{"title":"Attachment, Rejection Sensitivity, Support, Psychological Capital and Alcohol Dependency in Students","authors":"T. Cassidy, M. Giles, Alexis Carey","doi":"10.33094/26410249.2021.34.69.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33094/26410249.2021.34.69.77","url":null,"abstract":"Alcohol dependence evolves from problematic social relations hinged on attachment difficulties and fear of social rejection. This study sought to test an attachment-rejection-relationship model of the development of alcohol dependency. Emerging adults (N=762) of which 69.8%, were female, ranging in age from 18-63 years, took part in an online survey measuring adult attachment, rejection sensitivity, loneliness, social support, psychological capital, and alcohol consumption. Analysis supports the model and shows that individuals with insecure and anxious attachment, fear of social rejection, who experience loneliness and lack of social support, and whose psychological resources are less effective, are more likely to be at risk for alcohol dependency. The role of attachment, rejection and social relations in alcohol consumption point to social problem-solving interventions. Given the childhood origins of attachment problems and fear of social rejection there is a strong case for prevention using social problem-solving.","PeriodicalId":207583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Research in Social Sciences","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114204870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narrating Peer Assessment in a Group Task","authors":"Ramesh Rao Ramanaidu, Edna Wellington","doi":"10.33094/26410249.2021.33.62.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33094/26410249.2021.33.62.68","url":null,"abstract":"COVID19 interrupted many things in our life. To curb the spread of the virus, Movement Control Order (MOC) was enforced. Though face to face teaching and learning came to halt, was replaced by online learning. In the context of teaching and learning, teachers face a lot of problem in carrying out practices which were a norm before. This study intends to explore a group work, which was carried out during the pandemic. More importantly, on how to assess a group work, which was carried out online, is explored. The aim of this study is to reveal how a peer assessment, for a group task was carried out during the pandemic. Instead of students, 30 music pre-service teachers were involved in this study. They were divided into ten groups. These pre-service teachers were enrolled in a music pedagogy course. One of the tasks involves a group work. Each group is required to produce a video. The video is assessed based on three criteria i.e content of the video, creativity and group collaboration. Each pre-service teacher assessed another group’s video using these criteria. Descriptive statistics and web analysis were used to analyse the scores given by the pre-service teachers. The result revealed that the component of creativity is viewed differently by many pre-service teachers, compared to the other two.","PeriodicalId":207583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Research in Social Sciences","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114951033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smartphone in Classroom: Yes or No?","authors":"Paulo de Sá Filho","doi":"10.33094/26410249.2021.32.40.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33094/26410249.2021.32.40.47","url":null,"abstract":"From the 1990s onwards, several international agreements were signed with the objective of universalizing education. Such action was strengthened at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in 2000, where 164 countries, including Brazil, signed a commitment to provide Education for all - EPT. To make this possible, it was established as one of the commitments to raise new information and communication technologies to support the effort to reach the EPT goals. Since then, numerous actions have been developed for the insertion of Information and Communication Technologies - ICT's in Education. However, this is not only a reality in Education, as nowadays we are immersed in new technologies, making us have new ways of interacting, communicating and learning. In this context, there has also been an expansion of cell phone use by the population for various purposes. Thus, bringing this instrument as an ally in the teaching-learning process becomes of great value. Thus, a literature review research was carried out, observing the use of cell phones from two perspectives: in general use by the Brazilian population and from the perspective of legislation, in order to contextualize the use of cell phones as an educational resource in contemporary times. At the end, as a result of this article, three studies are presented that demonstrate the use of cell phone applications in the school environment and finally expose four applications for the use of cell phones as an educational resource for continuing education and in the teaching-learning process.","PeriodicalId":207583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Research in Social Sciences","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133634769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Difficulties in Learning and Teaching Programming at Lower Secondary Level in Mauritius","authors":"Vinod Sharma Bhaugeerutty","doi":"10.33094/26410249.2021.33.48.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33094/26410249.2021.33.48.61","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid evolution of technology around the world has created a rapid growth and efficient learning environments. In Mauritius, for example, the government is investing huge amount of money in the educational sector with initiation of programming at an early stage. The ideology behind this push is to strengthen the link between the younger generation and the technological growth that will continue to have an ever-increasing impact on their lives and to fuel the pace of innovation. One of the core themes of this area is that of computer programming, which has now become a mandatory subject in early years’ education. As a result of this change, many challenges are being faced by educators and students; for example, educators require more training and students need appropriate tools that suit their level of learning. Therefore, this research aimed at exploring the difficulties in learning and teaching programming at lower secondary schools in Mauritius. Consequently, it can be interpreted from the research findings that an automated teaching and learning programming system that supports the right pedagogical aspects, example, assessment-driven learning with the inclusion of game-based learning, would make the learning process more successful and enjoyable for students in early years of education. Students with higher problem-solving abilities find programming easy and they can master programming with no or little difficulties regardless of the programming environment. On the contrary, students with lower problem-solving abilities find programming difficult to understand and are often unable to master it.","PeriodicalId":207583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Research in Social Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115803489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Debt and Economic Growth in Switzerland","authors":"D. Lim, Michael Groschek","doi":"10.33094/26410249.2021.32.40.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33094/26410249.2021.32.40.48","url":null,"abstract":"Economic theory suggests that a realistic level of borrowing is beneficial for both developing and developed economies in achieving sustainable level of economic growth. However, as a result of insufficient domestic resources to fund the “development projects”, required for the economic progress, most of the countries strongly rely on internal (domestic) and external (international) capitals such as public debt, foreign direct investment (FDI) and remittances. Keeping in mind this significance, this study analyzes the role of public debt, FDI and remittances in accelerating the economic growth in Switzerland. For getting this purpose achieved, the study gathers the data from world development indicators (WDI) for the period of 1997-2016. The study uses public debt, FDI and remittances as predictors, while economic growth is taken as outcome variable. The study applies auto regressive distributive lag (ARDL) model to analyze the data. Results of the study show positive influence of public debt, FDI and remittances on the economic growth of Switzerland which is in line with the economic theory. Based on the findings, the study suggests articulating and implementing policies aimed at attracting more inflows of foreign capital that will positively contribute to economic growth in the long run. The study furthers the government of Switzerland to keep debts to the GDP threshold as low as possible.","PeriodicalId":207583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Research in Social Sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129347361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Moderating Role of Geographical Diversification among the Nexus of Institutional, Power and Space Factor on Economic Geography","authors":"Ola Aleksandra","doi":"10.33094/26410249.2021.33.71.84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33094/26410249.2021.33.71.84","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper aims to explore the relationships among the institutional factor, power factor, space factor and economic geography in Poland. The goal of the study also consists of the examination of the moderating role of geographical diversification among the nexus of institutional factor, power factor, space factor and economic geography in Poland. The data has been gathered by using primary data collection methods and used survey questionnaires for data collection along with simple random sampling to select the respondents and PLS-SEM for data analysis. The results revealed that institutional factor, power factor, space factor have a positive association with economic geography in Poland. The outcomes also concluded that the geographical diversification is moderating among the nexus of institutional factor, power factor, space factor and economic geography in Poland. These findings are suitable for the regulators that they should focus on institutional power and space factor that would improve the economic geography in Poland.","PeriodicalId":207583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Research in Social Sciences","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121817928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Deteriorating Role of Active Transactional Leadership on Employees Perceived Uncertainty and Emotional Exhaustion: Evidence from Educational Sector of Thailand","authors":"T. Sung, Vorada Savaspakdee","doi":"10.33094/26410249.2021.33.61.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33094/26410249.2021.33.61.70","url":null,"abstract":"Given the seriousness of the COVID-19 crisis that impacted organizations all over the world, study on the operational variables impacting the psychological well-being of the workers of an organization affected by the crisis has been insufficient. Therefore, the present study aimed to highlight the role of active transactional leadership of employees’ emotional exhaustion through their perceived uncertainties. For this purpose, a cross-sectional study has been carried out among 309 employees working in Thai educational sector and the data was collected through self-administered questionnaires. The collected data was then analyzed by adopting PLS-SEM approach using SmartPLS 3.0 software. The findings of the study confirmed the direct relationships of active transactional leadership with perceived uncertainties. Also, the study established the direct association of perceived uncertainties with employee emotional exhaustion. The findings further confirmed the mediation of perceived uncertainties between the relationship of active transactional leadership and employee emotional exhaustion.","PeriodicalId":207583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Research in Social Sciences","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121115645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Influence of Geographical Conditions, Area and Information System on Economic Development: Mediating Impacts of International Relations","authors":"A. Loskutov, Olivier Pierre","doi":"10.33094/26410249.2021.33.49.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33094/26410249.2021.33.49.60","url":null,"abstract":"The goal attached to the ongoing research is to explore the influence of geographical conditions, geographical area and information system on the economic development in Russia. The aim that is also attached with the current article is to examine the mediating impact of international relations among the nexus of geographical conditions, geographical area, information system and economic development in Russia. The study and questionnaires have followed the quantitative method of collecting data were used for this purpose. The economist and geographical planner are the respondents while smart-PLS were used to analyze the data by means of checking the reliability, validity and testing of hypotheses. The results show that geographical conditions, geographical area and information system have a positive association with economic development in Russia. The outcomes also exposed that international relations positively mediates among the links of geographical conditions, geographical area, information system and economic development in Russia. These outcomes are providing the guidelines to the regulators that they should increase their focus on the geographical conditions, area and information system factors that could enhance economic development in the country.","PeriodicalId":207583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Research in Social Sciences","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125905716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychological Home, Clutter, and Place Attachment Predicting Life Satisfaction among Women of Color: Home is Beyond Physical Space","authors":"Kendall P. Crum, J. Ferrari","doi":"10.33094/26410249.2019.14.87.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33094/26410249.2019.14.87.96","url":null,"abstract":"We examined psychological home, place attachment, clutter, and life satisfaction with adult women of color (n = 99; M age = 50.33 years old) drawn from a larger national sample of women who self-identified with clutter tendencies. We assessed resource (i.e., annual household income, homeownership status, and relationship status) and contextual (i.e., type of dwelling, number of people in household, and years in residence) variables, plus measures of psychological home, place attachment, and clutter, as predictors of life satisfaction among women of color. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that psychological home was a significant predictor of life satisfaction over and above resource and contextual variables. Place attachment and clutter did not moderate the relationship between home and life satisfaction. However, clutter mediated the relationship between home and life satisfaction. Implications for women of color, study limitations, and future directions are discussed.","PeriodicalId":207583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Research in Social Sciences","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121773562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Z. A. Latiff, Maizatul Vanisha Masril, Rivitra Vintisen, Mardini Zahidi Baki, Nursalwani Muhamad
{"title":"Consumers’ Intention towards Halal Food in Low-Cost Airlines in Kelantan, Malaysia","authors":"Z. A. Latiff, Maizatul Vanisha Masril, Rivitra Vintisen, Mardini Zahidi Baki, Nursalwani Muhamad","doi":"10.33094/26410249.2019.14.82.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33094/26410249.2019.14.82.86","url":null,"abstract":"Low cost airline is the airline that excluding many traditional passenger services and offers generally low fares in exchange. In-flight meal is one of the services that being offered in the low-cost airlines, but the passenger must pay for it. The acceptation of halal food in Malaysia is still low compared to neighbouring country. This study is aimed to identify the intention’s level of consumers and the relationship between religion and consumers intention towards Halal food in low-cost airlines. A self-administered survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire to collect data from the survey respondents. 75 respondents were involved in this study. Purposive sampling technique has been used, and the questionnaire form was designed and adapted based on the ‘TPB’ model. The data collected are entered and analysed using computerizes programmed of SPSS version 21.0. The analysis used is descriptive analysis and Chi-Square analysis. The result illustrates that consumers are mostly at the moderate level of intentions on halal food in low-cost airlines. The findings revealed that religion do have relationship with the intention toward halal food in low-cost airlines.","PeriodicalId":207583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Research in Social Sciences","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116920185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}