APBM 2022 Abstract Book

Executive Summary & Conference Context

• Event Name: APBM 2022 — III International Conference on Applied Psychology and Business Management.
• Dates & Location: October 27–30, 2022 | Antalya, Turkey (hybrid format with online sessions via Zoom and in-person components).
• Organizers & Key Sponsors:
  • Initiated and published by STARTINFORUM International Project Management and Business Consultancy (Turkey).
  • Co-organized by IATELS (International Association for Technology, Education and Language Studies) and English IATELS International English Academy.
• Institutional Partners:
  • Galgotias University (Uttar Pradesh, India)
  • Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University (MIT-WPU) (Pune, India)
  • Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation (MSEUF) (Philippines)
• Editorial Leadership:
  • Scientific Editor: Prof. Dr. Iryna Sekret (Chair of the Board, STARTINFORUM; Committee Chair, IATELS).
  • Technical Editor: Mehmet Fatih Kurnaz.
  • Reviewers: Prof. Dr. Anuradha Parasar (Galgotias University, India), Dr. Joseph Anthony Narciso Z. Tiangco (Shu-Te University, Taiwan), and Dr. Peter Williams (University College London, UK).
• Publication ISBN: 978-605-68986-1-7.

Core Vision & Keynote Highlights

The welcoming addresses by Prof. Dr. Iryna Sekret, Adv. Aradhana Galgotia, Prof. Dr. Anuradha Parasar, and Dr. Flormando P. Baldovino emphasize creating a multidisciplinary platform connecting academia and business. The theme centers on placing the human personality—mental well-being, motivation, and leadership—at the core of organizational, educational, and global economic developments.

Keynote & Invited Addresses

1. Language and Organizational Well-Being (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, University of Warsaw, Poland): Examines the “affective turn” in language learning, linking language use and language attrition to positive/negative emotions and individual/organizational well-being.
2. Student Retention in a Higher Education Institution: A Predictive Analytics Modelling (Dr. Flormando P. Baldovino et al., MSEUF, Philippines): Utilizes predictive analytics to analyze factors behind student dropouts (especially among children of Overseas Filipino Workers) to build retention intervention models.

Major Thematic Categories & Research Summaries

1. Organizational Psychology, Business Policy, and Economics

• Cross-Country Relations & European Workplace Policy: Assist. Prof. Dr. Shrawan Kumar Pandey investigates strategic policy, cultural friction, tax/labor regulations, and leadership vision affecting cross-border business integration in Europe.
• Moonlighting and Employee Burnout: Abhijeet Chore and Dr. Aparna Pathak evaluate how financial needs and job dissatisfaction drive private employees in Pune into side hustles/second jobs, and the resulting physical and psychological burnout.
• Gender Violence and Harassment at Work: Dr. Javier Zavala Rayas analyzes sexual harassment and gender violence as invisible, everyday factors limiting women’s performance and forcing work/school abandonment.
• SME Export Potential & Technology: Assist. Prof. Dr. Tareef Husain applies regression analysis to local SMEs in Uttar Pradesh, showing how firm size and productivity positively affect export performance, while age, technology, and external finance showed negative associations.
• Financial Literacy & Investment Behavior: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Manju Dahiya studies individual investor habits in Muzaffarpur City, India, finding that higher education drives investment and that bank fixed deposits remain preferred for safety over newer digital avenues.

2. Clinical Psychology, Well-Being, and Mental Health

• Mindfulness-Based CBT for OCD: Doaa Shamim (Pakistan) investigates an 11-session MBCT intervention on 10 diagnosed OCD patients, demonstrating significant symptom reduction measured via the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS).
• Personality Traits & Eating Disorders: Prof. Dr. Shikha Srivastava and Prof. Dr. Anuradha Parasar study college students in India, finding a positive correlation between personality traits and eating disorders in males, but no correlation in females.
• Psychometric Validation of Health Anxiety Scale: Darshita Mehta and Madhura Londhe validate the Short-version Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI) on an Indian sample ($N=213$), finding high reliability ($\alpha = 0.868$) and identifying structural variations compared to clinical Western samples.
• Learned Helplessness Scale Validation: Sakshi Bhalgat evaluates the Learned Helplessness Scale on 312 Indian undergraduate students, extracting 5 principal components explaining $50.8\%$ of the variance.

3. Societal Issues, Culture, and Philosophy

• Psychological Analysis of Beggary: Ashni Churi explores street begging in urban Indian contexts through psychological theories, focusing on individual drivers, reinforcement loops, and non-beggar societal behaviors like social conformity.
• Buddhism & ‘Flow State’: Mitali Bhavsar links Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of “Flow” (being in the zone) to Buddhist concepts of mindfulness, non-attachment, present-moment awareness, and the Zen notion of “Mindflow”.
• Freudian Psychoanalysis in Literature: Prakriti Rais and Sanmit Sarkar apply Freud’s psychoanalytic framework to poetry and literature to unearth unconscious desires, repressed emotions, and cathartic functions in human creative expressions.
• Ancient Indian Psychology (Triguna & Personality): Dr. Kaustubh V. Yadav and Dr. Preeti Joshi study the correlation between Manas Prakritis (Satva, Rajas, Tamas) and the Big Five personality traits, showing Satva guna negatively correlates with neuroticism.
• Faculty Alienation in Higher Education: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ambika Prasad Pandey conducts a socio-psychological study on faculty members at private universities in Delhi NCR to analyze administrative factors behind workplace alienation.

4. Educational Innovation, Flipped Learning, and Special Needs

• Game-Based Response Systems in Flipped Classrooms: Prof. Dr. Hui-Wen Huang et al. analyze 48 English-major writing students in China who designed their own online quiz questions, observing increased autonomy, critical thinking, and essay writing quality.
• Intercultural Flipped Learning: Prof. Dr. Hui-Wen Huang outlines a collaborative project bringing Native English-Speaking Teachers into online flipped classrooms with Chinese EFL learners to build communicative confidence.
• Researching with Learning-Disabled Cohorts: Dr. Peter Williams (UCL, UK) details methodological guidelines for inclusive research involving people with learning disabilities, emphasizing active participation, simple language framing, and mitigating acquiescence bias.
• Non-Profit Crisis Management: Dr. Joseph Anthony Narciso Z. Tiangco discusses operational strategies used by the Taiwan Love and Hope International Charity during COVID-19 to maintain orphanage operations and support children with neurodevelopmental disorders.

5. Regional Sustainable Development Workshop

• 4D Framework for Sustainable Regional Economies: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rinat Zhanbayev et al. (Kazakhstan/Russia) present a integrated framework combining four “D” components: Demoetic, Demographic, Democratic, and Demoeconomic/Environmental metrics to evaluate regional quality of life and sustainable development goals.

Overview Table of Key Contributions

Author(s) / Presenter	Country	Domain / Subject Area	Core Topic / Key Conclusion
Luis Javier Pentón Herrera	Poland / USA	Applied Linguistics & Well-Being	Keynote on the role of language use/attrition on emotional state and organizational well-being.
Doaa Shamim	Pakistan	Clinical Psychology	MBCT intervention significantly reduces OCD symptoms.
Flormando P. Baldovino et al.	Philippines	Educational Analytics	Predictive analytics model identifying family/environmental factors driving student dropouts.
Hui-Wen Huang et al.	China	Educational Technology / EFL	Student-created game-based quizzes enhance flipped EFL writing instruction.
Peter Williams	UK	Research Methodology	Tailored, active research strategies for engaging participants with learning disabilities.
Rinat Zhanbayev et al.	Kazakhstan / Russia	Regional Economics & Sustainability	Integrated 4D (“D+3D”) model for regional sustainable development assessment.
Tareef Husain	India	Business & SME Economics	Firm size/productivity positively affect SME export capabilities in Uttar Pradesh.
Joseph Anthony N. Z. Tiangco	Taiwan	Business Psychology / Non-Profit	Crisis management and sustainability for orphanages during pandemic disruptions.