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Somaesthetics and "The Second Sex”: A Pragmatist Reading of a Feminist Classic [trans. Wojciech Małecki]

Somaestetyka i "Druga Płeć". Pragmatystyczne odczytanie arcydzieła feminizmu [przeł. Wojciech Małecki]

Author(s): Richard Shusterman / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1-2/2008

Keywords: Somaesthetics; Simone de Beauvoir; Pragmatism; Feminism.

Richard Shusterman explains in his article the character and structure of somatic aesthetics, the philosophical discipline he created. This is followed by his analysis of Simone de Beauvoir’s complex approach to the issue of body in her "Le deuxième sexe", referring to those arguments which might support the pragmatic attitude of somatic aesthetics as well as those recognising the somatic aesthetics’ focus on the body as a threat to feminism

O, Superman! Or being Towards Transhumanism: Martin Heidegger, Günther Anders, and Media Aesthetics

O, Superman! Or being Towards Transhumanism: Martin Heidegger, Günther Anders, and Media Aesthetics

Author(s): Babette Babich / Language(s): English / Issue: 36/2013

This paper discusses the current fantasy of the technological singularity and the humanist vision of transhumanism together with professional philosophy’s enduring resistance to a critical philosophy of technology and action. Drawing upon Martin Heidegger’s Question Concerning Technology as much as Max Horkheimer’s and Theodor Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightment Günther Anders’ dissonant insight is that we are born not made. For Anders, we want to be as perfect as only something we have made is meant to be perfect and our vision of that perfection is the machine. This essay reviews machine obedience, military programming, and the audience as commodity, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and the mechanical fantasy of labor and the heart (work and sex) as well as Anders’ book on the obsolescence of the human.

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Author(s): Péter Bokody,Miklós Halmágyi,Csaba Onder,Botond Csuka,Csaba Kiss,Anna Szolnoki,Máté Zombory,Mária Ludassy / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 03/2014

Halmágyi Miklós - Vitae Sanctorum Aetatis Conversionis Europae Centralis (Saec. X–XI) – Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe (Tenth–Eleventh Centuries), edited by Gábor Klaniczay Ludassy Mária - Denis Diderot: Esztétika, filozófia, politika, Szerk. Kovács Eszter, Penke Olga, Szász Géza Kiss Csaba - Ludassy Mária: Felvilágosodástól elsötétítésig Zombory Máté - Feischmidt Margit, Glózer Rita, Ilyés Zoltán, Kasznár Veronika Katalin, Zakariás Ildikó: Nemzet a mindennapokban Az újnacionalizmus populáris kultúrája Szolnoki Anna - Czifra Mariann: Kazinczy Ferenc és az ortológusok, Árnyak és alakok az 1810-es évek nyelvújítás mozgalmában Onder Csaba - Vaderna Gábor: Élet és irodalom, Az irodalom társadalmi használata gróf Dessewffy József életművében Bokody Péter Michel Pastoureau: A fekete: egy szín története Csuka Botond - Szómaesztétika és az élet művészete, Válogatás Richard Shusterman írásaiból, Szerk. Krémer Sándor

Varia

Varia

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Multiple languages / Issue: 10/2010

VINCENT BLOK Heidegger und der Nationalsozialismus oder die Frage nach dem philosophischen Empirismus. . 273 PARVIS EMAD Heidegger and the Question of Translation: A Closer Look. . . . . . . . 293 GILBERT GÉRARD La constellation de l’être. Lecture d’Identité et différence de Heidegger. . . 313 CHRISTOPHE PERRIN L’origine et les fondements de la question cartésienne chez Heidegger. . 333 ROLF KÜHN Bergson und die Phänomenologie des Lachens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 FRÉDÉRIC SEYLER La fonction quasi-performative de la phénoménologie de la vie et son enjeu éthique. . . 385

Abstracts of the 1st International Conference on Behavioral Addictions

Abstracts of the 1st International Conference on Behavioral Addictions

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Issue: suppl.1/2013

Keywords: international conference;abstracts;psychology;behavioral addictions;behaviorism;clinical psychology;neuropsychology;compulsivity;health;food;gambling;exercising;ICT;video games;social networks;

Abstracts of the 1st International Conference on Behavioral Addictions; March 11–12, 2013, Budapest, Hungary

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND "gloom" JUSTICE

VIOLENCE CONTRE LES FEMMES ET « MOROSITE » DE LA JUSTICE

Author(s): Corina Veleanu,Andressa Bittencourt / Language(s): French / Issue: 21/2017

Keywords: legilinguistics; discourse; gender violence.

This paper aims at offering a legilinguistics and contrastive approach to the evolution of some legal terms and phrases in the field of gender violence in English and Romance languages. A more particular focus is given to terms, phrases and structures used in Brasil and Latin America, as well as to sociolinguistic relations with terms outside the scope of gender violence, such as “morosidade da justiça”. Different types of discourses (media, public authorities, victims) are explored in order to shed more light on the interdependence underlying the evolving interaction of various participants to communication acts and the influence of the merchandisation of information on the legal environments within our consumption societies.

THE ANALYSIS OF THE FLE MANUAL DESIGNED FOR CORE CYCLE SECONDARY QUALIFYING MOROCCO: THE ABSENCE OF A DEVICE RECOMMENDED FOR TEACHING ORAL UNDERSTANDING

L’ANALYSE DU MANUEL DU FLE CONÇU POUR LE TRONC COMMUN DU CYCLE SECONDAIRE QUALIFIANT MAROCAIN : L’ABSENCE D’UN DISPOSITIF RECOMMANDE POUR L’ENSEIGNEMENT DE LA COMPREHENSION ORALE

Author(s): Mohammed Aguidi,Brahim Bel-Mkaddem / Language(s): French / Issue: 21/2017

Keywords: Oral comprehension; Dispositive; Common core; Textbook

In fact, for all profiles/sections, the teaching of French language in the common core of the Moroccan secondary schooling is realised having as base the textbook, which integrates in its content integral works conceived as didactic modules. The textbook is composed by four modules, each of them having a maximum of two didactic sequences. Each sequence has didactic purposes that have to be reached by the student/pupil, based on the skill trening activities. But, the question arises – is there a reserved place for the competence of oral comprehension? In order to answer this question, it would be logical to return to the summary of the textbook, for finding the clues that may determine the key to the initial question.

A ‘Happy’ Coincidence: Cognitive Capitalism and Well-Being Enhancement in Schools

A ‘Happy’ Coincidence: Cognitive Capitalism and Well-Being Enhancement in Schools

Author(s): James Reveley / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: cognitive capitalism; schools; neoliberalism; Michael A. Peters;

‘Almost certainly we are witnessing a shift to...a market individualism of neoliberalism where the self is shaped as a utility maximiser, a free and contractual individual, who is self-constituted through the market choices and investment decisions that he/she makes....In the face of increasingly technical and functional forms of literacy and of schooling, we might inquire whether school in an age of consumerism promotes a relation to the self based on truth-telling or whether this relation has been replaced by another primary ethos: happiness, security, survival, success, ‘self-improvement,’ wealth.’ (Besley and Peters, 2007: 18)

An Orderly Mess

An Orderly Mess

Author(s): Helga Nowotny / Language(s): English

Keywords: Order; Philosophy;Future;

This book was triggered by the recent geopolitical shifts and the turn towards an allegedly post-factual era.An Orderly Mess is a timely diagnosis of the current dissolution of the modern order, while highlighting the opportunities of messiness. The essay focuses on the temporal and spatial dimensions in which messiness becomes apparent today: broken time lines and fragmented spaces. Messiness is framed by a blurring of the world orderings inherited from modernity. Against the backdrop of rapid digitalization, we may find ourselves again in a phase of transition toward new ways of world ordering. The focus on messiness reveals the different patterns of order and disorder that underpin the current process of transition.In the second half of the volume the author revisits her 1989 book on Eigenzeit, which explored how moderns experience time, or are exposed to it. A quarter century later she finds that the new inventions of technology have challenged the traditional meaning of time (and also of space) even more, increasing the non-simultaneity of human existence. Today, small devices channel into one’s fingertips medial eigenzeit: the time that one has to oneself in order to spend it with those who are absent. The past has shrunk and the present extends to the future: “there is no pre¬determined future, only a future that is as radically open as it is inherently uncertain.”

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Author(s): Ivana Katarinčić,Jadran Kale,Bruno Beljak,Leopold Rupnik,Marijana Ivić,Tomislav Augustinčić,Ljubica Anđelković Džambić,Tamara Baraba,Jana Blažanović,Marijana Jurišić,Mario Kovač,Antonija Zaradija Kiš,Mirela Holy,Martina Novosel,Branislava Vičar,Goran Đurđević,Martina Jurišić,Janja Kovač,Ozren Biti,Josip Ralašić,Deniver Vukelić,Maša Grdešić,Nives Rittig-Beljak / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 1/2018

Review of: Nives Rittig-Beljak - Jelena Ivanišević, Od kuharice do književnosti. Ogledi o kulinarskoj prozi, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Zagreb 2017., 200 str. Maša Grdešić - Divna Zečević, Život kao voda hlapi. Izbor iz dnevnika 1961–2016., ur. Marija Ott Franolić, Disput, Zagreb 2017., 648 str. Deniver Vukelić - Radoslav Katičić, Naša stara vjera. Tragovima svetih pjesama naše pretkršćanske starine, Ibis grafika, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb 2017., 236 str. Jadran Kale - Military Pilgrimage and Battlefield Tourism. Commemorating the Dead, ur. John Eade i Mario Katić, Routledge, London, New York 2018., 164 str. Josip Ralašić - Biblioteka Ucrainiana Croatica, Katedra za ukrajinski jezik i književnost Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu Ozren Biti - Države praznujejo. Državni prazniki in skupnosti na območju bivše Jugoslavije, ur. Božidar Jezernik i Ingrid Slavec Gradišnik, Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, Ljubljana 2017., 316 str. Janja Kovač - Ivan Čolović, Smrt na Kosovu polju, Biblioteka XX vek, Beograd 2016., 506 str. Martina Jurišić - Epic Formula. A Balkan Perspective, ur. Mirjana Detelić i Lidija Delić, Institut za balkanske studije, Srpska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Beograd 2015., 254 str. Goran Đurđević - Drago Roksandić i Vlatka Filipčić Maligec, Kultura hrvatskog antifašizma, Zagrebačka naklada, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb 2016., 304 str. Branislava Vičar - Jožica Čeh Steger, Ekokritika in literarne upodobitve narave, Založba Litera, Maribor 2015. 349 str. Martina Novosel - Dunja Knebl, 33 balade , Geenger Records & Zvuk Močvare, 2017. Antonija Zaradija Kiš - Vanda Babić, Kulturalno pamćenje. Ogledi o hrvatskoj kulturi i književnosti Boke, Hrvatsko nacionalno vijeće Crne Gore, Tivat 2016., 343 str. Mirela Holy - Pitirim Sorokin, Društvena i kulturna dinamika. Studija promjena u velikim sustavima umjetnosti, istine, etike, prava i društvenih odnosa, Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb 2016., 853 str. Antonija Zaradija Kiš - Smiljana Šunde, Lipa tica slabo piva (don Mihovil Pavlinović u podgorskim anegdotama), Naklada Bošković, Zagreb 2017., 100 str. Mario Kovač - Krležin EU/ropski furiosum, ur. Bojan Koštić i Suzana Marjanić, Udruga za promicanje izvedbenih umjetnosti i kulture “Pod galgama”, Koprivnica 2016., 272 str. Martina Jurišić - Marie-Louise von Franz, Senka i zlo u bajkama, Fedon, Beograd 2012., 369 str. Jana Blažanović - Eckehard Pistrick, Performing Nostalgia. Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania, Ashgate, Farnham, Burlington 2015., XVII + 248 str. Tamara Baraba - Rock’n’Roll, knj. 2, ur. Dragan Bošković i Časlav Nikolić, Srpski jezik, književnost, umetnost: zbornik radova s 10. međunarodnog naučnog skupa održanog na filološko-umetničkom fakultetu u Kragujevcu (23.–25. 10. 2015.), Filološko-umetnički fakultet u Kragujevcu, Kragujevac 2016., 656 str. Ljubica Anđelković Džambić - Darko Lukić, Uvod u primijenjeno kazalište. Čije je kazalište?, Leykam international, Zagreb 2016., 328 str. Ljubica Anđelković Džambić - Mario Kovač, Udahnuti svjetla pozornice. Metodologija kazališnog rada sa slijepim i slabovidnim osobama, Hrvatski centar ITI, Zagreb 2016., 208 str. Tomislav Augustinčić - Mirna Tkalčić Simetić, Hrelić. Antropologija prijepornog mjesta, Hrvatsko etnološko društvo, Zagreb 2015., 112 str. Marijana Ivić - Morana Čale, O duši i tijelu teksta. Polić Kamov, Krleža, Marinković, Disput, Zagreb 2016., 310 str. Marijana Ivić - Tijelo u hrvatskome jeziku, književnosti i kulturi, Zbornik radova 45. seminara Zagrebačke slavističke škole, ur. Ivana Brković i Tatjana Pišković, FF press Filozofski fakultet, Zagrebačka slavistička škola, Zagreb 2017., 224 str. Leopold Rupnik - Treća. Časopis Centra za ženske studije, gl. ur. Nataša Govedić, 8/1–2, Centar za ženske studije, Zagreb 2016., 128 str Bruno Beljak - Matthew Cole i Kate Stewart, Our Children and Other Animals. The Cultural Construction of Human- Animal Relations in Childhood, Routledge, London, New York 2014., 195 str. Jadran Kale - Kako živi narod. Izvještaj o pasivnosti, izložba Kristine Leko u Muzeju Grada Šibenika 12. listopada – 12. studenoga 2017. Ivana Katarinčić - Kretanja. Časopis za plesnu umjetnost, br. 27, ur. Maja Đurinović i Željka Turčinović, Hrvatski centar ITI, Zagreb 2017., 95 str.

Life and aging with HIV. An interdisciplinary approach

Life and aging with HIV. An interdisciplinary approach

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: HIV infection; neuroimaging; antiretroviral treatment; aging; cognitive disorders

A monograph on the epidemiology and course of HIV infections, neuroimaging diagnostics, and the cognitive adaptation (psychological functioning) of people infected with HIV, as well as their aging processes – with a particular emphasis on their olfactory and auditory functions and metabolic bone diseases. The authors - neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, radiologists, and audiologists - present the results of their own research and a reliable and critical review of the current body of literature. This publication is addressed to psychologists and caregivers of people infected with HIV.

Listening and Acouological Education

Listening and Acouological Education

Author(s): Małgorzata Przanowska / Language(s): English

Keywords: question; translation; meaning; education; listening

The book is devoted to the analysis of the complex phenomenon of listening, with its own specific dynamics. Listening, understood as a way of being in the world, requires an acouological education, in which the logic of creative participation calls for a being with others that is responsible, inspiring, tasteful and that overcomes “reductionisms” in a translational way.The publication is intended for those interested in the phenomenon of listening, the philosophy of education, contemporary pedagogy, philosophical hermeneutics, as well as the philosophy of music. It could become a source a inspiration for counselling, relations (also in the therapeutic dimension) and communication scholars and professionals.

Meditative Cognitive Therapies: A Literature Review

Meditative Cognitive Therapies: A Literature Review

Author(s): Rebecca Bhik-Ghanie / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: yoga; mindfulness; brain; cognition;

Yoga has existed for centuries in the East, beginning in India, as a religious practice of meditation and mindfulness. In the West, however, yoga is more often a popular exercise-based practice with little to no emphasis on its religious or spiritual foundations. Curiously, the mindfulness aspect of yoga has become increasingly popular within the United States, particularly as a method for therapeutic treatments, such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapies (MBCT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). These therapies have been useful for patients in the early stages of psychiatric disorders (e.g. Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Type 1 Bipolar Disorder), as some patients can supplement their medication in exchange for these forms of therapy. This paper investigates the origins of yoga from a Hindu perspective, explaining how recent trends in the U.S. have extracted elements of the traditional practice while adding other elements with a Western influence. This paper also investigates current symptoms and treatments for psychiatric disorders and explores how mindfulness can play an important role in future forms of therapy.

Living with a Disease. Adaptation to Selected Somatic Diseases from the Perspective of Positive Psychology and Cognitive Concepts

Bycie z chorobą. Przystosowanie do wybranych chorób somatycznych z perspektywy psychologii pozytywnej i koncepcji poznawczych

Author(s): Joanna Miniszewska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: chronic somatic disease; positive psychology; adaptation to disease; psychoeducation about the disease

The publication concerns the adaptation of patients to selected chronic somatic diseases, such as diabetes, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic kidney disease. The author distinguishes three groups of variables constituting the process of adaptation to the disease, taking into account its conditions and the final effect: explanatory variables (the subjective significance of the disease for the patient, knowledge about the disease), mediative processes (mediators: the sense of life, coping strategies, benefits associated with the disease; and moderators: the type of disease, its duration) and explained variables (acceptance of the disease and a life with it, mental health, emotional balance, life satisfaction). Adaptation understood as a process and adjustment as an effect of this process have been analyzed from the perspective of positive psychology, emphasizing the strengths of the diseased person, and cognitive psychology, showing the importance of cognitive processes in understanding and adapting to the disease and its related discomforts and restrictions.

Reasons for hiding the truth and their relationship with moral competence and emotion regulation

Reasons for hiding the truth and their relationship with moral competence and emotion regulation

Author(s): Lucia-Elisabeta Faiciuc / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: moral competence; moral judgment stages; lying; self-deception; avoidance motivational focus; approach motivational focus; altruism; egocentrism; emotion regulation goals; emotional dysregulation;

The link between one’s moral life and her/his emotional life (in itsemotion regulation aspect) is an understudied issue. In the present correlationaldescriptive research, this link is studied using two measures for one’s moral life, intheir relationship: Moral Competence Test (MCT, Lind, 1978,1985), and the C5Questionnaire (Faiciuc, 2016b), in order to assess one’s reasons for hiding the truth(grouped mainly on the egocentric - altruistic, and avoidance-approach axes), andher/his general tendency to hide the truth. For the emotion regulation part of theabove-mentioned link, there were used six instruments, assessing several of its aspects:one for cognitive emotion regulation strategies (Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire: CERQ, elaborated by Garnefski, Kraaij and Spinhoven, in 2001), one for emotional dysregulation (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale: DERS,elaborated by Gratz and Roemer, in 2004), three for emotional regulation goals(Measure A and B for the performance and learning goals for emotion regulation,elaborated by Rusk, Tamir, and Rothbaum, in 2011, and The Questionnaire for the Emotion Regulation Goals: QERG, elaborated by Faiciuc, in 2018), and one formetaemotions (Meta-Emotion Scale: MES, elaborated by Mitmansgruber, Beck, Höfer,and Schüßler, in 2009). At the research participated 144 students in the second year at the University of Fine Arts and Design from Romania (mean age: 20,22 years, 101female, 39 males, and 4 did not disclose their sex), who completed at least one of the instruments used in the research. The results replicated a part of the results of a previous study (Faiciuc, 2016a), in which only the relationship between the MCT variables and those of C5 questionnaire was investigated. They also suggest that thatlink may be moderated by one’s emotional dysregulation and its aspects, the expected correlations occurring mainly in the case of a low level of emotional dysregulation. The most stable correlation was the positive one between the moral competence index of MCT and the preference for those altruistic reasons for hiding the truth that invoke the desire to avoid harming a close person. An important positive correlation was also the one between the same moral competence index and the preference for the avoidance reasons for hiding the truth. There was obtained also an emotion regulation profile associated with each of the ten studied types of reasons for hiding the truth. It is a complex pattern of results that can be better understood in their interrelationship, in their support for each other. In this pattern, the positive relationship between one’s tendency to lie to others and to oneself (as revealed by one’s emotion dysregulation)stands out. The data obtained with the QERG instrument suggest that the regulation of the positive emotions, in comparison with the regulation of the negative ones, may be differently linked with the investigated moral variables. These results bring also useful data regarding the convergent validity of the instruments involved in the present research, and can be helpful to understand the impact of a social environment that depletes one’s emotion regulation resources on her/his moral life, and to guide moral education programs. Given the small samples that were used in many of the computed correlations, further studies are needed on larger and more heterogenous samples, in order to establish the stableness of the obtained results, and their generality, and to give also the opportunity for a more advanced data analysis of the relationships among the investigated variables, clarifying their causal direction.

Determinants for Social Rehabilitation Readiness

Uwarunkowania gotowości do resocjalizacji

Author(s): Jana Chojecka,Maciej Muskała / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: readiness for change; treatment readiness; multifactor offender readiness model; transtheoretical model of change; mindfulness; brief solution focused therapy; motivational interviewing

„Determinants for social rehabilitation readiness” is inspiring book for social rehabilitation theory and practice based on evidence. The main consideration is The Multifactor Offender Readiness Model in which readiness for social rehabilitation is perceived as dynamic, modifiable interaction between internal and external factors. The main purpose of this publication is to pay attention to the role of these factors in increasing readiness to change among offenders and to examine three approaches used to modify offender, program and setting factors.

Going Agile, a Post-Pandemic Universal Work Paradigm - A Theoretical Narrative Review

Going Agile, a Post-Pandemic Universal Work Paradigm - A Theoretical Narrative Review

Author(s): Dana Rad,Gavril Rad / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2021

Keywords: Agile work;agile maturity;agile method tailoring;

Due to digital transformation, technology advancements, telework, we can no longer pretend that traditional work offers high incentives and efficiency, but on the contrary, traditional work falls behind each year, deeming organizations and individuals to adopt the agile work. Rapid technological developments have altered the way businesses operate, with the goal of producing viable solutions in an environment fraught with unpredictability. This paper is a theoretical narrative review on the general topic of agile work. The present paper addresses the issue of determining the best international practices for implementing agile methodology at work, carrying out a theoretical narrative review. Basing on literature on present-day theory the authors make an attempt to explain the implications of implementing agile methodologies into organizational culture, summarize existing approaches to classifying the main effects on implementing agile methodologies at work, consolidate and document best international practices for agile methodologies development among employers. After defining the concepts of agile method tailoring and agile maturity, the data obtained in the theoretical narrative analysis reveal that the implementing agile methodologies have a direct impact on management style, on teams, on learning environments, and on employee’s mental health. An overall conclusions and discussions section is presented along with the personal opinion of authors. This work is intended to open a post-pandemic agile work research methodology, since there are no systematic approaches to this topic.

Emotion Regulation Strategy Use of Young Adults and Their Caregivers: A Qualitative Inquiry

Genç Yetişkinler ve Bakım Verenlerinin Duygu Düzenleme Strateji Kullanımları: Nitel Bir İnceleme

Author(s): Zeynep Erdem,İlknur Dilekler Aldemir / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 23/2022

Keywords: emotion; emotion regulation strategies; early adulthood; caregivers; thematic analysis;

How emotions are regulated is significant to an individual's functioning. It is known that there is an association between individuals’ emotion regulation and how and to what extent their caregivers regulate their own emotions. However, research on how young adults describe emotion regulation strategies of themselves and their caregivers and how they reflect on the contributing factors to their emotion regulation processes is scarce. Therefore, in this study, it was aimed to examine the ideas of young adults on their emotion regulation, on their caregivers' use of regulation strategies, and on the factors that affect their emotion regulation. Accordingly, information about emotion regulation processes of 14 participants was gathered through semi-structured in-depth interviews and online diaries applied every other day for two weeks after the interviews. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. It is comprehended that emotion regulation strategies of young adults and their caregivers show similarities. The strategies are grouped into three main themes which are strategies based on mental processes, interaction, and exposure. According to the diaries, strategies based on exposure are used most frequently in daily life, which was followed by strategies based on interaction and based on mental processes. As a result of the analysis, it was also observed that the participants defined complicated emotion regulation processes and they thought that their emotion regulation was influenced by many factors. Some strategies (e.g., suppression) differed from the definitions in the literature, and it was understood that factors such as being functional or non-functional and relational consequences of the method could play a role in the emotion regulation process, in addition to caregivers.

Alexithymia and high-risk professions – psychological care and counseling practices

Алекситимия и високорискови професии: психологична грижа и консултативни практики

Author(s): Tanya Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2021

Keywords: alexithymia; high-risk behavior; high-risk professions; military and police special forces; psychotherapy

A theoretical overview of alexithymia is proposed, discussing construct`s connections with mental and somatic health, as well as with non-clinical phenomena emphasizing high-risk behaviors as a form of emotional self-regulation and a way to satisfy intrapsychic needs. The influence of alexithymia on choosing high-risk professions is discussed as a yet unexplored theoretical point. The focus is on military and police special forces, emphasizing „Difficulty describing feelings“ (considering these structures’ communicative culture) and „Externally oriented thinking“ (as conductive to following a concrete, clear, pragmatic framework). It is discussed whether increased alexithymia is a necessary personal predisposition for choosing and staying in these professions. If so, how increased should alexithymia be to favor the effective functioning within these structures without becoming a health risk. Effective psychological approaches for high alexithymia are discussed, while analyzing the reasons why there is no counseling framework specifically aimed at dealing with it. Existing psychological programs for government special forces high-risk professionals are also discussed. Currently, there is no psychological care program integrating the needs of both groups. This paper formulates guidelines for developing such a counseling strategy.

Downshifting as a way of life. relationship with personal aspirations, ecological beliefs and well being

Дауншифтингът като начин на живот. връзка с личностните аспирации, екологичните убеждения и благополучието

Author(s): Bilyana Buzovska / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: downshifting; well-being; aspirations; ecological beliefs

The focus of the present empirical study was to analyze the relationships between downshifting (the voluntary decision to reduce income) and internal and external aspirations, personal beliefs about the state of the environment, life satisfaction and eudemonic well-being. The main reasons for the change and the methods of its realization were also specifically examined. A brief profile of the contemporary downshifter was established based on demographic data. The factor structures of measures new for Bulgarian socio-cultural context were also investigated. The main contribution of the study is an extended and systematic theoretical account of downshifting, aiming to achieve greater clarity about its nature.