Adlerian Lifestyle,Stress Coping,and Career Adaptability: Relationships and Dimensions

In the new millennium, workers are vested with the responsibility of managing their own careers. Additionally, workers are expected to engage in the continual development of skills applicable across various work environments. With this need for continual development come frequent work transitions and the need for building career adaptability. Stress can ensue from this constant need to update skills and transition to new work environments. The purpose of this study was to explore relationships among Adlerian lifestyle attributes, stress coping, and career adaptability. Canonical correlation was used to explore the relationships among these variables. The results indicated that 3 dimensions were significant and interpretable: socially attuned, compliant, and impassive. The results partially support the hypothesis that high feelings of belongingness are associated with high coping resources. However, the results also highlight that a high need for acceptance from others and for following social norms may impede the development of career adaptability.     

Resource Allocations to the Aged According to Greatest Social Need

The purposes of the study reported on in this article were: (a) to explore the measurement of social need among the elderly, and (b) to develop an appropriate method for including social need in funding allocation procedures. Interview responses from over 4,000 randomly selected elderly persons were used to identify the demographic correlates of those having the most restrictions in their everyday lives. Procedures for intrastate allocations were developed using variables suggested by the Older Americans Act and by research to explain variance in activities of daily living. Variables tested for the model were: age, income, living arrangement, gender, ethnicity, area of residence, occupation, hospitalization, years in the neighborhood, language at home, and utilization of senior services. Prediction formula weights were adjusted (|ß_i|/Σ|ß_i|) to allocate resources to the proportions of 10 "high-need" groups residing in each planning area: the population aged 75 and older, the proportion of hospital discharges of elderly patients, elderly females, elderly non-Caucasians, the elderly not completing high school, elderly farm workers, elderly urban residents, a proportion for participation in senior services, for low-income elderly persons, and for the elderly not living with their spouses. Compared to current systems, the proposed procedure provides a closer fit to the actual needs of the elderly.     

虚拟世界网络用户生活方式测量模型研究

近年来,以"第二人生"为代表的虚拟世界在互联网应用领域所产生的影响及其蕴含的巨大商机已经引起企业界的高度重视.然而,关于虚拟世界的理论研究目前仅处于起步阶段,尚缺乏对虚拟世界用户生活方式等行为规律系统深入的认识,可供借鉴的研究方法和测量工具也很有限.基于现有的关于现实世界消费者生活方式和网络用户生活方式的研究,提出虚拟世界生活方式的概念及其测量模型,并采用在"第二人生"中进行街头拦访和问卷调查的研究方式荻取数据,对该模型进行量表设计和实证分析;通过探索性因子分析和验证性因子分析,初步建立包含个性满足、人际交往、社会融入和虚拟体验4个维度的虚拟世界生活方式测量模型,用以综合反映虚拟世界居民的行为、兴趣、价值观和态度等基本特征.为今后关于虚拟世界居民生活方式的研究与应用提供可以借鉴的测量工具,同时也表明在虚拟世界进行街头拦访这一实证研究方法具有可行性.     

论环境法学研究的当代任务

“环境问题”作为当前社会“时代问题”的“征候”,与当代人的生活样法紧密相关,并促使人们思考人类在其本质力量增长过程中对其自身存在知觉的历史逻辑。因此,环境法学研究势必要建立在对人类生活本质施以关怀的基础上,才能获得根本发展。因此,当前环境法学研究的重要意义在于：一方面将环境科学和法律科学贯通糅合起来,促使社会生活保持法律规范所意欲的谨慎与矜持;另一方面,通过无可回避的知觉张力,促使人类警醒于生活的惯性,并为既有时代提供自我超越的契机。     

消费主义和“同志”空间：都市生活的另类欲望地图

基于对在成都市同性恋社区中桑拿、酒吧和健身房等“同志”商业性场所的民族志研究,本文以列斐伏尔的“空间的生产”的视角,探讨了在目前中国都市消费革命的推动下,作为新的“差异空间”的“同志”空间的生产和发展。笔者认为,市场经济和消费主义的兴起,使传统上属于私人领域的同性恋问题被置于属于公共范畴的市场经济之中,并赢得了新的社会合法性。虽然仍然面临诸多来自国家和社会的压制,但“同志”人群公共空间的拓展,从一个侧面反映了消费革命所带来的“解放”和“自由”。这些商业性场所是“同志”社区的重要组成部分,通过参与社区的活动,同志人群在性、语言、兴趣和价值观念等方面彼此认同,构成了后来“同志运动”得以发展的文化基础。     

Geographic distribution of cardiovascular comorbidities in South Africa: a national cross-sectional analysis

Objectives: We sought to estimate the spatial coexistence of hypertension, coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke and hypercholesterolaemia in South Africa. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa. Participants: Data were from 13,827 adults (mean±SD age 39±18 years, 58.4% women) interviewed in the 1998 South African Health and Demographic Survey. Interventions: N/A. Primary and secondary outcome measures: We used multivariate spatial disease models to estimate district-level shared and disease-specific spatial risk components, controlling for known individual risk factors. Results: In univariate analysis, observed prevalence of hypertension and CHD is was high in the south-western parts, and low in the north east. Stroke and high blood cholesterol prevalence appeared to be evenly distributed across the country. In multivariate analysis (adjusting for age, gender, ethnicity, education, urban-dwelling, smoking, alcohol consumption and obesity), hypertension and stroke prevalence were highly concentrated in the south-western parts, whilst CHD and hypercholesterolaemia were highly prevalent in central and top north-eastern corridor, respectively. The shared component, which we took to represent nutrition and other lifestyle factors not accounted for in the model, had a larger effect on cardiovascular disease prevalence in the south-western areas of the country. It appeared to have greater effect on hypertension and CHD. Conclusion: This study suggests a clear geographic distribution of cardiovascular disease in South Africa, driven possibly by shared lifestyle behaviours. These findings might be useful for public health resource allocation in low-income settings.     

Home virtuality and the platformized life of Chinese international students in the United Kingdom

This article examines a nascent phenomenon in which a cluster of digital platforms mimicking popular Chinese apps has popped up in various cities in the United Kingdom (UK). They have been eagerly adopted by a strong clientele composed mainly of Chinese international students and young working migrants from China. Drawing on data we gathered from the British city of Manchester, one of the most popular destinations for Chinese international students, we propose the concept of home virtuality to illustrate how Chinese student migrants’ frequent surfing of these Chinese-style digital platforms has created a ‘virtual home’ that is quite reminiscent of the platformized lifestyle in China, and that thus offers them a sense of connection to home. We argue that this ‘home virtuality’ does not only imply a virtual connection but is also a home environment materialized through the familiar app services of the new Chinese platform businesses in the UK.     

此在如诗,人之居也如诗——《瓦尔登湖》写景中的禅

《瓦尔登湖》与《辋川集》同是宁静、充满智慧的作品,本文通过典型片断解读作品中山水之景中带有的禅宗思想的独特之处,探寻作者的人生态度,来把握作品的艺术和思想价值,以期对现代生活有所启发。     

人文奥运的价值内涵

文化构成人类全部的生活方式,通过对文化的反思和观照,人类洞悉了自身存在的意义和价值。解读人文奥运的人文价值、社会价值和自然价值,促进人们对人与人、人与社会、人与自然关系的反思与重构,使人类生活方式的各个层面具有一种全新的价值维度。     

Gendering of success: fashion designers in designer stories in the Finnish lifestyle magazine Gloria*

Fashion journalism is part of the fashion system that legitimizes and reproduces the creativity, celebrity status, and symbolic power of fashion designers. This article examines the gendering of the success of fashion designers in designer stories in the Finnish lifestyle magazine Gloria. The material consists of 21 stories about designers published in 2013–2014. They are analyzed by applying a multimodal close reading that takes into account the dialogic relationship between written text and images. The analysis highlights the gendered representation of success: male designers emerge differently from women designers as glamorous personas and successful professionals. First, male designers are related to a grand tradition and presented as designers in the own right, whereas women designers are mostly depicted as continuers of a man’s work or a family business; second, many women designers are presented as designers of one particular hit item; third, women’s designership is presented as work and business instead of genuine creative art; and fourth, women designers are presented as more approachable and communicative human beings than men both in verbal and in visual expression. Hence, success is produced in a way that emphasizes the male designers’ visionary characteristics and decreases the grandeur of the women’s designership.