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Responsibility as an Ethics and Sustainability Element during the Pandemic

This article addresses two perspectives of responsibility: as an element of taking action and as ethics towards one’s fellow citizens and the environment. These aspects have been used since the beginning of the pandemic. In this context, we wanted to determine the mechanism that triggers increased r...

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Autores principales: Țigan, Eugenia, Lungu, Monica, Brînzan, Oana, Blaga, Radu Lucian, Milin, Ioana Anda, Gavrilaș, Simona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10376764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37504062
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13070615
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author Țigan, Eugenia
Lungu, Monica
Brînzan, Oana
Blaga, Radu Lucian
Milin, Ioana Anda
Gavrilaș, Simona
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Lungu, Monica
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description This article addresses two perspectives of responsibility: as an element of taking action and as ethics towards one’s fellow citizens and the environment. These aspects have been used since the beginning of the pandemic. In this context, we wanted to determine the mechanism that triggers increased responsibility. We have considered two possible initial processes: one external and one learned from the family in early childhood or trained/learned during studies. Based on that, three concerns were brought to our attention. First, we targeted the impact of the pandemic on respondents’ degree of responsibility for their livelihoods. Second, we wanted to determine to what extent the new situation increased the interviewee’s involvement only in some activities. The third statement called into question the causal relation between the influence of extrinsic elements on a highly educated person’s degree of responsibility. The focus group was the active population of the industrial sector in the North–West border area of Romania. The data obtained are the result of the sociological survey implementation. The people in the region were subject to several new limiting external factors. The results show that the unique challenges up to that point made them more accountable for their actions in a situation that affected them directly (pandemic). It also can be underlined that lifelong education is important in forming healthy principles of responsibility.
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spelling pubmed-103767642023-07-29 Responsibility as an Ethics and Sustainability Element during the Pandemic Țigan, Eugenia Lungu, Monica Brînzan, Oana Blaga, Radu Lucian Milin, Ioana Anda Gavrilaș, Simona Behav Sci (Basel) Article This article addresses two perspectives of responsibility: as an element of taking action and as ethics towards one’s fellow citizens and the environment. These aspects have been used since the beginning of the pandemic. In this context, we wanted to determine the mechanism that triggers increased responsibility. We have considered two possible initial processes: one external and one learned from the family in early childhood or trained/learned during studies. Based on that, three concerns were brought to our attention. First, we targeted the impact of the pandemic on respondents’ degree of responsibility for their livelihoods. Second, we wanted to determine to what extent the new situation increased the interviewee’s involvement only in some activities. The third statement called into question the causal relation between the influence of extrinsic elements on a highly educated person’s degree of responsibility. The focus group was the active population of the industrial sector in the North–West border area of Romania. The data obtained are the result of the sociological survey implementation. The people in the region were subject to several new limiting external factors. The results show that the unique challenges up to that point made them more accountable for their actions in a situation that affected them directly (pandemic). It also can be underlined that lifelong education is important in forming healthy principles of responsibility. MDPI 2023-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10376764/ /pubmed/37504062 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13070615 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10376764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37504062
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13070615
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