The influences of identities and social connectedness on self-objectification

According to objectification theory, girls and women are socialized to adopt an external observer’s view of the self. Self-objectification occurs when there is an emphasis on physical appearance and a de-emphasis and devaluation of internal and physical competence features, all of which have been related to negative psychological consequences. Trait self-objectification is chronic preoccupation with physical appearance that occurs with little or no environmental appearance cues. While self-objectification has been demonstrated in diverse samples, research suggests self-objectification is particularly prominent for women. This study investigated the relationships between different feminist and sexual identities and trait self-objectification. A sample of 187 undergraduate women was administered a survey to measure affiliation with sexual and feminist identities, self-objectification, and well-being. While support for the protective influence of identification as a feminist, lesbian, and bisexual against self-objectification was not found, two measures of feminist identity development were found to be protective against self-objectification, and some support for the role of connection with the feminist community was found. Results are discussed in the context of objectification theory and constraints of this study

Assimilative demands: The psychological impact of legal decisions on lesbians’ lives

Covering, a construct that has been absent from the empirical psychological literature, is the pressure to or act of downplaying characteristics associated with a stigmatized identity (Goffman, 1963). This research investigated the covering demand in lesbian-identified women drawing on four related literatures: acculturation, discrimination, stigma, and self-concealment. The objectives of this research were to examine the impact of structural, legal covering demands on psychological domains and develop a grounded understanding of these demands in lesbian women. A mixed-method approach was utilized. Forty-six lesbian-identified women recruited from community venues participated in the quasi-experiment and focus groups, and five also engaged in follow-up in depth interviews. The results showed that the covering demand affects emotional reactions in these lesbian women and that they adopt multiple strategies for coping with these demands in everyday life. These findings provide initial support for the conceptualization of the covering demand as a potential everyday, minority stressor

Early screening for post-stroke depression, and the effect on functional outcomes, quality of life and mortality: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

INTRODUCTION: Post-stroke depression (PSD) is a severe complication of cerebrovascular stroke affecting about one-third of stroke survivors. Moreover, PSD is associated with functional recovery and quality of life (QOL) in stroke survivors. Screening for PSD is recommended. There are, however, differences in the literature on the impact of early screening on functional outcomes. In this systematic review, we synthesise the currently available literature regarding the associations between timing and setting of PSD screening and mortality, QOL and functional outcomes in stroke survivors. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: We will systematically search electronic databases including PubMed, Embase, APA PsycINFO, Web of Science, Scopus and CINAHL from inception to August 2021. Four reviewers will screen the title and abstract and full-text level records identified in the search in a blinded fashion to determine the study eligibility. Any selection disagreements between the reviewers will be resolved by the study investigator. Data extraction of eligible studies will be conducted by two reviewers using a predefined template. We will complete the quality assessment of included articles independently by two reviewers using the Newcastle Ottawa Scale. Eventual discrepancies will be resolved by the principal investigator. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Due to the nature of the study design, ethical approval is not required. The systematic review and meta-analysis findings will be published and disseminated in a peer-reviewed journal. Our results will also be disseminated through posters and presentations at appropriate scientific conferences. PROSPERO REGISTRATION NUMBER: CRD42021235993

Análisis de los procesos de inducción y capacitación de los asesores de servicio al cliente cobranzas del Banco de Bogotá durante el año 2023

No aplicaA comienzos de la pandemia del covid-19, debido a que Banco de Bogotá tenía muchos trabajadores que no podían ir a oficina por temas de salud, y en esos momentos también se encontraba en la eliminación de un cargo operativo a nivel nacional donde aproximadamente 250 funcionarios quedarían sin saber que funciones podrían realizar, al ver la necesidad de crear su propio call center de cobranzas esto debido a que esta función siempre la habían realizados casas externa, nace el proyecto call center de cobranzas modelo mixto gestión temprana, donde su función principal es recuperar la cartera de moras de 0 a 90 días. Banco de Bogotá es una empresa comprometida con la diversidad, la participación, la disposición del servicio y la atención al cliente de manera personalizada y eficiente, es por esto que cuenta con programas importantes en el entrenamiento y capacitación de colaboradores que busca proveer y gestionar los medios que permitan obtener oportunidades de aprendizaje, todo esto con la finalidad de que el colaborador pueda apropiarse de una formación adecuada, incluyendo innovaciones oportunas y de calidad desde el punto inicial en la organización y por ende a lo largo de su labor. Este proyecto es un análisis que se realiza a la empresa Banco de Bogotá en el área del call center de cobranzas, con el fin de identificar falencias dentro de sus procesos de inducción y capacitación, y así brindar un análisis que contribuyan a mejorar la gestión de talento humano.At the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, because Banco de Bogotá had many workers who could not go to the office due to health issues, and at that time it was also in the process of eliminating an operational position at the national level where approximately 250 officials would be left without knowing what functions they could perform, upon seeing the need to create their own collections call center, because this function had always been performed by external companies, the collections call center project was born, a mixed early management model, where its main function is to recover the portfolio of arrears from 0 to 90 days. Banco de Bogotá is a company committed to diversity, participation, provision of service and customer service in a personalized and efficient manner, which is why it has important programs in the training and development of collaborators that seeks to provide and manage the means that allow obtaining learning opportunities, all of this with the aim that the collaborator can appropriate adequate training, including timely and quality innovations from the initial point in the organization and therefore throughout their work. This project is a study carried out for the company Banco de Bogotá in the area of the collection call center, in order to identify shortcomings within its selection, induction and training processes and thus provide strategies that contribute to improving the management of human talent

Clinical care of pregnant and postpartum women with COVID-19: Living recommendations from the National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce

To date, 18 living recommendations for the clinical care of pregnant and postpartum women with COVID-19 have been issued by the National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce. This includes recommendations on mode of birth, delayed umbilical cord clamping, skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding, rooming-in, antenatal corticosteroids, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, disease-modifying treatments (including dexamethasone, remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine), venous thromboembolism prophylaxis and advanced respiratory support interventions (prone positioning and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation). Through continuous evidence surveillance, these living recommendations are updated in near real-time to ensure clinicians in Australia have reliable, evidence-based guidelines for clinical decision-making. Please visit https://covid19evidence.net.au/ for the latest recommendation updates

‘Remembering as Forgetting’: Organizational commemoration as a politics of recognition

This paper considers the politics of how organizations remember their past through commemorative settings and artefacts. Although these may be seen as ‘merely’ a backdrop to organizational activity, they form part of the lived experience of organizational spaces that its members enact on a daily basis as part of their routes and routines. The main concern of the paper is with how commemoration is bound up in the reflection and reproduction of hierarchies of organizational recognition. Illustrated with reference to two commemorative settings, the paper explores how organizations perpetuate a narrow set of symbolic ideals attributing value to particular forms of organizational membership while appearing to devalue others. In doing so, they communicate values that undermine attempts to achieve equality and inclusion. Developing a recognition-based critique of this process, the discussion emphasizes how commemorative settings and practices work to reproduce established patterns of exclusion and marginalization. To this end, traditional forms of commemorative portraiture that tend to close off difference are contrasted with a memorial garden, in order to explore the potential for an alternative, recognition-based ethics of organizational commemoration that is more open to the Other

A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of social distancing messages that promoted personal agency and reflective choices (i.e., an autonomy-supportive message) or were restrictive and shaming (i.e., a controlling message) compared with no message at all. Results partially supported experimental hypotheses in that the controlling message increased controlled motivation (a poorly internalized form of motivation relying on shame, guilt, and fear of social consequences) relative to no message. On the other hand, the autonomy-supportive message lowered feelings of defiance compared with the controlling message, but the controlling message did not differ from receiving no message at all. Unexpectedly, messages did not influence autonomous motivation (a highly internalized form of motivation relying on one’s core values) or behavioral intentions. Results supported hypothesized associations between people’s existing autonomous and controlled motivations and self-reported behavioral intentions to engage in social distancing. Controlled motivation was associated with more defiance and less long-term behavioral intention to engage in social distancing, whereas autonomous motivation was associated with less defiance and more short- and long-term intentions to social distance. Overall, this work highlights the potential harm of using shaming and pressuring language in public health communication, with implications for the current and future global health challenges