Psychological Wellbeing and Personality Mental Health

Wellbeing is a multifaceted phenomenon with regard to its conceptualization, fields of application, discourse practices and a great number of components. Its greatest advantage resides in health improvement and lifespan increment. Health can be considered as a source of physical and mental force, as an adaptive ability of the organism, an ideal and meaning of life, an ideal state of the individual who feels well. The aim of the study was to examine socio-psychological features of the respondents with different degrees of subjective wellbeing and health self-esteem pronouncement. As a result, the four groups involving 202 testees were singledout. The survey showed that both health self-esteem and subjective wellbeing serve as predictors not only of attitude towards the world and the self but also as a certain “frame” through the prism of which the person perceives the world around. It was revealed that the respondents with low health self-esteem are emotionallyunstable, prone to neuroticism and dissatisfaction with their life in general. The group of the testees with high health self-esteem and high level of subjective wellbeing are characterized by proactive attitude, a zest for life, positive self-esteem, lack of sustainable tension, while the respondents with low level of subjectivewellbeing and low health self-esteem exhibit an increased level of neuroticism, significance of their social environment and preoccupation with their own emotional sensations. The search for individual and typological specific features depending on the person’s subjective perceptions about his health and wellbeing allows forrevealing idiosyncratic “syndromes” of individual consciousness. Keywords: subjective wellbeing, mental health, typology

Training as an Activity for Optimizing Emotional and Personality Wellbeing

Emotional and personality wellbeing (EPW) represents a complex system capturing a great number of elements, subjects, and objects that differ in a qualitative diversity of internal bonds and complexity of system–structural relationships with other systems and social milieu. This training aimed at optimizing emotional andpersonality wellbeing including a psychological impact on various components of the respondents’ implicit perceptions about their wellbeing, the individual’s awareness of wellbeing factors, their own limitations, adaptive resources, ability to reconstruct notional sphere and a constructive fashion of behavior. Extreme conditions of the activity predetermine most destructive effects on emotional and personal wellbeing.In light of this, the authors introduce the training program in the group of rescuers whose job involves a great number of physical and psychological risks. The training incorporates 5 four-hour thematic blocks and implies the use of such techniques as reflexive self-analysis and focusing, active visualization, techniques aimed at semantic processes’ facilitating, positive reinterpretation, as well as elements of bodily therapy, action-based and gaming techniques, coaching, sand therapy. The effectiveness of the training offered was confirmed upon applying the Wilcockson criterion that showed the validity of differences in SEPW (Self-evaluation of Emotional and Personality Wellbeing) indicators before and after the training: positive indicators have become significantly higher, negative – significantly lower; difference between mean values of integrated EPW indicators and mean value of EPW index have grown significantly. Thus, the training effectiveness was confirmed due to increased awareness of EPW self-evaluation and a wider repertoire of techniques providing normalization of actual psycho-emotional state. The authors underline that the developed training scenariocan be used in any vocational group with the account of specific character of its members’ activities. Keywords: emotional and personality wellbeing, self-evaluation, optimization,trainin

Occupation as a factor of personality subjective well-being

This article examines personality subjective well-being and describes its psychological structure, general components and characteristics. An overview of foreign theories and studies on subjective well-being is presented. Correlations amongrelated concepts such as happiness, life satisfaction and subjective well-being are also described. Subjective well-being is seen as a multivariate construction of a stable nature in mobile equilibrium. It is argued that a type of professional activity can have great importance and a positive impact on an individual's social life, health, identity shaping and psychological wellness. This article's findings are substantiated by the survey administered to 2229 respondents divided into groups according to their area of business: students, psychologists, doctors, teachers, engineering and technical staff, representatives of service industries, workers, military men, and prisoners. The descriptors identified two types of natures: positive, directed to a person's inner world (happy, lucky, optimistic) and to the outer world (trustworthy, competent, successful), and negative (pessimistic, unhappy, envious). This division of nature type was categorized according to the participants' subjective well-being index. Empirical evidence has shown that occupational specificity influences a person's subjective well-being. A substantial difference was found in subjective well-being index of the respondents. A higher index is typical of students and military men. Educators and industrial intelligentsia also demonstrate an increased level of subjective well-being, whereas prisoners tend to have a low level of subjective well-being. The same low index is characteristic of servicing trade representatives and psychologists. © Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2015

Strategic analysis of sustainable socioeconomic situation of rural areas in the Samara Region of the Russian Federation

On the one hand, the relevance of this problem is primarily determined by growing gap of rural territorial entities in socioeconomic development, and on the other hand, due to their significance in such prominent aspects for the country as food security, maintaining the existing land, industrial, ecological, demographic and human potential. The purpose of the article is comprehensive assessment of socioeconomic, institutional and ecological situation of rural areas in order to justify managerial decisions and effective policy making at the regional and local levels. The leading method for studying this problem is stratigic analysis of processes of developing rural areas, as well as factors, affecting development. The results of the study: In this article the authors assessed the situation in socioeconomic sphere of munitipalities in the Samara Region of the Russian Federation, accordingly, based on this, the authors concluded about a predominance of degradation processes, which form instability in the development of rural areas. The results of this study can be used by the regional authorities in their practice for making and implementation both regional policy, as well as strategy of socioeconomic development of rural area. © 2016 Belyaeva et al

Modern technologies of teaching philological disciplines in higher education institutions

The purpose of the study is the justification and development of technologies of the disciplinary and local levels for studying courses in the literary cycle in the conditions of a modular ballroom-learning system. General scientific methods, empirical, praximetric, prognostic methods were used. The practical significance of the article includes the development and determination of the effectiveness of the methods of applying modern technologies for teaching literature in universities. As a result, the essence of multimedia (electronic) technology, several varieties of interactive and design technologies for teaching literary disciplines are determined, their choice is justified. It is proved that these pedagogical technologies provide high-quality learning outcomes. Key words: pedagogical technology, disciplinary level technologies, local level technologies, multimedia technology, electronic teaching aids, conceptualization technology for the training course and block material presentation, interactive technology, project technology

Hygienic characteristics of the work environment air in the organic synthesis manufacturing

The chemical factor in the organic synthesis productions is presented by a complex of hazardous substances of Class 1 -4 with varied impact on the body. The presence of a complex of hazardous chemicals has been detected in more than 60% of work places. Concentrations of chemicals exceed permissible exposure levels.Химический фактор в производствах органического синтеза представлен комплексом вредных веществ 1-4 классов опасности с различным характером действия на организм. На более чем 60% рабочих мест отмечено наличие в воздухе рабочей зоны сложного комплекса вредных химических веществ, концентрации которых периодически превышают ПДК

Socio-pedagogical priorities of the educational process at the university: The didactic aspect of information technology

© 2016 Rassolov et al.The relevance of the study is conditioned by intensive introduction of information technologies in the educational process of the University. Analysis of practical activities of University groups shows that in the absence of science–based approaches to the implementation of information technologies in the educational process, there are increasing numbers of side effects among the students and graduates: moral and ethical indifference, a decrease in the level of personal communication, interpersonal communication, motivation to learn, and strengthening of computer and network addiction, the substitution of virtual reality, alienation from professional activities and other realworld problems, “escape” into virtual reality. In this regard, priority attention in the paper is devoted to establishing the theoretical and methodological approaches to realization of social– pedagogical priorities of the educational process at the University, which are presented as didactic components (target, content, procedural and technological, resource) of information technology. The paper presents the discourse of the concept “social–pedagogical priorities of the educational process at the University”; on the basis of the results of the study the complex of social and pedagogical priorities of the educational process is revealed, which are presented as the target, content, procedural and technological, resource components of information technology; pedagogical approaches to the design of new, hybrid types of information technologies are justified; the efficacy of the established set of priorities with the help of motivational, cognitive, axiological and activityrelated criteria is proven

Modified "Allele-Specific qPCR" Method for SNP Genotyping Based on FRET

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Acute skin toxicity associated with a 1-week schedule of whole breast radiotherapy compared with a standard 3-week regimen delivered in the UK FAST-Forward Trial

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: FAST-Forward is a phase 3 clinical trial testing a 1-week course of whole breast radiotherapy against the UK standard 3-week regimen after primary surgery for early breast cancer. Two acute skin toxicity substudies were undertaken to test the safety of the test schedules with respect to early skin reactions. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Patients were randomly allocated to 40Gy/15 fractions (F)/3-weeks, 27Gy/5F/1-week or 26Gy/5F/1-week. Acute breast skin reactions were graded using RTOG (first substudy) and CTCAE criteria v4.03 (second substudy) weekly during treatment and for 4weeks after treatment ended. Primary endpoint was the proportion of patients within each treatment group with grade ⩾3 toxicity (RTOG and CTCAE, respectively) at any time from the start of radiotherapy to 4weeks after completion. RESULTS: 190 and 162 patients were recruited. In the first substudy, evaluable patients with grade 3 RTOG toxicity were: 40Gy/15F 6/44 (13.6%); 27Gy/5F 5/51 (9.8%); 26Gy/5F 3/52 (5.8%). In the second substudy, evaluable patients with grade 3 CTCAE toxicity were: 40Gy/15F 0/43; 27Gy/5F 1/41 (2.4%); 26Gy/5F 0/53. CONCLUSIONS: Acute breast skin reactions with two 1-week schedules of whole breast radiotherapy under test in FAST-Forward were mild

Development of a Technique for the Analysis of a Fuel Composition Based on Lithium and Beryllium Fluorides by the Atomic Emission Method with Inductiv

Method for determining the main and impurity elements in LiF-BeF2 fuel composition by the ICP-AE method are developed. The optimal conditions were selected. Methods for acid digestion of samples were chosen. Using interelement correction to take into account the influence of uranium is considered