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Objectives The aim of the research was to find out whether there is a relationship between the occurrence of dysfunctions in organisations and their wellbeing. Material and methods 121 participants took part in the study. The respondents were students from the Faculty of Management and Command, who are studying and have been employed for at least one year, and individuals who are not affiliated with the University but meet the condition of having been employed for at least one year. A proprietary survey questionnaire was used to collect empirical data. Results The research indicated that respondents perceived a correlation between the lack of wellbeing and the occurrence of dysfunction in the organisation. Respondents indicated in their answers, specific pathologies that they associate with the absence of wellbeing - this was job burnout. The research did not show a relationship with the seniority of the respondents. Conclusions While the research undertaken showed a relationship between the occurrence of organisational pathology indicated by the respondents such as job burnout, the empirical data obtained did not indicate a strong relationship in terms of the perception of organisational pathology in relation to seniority. In contrast, respondents perceive a link between the presence or absence of organisational pathology and wellbeing.

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The aim of this paper is to provide a reflection on the impact that the experiences of public and participatory art can have on citizens, also in terms of people's well-being and health. After an introduction on the role that Public Art can exercise in the cultural welfare context, the article proposes research conducted through a mixed approach aimed at restoring the perception of well-being in citizens who have participated in an urban flânerie experience conducted by artist Elena Mazzi. The case study intends to introduce a comparison on the methods of assessing and measuring the social impact produced by culture.

This paper aimsto clarify whether the concepts of Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing overlap or if there should be a proper definition for each one of them. Taking advantage of previous studies with students from two Polytechnical Institutes, conversational notions were used to form a questionnaire around the three topics above. The cooccurrences in the responses of the 43 subjects indicate that the central concept is Wellbeing, and that Health differs from Mental Health because it is closer to positive and negative ways of coping.

Selected Lectures of the Course “Take care of children, 5th Edition. Inflammation between wellbeing and disease in Pediatrics” and the Meeting “Artificial intelligence in Medicine”; Cagliari (Italy); October 21, 2023 The Course “Take care of children, 5th Edition. Inflammation between wellbeing and disease in Pediatrics” and the Meeting “Artificial intelligence in Medicine” are Satellite Meetings of the 19th International Workshop on Neonatology and Pediatrics, Cagliari (Italy), October 18th-21st, 2023. LECT 1. INFLAMMATION AND THE GUT • A. Staiano (Naples, Italy) LECT 2. UNDERSTANDING NEUROINFLAMMATION • D. Fanni (Cagliari, Italy) LECT 3. GUT DYSBIOSIS AND INFLAMMATION IN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS • M. Mussap (Cagliari, Italy) LECT 4. INFLAMMATION, NEUROINFLAMMATION AND IMMUNITY IN CHILDHOOD • O. Al Jamal (Cagliari, Italy) LECT 5. INFANT ATOPIC DERMATITIS AND NUTRITION: CAN LIPIDOMICS AND METABOLOMICS EXPLAIN THIS RELATIONSHIP? • A. Dessì, R. Pintus, A. Bosco, V. Fanos (Cagliari, Italy) LECT 6. PROBIOTICS AND PFAPA: RATIONALE FOR A PRECISION CHOICE • M. Matera (Grosseto, Italy) LECT 7. INFLAMMATION AND PREVENTION OF METABOLIC SYNDROME THROUGH NUTRACEUTICALS IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE • G. Trapani (Sanremo, Italy) LECT 8. REAL WORLD PRACTICE EXPERIENCES IN THE LOW DOSE APPROACH TO SPECIFIC LEARNING DISORDERS (ASDs). EVIDENCE FROM A RETROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY • C. Supino (Itri, Italy) LECT 9. ANTI-MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINATION: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BOOSTER IN ADOLESCENTS • P. Castiglia (Sassari, Italy) LECT 10. MICROBIOMICS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE • C. Marzetti (Bologna, Italy) LECT 11. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE • V. Fanos (Cagliari, Italy) LECT 12. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE: APPLICATION EXAMPLES • K.K. Kopeć (Cagliari, Italy) LECT 13. THE IMPERFECT BEAUTY • F. Velardi (Rome, Italy) LECT 14. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: FROM POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION TO EXPOSOMICS • A. Colangelo (Trento, Italy)

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Coworking spaces (CSs) have gained significant attention in the last decades as an alternative to traditional offices and homes. These spaces offer a flexible and collaborative environment that caters to the needs of freelancers, entrepreneurs, and remote workers. The purpose of this paper is to systematically review academic literature to investigate how CSs contribute to workers' quality of working life (QWL) and wellbeing. Literature is analysed thematically following the QWL framework proposed by Walton (1973). The findings of this review suggest that CSs may act as a quasi-organisation by emulating the role traditionally undertaken by employers contributing to different aspects of workers’ QWL, which ultimately affect their wellbeing. CSs’ contribution largely depends on the different material features of the spaces, the services offered, the work culture promoted, the curation activity of the host, the coworking members, and the complex interrelation among all these elements. In the conclusive section, the review identifies potential research gaps and areas for future research in this field.

La pandemia da COVID-19 e l’attuale crisi energetica hanno portato all’attenzione dei policy maker la necessità di affrontare la povertà energetica. Per contrastare efficacemente la sua crescente diffusione, è fondamentale conoscere la sua entità e i suoi determinanti. La piena comprensione è stata però ostacolata dalla confusione terminologica tra fuel poverty ed energy poverty, nonché dal ricorso a indici unidimensionali. Dopo aver descritto i limiti degli approcci tradizionali, l’articolo sostiene come il capability approach di Sen rappresenti il quadro normativo più adeguato a valorizzare la natura multidimensionale della povertà energetica dal punto di vista teorico ed empirico.

Based on the ethnographic field study of two Lombardy Solidarity Purchase Groups (Gruppo di Acquisto Solidale - GAS), this article analyses the reasons that lead people to becoming a gasista (a GAS member), and the changes that this choice implies in the rhythms of their daily life. Particular attention will be paid to the point of view of women, especially engaged in the management of the two groups. Firstly, the political significance attributed by GAS members to this form of critical consumerism will be investigated, showing the role that the quest for socio-environmental justice and the search for individual well-being play. Secondly, the consequences of joining a GAS will be explored in the overall redefinition of the time spent managing food, from purchase to consumption. In this way, I intend to show how becoming a gasista does not only mean participating in a community-based purchasing group, but also adhering to a lifestyle that invites people to review usual food practices. Adopting this perspective, I will focus on possibilities and critical aspects that this model of food activism implies, especially in relation to the issue of social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban planning has formed a binomial with health since its origins as a discipline. The demands derived from the welfare society, environmental sustainability and the health circumstances of COVID-19 testify to the need to update this relationship. The aim of the URB_HealthSproject is to study the ways of endorsing health in the contemporary city through the urban design of public space. A knowledge transfer model between the academy and the local society in the field of urban health and public space has been defined , whose theoretical structure and implementation in three European localities is presented.

In the past 50 years, the notion of heritage has become increasingly inclusive and connected to social challenges with a progressive shift of paradigm from an onerous sector to an effective resource fostering new strategies for the societal wellbeing. The new paradigms of culture heritage imply an act of acknowledgement based on the recognition of heritage as a proactive and creative sector that is relevant in promoting health and in contributing to societal wellbeing. However, these developments mostly remain in the form of policy recommendations, and there is still a very urgent international need for concrete scientific evidences to support this potential. A growing body of scientific studies has in fact evidenced the contribution of heritage to the promotion of good health and the prevention of a range of mental and physical health conditions.

In this piece we offer a reflexive account of our recent experiences of teaching with drama in two different online settings. Eva will recount her practice teaching trainee teachers in Switzerland and Nicky will recall her practice working with postgraduate applied theatre students in a drama school in the UK. Over and over again, we have encountered the mind-set that teaching drama online is “not possible”, or at the very least, that it is but a pale reflection of face-to-face teaching. Although we were out of our comfort zone at first, we now feel that teaching with drama online has its place in our fast-paced and increasingly technological world. Teaching and learning in digital contexts will likely remain a reality from now on, thus it is the purpose of this article to make the case for the creative potential of and indeed urgent need for online teaching that includes drama.

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The use of animal in biomedical research remains a critical compromise. Research and higher education institutions play a major role in educating on the use of animal and such training is expected to translate into the development of a culture of care practice across all staff working with animals. But nurturing a “culture of care” and impacting in professional attitudes in the field of animal research remains challenging due to its social, ethical and different institutional frameworks. From an educational perspective, current practice remains challenged by the need for better integration of inter-cultural perceptions on animal welfare, supported by more cross disciplinary integration in educational curriculum including the relevance of the 3Rs principles and promoting reflective practice strategies. Institutional support is crucial to provide a safe, and supportive framework to promote such caring ethos. Our aim is to discuss practical actions to implement and assess culture of care, highlighting its direct impact on the professional integrity of staff which is directly linked to research and education excellence. Seeking a global welfare for all the beings involved and supporting individual and team reflective practice will provide better tools to guarantee the best care of the animals.

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The present study explores some psychological characteristics of siblings caregivers of patients with severe mental disorders. The authors analyze aspects as the siblings' perception of the relationship with their parents, the traumatic experiences, the personality traits, and some psycho-social characteristics. The sample was composed of 60 participants divided in 30 siblings of people with severe mental disorders (group A) recruited in associations and psychiatric facilities, and 30 control siblings. All the participants were living in the North of Italy. We administered the following self-report questionnaires: the Parental Bonding Instrument-PBI, il Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2-MMPI-2, the Inventory of Traumatic Experiences-TEC and an anamnestic questionnaire. Our results showed that the siblings caregivers of people with severe mental disorders present some peculiar characteristics compared to the control group. Specifically, they are more likely to have a different familiar structure, problematic relationships with parents and traumatic experiences within the family than the control group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increase in life prospects calls for reflection about the issue of aging and underlines the importance of taking care of elderly persons fostering their wellbeing. In this context, cognitive flexibility plays a fundamental role for the numerous benefits it produces in the elderly. This study was aimed at testing the effectiveness of "Flexi-train - Cognitive flexibility empowerment program in aging" training, addressed to healthy elderly people, comparing an experimental group involved in the empowering intervention with a control group. Results showed that in the post-test the experimental group achieved higher cognitive flexibility scores than the control group did. Furthermore, greater reflexive capacity and higher critical awareness was observed in the first as compared to the second group. Findings support the notion that the training is effective in stimulating cognitive strategies and prompting reflection about the mental functioning in elder people to enable them to face everyday-life situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The literature on the refugee experience has often highlighted how the nonvoluntary nature of the migration process, the traumatic experiences and the resources loss, expose migrants to acculturative stress (Rossi & Mancini, 2016). Acculturative stress promotes attitudes of separation or marginality (Sem & Berry, 2010), which in turn contribute to generating psychological disease and poor socio-cultural adaptation. However, various studies have shown that this acculturative stress in related to several factors and, among these, also on the personal, social and contextual resources to which forced migrants can draw once they arrive in the host context (Rossi, 2018). Focusing on social resources, this study analyzed how the frequency of contacts, the cultural heterogeneity and the emotional closeness of the social network in the host country is related both to the acculturation attitudes and the to the psychological well-being of forced migrants in Italy. A semi-structured interview composed of Name generator, Acculturation Attitudes Scale and Kessler Psychological Distress Scale were administered to a sample of 160 forced migrants (refugees = 111; Males = 123, Mage = 29.96). The path analysis showed that, by promoting integration, it was above all cultural heterogeneity and the emotional closeness of the social network that increased the migrants' psychological well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last few decades the pursuit of physical and mental wellbeing of the population has become one of the primary goals of contemporary society, for improving the quality of life. This value, in a context of global crisis, requires and promotes social innovation and participatory new subsidiary welfare tools. From this point of view, sport and physical activity appear as relational goods capable of developing awareness and social engagement for better living standards for new athletes and consumers. The first results of the pilot research described here, highlights how physical activity is an element of innovation and social reflexivity for new forms of social cohesion.

Which kind of connection can we have in Italy between sustainability and adult education within the educational and regulatory system? Which kind of international and European perspectives allow us to frame this connection and reshape it in methodological choices for didactics in adult education? This paper proposes a reflection on topics such as social justice, empowerment and adult education, considering authors’ participation in mutual learning initiatives, in Europe and Italy, finalized to the implementation of strategies to improve key and transversal skills. Specifically, this reflection focuses on guidance, and aims to analyse it with the lens of critical education research as it investigates the connection among social justice, empowerment, education and well-being. Giustizia sociale, empowerment e sostenibilità. Come l’orientamento può sostenere una coscienza critica nel life-long learning Quale connessione ci può essere in Italia, nel sistema formativo e normativo, tra sostenibilità e istruzione degli adulti? Quali prospettive internazionali ed europee permettono di inquadrare questa connessione e di rimodularla in scelte metodologiche per la didattica nell’istruzione degli adulti? Il presente contributo propone una riflessione sui temi quali la giustizia sociale, l’empowerment e la formazione degli adulti, considerando la partecipazione degli autori a iniziative di mutual learning, in Europa e in Italia, finalizzate all’implementazione di strategie per migliorare le competenze chiave e trasversali. Tale riflessione si concentra sull’orientamento, e lo analizza in rapporto alla ricerca didattica dei critical educators, interessati al rapporto tra giustizia sociale, empowerment, educazione e benessere.

The article presents the results of a qualitative research conducted through interviews involving fifteen Reiki practicers. This technique was born in Japan and it is based on an energy treatment finalized to achieve a state of psychophysical wellbeing of practicers and receivers. Interviews' analysis has allowed us to highlight the potentialities of this new practice and verify its positive effects on subjects' lifestyle. The survey was based on numerous studies about Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness technique and a limited number of experimental research about Reiki practice and its benefits. We considered constructs of mental presence, tuning and emotions management; we also referred to self-reported health, locus of control and resilience. The main goal of the research is to know and study in deep Reiki technique, Komyo style in particular. It also aims to bring out possible positive effects on psychophysical wellbeing of practicing subjects. Further goal is a gradual opening to oriental practices, today widely diffuse but poorly explored from the scientific point of view. The principal element analyzed was Mindfulness that can be seen as the ability to live the present moment both during treatment and in everyday life, with positive consequences on different contexts of the subject's life and particularly on problem solving skills. The relationship with the body has been analyzed: subjects present high level of perceptual sensibility and show a propensity to search for causes of diseases and an approach of care using the technique. Good tuning capabilities emerge, with a modification of the proxemics and of the contact mode in everyday life. Interesting results has been found about emotional intelligence which is bound to self-awareness and functional emotional regulation strategies. Finally, the ability to accept negative events, which refers to the concepts of resilience and locus of control, has been analyzed. In general the research has allowed to highlight positive effects of Reiki on psychological and emotional wellbeing of the pattern, in its practical and theoretical components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main aim of this research is study the role of entrepreneurial education in academic wellbeing and burnout prevention. Based upon the existing literature, it has been reached the elaboration of several hypothesis; first of all the existence of a high level of entrepreneurial motivations among students as well as a low level of academic burnout in a condition of organizational wellbeing. Hence, the further hypothesis that between the two constructs there is a direct correlation of negative sign and the conclusion that where these requisites are present university is effectively entrepreneurial and in condition of academic wellbeing.

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Substance and behavioural addictions represent a chronic disease, which is constantly growing and is a huge health burden in industrialised countries. Addiction rehabilitation is an intervention aimed at detoxification and strengthening motivation to change. The goal of this study is to explore the level of psychological health and the psychosocial reintegration after hospital discharge of 64 patients who completed a period of hospital rehabilitation for addiction problems. Patients were evaluated after an average of 4.14 years by means of a battery of self-report questionnaires designed to explore psychological and physical health perceptions and certain individual characteristics. Results show that the majority of the sample adopted functional coping strategies including active coping, planning and positive coping. Individual wellbeing is positively related to positive change (t = 2.81; p = 0.01), and negatively related to loss of confidence (t = -2.26; p = 0.03) and social dysfunction (t = - 2.14; p = 0.04), with a variance explained by the model of 68%. Rehabilitation is a long process that requires, after detoxification in inpatient settings, the right information and the implementation of network interventions aimed at stabilising sobriety and positive social and occupational reintegration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Conceptions of wellbeing and good life vary considerably in different cultures. A recent study demonstrates that in the post-contact period, in particular between 1870-1940, New Zealand was the healthiest country in the world in terms of life expectancy, but only for non-Māori citizens. The introduction of Western culture and liberal economy was lethal for Māori who risked extinction. One race prospered to the detriment of the other. This trend changed when subalternity became resistance, and the government and public opinion acknowledged Māori “diversity” as a legitimate face of the country. The official recognition of specific indigenous views of health, development, social structures and wellbeing led to the establishment of formal institutions, strategic plans and frameworks to promote them. Māori have also influenced national policies on some cross-cultural issues, for example the defence of the environment. All this has been recorded in short stories, the most widespread genre in Aotearoa New Zealand. My article explores different notions of wellbeing in New Zealand short fictions by non-Māori and Māori authors such as Frank Sargeson, Roderick Finlayson, Noel Hilliard, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace.

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On the basis of a survey conducted with elderly in the city of Luxembourg (N = 903) in 2002, this text presents a method aiming to predict the localisation of an estimated population liable to health relevant problematics. The main objective of this methodology is to aggregate individual information (point mapping) to produce discrete information (area mapping). This dimensional change is obtained by a projection procedure. This projection makes possible the mapping of the characteristics observed in the survey, at a fine scale and for the entire city.