Digital Wellbeing
Implications for Psychological Research
Valentina Emilia Balas (Volume editor)
Vasile Doru Marineanu (Volume editor)
Roxana Maier (Volume editor)
Summary
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the editors
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Model of Emergent Digital Misbehavior (EDM) – a Novel Theoretical Framework under the Digital Behavior Change Interventions (DBCI) Paradigm (Dana RAD and Gavril RAD)
- 2 Bullying and Well-Being: An Intertwining Perspective (Florinda GOLU and Smaranda M. GUȚU)
- 3 The Therapeutic Endeavour of Stress and Anxiety in Regaining the Quality of Life in a Pandemic (Roxana MAIER)
- 4 Designed to Connect! Building a Secure Base for a Resilient and Satisfactory Life (Laura Elena NĂSTASĂ and Oana POPA)
- 5 Teachers’ Superpowers: Being Mindful. Being Positive. Being in the Flow – a Basis for Their Well-Being (Ramona HENTER and Cristina NICOLAU)
- 6 Psychological Path to Access the Effectiveness of Digital Well-Being (Rajit NAIR and Preeti Sharma NAIR)
- 7 The Contact of the Institutionalized Elderly with Family, during the Pandemic and the Emergency State (Roxana MAIER and Alina ROMAN)
- 8 The Theory of Reasoned Action and Planned Behavior. Implications for the Intention to Use Condom in the Case of Students’ Sexual Behavior (Delia BÎRLE and Raluca ZARO)
- 9 The State of Well-Being and the Information Technology (IT) – Digital Well-Being (Ionel Nicu SAVA)
- 10 The Prosocial Behavior, Online Environment, and Well-Being (Gabriel-Constantin NICOLA)
- 11 Study of Digital Well-Being Era on Society: Opportunities and Challenges (Swati MAURYA, Bulbul GUPTA, and Sapna JAIN)
- 12 Rumors and Gossip in the Online World: Social Influence Processes as Challenges to the Digital Well-Being (Aurelian STOICA)
- 13 Developing Digital Well-Being Skills through New Education Types in Primary Schools (Editha Margareta COȘARBĂ and Henrietta TORKOS)
- 14 Challenges and Possibilities Regarding the Integration of Health Education Models for Digital Well-Being in Preschool and Primary School (Egerău Anca MANUELA)
- 15 The Role of Extracurricular Activities in Children’s Personal Development and Well-Being (Cornelia Evelina BALAȘ and Daniela NEAŢA)
- 16 Methods of Managing Stress during Isolation due to Pandemic Situation (Sonia IGNAT and Alina MICLĂUȘ)
- 17 Children’s Well-Being in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) (Gabriela KELEMEN)
List of Contributors
Cornelia Evelina BALAȘ
Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, evelinabalas@yahoo.com
Assoc. Prof. Delia BÎRLE, Ph.D.
University of Oradea, Romania, delia.birle@gmail.com
Florinda GOLU
Department of Psychology, University of Bucharest, Romania, florindagolu@yahoo.com
Assist. Prof. Bulbul GUPTA, Researcher
Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, bulbulgup17@gmail.com
Smaranda M. GUȚU
Department of Psychology, University of Bucharest, Romania, smaranda.gutu@drd.unibuc.ro
Torkos HENRIETTA
Faculty of Educational Science, Psychology and Social Sciences, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, torkos_henriette@yahoo.com
Ramona HENTER
Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, ramona.henter@unitbv.ro
Sonia IGNAT, Ph.D.
Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology and Social Sciences, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, soniabudean@yahoo.com
Assist. Prof. Sapna JAIN, Researcher
Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, drsapnajain@jamiahamdard.ac.in
Prof. Gabriela KELEMEN, Ph.D.
Faculty of Educational Science, Psychology and Social Sciences, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, gabriela.kelemen@uav.ro
←7 | 8→Assoc. Prof. Roxana MAIER, Ph.D.
Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, roxanamaierpsiho@gmail.com
Egerău Anca MANUELA
Faculty of Educational Science, Psychology and Social Sciences, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, anca_petroi@yahoo.com
Coșarbă Editha MARGARETA
Faculty of Educational Science, Psychology and Social Sciences, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, ecoșarbă@yahoo.com
Assist. Prof. Swati MAURYA, Researcher
Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, maurya2026@gmail.com
Alina MICLĂUȘ, Psychologist, MD
Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology and Social Sciences, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, alina.miclaus@gmail.com
Assist. Prof. Preeti Sharma NAIR
Bansal College of Engineering, Bhopal, India, preetirajitnair@gmail.com
Assist. Prof. Rajit NAIR
Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal, India, rajit.nair@jlu.edu.in
Assoc. Prof. Laura Elena NĂSTASĂ, Psychotherapist, Ph.D.
Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, nastasalaura@yahoo.com
Daniela NEAŢA, MD alumni
Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, neatadana@yahoo.com
Gabriel-Constantin NICOLA, School Counselor, Ph.D. Student
University of Oradea, Romania, gabi.nicola@yahoo.com
Cristina NICOLAU
Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, cristina.nicolau@@unitbv.ro
Oana POPA
Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, oana.popa.07.07@gmail.com
←8 | 9→Assoc. Prof. Dana RAD, Ph.D.
Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology and Social Sciences, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, dana@xhouse.ro
Gavril RAD, Ph.D. Candidate
Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology and Social Sciences, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, radgavrilarad@gmail.com
Prof. Alina ROMAN, Ph.D.
Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, romanalinafelicia@yahoo.com
Lect. Univ. Dr. Ionel Nicu SAVA, Ph.D.
Universitatea “Andrei Şaguna”, Constanţa, Romania, nicusava2004@yahoo.com
Aurelian STOICA, Ph.D.
National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics – ICI Bucharest, Romania, aurelian.stoica@ici.ro
Raluca ZARO, MA Students
University of Oradea, Romania, zaro.raluca@gmail.com
Preface
In today’s society, where the development of digital technologies is emerging, it is important to take into consideration the development of the individual well-being when it comes to the engagement with the digital environment. This book represents one of the first scientific attempts to understand how the rapid deployment of digital technologies and their uptake by society has modified our relationships to ourselves, each other, and our environment. As a result, our individual and social well-being is now intimately connected with the state of our information environment and the digital technologies that mediate our interaction with it, which poses pressing ethical questions concerning the impact of digital technologies on our well-being that need to be addressed.
Technology has changed the way people perceive well-being. What is the impact of digital technology on our health, relationships, and society? How do we ensure our own digital well-being? Readers will learn new and established technologies and their impact on society, looking at the positives and negatives of engaging with technology. The book will guide the reader into introduction to the digital society and well-being, considering new and established digital technologies; modern culture and trends; exploration of digital identity; the balance of online and offline activities; consideration of negative behaviors online; strategies and approaches for managing them; and positive uses of technology for health, society, and education.
Digital well-being is a concept used to represent the effect of digital technology and programs on people’s mental, physical, social, and emotional health. It is an emerging construct that can be viewed from a multidisciplinary perspective and in various circumstances and scenarios:
- –Individual perspective (personal, learning, and job contexts): this includes recognizing and knowing the positive benefits and possible negative aspects of participating in digital practices and being mindful of ways to handle and monitor them to increase well-being.
- –Societal or corporate perspective: suppliers of digital platforms, programs, and information have a duty to ensure that they are properly regulated, funded, open, and equal. They will need to motivate and develop capacity among consumers so that anyone who interacts with them is prepared to do so in a way that encourages and/or enhances their well-being.
The online environment allows the individual to create and manage a digital identity; therefore, actively managing one’s digital identity and reputation can represent an essential element for a positive digital well-being in today’s digital society. Technology has entered in human life with fast speed, neglecting its impact over the mental health and well-being of people digitally connected. Well-being is more demanded whether it is education, marketing, finance, or information technology. This book will provide the effective platform for high quality submissions and stimulate the cutting-edge research discussions about latest trends in enhancing digital well-being.
Dana Rad
Valentina Emilia Balaș
Vasile Mărineanu
Roxana Maier
1 Model of Emergent Digital Misbehavior (EDM) – a Novel Theoretical Framework under the Digital Behavior Change Interventions (DBCI) Paradigm
Abstract: Digital culture has deeply influenced our social, economic, political, and cultural system, characterized by fast and constant technological transition, as people are increasingly interconnected and compelled to reject the past paradigms. It has the potential to turn power relations and interactions from institutions of centralized and hierarchical control to systems of more flexible and independent power. Emergent behavior is the behavior of a system that does not depend on its components, but on its relationships with each other. Thus, the emergent behavior cannot be determined by the analysis of the individual parts of the system. It can only be anticipated, regulated, or operated by knowing the components and their relationship. The main argument for why the emergent behavior becomes difficult to predict resides in the fact that the interactional pattern between systems’ elements increases exponentially along with the amount of new input, allowing for a myriad of novel and latent behavioral patterns to emerge. Emergence is considered often to be the outcome of specific interactional patterns. Validation of emergent behavior involves an analysis of behavioral information and the circumstances under which it occurs. Digital emergent behavior refers to the set of behaviors that are occurring under the direct interaction between people and technology. Commitment to health interventions is a requirement for efficiency; this is of vital importance to digital behavior change interventions (DBCIs), meaning interventions that utilize emerging internet technology, smart phones, and electronic sensors. Model of Emergent Digital Misbehavior (EDM) is not intended to offer a definitive meaning; instead, it is conceptualized in terms of a variety of emerging systems shared features. Implications for the new learning process, digital evidence-based interventions, are discussed.
Keywords: Emergent behavior, complex systems in applied psychology, digitalization, emergent digital behavior, and emergent digital misbehavior
1. Introduction
Digital culture has deeply influenced our social, economic, political, and cultural system, characterized by fast and constant technological transition, as people are increasingly interconnected and compelled to reject the past paradigms. It ←13 | 14→has the potential to turn power relations and interactions from institutions of centralized and hierarchical control to systems of more flexible and independent power. The radical influence of the digital environment not only promotes the globalization of everything but also encourages exponential engagement between people and, in addition, has the capacity to transform ways of acting, thinking, performing, relating to information, knowledge, and learning processes. The digital environment has the ability to expand the involvement of individuals and organizations. Therefore, it becomes more important not just the use of a specific digital environment, such as Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, or Facebook, when relating to social media, but rather the overarching concept or ideal of perfect openness, access to information and, in particular, sharing and overcoming the existing barriers.
The social influence of the digital world has an effect on our democracies: applications, networks, technologies, and online environments are “built” and thus create those types of social experiences. More interconnection can improve human behavior, from empathic to violent, by allowing the interactive participant to move from consumerism to engagement.
In addition to transforming the way, we collaborate and connect with each other, our new interfaces often change the way we are as human communicators. Along with the pervasive growth, greater freedom of expression through the anonymity of digital media also raises the exposure of intolerance, violence, and hate speech. Governments would not be able to monitor unrestricted global human activity, although there are major efforts to curb the detrimental side of hyper communication. Focus should therefore be put on educating people, creating positive attitudes toward peace, justice, equality, and the rule of law, and thereby reaffirming how modern systems can be made positive to the human destiny.
2. Digital Emergent Behavior versus Digital Emergent Misbehavior
Systems theory focuses on the components’ design, relationship, and interdependence, whereas the complexity theory relates to the nature of the different subsystems and how the sub-level elements of the complex structure influence the system’s emergent behavior and result (Amagoh, F., 2016).
Details
- Pages
- 286
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631856338
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631856345
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9783631856352
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631852781
- DOI
- 10.3726/b18489
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2021 (July)
- Keywords
- Emerging technology Well-being Digital identity Digital education Evidence-based interventions Digital behavior
- Published
- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2021. 286 pp., 18 fig. b/w, 13 tables.
Biographical notes
Dana Rad (Volume editor)
Valentina Emilia Balas (Volume editor)
Vasile Doru Marineanu (Volume editor)
Roxana Maier (Volume editor)
Dana Rad is associate professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology and Social Sciences at Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD in Applied Cognitive Psychology. She is Head of Center of Research Development and Innovation in Psychology. Valentina E. Balas is currently full professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania. Vasile Marineanu is Head of Romanian National Military Center for Psychology and Behavioral Health, President of the Romanian Society for Military Psychology, member in the Board of the Romanian College of Psychologists, and associate professor at the University of Bucharest. Roxana Maier has a PhD in Psychology, is an associate professor at Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, psychotherapist, P.E.U. counsellor and trainer, and member of the educational psychology, school and vocational counselling Committee at the Romanian College of Psychologists.
