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Published in Tony Cassidy, Stress, Cognition and Health, 2023
Past research has predominantly drawn on the quantitative research paradigm, and the current advance in qualitative methods provides both a strong case and a means for redressing the balance. Linked to this are the stirrings of the constructivist approach to stress research. This has implications for moving away from an individual level focus and combined with developments in social cognition, particularly in the area of social identity and social categorisation, provides a means for conceptualising and investigating group and societal-level factors. Related to this is the need to recognise and explore the social and physical context of health and illness at a range of levels. Arguably community and environmental psychology provide a useful model for this development. This more comprehensive analysis of context and cognitions must address the developmental nature of the stress process, which requires more longitudinal research. There is also the issue of stress across life domains and the tendency in the past to focus on single domains as if they were independent of the rest of life, for example, work stress. This means considering the interaction and interdependence between domains and recognising changes in the importance of life domains, for example, the growth in importance of leisure. Finally, there is the growing recognition of the importance of stress and emotional functioning over traditional foci on ability, intelligence and other basic skills. We will look at each of these areas briefly.
The Evaluation
Published in William C. Beck, Ralph H. Meyer, The Health Care Environment: The User’s Viewpoint, 2019
The orientation toward the design professions which has characterized most of the work and publications in the field of environmental psychology and sociology is beginning to broaden to include others who are involved in “environmental design”. We are beginning to realize that managers and administrators are responsible for much of the day-to-day design decisions in any organization. They decide who will use what space and equipment, in what ways, when, and with whom. They decide when to renovate, or when to build a new facility. These kinds of organizational decisions are a basic form of environmental design, and it is to this audience, as much as it is to professional researchers, that this article is directed.
Prisons and Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals
Published in Ezra E. H. Griffith, Belonging, Therapeutic LANDSCAPES, and Networks, 2018
Beijersbergen and colleagues (2016, 844) have noted that the “relationships between correctional officers and prisoners are at the heart of prison life.” That relationship has been thought to be influenced by the architectural design of the prison. However, the design alone is not the sole cause of what transpires in prisons. In general, prison experts have been careful to suggest that the quality and characteristics of both staff and prisoners have their own independent, as well as interactive, effects on the behavioral outcome in prisons. Beijersbergen et al. (2016) have pointed to contributions from environmental psychology that suggest the users of a building may be influenced by that building’s design. These authors have noted that this belief is widespread, even though the association has not been studied extensively.
Be Our Guest: The Development of the Interpersonal Hospitality Scale
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2023
Benjamin R. Meagher, Jaidyn Cook, Shanti C. Silver, Mathilde Van Doosselaere, Joseph I. Wint, Xinjie Zheng
Despite its clear role in everyday human interaction, there is yet to be a measure of individual differences in hospitality published in the psychological literature. Nevertheless, a pair of relevant measures of hospitableness have been published by those working in hospitality management. However, their adequacy for use in personality, social, or environmental psychology research is likely limited. The first, developed by Blain and Lashley (2014), is a 13-item scale broken into three dimensions: the host’s desire to make guests happy, make guests feel special, and to put guests before themselves. The authors, consistent with Telfer (2000), focus on motive, emphasizing the distinction between ulterior motives and actual altruistic hospitality. Although the items have reasonable face validity, the structure and validity of the scale was not assessed using rigorous analytic testing.
Environmental pre-requisites and social interchange: the participation experience of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder in Zurich
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2021
Beate Krieger, Barbara Piškur, Christina Schulze, Anna Beurskens, Albine Moser
Many different definitions of environment are used in the literature. In this paper “environment” is regarded along the lines of the definition provided by the World Health Organisation, which defines the concept as “the physical, social, and attitudinal environment in which people live and conduct their lives” [5, p.5]. Environment, in this definition, has been identified as being an important influential factor on participation, particularly for youth with disabilities [9–12]. Environments act as mediators and they can serve dynamically as either barriers or facilitators for participation of adolescents with ASD [6]. It has been established in the field of environmental psychology that, to be optimal for the facilitation of participation, environments firstly need to provide information, such as descriptions of social rules and processes, provide secondly meaningful choices to participate actively, and last facilitate interactions that pursue a restorative character [13,14].
Indigenous perspectives on education for sustainable healthcare
Published in Medical Teacher, 2020
Nicole Redvers, Clinton Schultz, Melissa Vera Prince, Myrna Cunningham, Rhys Jones, Be’sha Blondin
Human-caused global environmental changes (GECs) are increasingly disrupting the interconnected ecosystems on which our existence depends. Deforestation, the pollution of our air and waterways, the emergence of new pathogens and extreme weather events are and will continue to disrupt life if we follow our current consumptogenic lifestyles (Jones 2019). With many contributing factors to the GECs being anthropogenic through our reliance on fossil fuels and extractive processes, the healthcare sector requires an urgent reflective process given its contribution of approximately 4.4% of global greenhouse gas emissions (Health Care Without Harm 2019). Thus, not only will healthcare providers and institutions need to care for an expanding global disease burden, they will also be charged with reducing healthcare’s environmental footprint. Despite the breadth of evidence of the interrelationship and interdependence of our natural environment and our health and well-being in environmental psychology (Howell et al. 2013), environmental sociology (Beery et al. 2015), public health (Bowler et al. 2010), and Indigenous knowledge studies (Reid et al. 2016), governments and society continue to function in ways that are antithetical to the well-being of the planet and thus to our well-being.