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    Security Psychology: New Perspectives From the COVID-19 Pandemic
    (PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology, 2025-12-19) Hopner V; Carr S; Young M; Nelson N; Hodgetts D; Szabó ZP
    In 1994, the United Nations human security taxonomy signaled a major shift from security as preservation of the nation-state towards a broader and more recent ‘decagonal’ model of human security (entailing everyday needs for personal, health, food, cyber, community, economic, national, environmental, political and, most recently, global security). Building on those foundations, this paper proposes a psychological theory of human security. The latter we propose is a question of ‘systems fit’ between everyday needs and priorities to official responses during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. During COVID-19 lockdowns in 2021, across Australia and New Zealand, we asked N = 2,162 Australasians whether they had each type of security, how important each type was to them, and what each of the 10 sub-types of security meant to them. On face value, a pandemic is a primary threat to national public health. In everyday life, however, all 10 dimensions of human security remained salient and interconnected.
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    The Wheel of Work and the Sustainable Livelihoods Index (SL-I)
    (MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), 2025-07-09) Carr S; Hopner V; Meyer I; Di Fabio A; Scott J; Matuschek I; Blake D; Saxena M; Saner R; Saner-Yiu L; Massola G; Atkins SG; Reichman W; Saltzman J; McWha-Hermann I; Tchagneno C; Searle R; Mukerjee J; Blustein D; Bansal S; Covington IK; Godbout J; Haar J; Rosen MA
    The concept of a sustainable livelihood affords protection from crises and protects people, including future generations. Conceptually, this paper serves as a study protocol that extends the premises of decent work to include and integrate criteria that benefit people, planet, and prosperity. Existing measures of sustainability principally serve organisations and governments, not individual workers who are increasingly looking for ‘just transitions’ into sustainable livelihoods. Incorporating extant measurement standards from systems theory, vocational psychology, psychometrics, labour and management studies, we con ceptualise a classification of livelihoods, criteria for their sustainability, forming a study protocol for indexing these livelihoods, a set of theory-based propositions, and a pilot test of this context-sensitive model.