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Planting the Seeds of Gratitude: Sustainable Corporate Responsibility and Quality of Life of the Beneficiaries View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Ernesto Cordero, Glen De Leon
The study seeks to determine the implementation of Sustainable Corporate Responsibility (CSR) activities and their effects on the beneficiaries' quality of life. A mixed-method type of research was used in this study, combining quantitative correlational and qualitative analysis. It utilized statistical tools such as frequency, percentage, mean, weighted mean, and regression analysis. The findings reveal that Plantation's economic, social, cultural, and environmental CSR activities were implemented moderately. On the other hand, the beneficiaries' quality of life regarding life satisfaction on various conditions, level of life satisfaction, and satisfaction level on health and safety were all categorized as reasonably satisfied. After considering the findings and conclusions of the study, the following recommendations were suggested: 1. To give seminars on the preservation of the natural environment. 2. To conduct regular tree planting in the community to help reduce temperature, produce clean air, reduce greenhouse gasses, and prevent flooding and soil erosion. 3. To teach the community proper waste disposal at home through Green Alternatives, the Five R's Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Rot, Recycle. 4. To figure out program services that will change and expand the community/students' needs. 5. To conduct a workshop on CSR's goals and objectives to increase the beneficiaries' awareness of the accurate picture of CSR in their lives. (6) For the administrators to apply the proposed strategic approaches in enhancing the CSR programs of plantation owners to their beneficiaries.
Aggressiveness of Higher Education Students in the Time of COVID-19 View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Maria Litsa, Kyriaki Spanou, Alexandra Bekiari
The aim of this study is to detect potential differences in university student social networks regarding aggressiveness during COVID-19 quarantine time, as lessons were delivered on line (January – March 2021) and the period after the return of students in university with on-campus participation (October 2021-January 2022). More specifically, during quarantine time, 4 networks of totally 195 students (105 male, 90 female) of the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science (DPESS), University of Thessaly, Greece and after quarantine time, 3 networks of totally 215 students (103 male, 111 female) of DPESS and Department of Nutrition and Dietics, University of Thessaly, Greece participated in the social network study. They completed a two-part questionnaire, consisting of network part, regarding relationships of aggressiveness and attractiveness and a non-network part including variables like age, financial status etc. Social network analysis was carried out with Visone 1.1 and statistical analysis with SPSS 26. Main results indicate younger students tend to be more threatening and ironic, while body characteristics, like weight and height are correlated to threatening and ironic behaviour in both periods. Urbanity seems to enhance aggressiveness during pandemic time, while family financial status and travelling abroad are correlated to irony after the return of students in universities. During the pandemic time, although students tend to be attracted by co-students scientifically, socially and physically, they seem to manifest all kinds of verbal aggressiveness like irony, rudeness, hurting and threatening comments, something that seems to be attenuated after their return on campus with rudeness and irony.
Complex Adoption Trauma and Adoptee Suicide: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Adoptee Health and Wellbeing View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Heidi Rimke
This paper provides a medical sociological approach to understand post-placement adoption functioning. Placing the adoptee’s experience as central, this chapter presents a theory of complex adoption trauma that emphasizes the significance of adoption status as a social determinant of distress and illness. The study offers a non-psychocentric, biosocial relational approach to understanding adoptee health and wellbeing, including adoption suicidality, attempts, and completed suicides. Drawing on middle-range sociological theory of family systems, observations, and life histories, the study relies upon recent studies in epigenetics, traumatology, neuroscience and adverse childhood experiences to provide an integrative clinical approach to conceptualize complex adoption trauma.
The Mediating Effect of Self-management on the Relationship between Trust in Mutual Aid Group Members and Well-being among Young Patients with Chronic Illness View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Steven Sek-yum Ngai
Chronic illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are the leading cause of mortality, accounting for more than 60% of deaths and 43% of the worldwide disease burden. Moreover, the number of patients with chronic illness (PWCIs) continues to increase worldwide, and the early onset of chronic health problems has become a threat endangering the well-being of young patients. In addition to their impacts on physical health, chronic illnesses also lead to a series of undesirable consequences—such as social withdrawal, peer rejection, social isolation, and depressive symptoms—that have detrimental impacts on young PWCIs’ overall functioning and quality of life. The present study aims to explore the effect of trust in mutual aid group members on young PWCIs’ well-being and the mediating role of self-management in such an association. Data were collected through a stratified random sampling; 391 young PWCIs from mutual aid groups in Hong Kong were recruited as the research sample and participated in both the baseline and 12-month follow-up surveys. Our findings indicated that the effects of trust on well-being outcomes (accomplishment, social connectedness, and depression) were fully mediated by treatment adherence and health maintenance efficacy, but not by coping with stigma. The empirical findings provide practical implications for intervention programs in relation to promoting the self-management and well-being of young PWCIs.
Psychological Well-being from Neuropsychological Perspective: Contributions of Personal Well-being Program in the University Classroom View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session María Jesús Luque Rojas, Paloma Flores, Cristina de-la-Peña
Noticing well-being in people is a strength that imbues behavior and meaning. What does well-being mean? What are the factors? How do we claim the best development of these actions? Well-being is expressed in better performance of academic tasks, boosting social abilities and a better self-concept. The goal of this work is to analyze the relationship between noticing psychological well-being by students from a program under a neuropsychological perspective. The designed program introducing the value of neuroscience to deepen the processes related to people's development in their personal, social, emotional and professional areas. Activities that had more impact were related to the self-concept and the brain-education relationship, both were outlined by 62,5%. Workshops were incredibly well valued, underlined the storytelling (given in English) and the role of the music under neuroscience, both had a 100% and 92%, respectively, value with a five score. All students confirmed the need to include more content related to the brain and its involvement in the educational and well-being area. Tasks that are better than valued are related to brain structures like the hippocampus, (identity sense, memories - based on how we see and talk to oneself), in conjunction with brain connections of prefrontal cortex and motor-sensory areas during information processing. It is essential to consider the importance of continuing carrying out this kind of program, enriching the theory with the practice ingredients. The program was a pilot, requiring more analysis and implementation with other groups of students.
Mapping the Terrain of Professional Learning Communities in Malaysia: A Scoping Review of Literature View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Nako Abdullah
Despite the growing literature underlying the working processes of professional learning communities (PLCs) across multiple educational settings, empirical studies exploring how PLCs are structured among Malaysian teachers remains largely scarce. Drawing on the lens of Cultural-historical Activity Theory (CHAT) as analytical framework (Engeström, 1987; Harvey & Teledahl, 2021), the study provides a scoping overview of PLC research in Malaysia from January 2017 to June 2022. The result reveals that out of 21 studies examined, three significant themes of activity systems were identified: developing supportive collegial collaboration, improved instructional skills and teaching repertoire and improving students' achievement. Following this, the study closely reviewed the dynamics of mediating artifacts and the norms that regulate the activity system, and revealed that participants and labour division features of PLCs are similar across contexts. Given that PLCs are seen as a policy measure in Malaysia to sustain and scale up school improvement locally, the review provides a deeper understanding of what and how policy makers, school leaders and practitioners can develop and organise effective PLC programmes to impact sustainable teacher professional development.
