scholarly journals Personal Control of the Indoor Environment in Offices: Relations with Building Characteristics, Influence on Occupant Perception and Reported Symptoms Related to the Building—The Officair Project

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 3227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakellaris ◽  
Saraga ◽  
Mandin ◽  
de Kluizenaar ◽  
Fossati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indoor Environment ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
Strong Relation ◽  
Building Characteristics ◽  
Environment Parameters ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Perceived Personal Control

Personal control over various indoor environment parameters, especially in the last decades, appear to have a significant role on occupants’ comfort, health and productivity. To reveal this complex relationship, 7441 occupants of 167 recently built or retrofitted office buildings in eight European countries participated in an online survey about personal/health/work data as well as physical/psycho-social information. The relationship between the types of control available over indoor environments and the perceived personal control of the occupants was examined, as well as the combined effect of the control parameters on the perceived comfort using multilevel statistical models. The results indicated that most of the occupants have no or low control on noise. Half of the occupants declared no or low control on ventilation and temperature conditions. Almost one-third of them remarked that they do not have satisfactory levels of control for lighting and shading from sun conditions. The presence of operable windows was shown to influence occupants’ control perception over temperature, ventilation, light and noise. General building characteristics, such as floor number and floor area, office type, etc., helped occupants associate freedom positively with control perception. Combined controlling parameters seem to have a strong relation with overall comfort, as well as with perception regarding amount of privacy, office layout and decoration satisfaction. The results also indicated that occupants with more personal control may have less building-related symptoms. Noise control parameter had the highest impact on the occupants’ overall comfort.

From “we” to “me”: Group identification enhances perceived personal control with consequences for health and well-being

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Helen Greenaway ◽  
S. Alex Haslam ◽  
Tegan Cruwys ◽  
Nyla Branscombe ◽  
Renate Ysseldyk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Group Identification ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Perceived Personal Control ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Control Study

There is growing recognition that identification with social groups can protect and enhance health and well-being, thereby constituting a kind of “social cure.” The present research explores the role of control as a novel mediator of the relationship between shared group identity and well-being. Five studies provide evidence for this process. Group identification predicted significantly greater perceived personal control across 47 countries (Study 1), and in groups that had experienced success and failure (Study 2). The relationship was observed longitudinally (Study 3) and experimentally (Study 4). Manipulated group identification also buffered a loss of personal control (Study 5). Across the studies, perceived personal control mediated social cure effects in political, academic, community, and national groups. The findings reveal that the personal benefits of social groups come not only from their ability to make people feel good, but also from their ability to make people feel capable and in control of their lives.

scholarly journals Proposal of a spatial database for indoor navigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. e51718
Author(s):  
Rhaíssa Viana Sarot ◽  
Luciene Stamato Delazari ◽  
Silvana Philippi Camboim
Keyword(s):  
Indoor Environment ◽  
Spatial Database ◽  
Indoor Navigation ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
New Information ◽  
Shortest Distance ◽  
Object Relational ◽  
The Relationship

This paper presents an approach to build a spatial database for indoor environments. It will be presented the main requirements for the implementation of an object-relational database for the representation and analysis of indoor environments, which considers the solutions for both type of representations, floor plan and schematic map. These representations consider the high number of information found in an indoor environment and the fact that they are disposed in different floors of the structure. The relationship between objects and their attributes defines the links and restrictions between them. Hence, the model should describe the entities and their interrelationships, as well as the attributes of the elements and their characteristics. After the database was developed, it was implemented an algorithm that calculates routes between points in the indoor environment, considering not only the shortest distance but also the floor change. The model was tested by Antunes and Delazari (2019) using an application and some interviews with users to evaluate the elements included in the database considering a navigating task. Some results pointed out the need to insert new information in the database regarding physical characteristics (color, material) of elements found in the indoor environment to assist users during orientation and navigation tasks. Moreover, it is necessary to include elements from the outdoor environment used as reference points in the cartographic representation.

The influence of material reliance, personal control, and expectations on quality of life during consumers’ life transitions

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 743-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Thyroff ◽  
Jennifer Siemens ◽  
Brandon McAlexander
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Life Transitions ◽  
Life Transition ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Perceived Personal Control

Purpose Drawing from a life course theory, this paper aims to investigate the relationship between material reliance and quality of life for consumers going through a life transition, with attention given to individual differences and transition-specific characteristics. Design/methodology/approach Study 1 uses qualitative interviews with transitioning consumers, while Study 2 tests a survey-based conditional mediation model. Findings For liminal consumers, perceived personal control mediates the effect of material reliance on quality of life, but having negative expectations of the transition can override this effect. Originality/value Although previous research has given attention to material reliance, personal control and quality of life in various combinations, the impact of their combined effect has not been examined. Furthermore, these constructs have not been examined within the context of life transitions.

A Cross-Sectional View of Fear of Death and Dying Among Skydivers

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Griffith ◽  
Muath Gassem ◽  
Christian L. Hart ◽  
Lea T. Adams ◽  
Rikki Sargent
Keyword(s):  
Death And Dying ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Recreational Activity ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Death ◽  
Present Cross Sectional Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Perceived Personal Control

The literature lacks a consistent pattern on the relationship between attitudes toward death and dying across occupations and recreational pursuits. The present cross-sectional study categorized a group of individuals engaging in a high-risk recreational activity (i.e., skydivers) on the basis of experience and classified them into student, intermediate, and experts. There were more negative attitudes of death and dying among student skydivers compared with more experienced skydivers. It was also found that expert skydivers had more negative attitudes toward death and dying on some of the measures compared with the intermediate level experienced skydivers. It may be the case that factors such as perceived personal control, overconfidence, and metacognition may be related to these observed differences between the two more experienced groups of skydivers. The possibility of the factors playing a role in skydivers’ attitudes toward death and dying should be taken into consideration in the training programs for skydiving.

Interviewer's Locus of Control and Conditioning of Interviewee's Self-Reference Statements

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 1307-1316 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Weight
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Factorial Experiment ◽  
Response Class ◽  
Verbal Reinforcement ◽  
Social Reinforcer ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Perceived Personal Control ◽  
Self Reference

An experiment sought to explore the relationship between an interviewer's perceived personal control and his effectiveness as a social reinforcer during free verbalization in an interview. The design was a 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 factorial experiment. The experimental variables were the locus of control of both interviewers and subjects, reinforced response class, and sex. During the experimental sessions subjects were reinforced for the emission of either positive or negative self-references. The following results were obtained: (1) Internal interviewers were generally more effective than externals in eliciting positive self-references. (2) Verbal reinforcement increased the emission of positive self-references. (3) Negative self-references were relatively unaffected by either internal or external interviewers. (4) Internal interviewers had maximum influence when subjects were male. (5) Internal interviewers were significantly more confident about the quality of their relationship with subjects.

The relationship between optimism, personal control and quality of life of patients with COPD

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Arnold ◽  
A. V. Ranchor ◽  
N. H. T. ten Hacken ◽  
G. H. Koeter ◽  
V. Otten ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
The Relationship

Income or Culture? Examining the Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing in an International Sample

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddharth Garg
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Subjective Wellbeing ◽  
Regression Coefficient ◽  
Marginal Utility ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The World ◽  
Diminishing Marginal Utility ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: The aim of this paper was to examine the relationship between income, subjective wellbeing, and culture among people from a higher socio-economic class across the world. Rationale: Ed Diener proposed the law of diminishing marginal utility as an explanation for differences in subjective wellbeing among different income groups across different countries (Diener, Ng, & Tov, Balance in life and declining marginal utility of diverse resources, 2009). Thus, people with higher incomes would experience less subjective wellbeing due to income, and culture should emerge as a significant predictor. Method: Data from this study came from another study (https://siddharthgargblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/14/love-for-money/). I used an online survey to collect data on annual income in US dollars, subjective wellbeing (WHO-5), and country of residence (Indicator of Culture). 96 responses (Indians = 24, Foreigners = 72) were entered in IBM SPSS and a regression analysis was conducted. The raw dataset used in this study can be found at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8869040.v1Results: ANOVA showed a significant difference (p < 0.05) between Indians and foreigners on levels of subjective wellbeing. Linear regression shows the regression coefficient of culture to be significant (Beta = -.254, p = .014) but the regression coefficient of income was not found to be significant. The overall model was found to explain 8.2% of the variance in wellbeing.Conclusion: The sample of this study is too small to make any kind of generalization; it does lend a little bit of support to the idea of diminishing marginal utility of income on subjective wellbeing and provides a rationale for further research.

Perceived uniqueness: Locus of control, social exclusion, and choice

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Shichang Liang ◽  
Yaping Chang ◽  
XueBing Dong ◽  
Jinshan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Central China ◽  
External Locus ◽  
Internal Locus Of Control ◽  
Uniqueness Results ◽  
The Relationship

We examined the influence of locus of control on the relationship between social exclusion and preference for distinctive choices. Participants were 212 undergraduate students at a university in Central China, who completed measures of social exclusion, locus of control, choice, and perceived uniqueness. Results showed that participants who believed that the environment controlled their fate (external locus of control) preferred more distinctive choices in a social exclusion context than in a social inclusion context, whereas participants who believed that they could control the environment (internal locus of control) preferred less distinctive choices. Further, perceived uniqueness mediated the effect of social exclusion and locus of control on choice. These results add to the literature on social exclusion and personal control.

scholarly journals Politics of Nostalgia and Populism: Evidence from Turkey

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Ezgi Elçi
Keyword(s):  
Direct Effect ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Party Preference ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article scrutinizes the relationship between collective nostalgia and populism. Different populist figures utilize nostalgia by referring to their country's ‘good old’ glorious days and exploiting resentment of the elites and establishment. Populists instrumentalize nostalgia in order to create their populist heartland, which is a retrospectively constructed utopia based on an abandoned but undead past. Using two original datasets from Turkey, this study first analyzes whether collective nostalgia characterizes populist attitudes of the electorate. The results illustrate that collective nostalgia has a significantly positive relationship with populist attitudes even after controlling for various independent variables, including religiosity, partisanship, satisfaction with life and Euroscepticism. Secondly, the study tests whether nostalgic messages affect populist attitudes using an online survey experiment. The results indicate that Ottoman nostalgia helps increase populist attitudes. Kemalist nostalgia, however, has a weak direct effect on populist attitudes that disappears after controlling for party preference.

Coercive Controlling Behaviors and Reporting Physical Intimate Partner Violence in Australian Women: An Exploration

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122098593
Author(s):  
Brittany Patafio ◽  
Peter Miller ◽  
Arlene Walker ◽  
Kerri Coomber ◽  
Ashlee Curtis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Physical Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Differential Utility ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Controlling Behaviors

This study explores two approaches to measuring coercive controlling behaviors (CCBs)—counting how many different CCB types and examining the frequency of each CCB experienced—to examine their utility in explaining the relationship between CCBs and physical intimate partner violence (IPV). Australian women aged 18–68 years ( n = 739; Mage = 31.58, SDage = 11.76) completed an online survey. Count and frequency CCB approaches yielded similar significant associations with increased physical IPV. Both approaches suggest that frightening behaviors in particular are significantly indicative of also experiencing physical IPV; however, when you count CCB types, public name-calling becomes important, whereas when you examine the frequency of each CCB type, jealousy/possessiveness becomes important. These findings suggest differential utility between measures of CCBs, which examine the frequency of specific CCB types and which count CCB types, and that both approaches are useful in understanding how coercion and control relate to physical violence within intimate relationships.

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