Psychology and Risk Prevention: Current Research
Published on 13. October 2023
131 pages
979-8-89113-143-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book covers several aspects of current research in the fields of social psychology, cognitive psychology, and the psychology of education on the topic of risk prevention. The research carried out by French, Spanish, and Canadian academics comprises various fields such as the prevention of road accidents, prevention in workplaces, prevention of sexism and racism, prevention of school failure, and prevention of adverse effects on health. The objective of this book is to highlight the contributions of major fields in the psychology of risk prevention from a perspective of understanding and targeting interventions: to raise awareness or change high-risk behaviors.
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Sandrine Gaymard
Psychology and Risk Prevention: Current Research
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10/2023
Nova Science Publishers Inc
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1
- Conditionality and Decision-Making on the Road: The Management of Risks
- Abstract
- The Theory of Conditionality and the Decision Theory
- Materials and Methods
- Tools
- The Conditional Scripts Questionnaire
- The Lottery
- Population and Procurement
- Analysis Strategies
- Results
- Conditionality
- The Lottery
- Conditionality and Lottery
- Discussion
- References
- Chapter 2
- School Education for Preventing Sexism in Adolescence
- Abstract
- The School as a Social and Socializing Institution
- Androcentrism in the Educational Institution
- The Reproduction of Sexist Stereotypes in Schools
- Child and Adolescent Development and Gender Stereotypes
- Thinking about Education as a Tool for Preventing Sexism: What is Urgent, What Can and Should be Done?
- References
- Chapter 3
- Identity Dynamics and Risk: The Vulnerability of Students
- Abstract
- The Development of Higher Education
- Identity Dynamics, Capacity, and Vulnerability
- For the Improvement of the Student Condition
- References
- Chapter 4
- The Individual Faced with Risk: Outlines and Limits of a Preventive Approach
- Abstract
- Risk in Everyday Life
- Risk Characterization
- From Resignation to Responsibility
- Risk Prevention, Confrontation with Risk: What Meaning?
- The Risk: A Complex Dimensionality
- References
- Chapter 5
- Group Membership and Vaccination
- Abstract
- Vaccination and Psychosocial Concepts
- Materials and Methods
- Tools
- The Questionnaire
- Sample
- Results and Discussion
- The Complexity of the Group Membership
- References
- Chapter 6
- Preventing Systemic Discrimination and Microaggressions in the Workplace: An Overview of Some Practices in Quebec
- Abstract
- Integration in the Workplace
- Context and Conceptual Definitions: Preventive Organizational Interventions
- Microaggressions: A Concept that Qualifies Prejudice and its Intent
- Representation of Racialized Minorities
- Visible Minorities Representation in Canadian and Quebec Public Services
- Systemic Discrimination and Employment Equity
- The Invisibilization of Racialized Minorities and Systemic Barriers to Employment
- Forms of Organizational Intervention
- Preventing Workplace Microaggression and Systemic Discrimination with Programs Focused on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: An Overview
- A Need for Research
- References
- Chapter 7
- Spirituality, Health and Prevention
- Abstract
- How to Define Spirituality and Religion?
- Spirituality, Religion and Health: Past Results and Their Limitations
- Past Findings
- Limitations
- Recommendations on Prevention Issues
- Synthesis and Perspectives
- References
- Chapter 8
- The Prevention of School Failure
- Abstract
- Inequality in Education : A Source of School Failure?
- The Role of the Body in Learning: A Controversy
- Preventing Failure in the Field of Mathematical Learning
- First Steps into Math: From Perceiving Quantity to Processing Abstract Numbers
- Thinking with Our Body: How Can Fingers Help?
- Interactions between Math Anxiety and Environment: How to Support the Educational Community?
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 9
- Principles of Risk Management for Prevention
- Abstract
- General Framework
- Risk Concepts
- Objective Risk
- Subjective/Perceived Risk
- Assumed/Adopted Risk
- Tolerated Risk
- Dangerousness
- Vulnerability
- Risk Factors
- Risk Groups and Vulnerable Groups
- Methods and Instruments to Measure Risk
- "Key" Actors in Risk Management
- Interventions to Mitigate Risk
- Evaluation of Interventions
- References
- Chapter 10
- The Social Iconography of "Aging Well" Among Autonomous Seniors
- Abstract
- The Concept of "Aging Well"
- Social Representation of Health and Illness
- The Iconographic Approach to Social Representations
- Methodology
- Participants
- Material and Procedure
- Results
- Discussion
- References
- About the Editors
- Index
- Blank Page
