How does the individual perception of local conditions affect cycling? An analysis of the impact of built and non-built environment factors on cycling behaviour and attitudes in an urban setting

In this article we aim to study how Dutch children’s individual destinies result from the complex interplay of family setting and local conditions in a rural environment. We focus on their final move from the parental home, and we will analyse not only timing and incidence of leaving, but also the destinations. To do this, we propose a multi-level competing risk analysis of migration destinations. We focus on two groups: the children of farmers and those of rural workers. Dutch farmers and workers differ in the type of family economy in which children were integrated, and contrasting them will allow us to explain the speed, the directions, and the individual and family backgrounds of the process of leaving agriculture. We make use of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands to analyse last migrations of 8,338 children of farmers and rural workers. As we cover the entire country, we can study the full impact of regional differences on type of agriculture and inheritance, in combination with the family composition. Our results indicate significant effects of specialised versus traditional, mixed farming on the migration behaviour of farmers’ and rural workers’ children, as well as the importance of the number of siblings of the same sex and birth order. The variations in the effects of the sibship among regions with different agricultural systems demonstrate the importance of gender-specific divisions of labour on leaving home.

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The Effect of Environmental Stressors on Tinnitus: A Prospective Longitudinal Study on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Clinical Medicine ◽

10.3390/jcm9092756 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (9) ◽

pp. 2756 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Winfried Schlee ◽

Sondre Hølleland ◽

Jan Bulla ◽

Jorge Simoes ◽

Patrick Neff ◽

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Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Environmental Stressor ◽

Protection Factor ◽

Prospective Longitudinal Study ◽

Individual Perception ◽

Tinnitus Distress ◽

Exogenous Factors ◽

The Individual ◽

Prospective Longitudinal ◽

The Impact

Tinnitus, the perception of sound in the absence of a corresponding sound, and the distress caused by it, is rarely a static phenomenon. It rather fluctuates over time depending on endogenous and exogenous factors. The COVID-19 pandemic is a potential environmental stressor that might influence the individually perceived tinnitus distress. Since not all people are affected by the pandemic in the same way, the situation allows one to identify environmental factors and personality traits that impact tinnitus distress differently. In our study, 122 tinnitus patients were included at two time points: in the year 2018 and during the German lockdown in April 2020. We assessed tinnitus-related distress, depressive symptoms, personality characteristics and the individual perception of the pandemic situation. On average, there was only a small increase of tinnitus distress with heterogeneous changes during the lockdown. People perceiving the situation as generally stressful with increased grief, frustration, stress and nervousness reported the worsening of tinnitus distress. People with high values in neuroticism also reported the worsening of tinnitus distress, while the personality traits extraversion, conscientiousness and openness seemed to be a protection factor. The study identifies factors that influence tinnitus distress change during a pandemic and spots those patients that need specific help in the pandemic situation.

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The impact of neighborhood social and built environment factors across the cancer continuum: Current research, methodological considerations, and future directions

Cancer ◽

10.1002/cncr.29345 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 121 (14) ◽

pp. 2314-2330 ◽

Cited By ~ 96

Author(s):

Scarlett Lin Gomez ◽

Salma Shariff-Marco ◽

Mindy DeRouen ◽

Theresa H. M. Keegan ◽

Irene H. Yen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Built Environment ◽

Future Directions ◽

Environment Factors ◽

Methodological Considerations ◽

The Impact

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Identifying urban built environment factors in pregnancy care and maternal mental health outcomes

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth ◽

10.1186/s12884-021-04056-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Yiye Zhang ◽

Mohammad Tayarani ◽

Shuojia Wang ◽

Yifan Liu ◽

Mohit Sharma ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Prenatal Care ◽

Built Environment ◽

Maternal Mental Health ◽

Air Pollutant ◽

Urban Setting ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Built Environments ◽

Care Providers ◽

Environment Factors

Abstract Backgrounds Risk factors related to the built environment have been associated with women’s mental health and preventive care. This study sought to identify built environment factors that are associated with variations in prenatal care and subsequent pregnancy-related outcomes in an urban setting. Methods In a retrospective observational study, we characterized the types and frequency of prenatal care events that are associated with the various built environment factors of the patients’ residing neighborhoods. In comparison to women living in higher-quality built environments, we hypothesize that women who reside in lower-quality built environments experience different patterns of clinical events that may increase the risk for adverse outcomes. Using machine learning, we performed pattern detection to characterize the variability in prenatal care concerning encounter types, clinical problems, and medication prescriptions. Structural equation modeling was used to test the associations among built environment, prenatal care variation, and pregnancy outcome. The main outcome is postpartum depression (PPD) diagnosis within 1 year following childbirth. The exposures were the quality of the built environment in the patients’ residing neighborhoods. Electronic health records (EHR) data of pregnant women (n = 8,949) who had live delivery at an urban academic medical center from 2015 to 2017 were included in the study. Results We discovered prenatal care patterns that were summarized into three common types. Women who experienced the prenatal care pattern with the highest rates of PPD were more likely to reside in neighborhoods with homogeneous land use, lower walkability, lower air pollutant concentration, and lower retail floor ratios after adjusting for age, neighborhood average education level, marital status, and income inequality. Conclusions In an urban setting, multi-purpose and walkable communities were found to be associated with a lower risk of PPD. Findings may inform urban design policies and provide awareness for care providers on the association of patients’ residing neighborhoods and healthy pregnancy.

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Protestantism, Anxiety and Orientations to the Environment: Sweden as a Test Case for the Ideas of Richard Sennett

Worldviews Global Religions Culture and Ecology ◽

10.1163/156853506778942086 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 295-325 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hilary Stanworth

Keyword(s):

Built Environment ◽

Critical Evaluation ◽

The State ◽

Test Case ◽

Role Of The State ◽

The Individual ◽

The Impact ◽

Richard Sennett

AbstractThis paper examines how Protestant beliefs can influence orientations to the natural and built environment. Sweden is taken as a test case for a critical evaluation of Richard Sennett's American-focused claims that Protestant-induced anxieties encourage moves to create bland, neutralised environments in which temptation and contact with distractingly different others can be minimised. The paper documents ways in which Swedish environmental orientations fail to fit with Sennett's account and elaborates how Protestantism has the potential to generate a wider range of outcomes than he recognises. It then suggests that variations in the impact the same religion may have produced in the Swedish and American context might be linked to cross-societal differences in the relation between the individual and the collective, and in the role of the state.

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Organizational climate aspects and principal’s burnout in Southern Israel schools

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201929007009 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 290 ◽

pp. 07009

Author(s):

Andreea Ionică ◽

Yunnis Nassar ◽

Sorin Mangu

Keyword(s):

Organizational Climate ◽

Interpersonal Relationships ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Teaching Staff ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Positive Communication ◽

Individual Perception ◽

Medium Level ◽

The Individual ◽

The Impact

The scientific literature abounds in researches about the impact of the organizational climate on burnout among teachers, but the topic wasn’t explored enough at the principals’ level till the results of the researches of Friedman and Kremer-Hayon were published. These are considered the main premises of the research in this paper which reports on a quantitative research study. The proposed toolset consists of questionnaires validated in the literature, demonstrating stable reliability coefficients and also, being validated in the educational contexts and systems from Israel. Three types of questionnaires are used: one to determine the individual perception of the principals’ communication with the teachers, one to determine the organizational climate and another questionnaire for burnout, addressed to the school principals. In the cross-sectional research, the Israeli Arab teachers who participated in this study were selected from the sample of four schools from South Israel (22 % of total schools) obtaining 120 validated questionnaires. The results of the research highlighted a moderate level of burnout. However, the biggest values appear on the dissatisfaction dimension as long as there is a positive communication, medium to high harmony and interpersonal relationships and a medium level of trust and support among teaching staff.

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEPTION OF AUTONOMY SUPPORT AND PERCEPTION OF INTERPERSONAL, PROCEDURAL JUSTICE

Jurnal Manajemen dan Pemasaran Jasa ◽

10.25105/jmpj.v10i2.2295 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 281

Author(s):

Devani Laksmi Indyastuti

Keyword(s):

Procedural Justice ◽

Work Environment ◽

Autonomy Support ◽

Interpersonal Justice ◽

Open Communication ◽

Individual Perception ◽

Self Interest ◽

Supportive Culture ◽

The Individual ◽

The Impact

Previous studies have a little attention on the impact of perceived autonomy support on the justice. This study examines the impact of perceived autonomy support from supervisor and from environment toward perceived procedural justice and interpersonal justice. Based on self interest model and basic need theory, this study hypothesized that individual’s perception of autonomy supported both from supervisor and work environment would affect his/ her perception of procedural. Based on need fulfillment theory, this study hypothesized that individuals’perception of autonomy supported both from supervisor and work environment affect interpersonal justice. This study used 234 lecturers for sample and regression analysis for analyzing the data. The results support the hypotheses that the higher individual perception of autonomy supports from both supervisor and work environment is, the higher is individual perception of procedural justice and interpersonal justice. This result implicates that supervisor should build perception of autonomy support among individuals in organization by buiding trust culture, open communication culture, supportive culture to increase the individual perception of procedural and interpersonal justice.

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The Gender Dimension of Sustainable Consumption and Production: A Microsurvey-Based Analysis of Gender Differences in Awareness, Attitudes, and Behaviors in the People’s Republic of China

10.22617/wps200401-2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Li Fan ◽

Veronica Mendizabal Joffre

Keyword(s):

Older Women ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Urban Setting ◽

People’S Republic Of China ◽

People's Republic Of China ◽

Republic Of China ◽

Time Poverty ◽

Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽

The Individual ◽

The Impact

Using microsurveys conducted in the People’s Republic of China over the past 2 decades, this paper explores the individual preferences among men and women toward sustainable consumption and production—the concept of doing more with less and decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation. The study finds that women exhibit greener living and working habits than men. However, women—regardless of education, rural–urban setting, or age—are impacted by time poverty, low political participation, limited awareness, gender norms, and, for younger and older women, financial limitations. To encourage and increase women’s capacity in shaping environmental solutions, economic and political gender gaps must be addressed and awareness on the impact of consumption needs to be strengthened.

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