scholarly journals Determining factors in the social entrepreneurial profile of young university student

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Diana del Consuelo Caldera-González ◽  
María Guadalupe de Lourdes Acosta-Castillo ◽  
José Antonio Ruiz-San Román
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Social Entrepreneur ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
The University ◽  
Creativity And Innovation

Social entrepreneurship focuses on solving problems of a collective nature through new ideas that allow the improvement of the environment. This research aims to advance in the understanding of the crucial factors that profile the social entrepreneur, which represents new opportunities to identify, strengthen and design strategies from the University aimed at the creation of enterprises with social value. This research is quantitative, non-experimental and descriptive. A survey was applied to an incidental sample of 515 university students and the data was processed based on a Principal Components Analysis (ACP), which presents the factors that have the greatest influence on the two selected components. The coefficients found indicate that the first component is related to the factors: creativity and innovation; self-confidence or internal control; adaptability and tolerance to failure; while the second component receives a greater contribution in the factors: perseverance and commitment; adaptability and tolerance to failure; and finally self-confidence and internal control.

Serving Higher Purposes: University Mergers in Post-Apartheid South Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ihron Rensburg
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Visionary Leadership ◽  
Social Entrepreneur ◽  
University Mergers ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Shared Futures ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Creativity And Innovation ◽  
Meaningful Role

"Universities of the 21st century and beyond must be about teaching, learning, research excellence, creativity and innovation as much as they must be about enabling the destiny of students, communities and nations to realize their potential. UJ succeeded in her vision and responsibilities to transform the divisions, prejudices and limitations that often restrain the advancement of society. The story of UJ’s transition to an inclusive, diverse, dynamic, bold and purposeful institution of learning demands to be read by everyone, South African, African and beyond. It is a story of how to be an object rather than the subject of history, while dynamically shaping our shared futures, laying a solid foundation for future generations to be advocates and architects for social change and cohesion. It is a story of courageous and visionary leadership. The book offers our nation profound lessons in leadership that should enrich all our efforts to transform institutions in a sustainable way, to play a meaningful role in building ONE NATION. - DR WENDY LUHABE, Economic Activist, Social Entrepreneur, First Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg "

scholarly journals Factores psicosociales que contribuyen al éxito deportivo de jugadores universitarios de balonmano

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Grethel Ramírez-Siqueiros ◽  
Oswaldo Ceballos-Gurrola ◽  
Rosa Elena Medina-Rodríguez ◽  
Marina Reyes-Robles ◽  
Fernando Bernal-Reyes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Mental Toughness ◽  
Sports Performance ◽  
Psychosocial Characteristics ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Psychological Inventory

El objetivo del presente estudio fue identificar los factores de dureza mental y contexto social que contribuyen al éxito deportivo según la posición de jugadores universitarios de balonmano. Participaron 212 jugadores de equipos representativos. Para evaluar la dureza mental se aplicó el Inventario Psicológico de Ejecución Deportiva (IPED) y la contribución del contexto social se evaluó mediante el Cuestionario sobre la Percepción de los Factores Relacionados con la Excelencia en el Deporte (PFED). Los análisis mostraron que la dureza mental interpretada a través del control atencional muestra diferencias por posiciones (K = 14,21; p < 0,05), los laterales presentan puntuaciones superiores respecto a porteros, pivotes, centrales y extremos (p < 0,05). Respecto al contexto social, se obtuvieron diferencias entre posiciones de juego. Para los laterales, el factor de mayor contribución a su excelencia deportiva son sus propias habilidades (K = 11,08; p < 0,05), mientras que para porteros es la naturaleza del entrenamiento (K = 10,08; p < 0,05). Se concluye que las características psicosociales son diferentes en función de la posición de juego del jugador universitario de balonmano. El entrenador, la familia, la naturaleza y características del entrenamiento son los factores que más contribuyen al éxito deportivo y a su vez incrementan la autoconfianza del jugador. The objective of the present study was to identify the factors of mental toughness and social context that contribute to sporting success according to the position of college handball players. Participants were 212 representative teams players. To evaluate the mental toughness we applied the Psychological Inventory of Sports Performance (IPED) and the contribution of the social context was assessed using the Questionnaire on the Perception of the Related Factors with the Excellence in Sport (PFED). The analyzed showed that mental toughness interpreted through attentional control shows differences by positions (K = 14,21; p < 0,05),  the sided have higher scores with respect to goalkeeper, pivots, central and back position (p < 0,05). Regarding the social context, there were differences between playing positions. For the sides, factor the greatest contribution to their sporting excellence are their own skills (K = 11,08; p < 0,05), whereas for goalkeepers is the training nature (K = 10,08; p < 0,05). It is concluded that the psychosocial characteristics are different depending on the playing position of the university handball player. The coach, family, nature and characteristics of the training are the factors that contribute most to sport success and in turn increase the self-confidence. O objetivo do presente estudo foi identificar os fatores de tenacidade mental e contexto social que contribuem para o sucesso esportivo de acordo com a posição dos jogadores de handebol universitário. Os participantes foram 212 jogadores das equipes representativas. Para avaliar a tenacidade mental foi aplicado o Inventário Psicológico do Desempenho Esportivo (IPED) e a contribuição do contexto social foi avaliada por meio do Questionário de Percepção dos Fatores Relacionados à Excelência no Esporte (PFED). Os analisados ​​mostraram que a dureza mental interpretada pelo controle de atenção apresenta diferenças por posições (K = 14,21; p < 0,05), os lados apresentam maiores pontuações em relação ao goleiro, pivôs, posição central e traseira (p < 0,05). Em relação ao contexto social, houve diferenças entre as posições de jogo. Para os lados, a maior contribuição para sua excelência esportiva são suas próprias habilidades (K = 11,08; p < 0,05), enquanto que para os goleiros e centrais são as natureza do treinamento (K = 10,08; p < 0,05). Conclui-se que as características psicossociais são diferentes dependendo da posição de jogo do jogador de handebol da universidade. O treinador, a família, a natureza e as características do treinamento são os fatores que mais contribuem para o sucesso esportivo e, por sua vez, aumentam a autoconfiança.

scholarly journals Determinant factors self-motivation of Riau University students

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mujiono Mujiono Mujiono
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
A Value ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
The University ◽  
And Control ◽  
Determining Factor

This research is a qualitative descriptive study that aims to reveal the determinants of student self-motivation at the University of Riau. Self motivation of students is a very important element in the implementation of curriculum-based blended learning in the industrial era 4.0. The data collection technique used a questionnaire and distributed using google forms to all students in each faculty who were selected to become a sample area with a total of 515 students. The results show that the aspect has the drive to achieve something, the score is 4.21 or 84.12% with the good category, the commitment aspect gets a value of 4.34 or 86.70% with the good category, the initiative aspect gets a value of 3.87 or 77.50% with sufficient category and optimistic aspect obtained a value of 4.15 or 83% and an average value of 4.14 or 82.85% with a good category. If seen from the 10 indicators as a determining factor for Self-motivation of Riau University students, all of them can determine the level of achievement of the Self-motivation . Sequentially, the determining factors from the highest to the lowest are the need for lectures, self-introspection, fulfilling class assignments, confidence in abilities, complacency / not giving up easily, enthusiasm for attending lectures. Orientation to success, likes to work on case studies, self-confidence and control times to study.

Epistemic and relational conflicts in sharing identical vs. complementary information during cooperative learning

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Céline Darnon ◽  
Céline Buchs ◽  
Fabrizio Butera
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Complementary Information ◽  
Relational Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

When interacting on a learning task, which is typical of several academic situations, individuals may experience two different motives: Understanding the problem, or showing their competences. When a conflict (confrontation of divergent propositions) emerges from this interaction, it can be solved either in an epistemic way (focused on the task) or in a relational way (focused on the social comparison of competences). The latter is believed to be detrimental for learning. Moreover, research on cooperative learning shows that when they share identical information, partners are led to compare to each other, and are less encouraged to cooperate than when they share complementary information. An epistemic vs. relational conflict vs. no conflict was provoked in dyads composed by a participant and a confederate, working either on identical or on complementary information (N = 122). Results showed that, if relational and epistemic conflicts both entailed more perceived interactions and divergence than the control group, only relational conflict entailed more perceived comparison activities and a less positive relationship than the control group. Epistemic conflict resulted in a more positive perceived relationship than the control group. As far as performance is concerned, relational conflict led to a worse learning than epistemic conflict, and - after a delay - than the control group. An interaction between the two variables on delayed performance showed that epistemic and relational conflicts were different only when working with complementary information. This study shows the importance of the quality of relationship when sharing information during cooperative learning, a crucial factor to be taken into account when planning educational settings at the university.

Social attribution, correspondence bias, and the emergence of stereotypes *This research has been completed in partial requirement of a doctoral dissertation of the first author under the supervision of the second author. We wish to thank the members of the social psychology division at the University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve, especially Steve Rocher and Emanuele Castano for their insightful comments on preliminary drafts. This paper has been enriched by feedbacks received from Russell Spears, Roos Vonk, Margit Oswald, and anonymous reviewers. Many thanks to Philippe Kemp and Christophe Remy for their assistance in running the study, and to the students who volunteered to appear on the video. This research has been presented at the Social Cognition workshop of the Kurt Lewin Institute, workshop held at the Free University of Amsterdam in April 1998: we want to thank participants of this workshop and especially Gün Semin for their useful feedback. Completion of this study benefited from a research grant from the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research to the first author.

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anouk Rogier ◽  
Vincent Yzerbyt
Keyword(s):  
Correspondence Bias ◽  
Social Attribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dispositional Attributions ◽  
Kurt Lewin ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Group Target ◽  
The University ◽  
Institute Workshop ◽  
Research Grant

Yzerbyt, Rogier and Fiske (1998) argued that perceivers confronted with a group high in entitativity (i.e., a group perceived as an entity, a tight-knit group) more readily call upon an underlying essence to explain people's behavior than perceivers confronted with an aggregate. Their study showed that group entitativity promoted dispositional attributions for the behavior of group members. Moreover, stereotypes emerged when people faced entitative groups. In this study, we replicate and extend these results by providing further evidence that the process of social attribution is responsible for the emergence of stereotypes. We use the attitude attribution paradigm ( Jones & Harris, 1967 ) and show that the correspondence bias is stronger for an entitative group target than for an aggregate. Besides, several dependent measures indicate that the target's group membership stands as a plausible causal factor to account for members' behavior, a process we call Social Attribution. Implications for current theories of stereotyping are discussed.

Impact of the Locus of Causality and Internal Control on the Social Utility of Causal Explanations

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Perrin ◽  
Benoît Testé
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
External Control ◽  
Job Interview ◽  
Locus Of Causality ◽  
Causal Explanations ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types

Research into the norm of internality ( Beauvois & Dubois, 1988 ) has shown that the expression of internal causal explanations is socially valued in social judgment. However, the value attributed to different types of internal explanations (e.g., efforts vs. traits) is far from homogeneous. This study used the Weiner (1979 ) tridimensional model to clarify the factors explaining the social utility attached to internal versus external explanations. Three dimensions were manipulated: locus of causality, controllability, and stability. Participants (N = 180 students) read the explanations expressed by appliants during a job interview. They then described the applicants on the French version of the revised causal dimension scale and rated their future professional success. Results indicated that internal-controllable explanations were the most valued. In addition, perceived internal and external control of explanations were significant predictors of judgments.

Engaging Student Mothers Creatively: Animated Stories of Navigating University, Inner City, and Home Worlds

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
Lise Kouri ◽  
Tania Guertin ◽  
Angel Shingoose
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Graphic Narrative ◽  
Student Mothers ◽  
Education Outcomes ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
Animated Graphic

The article discusses a collaborative project undertaken in Saskatoon by Community Engagement and Outreach office at the University of Saskatchewan in partnership with undergraduate student mothers with lived experience of poverty. The results of the project were presented as an animated graphic narrative that seeks to make space for an under-represented student subpopulation, tracing strategies of survival among university, inner city and home worlds. The innovative animation format is intended to share with all citizens how community supports can be used to claim fairer health and education outcomes within system forces at play in society. This article discusses the project process, including the background stories of the students. The entire project, based at the University of Saskatchewan, Community Engagement and Outreach office at Station 20 West, in Saskatoon’s inner city, explores complex intersections of racialization, poverty and gender for the purpose of cultivating empathy and deeper understanding within the university to better support inner city students. amplifying community voices and emphasizing the social determinants of health in Saskatoon through animated stories.

A Futures Study on the Quality Of Life from the Point Of View of Iranian Youth

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sina Saeedy ◽  
Mojtaba Amiri ◽  
Mohammad Mahdi Zolfagharzadeh ◽  
Mohammad Rahim Eyvazi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Futures Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

Quality of life and satisfaction with life as tightly interconnected concepts have become of much importance in the urbanism era. No doubt, it is one of the most important goals of every human society to enhance a citizen’s quality of life and to increase their satisfaction with life. However, there are many signs which demonstrate the low level of life satisfaction of Iranian citizens especially among the youth. Thus, considering the temporal concept of life satisfaction, this research aims to make a futures study in this field. Therefore, using a mixed model and employing research methods from futures studies, life satisfaction among the students of the University of Tehran were measured and their views on this subject investigated. Both quantitative and qualitative data were analysed together in order to test the hypotheses and to address the research questions on the youth discontentment with quality of life. Findings showed that the level of life satisfaction among students is relatively low and their image of the future is not positive and not optimistic. These views were elicited and discussed in the social, economic, political, environmental and technological perspectives. Keywords:  futures studies, quality of life, satisfaction with life, youth

Current issues in aesthetics and beyond: Revisiting lookism

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Peter Takáč
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Common View ◽  
Aesthetic Medicine ◽  
Unequal Treatment ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Public Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

AbstractLookism is a term used to describe discrimination based on the physical appearance of a person. We suppose that the social impact of lookism is a philosophical issue, because, from this perspective, attractive people have an advantage over others. The first line of our argumentation involves the issue of lookism as a global ethical and aesthetical phenomenon. A person’s attractiveness has a significant impact on the social and public status of this individual. The common view in society is that it is good to be more attractive and healthier. This concept generates several ethical questions about human aesthetical identity, health, authenticity, and integrity in society. It seems that this unequal treatment causes discrimination, diminishes self-confidence, and lowers the chance of a job or social enforcement for many human beings. Currently, aesthetic improvements are being made through plastic surgery. There is no place on the human body that we cannot improve with plastic surgery or aesthetic medicine. We should not forget that it may result in the problem of elitism, in dividing people into primary and secondary categories. The second line of our argumentation involves a particular case of lookism: Melanie Gaydos. A woman that is considered to be a model with a unique look.

Social Responsibility Practice Diagnosis applied to the Universidad del Valle- Northern Facility. Period 2014-2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (62) ◽  
pp. 66-81
Author(s):  
Adriana M. Moreno Moreno ◽  
Eduar Fernando Aguirre González
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Strategic Issues ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Management

Social Responsibility is a concept that has been approached from different perspectives by theoreticians and institutions. Initially, this was limited exclusively to companies, however, the creation of the Social Capital, Ethics and Development Initiative by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) sought to make educational institutions aware that, like any other organization, they are responsible for the externalities they generate in their environment and their stakeholders. This research approaches the concept of University Social Responsibility (USR) from the scheme proposed by the IDB, which proposes four axes of action for Universities’ CR: Responsible Campus, Professional and Citizen Training, Social Management of Knowledge and Social Participation. The Universidad del Valle has a strategic plan entitled “Universidad del Valle’s Strategic Development Plan” and Regionalization attached thereto. It has also developed its action plan and in the five strategic issues raised herein, its socially responsible approach is clearly identifiable. The North Cauca Facility wherein this study is being developed, even though it does not have a University Social Responsibility Management Model, has attempted to align its practices with its strategic affairs that broadly conform to the four axes proposed by the IDB. This research addresses a relevant and current issue inasmuch as it proposes to develop a diagnosis on the relationship between the four axes of Social Responsibility proposed by the IDB and the practice of Social Responsibility applied at the Universidad del Valle, North Cauca Facility, for the period 2014-2015. In order to answer the research problem, a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive type of study is used, given that the work was based on the documentary information available at the University, while the interviews with the directors of the Institution are used as a tool for oral history. The research method used is the case study, which allows to address a unit of analysis in depth, in this case the USR within the Universidad del Valle, North Cauca Facility.

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