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Surviving Architecturean Exploration Of The Design Studio’S Hiddencuricculum, Mohamed Ibrahim Assistant Professor In Architecture, Faculty Of Architecture - Design And Built Environment
Surviving Architecturean Exploration Of The Design Studio’S Hiddencuricculum, Mohamed Ibrahim Assistant Professor In Architecture, Faculty Of Architecture - Design And Built Environment
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
the research here tries to expose the less desired habit and attitude patterns and believes promoted by the studio culture, developed mainly to keep up with the stressful and demanding workload. The resulted figures reflect the negative impact it has on the students’ health and wellbeing. The research also provides insights into the current students’ flow pattern, revealing the occurrence likelihood of the most stimulating, relieving and enduring mental state that might help maintain positive engagement with the act of creation emotionally, psychological; and physically. A qualitative research is carried out in the context of the faculty of architecture, design …
Investigating The Effect Of Urban Built Environmenton Mental Health(Depression): Case Study Of Damietta City, Egypt, Mona Maria Master Student, Department Of Architecture, Faculty Of Engineering, Hany M. Ayad Professor, Department Of Architecture, Faculty Of Engineering, Rania Raslan Lecturer (Phd Holder), Department Of Architecture, Faculty Of Engineering
Investigating The Effect Of Urban Built Environmenton Mental Health(Depression): Case Study Of Damietta City, Egypt, Mona Maria Master Student, Department Of Architecture, Faculty Of Engineering, Hany M. Ayad Professor, Department Of Architecture, Faculty Of Engineering, Rania Raslan Lecturer (Phd Holder), Department Of Architecture, Faculty Of Engineering
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
Mental health disorders account for 7.4% of the burden of disease, and are now the leading cause of long-term disability worldwide. This paper explores the impact of the attributes of the built environment on mental health. It is difficult to measure mental health, so depression has been chosen to indicate it as the most common form of mental illness and its prevalence is projected to increase (CDC, 2013a) and it can be measured. Depression was assessed in across sectional survey of residents on (n=445) which has been divided into 4 study areas. Each 2 areas have the same socio-economic characteristics …
The Factor Structure Of Mental Health: Explanatory & Confirmatory Factor Structure Of Psychological Distress And Psychological Well-Being Measures, Badr El Ansari
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
Psychological distress (PD) is usually based on the level of anxiety and depressive symptoms while psychological well-being (PW) is usually conceptualized as some combination of positive affective states such as happiness, optimism, satisfaction with life, and hope. This paper addresses the question of whether psychological distress and psychological well-being are the opposite poles of the same axis of mental health or independent constructs that should be measured on two independent axes. Methods: The sample consisted of (510) Kuwait University students, (240) males with a mean age of (24.08 ±5.10) and (270) females, with a mean age of (21.68 ±2.70), (f=46.77, …