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Your Voice of Self-Advocacy
Published in Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau, Beyond Menopause, 2023
Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau
Be aware that your ways of knowing come from multiple sources: how you feel (emotion), how you perceive (intuition), how you think (cognition), and how you act (conation). Your self-advocacy voice will be more powerful when you integrate these sources to support your body, mind, and spirit.
Technology Acceptance, Adoption, and Usability: Arriving at Consistent Terminologies and Measurement Approaches
Published in Christopher M. Hayre, Dave J. Muller, Marcia J. Scherer, Everyday Technologies in Healthcare, 2019
Lili Liu, Antonio Miguel Cruz, Adriana Maria Rios Rincon
An individual decides to accept, adopt and ultimately use a particular technology because factors have provoked behavioural changes in this individual. Although there exist specific theories that explain acceptance and adoption of technologies (we will explain them below), all of these are based on two root theories that explain why an individual chooses to use or not use a technology. These theories are the Theory of Planned Behaviour (Ajzen, 1991), and its predecessor, Theory of Reasoned Action (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975). The main postulate of these theories relies on the assumption that ‘since much human behavior is under volitional control, most behaviors can be accurately predicted from an “appropriate measure” of the individual’s intention to perform the behavior in question’ (Fishbein, 1980). In turn, an individual’s intention to perform the behaviour is determined by certain individual’s reactions to perform the target behaviour (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975) (see Figure 17.2a). In general terms, one can say that these individual’s reactions can be broken into beliefs and attitudes. According to Fishbein and Ajzen (1975, p. 12), attitudes are favourable or unfavourable evaluations of an object, whereas the term belief is the information that an individual has about an object. In other words, beliefs are an individual’s cognition that link and object to certain attributes, whereas attitudes are feelings and evaluations that a person has about an object. Beliefs influence a person’s attitude towards the target behaviour. There are two kinds of beliefs, including an individual’s and normative nature beliefs. The last kind of belief refers ‘to certain referents think the person should or should not to perform the behavior in question’ (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975). An individual may or may not be motivated to comply with a given referent, thus, the combination of individuals’ motivations and the normative beliefs lead to normative pressures. This is what has been defined as subjective norm, i.e., ‘the person’s perception that most people who are important to him or her think he or she should or should not perform the behavior in question’ (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975). Thus, ultimately a person’s behavioural intention is determined by two main factors: one’s subjective norm and one’s attitude towards the behavioural intention. In turn, the actual behaviour (the overt behaviour) is determined by a person’s behavioural intention (conation) to perform the overt behaviour under study (Figure 17.2b).
The temporal experience in depression: from slowing down and delayed help seeking to the emergency setting and length of treatment
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2022
Depressed patients loose the temporal continuity: there is an experience a loss of conation, there is no more openness to a future and there are no more possible activities: the past is fixed and therefore there is no more hope of redemption which can result in a pervasive feeling of irrevocable guilt (Fuchs, 2002). ‘Depressed patients subjectively seem to have lost the ability to influence or change the present, resulting in an impersonal and blocked future; the present is rendered meaningless, the past unchangeably negative, and the passage of time turned into a dragging, inexorable, and viscous continuance’ (Vogel et al., 2018). In healthy subjects, the capacity of protention indeed carries the opportunity to make up for mistakes and imperfections or for missed opportunities in the past. There is no more striving of the ego: desire and curiosity have gone, the future world is no longer alluring an no longer draws us in (Ratcliffe, 2012). The ‘élan vital’ disappears, since there is no more orientation towards the future.
Holistic wellness in the life of Angela Merkel: a call to revise the wheel of wellness in the light of new positive psychology movements and socio-cultural changes
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2020
Claude-Hélène Mayer, Roelf van Niekerk, Paul J. P. Fouche
What is widely known about Merkel’s emotions is her exaggerated fear of dogs, due to an attack she was exposed to during childhood. In a meeting in 2007, Putin used this fear in talks about the German-Russian energy crises. He led his dog into the room where he met Merkel (Della Sala & Skchurina, 2019). Merkel, whose fearful expression was broadcasted via the world media, commented on the politics of fear from a rational point of view: “I understand why he has to do this – to prove he’s a man. He’s afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this.” (Packer, 2014). This reaction of Merkel to the dog debacle exemplifies her ability to use emotion-filled language to retaliate when she is treated unfairly. And, it shows that a conative or forceful use of emotional language is at times needed to react to unfair aggression. This notion of positive conation may not fit with the WoW model that is associated with a rather positive, loving attitude and where mutual appreciation are expected as model of shared goals and understanding. It may be necessary to extend the WoW model (a positive model of mental health) to also take conative or negative emotions more into account. This is in line with Wong (2019) and others who have extended PP1.0 towards PP2.0 which also takes suffering and the working through the negative aspects and emotions into account.
Building occupational therapy practice ecological based occupations and ecosystem sustainability: exploring the concept of eco-occupation to support intergenerational occupational justice
Published in World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin, 2020
Yannick Ung, Thiébaut Samson Sarah, Marie-Josée Drolet, Salvador Simó Algado, Muriel Soubeyran
Based on the concepts explored in the context of management and organisational research conducted by Hannah, Avolio, and May (2011), we believe that eco-occupations confront individuals, groups of people and societies to engage in a decision-making process in the face of ethical issues, notably ethical dilemmas. As part of this process, the authors identified two main dimensions: (1) Moral maturation comprising three components such as the complexity of moral representations, metacognitive ability and moral identity (Hannah, Lester, & Vogelgesang, 2005) and (2) Moral conation, which is also composed of three components, moral ownership, moral efficacy and moral courage.