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An Ethical Perspective on Loot Box Purchasing : Examining Psychosocial Antecedents and the Association with Indebtedness
2023
Loot boxes are popular random reward mechanisms in digital games, attracting players to invest real money to enhance their gaming experiences. Loot boxes share striking similarities to gambling and might contribute to one’s economic strain, but more research is needed on the underlying vulnerabilities and motivational traits in loot box purchasing. This paper examines associations with self-reported increase in loot box purchasing and debt problems during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. International survey data were collected in 2021, consisting of Finnish, Swedish, and British respondents (N = 2,991) aged 18 to 75. Partial least squares modeling was used as an analytical techniqu…
Sport participation and loneliness in adolescents: the mediating role of perceived social competence
2013
Published version of an article in the journal: Current Psychology. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-013-9174-5 Young people perceive loneliness as a distressing emotional experience associated with sadness and boredom. Also, feelings of loneliness may be associated with psychosocial and emotional problems during adolescence. The aim of this study was to investigate whether perceived social competence mediated the cross-sectional relationship between sport participation and loneliness in young people when controlling for age, sex, shyness, and non-organized physical activity. This cross-sectional study consisted of 2,055 pupils (995 boys and 1,060 girls…
“La solitude de l'auteur” en tant que condition sine qua non de l'acte créateur chez Marguerite Duras
2019
Loneliness seems to be a leitmotif of Marguerite Duras’s literary oeuvre. It is interpreted by the writer primarily as a personal experience, a specific form of freedom, the dominant expression of which is silence expressing pain, loss, inability to communicate with other people, unfulfilled love. Loneliness is also seen as a sine qua non condition that allows one to focus on oneself, to close oneself in one’s own world. This is an indispensable element of the author’s poetics, the one having an ontological character, referring to “the way of thinking, reasoning”. Duras treats loneliness as a typical condition of every true writer, inscribed in his or her condition, and argues that one can …
Utilizing ICT to prevent loneliness and social isolation of the elderly. A literature review
2016
Ageing of the population is a worldwide phenomenon. Numerous ICT-based solutions have been developed for elderly care but mainly connected to the physiological and nursing aspects in services for the elderly. Social work is a profession that should pay attention to the comprehensive wellbeing and social needs of the elderly. Many people experience loneliness and depression in their old age, either as a result of living alone or due to a lack of close family ties and reduced connections with their culture of origin, which results in an inability to participate actively in community activities (Singh & Misra, 2009). Participation in society would enhance the quality of life. With the deve…
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…
Loneliness in adult people: its relationships with stress, health and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning
2022
El sentiment de solitud és un dels principals problemes de les societats occidentals. En els últims anys els avanços en internet ens han portat a ser una societat més connectada que mai, a pesar d’açò, aquest sentiment s’està incrementant. Per sobreviure i prosperar, els éssers humans necessitem dels altres per satisfer les necessitats d’afecte, pertinença i reconeixement. D’aquesta manera, la solitud sorgeix de la discrepància entre les relacions íntimes i socials desitjades i les reals. La investigació indica que la solitud està relacionada amb l’estrès i amb diverses conseqüències en la salut tant física com psicològica. Aquesta es pot experimentar al llarg de la vida, encara que és més …
Transnational ties: Resource or stressor on Peruvian migrants' well‐being?
2020
This paper explores the role of types and the intensity of transnational ties for migrants' well‐being from a global perspective. Based on a literature review, two competing hypotheses are formulated—transnational resources versus transnational stress—according to which transnational ties have either a positive or a negative effect on migrants' well‐being. Drawing on data from a large‐scale survey of Peruvian migrants worldwide, this paper examines the strength and direction of the relationship between Peruvian migrants' transnational ties and poor well‐being, the latter measured as depression/loneliness as a principal concern. While the multivariate regression results do not support the tr…
Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Satisfaction with Life Scale in an elderly Portuguese retirees students sample
2017
El objetivo principal de este estudio ha sido analizar las propie- dades psicométricas de la escala de Satisfacción con la Vida (SWLS) en una muestra de 363 estudiantes jubilados pertenecientes a varias universidades portuguesas. El 70% de los participantes eran mujeres frente a un 30% de hombres, con una media de edad de 67 años (SD = 7.59) y un rango de edad comprendido entre 48 y 90 años. Se realizó un Análisis Factorial Ex- ploratorio con R Commander y un Análisis Factorial Confirmatorio con Amos 18.0. El modelo que obtuvo un mejor ajuste estaba compuesto por un único factor. El índice de consistencia interna de la escala en su conjun- to fue de .777. En cuanto a la validez concurrente,…
Yksinäisten työikäisten vuorovaikutussuhteet
2018
Riittävät vuorovaikutussuhteet ovat tärkeä hyvinvoinnin resurssi. Vuorovaikutussuhteiden vähäisyys tai se, etteivät suhteet vastaa odotuksia, aiheuttaa ahdistusta ja muita negatiivisia tunteita. On luonnollista tuntea ajoittain itsensä yksinäiseksi, mutta pitkittynyt tai pysyvä yksinäisyyden tunne on vakava ongelma. Tämän systemaattisen kirjallisuuskatsauksen tavoitteena on jäsentää, mitä tiedetään yksinäisten työikäisten vuorovaikutussuhteista. Työikäisillä tarkoitetaan tässä alle 65-vuotiaita aikuisia. Katsaus kohdistuu työikäisten yksinäisyyttä koskevaan viestinnän ja lähitieteiden tutkimukseen vuosilta 2006–2017. Viimeaikainen työikäisten yksinäisyyden tutkimus on kohdistunut yksinäiste…