Psychosocial associations of emotion-regulation strategies in young adults residing in the United Arab Emirates.

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Azhar, H. , Baig, Z. , Koleth, S. , Mohammad, K. and Petkari, E. (2019), Psychosocial associations of emotion‐regulation strategies in young adults residing in the United Arab Emirates. Psych J. doi:10.1002/pchj.272, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.272 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived VersionsThe management and expression of emotions can have a positive impact on psychological health and overall functioning. Thus, it is crucial to focus on the study of emotion regulation and the strategies young adults employ to achieve it, namely cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, as well as their associations with the long neglected psychosocial factors. The current study aimed at exploring the associations between psychosocial factors and the two emotion-regulation strategies, after controlling for potential sociodemographic confounders. This study used a sample of 136 participants from the Indian subcontinent living in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, aged 18-25 years, who completed instruments measuring social anxiety, social support, and parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive) as well as the use of the emotion-regulation strategies of suppression and reappraisal. The results indicated that having experienced authoritarian parenting and perceiving low social support were associated with the use of suppression, while having experienced authoritative parenting and low levels of social anxiety were associated with the use of emotional reappraisal. Our study provides evidence on the importance of psychosocial factors for the use of emotion-regulation strategies and suggests their modification for the promotion of adaptive ways of managing emotions

Progress in dark tourism and thanatourism research: An uneasy relationship with heritage tourism

This paper reviews academic research into dark tourism and thanatourism over the 1996–2016 period. The aims of this paper are threefold. First, it reviews the evolution of the concepts of dark tourism and thanatourism, highlighting similarities and differences between them. Second it evaluates progress in 6 key themes and debates. These are: issues of the definition and scope of the concepts; ethical issues associated with such forms of tourism; the political and ideological dimensions of dark tourism and thanatourism; the nature of demand for places of death and suffering; the management of such places; and the methods of research used for investigating such tourism. Third, research gaps and issues that demand fuller scrutiny are identified. The paper argues that two decades of research have not convincingly demonstrated that dark tourism and thanatourism are distinct forms of tourism, and in many ways they appear to be little different from heritage tourism

Asylum seekers: an update

  The issue of asylum seekers has proven a fraught policy area for successive governments in Australia. While asylum seeker policy falls under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, recent changes to Federal policy in relation to asylum seekers who arrive by boat could potentially have implications for NSW, with increasing numbers of asylum seekers being accommodated in the community, rather than in secure immigration detention centres. The NSW Government has responded with concern about the implications of recent policy changes for State infrastructure and resources. This paper outlines developments in national policies relating to asylum seekers between 2008 and 2011, thereby updating a paper published by the NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service in 2008

Medical cannabis - June 2014

Overview: The first half of this Issues Backgrounder considers the key legal issues that arise in relation to medical cannabis, in particular the relationship between Commonwealth and State laws. The second half sets out some of the key background parliamentary, scientific and legal sources

Haunted borders: Temporary migration and the recalibration of racialised belonging in Australia

The shift away from a focus on permanent settlement and towards a temporary migration paradigm is remaking Australia’s borders in the twenty-first century. Through an empirical case study of Indian migrants in Australia this thesis examines the implications of the shift to temporary migration for the racial belonging of migrants in Australia. Adopting an intergenerational approach it examines data from interviews conducted in Sydney with Indian migrants who are long-term settlers in Australia, as well as those who migrated from India from the year 2000 on temporary visas. Interviews with key informants, government officials, and local service providers are also analysed to provide insights into the governmentality of temporary migration. The relative paucity of theorising on race in studies of contemporary migration gives race a spectral quality that is ever-present but barely articulated. This thesis seeks to render speakable the ghost of race in migration. Firstly, I analyse the nation’s border as a space haunted by the ghost of race. I argue that historicising the use of temporary migration in transnational settler colonial contexts, including through a comparative study of temporary migration in Canada, is crucial to illuminating the contemporary function of temporary migration as a racial biopolitical technology of the border. Secondly, I analyse three key ways in which temporary migration functions as a racial biopolitical technology. The biopolitical modality of chronopolitics produces temporary migrants as precarious subjects by conditioning their relation to the present and future. The system of governmentality through which temporary migration is administered further conditions the precarity of temporary migrants, while ensuring their externalisation from national social policy frameworks for migrant integration. The Australian state then regulates the link between temporary and permanent migration using the body of the temporary migrant to draw the racial fault line between the ‘desirable’ settler subject and ‘undesirable’ disposable migrant subject. Finally, I examine how Indian migrants negotiate haunted borderscapes to make their own futures through temporalities of hope that exceed nationalist constructs of belonging

DECO 1013 Sound Design and Sonification Assignment 1. Alarms_For_A_Car

The scenario chosen was to create alarms for a car. The alarms were created for the following:1 – When an obstacle is approaching near back of the car 2 – When the driver’s seat belt is not worn after the car has started 3 – When the driver is in reverse 4 – When there is an obstacle near the front of the car 5 – When the driver opens the front car door while the key is in ignition. There is detail of each in the documentation

DECO 1013 Sound Design and Sonification Assignment 1. 5_Alarms_For_A_Car

I have chosen the scenario of a car and created alarms for the following:1 – When an obstacle is approaching near back of the car 2 – When the driver’s seatbelt is not worn after the car has started 3 – When the driver is in reverse 4 – When there is an obstacle near the front of the car 5 – When the driver opens the front car door while the key is in ignition. Detail for each are in the documentation

Overseas students: immigration policy changes 1997–May 2010

This paper provides a chronology that draws on ministerial press statements to trace changes in Australia’s immigration policy in relation to overseas students between 1997 and May 2010. Immigration policies introduced under the Howard Coalition Government and the Rudd Labor Government in this 12 to 13 year period have fundamentally changed the nature of migration to Australia. Policy changes in this period were pivotal in facilitating the rapid growth of overseas student education in Australia by forging links between the overseas student program and permanent skilled migration. The paper begins its analysis in 1997 as this appears to be the point at which the Howard Government commenced making announcements about overseas students as an immigration issue

Alien Game: The impossible ethics of development tourism

Development tourism provides something to believe in even through the incredible excesses and depletions of neoliberal reform and the extension of coloniality. It takes first world tourists to various projects around the world so that they can assist with development efforts through volunteering and immersion. Such popular action has been widely criticised in the existing literature, however, this ethnography of development tourism contributes to a more productive conceptualisation of the ‘popular’ as a dynamic intervention into the field of development ethics. I contextualise development tourism within emerging spaces of popular development defined by diverse, inexpert and privileged forms of agency, populist discourses and uneven ethical practices. The diversity of my participants’ practices of belief, in particular, challenges the liberal consensus over the capabilities framework and the end of poverty in development ethics. I argue that development tourists do creative ethical work by building aporetic relations of belief to futures and forms of contribution to development work that are so incommensurable to the contemporary consensus as to be impossible. Drawing on post-colonial re-readings of Jacques Derrida’s work on the impossible, I understand belief as a simultaneously immaterial and material relation to the impossible figures of the contingent limit points of development ethics. I explore the way in which my participants relate to the limit-points of giving enough, community, a post-development era, a racialised poverty and a better future as figures of the impossible. I use literatures on development ethics, faith, post-development, planetarity, future-making, the social life of things and the affective presence of pain to illuminate the emergence of belief as a destabilising and excessive experience of the impossible. Belief in these impossible limits emerges in ambivalent materialisations between proliferating first worlds and the ‘Third World’. Far from guaranteeing equitable or positive change, relations of belief transform the boundaries and possibilities of the development industry