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English Teachers in France and Facebook: Use and Professional Growth
Get PDFAbstractDoes Facebook have an effect on English teachers in France? For this, a group of 85 secondary school English teachers in France aged 21 to 50+ were recruited from Facebook’s English teacher groups and answered an online questionnaire on their usages and practices. We observed no differences as regards to age and frequency of use, no effect between the number of associations to English teachers’ groups and professional growth, no significant relationship between the amount of participation and support used and professional growth in time, finally, sharing lessons online was a significant predictor of how some English teachers help others grow professionally. Regrettably, this study was limited to only a few groups. Thus, investigating the use of SNS in a broader context could open the possibility for the development of future research on this field.Keywords: Facebook, English teachers, France, practice
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Group Intervention to Reduce Burnout among Caregivers in Nursing Home
Get PDFProfessional caregivers are prone to experience burnout. Burnout is a condition of physical, emotional, and mental fatigue caused by prolonged stress due to work negatively impacts work performance and well-being of professional caregivers. The present study aims to explore the effectiveness of group intervention using Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in reducing burnout and enhancing the psychological well-being of professional caregivers in a nursing home. Five caregivers (four males and one female) participated in four intervention sessions and a follow-up session. Maslach Burnout Inventory and Ryff’s Psychological Well-Being Scale was used to measure burnout and psychological well-being, respectively. Qualitative data were also obtained through interviews at the end of the intervention. Statistical analysis using the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test indicated that MBSR was not significantly effective in reducing burnout and enhancing psychological well-being. However, a trend of positive improvement was observed, indicating the potential benefits of MBSR for reducing burnout in professional caregivers. Limitations of this study are explained in the discussion section
Systematic Review : Violation of Integrity from the Perspective of Psychology, Organizational Context and Community Culture
No full textAbstractThe report on the crackdown on ICW corruption cases in 2019 explained that during 2019 there were 271 cases in Indonesia, as many as 29 (10.7%) cases occurred at the national level and 242 (89.3%) occurred in various regions in Indonesia. These data indicate the existence of integrity violations committed by public officials. The purpose of the literature review is to explore the psychological, organizational, and cultural factors of society that affect integrity violations. Research methods are systematic reviews. The results of the literature review: 1) psychological factors include low universal basic values and virtues, low moral judgment, low risk perception, low shame and guilt, high love of money, high machiavellianism, external motivation, authority, wealth, status and affiliation motivation, luxurious and hedonistic lifestyle and low happiness;    2) organizational factors are quite varied, including an ethical climate that is perceived negatively and self-oriented, less transparent organization, Human Resources and performance systems, politicization of the bureaucracy, the role model of the leader / superior is not good, several other factors; 3) Community cultural factors include high power distance, high masculinity, high collectivism and avoiding low uncertainty.Key Word : Violation of Integrity, Psyhology, Organizational Context, Community Cultur
Cognitive Dissonance & Plagiarism: the Banality of Academic Dishonesty
Get PDFThis study attempted to apply the hypocrisy induction principle in a real-life setting, a behavioral modification method in which cognitive dissonance was invoked in order to dissuade people from certain undesirable behavior. The aim of this experiment was testing the effect of hypocrisy induction in decreasing plagiarism among students. 136 high school students in their second year were categorized into four groups (hypocrisy, commitment only, mindful only, control), and given a task in which plagiarism was made possible. The tasks submitted by the students were given a plagiarism score using a program that matches them with online articles. Data analysis showed that the hypocrisy induction did not produce a significant effect on plagiarism. 92% of participants committed plagiarism in varying levels, indicating a banality of plagiarism in the school. The implications of these results on plagiarism prevention were discussed. Keywords: plagiarism, hypocrisy induction, cognitive dissonance, experimen
Employee Assistance Program as the Supporting System of Quality of Work Life to Cope with Occupational Stress
Get PDFIncreasing productivity has always been an important issue in the context of management. Â Efforts in this direction are often demands that cause occupational stress, so that a counterproductive situation may occur. Quality of Work Life (QWL) is one of the hot issues that arise to neutralize stressful conditions by creating a more comfortable and more humane working climate. The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) as an intervention can be expected to function as a supporting system. The assessment was conducted for 67 employees. The questionnaire, interview, FGD, and SWOT analysis methods are used in all three stages, the pre-assessment stage, the assessment stage, and the intervention stage. From the Occupational Inventory Stress-Revised (Osipow, 1998), there are four most significant stressor areas and personal resources that are underutilized in managing stressors. The intervention program is directed at curative and preventive services through the EAP design
Conflict Early Warning System Index as a Preventive Effort
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to identify if a conflict is low, medium, or high level through the development of the conflict early warning system index which in turn serves as a preventive measure for conflict. The method used in this is the structural, sequential, and conjunctural model approach. Respondents of this study were farmers who were aware of issues regarding the Kulon Progo coastal land conflict and participated actively in the iron sand mining counter-movement. This study used proportional random sampling and obtained 279 subjects. Data collection used the Kulon Progo coastal area conflict scale, the categorization scale, the group identification scale, the group bias scale, the social resource scale, the motivational resource scale, the cognitive resource scale, the attitude scale, the subjective norm scale, and the perceived behavioural control scale. The research findings show that the conflict early warning system index is categorized as high and still latent. Based on this high index, it can be recommended that preventive measures should be taken by maintaining the land as an agricultural area so that the conflict does not manifest. This effort is beneficial for the farmers’ welfare, preserves the environment, and returns social capital. If implemented, this method can reduce the conflict index as it should be able to help peacefully maintain the social and cultural system of farmers.Keywords: index, early warning system, conflict, farmers
The Lived Experience of Involuntary Childless in Indonesia: Phenomenological Analysis
Get PDFThe absence of children in marriage has some impact on the couple. Empirical studies showed a different result, one is that it brings out a positive impact, and another says the other side. This discrepancy leads to the question of what causes that contradictive finding. This study is aimed to explore the lived experience of involuntary childlessness and determine the context of that experience. In order to get the whole understanding of the experience, this study is using the depth interview method with a phenomenological principle. Participants of this study are 11 involuntary childless who have married for at least 3 years. Results show 8 themes that describe the experience of involuntary childlessness, including positive and negative experience, acceptance, spousal, social and spiritual relationship, conflict, and marital evaluation. The context that determines the experience is the relationship with the spouse, family, community, and the spiritual matter of the couple
Investigation of the Relationships among Narcissism, Humanity, Interpersonal Control Perception and Envy in Male and Female Employees
Get PDFAbstract Envy is one of the most common human emotions related directly to interpersonal relationships. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among narcissism, common humanity and interpersonal control perception with envy. To do this, 140 male and female employees from Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz were chosen through random sampling. They completed questionnaires of Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale (HNS), interpersonal control perception subscales of Perceived Control Across Domains Scale (PCADS) and common humanity subscale of Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) and the Envy Assessment based on Islamic Sources. The gathered data were then analyzed by SPSS (21.0 version) and Stepwise Regression Analysis was used to analyze the research hypotheses. The results showed that narcissism and common humanity were the most important predictors of envy in female employees and interpersonal control perception and narcissism were the most important predictors of envy in male employees. These findings have practical implications for management the envy phenomenon in work environment. Keywords: narcissism, common humanity, interpersonal control         perception, envyÂ
Workplace Harassment and Political Participation among Representatives to the Union Parishads in Bangladesh
Get PDFAbstractThe aim of the study was to explore the relationship between victimisation from workplace harassment and political participation among the elected peoples’ representatives to the rural local governance, namely the Union Parishads in Bangladesh. A questionnaire was completed by 821 representatives (412 women, 409 men). The mean age was 42.5 years (SD = 6.5) for women and 44.2 (SD = 6.3) for men. The results showed that women were significantly more victimised from verbal, nonverbal, and rational appearing aggression, social isolation, and indirect social manipulation than men. For women, the most common type of victimisation was rational appearing aggression, followed by social isolation, and verbal aggression. For men, the most common type of victimisation was from verbal aggression, all the other types of victimisation appeared rarely. Representatives with low political participation scored significantly higher than those with high participation on all six types of harassment.Five of the six types predicted active political participation negatively. Women were more victimised from five types of workplace harassment than men. Victimisation from workplace harassment predicted low political participation.Keywords: Workplace harassment, political participation, sex differences, Union Parishads,                   Banglades
The Role of Grandmother’s Grandparenting on Family Harmony: a Phenomenological Analysis
Get PDFGrandparenting could have a positive and negative effect on family harmony. This study aims to better understand the influence of grandmother’s grandparenting role towards family harmony. This phenomenological study used data derived from interviewing and observing five participants. The data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenology. The findings of this study found nine themes: the meaning of grandchildren for grandmother, the reason of grandmothers parenting, grandmothers way of parenting, the effect of family’s social economics, the relationship of grandmothers with family members, grandmothers problem solving to overcome family conflict, grandmothers role in the family, the emotional bonding between grandmother and grandchildren, Grandmothers feelings while grandparenting. The grandmothers’ parenting role could positively and negatively influence family harmony, depending on the meaning of grandchildren for the grandmothers. When the grandmother could accept the grandchildren, it will make the grandmother happy and affect family harmony