A qualitative study of factors affecting mental health amongst low-income working mothers in Bangalore, India.

BackgroundLow-income urban working mothers face many challenges in their domestic, environmental, and working conditions that may affect their mental health. In India, a high prevalence of mental health disorders has been recorded in young women, but there has been little research to examine the factors that affect their mental health at home and work.MethodsThrough a primarily qualitative approach, we studied the relationship between work, caring for family, spousal support, stress relief strategies and mental health amongst forty eight low-income working mothers residing in urban slums across Bangalore, India. Participants were construction workers, domestic workers, factory workers and fruit and vegetable street vendors. Qualitative data analysis themes included state of mental health, factors that affected mental health positively or negatively, manifestations and consequences of stress and depression, and stress mitigators.ResultsEven in our small sample of women, we found evidence of extreme depression, including suicidal ideation and attempted suicide. Women who have an alcoholic and/or abusive husband, experience intimate partner violence, are raising children with special needs, and lack adequate support for child care appear to be more susceptible to severe and prolonged periods of depression and suicide attempts. Factors that pointed towards reduced anxiety and depression were social support from family, friends and colleagues and fulfilment from work.ConclusionThis qualitative study raises concerns that low-income working mothers in urban areas in India are at high risk for depression, and identifies common factors that create and mitigate stress in this population group. We discuss implications of the findings for supporting the mental health of urban working women in the Indian context. The development of the national mental health policy in India and its subsequent implementation should draw on existing research documenting factors associated with negative mental health amongst specific population groups in order to ensure greater impact

Interface Fluctuations, Burgers Equations, and Coarsening under Shear

We consider the interplay of thermal fluctuations and shear on the surface of the domains in various systems coarsening under an imposed shear flow. These include systems with nonconserved and conserved dynamics, and a conserved order parameter advected by a fluid whose velocity field satisfies the Navier-Stokes equation. In each case the equation of motion for the interface height reduces to an anisotropic Burgers equation. The scaling exponents that describe the growth and coarsening of the interface are calculated exactly in any dimension in the case of conserved and nonconserved dynamics. For a fluid-advected conserved order parameter we determine the exponents, but we are unable to build a consistent perturbative expansion to support their validity.Comment: 10 RevTeX pages, 2 eps figure

La evolución del instrumentista: una trayectoria continua

This article proposes to identify the key milestones that influenced the instrumentalist performance, throughout the twentieth century until nowadays. In a certain moment of the western music history, excluding henceforth unwritten instrumental music, the instrumentalist needed to incorporate elements related with other arts and/or others disparate fields, which in some way come together on the performance, beyond the enlargement of his functions and instrumental musical techniques. This evolution has broken away from the traditional performance – the act of the musician taking the stage to reproduce a musical text – creating new multidisciplinary demands on performers. These new features became a requirement for the interpreters, as well as a source of creativity for composers and creators. As a consequence, the technical mastery of instruments and of musical theory, became insufficient due to the enlarged scope requirements of certain concepts and artistic creations.Este artículo propone identificar los hitos fundamentales que influenciaron la interpretación instrumental, desde el siglo XX hasta nuestros días. En algún momento de la historia de la música occidental, excluyendo la música instrumental no escrita de ahora en adelante, el instrumentista necesitó incorporar elementos relacionados con otras artes o campos, uniéndose en cierta forma en la interpretación, más allá de la expansión de sus funciones y técnicas instrumentales. Esta evolución ha roto con la interpretación tradicional ‐ el acto del músico salir al escenario a reproducir un texto musical ‐ creando nuevas exigencias multidisciplinares en los ejecutantes. Estas nuevas características se convirtieron en requisitos para los intérpretes, además de una fuente de creatividad para los compositores y creadores. Como consecuencia, el dominio técnico del instrumento y/o teoría musical pasó a ser insuficiente debido al amplio abanico de requisitos en ciertos conceptos y creaciones artísticas.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The role of the perceived corporate social responsability in the retention of talent mediated by the person-organization fit and affective wellbeing variables

The current paradigm of our society has led many companies to be more concerned with what is around them and with their employees. The new generations that are already in the job market or are entering it are also very aware about these issues. They are not afraid to change jobs if they do not feel fulfilled and perceived that the company where they work only cares about the business and do not contribute positively to other things, so it is important to understand how the companies can lower the turnover intention. Considering this new reality, the initial objective of this work is to understand the relationship between the perceived corporate social responsibility(CSR) and the turnover intention. And understand if employees affective wellbeing and perceived person-organization fit are mediators of this relationship. To investigate the proposed model, an online survey was released to workers from different areas with at least three months of tenure in organization. The results showed that perceived CSR and turnover intention are negatively related, and this relationship is mediated by the perceived person-organization fit in the CSR dimensions related to the employees and to the community and environment. Employees wellbeing revealed no mediating effect in the analyzed relationships. This study reinforces an idea that companies need to show that they care about their employees and with the environment and community around them. It also shows the importance of the approximation of values and beliefs between the employee and the company to promote higher talent retention.O paradigma atual de nossa sociedade tem levado muitas empresas a se preocuparem mais com o que está ao seu redor e com seus funcionários. As novas gerações que já estão no mercado de trabalho ou estão a entrar também estão muito atentas a estas questões e não tem medo de mudar de emprego se não se sentirem realizadas e perceberem que a empresa onde trabalham só se preocupa com o negócio e não contribuem positivamente para outros temas, por isso é importante entender como é que as empresas podem diminuir a intenção de turnover. Tendo em conta esta nova realidade, o objetivo inicial deste trabalho é compreender a relação entre a percepção de responsabilidade social corporativa (RCS) e intenção de turnover. Perceber também se o bem-estar e o ajuste da pessoa e organização são mediadores desta relação. Para investigar o modelo proposto, uma investigação online foi lançada para trabalhadores de diferentes áreas com pelo menos três meses de antiguidade. Os resultados mostraram que a percepção da responsabilidade social corporativa e a intenção de turnover estão negativamente relacionadas, sendo esta relação mediada pelo ajuste da pessoa e organização nas dimensões de RSC relacionadas com os colaboradores e com a comunidade e ambiente. Este estudo reforça a ideia de que as empresas precisam de mostrar que se preocupam com seus colaboradores e com o ambiente e a comunidade ao seu redor. Mostra também a importância da aproximação de valores e ideias entre o colaborador e a empresa para uma maior identificação

The protein folding transition state: Insights from kinetics and thermodynamics

We perform extensive lattice Monte Carlo simulations of protein folding to construct and compare the equilibrium and the kinetic transition state ensembles of a model protein that folds to the native state with two-state kinetics. The kinetic definition of the transition state is based on the folding probability analysis method, and therefore on the selection of conformations with 0.4<Pfold<0.6, while for the equilibrium characterization we consider conformations for which the evaluated values of several reaction coordinates correspond to the maximum of the free energy measured as a function of those reaction coordinates. Our results reveal a high degree of structural similarity between the ensembles determined by the two methods. However, the folding probability distribution of the conformations belonging to our definition of the equilibrium transition state (0.2<Pfold<0.8) is broader than that displayed by the kinetic transition state