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Feb 20, 2024

On the Differences in Subjective Expressions in Contemporary Freehand Landscape Oil Painting

Nowadays, freehand landscape oil painting has become the most important painting in China. Artists create unique artistic works by subjectively experiencing the scenery and objectively depicting it. This article focuses on the differences in subjective expression in landscape oil painting from life, providing more creative possibilities for freehand landscape oil painting.

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Mar 6, 2024

Exploring the reform of English teaching based on the concept of core literacy

The current educational curriculum reform has entered the “core quality” era. Compared with the key objectives and implementation requirements of cultivating core English literacy, there are still some gaps in English teaching concepts, teaching models, teaching evaluation and so on. The main manifestations are: the discipline education value is not outstanding, the teaching mode is rigid, the teaching evaluation is single and so on. Therefore, in order to highlight the “quality-oriented” subject teaching, the reform of English teaching should explore ways out from the perspectives of subject education value, curriculum teaching model and teaching evaluation system.

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Mar 28, 2024

Psychological Healing: a Theoretical Exploration of the Effects of Horticultural Therapy on College Students’ Subjective Well-Being

The purpose of this study was to examine how horticultural therapy affects the subjective well-being of college students. Through theoretical analysis and literature review, the study focused on the role of horticultural therapy in mental health promotion, emotion regulation, self-efficacy enhancement, and creativity and cognitive function enhancement. It was found that horticultural therapy can significantly improve the mental health of university students, especially in stress management and emotional stability. Participation in horticultural activities helped to increase students’ life satisfaction, reduce negative emotions, and enhance their self-efficacy and sense of achievement. In addition, horticultural activities have been found to promote creative thinking and cognitive development. Nonetheless, there are challenges to implementing horticultural therapy, including resource and space constraints, and inconsistent participation. This study proposes that integrating horticultural therapy in a university setting requires a combination of resource allocation, curriculum design, and interdisciplinary collaboration. In summary, horticultural therapy demonstrates the potential to be an effective tool for enhancing the subjective well-being of university students, but its successful implementation requires further strategic planning and research.

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Jun 5, 2024

Measuring the consumer’s choice for edible cutlery: A sustainable lifestyle perspective

Edible cutlery is a safe alternative that, if adopted, can act as a panacea to plastic pollution. Consumers who believe in a lifestyle of health and sustainability (LOHAS) can motivate others by taking the lead in this direction. This study has explored the psychological variables associated with LOHAS consumers in conjunction with the product attributes of edible cutlery to check whether these variables can influence lifestyle of health and sustainability (LOHAS) consumers to adopt edible cutlery. An empirical study on 210 LOHAS consumers using Partial Least Squares Structure Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) and Importance Performance Matrix Analyses (IPMA) showed that social consciousness and subjective norms motivate them to adopt edible cutlery in restaurants. This finding has an implication for hospitality businesses using edible cutlery that can target LOHAS consumers with strategies that affect their social consciousness and subjective norm belief for better adoption intentions.

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Jul 15, 2024

Family well-being of single and dual earner families in Indonesia during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought life changing conditions to families that require coping strategies in order to survive and achieve family well-being. This study aims to analyze differences between single earner and dual earner families during the COVID-19 pandemic and to analyze the factors that influence subjective family well-being. The research design used was a cross sectional study with sample collection through non-probability sampling. Data collection was carried out by filling out questionnaires online. The number of respondents involved in the study was 2084 intact families with children residing in DKI Jakarta, West Java, and Banten Provinces. Reliability and validity tests were conducted. The results of the independent t-test showed that dual-earner families experienced better life changes and a higher level of subjective family well-being than single-earner families and had lower economic pressure and lower economic coping than single earner families. The SEM analysis found that life changes affected economic coping negatively and subjective family well-being positively. Family income influenced economic coping negatively and subjective family well-being positively. Finally, it was found that economic coping had no effect on subjective family well-being.

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Jul 24, 2024

A comparison of subjective well-being between urban and rural elderly in China: Differences and influences

Background: Among urban and rural elderly in China, comprehensive contextual factors of subjective well-being (SWB) have not yet been investigated systematically. Using a large and representative sample of Chinese elderly people, this study explored the predictors of SWB. As outlined in Andersen’s behavioral model, predictors can be classified as predisposing, enabling, needing, and health factors. Methods: The Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) is a nationwide, community-based and cross-sectional study conducted between 2003 and 2022. This study used data from 2018. There were 4415 participants aged over 60, including 1763 urban residents and 2652 rural residents. The SWB was measured on a five-point Likert scale ranging from very unhappy to very happy. Estimating potential predictors on SWB was accomplished by using ordinal logistic regression models in the generalized linear method. Results: In China, the SWB of urban and rural elderly has greatly improved, and the gap between them has narrowed significantly. Those with spouses, pensions, higher incomes, better self-reported health, and more social activities have better SWB. In the urban elderly, SWB is primarily determined by enabling factors such as personal income, while in the rural elderly, it is primarily determined by need factors such as social participation. Conclusions: A variety of factors influence SWB among the elderly. An emphasis should be placed on helping widowed elderly people, those without pension insurance, those with low incomes, and those less involved in social activities. Leisure activities, financial support, social security, and medical services can all be improved to promote the SWB of older people.

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