Conveners
Talk Session 1: Occupational Health and Wellbeing
- Stephan Dickert (Queen Mary University of London)
Employment in higher education entails significant demands and may pose risks to occupational mental and physical health. Specifically, in the Czech Republic, the long-standing underfunding of tertiary education imposes an additional burden on both academic and non-academic university employees, potentially increasing their psychological vulnerability. Thus, the present study aims to...
The resilience is a positive psychological trait which enable people do deal with the adversities of their life. The youth of any nation is the future as well as pillar of its development. The students studying in the professional courses face many psychological problems issues such as stress, anxiety, emotional troubles, etc. which may lead to lower well-being. But the students with high...
This study investigates the dynamic properties of hypothetical individuals’ automatic operations updating from a mathematical perspective. We focus on the dynamics of how automatic operations of an individual are getting closer to controlled operations. To do this, we adopt a nonlinear complex systems approach based on well-established behavioral theories, as Prospect Theory.
Using...
The life of software professionals is rife with daily challenges and uncertainties; which affects their well-being. Therefore, it is necessary to identify personality traits which may help software professional to cope with stresses of life. Mindfulness is one of those traits which may help to cope with such stresses of professionals. Mindfulness leads to awareness of thoughts, feelings and...
Positive psychology coaching is one of the approaches in coaching theory and practice. Coaching interventions based on positive psychology have been used with individuals, however, there is not much data on how effective they are with groups. This presentation will describe positive psychology coaching intervention, based on strenghts, values, random acts of kindness and goal setting, with a...
