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Livestream experiments : the role of COVID-19, agency, presence, and social context in facilitating social connectedness Universiteit Gent

Kelsey Onderdijk, Dana Swarbrick, Bavo Van Kerrebroeck, Maximillian Mantei, Jonna K. Vuoskoski, Pieter-Jan Maes, Marc Leman
Musical life became disrupted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many musicians and venues turned to online alternatives, such as livestreaming. In this study, three livestreamed concerts were organized to examine separate, yet interconnected concepts-agency, presence, and social context-to ascertain which components of livestreamed concerts facilitate social connectedness. Hierarchical Bayesian modeling was conducted on 83 complete responses ...

Unravelling the link between physical activity and peer social connectedness in young people with intellectual disabilities : a systematic review of quantitative studies Universiteit Gent

Laura Maenhout, C. A. Melville
BackgroundThere is limited understanding of the context surrounding physical activity (PA) of young people with intellectual disabilities (ID), which has an impact on the development of PA promotion programmes. Peer social connectedness seems to be a vital correlate to focus on, but has not been included in current studies examining the correlates and determinants of PA levels of young people with ID. This study aims to synthesise the evidence ...

Adult learners’ social connectedness and online participation: The importance of online interaction quality Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Nguyet Diep, Chang Zhu, Céline Cocquyt, Maurice De Greef, Tom Vanwing

Online interaction has been associated with positive outcomes, academically and psychologically. Regarding the latter, social connectedness has been recognised as an important outcome on the basis of its link to subjective well-being and course satisfaction. In adult educational settings, how online interaction can foster social connectedness has not been widely examined. The study investigates how (1) adult learners’ online participation ...

Connectedness in recovery narratives of persons labeled not criminally responsible : a qualitative study Universiteit Gent

Natalie Aga, Sara Rowaert, Freya Vander Laenen, Stijn Vandevelde, Tom Vander Beken, Kurt Audenaert, Wouter Vanderplasschen
Objective: Connectedness is placed at the heart of the recovery process in mental health care. However, in regard to persons labeled not criminally responsible (NCR), considerations of recovery and connectedness remain in the background. The aim of this study is to understand and explore how individuals labeled not criminally responsible experience connectedness. Research method: Sixty-seven in-depth interviews were examined and thematically ...

Chinese international students' social connectedness, social and academic adaptation: the mediating role of global competence Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Qian Meng, Chang Zhu, Chun Cao

This study examined global competence of Chinese international students sojourning in a non-Anglophone European country as a mediator between foreign language proficiency (i.e., English and local language) and social and academic adaptation, and social connectedness in international community. A sample of 206 Chinese students in Belgium responded to a web-based survey. Results from structural equation modeling analysis indicated both English ...

Spatial connectedness imposes local‐ and metapopulation‐level selection on life history through feedbacks on demography Universiteit Gent

Stefano Masier, Dries Bonte
Dispersal evolution impacts the fluxes of individuals and hence, connectivity in metapopulations. Connectivity is therefore decoupled from the structural connectedness of the patches within the spatial network. Because of demographic feedbacks, local selection also drives the evolution of other life history traits. We investigated how different levels of connectedness affect trait evolution in experimental metapopulations of the two-spotted ...

A Multifaceted Portrait of Students’ Connectedness to Urban Schools Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Jetske Strijbos, Nadine Engels
In this study, as part of an intervention program in which students and their teachers participated in a school development project, we examined stu- dents’ perceptions of connectedness to their urban school. A photovoice method was employed to map out the multiple emotions associated with the school connectedness experienced by 61 students from four Brussels’ schools. Five different but simultaneously occurring emotional themes were revealed: ...

Connectedness between oil and agricultural commodity prices during tranquil and volatile period. Is crude oil a victim indeed? Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Yanpeng Sun, Nawazish Mirza, Abdul Qadeer, Hsin-Pei Hsueh

Increasing financialization of energy and commodity markets offer a variety of tradeoff for the investors and consumers. On the one hand, this increased financialization of the two markets helps investors design a well-diversified investment portfolio with assets from different asset categories. However, at the same time, this increases the connectedness between the two markets significantly, which may have strong implications for investors ...

Pathways to Late-Life Volunteering: A Focus on Social Connectedness Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Sarah Dury, Dorien Brosens, An-Sofie Smetcoren, Sofie Van Regenmortel, Nico De Witte, Liesbeth De Donder, Dominique Verté
Utilizing a mixed-methods research design consisting of two consecutive
phases, this study investigates older adults’ perceptions and understanding of
social connectedness factors influencing late-life volunteering. In the first phase,
quantitative data from the Belgian Ageing Studies project (N = 24,508, from
89 municipalities) was analyzed through regression modeling. In the second,
qualitative phase, focus groups with ...

On the simple connectedness of hyperplane complements in dual polar spaces Universiteit Gent

Ilaria Cardinali, Bart De Bruyn, Antonio Pasini
Let $\Delta$ be a dual polar space of rank \geq 4$, $ be a hyperplane of $\Delta$ and $\Gamma: = \Delta\setminus H$ be the complement of $ in $\Delta$. We shall prove that, if all lines of $\Delta$ have more than $ points, then $\Gamma$ is simply connected. Then we show how this theorem can be exploited to prove that certain families of hyperplanes of dual polar spaces, or all hyperplanes of certain dual polar spaces, arise from embeddings.