Taking Up and Terminating Leisure-Time Physical Activity over the Life Course: The Role of Life Events in the Familial and Occupational Life Domains

Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) is associated with various health-promoting effects. However, little is known about the relationship between life events and changes in LTPA over the life course, especially when multiple life events occur simultaneously. Therefore, this study examines taking up and terminating LTPA associated with life events in the familial and occupational life domains over 16 years of 16–76-year-old Swiss inhabitants (n = 1857) in a retrospective longitudinal cohort design, using a validated telephone survey and multilevel discrete-time event-history analyses. The results show that taking up LTPA was more likely when ending a relationship and retiring and less likely when becoming a parent; terminating LTPA was more likely when ending a job, starting vocational training after 30 years, a relationship ended for men, and becoming a mother with increasing age. If experiencing multiple life events simultaneously, the greater the number of life events, the more likely persons aged 45–70 years were to take up LTPA and, conversely, the more likely persons aged 15–44 years to terminate LTPA. The relationship between life events and changes in LTPA over the life course was often age dependent, especially when experiencing multiple life events simultaneously. The findings should be considered when promoting LTPA.

Addictive Behaviour among Women Viewers of Indian Soap Opera

Media is an integral part of society and it plays vital role for inculcating information. In the course of accomplishing its duties and functions, media, especially television influence on society relatively depending on the audience it reaches. Soaps have a predominant female audience. Some soaps do include men viewers but some social researchers pointed, women are considering most peculiar viewers. They are emotionally attached and value particular soaps in their personal and domestic life. Today people are leading a fast life. People should have some kind of recreation in their get relation of their physical and psychological balances of life. So, different people have different activities to spend their leisure. Based on the present study, most of the women are getting involved with the soap opera and were emotionally attached and curiously waiting for next episodes as it is effecting social, family and occupational life. So the present study tried to come out with fact of effects of soap operas’ on women’s behaviour in the aspects of socio- cultural aspects, economic aspects, psychological aspects, physiological aspects and functional aspects.

A COMPARATIVE CLINICAL STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF SANKHAPUSHPI CHOORNA WITH SAHAPANA OF KSHEERA AND DRAKSHA SWARASA IN NIDRANASHA W.S.R.TO PRIMARY INSOMNIA

Background: Sleep has occupied a special place in human concern. It has been rightly stated by Acharya Charaka that happiness and misery, proper and improper growth, good strength and weakness, potency and sterility, knowledge and ignorance, life and death of an individual depend on the quality of sleep. The condition of Insomnia has tendency to damage the person’s daily life, including his social and occupational life. Considering this Sankhapushpi Choorna with Go ksheera and Draksha Swarasa were selected for this study. Sankhapushpi Choorna has the property of Nidrajanana and Medhya. Ksheera has the property of VataPitta Shamana and Draksha has the property of Pitta Kapha Shamana, Rakta Prasadana. Methods: The study was Randomized parallel Group comparison clinical study. The study was conducted in 60 subjects for a period of 30 days. Subjective and objective parameters were documented at base line, 7th day, 15th day and on 30th day. Observations were analysed and findings were evaluated by using statis-tical methods. Results: This study shows that both Sankhapushpi Choorna with Ksheera and Sankhapushpi Choorna with Draksha Swarasa have significant effect in Nidranasha. Conclusion: The result obtained was both Sankhapushpi Choorna with Ksheera and Sankhapushpi Choorna with Draksha Swarasa have significant effect in Nidranasha. There is no significant difference in effect of Sankhapushpi Choorna with Ksheera and Sankhapushpi Choorna with Draksha Swarasa.

A COMPARATIVE CLINICAL STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF SANKHA- PUSHPI CHOORNA WITH SAHAPANA OF KSHEERA AND DRAKSHA SWARASA IN NIDRANASHA W.S.R.TO PRIMARY INSOMNIA

Background: Sleep has occupied a special place in human concern. It has been rightly stated by Acharya Charaka that happiness and misery, proper and improper growth, good strength and weakness, potency and sterility, knowledge and ignorance, life and death of an individual depend on the quality of sleep. The condition of Insomnia has tendency to damage the person’s daily life, including his social and occupational life. Considering this Sankha- pushpi Choorna with Go ksheera and Draksha Swarasa were selected for this study. Sankhapushpi Choorna has the property of Nidrajanana and Medhya. Ksheera has the property of VataPitta Shamana and Draksha has the property of Pitta Kapha Shamana, Rakta Prasadana. Methods: The study was Randomized parallel Group comparison clinical study. The study was conducted in 60 subjects for a period of 30 days. Subjective and objective parameters were documented at base line, 7th day, 15th day and on 30th day. Observations were analysed and findings were evaluated by using statistical methods. Results: This study shows that both Sankhapushpi Choorna with Ksheera and Sankhapushpi Choorna with Draksha Swarasa have significant effect in Nidranasha. Conclusion: The result obtained was both Sankhapushpi Choorna with Ksheera and Sankhapushpi Choorna with Draksha Swarasa have significant effect in Nidranasha. There is no significant difference in effect of Sankhapushpi Choorna with Ksheera and Sankhapushpi Choorna with Draksha Swarasa. Keywords: Sankhapushpi Choorna, Ksheera, Draksha, Nidranasha, Sahapana, Primary Insomnia

PARANOIA AND JOB SATISFACTION

The present study investigated the relationship between paranoia and job satisfaction. Paranoia is defined as suspiciousness and the feeling of being threatened even if there is no proof of real threat. Paranoia is a concept that is often ignored in researches in Pakistan and rarely explored in context of any concept related to occupational life. After a detailed literature review, it was hypothesized that paranoia would be negatively correlated to job satisfaction. The sample of the present research consisted of 154 professionals (77 male, 77 female) from different work settings. Paranoia was measured with the Feingstein Paranoia Scale Urdu version (FPSU) and job satisfaction was measured by the Generic Job Satisfaction Scale (GJSS). Statistical analysis though Pearson Product Moment Correlation indicates that there is a strong negative correlation between paranoia and job satisfaction. Recommendations for employers and policy makers, avenues of future researches are discussed.

Supporting sustainable occupational lives for partner caregivers of people with dementia

Introduction This qualitative research explores the experience of partner caregivers and how their partner’s dementia impacts on their daily living and occupational lives, with the aim of informing the sustainability of homecare and decreasing the likelihood of formal care. Method Ten participants were recruited through Alzheimer’s Society groups. They were interviewed using the same semi-structured interview process and asked questions about their daily activities and caregiving role. The data was analysed using Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis process and themes generated using inductive coding and reasoning. Findings Three main themes were identified: (1) losing occupational activities and roles; (2) adapting to a new occupational life and (3) adjusting to a new relationship in the trajectory of their partner’s illness. Conclusion This study highlights the complex occupational challenges experienced by partner caregivers of people with dementia. It suggests that there is a role for occupational therapists in sustaining homecare by working with partner caregivers as ‘expert service users’. Involvement should be provided at critical points of the caregiving journey and include co-creating technology solutions for social inclusion, sustaining adaptive engagement in personal occupations, creating opportunities for restoration and supporting caregivers to preserve their partner’s personhood.

Part-time Work and the Workers’ Age and Sex

The goal of the paper is to present spatial diversity in the use of flexible forms of employment with special emphasis on part-time work among women and men aged 50+ in the European Union. Demographic changes, including the ageing of the EU population, show the necessity of rationally utilizing available labour resources. Because the level of occupational activity is declining with age, while the share of people aged 50+ in the population is growing, the possibility of doing parttime work that allows reconciliation between occupational life and non-occupational life seems important. This form of employment can also constitute an important transitional stage between occupational activity and retirement. The analyses presented in the paper are based on data from Eurostat and include the years between 2003 and 2017. The conducted studies show significantdifferences in the utilization of part-time work in EU countries especially when age and gender are taken into consideration.

Social Network Services Management and Risk of Doocing. Comment on Kim, S.; Park, H.; Choi, M.J. “Negative Impact of Social Network Services Based on Stressor-Stress-Outcome: The Role of Experience of Privacy Violations, Future Int. 2019, 11, 137”

In light of the recent work by Kim and colleagues about Social Network Service (SNS), examining the individual and SNS characteristics as predictors of SNS fatigue, we hypothesize to enlarge their model to the job context. SNS is a relevant issue in occupational life as employers use it to have a deeper knowledge of their employees and as a tool of corporate communication. Employees can use SNS as a social platform and as a way to express discontent. In this latter case, the organization can implement a disciplinary procedure toward employees, known as doocing. The perception of privacy violation is strictly related to the fear and awareness of doocing, which in turn can predict SNS fatigue as well. So, it could be worthwhile to extend Kim and colleagues’ model to the workplace with particular attention to the doocing phenomenon.