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Together for Hope and Resilience: A Humanistic Experience by the Vulnerability, Trauma, Resilience and Culture Lab Members during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought stress and anxiety to students, professors, and staff in universities. The effectiveness of members of research laboratories not directly involved in research on the virus may be impacted. At the University of Ottawa, laboratories have been affected by the shutdown of all non-essential activities. An experience in a research laboratory at the University of Ottawa observed that members were affected by anxiety, stress, sleep deregulation, etc. However, a humanistic approach that allowed members to share their COVID-19 experiences in an authentic, empathic atmosphere leads them to regain their effectiveness, create hope, and develop resilience strategies.
... Portanto, um exame abrangente da crise representada pela Covid-19 é fundamental para obter valiosos insights. Pesquisas anteriores mostraram como emoções recorrentes e inabaláveis surgem durante as crises organizacionais e afetam significativamente o desempenho, o engajamento, a criatividade, o comprometimento e a tomada de decisão assertiva dos funcionários de forma consistente em todos os setores e níveis organizacionais (Caligiuri et al., 2020;Cénat et al., 2020 ;Hamouche, 2021;He et al., 2023;Hughes & Donelly, 2022;Kim & Niederdeppe, 2013;Kirk & Rifkin, 2020;Sorensen et al., 2022). As emoções moldam os comportamentos dos trabalhadores e devem ser consideradas como dados que devem ser coletados. ...
... Por exemplo, maior solidão no local de trabalho gera emoções negativas, que se relacionam com menos comprometimento afetivo com a organização e menor desempenho no trabalho (Ozcelik & Barsade, 2018;Sullivan & Bendell, no prelo). A esperança pode ajudar os funcionários a se envolverem em um processo coletivo de resiliência (Cénat et al., 2020), e a gratidão compensa atitudes negativas e promove comportamentos morais no local de trabalho (Chen et al., 2020). FGV EAESP | RAE | São Paulo | V. 63 | n. 5 | 2023 | 1-21 | e2022-0395 eISSN 2178-938X ...
... Em contraste, na indústria não essencial, a ordem mudou para: esperança, interesse, gratidão, ansiedade, amor e simpatia. Como em pesquisas anteriores (Cénat et al., 2020;Kim & Niederdeppe, 2013;Sommer et al., 2016), os funcionários experimentaram, de maneira geral, mais emoções positivas do que negativas. As etapas seguintes na realização da análise de conteúdo, os temas identificados em cada amostra e suas emoções associadas são apresentados na Tabela 2. FGV A última parte da análise centrou-se na comparação entre as amostras. ...
The development of organizational strategies to face crises should identify, analyze, and use employee emotions. This study provides a comparative perspective between the emotions of non-frontline employees in essential and non-essential companies during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic – an event that caused major organizational crises. Content analysis identified the same emotions in both industries, albeit to different extents. Employees in the essential industry expressed more interest, less sympathy, and less anxiety, which may have occurred due to a more significant sense of purpose and security in this industry. Hopefulness, gratitude, and love appeared similarly in both essential and non-essential industries. Work-related variables and demographics have no significant contribution toward the prevalence of emotions. As a contribution, this study uncovered similarities and differences between industries, providing a relevant and profound understanding of how the COVID-19 pandemic shaped the emotional state of non-frontline employees.
Keywords:
Organizational crisis; employee well-being; essential industry; non-essential industry; content analysis
... Past research has shown how recurrently and unwaveringly emotions arise during organizational crises and significantly impact employee performance, engagement, creativity, commitment, and assertive decision-making consistently across industries and organizational levels (Caligiuri et al., 2020;Cénat et al., 2020;Hamouche, 2021;He et al., 2023;Hughes & Donelly, 2022;Kim & Niederdeppe, 2013;Kirk & Rifkin, 2020;Sorensen et al., 2022). Emotions shape employees' behaviors at work and should be regarded as data that must be collected to understand what motivates employees and what makes them feel appreciated and enthusiastic at work, especially during times of upheaval (Barsade & O'Neill, 2016). ...
... For instance, greater workplace loneliness drives negative emotions, which relate to less affective commitment to the organization and lower job performance (Ozcelik & Barsade, 2018;Sullivan & Bendell, in press). Hopefulness can help employees to engage in a collective process of resilience (Cénat et al., 2020), and gratitude offsets negative attitudes and promotes moral behaviors in the workplace (Chen et al., 2020). ...
... In contrast, in the non-essential industry, the order changed to hopefulness, interest, gratitude, anxiety, love, and sympathy. As in prior research (Cénat et al., 2020;Kim & Niederdeppe, 2013;Sommer et al., 2016), employees experienced more positive than negative emotions overall. The steps followed in conducting the content analysis, the themes identified in each sample, and their associated emotions are provided in Table 2. Table 2. Data structure: Codes, themes, and associated emotions ...
The development of organizational strategies to face crises should identify, analyze, and use employee emotions. This study provides a comparative perspective between the emotions of non-frontline employees in essential and non-essential companies during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic – an event that caused major organizational crises. Content analysis identified the same emotions in both industries, albeit to different extents. Employees in the essential industry expressed more interest, less sympathy, and less anxiety, which may have occurred due to a more significant sense of purpose and security in this industry. Hopefulness, gratitude, and love appeared similarly in both essential and non-essential industries. Work-related variables and demographics have no significant contribution toward the prevalence of emotions. As a contribution, this study uncovered similarities and differences between industries, providing a relevant and profound understanding of how the COVID-19 pandemic shaped the emotional state of non-frontline employees.
Keywords:
Organizational crisis; employee well-being; essential industry; non-essential industry; content analysis
... These participants' experiences are corroborated by research conducted by Cénat et al. (2020). This research identified that the COVID-19 pandemic had impacted students' lives in a diverse number of areas but that the main consequence of these impacts was fear, worry, anxiety and exacerbated stress (Cénat et al., 2020). ...
... These participants' experiences are corroborated by research conducted by Cénat et al. (2020). This research identified that the COVID-19 pandemic had impacted students' lives in a diverse number of areas but that the main consequence of these impacts was fear, worry, anxiety and exacerbated stress (Cénat et al., 2020). This same concept can be seen in the aforementioned quotes from the participants. ...
... The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the participants' lives in diverse ways that have led to negative emotions. Cénat et al. (2020) identified a humanistic approach to sharing COVID-19 traumas based on caring, empathy and sharing of experiences that led to the development of coping strategies and resilience. ...
Background: Understanding the learning experiences of first-year speech–language pathology (SLP) students during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is essential to ensure that academic staff are able to support and enhance the transition from secondary to tertiary education. An understanding of the student experience could lead to improved support strategies that could be beneficial for the blended learning environment that the University of the Witwatersrand will be entering from 2022.
Objectives: This research explored the experiences of first-year SLP students in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: An exploratory mixed-method concurrent triangulation design was employed. Quantitative data were collected from likert scales. Qualitative data were collected from critical incident timelines. Themes were identified from both the Likert scales as well as the critical incident timelines using bottom-up thematic analysis.
Results: The majority of participants reflected that their online learning through the pandemic in 2021 was successful. The themes that emerged from this year pertain to 2021 and the specific participants however, it provides an important insight that the students’ needs change during a year. As a lecturer, one needs to consider these evolving needs to ensure students have the support that they require to be successful in their learning.
Conclusion: This research provided insights into the evolving nature of the support first-year SLP students require in the online learning space during the COVID-19 pandemic.
... To date, there are no studies that provide a comprehensive psychometric and cross-cultural evaluation of the RES, nonetheless during the COVID-19 global pandemic, which is a critically important time to assess the measurement of resilience from a cross-cultural perspective [11,41,47]. Therefore, the aim of Study One was to provide an initial psychometric evaluation of the RES [63] by assessing the validity and reliability of the RES in a sample of U.S. college students. ...
The Resilience Evaluation Scale (RES) is a newly developed measure of resilience written in both English and Dutch languages. To date, there have not been comprehensive psychometric evaluations of the RES' performance, including validity for use in non-Western cultural populations and languages. In our attempt to address this void, we conducted a psychometric evaluation of the RES utilizing a Western, sample of U.S. college students and non-Western sample of Chinese college students. Our psychometric evaluation of the RES in a Western, English-speaking sample of U.S. college students indicated mixed results on the construct validity of the RES for measuring resilience. We also found that the factor structure of the RES lacked configural invariance across U.S. college student and Chinese college student samples. Results suggested that additional research is needed to assess whether the RES appropriately measures internal factors of resilience or requires modification. We also highlight the need for continued development of cross-culturally valid measures, and possibly different conceptualizations, of resilience across cultural and linguistic groups.
... El análisis de los estudios precedentes y la literatura especializada a nivel internacional permitió ratificar la relevancia del estudio ejecutado y de sus implicaciones a futuros. Diversos estudios asocian bajos niveles de resiliencia a distintas problemáticas (Lyvers et al., 2020), como son pobre desarrollo de la autoestima, sintomatología ansiosa y depresiva, vulnerabilidad percibida y dificultades para llevar adelante una vida cotidiana sana (Sánchez et al., 2016;Snaychuk & O'Neill, 2020;Cénat et al., 2020;Hu et al., 2023;Prada Segura et al., 2023;Torres Barreto et al., 2023). ...
Introducción: los contextos educativos actuales, evidencian disímiles niveles que muestran como son variadas las problemáticas que están presentes en los estudiantes universitarios en cuanto a factores sociales y psicológicos se refiere. Dichas problemáticas emergen debido a las exigencias que, cada vez más aumentan su nivel de dificultad. De ahí la importancia de lograr un diagnóstico eficiente de los niveles de resiliencia en los educandos universitarios, que facilite el trabajo resiliente y orientador en los mismos; Objetivo: diagnosticar los niveles de resiliencia y las vías para su desarrollo en los estudiantes universitarios de la Especialidad de Ciencias Naturales de la Facultad de Ciencias Históricos Sociales y Educación en la Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz del Gallo; Metodología: la investigación se llevó a cabo a través de un estudio mixto exploratorio, donde se combinaron métodos de recolección y análisis, tanto cualitativo como cuantitativos, así como la producción de meta inferencias mediante los resultados obtenidos; Resultados: se evidencia como la conceptualización de la resiliencia, así como su presencia en los discursos y la propia cultura organizacional, son insuficientes; Conclusiones: la resiliencia juega un papel determinante en los contextos educacionales en la actualidad, pues contribuye favorablemente a alcanzar índices elevados en la resolución de problemáticas. Asimismo, propicia niveles efectivos de desarrollo en los estudiantes y contribuye a la disminución de afecciones como el estrés y otras afecciones que inciden en la vida estudiantil universitaria.
... The researchers' narrative review of 14 relevant papers uncovered how academics withstood and overcame adversity amidst 21st century pandemics, by drawing upon both individual and organizational quality. This suggests an interplay between an academic's intrinsic and extrinsic resources, combined with collective solidarity via shared experiences and support across disciplines, career stage, and from faculty support units, contributes to developing coping and resilience strategies (Cénat et al., 2020;Donnelly et al., 2020;Kawaguchi-Suzuki et al., 2020;Ignjatovi c Risti c et al., 2020). Yet Reyes et al. (2021) account for a lack of HEI policy attention, institutional mandate and allocation of resources concerning academic resilience because of HEI's prioritizing student needs. ...
Purpose
The purpose of this study resolved to evidence worldwide studies addressing the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic on higher education (HE) academic staff. Particularly in relation to wellbeing and pedagogical role, as part of a parallel study exploring the impact of COVID-19 on academics’ pastoral role.
Design/methodology/approach
The systematized review identified eight relevant studies that shed light on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on university academics’ well-being.
Findings
The review highlights the paucity of research in this area, with no studies, at the time of the review, considering how academics responded to a broadening of their pastoral role amidst an evolving academic landscape, and how are universities supporting them.
Research limitations/implications
Firstly, only eight relevant studies were included, affecting generalisability of results owing to uneven distribution between geographic regions. Secondly, participants across the eight studies accounted for less than 0.05% of a population of 6 million university academics worldwide (Price, 2011). Thirdly, most of the studies used cross-sectional design, limiting assessment of the longer-term impact of an evolving HE landscape.
Practical implications
The findings of this systematized review can be placed in the context of illuminating research deficits within a shifting HE landscape. Specifically, no studies that the authors are aware of have investigated how academics are responding to a broadening of their pastoral role amidst an evolving academic landscape, and how are universities supporting them.
Originality/value
In providing pastoral support to students, the mental well-being of academics is frequently ignored (Urbina-Garcia, 2020). The provision of well-being support by university management for academics appears to be “limited to non-existent” (Hughes et al. , 2018, p. 49). Critically, the Coronavirus pandemic appears to have both accelerated and precipitated a step-change to pastoral care within the HE teaching ecosystem. The impact of a broadening pastoral role on academics' well-being has yet to be fully realized and understood. The authors have subsequently conducted an empirical study to address this embryonic area of research.
... Other studies examining the impact of COVID-19 on communities across the globe discovered similar depictions of trauma and anxiety to those found in the current study, such as Mboua et al.'s study that reported elevated PTSD symptoms for Cameroon citizens during the pandemic [27]. This study's findings also parallel others examining resilience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic that suggest that most individuals have the capacity for resilience, particularly when able to connect with others [28,29]. Beyond connecting and sharing their troubles with the agents, this study uniquely demonstrated the specific interventions (e.g., providing psychosocial support, referrals, and engaging in problem solving) that engaged the caller's resilience and helped them cope with their circumstances. ...
The New York State (NYS) Office of Mental Health created the NYS COVID-19 Emotional Support Helpline and enlisted graduate students to provide phone-based emotional support initially to the NYS community. This NYS-funded initiative transformed into providing psychosocial support for callers across the United States. Four NYS doctoral students acted as the helpline agents and received 251 individual calls from May–August 2020. The agents documented the calls with clinical notes which cannot be traced back to specific callers. The purpose of this retrospective qualitative study was to explore the themes that emerged from the calls to give voice to the trauma that callers were reporting during the early phases of the pandemic, and the resilience they demonstrated as they engaged with the Helpline. The agents’ clinical transcripts were converted into codes using a critical-constructivist grounded theory approach with the NVIVO qualitative data analysis software. A second research team audited the initial codes for construct clarity. Emergent themes detailed the unique traumas that helpline callers divulged, how the agents provided support, and the callers’ capacities for resilience. Recommendations are suggested to inform clinicians working with pandemic survivors, to offer guidance on providing distance or virtual interventions as well as to enhance policymakers’ understanding of addressing mental health needs across populations served via the NYS COVID-19 Emotional Support Helpline.
... This initiative could have worked if we had dedicated more time for one-on-one encounters or speed meetings at the beginning of the crisis, or by increasing the frequency of online meetings (e.g., two or three meetings per week, with a series of 20-to 30-minute informal talks), with some of these meetings oriented toward engaging team building (Stürmer et al., 2006). Other informal (virtual) lab experiences that could have been implemented range from reading poetry or sharing home-made recipes (Cénat et al., 2020) to transforming all meetings such as data clubs, journal clubs, and even pub meetings to online formats (Chacón-Labella et al., 2021;Rillig et al., 2020). ...
The COVID‐19 pandemic has heavily impacted academics’ professional and personal lives, forcing many research groups (labs) to shift from an academic system primarily based on in‐person work to an almost full‐time remote workforce during lockdowns. Labs are generally characterized by a strong lab culture that underpins all research and social activities of its members. Lab culture traditionally builds on the pillars of in‐person communication, knowledge sharing, and all social and professional activities that promote collaboration, team building, scientific productivity, and well‐being. Here, we use the experience of our research group facing the COVID‐19 pandemic to illustrate how proactively reinforcing lab culture and its positive outcomes have been essential to our lab when transitioning from an in‐person to a remote lab environment, and through its ongoing evolution toward a hybrid remote/in‐person model. We argue that the proactive promotion of lab culture in research groups can foster academic resilience during crises, helping research groups to maintain their capacity to conduct scientific activities while preserving a sustainable life/work balance and a healthy mental condition. The Covid‐19 pandemic crisis has forced many research groups to move from an academic system based on in‐person work and characterized by a strong lab culture to a fully remote workforce. We illustrate how reinforcing lab culture has been essential for our research group when transitioning from an in‐person to a remote lab. We argue that proactively promoting lab culture is essential for supporting academic resilience during crises and to help research groups maintain scientific activity and preserve a sustainable life/work balance.
... Merit of humanistic concern in Wuhan's pandemic governance has also attracted people's praise, which was embodied in defusing mental tension of citizens particularly anti-COVID-19 workers' families by all-level cadres of Organization Department of Wuhan, public welfare institutions, and psychological counseling centers. Cenat et al. (2020) also observed a humanistic approach that allowed grassroots groups to share their COVID-19 experiences in an authentic, empathic atmosphere would lead them to regain their effectiveness, create hope and develop resilience strategies. However, negatively, systematic overall planning, control and exploitation of publicity work by governmental authoritative media platforms and social commercial media institutions have not been developed until the pandemic generally vanished. ...
Purpose
With multiple-related organizations, worldwide infections, deep economic recession and public disorder, and large consumption amount of anti-epidemic resources, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been defined as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Nowadays, Wuhan has recovered from the pandemic disaster and reentered normalization. The purposes of this study are to (1) summarize organization collaboration patterns, successful experience and latent defects under across-stage evolution of Wuhan's cooperation governance mode against the pandemic, and on the basis, (2) reveal how the COVID-19 development trends and organizations' collaborative behaviors affected each other.
Design/methodology/approach
Detailed content analysis of online news reports covering COVID-19 prevention and control measures on the website of Wuhan Municipal Government was adopted to identify organizations and their mutual collaborative interrelationships. Four complex network (CN) models of organization collaboration representing the outbreak, preliminary control, recession and normalization stages, respectively, were established then. Time-span-based dynamic parameter analyses of the proposed networks, comprising network cohesiveness analysis and node centrality analysis, were undertaken to indicate changes of global and local characteristics in networks.
Findings
First, the definite collaborative status of Wuhan Headquarters for Pandemic Prevention and Control (WHPPC) has persisted throughout the period. Medical institutions and some other administrations were the most crucial participants collaborating with the WHPPC. Construction-industry organizations altered pandemic development trends twice to make the situation controllable. Media, large-scale enterprises, etc. set about underscoring themselves contributions since the third stage. Grassroots cadres and healthcare force, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), financial institutions, etc. were essential collaborated objects. Second, four evolution mechanisms of organization collaboration responding to the COVID-19 in Wuhan has been proposed.
Research limitations/implications
First, universality of Wuhan-style governance experience may be affected. Second, the stage-dividing process may not be the most appropriate. Then, data source was single and link characteristics were not considered when modeling.
Practical implications
This study may offer beneficial action guidelines to governmental agencies, the society force, media, construction-industry organizations and the market in other countries or regions suffering from COVID-19. Other organizations involved could also learn from the concluded organizations' contributions and four evolution mechanisms to find improvement directions.
Originality/value
This study adds to the current theoretical knowledge body by verifying the feasibility and effectiveness of investigating cooperation governance in public emergencies from the perspectives of analyzing the across-stage organization collaboration CNs.
... Globally, studies have shown that university students have employed several coping strategies during the lockdown which included seeking social support, avoidance through technology and playing video games, cognitive strategies, and religion (10)(11)(12)(13)(14). Resilience is seen as the ability to have psychological flexibility and the emotional capability to deal and adapt to difficult or traumatic life challenges whilst maintaining a meaningful quality of life. The ability to recover from an adverse event is also determined by a person's resilience (15). A study done on young adults between 18-25 years old found that the relationship between stress, coping and resilience during the pandemic lockdown was complicated (16). ...
Background: Medical students are not spared from the challenges related to the Covid-19 lockdown. The fear and uncertainties may lead to traumatic symptoms and test their resilience and sense of coping. Thus, this study aims to determine the prevalence of peri-traumatic distress symptoms and its association with the level of resilience and the coping strategies used during the lockdown among medical students.
Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional online questionnaire survey involving medical students from a public university in Malaysia. It was conducted during the COVID-19 lockdown or Movement Control Order (MCO) where the students were asked to fill in the COVID-19 Peri-traumatic Distress Index (CPDI), Brief COPE Inventory, and Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (CDRS-25).
Results: A total of 282 clinical and 172 pre-clinical medical students were involved. Peri-traumatic distress symptoms were reported by 27% out of the total students. This study found that those who were having peritraumatic distress symptoms were from the pre-clinical years, had poor internet access, as well as lower resilience levels, and used more dysfunctional coping strategies. Pre-clinical medical students with difficult internet access were eight times more likely to have peritraumatic distress symptoms.
Conclusions: Given the high level of peri-traumatic distress symptoms reported by medical students during the lockdown, it is vital to identify the vulnerable students, assess their needs and risks to mental health problems during this challenging time as the pandemic is still ongoing with countries going in and out of lockdown depending on the cases at the time. The university administration for each University in Malaysia will need to have a clear academic guideline and policy as well as providing improved infrastructure to minimize the distress faced by medical students.
... Se trata de un suceso sin precedentes en la historia reciente, que ha obligado a gobiernos de todo el mundo a implementar medidas de urgencia para contener la transmisión del virus y reducir la tasa incremental de casos y muertes asociadas a la COVID-19, como las políticas de confinamiento y de restricción de la movilidad (Zhao et al., 2020). Su impacto en la economía, la sociedad y la salud mental ha alcanzado países de todo el mundo, demostrando que este virus no distingue culturas o fronteras (Cénat et al., 2020). ...
La pandemia provocada por la COVID-19 es una crisis sin precedentes en la historia reciente, cuyas consecuencias han tenido un impacto mundial. Una de las etapas más vulnerables a los efectos de esta emergencia sanitaria es la adolescencia, pues atraviesan un proceso vital de cambios en diversos aspectos de su vida, y la inestabilidad social y económica se suma como factor de riesgo a su ajuste psicosocial. Los estudios a nivel transcultural han tratado de comparar y comprender las diferencias en la adaptación de los y las adolescentes a la pandemia en diferentes partes del mundo. El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar el estado de salud actual, en comparación con el estado de salud previo a la pandemia provocada por la COVID-19, en una muestra de adolescentes de España, México y Chile. Participaron 449 adolescentes (75.90% chicas) de entre 12 y 17 años (M= 15.37; DT= 1.09). Se estudió su estado general de salud mediante un cuestionario ad hoc, y se realizaron análisis descriptivos y análisis de Chi-cuadrado. Los resultados muestran que los y las adolescentes de España, México y Chile, especialmente estos últimos, tienden a presentar una incidencia significativamente mayor de síntomas físicos y psicológicos durante la pandemia, en comparación a su estado de salud anterior a la aparición del coronavirus. Estos resultados enfatizan la necesidad de detectar las necesidades específicas de los y las adolescentes teniendo en cuenta su contexto social y cultural, para poder poner en marcha intervenciones destinadas a proteger su salud mental durante esta pandemia.
... Resilience can be defined as a person's ability to face the challenges and difficulties of life in a positive and adaptive manner, as well as the capacity to recover from an adverse event (Cénat et al., 2020;Glass et al., 2020). During confinement, the relationship between resilience and stress was also analyzed, and it became clear that it was complex (Ando, 2020;Marchini et al., 2020). ...
The COVID-19 global health emergency has greatly impacted the educational field. Faced with unprecedented stress situations, professors, students, and families have employed various coping and resilience strategies throughout the confinement period. High and persistent stress levels are associated with other pathologies; hence, their detection and prevention are needed. Consequently, this study aimed to design a predictive model of stress in the educational field based on artificial intelligence that included certain sociodemographic variables, coping strategies, and resilience capacity, and to study the relationship between them. The non-probabilistic snowball sampling method was used, involving 337 people (73% women) from the university education community in south-eastern Spain. The Perceived Stress Scale, Stress Management Questionnaire, and Brief Resilience Scale were administered. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 24) was used to design the architecture of artificial neural networks. The results found that stress levels could be predicted by the synaptic weights of coping strategies and timing of the epidemic (before and after the implementation of isolation measures), with a predictive capacity of over 80% found in the neural network model. Additionally, direct and significant associations were identified between the use of certain coping strategies, stress levels, and resilience. The conclusions of this research are essential for effective stress detection, and therefore, early intervention in the field of educational psychology, by discussing the influence of resilience or lack thereof on the prediction of stress levels. Identifying the variables that maintain a greater predictive power in stress levels is an effective strategy to design more adjusted prevention programs and to anticipate the needs of the community.
... Living in a time of unexpected and rapid change in the context of Australia's response to the pandemic (Kavoor et al. 2020) presented a unique opportunity to distill our lived experiences as educators and citizens. At the same time, our here and now temporal, embodied, place-bound, and visceral nature of our lived experiences (Cénat et al. 2020;Ellis and Flaherty 1992), while important, are not readily shareable in the professional literature. Hartman (2017) recommends narrative case studies to challenge normative phenomena and understandings of lived experience in social work practice and focus on the production of context-dependent knowledge by and with non-dominant cultural groups. ...
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has shifted clinical social work (CSW) and mental health education in Australia, and indeed throughout much of the globe, onto online delivery. The disruption caused by COVID-19 presents unexpected challenges in fostering the development of skill sets among social work educators in partnership with students. This article is a reflexive collaborative autoethnography written by four educators of different international and cultural backgrounds at a regional university in Queensland. Our university has experienced a shift from primarily a face-to-face delivery to online delivery due to social distancing. This article is grounded in an ethic of love, a values-based relationship-oriented practice promoting care, collaborative dialogue and solidarity between people, using self-compassion and reflexivity. We explore how COVID-19 has forced the authors to alter their teaching practice, cope with uncertainties, and respond with loving kindness to the shifting needs of students. We draw upon our experiences as educators of diverse cultural, linguistic, gender, and sexualities from Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria and reflect upon how we have simultaneously turned inward and outward through technology. We draw upon person-centered, narrative, trauma informed and anti-oppressive clinical and educational approaches when exploring self-compassion and loving approaches with the students. We discuss the need for self-compassion and love of others as we respond to the current crisis by modeling self-compassion and love for CSW students who are experiencing crises, including loss of employment, separation from family overseas and interstate, isolation from colleagues and loved ones, and healthcare issues.
... To address morale of research assistants, who are responsible for much of the day-to-day scheduling and assessments of participants and parents, consortia held weekly staff meetings to specifically address questions about protocol adaptions as well as staff burnout (Foster, 2020;Restauri and Sheridan, 2020). These weekly meetings were essential for building cohesion while working from home, understanding how staff and participants were responding to the pandemic, and modeling self-care by discussing what burnout looks like, how to best address it, and ways to find support from the consortium and other professional and personal sources (Cénat et al., 2020). ...
The novel coronavirus pandemic that emerged in late 2019 (COVID-19) has created challenges not previously experienced in human research. This paper discusses two large-scale NIH-funded multi-site longitudinal studies of adolescents and young adults – the National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA) and the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study – and valuable approaches to learn about adaptive processes for conducting developmentally sensitive research with neuroimaging and neurocognitive testing across consortia during a global pandemic. We focus on challenges experienced during the pandemic and modifications that may guide other projects, such as implementing adapted protocols that protect the safety of participants and research staff, and addressing assessment challenges through the use of strategies such as remote and mobile assessments. Given the pandemic’s disproportionate impacts on participants typically underrepresented in research, we describe efforts to retain these individuals. The pandemic provides an opportunity to develop adaptive processes that can facilitate future studies’ ability to mobilize effectively and rapidly.
The research paper attempts to delineate the significant factors which may nurture or suffocate digital innovation among small business entrepreneurs operating in the handicraft industry. For the young Indian handicrafts entrepreneur, digital technology is like oxygen to survive the threats of economic downturn like the Covid-19 crisis. The research findings contribute towards the increasing body of digital information on newer and innovative approaches to entrepreneurship. This work proposes a standard against which new policies and tactics for reviving the economy and expanding the handmade goods industry through technological and entrepreneurial ingenuity can be measured.Objective: The researcher aims to identify the obstacles, like lack of available high-quality digital infrastructures, the impact of economic downturn like the spread of Covid-19 pandemic, market disruptions over digital platforms, and the lack of knowledge and IT skills required to run an online entrepreneurship business. Methodology: Owners of online handicraft enterprises and small businesses which have less or insignificant online presence - all of whom held unique craft skills, were interviewed using a qualitative technique, and the researcher then utilized inductive (qualitative) content analysis to identify the common threads from the recorded transcripts. The research findings showed that the pre and post Covid-19 pandemics’ factors motivated the movement of handicraft businesses to digital platforms, encouraging entrepreneurship and digital innovation.
This chapter explores the concept of authentic leadership self-perception and its various dimensions, including self-concept, crucibles, and values. It highlights the experiences of authentic leaders such as Mandela, Steve Jobs, and Oprah, who navigated challenging circumstances and emerged as more authentic leaders. The importance of holding values, adapting values over time, and the role of self-awareness, self-reflection, and mindfulness in authentic leadership are also discussed. Furthermore, the chapter examines the influence of leadership self-perception on relational transparency, balanced processing, vulnerability, unlearning, and self-confidence, which are crucial aspects of authentic leadership.
Implicit leadership models (ILMs) reflect cultural assumptions and expectations about effective leadership. Differing ILMs across cultures and generations impact how authentic leadership is approached. Cultural ILMs influence leaders’ comfort with transparency and assertiveness, while generational ILMs shape expectations of collaboration and inclusivity. Awareness of these differences allows leaders to adapt their leadership style to be effective. Examples contrasting Western and Asian cultures, as well as Baby Boomers and Millennials, illustrate the impact of differing ILMs on authentic leadership choices. By considering cultural and generational contexts, leaders can foster positive work cultures and create a meaningful impact.
Differing implicit leadership models (ILMs) based on gender can impact how authentic leadership is approached, with gendered expectations potentially limiting women's effectiveness as leaders. The prevalence of a bro culture in certain industries, such as tech, creates challenges for women to make a positive impact and promote ethical behavior. A case study illustrates the struggles faced by a woman in a bro culture AI department and emphasizes the importance of challenging cultural norms, fostering inclusivity, and creating a safe environment for authentic leadership to thrive.
The outbreak of COVID-19 has resulted in employees working from home. Whenever the pandemic effects seemingly reduce, organisations request employees to return to work to resume the organisation’s operations, the way it was before the COVID-19 restrictions. Employees would require some time to readapt themselves. Employees who have good adaptability levels will be able to perform well in a constantly changing work environment.
This study examines the role of resilience, perceived organisational support and psychological distress on the adaptive performance of employees working in a constantly changing environment.
A quantitative survey method was used; the data was collected online within 10 days, using the convenience and voluntary sampling techniques from 151 white-collar employees. The survey was run amidst the Sri Lankan lockdown. The inclusion criteria required employees to be aged 20 - 35 with a minimum of six months of continuous work experience, working within the Western province of Sri Lanka.
The questionnaire was based on a few demographic factors and four standardised scales with satisfactory reliability levels namely the Adaptive Performance scale, Brief Resilient Coping Scale, COVID-19 Peritraumatic Distress Index and the Survey of Perceived Organizational Support. Regression analysis and mediation analysis were done and found that the findings support the research concept/hypotheses.
The study found that resilience and perceived organisational support of employees does have an indirect influence on their levels of adaptive performance in a constantly changing environment. And how psychological distress caused by the constantly changing environment affects their adaptive performance.
Ca rezultat al orientării ştiinţifice a învăţământului special de la noi din ţară, cadrele didactice sunt preocupate de o serie de probleme de bază, atât sub aspect teoretic, cât şi sub aspect practic. Printre problemele mai importante care preocupă gândirea pedagogică actuală sunt acelea privind învăţarea, relaţia profesor/ educator copil, relaţia copil-copil şi dezvoltarea psihofiziologica a copilului cu dizabilităţi. Unii copii se luptă cu dizabilităţile fizice, psihice, non-verbale sau de altă natură, care interferează cu capacitatea lor de a citi indici sociali şi a înţelege cum să intre sau să iasă dintr-un joc sau să răspundă la întrebări la un nivel adecvat, alţi copii se luptă cu dificultatea de a stabili legături emoţionale cu alţi oameni. Majoritatea acestor condiţii beneficiază de medii structurate de susţinere care ajută la dezvoltarea aptitudinilor sociale, strategiilor de a face faţă anxietăţii, impulsurilor şi abilităţii de a relaţiona cu alţi oameni la nivel emoţional. Natura specifică a aptitudinilor sociale şi a strategiilor terapeutice totuşi poate varia, în funcţie de nevoile copilului. Conceptul de deficienţă mintală are o paletă vastă de manifestări, care este rezultatul unor combinaţii de factori. În lucrarea de faţă s-a urmărit constituirea unui demers educaţional şi formativ. S-a încercat realizarea unei diagnosticări corecte a elevilor cu deficiență mintală în vederea identificării şi aplicării unor strategii individuale de optimizare a memoriei.
Government utilized outbreak s fear to construct obedience, it was similar to Nganjuk�s Government. Nganjuk�s society experienced a repression during this situation, they were not be able to do their daily collective activities. This research is aimed unpacked analysis of society�s strategy during the repressive situation during the existence of PSBB policy. Ethnography and interview was conducted to recognize the aspects and details, also descriptive qualitative research are used in order to build a fundamental arguments. The result showed that Karang Taruna Cahaya Indah Rembol produced (encoding) and interpreted (decoding) ghost cosplay parade as a strategy to deceive PSBB policy. Those process are the forms of resistence and resilience toward PSBB policy or goverment as stakeholders. Kata kunci: masyarakat desa; pandemi; modernisme; spiritualisme; dan lokalitas
The unprecedented COVID-19 global pandemic has created many challenges across the educational domains experienced by many cultures around the world. The present study elucidates a cross-cultural comparison of college students' self-efficacy, self-regulation, and resilience between college students in the United States and China during these challenging times. A total of 479 college students from the United States and China were recruited to participate in the present study. Multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVA) were conducted, and results indicated that U.S. college students demonstrated significantly higher self-efficacy and resilience and significantly lower self-regulation than Chinese college students. Further, the implications of the present study provide suggestions for effective teaching and learning strategies that can be used to establish supportive learning environments for students from different cultural backgrounds.
This article introduces a pedagogical approach in design education referenced as creative authenticity. Creative authenticity is defined as an ongoing process of learning to create through intrinsically motivated, self‐aware and self‐affirming actions and rationales. The concept is grounded in Constructivist learning theory, Postmodernist views of pluralism and cultural position, Anthony Giddens’ theory of reflexive identities, and scholarship on intrinsic motivation in learning. This ideology seeks to personalise the learning experience for each student in ways that are meaningful to their person, not just useful to the design industry, at large. This conversation proposes four samples of methodology by which to infuse creative authenticity into curriculum as a starting point for shaking off implicit biases; focusing on student learning and growth; initiating meaningful and empowering discussions; and redefining success through collaborative and participatory educational design. This work promotes teaching with creative authenticity as a foundation to help students realise their strengths through their ever‐evolving identities. In a broader context, authenticity in education supports marginalised groups to see themselves, their histories and their experiences authentically reflected in their education and work.
The demands arising from the COVID-19 pandemic have amplified the importance of resilience not only for students, but also for academics. This narrative review examines a phenomenon which has received little research attention, despite its significance during the pandemic, namely the resilience of academics in higher education. We refer to this as 'academic resilience'. The review investigates how academic resilience in higher education has been addressed in scholarship, with particular attention to the five major pandemics from 2001 to 2020. A review of fourteen relevant papers shows a lack of attention to the resilience of university teaching staff. Uncovering how academics overcome and withstand adversity on the one hand, and how higher education institutions have managed and supported the resilience of their staff on the other, this paper offers a conceptualisation of academic resilience that goes beyond the individual/environmental binary in scholarship.
This study examines the perceived stress and self-care behaviors of graduate students as impact- ed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Students who participated had varying degree concentrations, with the majority of participants having a Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Couples and Family Therapy, Dance Movement Therapy, or Clinical Psychology focus. This study is particularly relevant to health care work- ers, especially those whose focus is mental health. Markedly elevated prevalence of reported adverse mental and behavioral health conditions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the broad impact of the pandemic and the need to prevent and treat these conditions. This study sought to examine the presence and significance of a relationship between perceived stress, self-care strategies, and participant characteris- tics and the impact of COVID-19.
This guide contains 9 modules, some of which must be completed over several sessions. The module 1 presents psychological first aid, which is very useful in an epidemic situation and helps to meet people's immediate psychological and social needs during an epidemic. The second module offers the possibility of extensively assessing the needs of the people being cared for and several possibilities for mental health professionals. In the appendices, a set of assessment tools allows users to evaluate the mental health problems most frequently observed during epidemics of infectious diseases. The next 6 modules address psychotherapy techniques and assisted resilience. The last module addresses self-care because working during an epidemic situation comes with its share of anxiety for mental health professionals themselves and it was essential to take this into account to address their own well-being. If necessary, these modules can be repeated and adapted. For each module, we offer several possibilities to users, depending on the age of the patients and the clients, the difficulties presented, the social supports available, and their particular needs. It is a guide rooted in the work of mental health professionals during epidemics of infectious diseases.
Purpose
The literature on organizational change has increasingly recognized that characteristics of change recipients influence their reactions to workplace change. Yet little is known about the influence of employees’ adaptability and change-related uncertainty on their interpretation of organizational actions. We examined these antecedents and the mediating role of perceived organizational support as explanations for employees’ job satisfaction and performance.
Design/Methodology/Approach
A survey was administered to material handling employees from two organizations. Employees completed measures of individual adaptability, uncertainty experienced regarding changes in the workplace, support received from the organization, and job satisfaction. Performance data were collected from the records of one organization.
Findings
Results from both samples support the role of perceived organizational support as a mediator of the relationship between employees’ adaptability and perceptions of change-related uncertainty and employees’ satisfaction and performance.
Implications
Change is a frequent occurrence in today’s workplace; thus, improving employee satisfaction and performance requires the consideration of change-related perceptions and individuals’ dispositions relevant to change. The present study offers insights regarding how organizations may help improve perceptions of organizational support by reducing perceived uncertainty as well as identifying employees who may need assistance to adapt to workplace changes.
Originality/Value
Despite practitioners’ expressed interest, there is scant research examining employees’ adaptability and change-related uncertainty. We provide the first evidence explaining how and why these variables impact important workplace outcomes and extend existing theory by identifying appraisals of the organization (and not the self) as a mechanism explaining stressor–strain relationships.
In summer 2017, thousands of Haitian asylum seekers entered Canada irregularly after taking “The Road”, meaning a 11,000-kilometer pathway from Brazil to the U.S., often on foot and under difficult circumstances. This qualitative study examines how this pathway and associated multiple traumas (precariousness, imprisonment, injuries, sexual assault, etc.) impact their mental health. The findings showed that significant traumatic consequences (PTSD, anxiety, depression, deteriorating physical health) and risk of deportation contribute to the development of a “Psychopathology of Crossing”. This study also highlights how meaningful social relationships, the quality of health, and social services contribute to the construction of resilience.
The diverse nature of 21st‐century organizations has compelled leaders to minimize discrimination and bring about inclusion amongst their employees. One of the ways this can be achieved is through authentic, respectful and inclusive leadership. The aim of the present paper was to 1) explore whether the three leadership styles can promote inclusion and curtail discrimination in the South African context, and 2) ascertain whether this relationship has any bearing on well‐being across Dutch, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, and South African contexts. To reach these aims, two cross‐sectional studies have been conducted. In Study 1, 569 employees were surveyed, and results indicated that all three leadership styles loaded on a common latent factor (positive leadership) that was positively associated with both inclusion and discrimination. In Study 2, 1,926 employees were surveyed across the five countries. Results indicated that once again, the latent, positive leadership factor was positively associated with both inclusion and discrimination. Furthermore, inclusion, when compared to discrimination seemed to be a stronger mediator in the relationship between positive leadership and well‐being. We propose leadership development that will cultivate positive leadership behaviors for the benefit of employee well‐being and collaboration in increasingly diverse teams.
Le 12 janvier 2010, il est 16 heures 53, des élèves sont en route pour la maison, beaucoup de gens ont déjà quitté leur bureau, les rues sont bondées de monde, comme tous les mardis, la capitale haïtienne grouille. À ce moment précis, la première République des Caraïbes, Haïti, est frappée par un tremblement de terre de magnitude 7,0 sur l’échelle de Richter dont l’épicentre se situe à environ 17 km au sud-ouest de sa capitale, Port-au-Prince. L’Institut américain de géologie précisera plus tard que du 12 au 24 janvier, 52 répliques de magnitude égale ou supérieure à 4,5 ont suivi et semé la peur parmi les survivants déjà dans un état d’anxiété généralisée. Il aura suffi de 35 secondes pour que Port-au-Prince, Léogane, Jacmel et d’autres villes et villages soient plongés dans le chaos le plus total, pour que morts et survivants soient entremêlés dans un mouvement de désordre, de désastre mais aussi de méconnaissance de soi et souvent des autres
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