Al identificar una necesidad creciente de atención al adulto mayor, corroborada por estadísticas nacionales donde se estudian sus condiciones laborales, de salud, sociales, entre otras, se halló de suma importancia la creación de un espacio nuevo dedicado exclusivamente a la población adulta mayor en Lima, y que se diseñe específicamente para ellos, ya que los centros actuales son en su mayoría remodelaciones de edificios antiguos que originalmente tenían otros usos, y que por lo tanto la arquitectura no responde directamente a las funciones requeridas. Asimismo, este nuevo edificio deberá brindar los siguientes 4 servicios esenciales: alojamiento y servicios básicos de vivienda, atención médica geriátrica, zonas para el desarrollo de funciones cognitivas y psicológicas, y por último el diseño de zonas sociales y recreacionales. El proyecto busca por lo tanto reunir en un edificio los espacios necesarios para que las personas adultas mayores reciban, además de alojamiento, una atención integral y multidisciplinaria de triple aspecto: físico, mental y social; con la finalidad de promover en ellos hábitos saludables que aumenten su calidad de vida, sentido de pertenencia, salud mental y física y su reintegración con la sociedad. / By identifying a growing need for care for the elderly, corroborated by national statistics where their working, health, social, and other conditions are studied, the creation of a new space dedicated exclusively to the elderly population in Lima can be easily seen as of utmost importance. The building must be designed specifically for them, since the actual elderly centers spotted in Lima are mainly adaptations of old houses that originally had other uses, and therefore the architecture does not respond directly to the required functions. Likewise, this new building must provide the following 4 essential services: housing and basic housing services, geriatric medical care, areas for the development of cognitive and psychological functions, and finally the design of social and recreational areas. The project therefore seeks to gather in a building the necessary spaces for the elderly to receive, in addition to accommodation, a comprehensive and multidisciplinary care of triple aspect: physical, mental and social; with the purpose of promoting in them healthy habits that increase their quality of life, sense of belonging, mental and physical health and especially their re-integration with society. / Tesis

This study investigates the correlation between Millennial workers' sense of belonging and a company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Bearing in mind the gap in academic research on the introspective impact CSR has on a company’s employees, this study aims to explore how the Millennial workers at one of the biggest banking and insurance companies operating in Bulgaria understand and relate to companies’ philanthropic endeavours. To do so, this paper has used a theoretical framework, which combines four pillars that interact with and amplify one another. Two of them are empirical and present CSR and the Millennials as a generation. The other two are theoretical with social identity theory (SIT), which explains the sense of belonging innate to the Millennials, and corporate citizenship and shareholder value theory, which represent the polar opposites of what CSR should be about. As such, the thesis probes the hypotheses that, on one hand, if a company engages in genuine CSR initiatives, this will lead to an increased sense of belonging from the Millennial employees. However, on the other hand, if the company engages in greenwashing instead, this will lead to a diminished sense of belonging in the target group.  The findings infer that the Millennial workers at the banking and insurance company have strong opinions favouring their company utilizing genuine CSR practices. In addition, the majority of them have shared that if the company started utilizing CSR as means of greenwashing, this would lead to their overall disappointment and a diminished sense of association with the employer. However, the data has also shown that there might be different reasons for why people are joining CSR initiatives. These findings were produced with the help of mixed-method research combining quantitative survey plus qualitative semi-structured individual and focus group interviews.

[pt] Este estudo teve como objetivo investigar a relação entre o sentido de vida e a pertença à família militar com os níveis de bem-estar de esposas de militares do Exército Brasileiro. A amostra selecionada para este estudo foi composta por 395 mulheres, esposas de militares do Exército Brasileiro, acima de 18 anos. Elas responderam a três escalas que mensuram: o sentido de vida, o sentido de pertença ao grupo e os níveis de bem-estar. Foram realizadas análises de regressão para investigar as relações entre o sentido de vida e o sentido de pertença ao grupo com os níveis de bem-estar. Nos resultados obtidos mediante a regressão, identificou-se que o sentido de pertença ao grupo e a presença de sentido de vida contribuem para explicar 9 por cento das emoções positivas e 15 por cento das relações positivas. Foi observado que o sentido de pertença ao grupo, a presença de sentido de vida e o trabalho foram antecedentes dos níveis de engajamento e da realização, explicando 17 por cento do engajamento e 16 por cento de realização. Além disso, as dimensões sentido de pertença de grupo e presença de sentido de vida não atuaram como antecedentes dos níveis de emoções negativas. / [en] This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the meaning of life and belonging to the military family with the levels of well-being of wives of soldiers in the Brazilian Army. The sample selected for this study was composed of 395 women, wives of soldiers in the Brazilian Army, over 18 years old. They responded to three scales that they measured: the meaning of life, the sense of belonging to the group and the levels of well-being. Regression analyzes were carried out to investigate the relationship between the meaning of life and the sense of belonging to the group with the levels of well-being. In the results obtained through the regression, it was identified that the sense of belonging to the group and the presence of a meaning of life contribute to explain 9 percent of positive emotions and 15 percent of positive relationships. It was observed that the sense of belonging to the group, the presence of a sense of life and work were antecedents of the levels of engagement and achievement, explaining 17 percent of engagement and 16 percent of achievement. In addition, the dimensions sense of belonging to a group and presence of meaning of life did not act as antecedents of the levels of negative emotions.

This qualitative case study aims to understand the ways in which students identifying as Native American, American Indian, and Indigenous navigate attending a university informed by their identities. Through semi-structured interviews with Indigenous students and participant observation with a Native American student organization, this study identified how this demographic of students navigate and conceptualize their identities as Native and Indigenous peoples, the benefits of joining a Native American student organization on their university campus, and how they experience the university as a racialized organization. One overarching and three nuanced research questions were examined to illustrate how students' identities inform how they experience university life with themes surrounding Native and Indigenous identity construction informed by federal policy and Indigenous community practices, collective identity and student involvement, sense of belonging at college, and understanding universities as racial organizations that participate in racial capitalism. The study findings indicated that students' identities are regularly negotiated, engaged with, and leveraged throughout their college experiences and recommendations were made for how colleges and universities can more adequately and equitably serve this student demographic.

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Onboarding av nyanställda är den process som handlar om att integrera nya medarbetare in i organisationen för att öka organisationens produktivitet. Genom onboarding kan organisationen bland annat lära nyanställda medarbetare om deras nya arbetsuppgifter, organisationens normer och att få medarbetaren att bli en del av arbetsgruppen och organisationen. Användningen av digital onboarding tog fart vid Covid 19-pandemins start år 2019 och kom att påverka hur organisationer hanterade sin onboarding framöver. Då användandet av digital onboarding är ett relativt nytt fenomen som tagit fart sedan pandemins start behövs kunskap om hur digital onboarding kan bidra till att de nyanställda upplever känslan av tillhörighet. Syftet med studien är därför att få en djupare förståelse för hur nyanställda upplever känslan av tillhörighet vid digital onboarding. Studiens valda metod är kvalitativ och har inspirerats av en fenomenologisk ansats. Åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer hölls med respondenter från den utvalda organisationen. Det empiriska materialet har sedan analyserats med inspiration av fenomenologisk analysmetod och har genomförts i fem steg. Resultatet påvisar att information, feedback, en närvarande chef samt möjlighet till digitalt relationsskapande kan bidra till att nyanställda upplever känslan av tillhörighet vid digital onboarding. Resultatet visar på hur organisationer kan skapa bättre förutsättningar för nyanställda under digital onboarding. / Onboarding of new employees is the process that involves integrating new employees into the organization to increase the organization's productivity. Through onboarding the organization can, among other things, instruct newly hired employees their new tasks, educate them about the organization's norms and values and helping the employees to become part of the working group and the organization. The use of digital onboarding took off at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019 and came to affect how organizations handled their onboarding in the future. As the use of digital onboarding is relatively a new phenomenon that has gained momentum since the start of the pandemic, knowledge is needed about how digital onboarding can contribute to new employees experiencing the feeling of belonging. The purpose of the study is therefore to gain a deeper understanding on how new employees’ sense of belonging is affected during digital onboarding. The study's chosen method is qualitative method and it has been inspired by a phenomenological approach. Eight semi-structured interviews were held with respondents from the selected organization. The empirical material has been analyzed with inspiration from a phenomenological analysis method and has been carried out in five steps. The result show that information, feedback, a present manager and the opportunity for digital relationship building can contribute to newly hired employees experiencing the feeling of belonging during digital onboarding.The result indicates how organizations can create better conditions for new employees during digital onboarding.

As more schools consider ways to help students to develop not only academically but also socially and emotionally, school personnel look to formal programs of character education to help address the needs of the whole child. Of these programs of character education, Berkowitz and Bier (2005) posit that effective programs begin by promoting positive social relationships within the school. One measure of the quality of the social relationships in schools is reflected in the level of belonging or connectedness that students feel toward their school and members of the school community. Consequently, the purpose of the present study was to further the investigation of the construct of sense of school belonging and its relationship to formal programs of character education. Eighth-grade students (732) from five middle schools – three character program schools and two non-character program schools – were surveyed measuring sense of school belonging by their responses on the total score of the Psychological Sense of School Membership (PSSM) scale developed by Goodenow (1993) and on the four sub-scores of the PSSM demonstrated by Ye and Wallace (2013). No significant differences were found for student sense of belonging between character program schools and non-character program schools. However, the study also investigated the effect of structural and perceptual elements of character education programs that were found to positively relate to student sense of school belonging. Students who identified themselves as being part of a character education group in their school reported significantly higher levels of sense of belonging (on the total score of the PSSM and on the PSSM factors of Identification and Participation in School, Perception of Fitting in Among Peers, and Generalized Connection to Teachers) than those students who did not identify as being part of a character education group. In addition, students reported statistically significant higher levels of sense of belonging a) the more they felt accepted by other students in their group, b) the more they felt accepted by their adult group advisor, c) the more they felt able to express opinions in their group, d) the more they felt their group was like a family, and e) the more they felt character education groups made their school a better place. Sense of belonging was also positively related to more frequent opportunities for character education group meetings and to a common school language that emphasized moral character more than performance character. / Educational Leadership

We ran three MANOVAs in a sample of 422 young adults to examine differences in eating, shape, and weight concerns (i.e., ESW concerns) between gender diverse individuals, ciswomen, and cismen. Additionally, we examined the effects of self-esteem and sense of belonging on ESW concerns. We also tested for interaction (moderation) effects between gender and self-esteem and gender and sense of belonging. Findings indicated that gender diverse individuals experience ESW concerns at a significantly higher rate than cisgender men. There were no differences, however, in ESW concerns between gender diverse people and ciswomen. Self-esteem and sense of belonging significantly predicted ESW concerns, but no interaction effects were observed. Limitations of the current study include using one large gender diverse group rather than exploring each individual gender identity as well as limited recruitment. Future studies should recruit more participants across the gender spectrum in order to better understand the unique experiences of each gender group as it relates to eating, shape, and weight concerns and expand recruitment across broader regions of the United States.

Latinx families, particularly those whose primary language is Spanish, are significantly underrepresented in independent schools nationwide and experience barriers to engaging in their children’s education. Recognizing the crucial role of parent engagement in student academic success and socioemotional well-being, this research aimed to understand the unique challenges faced by Spanish-dominant parents in navigating the independent school contexts. Grounded in Khalifa et al.’s (2016) culturally responsive school leadership framework, the study intended to identify effective practices and strategies that facilitate Spanish-dominant parent engagement. The narrative data, collected through both a group plática and individual interviews, offered valuable insights into the experiences of a group of Spanish-dominant mamás The findings revealed three major themes: the importance of enhanced access to services and resources for meaningful engagement, the critical role of bilingual school contacts in bridging communication gaps, and the positive impact of cultivating a sense of belonging to create a more inclusive and supportive environment for Spanish-dominant families. Language access proved to be a vital factor in fostering parent engagement, enabling these parents to actively participate in their children's education through support with translation and interpretation services and other resources in Spanish. Additionally, a bilingual family liaison provided them a portal of accessibility to the whole school. Lastly, opportunities for authentic and culturally sensitive involvement further enhanced their sense of belonging, contributing to a more inclusive and supportive school environment. This research highlighted the transformative potential of culturally responsive school leadership, emphasizing its role in empowering Spanish-dominant parents and facilitating their active involvement in independent schools.