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Family Communication Patterns Predict Anticipatory Resilience and the Enactment of Resilience Processes
No full textThe communication theory of resilience (CTR; Buzzanell, 2010, 2019) proposes that resilience is cultivated via interactions and enacted through five processes. When individuals encounter times of disruption, they draw from anticipatory resilience – discursive and material resources cultivated over time – to enact resilience processes. Hopeful memorable messages (MMs) that offer a sense of positivity and efficacy about getting through future hardships can constitute one form of communication that builds anticipatory resilience. These recalled MMs can be influenced by one’s familial environment growing up. This study tested associations between family communication patterns (FCP), the positivity/efficacy of MMs about getting through hard times, and CTR resilience processes. Findings suggest conversation and conformity orientations were positively associated with memorable message (MM) positivity/efficacy, which predicted enactment of resilience processes during a recent disruption. Furthermore, MM positivity/efficacy mediated the relationships between FCP and resilience processes. Theoretical implications for CTR are discussed
Gauging the role of personality in risk perception during a health crisis and its impact on tourist consumption behaviour
No full textThis study examines the influence of the tourist personality and the use of technology on the traveler behavior and the risk perception about travelling. The purpose of this study is to investigate the link between personality, risk perception, and travel behavior among French travelers. An online survey was conducted using a sample of 422 responses to examine individual variations in risk perception during a health crisis and their influence on travel behavior. The study was carried out using PLS-SEM, and a model was proposed that considered the substantial Average Variance Extracted (AVE) and Composite Reliability test findings. The findings demonstrated that personality has a considerable influence on risk perception, which has a major impact on all stages of travel decision- making. The originality of this study stems from the research model focused on the association between personality, risk perception, and travel behaviour categories
The Weekly Challenger : 2023 : 02 : 02
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Michael Duever oral history interview
No full textThis is an oral history interview wtih Michael “Mike” Duever, the former head of the Ecology Research Unit for the National Audubon Society. Duever served as a long-time practicing ecologist in southwest, Florida focusing on areas such as the Beidler Forest Sanctuary, Big Cypress Forest Sanctuary, and Everglades National Park. Michael Duever recalls his early interests in nature, his research on terrestrial ecology in Panama, his work of Disney\u27s Wilderness Preserve in Kissimmee, and monitoring the Picayune Strand Restoration Project Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project’s (CERP)
Exploring the factors that affecting adoption of mobile banking in Bangladesh
No full textThis paper seeks to unearth the factors affecting the adoption of mobile banking in Bangladesh. Primary data from 630 respondents are collected from January 2021 to June 2021 using a structured questionnaire to accomplish this objective. The questionnaire contains 20 statements regarding the adoption of mobile banking. Gathered data are tabulated, categorized, and arranged to fulfill the purpose. The convenience sampling method is used to choose respondents from the Pabna district in Bangladesh. The collected data are examined using exploratory factor analysis, KMO and Bartlett testing, and reliability testing. Findings confirm that risk, the convenience of use, ease of access, cost, and comparative advantage are important factors influencing mobile banking usage in Bangladesh. Risk is the most prominent factor for mobile banking’s presence in Bangladesh. Regulatory authorities and banks should emphasize the above-mentioned factors to reach the target market to fulfill their objectives. This research should help managers and the central bank develop more precise policies to expand services for mobile banking based on these factors to achieve the goal of financial inclusion. The study is conducted based on primary data from only one district under a time constraint
Plotting the Plantationocene with \u3ci\u3eThe History of Mary Prince\u3c/i\u3e
No full textIn this essay, I consider how The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831) extends vital affordances for assembling a literary history of ecological rupture, settler colonialism, and transatlantic slavery. These insights arise from my experiences teaching Prince in “Plotting the Plantationocene in Early Atlantic Literature” (Fall 2021), a course which took up what it means to orient to historical formations of climate change as co-emergent with plantation systems. I argue that my students explored how figures like Prince open politically vibrant pathways for being in the world otherwise to plantation modernity
PEACE AND SECURITY CHALLENGES: SADC AND MOZAMBIQUE CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
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The purpose of this article is to investigate peace and security challenges in Mozambique. The paper wants to contribute to research recurrent political conflicts should be evaluated and how their effectiveness can be measured on how peace-making interventions by the Southern Africa Development Committee (SADC) in member states experiencing. Peace-making is understood as a varied approach to resolving conflicts, encompassing negotiation, diplomatic engagement, and mediation. Mediation refers to third party facilitation aimed at resolving conflicts. The main argument is that SADC mediation– which forms the core of its approach to peace-making – is not oriented towards transforming conflicts. Most, if not all, of the political conflicts SADC has mediated have recurred in one form or another. Armed insurgencies, social cleavages and governance deficits relating to authoritarian rule and abuse of state resource all imperil peace and stability in Mozambique. The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) institutional framework for regional peace and security is proving ineffective because its leaders are unwilling to enforce democratic principles