Poster Session: Room 1
Mediating Role of Work Engagement: The Bullying and Turnover Intention Link in the Workplace
Poster/Exhibit Session Melinde Coetzee, Jeannette van Dyk
Employees’ turnover intentions may entail expensive consequences for companies. Although the links between workplace bullying and turnover intention, and work engagement and turnover intention are empirically well established, little is known about the link between work engagement and workplace bullying, including the mediating role of work engagement in the bullying – turnover intention link. Using a cross-sectional convenience sample of 373 employees in South African organisations, structural equation modeling and mediation analysis showed that perceptions of work- and person-related bullying were linked to low levels of vigour and dedication, which in turn were positively associated with high turnover intention. Work engagement partially mediated the effect of high workplace bullying on high turnover intention. The findings added important new insights to the engagement and retention literature by providing empirical evidence that alludes to the importance of enhancing employees’ vigour and dedication in order to buffer the negative effect of bullying on employees’ turnover intention. The findings extend the retention literature and are important for talent retention and business performance strategies in the current turbulent business climate.
Three Years After a Disaster: The Impacts of a Derailed Train on the Behavior and Health of High School Students
Poster/Exhibit Session Eve Pouliot, Danielle Maltais
In July 2013, a train derailed in downtown Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. It was responsible for forty-seven deaths, forty-four buildings destroyed, 2000 evacuees, and a major oil spill. A survey has been conducted during winter 2017 among high school students to examine their psychological and social characteristics and the impact of this disaster in regards of exposure or no exposure to this event. The results show that the majority of the respondents are satisfied with their school, their family, and their social life. They have good self-esteem. Many traumatized students thought about suicide in the twelve months prior to the survey. They also report more self-injurious thoughts than non-exposed students. They also showed more moderate to severe post-traumatic stress disorders (scores of twnety-six or more at the Impact of Event Scale). Exposed students were also significantly more likely than non-exposed students to report a deterioration in the quality of life within their municipality.
Three Years After a Railway Disaster: Are Adults Fine?
Poster/Exhibit Session Danielle Maltais, Melissa Généreux, Mathieu Roy, Eve Pouliot, Christiane Bergeron-Leclerc, Oscar Labra
In July 2013, a train derailed in downtown Lac-Mégantic. It was responsible for forty-seven deaths, forty-four buildings destroyed, 2000 evacuees, and a major oil spill. A phone survey was conducted during autumn 2016 among 800 adults to examine the behavioral, psychological, and social impacts of this disaster three year after in regards of intense, moderate, or no exposure. Relationships between exposure intensity and these impacts were examined. A quarter (25 %) experienced intense exposure, 53% moderate exposure, and a quarter no exposure (22%). Higher proportion of high-exposure individual report their health status as either fair or poor, present more symptoms of traumatic stress disorder and symptoms of anxiety and depression. A substantial number of individual’s with high exposure have reported difficulties when managing both the catastrophe and its consequences on their personal, family, or professional lives. A quarter of the individuals who lost loved ones in the tragedy have difficulties in managing their grief.
Being Solitary and Being Senior: Lives of the Elderly in Urban and Rural Areas in Slovakia
Poster/Exhibit Session Marcela Kacerova, Lubica Volanska, Juraj Majo
Economical and social independence in the group of aged sixty-five plus are definitely some of the significant tokens of active and healthy aging. Especially economic independence is desirable in the societies of transitive economic systems and freedom in financial decisions is highly valued even among retired individuals. On the other hand, such independence in many cases indicates solitude. This is the stage of life where feelings of loneliness are more sensitive and connected with departure of spouses. We attempt to approach and analyze such households with individuals over sixty-fiev. There might be structural differences between individuals living in rural areas with presumed higher possibilities of social networks and individuals living in cities, where the large panel houses´ neighborhoods might be more hostile toward especially psychologically healthy ageing. We try to compare solitary individuals in these landscapes comparing possible geographically distinct characteristics.
How Can Cities Contribute to a More Satisfying Everyday Life for Their Senior Citizens?
Poster/Exhibit Session Slavomir Ondos, Alena Rochovska
Cities change during a lifetime of their citizens and so do specific needs and requirements of their inhabitants. The social and demographic shifts experienced along the aging trajectory strongly modify functional patterns, a code of everyday operation enabled by public infrastructure and market. Urban communities tend to be highly mixed in age terms, continuously reinvented as incoming households join and later replace previous generations only to experience the same later in life. Cities face a crucial design challenge if they want to contribute to a more satisfying everyday life for their senior citizens, at the same time as they must provide satisfying service also to their active and highly mobile population. Our study is based on a survey conducted among the inhabitants and visitors of a typical Central European high-density neighbourhood in downtown Bratislava, Slovakia, where senior communities and gentrifiers slowly create a unique inter-generation setting, often beyond bare co-existence.
The Conservation of Contemporary Works of Art: Paradigmatic Case Studies
Poster/Exhibit Session María Del Carmen Bellido Márquez
The conceptual evolution and the material renovation of contemporary artwork have generated many problems in its conservation. The current law considers the duty of preservation and the right for all citizens to enjoy cultural heritage, as well as the duty of its maintenance by official organizations. The study on the major causes of alteration and the established recommendations for new artwork preservation can be seen in the criteria followed in different examples of contemporary art: the consideration of the possibility to forbid lending of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica;” the maintenance of Eduardo Chillida’s “The Comb of the Wind” at an exhibition under bad conditions; and the retrieval and exhibition of Richard Serra’s lost piece of artwork, “Equal-Parallel: Guernica-Bengasi.” In conclusion, there are different reasons why those who are restaurateurs and curators have needed to extend their classical working criteria, namely the wide diversity of the constitutive material of contemporary artwork, the difficulty to predict its durability and the concepts of reduced durability. Thus, every particular case has to be studied with the artists very closely and many choices need to be made.
Reflection Strategies for Youth Offenders with Social Communication Disorders
Poster/Exhibit Session Kathleen Greenan, Marie Sanford
Although youth offenders include a relatively small portion of adolescents with communication disorders, this population has a disproportionately high rate of social disadvantage. A comprehensive review of evidence exists that identifies youth offenders as having compromised social language skills. The multifactorial and interconnected links between communication and social competence suggest that pathways play a critical role in comorbidity between language and behavior difficulties. Understanding the nature of an individual’s approach to succeeding in social learning has become critical in today’s volatile world. Unfortunately, intervention methods stressing appropriate communicative engagement seem lacking. This poster offers evidence of successful social reflection strategies for improving social communication skills. This poster highlights improvements in social-conversational discourse presented in a case review format and indicates a positive correlation to measured progress with generalization to other communication partners. Elements of teaching and learning about the social world of youth offenders are presented.
Life Targets and Satisfaction Levels of Students at Anadolu University, Turkey
Poster/Exhibit Session Bulent Gunsoy, Guler Gunsoy, Berna Baloglu Yazici, Betul Kan Kılınc, Seda Tekeli, Caglar Karaduman, Mustafa Çavuş
Having a college education is one of the main goals of people interested in gaining social position, acquiring a profession or occupation, earning high income, pursuing self-development, and increasing life standards. With college education, individuals aim to graduate successfully from their programs while meeting goals and realizing life expectations. In addition, young people do not just have typical educational expectations. Open and distance education that fulfills learners expectations also helps society meet its needs and expectations for human capital. College life expectations and satisfaction levels open and distance learners in Anadolu University Open and Distance Education System are the main areas in this study. For this purpose, answers are sought for these questions: 1. How does education meet the life goals of students? 2. How does education meet academic goals of students? 3. Do these opinions differ significantly by demographics, personal income, household income? 4. What are the expectations of college students’ from college education? As the last stage of educational life, associate and bachelor degrees have strong effects on raising qualified labor, which is a substantial determinant of economic growth and development. This study considers the life targets and satisfaction levels of the associate and bachelor level students of Faculty of Open Education, Faculty of Economics, and Faculty of Business.
How Do Open and Distance Learning Systems Affect the Learning Process?
Poster/Exhibit Session Guler Gunsoy, Bulent Gunsoy
The process of education used to focus on childhood and youth, but today that point of view is abandoned. Today, the concept of life-long learning shapes education policies all over the world. Considering this, contributions of the systems of open and distance education, which have been developed rapidly in parallel with information and communication technologies, to support the mission of life-long learning is discussed here. The purpose of this study is to reveal the rate at which Anadolu University Open and Distance Education System contributes to life-long learning. As the indicators of that contribution, the people that are registered to secondary university, either with disabilities or as arrestees or detainees were analyzed. Anadolu University Open and Distance Education System is the first institution in Turkey that offers higher education through contemporary distance education model. How does Anadolu University open and distance learning system affect life-long learning process? Finding include: 1) It reaches the vast majority by providing affordable and accessible higher education; 2) It reaches the vast majority by enabling graduated students to have second higher education programs without university entrance exams; 3) It enables people with disabilities to have higher education; 4) It provides higher education to vast majority with different age groups. The results are in line with the hypothesis of Anadolu University Open and Distance Education System contributing to life-long learning targets.
Migration, Agricultural Production and Peasant Household Autonomy: Evidence from a Vietnamese Village
Poster/Exhibit Session Khue Thi Minh Nguyen
This paper explores some of the interrelations that occur between Vietnam’s peasant economy and the wider economy in which it is rooted. In doing so it focuses on the labour migration impacts on agricultural production during the reform period through a case study of Mai Thon village, Bac Ninh province in Northern Vietnam. Since reforms were first introduced, many villagers have left Mai Thon to work in cities, industrial zones, or to find employment abroad. The migration process has transformed labour structures and supply in rural households, leading to changes in household across three main dimensions. First, renting or exchanging agricultural land has become common between households in Mai Thon village rather than selling. This renting/exchanging of agricultural land helps to re-distribute land among households which have different labour capitals. It permits rural households on one hand earning extra money from world economy, on the other hand keeping their land as an insurance for their autonomy. Second, various forms of labour exchanges and labour arrangement have emerged rather than dependence on labour market. Thirdly, remittance from migration helps to improve household income, and then reduce the need for peasants on selling their agricultural production for cash, which would increase for their own food sovereignty. Migration, therefore, amplifies the autonomy of peasant families and their units of production as a response to the globalization process.
