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Othman Ibrahim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The impact of Social networking sites on students’ Social Wellbeing and academic performance
Education and Information Technologies, 2019Co-Authors: Sarminah Samad, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Othman IbrahimAbstract:Social networking sites have played an important role in enhancing students' Social presence. As an educational tool for online courses, they have significantly contributed in promoting students' motivation for learning. The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of Social networking sites on students' academic performance. We conduct a comprehensive review on the usage of Social networking sites in academic environments to identify the influential factors and propose a new model based on several research hypotheses. To evaluate the hypotheses and verify the proposed model, a survey is conducted on the female students from a major research university in Malaysia. We use Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory to perform the data analysis. In relation to the statistical technique, this technique can find the casual relationships among the factors, their effect size and their importance levels. The results of our survey revealed that there is positive relationship between Social presence, students' Social Wellbeing and their academic performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Derek Johnson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Livelihood transitions and Social Wellbeing on the Atlantic Forest Coast of Brazil
Maritime Studies, 2019Co-Authors: C. Julián Idrobo, Derek JohnsonAbstract:Globalised change is driving transitions in small-scale tropical fisheries away from natural resource-based livelihoods towards wage labour that involves employment in the service industry and outmigration from centres of origin. In this paper, we employ a Social Wellbeing lens to examine livelihood transitions from the perspective of the inhabitants of Ponta Negra, a fishing community on the Atlantic Forest Coast of Brazil. Social Wellbeing allows the examination of how people experience and perceive environmental change as well as how their desires and aspirations shape their adaptation preferences. In spite of a dwindling fishing economy and increased restriction to accessing lands for agriculture, older people value living in this community but expect their offspring to move to urban centres and join the regional tourism industry labour force. Formal education is seen as a strategic resource that can facilitate desirable livelihood transitions through access to better paid jobs and enabling the mobilisation of local knowledge and other resources into the local tourism economy in ways that allow individuals and households to retain their footing in the community.
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Social Wellbeing and the Values of Small-scale Fisheries - Social Wellbeing and the Values of Small-scale Fisheries
MARE Publication Series, 2018Co-Authors: Derek Johnson, Natasha Stacey, Tim G Acott, Julie UrquhartAbstract:This book advances discussions of values in fisheries by showing the rich theoretical insights and connections possible when value is grounded in a multi-dimensional Social well being approach. Questions of value have long been a central, if often unacknowledged, concern in maritime studies and in research on fisheries. Social scientists have looked at changing perceptions of value as coastal regions and fisheries have industrialized, economic interconnections have deepened, ecosystems have been depleted, shifts in population have occurred, and governance arrangements have been transformed. With a focus on the diverse ways in which small-scale fisheries are valued, the contributions to this volume address these and other themes through cases from numerous countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
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Social Wellbeing and commons management failure in a smallscale bag net fishery in Gujarat, India
International Journal of the Commons, 2017Co-Authors: Rajib Biswal, Derek Johnson, Fikret BerkesAbstract:Social scientists have long recognized that fishing is perceived by many coastal communities as a way of life that does much more than just provide material benefits. A corollary to this is that fishers are often reluctant to quit fishing. Marine fisheries are complex and dynamic, and are often subject to classic commons dilemmas. These dilemmas have become much more acute in recent decades as pressures on the world’s small-scale fisheries have mounted. We argue that a holistic Social Wellbeing approach provides a valuable perspective from which to view changing fisher perceptions of bag net fishing in the face of commons management failure in Gir Somnath District in Gujarat State, India. Fishers’ perceptions of fishing as a desirable occupation are not shaped by only their job satisfaction. Ineffective governance and largely failed institutions are the factors that fishers blame for the recent crisis in their fishery. Many fishers are pessimistic about the future of fishing and do not want their children to be a part of this occupation that was vibrant until recently.
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poverty sustainability and human Wellbeing a Social Wellbeing approach to the global fisheries crisis
Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions, 2011Co-Authors: Sarah Coulthard, Derek Johnson, Allister J McgregorAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which a Social Wellbeing approach can offer a useful way of addressing the policy challenge of reconciling poverty and environmental objectives for development policy makers. In order to provide detail from engagement with a specific policy challenge it takes as its illustrative example the global fisheries crisis. This crisis portends not only an environmental disaster but also a catastrophe for human development and for the millions of people directly dependent upon fish resources for their livelihoods and food security. The paper presents the argument for framing the policy problem using a Social conception of human Wellbeing, suggesting that this approach provides insights which have the potential to improve fisheries policy and governance. By broadening the scope of analysis to consider values, aspirations and motivations and by focusing on the wide range of Social relationships that are integral to people achieving their Wellbeing, it provides a basis for better understanding the competing interests in fisheries which generate conflict and which often undermine existing policy regimes.
Sarminah Samad - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The impact of Social networking sites on students’ Social Wellbeing and academic performance
Education and Information Technologies, 2019Co-Authors: Sarminah Samad, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Othman IbrahimAbstract:Social networking sites have played an important role in enhancing students' Social presence. As an educational tool for online courses, they have significantly contributed in promoting students' motivation for learning. The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of Social networking sites on students' academic performance. We conduct a comprehensive review on the usage of Social networking sites in academic environments to identify the influential factors and propose a new model based on several research hypotheses. To evaluate the hypotheses and verify the proposed model, a survey is conducted on the female students from a major research university in Malaysia. We use Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory to perform the data analysis. In relation to the statistical technique, this technique can find the casual relationships among the factors, their effect size and their importance levels. The results of our survey revealed that there is positive relationship between Social presence, students' Social Wellbeing and their academic performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Mehrbakhsh Nilashi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The impact of Social networking sites on students’ Social Wellbeing and academic performance
Education and Information Technologies, 2019Co-Authors: Sarminah Samad, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Othman IbrahimAbstract:Social networking sites have played an important role in enhancing students' Social presence. As an educational tool for online courses, they have significantly contributed in promoting students' motivation for learning. The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of Social networking sites on students' academic performance. We conduct a comprehensive review on the usage of Social networking sites in academic environments to identify the influential factors and propose a new model based on several research hypotheses. To evaluate the hypotheses and verify the proposed model, a survey is conducted on the female students from a major research university in Malaysia. We use Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory to perform the data analysis. In relation to the statistical technique, this technique can find the casual relationships among the factors, their effect size and their importance levels. The results of our survey revealed that there is positive relationship between Social presence, students' Social Wellbeing and their academic performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Aaron Williamon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Arts engagement trends in the United Kingdom and their mental and Social Wellbeing implications: HEartS Survey.
PloS one, 2021Co-Authors: Urszula Tymoszuk, Neta Spiro, Rosie Perkins, Adele Mason-bertrand, Kate Gee, Aaron WilliamonAbstract:Evidence on the role of the arts in promoting health and Wellbeing has grown over the last two decades. In the United Kingdom, studies using secondary data sources have documented temporal variations in levels of arts engagement in the population, its determinants and its mental Wellbeing implications. However, arts engagement is often characterized by prioritizing "high-brow" art forms. In this article, we introduce the HEartS Survey, a tool that aims to increase the balance between inclusivity and brevity of existing arts engagement measures and to focus specifically on the connection between arts engagement and Social Wellbeing. We explore trends in participatory and receptive engagement with literary, visual, performing, crafts and decorative arts among 5,338 adults in the UK in 2018-2019 using summative engagement scores and cluster analysis. Regression models, adjusted for demographic, socioeconomic, health, and Social covariates, examine correlations between arts engagement and psychological and Social Wellbeing measures. Over 97% of respondents reported engagement in one or more arts activities at least once during 2018-2019, with reading and listening to music being the most popular activities. Arts engagement grouped into three distinct clusters: 19.8% constituted "low engagers" whose main source of engagement was occasional reading; 44.4% constituted "receptive consumers" who read and listened to music frequently and engaged with popular receptive arts activities such as cinema, live music, theater, exhibitions, and museums; and 35.8% constituted "omnivores" who frequently engaged in almost all arts activities. In agreement with existing studies, more arts engagement was associated with higher levels of Wellbeing, Social connectedness, and lower odds of intense Social loneliness. In contrast, we found a positive association between more arts engagement, depression, and intense emotional loneliness for the most highly engaged omnivores. We conclude that arts engagement in the population forms specific profiles with distinct characteristics and consider implications for mental and Social Wellbeing.