Free Will, Community Cultivation And Workload In Healthcare
Contents
- Is free will an illusion?
- What makes mothers feel competent?
- Continuity and discontinuity in the historical dimensions of community culture
- Risk and protective factors of mental stress among medical staff
Is free will an illusion?
The ability to have free will may seem self-evident, but in the history of science, the deterministic (incompatible with the possibility of free will) and non-deterministic (permitting free will) concepts can be traced back for centuries. After clarifying the most important basic concepts, we review the observations related to voluntary movement and their interpretation possibilities, mostly those that allow or rule out the possibility of free will based on the phenomenon of a preparation potential that precedes the intention of voluntary movement by several 100 ms. From the point of view of the question, it may be important to consider whether psychic activity, which can be understood as a product of the nervous system, can affect the system that created it. If this is possible, this may leave open the possibility of free will.
What makes mothers feel competent?
Adolescence is a time of changes; nevertheless, the mental health of adolescents' parents receives little attention. This study aimed to explore the relationship between parental mentalizing, attachment style, parental sense of competence, and stress among parents of adolescents. One hundred eighty-six mothers completed validated questionnaires measuring these constructs. We conducted a moderated mediation analysis with maternal attachment style as the independent variable. The dimensions of parental sense of competence, efficacy and satisfaction were chosen as the dependent variables, and stress was the moderator. The mediator was the certainty about the mental states (CMS) aspect of parental mentalizing. CMS mediated the relationships between dismissing attachment style, efficacy and satisfaction at low-stress levels. Our results suggest that in the case of the dismissing attachment style, besides the attachment style itself, mentalizing and stress levels are also important predictors of the parental sense of competence among mothers of adolescents.
Continuity and discontinuity in the historical dimensions of community culture
The study focuses on the reform efforts of community culture in the seventies and eighties of the last century. However, these processes cannot be understood without taking into account the cultural events of the preceding decades and, to some extent, of the period between and before the two world wars. This is why the paper will discuss, on the one hand, the most important international and domestic events of the decades preceding the period under examination, which indirectly shaped the development of community culture. On the other hand, it also analyses the processes that directly determined the events that have now become history and cultural history of the profession. In line with its research questions, the paper also seeks to explore the professional continuity that partly linked the period of the Austro-Hungarian Reconciliation, the era between the two world wars, the 1945-48 period, the reform efforts of the 1970s and 1980s, the era of system change and the major changes in community culture that started in 2012, along the lines of key concepts and activities related to its fundamental goals and values.
Ponyi, L. (2023.). Folyamatosság és megszakítottság a közösségi művelődés történeti dimenzióiban.
Risk and protective factors of mental stress among medical staff
The mental health of healthcare workers is of particular importance, especially during periods of high workload. The topic received considerable attention in the first phase of COVID, but we can assume that the extra burden on employees did not go unnoticed. The newly published study by Gábor Aranyi and his Austrian co-authors analyzes the mental workload of the health workers of the Ottakring Clinic in Vienna from the perspectives of post-traumatic stress, anxiety, coping with stress, COVID-specific stress and protective factors. While nurses are generally exposed to a higher mental workload than doctors, specialists who work closely with patients in positions of high responsibility can be considered the most vulnerable subgroup. Nurses show more positive coping strategies than doctors, but doctors may rely on more protective factors than nurses. Regardless of occupation, women reported higher mental workload than men. The detailed analysis can serve as a guide for developing supportive strategies to protect the mental health of healthcare workers.