Creativity and resilience: a mini-review on post-pandemic resources for adolescents and young adults.

Background: Two years after the outbreak of the pandemic, several studies look at the consequences for the well-being and mental health of young people. In particular, creativity and resilience are cited in the scientific literature as resources that promote this well-being in adolescents and young adults. Purpose: This mini-literature review was created with the aim of examining how many articles have explored the relationship between creativity and resilience in adolescents and young adults since the onset of the pandemic. Methods: Particular attention was paid to how many of the articles actually related to the consequences of the pandemic, in which country they were published, their target population, and the models, instruments and variables used to analyze them. Results: Only 4 articles emerged from the screening, of which only one was actually related to pandemic consequences. All articles were published in Asian countries with a target group of university students. Three of the articles used mediation models to examine the relationship between resilience as an independent variable and creativity as a dependent variable. All articles used self-assessment instruments for creativity and resilience, both at the individual and group level. Significance: This mini-review offers us the opportunity to reflect on the lack of studies that have addressed the issue of youth resources in the form of creativity and resilience since the beginning of the pandemic. The results show us a still underdeveloped interest in creativity in the scientific literature, in contrast to what the media reports on the promotion of creativity in daily life.

Pfizer's Idea Orchard

Recognizing reality, Uwe Schoenbeck, PhD, senior vice president and chief scientific officer for Emerging Science & Innovation (ES&I) at Pfizer, has synthesized and made functional core lessons from two of the past decade's best business books: According to Schoenbeck, ESLs are highly experienced in the relevant disease area and embedded within the respective therapeutic areas, resulting in high strategic alignment of the opportunity being sourced and avoiding opportunities that are not a strategic fit (1). The ES&I team, in conjunction with colleagues working in Business Development, has stood out for bringing genuinely creative partnership ideas and innovations into an already creative and crowded environment. [...]a collaboration with Codex DNA will potentially streamline the mRNA production process by facilitating synthetic DNA assembly, another notable fruit of the team's labour to bring forth a competitive pipeline in gene therapy.

Pandemic-induced changes in working practices within a global medical communications agency

Objective: To evaluate whether the COVID19 pandemic continues to affect working practices/patterns in staff working in a global medical communications agency, and establish what impact these have on various factors relevant to their work. Research design and methods: Staff were asked to detail changes in working practices (pre- vs post-pandemic), via an online survey conducted in September 2022. Those with changes in working patterns were asked to assess the resulting impact on key work-related aspects. Categories were: communication, creativity, effectiveness, resolving queries, briefing, career progression/development opportunities, professional relationships and work/life balance;ratings were: very positive, positive, neutral and negative. Result(s): Of 36 respondents, most (n=32, 89%) reported changes in working patterns post-pandemic: 31 (86%) from predominantly office-based to predominantly remote, and 1 (3%) from predominantly remote to predominantly office-based. Four (11%) reported no change. Seventeen (53%) considered the overall impact on their daily work as neutral, 14 (44%) as positive and one (3%) as negative. Most staff reported a very positive/positive impact on effectiveness (69%) and work/life balance (63%). Categories with majority neutral responses were communication with delivery team (63%), creativity (47%), query resolution (50%), providing/receiving briefs (78%), and career progression/- development opportunities (63%). Overall, 56% of staff felt that their new working pattern negatively impacted their ability to form working relationships with peers. Conclusion(s): Most staff work in a hybrid manner post-pandemic. Although hybrid working has minimal impact on key workrelated aspects, it is important to have balance between office and remote working where possible, to develop and maintain working relationships (and thus foster a sense of community), whilst enabling individual flexibility.

Beyond Utterances: Embodied Creativity and Compliance in Dance and Dementia

Practices of creativity and compliance intersect in interaction when directing local dances remotely for people living with dementia and their carers in institutional settings. This ethnomethodological study focused on how artistic mechanisms are understood and structured by participants in response to on-screen instruction. Video data were collected from two long-term care facilities in Canada and Finland in a pilot study of a dance program that extended internationally from Canada to Finland at the onset of COVID-19. Fourteen hours of video data were analyzed using multimodal conversation analysis of initiation–response sequences. In this paper, we identify how creative instructed actions are produced in compliance with multimodal directives in interaction when mediated by technology and facilitated by copresent facilitators. We provide examples of how participants' variably compliant responses in relation to dance instruction, from following a lead to coordinating with others, produce different creative actions from embellishing to improvising. Our findings suggest that cocreativity may be realized at intersections of compliance and creativity toward reciprocity. This research contributes to interdisciplinary discussions about the potential of arts-based practices in social inclusion, health, and well-being by studying how dance instruction is understood and realized remotely and in copresence in embodied instructed action and interaction. © 2023 by the authors.

Features of managing the creative development of the socio-economic system in the conditions of influence of COVID-19 pandemic

The main purpose of the study is to model the process of managing the creative development of the socio-economic system in the conditions of influence of COVID-19 pandemic. For this, we have applied the methodology of functional modeling and graphical display, which includes the possibility of structural analysis and serves as effective information technology for any control system. Socio-economic systems are a large number of complex organizational structures with a large number of management processes. The largest of these are companies and organizations with appropriate personnel, on which it depends on where the company will move. It is impossible to compete without creative development. For an illustrative example, we used the current socioeconomic system in the form of a company, in which creativity and creative development play an important role. As a result, we reflected how, through a convenient and easy-to-use model, it is possible to form clear steps and stages that would informatively reflect creative development for the socio-economic system (company).

Covid-19 and the decolonisation of education in Palestinian universities

Despite the severe social, health, political and economic impacts of the outbreak of Covid-19 on Palestinians, we contend that one positive aspect of this pandemic is that it has revealed the perils and shortcomings of the teacher-centered, traditional education which colonizes students' minds, compromises their analytical abilities and, paradoxically, places them in a system of oppression which audits their ideas, limits their freedoms, and curtails their creativity. While Israeli occupation has proven to be an obstacle in the face of the Palestinian government's attempt to combat and contain the Corona crisis, on-line education, the sole arena that escapes this colonial system, has forced many instructors to give up their domination over the process of education and to create a more collaborative atmosphere of education that is based on dialogue, research and flexibility of the curriculum content. This study is designed to gauge English literature students' responses to this mode of digital learning. We interviewed a hundred students from six English literature programs between March and August, 2020. Thus, through critically examining students' answers, and by drawing on Freire's concepts of banking education, consciousness and dialogue, we propose that online education is an important step towards the decolonization of education and a call for a paradigm shift on the account that the existing paradigm of traditional education is stifling students' creativity and critical thinking.

Formation of creative thinking of a lawyer in modern conditions of development including the influence of COVID-19 pandemic

The main purpose of the study is to determine the principal ways of forming creative thinking among lawyers in their practice in modern conditions of development under the influence of COVID-19 pandemic. The importance of studying creative thinking and its formation is determined because the study of this problem creates the basis for the formation of a psychological attitude towards the creative development of a personality, which will be able to effectively solve non-standard problems of legal science and practice. The leading direction of training a future lawyer is the disclosure and activation of creative potential. In this process, focus on the attitudinal sphere of the personality is because it determines the activation of professional creativity and contributes to the disclosure of the creative potential of a specialist. As a result of the study and the application of the proposed methodology, the main stages were identified to promote the development of creative potential and thinking among lawyers in modern conditions of development, considering the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed research results may have a practical aspect of implementation in the activities of a modern lawyer.

The creative container: Supervision and schools in a time of trauma

This article explores creative supervision with Headteachers and Senior Leaders following the Covid-19 pandemic. It examines the effects of a global trauma on schools and the need for effective supervision to provide a safe container for school staff. Different forms of creative supervision are considered, including the use of symbol and metaphor as well as working outdoors, in nature. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Online person-centered expressive arts for helping professionals during COVID-19: A mixed-methods case study exploring professional stress and resilience

This dissertation research applied the Person-Centered Expressive Arts (PCEA) process developed by Natalie Rogers, Ph.D. (N. Rogers, 1993, 2011) to an online therapeutic setting for helping professionals who self-reported an increase in professional stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research explored the mental health needs of helping professionals, their resilience, PCEA as a therapeutic modality, and the facilitation of PCEA in an online environment. There was one primary research question and three sub-questions. The primary research question was, "What are the lived experiences of helping professionals who have self-reported an increase in professional stress during the COVID-19 pandemic when engaged in the PCEA process?" Sub-questions related to perceptions of professional stress, any impacts of PCEA on resilience, and perceptions of the online therapeutic environment. This mixed-methods research used case study and quantitative pre- and post-study measures to explore participants' professional quality of life (Pool, Stamm, 2009) and resilience (5x5RS, DeSimone et al., 2017b). PCEA sessions included meditation, sounding, drawing, painting, clay, collage, movement, writing, and verbal processing. Six helping professionals were identified through an email networking recruitment strategy. Participation included two semi-structured interviews (pre- and post-study), three sessions of online PCEA processes, completion of the pre- and post-study measures, and an optional debriefing meeting for participants to confirm the interpretation of data. All interviews and PCEA sessions were held separately with each participant through Zoom videoconferencing. This research included no group meetings. Thematic analysis and cross-case synthesis were used to analyze the research data. Cross-case findings were that participants: (1) experienced personal growth and a deeper connection with the self, (2) felt more deeply connected with others, (3) found that the person-centered approach was beneficial and led to a sense of safety and relational creativity, (4) experienced a deeper connection with everyday creativity, and (5) experienced a connection with spirituality through engagement in the PCEA process (n = 4). This research explored professional stress, resilience, and everyday creativity among helping professionals during three sessions of online PCEA processes. It suggests that PCEA is a valuable therapeutic modality to address the stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic and serves as an uplifting, engaging, and empowering practice that can be used to benefit individuals, groups, and communities. Keywords: case study, COVID-19 pandemic, cross-case synthesis, everyday creativity, helping professionals, mixed-methods, online therapeutic services, Person-Centered Expressive Arts, resilience, spirituality, stress, thematic analysis. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Respecting the invisible: Transactional and transformational approaches to giftedness

We live in a world shaken by a pandemic and the subsequent (currently ongoing) lockdown. The COVID-19 virus is invisible yet has been the dominant topic since 2020. This increasing awareness (and respect) for the invisible may, we hope, transfer to how gifted programs perceive the new conception of transformational giftedness. In this chapter, we contrast the transactional, easily detectable approach with the transformational, not-as-easily-detectable conception. We debate how to best move toward transformational giftedness;do we aim to teach transactionally gifted people how to be transformationally gifted? Or do we continue to pursue ways to assess transformational giftedness? We ultimately propose a fluid approach which follows the adage of transformational giftedness for all. We then discuss the subsequent emphasis on collaboration that can emerge from this fluid approach and potential roadblocks that may arise. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022. All rights reserved.

Women's Participation in Firms' Management and Their Impact on Financial Performance: Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Period Evidence

At a time when gender equality is a key priority of all international organizations, this paper can be considered a remarkable contribution to the role of women executives in firms' performance. More specifically, this study focuses on the effect of women holding positions of responsibility on firms' performance worldwide. For the purposes of our research, we applied cross-sectional and panel data analysis for all sectors at an international level from 2019, the year preceding the breakout of the pandemic crisis, to 2021, while the indicators used to measure the participation of women in executive positions are classified as ESG indices. The empirical analysis findings end up showing that the participation of women in executive positions positively affects firms' performance over time, while there is no material change observed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic period. More specifically, when the percent of women processing job positions of responsibility increases by 10%, then the index of profitability will increase from 1.4% to 1.8%, regardless of the measurement of female participation in executive positions used. The results of this study constitute a remarkable contribution to the promotion of the creative economy, the progress of societies, and sustainable development. The research's outcome can be primarily used by policymakers drawing up policies for achieving gender equality in the labor market and workplaces and by shareholders and firms' managers in order to trust females in executive positions in favor of their firms' financial performance. The current study is unique in that it focuses on the period before and during the COVID-19 period, as a period of high volatility in economic activity worldwide, while the sample includes firms from large and mid-cap companies belonging to developed and emerging markets. The above approach will contribute to providing more credible information related to the role of women executives in firms' performance.

Emerging Key Elements of a Business Model for Sustaining the Cultural and Creative Industries in the Post-Pandemic Era

In this article, the challenges that cultural and creative industry (CCI) firms face in forming sustainable business models—issues heightened by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the evolving consumer patterns that it has triggered—are addressed. The goal of this study was to identify a set of unique key elements crucial for the construction of a business model that aligns with the distinct characteristics of CCIs. To achieve this goal, an in-depth, long-term study using semi-structured interviews with proprietors in Eastern Taiwan was conducted. This region is home to unique, small-scale cultural and creative businesses and represents less than 5% of Taiwan's population. The semi-structured, in-depth interviews served as the data collection method, while content analysis was used for data interpretation. This approach allowed the current study to encapsulate a set of key elements that could inform the creation of a business model for CCI firms. The insights gathered by the study provide a robust framework for the development of sustainable CCI business models, offering valuable guidance for both existing businesses seeking to adapt and grow and new entrepreneurs entering the industry. This research also aims to stimulate further scholarly debate on the importance of a tailored, multidisciplinary business model for CCIs, given their unique needs and characteristics.

Strengthening resilience in organizations through creativity: Work practices and role clarity are influential

Purpose: This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings: Firms need to be more resilient to survive and prosper in the wake of major crises like the global Covid-19 pandemic. This key organizational resource can be strengthen through work practices that focus on creativity. However, desired outcomes are threatened if levels of role clarity are high, as this can serve to limit employee motivation to find novel solutions. Originality/value: The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. © 2023, Emerald Publishing Limited.

How did COVID-19 impact the use of Japanese complex words with masuku 'mask' in 2020?

This paper examines how the situation caused by COVID-19 impacted the use of a well-entrenched word in Japanese: masuku 'mask'. An inspection of data gathered from an online newspaper shows a sharp increase in token and type frequency in the use of complex words with masuku 'mask' in 2020 (mid-pandemic) compared to 2019 (pre-pandemic), implying the recurrence and variegation of mask-related topics in the media. Focusing on the varied types of complex words containing masuku 'mask', the paper offers a construction morphology account of how they distribute within a network of words. The most dominant means to expand the network was compounding, creating not only hyponyms of masuku 'mask' (i.e., using masuku as the head of the compound, as in ago-masuku 'chin mask') but also hyponyms of other well-entrenched words (i.e., using masuku as the non-head, as in masuku-gimu 'mask obligation'). Beyond compounding, a playful use of language in blends led to the creation of a new path, albeit a small one. The paper argues the development of the word network involved both mundane and exceptional creativity.

Job insecurity and survivor workplace behavior following COVID-19 layoff

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the impact of job insecurity (JI) on employee work performance (WP) and service innovation behavior (SIB). It further examines the mediating role of affective commitment (AC) and the moderating role of organizational cynicism and financial job dependence (FJD). Design/methodology/approachBy using a three-wave approach, the hypotheses were tested by collecting data from 473 full-time employees and their supervisors in the Thai hotel industry. FindingsThe results demonstrated that JI negatively affected WP and SIB. AC mediated these relationships. FJD moderated these relationships such that at high levels of job dependence, the negative relationships were weaker. Research limitations/implicationsHuman resource managers may reduce the negative effects of JI by creating a supportive and caring work environment through open communication. They may communicate openly with employees about the challenges the organization is facing, and involve them in planning, decision-making and implementation to mitigate the negative effects of JI. They may also provide training and development opportunities to help employees build their skills and increase their value to the organization. Originality/valueResearch on the behavioral consequences of JI is scant in the hospitality sector. Drawing on job-demand resource theory, this study attempts to fill this gap.

The outdoor nature, indoors: relationship between contact with nature, life satisfaction and affect during a COVID-19 pandemic lockdown

The COVID-19 pandemic led to national lockdown measures, implying individuals' household confinement, constraining active contact with outdoor nature, with potential associated mental health consequences. Hence, this cross-sectional correlational design study with 310 participants examined the relationship between self-reported measures of variety and intensity of indoor/outdoor activities involving contact with nature, life satisfaction and affect during the first nationwide lockdown in Portugal in 2020. Results showed a positive weak association between indoor activity intensity and positive affect, and between reported indoor mental recreation of contact with nature and negative affect. Actual indoor contact with nature was positively associated with life satisfaction and positive affect. Individuals without a variety of contact with indoor nature reported lower life satisfaction than those with high variety. Indoor contact with nature seemed particularly important for well-being during lockdown. During prolonged household confinement, mental health and well-being could be promoted through outdoor contact but indoor alternatives should also be considered.

What kind of internet memes do you like? People's preference for the memes expressing the positivity, humor, aggression emotions

Although various internet memes (IMs) were disseminated and popularized during the COVID-19 pandemic, the degree to which people appreciate them is unclear. In this study, people's appreciation of three kinds of typical IMs, which respectively conveyed the humorous (H-IM), encouraging (E-IM), and aggressive (A-IM) feelings towards the pandemic and the consequences it brought about, along with one objective description (OD) serving as the control condition, were compared. The results showed that the E-IMs and H-IMs were significantly more appreciated and loved than the A-IMs, thus supporting the prediction of positive psychology and humor regulation of negative emotion but failing to support the theory of psychology catharsis that emphasizes the need of making aggression to release tense and angry feelings caused by the pandemic. The results also showed that creativity played a mediating role for the positivity component in E-IMs and the humor component in H-IMs when predicting their fondness ratings. For the H-IMs, creativity could even fully mediate the impact of humor for exerting regulation effects on negative emotions evoked by the pandemic-related affairs such as home quarantine. This result revealed the creative nature of the IMs and showed that IMs are a kind of insightful cognitive restructuring that people make as a creative adaption to unfavorably changed situations caused by the pandemic.

The sense of loneliness in couples and the impact of the health crisis: A review of literature

Objective: The purpose of this review is to define the feeling of loneliness within a couple while taking into consideration the factors that lead a person to feel lonely in a couple or in a romantic relationship. Our goal is to understand the effects of the feeling of loneliness on these individuals during the global health crisis brought on by COVID-19 and to take these factors into account in designing effective therapeutic care. The different manifestations of loneliness in a couple should also be highlighted. Method(s): We used the PRISMA methodology to select the relevant studies. The keywords ("Solitude" or "Loneliness") and ("Couple" or "Married" or "Partnership") allowed us to select 19 references dealing with the theme. We conducted searches of the following databases: "Cairn", "PsychInfo and Psycarticle", "PubMed and Medline", "ScienceDirect" and finally, "Web of Science" in order to find articles covering a ten-year period. Result(s): There are different definitions for the subjective experience of loneliness. The review of the literature highlights the fact that loneliness can lead to positive or negative psychological consequences (it can lead to the development of creative capacity or, on the contrary, result in depression in some cases). Attachment patterns have been shown to be the basis for the tolerance of feelings of loneliness. Indeed, an anxious attachment would encourage the couple to avoid the feeling of loneliness. According to the literature, this defensive mechanism of seeking presence in the couple would make it possible to limit the impact of loneliness. This solitude depends on the level of relational quality within the couple. A poor relational quality would lead to greater loneliness and would impact intimate relationships. Loneliness is supposedly not experienced in the same way by men and women: Men seem to be more protected by marriage while women's level of loneliness may be higher because of the household chores they have to do. Men and women would nevertheless remain subject to the phenomena of contamination, i.e., when one of the partners feels lonely, the other will also be lonely. However, it seems that marriage protects against feelings of loneliness and its negative consequences. Loneliness does not have only negative effects. It can be beneficial for developing creativity and finding oneself. The periods of confinement during the COVID-19 crisis provided people with an increase in the amount of time they didn't normally have on a daily basis. This may have been beneficial for some people and can be associated with positive emotions. Individuals who spent the lockdowns with others felt less alone and experienced less psychological distress. However, confinements did produce some negative effects on couples. The increased stress of the pandemic and the constant proximity led to an increase in spousal abuse. The consequences of confinement for couples whose relationships were already troubled resulted in frequent separation and/or divorce. The potential for conflict was related to limited financial resources, not working, and the significant risk of contracting SARS COV-2. Conclusion(s): The articles dealing with the feeling of loneliness that we reviewed presented quantitative methods to the detriment of qualitative aspects and focused largely on the negative aspects of the feeling of loneliness. Other academic disciplines, such as sociology, demonstrate a lack of understanding concerning what is at stake with the feeling of loneliness. The articles intersect and tend to highlight the attachment relationships that are formed in childhood as a determining factor in the feeling of solitude later in life. The quality of the relationship, gender, and marital status are also factors to be considered. Loneliness has a clear influence on the well-being of the relationship but it is not an individual characteristic of the relationship itself. It finally appears as an individual characteristic with an impact on the assessment of the quality of the relationship and on the appreciatio of the spouse.Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Masson SAS

Opportunities And Threats In Digital Education

COVID-19 pandemic has caused havoc worldwide. India is also facing challenging circumstances as the figure of infected/positive cases is rising day by day. This study deals with the development of education: Post COVID-19. This paper will help to understand "Digital Education: Opportunities and Threats". The Corona virus has exposed emerging vulnerabilities in learning systems all over the world. A lot of relevant literature was explored to confine the essence of continued learning during these exceptional times. Educational organizations all over the world are moving towards online/Digital learning. This paper also proposes digital education as an urgent need in this lock downs times and social distancing due to COVID-19 pandemic. It also provides a powerful stage for further research. The use of digital technology in education is experiencing a tremendous boom in education sector with cost effectiveness. Although it is unclear whether technology will plug all of the holes in the Indian Education system but it seems that technology is playing a major role in education interventions. Due to advancements in technology, accessibility of low-priced laptops/mobiles, wireless equipments, and related communications setups signs both opportunities and challenges for learning organizations and their faculty and students. Digital Education has potential that can produce knowledge workers. The government has analyzed that ICT sector has important role in education due to that many programmes such as NEOR, NMEICT, NKN, Eklavya, NPTEL, and NROER has been launched. Digital Education has bring success in the field of education but still there area number of challenges in most of Indian institutes like shortage of quality teachers, deprived quality of research, and deprived quality of training etc. Digital Education is overall very beneficial for the students of country like India.Copyright © 2020 Ubiquity Press. All rights reserved.

ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF THREE ESSENTIAL FACTORS OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN INTENTION TO TECHNOPRENEUR BASED ON THE ENTREPRENEURIAL EVENT MODEL

Social media has become a part of daily activities for university students to communicate, learn, and do business. Research reported since 2016, research on technopreneurs for university students has continued to increase until now. The COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia limits social activities, including activities in the office. This situation encourages university students to switch to using technology, especially social media to start a business or become a technopreneur. This study analyzes three essential factors in social media: Internet ability, creativity, and computer capability for the entrepreneurial event model. This quantitative study uses the Structural Equation Model method with the Partial Lease Square technique to see the effect of the three essential factors in social media on the intention to become a technopreneur. Eight hundred and fifty-four student respondents came from various universities and cities in Indonesia. Data was collected using the snowball sampling method facilitated by Google Forms while the COVID-19 pandemic was still ongoing. The study found three essential social media factors positively affected and reinforced the entrepreneurial event model. The study found that the tendency to act and the perceived desire factor did not affect the intention of technopreneurs. It might happen because university students' psychological conditions affect the implementation of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, the perceived feasibility reinforces the findings previously. ICIC International © 2023.