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El papel de la autoestima y la soledad en el uso problemático del smartphone: diferencias de género
2021
RESUMEN El presente estudio investigó las relaciones entre la autoestima, la soledad y el uso problemático del smartphone y las diferencias de género. La muestra fue no probabilística y estuvo compuesta por 202 participantes (106 hombres y 96 mujeres), con edades comprendidas entre los 18 y los 58 años, que completaron las siguientes pruebas: Smartphone Addiction Scale, Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults y Escala de Autoestima de Rosenberg. Se calcularon los estadísticos descriptivos, la prueba U de Mann-Whitney, análisis de correlación bivariados y dos modelos de regresión múltiple jerárquica. Se hallaron diferencias significativas entre hombres y mujeres en el uso problemáti…
Self-regulated learning, self-efficacy beliefs and performance during the late childhood
2010
This article analyzes relations between self-regulated learning, self-efficacy beliefs, and performance in tasks of solving arithmetic problems. The research includes 268 six-year-old students enrolled in the first year of primary school in Spain. The results from binary logistic regression models indicate that self-regulated learning and its interaction with self-efficacy beliefs predict performance. Finally, the cluster analysis shows four profiles of students: i) positive adjusted; ii) negative unadjusted I; iii) negative unadjusted II y; iv) negative adjusted.. Este artículo analiza relaciones entre el aprendizaje autorregulado, las creencias de autoeficacia y el desempeño en tareas de …
Incarcerated women, welfare services and the process of re-entering society in Finland
2020
The pathways in and out of crime differ according to gender, people’s life histories, social situations and networks. Before being sentenced, many women have been living in vulnerable and traumatic life situations and violent relationships. Substance abuse often plays a crucial role in committing crimes. Being released from prison and re-entering society is a process that requires women’s own motivation to desist along with help and support from society. This chapter shows how women narrate and describe their experiences after being released from prison and especially how they report the ways in which the welfare system responds to their needs. They discussed their needs for support and ser…
Understanding McDonald's Among the "World’s Most Ethical Companies"
2008
The animal welfare policies and related public communication initiatives of McDonald’s corporation are examined in the context of the organization being named as one of the world’s most ethical organizations. The result is a framework for understanding how McDonald’s and similar organizations could warrant the status of a most ethical company. Specifically, the narrative strength of the company’s articulation of an animal welfare policy and its ongoing promotion as a legitimizing strategy illustrate how McDonald’s might address the social and ethical issues it encounters through its operations and how its stakeholding publics are likely to respond. By maintaining narrative strength in commu…
Financialization of Eldercare in a Nordic Welfare State
2022
Abstract The increasing presence of for-profit service providers in publicly-funded eldercare has transformed care in Nordic welfare states which have a strong tradition of public care provision. Macro-level research on care policies has mainly focused on public institutions, national policies, and marketization. The financialization of eldercare has not received much scholarly attention, and existing studies mostly focus on the UK. The financialization of eldercare refers to the ways in which care is both a site of profit extraction and financial engineering. The Nordic system is relatively universal, and, with rapidly ageing demographics, there is a secured demand for eldercare services. …
Turning experience into expertise : technologies of the self in Finnish participatory social policy
2017
This article investigates the micro-level practices of subject-construction in Finnish participatory social policy. Through a governmental ethnography on projects that invite former beneficiaries to become ‘experts-by-experience’ in social welfare organizations, I discern the possibilities for freedom in the participants’ self-construction. By making use of Michel Foucault’s conceptual tools of care of the self and confession, I illustrate how, contrary to the projects’ emancipatory promise of providing the service users the freedom to reconstruct themselves, the projects entail practices that curb the participants’ way of ‘knowing themselves’. They require the service users to reframe thei…
‘The will to not be empowered (according to your rules)’: Resistance in Finnish participatory social policy
2018
Participation has increasingly become a means and an end for successful and ‘empowering’ social policy. Building on previous governmentality critiques of participatory initiatives, this article investigates practices of resistance in the context of Finnish participatory social policy. I adopt a Foucauldian counter-conducts approach as my lens to study critical speech as a form of resistance in initiatives that invite marginalised people as ‘experts-by-experience’ in social welfare organisations. I illustrate how practices of governing and resistance are intertwined and mutually dependent in a much subtler and more practical manner than allows the often-used analytical dichotomy between domi…
The Human Right to Social Security and Its Impact on Socio-Political Action in Germany and Finland
2017
Social human rights have rarely been given attention in social work research or comparative studies on welfare states. The paper aims at filling the gap by analysing the conception of human beings inherent in human rights and in unemployment policy documents in Germany and Finland. Its focus lies on the right to social security, a central norm of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The main question is what impact does the right to social security have on socio-political action in Germany and Finland. The results of the analysis, which was based on the objective hermeneutics, revealed a structural similarity between the conceptions of human beings in both cou…
Lapsen etu vastaanottotoiminnan sosiaalityössä
2011
Käsitys lapsen edusta on vahvistunut huomattavasti viimeisen kuluneen sadan vuoden aikana. Erityisesti näin on käynyt suhteessa lapseen itseensä. Tätä vahvistumista on tukenut mm. YK:n lapsen oikeuksia koskeva yleissopimus, joka velvoittaa viranomaiset ja lainsäätäjät ottamaan huomioon lapsen edun esisijaisuuden. Kaikissa sosiaalityön lapseen välittömästi, tai välillisesti, liittyvissä kysymyksissä harkinta kohdistuu tavalla, tai toisella aina lapsen etuun. Tästä huolimatta käsitettä, lapsen etu, ei ole missään yksiselitteisesti määritelty. Näin sosiaalityön normiohjaukseen perustuvaa ratkaisua on helppo perustella viittaamalla yleisesti ja epämääräisesti ”lapsen etuun”. Lapsen etua ei kuit…
Framtidas eldre - hva mener de egentlig om velferdsteknologi? : En studie om holdninger til teknologi i morgendagens helsetjeneste
2017
Masteroppgave i helse- og sosialinformatikk HSI500 - Universitetet i Agder 2017 Background: In 2040 the number of elderly (< 80 years) will double. Welfare technology is introduced as one of the solutions to the challenges health care is facing (Parliamentary report 29 (2012-2013)). There is little data on the elderly’s attitudes about services in the years to come and their attitudes toward welfare technology.Aim: The aim of the study was to mapattitudes towardwelfare technology among the future generation of elderlyin the municipality of Grimstad, as well as to assess predictors for positivetechnology attitudes.Research method: On the basis of Theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1985),aque…