the preservation of traditional, eco-friendly methods of textile production, making it imperative to learn how indigenous groups that have successfully sustained their traditional textile art, have done so. This ethnographic study peers through the lens of indigenous Nongtluh women textile artisans belonging to the Ri-Bhoi district in the state of Meghalaya in the north-eastern region of India, with the aim of understanding how their traditional textile art has been sustained. An interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of in-depth interview, focus group, field observation and photographic data uncovered two overarching themes that represented internal and external factors that have contributed to the sustenance of the Nongtluh women’s traditional textile art. Internal factors signified the artisans’ deep love for their textile art through inheritance, passion, ingenuity and pride. External factors revealed the role of government, economic prospect and convenience in the sustenance of the traditional textile art in this region. An interpretive framework is presented, representing these factors through the tree of sustenance. Implications and limitations are discussed.
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Schäfer, Katharina, and Tuomas Eerola. "How listening to music and engagement with other media provide a sense of belonging: An exploratory study of social surrogacy." Psychology of Music 48, no. 2 (September 7, 2018): 232–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0305735618795036.
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The social surrogacy hypothesis holds that people resort to temporary substitutes, so-called social surrogates, if direct social interaction is not possible. In this exploratory study, we investigate social motives for listening to music in comparison to watching TV and reading fiction. Thirty statements about possible social reasons for the engagement with media were compiled. After 374 participants had rated their agreement with those statements, they were reduced to seven categories: Company, Shared experiences, Understanding others, Reminiscence, Isolation, Group identity, and Culture. The results propose that music is used as temporary substitute for social interaction alongside TV programs and fiction, but that it acts differently. Music listening might act as a social surrogate by evoking memories of relationship partners or through identification processes. There are overlapping motives between the domains, but the elicitation of nostalgia appears to be unique to music listening. The results motivate further investigation into the effects of music listening on socio-emotional well-being.
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Derricks, Veronica, and Denise Sekaquaptewa. "They’re Comparing Me to Her: Social Comparison Perceptions Reduce Belonging and STEM Engagement Among Women With Token Status." Psychology of Women Quarterly 45, no. 3 (April 20, 2021): 325–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03616843211005447.
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Belonging and academic engagement are important predictors of women’s retention in STEM. To better understand the processes influencing these outcomes, we investigate how numerical underrepresentation (i.e., token status) triggers social comparison perceptions—concerns that others are comparing oneself to another person—that can undermine women’s STEM outcomes. Across four experiments, female college students recruited via subject pool (Study 1a) and MTurk (Studies 1b–3) read a hypothetical scenario in which another female (Studies 1a–3) or male (Study 2) student performed well or poorly in an engineering course. Findings showed that having token (vs. non-token) status in the course increased social comparison perceptions (i.e., perceptions about being compared to an ingroup peer), which subsequently reduced course belonging (Studies 1a and 1b). Study 2 found that (a) token status increased social comparison perceptions in response to the ingroup (vs. outgroup) peer and (b) social comparison perceptions decreased belonging through stereotype threat concerns, particularly when the peer performed poorly. Study 3 directly manipulated social comparison perceptions to further establish their causal role on negative outcomes and demonstrated that these perceived direct comparisons predicted additional consequences signaling STEM disengagement. Collectively, findings identify a novel process that can diminish belonging and academic engagement for women in STEM. Additional online materials for this article are available on PWQ ’s website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/03616843211005447
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Chakrabarty, D. "Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capital." Public Culture 12, no. 3 (October 1, 2000): 653–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-3-653.
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Capner, Maxine, and Marie Louise Caltabiano. "Factors Affecting the Progression towards Burnout: A Comparison of Professional and Volunteer Counsellors." Psychological Reports 73, no. 2 (October 1993): 555–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1993.73.2.555.
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This study compared professional and volunteer counsellors on a number of key variables in the progression to burnout, namely, stressors, strain, defensive coping, social support, Type A personality, and breakdown. Job stressors unique to each group were identified but there was overwhelming evidence for professionals and volunteers belonging to a homogeneous counselling population as evidenced by similarity across major constructs. Path analysis supported theoretical formulations on burnout by Maslach and Cherniss, and gave support to Lin, Dean, and Ensel's argument that social support may act as a buffer to burnout.
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Cleland, Jonathan, and David Lumsdon. "How can school – parental participation support the generation of social capital for parents?" Educational and Child Psychology 38, no. 2 (June 2021): 19–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsecp.2021.38.2.19.
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Aim:This meta-ethnography views social capital as a resource to be generated, within contexts of parental participation with schools, offering possibilities for a positive change in power relations, and the addressing of social justice concerns.Rationale:Increased parental participation with children’s learning has a positive impact on children’s achievements. When participation does not happen, responsibility is often placed with ‘hard to reach’parents. Social capital theory suggests parents differ in their access to capital that affects their ability to act and participate with schools. This meta-ethnography explores examples of parent-school relations which impact positively on parents, regarding empowerment, parent voice and social capital.Findings:Key concepts generated were ‘Cultural and Social Factors’, ‘Parental Expectations’, ‘Communication’, ‘Belonging’ and ‘Influence’. A framework is presented addressing the five themes across three levels. The findings emphasised the importance of relational justice in parental participation with schools, and listening to others as an act of recognition.Limitations:Given the interpretive nature of meta-ethnographic research, there are limitations to the generalisability of the findings. However, qualitative research enables us not to predict but anticipate what might be involved in analogous situations.Conclusions:Schools should invest in understanding the cultural and social lives of their pupils’ families, as well as parents’ expectations around participation. This should lead to improved communication and relationships with parents, supporting a sense of belonging. Schools should look for opportunities to promote parental agency and competence, to work collaboratively with parents, and to empower parents in how they engage with their children’s learning.
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Magon, Rayan, and Gerald Cupchik. "Examining the Role of Aesthetic Experiences in Self-Realization and Self-Transcendence: A Thematic Analysis." Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications 10, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2023): 68–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2023-0006.
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Abstract Numerous scholars, philosophers, and experts in aesthetics have underscored the profound significance of a life enriched by the presence of beauty. Consequently, the appreciation of aesthetic experiences is considered pivotal for achieving self-discovery and self-transcendence (Howell et al. 2017). Despite theoretical prominence, limited qualitative research has been conducted on this topic. To address this gap in research, this study’s objective emphasized two questions guiding the inquiry; What is the role of aesthetic encounters in aiding self-realization or individuation? and, how do these experiences foster self-transcendence? A thematic analysis was performed on the online interviews conducted (N=25), and their results revealed seven themes pertaining to self-realization: a) Losing Yourself to Find Yourself; b) Relatability and Self-Reflection in Art; c) Identity as a Collection of Skills; d) Art as a Medium for Self-Expression and Acknowledgment; e) Aesthetic Genres and Taste as Identity; f) Belonging and Social Identity through Art; and g) Personal Interests and Choices in Artistic Consumption. Furthermore, seven themes for the second research question of self-transcendence were also discovered: a) Mother Nature’s Beauty; b) Intense, Passionate, and Overwhelming Experiences of Heightened Consciousness; c) Sacred Symbolism, Archetypal Imagery, and the Collective Unconscious; d) Collective Effervescence, Social Connection, and Shared Meaning; e) The ‘Profound’ Found in the Mundane; f) Feelings of Spiritual Elevation and Wellbeing; and g) Self-Referential Meaning-Making through Art. These findings evidenced the transformative potential of aesthetic experiences, shedding light on the facets of personal growth and meaning that individuals derive from such encounters.
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Geschiere, P., and F. Nyamnjoh. "Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging." Public Culture 12, no. 2 (April 1, 2000): 423–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-2-423.
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Menke, Katrin, and Andrea Rumpel. "Who Belongs, and How Far? Refugees and Bureaucrats Within the German Active Welfare State." Social Inclusion 10, no. 1 (March 22, 2022): 217–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i1.4646.
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Concepts such as “belonging” (Yuval‐Davis, 2011) and “community of value” (Anderson, 2013) try to capture the multiple ways of classifying migrants. In this article, we argue that belonging needs to be analyzed against the backdrop of active social citizenship in European welfare states. Although the literature acknowledges the increasing links between migration and social policies, the latest “turn to activation” in social policy has hardly been accounted for. By focusing on two policy fields in Germany, the labor market and health policies, we briefly describe discourses and social right entitlements and their ambivalences. Empirically we show (a) how bureaucrats within the two policy fields regulate and justify refugees’ social rights in practice and (b) how refugees act vis‐à‐vis relevant institutional opportunity structures. Our study contributes to previous research twofold: Firstly, we illustrate processes of positioning and selecting refugees that stem from recent social policy architecture. Secondly, we demonstrate everyday experiences from refugees’ vis‐á‐vis relevant institutional opportunity structures in Germany. Our results show that inconsistencies within and between social policy fields of one welfare state have to be taken into consideration for further national and transnational research.
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Williams, Kipling D., Christopher I. Eckhardt, and Molly A. Maloney. "Attending to the Ignored." Zeitschrift für Psychologie 229, no. 3 (September 2021): 148–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000446.
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Abstract. Ostracism – being excluded and ignored – has received considerable attention in social psychology in the past few decades. Experimental evidence suggests that negative psychological reactions to ostracism are robust and widespread. Initially, ostracism is detected quickly as painful and reduces the satisfaction of four fundamental needs: belonging, self-esteem, control, and meaningful existence. When ostracism is experienced occasionally, individuals tend to respond and cope by trying to fortify the threatened needs, either by attempting to improve their inclusionary status (fortifying belonging and self-esteem by being more likable, agreeable, and pliable), by exerting more control and attention (by becoming more provocative, noticeable, but also sometimes more aggressive and violent), or by reducing future episodes of ostracism by seeking solitude. Persistent or long-term exposure to ostracism results in decreased coping attempts, and higher rates of alienation, depression, learned helplessness, and unworthiness. In this article, we integrate these findings with clinical theory and practice, seeking to apply experimental results to therapeutic applications.
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Skorobogacheva, Ekaterina A. "Psychogeography as a Dominant Factor in Determining the Direction of Creativity and Social Activity of I. K. Aivazovsky." Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures] 68 (2023): 317–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-68-317-328.
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The life and creative path of I. K. Aivazovsky is widely known, yet researchers have not paid enough attention to psychogeography as one of the dominant factors determining the formation and development of his creative personality. Developing within ‘situationist international’ milieu, the term “psychogeography” is correlated with the scientific spheres of social psychology and philosophy, and is fully applicable to the art of the early 21 c. This term, in our opinion, should also be applied to the broad field of art history. Aivazovsky traveled all over the world. Travels in Italy, Western European countries, trips to Turkey and the Caucasus became milestones of his creative path, but he drew inspiration, first of all, in his native Feodosia. Turning to the study of the psychogeography of I. K. Aivazovsky's creativity, one should also turn to the genesis of his kind. Belonging to the Crimean Armenians played an important role in life of the future artist. The Armenian colony in Crimea has more than 600 years of history. Ivan Aivazovsky studied at the Armenian parish school at St. Sarkis Church, where he received his primary education. The inquisitive student sought to expand his knowledge in every possible way, in particular, memorized many legends and authentic historical facts related to the origin of his hometown, which also allows us to consider the genesis of personality, as well as the formation and then recognition of I. K. Aivazovsky as an artist and public figure, based on the concept of “psychogeography”. Psychogeography is determined as the dominant factor of creativity and social activity of I. K. Aivazovsky. The lands of Feodosia are the most important historical and artistic space of I. K. Aivazovsky from the 1820s to 1900. The proof of this is his historical-religious, landscape works, his foundation of the “Cimmerian school of Painting”, his works on the improvement of Feodosia. Two elements — the sea and the city — were perceived inseparably as the source of the philosophy of creativity, activity, giving the genesis of the psychogeography of his life in the scenery of the seaside town.
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Voiteleva, Т. M. "Native word as the embodiment of the national spirit." Russian language at school 83, no. 6 (November 15, 2022): 7–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2022-83-6-7-11.
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In modern society, it is relevant to preserve the cultural-historical identity of Russia and the people’s moral values reflected in the mother tongue. Language plays an important social role since it is viewed as a social phenomenon that reflects the peculiarities of the national character and psychology of each nation as well as the changes taking place in society. The word embodies the national spirit and the national self-awareness of the people. Specific features of national culture, the people’s traditions are manifested in folklore, set expressions, works of art. The paper considers the basics of the content of the school Russian language course (i. e. Russian as a native language) which facilitate learners’ awareness of the native word as a tool for understanding the national picture of the world. The research has identified lexical units contributing to the formation of students’ values-based attitude to their native language and their role in the formation of a linguistic personality. These lexical units include phraseological units, small genres of folklore (riddles, proverbs, and sayings). The paper also characterises the linguocultural concept and the specific features of its analysis to cognize the national picture of the world. Mastering the mother tongue as a cultural phenomenon, schoolchildren conclude that the native language reflects the nature of the historical and intellectual development of society. Moreover, they realise it is the property of all people belonging to this society and a source of the nation’s unity and spirituality.
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O'Byrne-Maguire, Irene, Rob Stuart, Bryan Maguire, Ulrike Beland, and Daniela Cabibbe. "International Listening Posts global report summary: the world at the dawn of 2022 … let's wake up." Organisational and Social Dynamics 22, no. 2 (December 19, 2022): 245–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.33212/osd.v22n2.2022.245.
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In this third year of the global Covid-19 pandemic, we are in touch with the tragedy of life, our fear of extinction, and the anxieties associated with the regression of human civilisation. Fatigue and exhaustion, coupled with existential burnout and profound sadness is apparent in all thirteen global reports. Covid has interrupted our sense of personal continuity and omnipotence, confronting us with our vulnerabilities and exigencies, fuelled by our failed economic, political, and social models. The weakening of shared values, fragmentation of relations, increasing aggression, and social chaos augment divisions and splitting. As we connect with inequality and privilege, some experience guilt and discomfort. Many are awakening to the interconnectedness of all things, and our individual and collective responsibilities. We need credible and reliable leadership to rebuild trust, and responsible, functioning political authorities and institutions to help foster belonging, protection, and agency. We are struggling to think enough, care enough, and act enough. "Let's wake up" to the available resources within us and externally, rediscovering positive energies and the courage to live with contradictions, engaging our "inoculated selves against seeing injustices" and acting responsibly towards our common home and the common good. Will we succeed?
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Lewis, Karyn L., Jane G. Stout, Noah D. Finkelstein, Steven J. Pollock, Akira Miyake, Geoff L. Cohen, and Tiffany A. Ito. "Fitting in to Move Forward." Psychology of Women Quarterly 41, no. 4 (August 16, 2017): 420–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684317720186.
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Social science researchers have increasingly focused on understanding the precursors to gender disparities favoring men in the physical sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (pSTEM). In the current work, we hypothesized that the core social need to belong explains persistence in pSTEM for women more so than for men. We conducted three field studies with data from close to 3,000 participants bridging a wide span of higher education levels and differing pSTEM fields. In each study, we found gender disparities on sense of belonging in pSTEM favoring men. Moreover, sense of belonging explained persistence intentions for both women and men in one study and explained persistence intentions and actual persistence in pSTEM coursework for women, more so than for men, in the other two studies, even after controlling for two conventional predictors of academic achievement (self-efficacy and exam performance). These results highlight the role of belonging in gender differences in pSTEM persistence and indicate STEM educators should strive to create inclusive learning environments for all students. Additional online materials for this article are available on PWQ’ s website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0361684317720186 . Online slides for instructors who want to use this article for teaching are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/page/pwq/suppl/index
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Djordjevic, Ana. "Becoming an ethnic subject. Cultural-psychological theory of ethnic identification." Filozofija i drustvo 32, no. 3 (2021): 460–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid2103460d.
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This paper offers an alternative theoretical consideration of ethnic identification in psychology. Mainstream social psychological theories are largely positivist and individualistic. New possibilities of theoretical understanding open up as the relational and symbolic nature of ethnicity enters psychological inquiry. This paper takes culture and self as two conceptual domains of social identification, following a meta-theoretical position of cultural psychology. The central focus is the cultural development of the person in social context of a given culture, specifically their ethnic identification, to which end, it looks at several processual aspects. First, ethnic culture is approached as a guiding principle and practice in everyday understanding and experience of one?s own ethnicity. Second, ethnic identification is considered a social and personal act of meaning making, which happens in a given social context, through practical activity and the discursive positioning of a person. Third, since rather than considered a conscious aspect of belonging, ethnicity is assumed and taken for granted, ruptures are considered as destabilizing events that create an opportunity for ethnic meaning reinterpretation and developmental transition. In the meaning making process, symbolic resources are conceived of as primary self-configuring tools, which are also culture-configuring. Ethnic meaning making is theorized as a central social-psychological process through which ethnic culture and a person as an ethnic subject emerge in historical perspective. Finally, the uniqueness of a singular person in the shared ethnic culture is conceptualized based on symbolic distancing from the immediate social context, through the model of knitting personal and socio-historical semiotic threads.
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Matsick, Jes L., Lizbeth M. Kim, and Mary Kruk. "Facebook LGBTQ Pictivism: The Effects of Women’s Rainbow Profile Filters on Sexual Prejudice and Online Belonging." Psychology of Women Quarterly 44, no. 3 (June 10, 2020): 342–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684320930566.
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Facebook’s rainbow profile filter represents a popular display of activism (“pictivism”) commonly used by women, yet little is known of pictivism’s potential for creating social change. We tested whether women’s group status (belonging to a dominant vs. marginalized group) and filter use influenced viewers’ perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors. We conducted a series of 2 (target sexual orientation: queer or heterosexual) × 2 (filter use: filter or no filter) experiments with heterosexual ( N 1 = 198, N 2 = 186) and LGBTQ ( N 3 = 290) participants. Participants rated women who used rainbow filters as more activist than women who did not engage in pictivism. Although neither target sexual orientation nor filter use influenced participants’ ally behavior (donations), heterosexual people who viewed a woman using a filter reported greater closeness to LGBTQ people and greater intentions of supporting LGBTQ people when the woman was queer than heterosexual. Exposure to rainbow filters caused LGBTQ participants to express greater online and societal belonging than when filters were absent. Taken together, women’s pictivism and the online visibility of queer women yielded some psychological benefits for heterosexual and LGBTQ viewers. If the goal of pictivism is to enhance marginalized groups’ feelings of support, it works as intended. We thus recommend that both heterosexual and LGBTQ people who care about LGBTQ rights and seek to affirm LGBTQ individuals’ sense of belonging embrace opportunities on social media, specifically through profile picture filters, to communicate their support. Additional online materials for this article are available on PWQ ’s website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0361684320930566
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Fichtner, Sarah, and Hoa Mai Trần. "Lived citizenship between the sandpit and deportation: Young children’s spaces for agency, play and belonging in collective accommodation for refugees." Childhood 27, no. 2 (February 7, 2020): 158–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0907568219900994.
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Based on 8 months of ethnographic research, this article focuses on the everyday spatial practices of young children living in collective accommodation for refugees in Berlin. We examine how physical spaces and social relationships are appropriated, affecting the relational agency of children in this restrictive context. Using case study material from three families with limited prospects of permanent residence, we discuss the children’s lived citizenship as enacted – not only symbolically – between the sandpit (as a space for children to act and play as a child) and deportation (as an extreme limit for enacting agency related to refugee status).
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Caprara, Gian Vittorio, and Patrizia Steca. "Affective and Social Self- Regulatory Efficacy Beliefs as Determinants of Positive Thinking and Happiness." European Psychologist 10, no. 4 (January 2005): 275–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040.10.4.275.
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Abstract. In line with prior work, the present study aimed at examining a conceptual model positing that affective and social self-regulatory efficacy beliefs influence one's cognitive and affective components of subjective well-being, namely, positive thinking and happiness. Positive thinking corresponds to the latent dimension underlying life satisfaction, self-esteem, and optimism. Happiness, instead, corresponds to the difference between positive and negative affect, as they are experienced in a variety of daily life situations. The study was conducted on 683 Italian adults belonging to six different age groups. The findings of the study corroborated the paths of relations linking the examined variables.
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Tahan, S. Sh, and B. A. Sirenova. "The issues of national spirituality in Oralkhan Bokey’s journalistic works." BULLETIN of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. Journalism Series 145, no. 4 (2023): 107–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.32523/2616-7174-2023-145-4-107-115.
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The article looks into the ways the journalistic works by Oralkhan Bokey, while dedicated to contemporaneous topics, reflect on the forms of spirituality and existential experiences of the Kazakh people. The study sheds light on the significance of the sacred names of Abai and Makhambet in the structuring of national spirituality, and highlights how important the deep cultural symbolism of the customs coming from the distant historical past that are rooted in the present life of the people are for explaining their genetic code. Of particular interest is the highest esteem which Bokey the publicist expresses for the oratorical word of the Kazakh society in the past, which, in his understanding, is a national tradition of the spirit that should be carried into the future. The essayistic genre is proclaimed by Bokey as a translator of the people’s spiritual values, and a mirror of the internal world of a contemporary that reflects the latter’s new existential psychology. The essay as an effective form of art of the word and the central genre of journalism should continue the traditions of “kosemsoz”, the national journalism of the past, as a form of national spirituality. Bokey views journalism as belonging with literary fiction as a form of social consciousness, while literature improves its tools for reflecting and studying the collisions of the surrounding world in close contact with journalism.
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McLaren, Suzanne, and Chantal Challis. "Resilience Among Men Farmers: The Protective Roles of Social Support and Sense of Belonging in the Depression-Suicidal Ideation Relation." Death Studies 33, no. 3 (February 20, 2009): 262–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481180802671985.
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Smeekes, Anouk, Jolanda Jetten, Maykel Verkuyten, Michael J. A. Wohl, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, Amarina Ariyanto, Frédérique Autin, et al. "Regaining In-Group Continuity in Times of Anxiety About the Group’s Future." Social Psychology 49, no. 6 (November 2018): 311–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000350.
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Abstract. Collective nostalgia for the good old days of the country thrives across the world. However, little is known about the social psychological dynamics of this collective emotion across cultures. We predicted that collective nostalgia is triggered by collective angst as it helps people to restore a sense of in-group continuity via stronger in-group belonging and out-group rejection (in the form of opposition to immigrants). Based on a sample (N = 5,956) of individuals across 27 countries, the general pattern of results revealed that collective angst predicts collective nostalgia, which subsequently relates to stronger feelings of in-group continuity via in-group belonging (but not via out-group rejection). Collective nostalgia generally predicted opposition to immigrants, but this was subsequently not related to in-group continuity.
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Suhlmann, Michèle, Kai Sassenberg, Benjamin Nagengast, and Ulrich Trautwein. "Belonging Mediates Effects of Student-University Fit on Well-Being, Motivation, and Dropout Intention." Social Psychology 49, no. 1 (January 2018): 16–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000325.
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Abstract. About one third of university students drop out from their undergraduate studies. The fit between students’ self-construal and university norms has been suggested to contribute to academic success. Building on this idea, we tested a student-university fit model in a cross-sectional online study among 367 German university students. Results support a P-E fit effect, showing that students with a high dignity self-construal and who perceived the university norms to be highly independent indicated the greatest sense of belonging to the university. In turn, belonging positively predicted well-being and academic motivation and reduced dropout intention. In sum, this study suggests that a person-environment fit analysis can contribute to the understanding of healthy student life and academic success.
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Sacco, Donald F., and Mohamed M. Ismail. "Social belongingness satisfaction as a function of interaction medium: Face-to-face interactions facilitate greater social belonging and interaction enjoyment compared to instant messaging." Computers in Human Behavior 36 (July 2014): 359–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.04.004.
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Kim, Kawon, Margaret E. Ormiston, Matthew J. Easterbrook, and Vivian L. Vignoles. "Ethnic dissimilarity predicts belonging motive frustration and reduced organizational attachment." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 22, no. 1 (November 2, 2017): 116–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430217733116.
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Some empirical studies show negative consequences of being demographically different from one’s group, but the underlying psychological mechanisms are not well understood. To address this gap, we investigated the role of the belonging and distinctiveness motives in individuals’ experiences of being ethnically dissimilar from their group. We propose that ethnic dissimilarity satisfies group members’ need for distinctiveness whereas it frustrates members’ need for belonging, and this frustration reduces their organizational attachment. An experimental study showed that ethnic dissimilarity led to heightened arousal of the belonging motive, indicating that this motive was frustrated. In a naturalistic study of real-life student groups, ethnic dissimilarity was associated with frustrated belonging, which in turn was associated with reduced organizational attachment. This paper contributes to the literature on demographic dissimilarity in groups by closely examining the effect of demographic dissimilarity on group members’ fundamental motives and reactions to group membership.
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Martinez, Damian J., and Laura S. Abrams. "Informal Social Support Among Returning Young Offenders." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 57, no. 2 (November 17, 2011): 169–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x11428203.
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Informal social support has long been touted as a key to success for young offenders, but little empirical work has concretized these benefits. This article explores the dynamics of informal social support for returning young offenders (ages 14-24), particularly in the context of peers and family members. The authors use a metasynthesis methodology to examine 13 qualitative articles and dissertations published in the United States from 1998 through 2010. Analysis of these texts found two major themes related to informal support from peers and family members. Young offenders “walked a fine line” with their peers, who provided not only a sense of belonging and possibly a route to material assistance but also temptations and opportunities to reengage with criminal activity. Family members provided the supports and comforts of “the ties that bind” but with potentially unrealistic expectations and reenactment of old roles and negative dynamics. Through this metasynthesis, the authors forge an understanding of informal social support that complicates its presumed benefits for the reentry of young offenders.
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Martin, Julie L., Laura Smart Richman, and Mark R. Leary. "A lasting sting: Examining the short-term and long-term effects of real-life group rejection." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 21, no. 8 (April 6, 2017): 1109–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430217695443.
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Although many studies have examined the short-term effects of rejection in laboratory settings, few have investigated the impact of rejection over time or in real-world contexts. The university sorority recruitment process offers a unique opportunity to address these shortcomings. Women participating in sorority recruitment were surveyed directly before recruitment, directly after recruitment, and 3 months later. Rejected women experienced decreases in all indicators of well-being directly after recruitment and did not return to baseline on depressive symptoms, positive mental health, satisfaction with life, perceived belonging, or perceived social status 3 months later. Accepted women showed no long-term changes in well-being, with the exception that happiness and perceived social status increased from baseline. A comparison group of women who did not participate in sorority recruitment showed no significant long-term changes in well-being. Perceived belonging, but not social status, significantly mediated the long-term emotional effects of rejection. These results document that rejection experiences can have long-lasting effects.
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Cheung, Chau-kiu, Lih-rong Wang, and Raymond Kwok-hong Chan. "Differential Impacts of Stressors on Sense of Belonging." Social Indicators Research 113, no. 1 (June 4, 2012): 277–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-012-0092-y.
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Högberg, Björn, Solveig Petersen, Mattias Strandh, and Klara Johansson. "Determinants of Declining School Belonging 2000–2018: The Case of Sweden." Social Indicators Research 157, no. 2 (March 11, 2021): 783–802. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02662-2.
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AbstractStudents’ sense of belonging at school has declined across the world in recent decades, and more so in Sweden than in almost any other high-income country. However, we do not know the characteristics or causes of these worldwide trends. Using data on Swedish students aged 15–16 years from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) between 2000 and 2018, we show that the decline in school belonging in Sweden was driven by a disproportionately large decline at the bottom part of the distribution, and was greatest for foreign-born students, students from disadvantaged social backgrounds, and for low-achieving students. The decline cannot be accounted for by changes in student demographics or observable characteristics related to the school environment. The decline did, however, coincide with a major education reform, characterized by an increased use of summative evaluation, and an overall stronger performance-orientation.
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THEURER, KRISTINE, and ANDREW WISTER. "Altruistic behaviour and social capital as predictors of well-being among older Canadians." Ageing and Society 30, no. 1 (June 18, 2009): 157–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x09008848.
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ABSTRACTSelf-reported altruistic activity and social capital were examined as predictors of perceived happiness and life satisfaction among a sample of 4,486 Canadians aged 65 or more years from the 2003 Canadian General Social Services Survey, Cycle 17. Altruistic behaviour was measured by number of volunteer hours per month and helping others (not including family and friends). Social capital was measured using dimensions of belonging to one's community, community and neighbour trust, and group activities. Drawing on generativity and role-identity theories, it was hypothesised that altruistic behaviour and social capital are positively associated with well-being (using perceived happiness and life satisfaction), and that social capital mediates the relationship. For both perceived happiness and life satisfaction, after controlling for demographic, health status, and social support variables, measures of altruistic behaviour demonstrated statistically significant associations. Once measures of social capital were entered into the analysis in the final block, however, the altruistic behaviour variables were no longer statistically significant. Robust associations were found for social capital and the two measures of well-being, particularly between sense of belonging, trust in neighbours, and perceived happiness and life satisfaction. The findings suggest that altruistic behaviour is mediated by social capital. The implications of these findings are discussed with respect to understanding the well-being of older Canadians.
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Dias, Diana. "The Higher Education Commitment Challenge: Impacts of Physical and Cultural Dimensions in the First-Year Students’ Sense of Belonging." Education Sciences 12, no. 4 (March 23, 2022): 231. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci12040231.
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The students’ perceptions and experiences about the organizational attributes of the higher education institution in which they are enrolled seem to have a strong influence on their integration, sense of belonging, and commitment to their new academic reality. The present paper focuses on the analysis of how first-year students build a sense of belonging and commitment to the higher education institution that welcomes them, focusing on institutional attributes that can act as (positive or negative) catalysts, such as physical and cultural dimensions. However, besides physical and cultural dimensions, it is crucial to consider its synergies with psychological, social, organisational, political, and axiological dimensions that have emerged as critical variables for contextualizing the analysis. The results suggest that the physical dimension nourishes the students’ feelings of belonging, namely through the felt need to develop skills to manage their interaction with the spatial dimension of the institution that welcomes them. Moreover, newcomers’ self-concept seems to be significantly increased by the feeling that they are now part of a cultural but also social elite. On the other hand, the feeling of integration seems to be supported basically on successful peer relationships. This perceived prestige of the higher education institution where they now belong represents, a anteriori, a crucial demand for the career management of the Bourdieu’ “heirs,” and, a posteriori, a real (and sometimes surprising) achievement for first-generation students.
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Morris, Max. "“Gay capital” in gay student friendship networks." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 35, no. 9 (May 1, 2017): 1183–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407517705737.
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This article draws on qualitative interviews with 40 gay male undergraduates at four universities across England to explore the dynamics of participants’ friendship networks in the context of decreased homophobia. Describing their schools and universities as gay-friendly spaces, most participants developed close friendships with both straight and sexual minority peers in spontaneous ways, away from institutional venues such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender student societies. Building on Bourdieu’s conceptualization of the symbolic economy of class, I introduce a new concept to understand how having a visible gay identity can act as a form of privilege in inclusive, post-gay social fields: gay capital. Through shared knowledge of gay cultures, belonging to gay social networks, and having one’s gay identity recognized as a form of prestige, gay capital supplements cultural, social, and symbolic forms of capital. These findings trouble traditional generalizations of gay youth as victimized due to their sexual minority status. However, finding that participants’ experiences differed across the four research settings, this article also develops an intersectional analysis by highlighting that access to gay capital is limited by other forms of class, gender, and sexual hierarchy.
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Goldsmith, A., and M. Halsey. "Cousins in Crime: Mobility, Place and Belonging in Indigenous Youth Co-Offending." British Journal of Criminology 53, no. 6 (July 2, 2013): 1157–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azt039.
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WILSON, CAROLYN. "Is it love or loneliness? Exploring the impact of everyday digital technology use on the wellbeing of older adults." Ageing and Society 38, no. 7 (March 20, 2017): 1307–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x16001537.
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ABSTRACTLoneliness is a prevalent phenomenon within the older adult population. Previous literature suggests that technology use, specifically internet use, can alleviate loneliness and improve wellbeing. This research study follows 32 people over the age of 65 using a digital technology for six months. A mixed-method approach was used to collect quantitative and qualitative data throughout the time period. The repeated questionnaire measured changes in frequency of use, emotional attachment towards a device, a sense of belonging and perceptions of self-worth, whilst an event-based diary was used to note usages and influences of technology on lifestyle. Results revealed positive relationships between frequency of use and emotional attachment and frequency of use and perceptions of self-worth. There was no significant relationship between frequency of use and a sense of belonging for the aggregate data. There was, however, a negative relationship between emotional attachment towards a device and a sense of belonging, suggesting a fine balance between technology use to improve self-esteem through connections with social networks and an over-dependence on technology that can actually reduce feelings of belonging.
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FRASER, JOHN, SUSAN CLAYTON, JESSICA SICKLER, and ANTHONY TAYLOR. "Belonging at the zoo: retired volunteers, conservation activism and collective identity." Ageing and Society 29, no. 3 (March 5, 2009): 351–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x08007915.
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ABSTRACTThe present study affirms previous research findings that volunteering satisfies personal needs but goes further by considering the factor of collective identity for volunteers and its consequences for them. The study specifically focused on older volunteers working at zoos. In the initial phase at Central Park Zoo 30 volunteers completed a short self-completion questionnaire. The second phase involved one-on-one interviews with 21 Bronx Zoo volunteers with a collective self-esteem scale. The responses indicated that the volunteers considered the collective identity of zoo volunteer to be important to their self-concept and believed that this identity is held in high public esteem. The results also suggested that identity as a zoo volunteer not only satisfies personal needs, as found by other volunteer studies, but that the collective identity supports external activism based on shared values. It was concluded that the collective environmental identity facilitated by volunteer work at the zoos provides affirmational social support for the volunteers' work as environmental conservation advocates, and enhances their sense of purpose and self-efficacy.
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Casad, Bettina J., Danielle L. Oyler, Erin T. Sullivan, Erika M. McClellan, Destiny N. Tierney, Drake A. Anderson, Paul A. Greeley, Michael A. Fague, and Brian J. Flammang. "Wise psychological interventions to improve gender and racial equality in STEM." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 21, no. 5 (July 19, 2018): 767–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430218767034.
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Women and racial minorities are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. This review describes six “wise” psychological interventions that can improve gender and race equality in STEM education by addressing psychological processes that inhibit achievement. The interventions are brief, low cost, and effective because they target specific psychological processes that cause disinterest, disengagement, and poor performance in STEM education. Interventions promoting a growth mindset address needs for competence and confidence. Communal goal interventions portray STEM as fulfilling communal values. Utility-value interventions highlight the usefulness and value of STEM education in students’ lives and careers. Values-affirmation interventions can buffer negative effects of social identity threat by reaffirming one’s personal values. Belonging interventions can bolster sense of belonging and identity in STEM by fostering a personal connection with the STEM community. Role models can instill a sense of belonging and identity compatibility in underrepresented groups in STEM. Educators, researchers, and policy makers can promote STEM education and careers by advocating for wise psychological interventions.
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Jury, Mickaël, Cristina Aelenei, Chen Chen, Céline Darnon, and Andrew J. Elliot. "Examining the role of perceived prestige in the link between students’ subjective socioeconomic status and sense of belonging." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 22, no. 3 (April 2019): 356–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430219827361.
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Low socioeconomic status (SES) students have a lower sense of belonging to college than high-SES students. Due to the importance of sense of belonging in the college pathway, understanding the reason for this relation is particularly important. Here, we argue that in addition to having less access to resources, low-SES students in the college context also perceive themselves as having lower prestige than their high-SES counterparts. Thus, in the present research, we tested perceived prestige as a mediator of the link between subjective SES and sense of belonging to college. We conducted 3 studies in 2 different countries (USA and China), and these investigations provided evidence that the lower students’ subjective SES, the lower their self-attributed prestige, and that prestige mediated the relation between students’ subjective SES and their sense of belonging to college. The implications of these findings for understanding the collegiate experience of low-SES students are discussed.
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Dos Santos, Luis M. "The Relationship between Organisational Psychology and Career Decision: A Study of Hospitality and Tourism Professionals." Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 10, no. 3 (May 10, 2021): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2021-0061.
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Hospitality and tourism management is one of the rapid growth industries over the decades due to transportation developments. However, a significant concern of the current hospitality and tourism industry is frequent and high-level of employee turnover rate. The hospitality and tourism industry always required vocational skills and practical experiences which professionals could not gain from other business sectors and universities. Therefore, the replacement of employees, regardless of their grading and positions, is significantly expensive due to the additional costs of training and professional development. The purpose of this study is to explore and understand the reasons and motivations that cause employees and professionals in the field of hospitality to remain. Based on the Social Cognitive Career Theory, the results indicated that the sense of belonging and the balance between family responsibilities and work served as two of the key themes for their career decision. The results of this study may indicate that hotel leaders, managers, human resources planners and employers should take the results of this study as the opportunity to reform, polish and develop their employee’s satisfaction plan, training programmes and human resources planning in order to increase the satisfaction of their employees and reduce the turnover rate. Received: 11 February 2021 / Accepted: 30 March 2021 / Published: 10 May 2021
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Beltagui, Ahmad, and Thomas Schmidt. "Why Can’t We All Get Along? A Study of Hygge and Janteloven in a Danish Social-Casual Games Community." Games and Culture 12, no. 5 (June 7, 2015): 403–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555412015590062.
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This article examines social interactions in a Danish online social-casual games community using the Danish social constructs of Hygge and Janteloven. Hygge relates to notions of home, family, safety, and security in small, sheltered surroundings, while Janteloven is a subversive attempt to codify the unwritten rules that enforce equality (or mediocrity) in Scandinavian societies. Off-line, Hygge exists in physical environments where a safe, social atmosphere can be created, similar to sociability in physical third places. In the online setting, we identify the social construction of shared interpersonal spaces where Hygge is achieved and regulated through perceived fairness with respect to constitutive and regulative rules. A sense of belonging moderates players’ behaviors toward others and even their achievements in the game to maintain harmony. The article offers a unique examination of social constructs online, contributing to the knowledge of Danish culture and of how local cultures shape online behaviors.
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Schiefer, David, and Barbara Krahé. "Ethnic Identity and Orientation to White American Culture Are Linked to Well-Being Among American Indians – But in Different Ways." Social Psychology 45, no. 1 (June 1, 2014): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000155.
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This study examined the relationship between ethnic identity, orientation toward the White mainstream culture, and psychological well-being among American Indians. In the light of the unique history of American Indians, we investigated the relationship between identification with the American Indian ingroup, orientation toward the dominant White American culture (in terms of showing behavior typical for White mainstream culture as well as positive attitudes and feelings of belonging to White American culture), and self-efficacy and learned helplessness as indicators of psychological well-being. Structural equation analyses with an adolescent and an adult sample revealed a positive relationship between ethnic identity and self-efficacy but no link with learned helplessness. The tendency to show behavior typical for White mainstream culture was associated with higher self-efficacy in both samples and with lower helplessness in the adult subsample. White American orientation in the form of positive attitudes and sense of belonging were associated with higher helplessness in both samples and with lower self-efficacy among adults. The findings are discussed in terms of the role of both ethnic identity and the orientation toward the mainstream culture for well-being among American Indians, focusing on the distinct relations of White American behavior versus White American affiliation with well-being in American Indians.
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Jacobsen, Mette Hove. "Social bases of material consumption: The relationship between social groups and possession of household appliances in Denmark." Journal of Consumer Culture 19, no. 1 (December 21, 2016): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1469540516684190.
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In this article, possession of household appliances in Denmark is used to address the role of social groups in reproducing social norms of material consumption practices. This has been down-played in studies engaging with the ‘practice turn’, especially within the sociology of sustainable consumption. Using latent class analysis, four distinct latent subgroups with similar patterns of material consumption are identified and analysed. On the basis of the possession of appliances, these groups are characterised and labelled unlimited, outdated, limited and updated. After assigning the households to the latent group to which they have the highest probability of belonging, the social character of these groups is examined using logit models, thus making explanations of differences in material consumption practices possible. As identified in other domains of consumption, this study found that patterns of material consumption are socially structured. Researchers within the sociology of sustainable consumption have been particularly interested in studying the role of material arrangements and infrastructures in reproducing shared understandings and common procedures. This article argues that, in order to fully understand the dynamic mechanisms of consumption patterns and the possibilities for sustainable development, the field should equally engage with shared understandings generated and reproduced by social groups.
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Brouwer, Jelmer, Maartje Van Der Woude, and Joanne Van Der Leun. "Border Policing, Procedural Justice and Belonging: the Legitimacy of (cr)Immigration Controls in Border areas." British Journal of Criminology 58, no. 3 (August 24, 2017): 624–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azx050.
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DEGNEN, CATHRINE. "Socialising place attachment: place, social memory and embodied affordances." Ageing and Society 36, no. 8 (June 24, 2015): 1645–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x15000653.
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ABSTRACTThe significance of place attachment for later life has been convincingly demonstrated. Scholars have offered useful models that help account for the depth of feeling bound up in place attachment in later life, how this attachment is achieved, and its relevance for belonging and identity. To date, however, this focus has largely been on the individual level of experience. This article draws on sociological and anthropological perspectives to consider how place attachment is forged and experienced in dynamic interaction with other entities and other processes: how place attachment is also a collective, relational and embodied process, caught up and experienced via social memory practices and sensorial, bodily knowledge. This resonates with and contributes to the ‘relational turn’ which has attracted burgeoning interest in the larger home disciplines of sociology, human geography and anthropology, and reciprocally helps them extend and build their interaction with critical ageing studies. In making this argument, I draw on two periods of anthropological, ethnographic participant-observation that I conducted in a semi-rural village in the former coalfields in South Yorkshire, England.
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Pawlikowska-Piechotka, Anna. "Industrial Heritage Tourism: a Regional Perspective (Warsaw)." Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research 46, no. 1 (December 1, 2009): 276–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10141-009-0025-x.
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Industrial Heritage Tourism: a Regional Perspective (Warsaw)When touring a region, one of the things previous generations certainly overlooked were the industrial areas. With the exception of the old saltmine "Wieliczka" in the south of Poland, industrial heritage was mainly unknown. Industrial landscape (mills, factories with chimneys emitting all-blackening smoke, poverty-stricken workers' houses) have been regarded with dislike and considered grim.Using the example of Warsaw's industrial heritage revitalization projects, we examined already modernized historic buildings, which sought to respond to tourist and leisure needs (museums, art galleries, cultural centres). We were interested in their new functions and meanings for urban space quality. We wanted to consider how much revitalized architecture help to change (socially, culturally, economically) declining areas and their painful "inner-city" image (Thorns 2001). Our research (carried out in 2005-2006) covered nine historic industrial compounds, already converted and having new functions. Results of our inquiry polls (taken in 2005-2006) confirmed the thesis, that revitalized historic industrial architecture might enrich urban space with values visible in many dimensions: social, historical, aesthetical and economic (Evans 2005). Although selected and studied cases in Warsaw were not completed equally successfully, due to the objective barriers or carelessness in the planning process, all show good results in space quality and cultural services improvement, appreciated by the local community members and visitors relevantly.Once neglected run-down Warsaw districts (Wola, Praga) now draw benefits from new identities, attracting tourists and enhancing the local community's sense of belonging and well-being. Similar cases were described by scholars after studies in other European cities (Jones 2006).
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Adam, Helen, Lennie Barblett, Gill Kirk, and Gloria S. Boutte. "(Re)considering equity, inclusion and belonging in the updating of the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia: The potential and pitfalls of book sharing." Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 24, no. 2 (June 2023): 189–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14639491231176897.
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Few would dispute the importance of equity, inclusion and belonging in early childhood education and care, yet translation into meaningful practice rarely centres the priorities of historically divested communities. The national learning framework for early childhood in Australia is the Early Years Learning Framework, positioning the child as a capable agent and describing inclusive, culturally competent practice. This article presents part of a larger study investigating educators’ beliefs and practices when using culturally diverse literature to address the Early Years Learning Framework’s diversity principles. A critical theoretical framework enables a robust examination of how the Early Years Learning Framework constructs, maintains, legitimises and/or disaffirms social inequities, implicitly probing how literacy education mediate/s messages children receive about their identity, cultures and roles in society. The findings suggest that instead of pursuing anti-racism and transformative justice, educators’ pedagogical practices were likely to legitimise existing racist structures. The findings are discussed in relation to 20 recommendations published by a consortium of experts in the updating of the Early Years Learning Framework. The implementation of the updated Early Years Learning Framework must act on questions of justice for whom and according to whom. To move to ideologies, methodologies and pedagogies of potentiality, it is necessary to interrogate and reject oppressive and harmful practices, inaccurate and insensitive portrayals, and pedagogies damaging to Black, Indigenous, and other communities of Color which this study shows have beenevident in the EYLF to date.