82 research outputs found
Developing a model of links between general and workplace belongingness and depressive symptoms
No full textGiven the high prevalence of depression in the community there is urgent need to understand the interpersonal predictors of this disorder. Data from large community samples indicates that a diminished sense of belonging appears to be the most salient and immediate antecedent of a rapid depressive response. Belongingness in the workplace is also very important and associated with depressive symptoms over and above associations attributable to general or community belongingness. Finally it appears that the personality factor of interpersonal sensitivity moderates the relationship between belongingness and depressive symptoms. Results have extensive future implications for the prevention and treatment of depression
The link between belongingness and depressive symptoms: An exploration in the workplace interpersonal context
No full textInterpersonal factors are crucial to a deepened understanding of depression. Belongingness, also referred to as connectedness, has been established as a strong risk/protective factor for depressive symptoms. To elucidate this link it may be beneficial to investigate the relative importance of specific psychosocial contexts as belongingness foci. Here we investigate the construct of workplace belongingness. Employees at a disability services organisation (N = 125) completed measures of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, workplace belongingness and organisational commitment. Psychometric analyses, including Horn's parallel analyses, indicate that workplace belongingness is a unitary, robust and measurable construct. Correlational data indicate a substantial relationship with depressive symptoms (r = −.54) and anxiety symptoms (r = −.39). The difference between these correlations was statistically significant, supporting the particular importance of belongingness cognitions to the etiology of depression. Multiple regression analyses support the hypothesis that workplace belongingness mediates the relationship between affective organisational commitment and depressive symptoms. It is likely that workplaces have the potential to foster environments that are intrinsically less depressogenic by facilitating workplace belongingness. From a clinical perspective, cognitions regarding the workplace psychosocial context appear to be highly salient to individual psychological health, and hence warrant substantial attention
Depression and belongingness in general and workplace contexts : a cross-lagged longitudinal investigation
No full textBelongingness has been linked to depression. Prior studies have been cross-sectional with few addressing distinct belongingness contexts. This study used structural equation modelling to investigate cross-lagged longitudinal relationships between general belonging, workplace belonging and depressive symptoms in a community sample of 221 working adults measured at two time points three months apart. Measures were: Sense of Belonging Instrument-Psychological (SOBI-P); Psychological Sense of Organizational Membership (PSOM); Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21); Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10). General belonging was predicted more strongly by depressive symptoms than by baseline general belonging, suggesting that depressive symptoms not only linger but also influence future belongingness cognitions. Neither general nor workplace belonging longitudinally predicted depressive symptoms, however cross-sectional correlations were substantial. The concurrent path between general belongingness and depressive symptoms was strong. Results are consistent with daily process studies suggesting that reduced belongingness precipitates a rapid increase in depressive symptoms which influence longer term belongingness cognitions. Congruent with interpersonal descriptions of depression such as the social-cognitive interpersonal process model, results further suggest that belongingness cognitions are the proximal antecedent of a depressive response. Practitioners should monitor both a general sense of belonging as well as perceived relational value cues in specific contexts
Wendell Berry: Life and Work
No full textEssayist, social critic, poet, “mad farmer,” novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies facile labels. With his unique perspective and far-reaching vision, Berry poses complex questions about humankind and our relationship to the land and offers simple but profound solutions. Berry’s essays, novels, and poems give voice to a provocative but consistent philosophy, one that extends far beyond its agrarian core to include elements of sociology, the natural sciences, politics, religion, philosophy, linguistics, agriculture, and other seemingly incompatible fields of study. Wendell Berry: Life and Work examines this wise and original thinker, appraising his written work and exploring his influence as an activist and artist. Jason Peters has assembled a broad variety of writers including Hayden Carruth, Sven Birkerts, Barbara Kingsolver, Stanley Hauerwas, Donald Hall, Ed McClanahan, Bill McKibben, Scott Russell Sanders, Norman Wirzba, Wes Jackson, and Eric T. Freyfogle. Each contributor examines an aspect of Berry’s varied yet cohesive body of work. Also included are highly personal glimpses of Wendell Berry: his career, academic influence, and unconventional lifestyle. These deft sketches of Berry show the purity of his agrarian lifestyle and demonstrate that there is nothing simple about the life to which he has devoted himself. He embraces a life that sustains him not by easy purchase and haste but by physical labor and patience, not by mindless acquiescence to a centralized economy but by careful attention to local ways and wisdom. Wendell Berry: Life and Work combines biographical sketches, personal accounts, literary criticism, and social commentary. Together, the contributors illuminate Berry as he is: a complex man of place and community with an astonishing depth of domestic, intellectual, filial, and fraternal attributes. The result is a rich portrait of one of America’s most profound and honest thinkers.
Jason Peters is Dorothy J. Parkander Chair in Literature, Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
This is a superb collection. Berry is one of America\u27s greatest social critics, essayists, and poets, and the grand simplicity and unity of his life and thoughts emerges from the fascinating details of his personal history, captured beautifully in the words of his friends. --David Ehrenfeld, author of The Arrogance of Humanism and Swimming Lessons: Ke
Though the \u27characters\u27 herein are real people, there is magic in this book that rivals the best of Wendell Berry\u27s writings. Over and over we see solitary readers grappling with Berry\u27s art and thought amid struggles and in places unknown to the author. The magic is that they receive direction and succor even so. The loving reciprocity of these \u27What I\u27ve Gained from Wendell\u27 tales is so natural yet powerful it brings to mind planting and harvesting. The integrity-filled life, poetic depth, devastating prophesies, and superlative prose of Mr. Berry long ago achieved a consistency that verges on the relentless. To see his good work gently rise from the page, years and miles later, to touch lives he has not imagined in ways he has not foreseen, converts this near relentlessness into simple grace. --David James Duncan, author of The Brothers K
I can\u27t think of any subject matter more timely, and timeless, than the suite of ideas that Wendell Berry has championed over the years. While giving thoughtful attention to those ideas, this anthology also offers rare insight into the person behind the words. Like the unmistakable laugh of Mr. Berry himself, it is sure to leave readers both invigorated, and basking in the grace of this gentle, wise man. --Jennifer Sahn, editor of Orion magazine
[A] stimulating collection. Berry has long deserved such a masterful collection as this. Peters’ volume does what the best of the collections always do: It drives us to pick up Berry’s writings and read them over and over again. --Henry L. Carrigan, Jr., Charlotte Observer
The essays collected by Peters unearth a simplicity and unity beneath Berry’s complex surface, proffering a source of inspiration for those seeking to live life better and encouraging audiences to forsake worldly consumerism in favor of consumption of Berry’s words. --Kentucky Monthly
If it is true that we live lives of noisy desperation, prone to the seductions of fashion and to the ‘thrall of our appetites,’ we could do worse than to hear a voice that offers an alternative. Wendell Berry: Life and Work is a rewarding way to begin listening to such a voice. --Paul Doerksen, Winnipeg Free Press
The most comprehensive single source evaluating Berry and his impact. --Whitney Hale, UK News
Pairing literary criticism with more personal work, Peters\u27 volume does a remarkable jobn connecting the dots between Berry\u27s physical labors and his intellectual ones. --The Post and Courier (online)
This appreciation of Berry by friends and colleagues is a fitting tribute to a man whose writing truly has the power to change lives. --Carmichael\u27s Bookstore Catalog
“Those who admire Berry’s work will want to pick up this book even if they may already own some of its contents, because there is no other single volume that paints so complete a portrait of this remarkable man.” --Scott P. Richert, The University Bookman
“Anyone undertaking a serious study of Berry will want this book. Those familiar with only one of his genres will find it a helpful introduction to the full range of his writing and activism.” --Lisa Woolley, Bloomsburg Review
“The wonderful thing about this collection of essays is that it demonstrates just how varied and far-reaching Berry’s influence has been and how meaningful his work is to his readers in so many different ways.” --Resurgence
Taken in sum, these essays illuminate the life and work of one of America’s most provocative native thinkers in which the reader senses what the subject professes he lives. --Richard Taylor, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Shuman and Owens . . . presents articles based on how the work of author Wendell Berry can be interpreted in the context of living a true Christian life. --Book News Inc.
[The contributors] discuss [Berry’s] placing community and interaction for the common good over the centralization of the work and life of the world. --Mary Popham, Courier-Journal.com
A broad collection of writers examines the famous Kentucky agrarian writer’s work through a series of essays. --Lexington Herald-Leader
This collection is a must-read, must-own….It is filled with the richness of writings from the essayists who delineate not only Wendell Berry’s great works, but give us a glimpse of the man, one of Kentucky’s greatest wonders. --Mary Popham, Louisville Courier-Journal
This is a remarkable collection for reference and reflection. --Mary Popham, The Courier Journal
This collection of essays put together by editor Jason Petes are written by 27 scholars, activists, and fellow authors that \u27unite considreations on Berry\u27s thinking, friendships, and labor.\u27. . .[It] is perhaps as good a glance inside the soul of Wendell Berry as one could hope for. -- Modern Mountain Magazine
“Not only reminds us why it is such a pleasure to read Wendell Berry’s work...but it further compels readers to take seriously the implications of his work for their own lives and in their own communities. In doing so, it serves to extend the already considerable reach of Berry’s legacy.”--Journal of Agriculture and Human Values
In many ways, this collection reads like a tribute to Wendell Berry and through this tribute the authors lead the reader into Berry\u27s thoughts on community, responsibility, and fidelity and these qualities are the yardsticks of happiness. One of the points driven home by this collection is that one should not consider the writingsof Wendell Berry without also considering his life, and thus the title of this collection is appropriate. -- Jacob Jones, University of Florida -- Jacob Joneshttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_environmental_sciences/1006/thumbnail.jp
Panel
No full textIn this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 19, 1975, as part of the 6th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Spirit of Place, Ken Kesey, N. Scott Momaday, Wendell Berry, and Alice Walker participate in a panel. The panelists engage in a workshop of the poems published in the latest issue of North Country. The panelists discuss their reactions to the issue and workshop “For B------: A Prospective Suicide” by Mary Balaz, selected and read by Wendell Berry; “Legacy” by William Virgil Davis, selected and read by Alice Walker; “What is Left” by Mark Vinz, selected by Berry; “Fort Mandan” by David Solheim, read by the author; “The Saga of the Third-World Bell” by Ishmael Reed, selected and read by Ken Kesey; and “At the Bar” by Anthony Oldknow, read by the author. N. Scott Momaday closes by reading “North Dakota, North Light.”
Moderated by Dr. John Little, Founder of the UND Writers Conference
An examination of selected works for percussion; Concerto for marimba and wind ensemble by David Gillingham, XL plus one by Alvin Etler, March from eight pieces for four timpani by Elliott Carter, 42nd street rondo by Wayne Siegel, Oceanus by Steve Houghton and Wendell Yuponce
No full textMaster of MusicDepartment of MusicKurt R. GartnerThis is a report intended for musicians planning to perform any number of, or scholars seeking to enrich understanding of, the following compositions: Concerto for Marimba and Wind Ensemble by David Gillingham, XL Plus One by Alvin Etler, March from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani by Elliott Carter, 42nd Street Rondo by Wayne Siegel, and Oceanus by Steve Houghton and Wendell Yuponce.
Each work is analyzed in accordance with Jan Larue's method of style analysis. For some compositions, analysis of harmony has been omitted. For all compositions, the author has added a pedagogical realm of analysis, dedicated to notable performance considerations, interpretive possibilities, and technical considerations, to Larue's organizational scheme. Therefore, the approach taken in this document can be expressed as: Sound, Harmony, Melody, Rhythm, Growth, and Performance
Key beliefs of hospital nurses' hand-hygiene behaviour: protecting your peers and needing effective reminders
No full textIssues addressed Hand hygiene in hospitals is vital to limit the spread of infections. This study aimed to identify key beliefs underlying hospital nurses' hand-hygiene decisions to consolidate strategies that encourage compliance. Methods Informed by a theory of planned behaviour belief framework, nurses from 50 Australian hospitals (n≤797) responded to how likely behavioural beliefs (advantages and disadvantages), normative beliefs (important referents) and control beliefs (barriers) impacted on their hand-hygiene decisions following the introduction of a national '5 moments for hand hygiene' initiative. Two weeks after completing the survey, they reported their hand-hygiene adherence. Stepwise regression analyses identified key beliefs that determined nurses' hand-hygiene behaviour. Results Reducing the chance of infection for co-workers influenced nurses' hygiene behaviour, with lack of time and forgetfulness identified as barriers. Conclusions Future efforts to improve hand hygiene should highlight the potential impact on colleagues and consider strategies to combat time constraints, as well as implementing workplace reminders to prompt greater hand-hygiene compliance. So what? Rather than emphasising the health of self and patients in efforts to encourage hand-hygiene practices, a focus on peer protection should be adopted and more effective workplace reminders should be implemented to combat forgetting
Efficacy and outcomes of a mobile app targeting alcohol use in young people
No full textMobile apps provide a highly accessible way of reducing alcohol use in young people. This paper determines the 1-month efficacy and 2, 3 and 6month outcomes of the Ray's Night Out app, which aims to increase alcohol knowledge and reduce alcohol use in young people. User-experience design and agile development processes, informed by the Information-Motivation-Behavioral skills model and evidence-based motivational interviewing treatment approaches guided app development. A randomized controlled trial comparing immediate versus 1-month delayed access to the app was conducted in 197 young people (16 to 25years) who drank alcohol in the previous month. Participants were assessed at baseline, 1, 2, 3 and 6months. Alcohol knowledge, alcohol use and related harms and the severity of problematic drinking were assessed. App quality was evaluated after 1-month of app use. Participants in the immediate access group achieved a significantly greater increase in alcohol knowledge than the delayed access group at 1-month, but no differences in alcohol use or related problems were found. Both groups achieved significant reductions in the typical number of drinks on a drinking occasion over time. A reduction in maximum drinks consumed was also found at 1month. These reductions were most likely to occur in males and problem drinkers. Reductions in alcohol-related harm were also found. The app received a high mean quality (M=3.82/5, SD=0.51). The Ray app provides a youth-friendly and easily-accessible way of increasing young people's alcohol knowledge but further testing is required to determine its impact on alcohol use and related problems
Thirteen author collections of the nineteenth century, and five centuries of familiar quotations.
No full textv. 1. Louisa May Alcott. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thomas Hardy. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Washington Irving. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. James Russell Lowell. Herman Melville. Edgar Allan Poe. Henry David Thoreau. Familiar quotations.--v. 2. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Anthony Trollope. John Greenleaf Whittler.Mode of access: Internet
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