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Examining the relation between the Five-Factor Model personality traits and the centrality of religiosity, including religiosity dimensions, is an important part of S. Huber’s multidimensional theory of religiosity. The aim of the present paper is to verify the impact of personality traits in predicting variance of the level of centrality of religiosity in an individual’s life. The analysis is based on the results obtained by 282 individuals (180 women and 102 men) aged from 17 to 28, all of them Warsaw university students. The variables are measured using the NEO Five-Factor Inventory and the S. Huber’s Centrality of Religiosity Scale. The research results show that personality traits have a predictive value for variance of the centrality of religiosity and the centrality of its dimensions. Agreeableness explains from about 3 to approximately 8% of variance of each religiosity variable. Openness to experience is positively linked to interest in religious questions (explaining 7.3% of variance of this variable), and negatively to religious beliefs and public practice dimensions (explaining 1.7% of variance for each one). Neuroticism and extraversion are positively connected with religious experience, explaining each of them nearly 2% of variance of this religious dimension. No relation is observed between conscientiousness and centrality of religiosity nor centrality of its dimensions.
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The present paper reports on the findings of a study conducted for the first author’s doctoral thesis which constructed a process-focused path model for a relatively newly identified type of civilization stress – infostress. In the theoretical introduction, the authors present the theoretical foundations and empirical anchoring of infostress and review the current literature on how temperament and emotional intelligence might affect its levels and coping. In the empirical part, they present regression and path analyses and conclude with a proposition of a structural model of infostress reaction in which emotional reactivity and briskness are the key predictors while the role of emotional intelligence pales.
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Rats communicate in the range of ultrasounds. Sounds in the frequency of 22 kHz are interpreted as alarm signals since they appear as a response to aversive stimuli. The aim of the study is to find out whether social conditions in which the animals are kept influence the tendency to vocalize in a situation of stress. Two groups of rats are compared: the experimental one – with a non-stable composition of individuals, who were often moved into new home-cages, and the control group – a stable group of rats living together in their home-cages. After an adaptation period, when the social conditions had a chance to shape the relations between individuals, rats were individually exposed to a sound stressor and then the number and duration of USV vocalizations were registered. As the results show, stability of a group is important. The rats which had stable relations with others vocalized significantly less than those in non-stable groups. Also the impactof sex is revealed – the differences in vocalization levels were observed only in males.
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The migration is one of the oldest social phenomena, an important security issue. On long term, it can affect important decision regarding racial and ethnic composition of individuals in the society, societal security, employment, culture policy and public policy. Nowadays, the migration dynamics can have a real impact on the important process of decision, but also regarding the geopolitical equation of power. These elements are more relevant and important today, due to the present intense of migration fl ows. This study aims to emphasize the main concepts of societal security and migration, along with the main risks involved and main possible security and geopolitical consequences of the migration tendencies and evolutions, terrorism, irrendentism or confl icts of immigrants.
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The concept of war remains, in its essence, unchanged: a violent expression of the politics, a direct way to unblock an international complex situation, an immediate and categorical way to impose somebody´s will into a confrontation. Nowadays, the most violent confl icts have spread, taking new forms. Without any doubt, we can say that we are dealing with a permanent war. In this context, the historical moment which marked the outstanding development of information technology was the preparation and the deployment of „Desert Storm” military operation, against Iraqi army and regime, in 1991. This precise moment was the base of so-called „informational warfare-IW”, which was implemented under military actions.
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The current situation in Eastern Ukraine describes a reality which could not be predicted some years ago. Some events and development tendencies, such as the adaptive capacity of the EU, the ambitious approach of the liberal security through independency, the annexation of Crimea in March 2014 and the military aggression in the Eastern Ukraine generated a revolution of the geopolitics, which returns to its basic elements. We are coming back to the concept of ”power politics”, which describes a world where rules are imposed by interests of strong geopolitical actors, where international law, security commitments and international responsibilities can be ignored and the military power is back on the table. In this context, we can predict a new type of Cold War, as a border between East and West – a border which is enforced on both sides by military means, but, now, this border is not separating regions following the states frontiers, but it describes, inside a country (Ukraine), a defense line of Ukrainian legitimate authorities, as well as an enforced border between East and West. This line will pass through the Eastern part of Kyiv, but West from the current demarcation line of Donbas region. Formally, everybody will reject it as a border, recognizing Ukraine as a sovereign and independent state, with a reference to Minsk agreements. In fact, this will be a real enforced geopolitical border, with weapons on its both sides, but also with some rules of engagement between East and West, in order to avoid an extended geopolitical war.
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This paper analyzes the impact of the sovereign debts on the European security from the perspective of the present economic and political situation in Europe. Under the pressure of the numerous effects of the fi nancial crisis, the EU member states seem insensible to the fact that Europe is almost facing a catastrophe, which was already experienced some decades ago, but with the difference that nowadays we have better instruments to negotiate and to prevent the worst case scenario. In this context, we are surprised to see that the EU member states are ignoring EU main principles – cohesion and solidarity –, which were the fundament of the European integration political project, when they are to solve the most diffi cult problems. If we analyze the Greece crisis only from a pure economic perspective, the constraints that the EU is imposing to Athens seem to be a big mistake, which can predict a diffi cult future. If some high ranking politicians in the EU see as a catastrophe a third bailout for Greece, this situation announces the risk which is threatening the efforts and hopes invested in the peace of Europe. Greece crisis is the symptom of the numerous mistakes made by the European governance, given that the European political spectre is mainly occupied by radical and not by democratic parties. More than that, the process of a country indebting stays on the economic rules imposed by the EU.
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This a rticle enhances the necessity to change the approach of the decision making in the economic policy, starting from the relationship between politics and economy and from the infl uence of this relationship onto Romanian national security. In our opinion, we are facing the imperative to create a coherent strategy, on the medium and long term, concerning the development of Romania. In this context, the experts must detain the main role into the elaboration and the implementation of this strategy. Given the more and more problematic and unpredictable security challenges into the euro-atlantic eastern neighborhood, this new approach would permit Romania – as a national actor and NATO member – to have an effi cient use of its national resources.
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The international media reacted to the idea of the open use of psychotronic weapons by the publication of some scientifi c experiments from 1913, when electromagnetic waves were used to transmit simple sounds into the human brain. However, most of them avoided to say that, since then, this kind of experiments made the object of extensive scientifi c research all over the world. Probably, these capabilities which enable the remote control of the human nervous system or the remote infl iction of health impairment are available to many modern governments.
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NATO Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JISR) Concept establishes the basis on which Euro-Atlantic and national assets are combined to support NATO. This concept aims to establish a joint command of the traditional ISR activities, targeting a joint and synchronized functioning of intelligence activity and tactic operations.
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