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Listening to sermons is getting more and more difficult for a contemporary man. This may be due to the growing discrepancy between language used and understood by listeners and the language of preachers. The language of sermons and homilies is the literary one in its normative-anddidactic form. The official teaching of the Church shows that a considerable importance is attributed to the verbal sphere of preaching. The language of preaching should be correct, esthetic and contemporary. Also, it should be adequate, which is congruent with the reality it describes. In the preaching of the Word of God the content is the most important. The form of the utterance should serve the content.
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The genesis of the concept «gender policy», history of its origin and its formation are examined. It is revealed that «gender policy» as an integral category of the political analysis doesn’t have one single definition. It is defined that gender policy doesn’t have a lot of results in practice of the Russian state because of the fact that the governmental authorities are not very much interested in realization of this area of the state’s policy.
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The question of social work with minor mums in educational and social official bodies is considered. It is established that experts carry teenage pregnancy to a category «a social problem». It is shown that the relation to young mums is subject to influence of existing social stereotypes.
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The article analyzes the gastronomic practices as women's practice of representation — precisely woman creates culinary body of culture. Modern culture is undergoing deconstruction of the traditional pattern «woman-housewife» that leads to a change of traditional practices of consumption of food and gastronomic aspect of culture.
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The divorce rate has increased in the United States and most European countries since the 1960s. Public and scientific concern about the consequences of divorce for adults and children has generated a large research literature. Most studies find that divorced adults experience more mental and physical health problems than do married adults. Similarly, most studies find that children with divorced parents experience more mental and physical health problems than do children with continuously married parents. Available research suggests that these associations are partly spurious (due to selection effects) and partly due to the stress associated with marital disruption. People's reactions to divorce are highly variable, with the speed and degree of adjustment depending on a variety of resources and post-divorce circumstances. In the United States, several types of court- and community-based programs appear to facilitate parents' and children's adjustment to divorce.
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The aim of this two-wave study was to examine the mediating role of adolescent appraisals of family security in the relation between family instability and adolescent self-esteem in a sample of 377 adolescents and their mothers. Mothers' reports of family instability at Time 1 were significantly and positively associated with adolescent appraisals of family insecurity at Time 1 and Time 2. Adolescent self-esteem at Time 2 was significantly and negatively related to family instability at T1 and family insecurity at Time 1 and Time 2. Findings from structural equation models supported the hypothesis that family instability undermines adolescents' self-esteem one year later by directly threatening adolescents' appraisals of family as a safe and secure system. The results indicated that adolescent appraisals fully mediated the relation between family instability and adolescent self-esteem. The implications of the findings for adolescent development in a secure and stable family environment are discussed and suggestions for further process-oriented research on the relation between family instability and adolescent development are stated.
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Attitudes of the adult population in Croatia on some of the issues in the field of marriage and sexuality are analysed in this paper. The aim was to explore the extent to which it is a dominantly Christian, specifically Catholic population in accordance with norms of traditional church morality in these issues, and if recent data show any changes in this respect. Based on previous research considering congruence with church moral norms in the field of sexuality and marriage, a general hypothesis on religious respondents as a heterogeneous group was set. This implies that a higher religiosity (observed through indicators of religious identification and practice) points to the lower permissiveness in attitudes toward sexuality and other issues in the area of marital relations. The paper used data from two studies: Social and Religious Change in Croatia (SRC) from 2004 and the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) module Religion from 2008/2009. The analysis showed that religious respondents are not a homogenous group, while an indicator of religious practice proved to be a consistent predictor of a greater chance that those respondents who regularly attend church for religious services are more traditional in attitudes about sexuality and marriage. However, the findings indicate the presence of a combination of traditional and modern values in the population of believers. In the context of socio-demographic and socio- -structural correlates, younger respondents, better educated, males and those in urban areas show a greater permissiveness in the investigated attitudes.
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The aim of the study was to examine how perceived spouse's affectionate and antagonistic behaviours contribute to one's marital satisfaction. Firstly, we explored whether perception of partner's affectionate and antagonistic behaviours vary with gender, age, length of marriage and family structure. Secondly, we examined the relation between perceived partner's behaviour and marital satisfaction, while controlling for contextual variables. Questionnaire assessing love, marital satisfaction, perceived partners' affectionate and antagonistic behaviours and demographic data was administered to a heterogeneous sample of 302 married couples from Croatia with the average marriage length of 18 years and age span of 20–82 years. Results indicate that perceived spouse's affectionate and antagonistic behaviours both contribute to marital satisfaction with the impact of antagonistic behaviours being buffered when it appears in affectionate relationship. These effects are not moderated by age, gender, marriage duration or family structure. Finally, the perception of partner's affectionate and antagonistic behaviours had significant incremental power over feelings of love and other contextual variables when predicting marital satisfaction.
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The aim of this study was to examine the factor structure of the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale SRP-III with expectation for four factors (Callous Affect, Erratic Lifestyle, Antisocial Behaviour and Interpersonal Manipulation) and to verify if it is possible to predict results on the "psychopathy" factor of SRP-III based on the results of dimensions of the Five Factor Model (Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Emotional Stability and Intellect). The sample comprised 190 psychology students from Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb (173 females and 17 males) with an average age of 21. For the purpose of this research, the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale SRP-III was used for the first time. Research results confirmed the factor structure of the original instrument and satisfactory reliability of four dimensions (Callous Affect, Erratic Lifestyle, Antisocial Behaviour and Impulsiveness and Manipulation). Also, the results showed that IPIP 50 Inventory can predict 49.5% of the variance for the psychopathy dimension of SRP-III. The most significant predictors were low agreeableness and conscientiousness, as it was theoretically expected, and extraversion, which has an undefined relationship to psychopathy, and intellect.
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The aim of the study was to develop an instrument for measuring the Parental Behaviors in the Context of Adolescent Disclosure (PBAD) and to examine its dimensionality, internal consistency, predictive and construct validity. The scale has been developed on the basis of a qualitative study of adolescents' views (Tokić & Pećnik, 2011) and consists of 2 subscales: the PBAD-A (antecedents of disclosure) and PBAD-R (reactions to previous disclosures). It was implemented with 1074 adolescents (13-year-olds) from 50 schools in Croatia (probabilistic cluster sample). Adolescents also reported on disclosure about daily activities, feelings and concerns. Youth gave estimations for mothers and fathers separately. Latent structures of the PBAD-A and PBAD-R were interpretable and reasonably congruent for mothers and fathers. Factor analyses of the PBAD-A revealed three factors: Initiating conversation, Intrusiveness and Unavailability. Factor analyses of the PBAD-R yielded three factors: Support and respectful guidance, A let- -down and Punishment. Internal consistency for all factors was acceptable (0.75 – 0.92). All except one of the extracted factors of the PBAD correlated with actual disclosure to mothers and fathers about daily activities, feelings and concerns significantly and in the predicted direction, which supports the predictive and construct validity of the instrument.
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In this article, we assess the effects of democratic transition, the introduction of a capitalist economy, the creation of a newly independent state and international economic and political integrations on the employment potential of political science graduates. While we particularly focus on Slovenia, we will also consider the broader challenges faced by many professions across Europe. The empirical study is based on a series of tracer surveys carried out since 1969, as well as an analysis of political science programme curricula, enrolment and graduation statistics and official data on employability. The statistical and survey data is supplemented by stakeholders' views. Our main finding is that, paradoxically, under socialism, the pressures on political science supported internal professional integration so that the profession was better able to adapt to the initial democratisation than to market-induced domestic changes and the challenges of global competitiveness (including the Bologna HE reform). The recent international financial and economic crisis has only reinforced these challenges.
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The aim of this study was to investigate some assumptions related to Gottman's model of parental meta-emotions on a sample of preschool children's parents. The study included 506 parents. The questionnaires about parental meta-emotions, dimensions of temperament and children's internalising and externalising problems were completed by mothers and fathers separately. Mothers' and fathers' awareness of their own and of their children's emotions and coaching child emotions were indirectly related to child externalising and internalising problems through child negative affectivity and effortful control, and awareness was also directly related to the child's externalising and internalising problems. The results of the models showed that mothers' and fathers' awareness and coaching were positively related to effortful control and negatively related to negative affectivity, whereas only mothers' and fathers' awareness were negatively related to externalising and internalising problems. Simultaneously, negative affectivity was positively related to the child's externalising and internalising problems and effortful control was negatively related to the child's externalising and internalising problems. With this study, we have confirmed part of the investigated assumptions from Gottman's model that relate to the influence of parental meta-emotion on child outcomes.
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On the bases of relevant literature, newspaper articles and authentic documents dating from the beginning of the First World War, the author made an effort to answer the question whether the accusations of the military authorities against the Croat-Serb coalition were justified. In other words, the goal of this work is to establish whether it is right to claim that the eminent members of the Coalition "undoubtedly leant towards high treason". After the analysis, the author presumes that it is accurate to say that most of the eminent members of the Coalition were, in the period before the breakout of the First World War, linked to institutions which were based on the Greater-Serbian idea. The author notices that the civil authorities in Croatia not only failed to institute legal proceedings against them, but also ignored to hold them politically accountable and intervened on their behalf. The author concludes that the above mentioned observations reflect the conjugation between the Greater-Hungarian and Greater-Serbian idea, which was formerly noticed by the Croatian historian, sociologist and political scientist Ivo Pilar.
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The subject of this contribution is a biography of Jan Hus, written by Melchior Vischer, native of Teplice, and published by him in 1940 in Frankfurt. The author’s aim is to analyse the motives which inspired Vischer to deal with this topic and to provide a characterisation of this work. The article also follows the impact of the book in the context of the WWII and the Nazi ideology, which Vischer with his work opposed. Attention is also paid to the reception this work had received in Bohemia.
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This contribution follows the relation of Czech expatriates to the legacy of Master Jan Hus and the way his name was used in the names of their clubs and associations. The author describes differences in identification with his legacy in various countries, mainly in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States.
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This contribution focuses on the evolution of the memory of Jan Hus in Constance, especially on the issue of identifying the house where he lodged prior to his arrest. It recapitulates reports about the house of widow Fida and information about her. The article also brings some details about the owners of the house where Hus’s memorial is currently located.
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This article contains basic information about the most important written records on the history of the Prague university which had survived in the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, especially the collection of the Bohemian Province of the Society of Jesus (Provincia Bohemiae) and in the Fondo Gesuitico, which pertains mainly to the post-1622 period.
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