scholarly journals Comparative Personality Traits Assessment of Three Species of Communally Housed Captive Penguins

Animals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 376
Author(s):  
Giovanni Quintavalle Pastorino ◽  
Richard Preziosi ◽  
Massimo Faustini ◽  
Giulio Curone ◽  
Mariangela Albertini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Behavioral Characteristics ◽  
Specific Expression ◽  
Fundamental Factor ◽  
Animal Management ◽  
Group Life ◽  
Animal Personalities ◽  
Health And Well Being

Understanding animal personalities has notable implications in the ecology and evolution of animal behavior, but personality studies can also be useful in optimizing animal management, with the aim of improving health and well-being, and optimizing reproductive success, a fundamental factor in the species threatened with extinction. Modern zoos are increasingly being structured with enclosures that host different species, which permanently share spaces. This condition has undeniable positive aspects, but, in some species, it could determine the appearance of collective or synchronized behaviors. The aim of this study was to verify, in a colony of three species of communally housed penguins (Pygoscelis papua, Aptenodytes patagonicus and Eudyptes moseleyi), through a trait-rating assessment, if interspecific group life impacts on the expression of personality traits, and if it is possible to highlight specie-specific expression of personality traits, despite the influence of forced cohabitation. For many of the personality traits we analyzed, we have observed that it was possible to detect an expression that differed, according to the species. From a practical point of view, these data could ameliorate the management of the animals, allowing to design animal life routines, according to the different behavioral characteristics of the cohabiting species.

scholarly journals Transition from Emotional to Rational Advertising for Food Products on the Romanian Market

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
A.F. Jităreanu ◽  
Elena Leonte ◽  
A. Chiran ◽  
Benedicta Drobotă
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Brand Advertising ◽  
Tangible Evidence ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract Advertising helps to establish a set of assumptions that the consumer will bring to all other aspects of their engagement with a given brand. Advertising provides tangible evidence of the financial credibility and competitive presence of an organization. Persuasion is becoming more important in advertising. In marketing, persuasive advertising acts to establish wants/motivations and beliefs/attitudes by helping to formulate a conception of the brand as being one which people like those in the target audience would or should prefer. Considering the changes in lifestyle and eating habits of a significant part of the population in urban areas in Romania, the paper aims to analyse how brands manage to differentiate themselves from competitors, to reposition themselves on the market and influence consumers, meeting their increasingly varied needs. Food brands on the Romanian market are trying, lately, to identify new methods of differentiation and new benefits for their buyers. Given that more and more consumers are becoming increasingly concerned about what they eat and the products’ health effects, brands struggle to highlight the fact that their products offer real benefits for the body. The advertisements have become more diversified and underline the positive effects, from the health and well - being point of view, that those foods offer (no additives and preservatives, use of natural ingredients, various vitamins and minerals or the fact that they are dietary). Advertising messages’ diversification is obvious on the Romanian market, in the context of an increasing concern of the population for the growing level of information of some major consumer segments.

Establishing a Health Network of Personality Profiles for Adolescents and Emerging Adults

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuzhan Hang ◽  
Lydia Gabriela Speyer ◽  
Liina Haring ◽  
Billy Lee ◽  
Uku Vainik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Graph Analysis ◽  
Late Adolescents ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Neo Personality Inventory ◽  
Dimensional Network ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health And Well Being

Many health problems that occur later in life have their origins in behaviours and associated lifestyle habits established earlier in life. We aimed to gain new insights into the structure of health and well-being of late adolescents and emerging adults through examining a multi-dimensional network that quantitatively estimates the personality similarities (personality correlations) between sixteen different health related behaviours and outcomes. The personality correlations were based on nuance level personality traits, captured by 240 items of the EE.PIP-NEO Personality Inventory that predicted the outcomes more accurately than broader personality traits (Big Five domains and facets; N = 2,269), and analysed using Exploratory Graph Analysis. The sixteen outcomes fell into four groups based on their personality correlations: psychological distress, health awareness, emotional control and substance use. Personality correlations, quantifying the overlap among outcomes in their psychological background, can explain associations between health-related behaviours and outcomes, and psychopathological comorbidities.

Migrants’ health and well-being in the context of the Greek economic crisis: a narrative review

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 282-297
Author(s):  
Maria Psoinos
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Full Text Review ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Narrative Literature Review ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Health And Well Being

Purpose Despite numerous studies on the separate health consequences of economic crises and post-migration difficulties, very little is known about the processes through which the intersection of economic crisis and post-migration adversity contribute to migrants’ health vulnerabilities. The purpose of this paper is to examine existing literature about how newly arrived and long-term migrants’ health and well-being are affected by the economic crisis in Greece. Design/methodology/approach The ongoing economic recession in Greece, combined with the recent migration crisis, provided an adequate context for investigating migrants’ health and well-being. A narrative literature review was performed on whether and how migrants’ health and well-being are affected by the economic and the migration crises in the particular case of Greece. Papers published between January 2010 and December 2017 were selected based on review of titles and abstracts, followed by a full text review. Findings The review identified a surprisingly limited number of relevant studies. Ultimately five studies were selected and their findings summarised. There was only one study attempting to unravel the specific processes through which the crisis and the post-migration problems impact cumulatively on migrants’ health and well-being and to suggest healthcare improvements. Further research on this topic is urgently needed. Originality/value This paper explores existing research looking at how migrants’ health and well-being are affected by the economic and the migration crises in Greece. The emerging dearth of research evidence on the above topic is also critically discussed from a socio-political point of view and recommendations are made related to healthcare practice and services set up for migrants’ health and care.

scholarly journals The Policy Relevance of Personality Traits

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wiebke Bleidorn ◽  
Patrick Hill ◽  
Mitja Back ◽  
Jaap J. A. Denissen ◽  
Marie Hennecke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Relationships ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Predictors Of Success ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Policy Relevance ◽  
Health And Well Being

Personality traits are powerful predictors of outcomes in the domains of education, work, relationships, health, and well-being. The recognized importance of personality traits has raised questions about their policy relevance – that is, their potential to inform policy actions designed to improve human welfare. Traditionally, the use of personality traits in applied settings has been predicated on their ability to predict valued outcomes, typically under the assumption that traits are functionally unchanging. This assumption, however, is both untrue and a limiting factor on using personality traits more widely in applied settings. In this paper, we present the case that traits can serve both as relatively stable predictors of success and actionable targets for policy changes and interventions. Though trait change will likely prove a more difficult target than typical targets in applied interventions, it also may be a more fruitful one given the variety of life domains affected by personality traits.

Empathy and Altruism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric L. Stocks ◽  
David A. Lishner
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Motivational State ◽  
Fruitful Research

The term empathy has been used as a label for a broad range of phenomena, including feeling what another person is feeling, understanding another person’s point of view, and imagining oneself in another person’s situation. However, perhaps the most widely researched phenomenon that goes by this label involves an other-oriented emotional state that is congruent with the perceived welfare of another person. The feelings associated with empathy include sympathy, tenderness, and warmth toward the other person. Other variations of empathic emotions have been investigated too, including empathic joy, empathic embarrassment, and empathic anger. The term altruism has also been used as a label for a broad range of phenomena, including any type of helping behavior, personality traits associated with helpful persons, and biological influences that spur protection of genetically related others. However, a particularly fruitful research tradition has focused on altruism as a motivational state with the ultimate goal of protecting or promoting the welfare of a valued other. For example, the empathy–altruism hypothesis claims that empathy (construed as an other-oriented emotional state) evokes altruism (construed as a motivational state). Empathy and altruism, regardless of how they are construed, have important consequences for understanding human behavior in general, and for understanding social relationships and well-being in particular.

scholarly journals Perceived Environmental, Individual and Social Factors of Long-Distance Collective Walking in Cities

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 2458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Yang ◽  
Shanshan Dai ◽  
Honggang Xu ◽  
Peng Ju
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Positive Social Interaction ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Health And Well Being

Long-distance collective walking is a popular activity in cities across China. However, related research is limited, creating a research gap to explore participants’ dynamic experience and related influential factors. Therapeutic mobilities theory explores the relationships among walking, health, and well-being from a qualitative perspective. Based on therapeutic mobilities theory, following a systematic process, this study develops a scale to quantitatively estimate the perceived environmental, personal, and social factors that may influence health and well-being. By applying construal level theory, this paper further hypothesizes that personality traits and familiarity moderate environmental, personal, and social perceptions. Data were collected with a paper survey (n = 926) from the “Shenzhen 100 km Walking” event. The findings highlight that long-distance collective walkers have comparatively greater experiences of health and well-being in three aspects: positive social interaction, individual development, and environmental understanding. Personality traits, familiarity, and gender moderate this well-being experience. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Exercise Prescription to Foster Health and Well-Being: A Behavioral Approach to Transform Barriers into Opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 968
Author(s):  
Daniela Lucini ◽  
Massimo Pagani
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity Intervention ◽  
Exercise Prescription ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Behavioral Approach ◽  
Physiological Mechanisms ◽  
Exercise Interventions ◽  
Technical Competencies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Health And Well Being

The current literature contains multiple examples of exercise interventions to foster health and to prevent/treat many chronic non-communicable diseases; stress and functional syndromes. On the other hand, sedentariness is increasing and to transform a sedentary subject into a regular exerciser is not only very difficult but considered by some unrealistic in current clinical practice. Ideally a physical activity intervention may be considered actually efficacious when it outgrows the research setting and becomes embedded in a system, ensuring maintenance and sustainability of its health benefits. Physicians need specific skills to improve patients’ exercise habits. These range from traditional clinical competencies, to technical competencies to correctly prescribe exercise, to competencies in behavioral medicine to motivate the subject. From a behavioral and medical point of view, an exercise prescription may be considered correct only if the subject actually performs the prescribed exercise and this results in an improvement of physiological mechanisms such as endocrine, immunological and autonomic controls. Here we describe a model of intervention intended to nurture exercise prescription in everyday clinical setting. It aims to a tailored prescription, starts from the subject’s assessment, continues defining clinical goals/possible limitations and ends when the subject is performing exercise obtaining results.

scholarly journals Associations between dimensions of behaviour, personality traits, and mental-health during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Hampshire ◽  
Peter J. Hellyer ◽  
Eyal Soreq ◽  
Mitul A. Mehta ◽  
Konstantinos Ioannidis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Health And Well Being

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic (including lockdown) is likely to have had profound but diverse implications for mental health and well-being, yet little is known about individual experiences of the pandemic (positive and negative) and how this relates to mental health and well-being, as well as other important contextual variables. Here, we analyse data sampled in a large-scale manner from 379,875 people in the United Kingdom (UK) during 2020 to identify population variables associated with mood and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to investigate self-perceived pandemic impact in relation to those variables. We report that while there are relatively small population-level differences in mood assessment scores pre- to peak-UK lockdown, the size of the differences is larger for people from specific groups, e.g. older adults and people with lower incomes. Multiple dimensions underlie peoples’ perceptions, both positive and negative, of the pandemic’s impact on daily life. These dimensions explain variance in mental health and can be statistically predicted from age, demographics, home and work circumstances, pre-existing conditions, maladaptive technology use and personality traits (e.g., compulsivity). We conclude that a holistic view, incorporating the broad range of relevant population factors, can better characterise people whose mental health is most at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Towards the Path of "Health in All Policies" in Germany: Proposal for a Policy Paper

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mandl Stangl J
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Health In All Policies ◽  
Integrated Strategies ◽  
Policy Paper ◽  
Political Cooperation ◽  
Health And Well Being

The idea that it is possible to improve the health of citizens through integrated strategies with a "Health in all Policies" approach has been advocated in Germany mainly from an academic point of view and not from affiliations or competencies to strengthen political cooperation in, by and for health and well-being. Our central proposal suggests a political route for consideration by the federal government. We conclude with a series of reflections on the feasibility of the ideas presented.

scholarly journals Urban Farming During the Pandemic and Its Effect on Everyday Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Maya Andini ◽  
Ova Candra Dewi ◽  
Annisa Marwati
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Space Environment ◽  
Urban Farming ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
The City ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
At Home

This study aims to see the effect of practicing urban farming in limited space in landed houses, especially during this pandemic. Pandemic forces us to stay at home at all times while continuing to do our daily activities of working and studying. This results in a shifting of time consumption we used to spend time commuting to work for other activities, including urban farming at home. Urban farming is the activity of growing and producing food in the city, as food is one of the basic needs of humans to survive. In addition to supporting food security within the area, it gives benefits also to the people’s health and well-being, as well as the surrounding environment. The methods used in this study are exercising and observing the availability of space and its effect on people and living space (environment) from the literature review point of view and case studies. This study eventually finds that performing urban farming as a choice of activity is proven to be beneficial in maintaining people’s health and wellbeing.

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