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Kultura i Społeczeństwo | 2024 | Nr 4 Troska o dobrostan

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Human wellbeing, understood as a good life, is an interdisciplinary concept that gained prominence in many scientific disciplines in the second half of the 20th century. Wellbeing encompasses various indicators that reflect whether a person is happy with their life, one of which is health. The article therefore focuses on the salutogenic model of health, which has a lot in common with the theory of wellbeing and helps answer the question regarding what to do, and how, to have a positive impact on an individual’s sense of coherence. It thus provids the tools to help them move along the health-sickness continuum towards better health, so that they can enhance their wellbeing. Although the article explores theoretical perspectives, its theoretical analysis draws on a review of various empirical studies examining the impact of the relationship between an individual’s sense of coherence and their ability to cope with various stressors.
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Paweł Przyłęcki
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  1. Medical University of Lodz
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The presence of animals, especially dogs, in people’s daily lives constitutes an important part of how we function as a society. Pets fit into our routines and help us satisfy both emotional and social needs, and are also associated with fostering inter-species bonds. The division of responsibilities in the family serves as an indicator of wellbeing for both humans and animals. Research into such relationships allows for a better understanding of the different stages of family life. The article analyses inter-species family relationships in the context of young couples who have a dog as a member of their family. It examines how the presence of a dog affects the lives of young people, and whether the additional responsibilities related to pet care affect their wellbeing. In addition, it describes how pet-care duties are shared between partners and analyses whether this affects their life satisfaction and family relationships.
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Magdalena Gajewska
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Magdalena Żadkowska
1
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  1. University of Gdańsk
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One widely accessible and popular way to enhance people’s wellbeing today is tourism, and its appeal continues to grow in Poland. Both wellbeing and tourism are complex and evolving phenomena shaped by socio-cultural patterns, economic and political influences, and lifestyle preferences. The growing popularity of individual tourism is closely linked to the ongoing development of social media. Tourist blogs serve as personal accounts that allow readers to reconstruct the world presented by the bloggers, offering insights into their intentions, beliefs, personality traits and attitudes. Their readers can also discern both the topics highlighted and those left unspoken, while identifying the bloggers’ values, self- -presentations, and the transformations they have undergone. The aim of this article is to examine the experience of individualised tourism and show its connections with the wellbeing of the individual on the example of Polish-language travel blogs. The study is exploratory in nature, and involves qualitative content analysis. The article seeks to answer how the experiences of bloggers or tourists relate to wellbeing, which aspects of wellbeing bloggers consider significant enough to share publicly, and what role wellbeing plays in the tourist experience.
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Stella Grotowska
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ORCID: ORCID

  1. AGH University of Krakow
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The article analyses the activities of female participants in the OnkoMarsz project, an initiative of the “Onkorejs — Wybieram Życie” foundation. This project aims to support adaptation to oncological diseases within a social system that includes both cancer survivors and healthy individuals. The analyse is grounded in the social-ecological model of health and illness, which prioritises health as a process whose essence is the balance between health and illness. In this context, wellbeing is understood as the ability of OnkoMarsz participants to carry out life’s tasks despite the challenges posed by their illness. To explore this, in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with project participants to determine the source of their wellbeing in sickness and in health. The findings reveal that the participants’ strategies for adapting to their disease are egoistically motivated (enjoying life here and now) and altruistically oriented (caring for others). Egoism, altruism and social solidarity intermingle and determine the wellbeing of the participants in both subjective and objective dimensions.
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Jacek Mianowski
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  1. University of Gdańsk
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The article explores the issue of living with rare diseases within the social construct of exclusion and process of adaptation. Drawing on the empirical research, it analyses individual and collective coping strategies for Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) from a sociological perspective. Applying the theory of the trajectory of suffering, this study explores the dynamics of social exclusion and adaptive mechanisms, revealing their complexity and multidimensional nature. The article identifies gaps in the social perception of rare diseases and emphasizes the importance of inclusive health policies that address the specificity and needs of individuals with rare diseases, as well as those of their families.
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Stanisław Maksymowicz
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  1. University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
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B a c k g r o u n d / o b j e c t i v e s: Social exclusion is gaining attention as a conceptual framework useful in addressing various dimensions of inequality. The aim of this paper is to explore and discuss the relationship between social exclusion and the risk of neglect or self-neglect in older adults. Following Anthony Giddens, four dimensions of social exclusion were distinguished. R e s e a r c h d e s i g n / m e t h o d s: Quantitative analyses were conducted using data from a randomly selected sample of community-dwelling individuals aged 65+ (1634 observations). Logistic regression models were employed to examine the relationship between social exclusion and neglect or self-neglect. F i n d i n g s: Among the dimensions of social exclusion analysed, only subjective poverty and a poor social network were significantly associated with the odds of neglect. The chances of being neglected also increased when having insufficient money for satisfying own needs, or having a smaller social network. The latter was also related to self-neglect, the likelihood of which was increased by objective poverty. D i s c u s s i o n / i m p l i c a t i o n s: The exclusion of older adults is a crucial matter in medicine given its impact on health, quality of life, and mortality patterns. It also has implications for detecting and preventing abuse and neglect. Neglect and self- -neglect in older adults remain difficult to identify and diagnose, while the findings presented here may aid in identifying vulnerable groups and tailoring interventions to support older adults who are deprived of care.
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Barbara Woźniak
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Paulina Gajda
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Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk
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  1. Jagiellonian University Medical College
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The article presents the results of a quantitative study on economic migrants, investigating whether they experience loneliness along with its causes and consequences. The results are analysed within the framework of C. Ryff’s concept of wellbeing, which takes into account six constitutive aspects. Due to data limitations, only three aspects were examined: self-development, life purpose, and positive relationships with others. The main conclusion is that these migrants assess self-development and life purpose highly, but their social relationships fall short of expectations, both in quality and frequency. This leads to loneliness for most migrants, which in turn may contribute to a deterioration in their health.
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Agnieszka Pawlak-Kałuzińska
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  1. Medical University of Lodz
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The article presents the findings of a qualitative study on the relationship between denialist attitudes and trust in health-care institutions. 13 in-depth individual interviews with people expressing denialist attitudes were subjected to qualitative content analysis using the MaxQda program. The analysis identified four subgroups of narratives: sceptical confused; sceptical common sense; sceptical individualistic; and denialistic. The respondents’ statements reveal a connection between denialist views, trust in medical institutions and their representatives, and cultural processes characteristic of the period of reflective modernity.
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Iwona Młoźniak
1
ORCID: ORCID
Elżbieta Brzezicka
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Urszula Zwierczyk
1
ORCID: ORCID
Mateusz Kobryn
1
ORCID: ORCID
Marta Wilk
1
ORCID: ORCID
Mariusz Duplaga
1
ORCID: ORCID

  1. Jagiellonian University Medical College
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Childbirth is a major experience, the course and quality of which are crucial for the mother’s development, her assumption of the maternal role, and for the child(ren). Every year, tens of thousands of women share their childbirth experiences in the “Mothers’ Voice” [“Głos Matek”] study conducted by the Foundation for Childbirth with Dignity [Fundacja Rodzić po Ludzku]. The article presents the results of an analyses of these accounts, focusing on verbal violence directed at women during childbirth by midwives and doctors in Poland in 2021–2022. An examination of the collected material (stories of violence) made it possible to determine who shouted at the women during labour, the language used in these violent statements, and the behaviour of the women that provoked such reactions from midwives and doctors. The findings are interpreted through, among other things, the lens of Michel Foucault’s theory, compared with medical guidelines on the appropriate treatment of women during childbirth, and examined in relation to Polish legislation and WHO guidelines on a positive childbirth experience.
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Aleksandra Nowakowska-Kutra
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ORCID: ORCID
Agnieszka Jeran
2
ORCID: ORCID

  1. Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz
  2. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
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Beliefs and health literacy are developed throughout the process of socialisation across one’s life. In order to make informed health choices, and as a result achieve wellbeing, health education is a priority. The study examines the process of developing health literacy and critical thinking about health among primary school students through the content of school textbooks. It focuses on the official curriculum — the core curriculum and textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education and Science for teaching primary school pupils. The findings show that although health education is an important part of the curriculum, there is insufficient room for practical exercises and group discussion. Greater emphasis on critical thinking in the teaching process is also needed. The analysis indicates that the current health education system in Poland has the potential to improve the health of children and adolescents by developing their health literacy. However, curricula and textbooks need to be adjusted to the real health needs of children and adolescents.
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Aleksandra Piłat-Kobla
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ORCID: ORCID
Maria Świątkiewicz-Mośny
1
ORCID: ORCID
Magdalena Ślusarczyk
1
ORCID: ORCID
Anna Prokop-Dorner
1
ORCID: ORCID
Natalia Ożegalska-Łukasik
1
ORCID: ORCID
Aleksandra Potysz-Rzyman
1
ORCID: ORCID
Marianna Zarychta
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Małgorzata M. Bała
1
ORCID: ORCID

  1. Jagiellonian University Medical College
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The outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine led to a massive rush of aid in Poland. The scale and intensity of involvement demonstrated the enormous potential dormant in Polish society. While many studies have focused on the forms of support, the motivations of volunteers, and attitudes towards Ukrainians — most concentrate on the positive effects of the aid given. The main aim of this article is to show that despite the obvious social benefits (for Ukrainian citizens, the volunteers themselves, and society as a whole) involvement in Ukrainian volunteer aid can be detrimental to the helpers. Assisting people who have suffered trauma or harm can lead to compassion fatigue, burnout, secondary traumatic stress and vicarious victimisation. An indirect aim of this analysis is to highlight the shortage of studies on the psychological and health costs of volunteering, not only in the context of helping the Ukrainian people. As a result, studies often overlook the physical and mental health of volunteers, and there is a lack of systemic support in this regard, which could ultimately lead to Poles becoming less involved in volunteering and turning away from such activity.
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Magdalena Wieczorkowska
1
ORCID: ORCID

  1. Medical University of Lodz

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Nowak Stefan, 1979, System wartości społeczeństwa polskiego, „Studia Socjologiczne”, nr 4.
Szacki Jerzy (red.), 1995a, Sto lat socjologii polskiej. Od Supińskiego do Szczepańskiego, PWN, Warszawa.
Szacki Jerzy, 1995b, Wstęp: krótka historia socjologii polskiej, w: Jerzy Szacki (red.), Sto lat socjologii polskiej. Od Supińskiego do Szczepańskiego, PWN, Warszawa.
Weber Max, 2002, Gospodarka i społeczeństwo. Zarys socjologii rozumiejącej, tłum. Dorota Lachowska, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa.
Odniesienie w tekście ma wówczas postać (Weber 2002, s. 113).
Prosimy o niepodawanie adresów internetowych, dzięki którym dotarto do tekstów, lecz o umieszczanie w bibliografii opisu ich wersji pierwotnych.
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J. Szacki, Historia myśli socjologicznej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2002, s. 113.
J. Szacki, Historia myśli socjologicznej, cyt. wyd, s. 233. Tamże, s. 255.
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RECENZENCI W 2021 ROKU

Monika Adamczyk, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski
Janusz Barański, Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Piotr Binder, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
Tadeusz Borutka, Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II
Anita Brzozowska, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Marta Bucholc, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Michał Buchowski, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Mariusz Czubaj, Uniwersytet SWPS
Wioleta Danilewicz, Uniersytet w Białymstoku
Marcin Dębnicki, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Rafał Drozdowski, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Danuta Duch-Krzystoszek, Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej
Tomasz Ferenc, Uniwersytet Łódzki
Mirosław Filiciak, Uniwersytet SWPS
Piotr Filipkowski, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
Monika Frąckowiak-Sochańska, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Jacek Gądecki, Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza w Krakowie
Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Marek Gorzko, Akademia Pomorska w Słupsku
Małgorzata Jacyno, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Krzysztof Jasiecki, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
Katarzyna Kajdanek, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Katarzyna Kalinowska, Instytut Badań Edukacyjnych
Jerzy Kałążny, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Antoni Z. Kamiński, Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Tomasz Kaźmierczak, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Kaja Kaźmierska, Uniwersytet Łódzki
Przemysław Kisiel, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie
Jerzy Kochanowski, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Maciej Kowalewski, Uniwersytet Szczeciński
Wiesława Kozek, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Natalia Krzyżanowska, Örebro University
Paweł Kubicki, Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek, Uniwersytet Pedagogoczny im. KEN w Krakowie
Waldemar Kuligowski, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Anna Kwaśniewska, Uniwersytet Gdański
Marta Leśniakowska, Instytut Sztuki PAN
Wojciech Łukowski, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Mirosława Marody, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Piotr Mitzner, Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego
Andrzej Moskwin, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Dorota Mroczkowska, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Adam Mrozowicki, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Janusz Mucha, emeritus
Natalia Niedźwiecka-Iwańczak, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Lech M. Nijakowski, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Przemysław Nosal, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński, Uniwersytet Gdański
Krzysztof Pietrowicz, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Jakub Potulski, Uniwersytet Gdański
Ryszard Radzik, Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej
Dorota Rancew-Sikora, Uniwersytet Gdański
Jerzy Rohoziński, Ośrodek Badań nad Totalitaryzmami Instytutu Pileckiego
Maja Sawicka, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Krystyna Skarżyńska, Uniwersytet SWPS
Marta Songin-Mokrzan, Uniwersytet Łódzki
Karina Stasiuk-Krajewska, Uniwersytet SWPS
Beata Szluz, Uniwersytet Rzeszowski
Magdalena Ślusarczyk, Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Wojciech Świątkiewicz, Uniwersytet Śląski
Piotr Toczyski, Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej
Arkadiusz Tuziak, Uniwersytet Rzeszowski
Andrzej Waśkiewicz, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Ewelina Wejbert-Wąsiewicz, Uniwersytet Łódzki
Piotr Witek, Uniwersytet im. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
Cezary Włodarczyk, Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Anna Wylegała, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
Katarzyna M. Wyrzykowska, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN
Tomasz Zarycki, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Anna Ziembińska-Witek, Uniwersytet im. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
Magdalena Zowczak, Uniwersytet Warszawski

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