Гласност, а не снага шута, утиче на проста времена реакције на звуке пенала у фудбалу

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 1/2018

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate how ecological sport sounds (i.e., foot-ball impacts of soccer penalty kicks) affect simple reaction times. Design: Three within-subjects, simple reaction time experiments were carried out; they differed among each other for the manipulations performed on the stimuli. Method: In Experiment 1, the loudness of the stimuli was manipulated; instead, in Experiment 2 and 3 shot power was manipulated, using as stimuli impacts of shots with different speeds. Results: The results highlighted an inverse relation between stimuli loudness and reaction times; instead, the natural differences among shots with different power were not sufficient to influence reaction times. Conclusions: Sounds associated to different shot power seem to differ in parameters which are not actually relevant for simple reaction times. Future studies should further investigate on similar issues, better clarifying whether the properties of ecological sounds can naturally influence reaction times.

Gender-Based Violence in Kosovo

Author(s): Ardita Macastena / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Violence has become an occurrence which is spreading all over the world, where not only the poor countries have not been immune to it, but neither the most developed countries have prevented it. Kosovo, has been faced too with this epidemic issue to come to the conclusion that gender-based violence exists in Kosovo. Therefore, this paper will specifically focus on gender-based violence as an aggravating circumstance which has increased apparently during 2015-2018, in Kosovo. The methods which were applied in this paper are; observation, case study, interview, comparative method, quantative research such as published statistical data and data analyse. The outcome shows that mostly woman and LGBTI+ community have been target of the gender-based violence. The fact that social norms and Albanian common law, still apply in daily basis, makes it more challenging the rule of law,therefore this is the main area where de facto with de jure clash. This by all means, must make justice system more cautious and determined to fight and prevent gender-based violence, and not allow their personal perception interfere in their objectivity. The discrepancy between legal framework and judicial practice must balance itself by justice authorities, which must confront properly this criminal offense.

STUDENTS’ ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION IN RESPECT TO THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS, GENDER AND STUDY PROGRAM OF THE FACULTY

Author(s): Radmila Bjekić,Maja Strugar Jelača / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The aim of the paper is to identify the entrepreneurial tendency of students of the Faculty of Economics in Subotica. The subject of the research is the analysis of relationship between students’ personality traits and their intention to start their own business, as well as the existence of a difference in entrepreneurial intent, depending on gender and chosen study program attended by the student. For this purpose, an empirical research was conducted on a sample of 517 final year students at the Faculty of Economics in Subotica, University of Novi Sad. The research hypotheses were tested using the Spearman's correlation and the non-parametric Mann-Whitney test within the SPSS 20.0 program. Empirical results highlight the existence of a statistically significant correlation between personality traits such as need for achievement and need for independence on one hand and the inclination of students to start their own business on the other. Also, there is a statistically significant difference between students of different genders and study orientation and their entrepreneurial intentions. The male students and those attending the Department of Management are more oriented towards implementation of entrepreneurial activities in some period of life in comparison to female students and students who attend other study programs. The set research framework points to further guidance in encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit, as well as the key drivers for a higher level of entrepreneurial intention of students after graduating from the Faculty of Economics.

Mutual Connections in Between Empathy and Personality Traits of Helping Professions

Author(s): Dominika Doktorova,Veronika Kalivodova,Jana Hubinska / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2019

The aim of the research was an examination and determination of relations between the empathy and personality. We focused on which personal features could predict the empathy. The study investigated 240 respondents from 30 to 35 years, 128 women and 112 men in helping professions. For determination of the empathy level we used non-standardized questionnaire Empathy Quotient EQ, for determination of personal features we used the first part of standardized Clinical analysis questionnaire CAQ– the range of normal personality. The difference between women and men was only in personal characteristics: dominance and hypersensitivity. The obtained results proved the relation between empathy and personality. Regarding to personal features and empathy, based on linear regression analyze were found the relations between empathy and emotional stability.

The Training Complex as a Component of the Readiness Formation of Students of Technical Specialties for Professional Activity

Author(s): Maryna Voloshenko,Olga Dzhezhik,Alyona Azarkina / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The article discusses a set of theoretical and practical issues related to the problem of forming the professional readiness of students of technical specialties for future professional activity. Suggestions are made to improve the organization and conduct of psychological training of students during their studies at universities. Practical classes in psychological preparation differ from other classes in a closer combination of theory and practice, the presentation, repetition, and strengthening of precisely that psychological knowledge that ensures the conscious execution of exercises. The level of preparedness of a person for professional activity is always associated with the characteristics of their personality, the totality of which characterizes the degree of development of abilities for this profession. Based on this, the main task becomes the introduction of innovative technologies in the educational process, which, of course, include educational and developing training complexes that contribute to the formation of professional and psychological readiness as a combination of psychophysiological, moral, professional and socio-psychological characteristics, properties and qualities that correspond to the characteristics of the profession and that are acting as the internal condition for its successful implementation. An experimental study was conducted to confirm the hypothesis about the effectiveness of introducing precisely training technologies into the educational process of students of technical specialties. We selected 298 students of Odessa National Polytechnic University, with whom testing was conducted in order to clarify the initial psychological profile. After conducting the full volume of the training complex with students from the experimental group, we can ascertain the direct influence of educational and developmental training through the targeted formation of cognitive qualities on professionally significant personal qualities. This indicates the relevance of our study, which is focused on the problem of optimization and intensification of the professionally significant qualities formation of specialists in technical specialties in the process of their preparation.

GENERAL ASPECTS AND PARTICULARITIES OF THE HEARING OF PERSONS WITH A SPECIAL STATUS

Author(s): Elena-Ana Iancu,Lăzău Păcuraru Marin / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2019

In the current context, where society, through its tools, seeks to define and categorize the main types of global conflicts (asymmetric warfare, hybrid warfare, cyberattacks, etc.) which result in insecurity, the safety of citizens should become again a topic of debate, a goal of social policy, in view of identifying new methods and concepts pertaining to individual protection. Therefore, as a component of social coexistence, the military environment is often assigned tasks that are associated with the preservation of social tranquility. The military system consists of circumstances, events, actions that are specific to this field, generating interhuman relations and types of organization which are different from those encountered in social life in general, in line with the purposes for which the army exists. As is well known, in the army subordination relations are prevalent, the activities are carried out under constant command and control, orders are executed unconditionally, the deviation from the established rules is unacceptable. The environment and activity within the units of our army give rise to high demands that influence the personalities of those who compose it, the military. Their entire mental system is transformed, the defining features become salient, the operational capacity increases considerably, and a high rate of change in skills, needs, aspirations, interests, attitudes, is a particularity of military life.

THE RISK FACTOR OF CRIMINALITY – GAMBLING AND PROBLEMATIC GAME USE

Author(s): Varadi-Csema Erika,Diana Cîrmaciu / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2019

In this article the concept, the process of formation and the characteristics of game addiction will be presented. Many types of game addiction are known, but the scope of persons concerned are significantly different depending on what game types we are talking. Game addiction, especially gambling addiction, is one risk factor of deviant behaviours. Hungarian and international studies revealed a direct connection between gambling addiction and crimes against property. The advancements of the 21th century opens new dangerous windows, especially for the younger generations. Online gambling can be reached by anyone, the computer games and even the internet itself can cause addiction. Acting against these is more and more difficult.

Peculiarities of Leadership Manifestation in the Youth Social Group

Author(s): Oksana Shportun,Tetiana Branitska,Vasyl Kaplinsky,Olena Zharovska,Natalia Bayurko,Eduard Siryk / Language(s): English Issue: 1 Sup1/2020

The article actualizes the problem of becoming a leader in a youth social group. Leadership is found to be a natural social and psychological process within a group aimed at personal authority influence on the behavior of group members. At the same time under the influence we understand the behavior of a person, which introduces changes in behavior, relationships, feelings of another person. The individually-psychological characteristics of the leader, the determinants of development and the manifestation of leadership are empirically determined and analyzed. The main individually-psychological characteristics of the leader's personality are empirically identified: a high level of self-esteem, which affects all aspects of life, namely emotional well-being, relationships with others, the development of creative abilities, attitude to successes and failures; creativity, that is, the personality must solve complex social problems, find new, non-standard ways of action, flexibility in communication with other people, emotional intelligence, flexibility of thinking, high motivation, education, ability to find new methods to implement a plan or solution, quickly switch from one way to complete a task to another. It is established that the level of formation of capabilities and skills required by the leader depends on the listed individually-psychological characteristics, which development is significantly influenced by the social environment of the individual throughout life, namely, the youth group. The characteristics of leaders in the youth social group are revealed, in particular, in the process of intragroup identification. The intragroup identification is enlightened in acts of personal and behavioral likeness of team members to each other.

Konformizm jako mechanizm wpływający na procesy relacyjne i adaptacyjne w grupie rówieśniczej

Author(s): Małgorzata Michel,Sylwia Opozda-Suder / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

Poruszona w artykule tematyka koncentruje się wokół problemu konformizmu. Konformizacja zachowań została ujęta jako swoisty mechanizm adaptacyjny związany z predyspozycją do bezrefleksyjnego odtwarzania wzorców narzuconych przez grupę uczestnictwa społecznego, warunkowany potrzebami afiliacyjnymi i obawą przed odrzuceniem rówieśniczym. Tym samym przedmiot prowadzonych analiz dotyczy skłonności do przyjmowania postawy konformistycznej przez badanych z trzech grup porównawczych, zróżnicowanych ze względu na poziom rozwoju intelektualnego i problem niedostosowania społecznego. Cechy te stanowią dodatkowe czynniki ryzyka uruchomienia tendencji konformistycznych, mając znaczenie dla powodzenia procesu integracji grupowej.Wnioskowanie przeprowadzono w schemacie porównawczym na trzech grupach: grupa A – niedostosowani w normie intelektualnej (n = 57); grupa B – niedostosowani z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną (n = 57); grupa C – dostosowani społecznie (n = 60). Łącznie wielkość próby: 174 badanych w wieku 16–19 lat. W badaniach wykorzystano autorskie narzędzie o zadawalających właściwościach psychometrycznych – Skala Postaw Konformistycznych (SPK).Otrzymane wyniki pozwalają stwierdzić, że porównywane grupy wyraźnie różnicuje poziom tendencji konformistycznych. Dodatkowo konformizm, w każdej z porównywanych grup, ogniskuje się wokół różnych atrybutów wyzwalających.

Conformism as a mechanism affecting relational and adaptive processes in a peer group Comparative analysis among socially adjusted and maladjusted adolescents – with and without intellectual disabilities

Author(s): Małgorzata Michel,Sylwia Opozda-Suder / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The subject matter discussed in the article focuses on the problem of conformism. Behavioral conformism has been presented as a kind of adaptive mechanism connected with the predisposition to a thoughtless reproduction of patterns imposed by the group of social participation, conditioned by the needs of affiliation and the fear of peer rejection.Thus, the subject of the conducted analyses concerns the tendency to adopt a conformist attitude by respondents from three comparative groups, differentiated in terms of the level of intellectual development and the problem of social maladjustment. These features constitute additional risk factors for triggering conformist tendencies and are important for the success of the group integration process.The conclusions were drawn in a comparative diagram for three groups: group A – the maladjusted in without intellectual disabilities (n=57); group B – the maladjusted with intellectual disabilities (n=57); group C – the socially adjusted (n=60). Total sample size: 174 respondents aged 16–19 years. The research utilized an author’s original tool with satisfactory psychometric properties – the Scale of Conformist Attitudes (SCA).The results obtained allow us to conclude that the groups compared clearly differentiate in terms of conformist tendencies. Additionally, conformism, in each of the compared groups, focuses around different triggering attributes.

Megnyitni a fiatalság kapuit

Author(s): Noémi Geng / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2019

Es ist wichtig, dass die kirchliche Seelsorge auf die Bedürfnisse junger Erwachsener eingeht und ihnen sinngebende Muster vermittelt. Die Suchmentalität, die sie charakterisiert, sollte Raum lassen und Wege gehen. Diese Anerkennung motivierte die Wahl des Themas für unsere Studie. Um die Situation junger Erwachsener zu beleuchten, müssen wir die Merkmale dieser Altersgruppe aus einem psychosozialen Kontext heraus skizzieren und mit der theologischen Lehre unserer Zeit vergleichen. Wir versuchen dies im Lichte der Lehre von Papst Franziskus, der Dokumente der Synode der Diözese Gyulafehérvár und der Botschaft des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils.

INTERCULTURAL COROLLARIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PENTAGONAL MODEL OF SOCIO-EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

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Author(s): Florentina Hăhăianu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Emotional intelligence is a success in scientific research around the world. This paradigm has resulted in the emergence of new constructs, relations with other variables, the rethinking of social intelligence, all of which being, in fact, intercultural points of reference. In this article we examine these aspects of complementary plans of the socio-emotional human personality, such as: using our own emotions, engaging the abilities of socio-emotional intelligence, knowing, experimenting, understanding, processing, and using the environment and our own psychism for professional purposes. Following the analysis of these intercultural benchmarks, correlated with Goleman's, Bar-On's, and Albrecht's researches, we propose a generative model of socio-emotional intelligence from the point of view of a unitary intelligence.

Natural Science and Research Training of Future Psychologists for Health-Promoting Activities

Author(s): Valentyna Bilyk / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The younger generation needs special attention when it comes to the leading role of the psychological education system, which, together with the achievement of educational goals, fulfils the necessary health-promoting and health-saving mission. The research aims to identify and theoretically justify the pedagogical conditions for training future psychologists for health-promoting activities and experimentally verify them. The pedagogical conditions for training future psychologists for health-promoting activities include specifying the content; applying innovative psychological technologies; developing creative potential. Fetiskin’s self-assessment of professional-pedagogical motivation, relevant tests, appropriate cards and methods (ones for identifying the level of empathic abilities (Boiko); ones for identifying the level of self-development and professional-pedagogical activities (Berezhnova)) were used for the evaluation. Both control (77 individuals) and experimental (83 individuals) groups were formed to verify the effectiveness of the identified and theoretically justified pedagogical. The results of the pedagogical experiment prove the effectiveness of the revealed and theoretically justified pedagogical conditions for training future psychologists for health-promoting activities. A high level of future psychologists’ readiness for health-promoting activities is characterized by a strong positive motivation to conduct health-promoting activities, their desire and stable readiness to work in the pedagogical sphere, adequate awareness of their need to apply their knowledge and skills to conduct health-promoting activities for pupils.

Psychological and Pedagogical Peculiarities of Romanian Students’ Initial Socialization in Bukovina

Author(s): Svitlana Sobkova,Yuriy Sobkov / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The article deals with the issue of students’ socialization during their studies at the university. The main peculiarity of the research under discussion is its focus on the contingent of students, who represent ethnic minorities in such a multiethnic area of Ukraine as Bukovina. The article lays particular emphasis on the peculiarities of such students’ socialization at the initial stage of their university studies through comparing the obtained results of learning social-psychological adaptation as a part of the socialization process, as well as through the factors affecting it. The results, obtained within Romanian and Ukrainian study groups, are compared. The authors of the article have carried out the data analysis for each category of respondents. In this respect, they have traced the difference in first-year students’ social-psychological adaptation. Based on the results of empirical research, the distribution of the levels of functioning of personal adaptability for each individual category of respondents was carried out, followed by comparative analysis. The empirical data obtained are described for Ukrainian and Romanian students in ethnically homogeneous and ethnically diverse academic groups. Within the study of the peculiarities of social-psychological adaptation as a component of the process of personal socialization, the study of the levels of personal and reactive anxiety was conducted. In addition, results were obtained concerning the study of the characteristics of social stress and general anxiety in the institution. Thus, on the basis of the analysis of diagnostic data, the description of the main psychological and pedagogical problems that influence the process of socialization of students representing the ethnic group “Romanians” (at the initial stage of their studies at the university) has been made.

Psychological Support in Uplifting University Students’ Happiness in Fighting the Coronavirus Lockdown

Author(s): Getrude Cosmas / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The coronavirus pandemic has caused turbulence in the lives of several university students around the globe, including students of University Malaysia Sabah. The first 14 days of the coronavirus lockdown delivered significant psychological experiences to university students. Data from 106 on- and off-campus university students were examined to explore the effects of resiliency coping skills and religious faith in uplifting happiness in students after the first 14-day of the coronavirus lockdown. Also, the effects of religious faith on resiliency were examined. Out of 106 students, 74 (69.80%) were female and 32 (30.20%) were male. The study demonstrates that students’ resiliency contributed 15% to the variance of happiness, while religious faith contributed 4% to the variance of resiliency. Furthermore, the on-campus students were more resilient compared to off-campus students. High resilient copers were also happier than low- and medium resilient copers. These findings give a glimpse of hope that the inner strength of students is essential in coping with unexpected circumstances due to the coronavirus outbreak. Although the coronavirus pandemic is unavoidable, by improving one’s inner strength (i.e. through resiliency and religious faith), the adverse effects of coronavirus lockdown can be reduced. The lockdown may nurture students to be more mature in facing unexpected challenges in the future.

INCLUSION BETWEEN DESIDERATUM AND REALITY

Author(s): Simona Marica,Ioana Laura Giurisici / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

After 1990, Romania started the processes for granting the right to equal education and adapted to all children, regardless of their material, physical or mental condition, their belonging to a certain ethnicity or religion. Currently, inclusion in mass education has become desideratum at national and international levels, being promoted both at legislative and media level. In this context, we investigated the extent to which reality meets expectations, whether mainstream schools are prepared to receive and meet the needs of children with special educational needs and whether the key actors in implementing inclusion – teaching staff, are in a position to accept and to make the change, from the teaching methods to the attitude toward children with special educational needs. Moreover, we wanted to identify the extent to which inclusion in regular public schools is, in the opinion of the teaching staff, a viable alternative, and possibly a superior one to these children’s education. The research focused on the access of teaching staff to information, trainings, as well as the adopted educational methods, their sense and attitude towards the opportunity of inclusion, as well as the experience of inclusion as it was experienced by the families of children with special needs. The research methodology entailed documents analysis, interviews and questionnaires investigation. Briefly, the results of the research show that the Romanian school system is currently unequipped for inclusion, starting within sufficient material and human resources up to the attitude of the teaching staff in the system.

Rehabilitation pedagogy towards (re)socialization of youth in the “augmented reality” Commentary on the phenomenon of empathy and aggression on the Internet

Author(s): Marek Konopczyński / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The presented article is an attempt to signal a new problem posing a challenge for contemporary rehabilitation educators. In a rapidly changing social reality, a face to face social interaction is increasingly being reduced in favor of contacts avera

Pedagogika resocjalizacyjna wobec (re)socjalizacji młodzieży w „rzeczywistości poszerzonej”. Komentarz do zjawiska empatii i agresji w internetowej sieci

Author(s): Marek Konopczyński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

Prezentowany artykuł jest próbą zasygnalizowania nowego problemu, który stanowi wyzwanie dla współczesnych pedagogów resocjalizacyjnych. Polega on na tym, że w dynamicznie zmieniającej się rzeczywistości społecznej następuje coraz szybsze i powszechniejsze ograniczanie bezpośrednich interakcji społecznych („face to face”) na rzecz kontaktów uśrednionych za pomocą technologii cyfrowej. Powstaje za tym pytanie, czy to zjawisko może być wykorzystane w pracy resocjalizacyjnej z podopiecznymi, a przede wszystkim, czy zachodzą przesłanki umożliwiające prowadzenie działań resocjalizacyjnych w cyberprzestrzeni, na przykład z wykorzystaniem internetowych socialmediów?

Kryzys uchodźczy bez uchodźców – postawy studentów z Polski północno-wschodniej wobec uchodźców

Author(s): Wioleta Danilewicz,Tomasz Prymak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2020

Do 2015 roku postawy Polaków wobec uchodźców były otwarte, aprobujące. W kolejnych latach stosunek ten systematycznie się pogarszał, na co złożyło się wiele uwarunkowań. W związku z tym w ramach badań własnych rozpoznano postawy studentów z kierunku pedagogika wczesnoszkolna i przedszkolna oraz praca socjalna z północno-wschodniego regionu Polski. Podlasie to miejsce, w którym w ciągu ostatnich lat miały miejsce zdarzenia ksenofobiczne, rasistowskie, homofoniczne, to region, z którego systematycznie płynie przekaz o dyskryminujących postawach jego niektórych mieszkańców wobec wszelkiej odmienności. Tekst składa się z trzech części. Omówiono w nim tło, na którym dokonują się w Polsce swoiste społeczne przewartościowania ukierunkowane na zmianę sposobu postrzegania innych. Dokonano prezentacji autorskich badań dotyczących postaw studentów wobec uchodźców oparte na skojarzeniach z nimi związanych. Zaprezentowano także wybrane uwarunkowania (m.in. znajomość uchodźców, źródła wiedzy o nich, korzystanie z mediów i in.) rozpoznanych postaw.

The refugee crisis without refugees – the attitudes of students from north-eastern Poland towards refugees

Author(s): Wioleta Danilewicz,Tomasz Prymak / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Until 2015, Poles had an open and approving attitude towards refugees. In the following years, it has been subject to systematic deterioration, which was a result of a number of conditions. In connection with these facts, the author’s own research has identified the attitudes of students in the field of early and pre-school education as well as social work from the north-eastern region of Poland. Podlasie has seen xenophobic, racist and homophobic events in recent years. It is a region which systematically sends a message of discriminating attitudes of some of its inhabitants towards all people who are different in any sort of way. This paper consists of three parts. It features a discussion of the background against which asocial revaluation of sorts is taking place in Poland, aimed at changing the perception of others. The author’s research on students’ attitudes towards refugees was presented based onwhat they associate with them. Selected conditions were also presented (e.g. familiarity with refugees, sources of knowledge about them, use of media etc.) of distinguished attitudes.