Antygrawitacyjne aspekty religijności człowieka

Author(s): Czesław Walesa / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016

Gravity is a natural force found in different dimensions. Mental gravity includes inertia, addiction, mindlessness and other similar processes or states. Anti-gravity, on the other hand, includes activity, freedom, openness, mindfulness, etc. Religiosity is a personal and positive relation of human to God. Processes of religiosity – according to its structural definition – include the following clusters of processes (parameters): (1) religious awareness, (2) religious feelings, (3) religious decisions (preferences), (4) a bond with a community of believers, (5) religious practices, (6) religious morality, (7) religious experiences, and (8) forms of confessing the faith (especially prayerful and sacrificial acts and the sense of mystery). The article is meant as an analysis of anti-gravitational processes of religiosity in the above mentioned domains. It presents a specific language about and a fragment of the language of religiosity.

Architectural Gestalt and some aspects of architectural thinking

Author(s): Gorun MANOLESCU / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

We are largely surrounded by increasingly complex technical systems. These systems often border on the absurd even though they rely on logical and physical reality. This is because they move away from the “logical efficiency”of natural forms. This text approaches some specific aspects of entities which are achieved by human beings,i.e. those connected to their “formative structure”.I emphasize that the aesthetics and the functions of such products are determined by the consonance between the formative structure and a natural structure, and I called this “architectural thinking”. As an example, I consider the well-known “golden number” found both in the human body and in artistic and technical products such as Parthenon.Two questions which thistext addresses are: What is a “formative structure”? How can the consonance, or harmony, between such structure and that of a “natural” one be approached?

Arkivyskupo Mečislovo Reinio pedagoginių idėjų sklaida Lietuvoje veikiančiose katalikiškose mokyklose

Author(s): Nerijus Pipiras / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 4/2019

Archbishop Mečislovas Reinys is one of the most prominent personalities. He paid much attention to personality development. According to him, multidisciplinary education is very important, where a person’s personality can unfold. The Archbishop was admired by Don Bosco’s ideas to make the school a community. This is important nowadays when the school’s threshold goes beyond personality with a variety of life experiences. Consequently, it must appear as one of the most important factors in education, to be a moral and valuable core, which is not differ from life. Therefore, it is right to call today‘s Catholic school a cross of experience and ideas. The ideas of Archbishop Mečislovas Reinys about education and upbringing have not lost their persistence. They find a proper response to the activities and mission of the current Catholic schools.

Artikulacijsko-fonološke sposobnosti djece s cerebralnom paralizom

Author(s): Emica Farago,Draženka Blaži,Martina Vukovic Ogrizek / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 1/2016

The goal of this research was to examine and compare articulation and phonological abilities in children with cerebral palsy and their typically developing peers. An examination was conducted on a sample of 15 children with cerebral palsy and 15 typically developing children. The two groups were equalized by gender and age. The measuring instruments used were the Articulation Test and phonological ability tasks. The data were analysed using the robust discriminative analysis, t-test, chi-square test, as well as the Cohran-Cox test. The results showed a signifycant statistical difference in articulation and phonological abilities between children with cerebral palsy and typically developing children. The difference between the groups is for the most part due to the variables deletion of consonants and number of articulation errors. The variables first voice segregation, phonemic analysis, and rhyme searching are also signifi cant in creating this discriminant function. The results also confirm statistical differences in articulation and phonological abilities that are related to the type of cerebral palsy. A group of children with a spastic type of cerebral palsy was more successful in phoneme analysis, syllable analysis, consonant deletion tasks, and rhyme searching tasks. They also had better articulation abilities.

ASPECTE ALE CAPACITĂŢII MNEZICE LA PREŞCOLARII CU DISLALIE POLIMORFĂ.

Author(s): Valentina OLĂRESCU,Diana Alina BUGANU / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3-4/2018

Dyslalia appears in the child as a learning disability or a developmental disorder that can be related to work memory defi cits. From this perspective, we can say that dyslalia can be maintained by an atypical development of working memory. The evaluation of working memory in polymorphic preschool education would allow the identifi cation of defi cits in mental functioning as a basis for designing mimetic stimulation programs at this age that can be applied concurrently with dissemination programs to accelerate progress in language development and communication to these subjects. Studying the link between the presence of polymorphic dyslalia and the mental capacity in preschoolers, as well as addressing the diffi culties in memory and oral language from the perspective of the verbal information processing model, are important for fi nding more eff ective solutions to early speech therapy.

Aspects of Antisocial Behavior in Relation to Emotion Understanding and Parenting Style in Slovak and South African Early Adolescents

Author(s): František Baumgartner,Zuzana Wirtz,Catherine L. Ward,Ivana Poledňová / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

The study is aimed at investigating understanding emotions in relation to aspects of antisocial behavior and substance use with respect to parenting styles. The sample were 397 early adolescents from two countries (Slovakia and South Africa). We examined if similarities or differences existed when comparing both national groups. A number of research studies document that antisocial behavior (e. g. bullying) is connected to the attitudes towards antisocial behavior so that specific attitudes predicted bullying behavior and other phenomena such as school and academic performance. The necessity of investigating the field of antisocial behavior and its moderators (such as parenting styles and emotional competencies) is not based only on prevalence rates of different types of antiso cial behavior during early adolescence, but also on the fact that risk behavior, in general, is directly or indirectly involved with health, well-being, school success and healthy development of personality. Currently, most scientific research on emotional intelligence focused more on emotional intelligence from the perspective of a trait (emotional self-efficacy), so the purpose of this study was to shed light more on the ability concept of emotional intelligence. We focused on one particular skill of emotional intelligence; understanding of emotions, as this ability forms the basic skills of emotional intelligence. The majority of the studies of early adolescent emotional intelligence skills have been conducted in Western societies, but processes underlyin g the formation of behavior and ability emotional intelligence factors and their manifestations may differ across cultures. There is an obvious influence of tradition, culture, ethnicity and society on the experience and expression of emotions, strategies for dealing with stressful situations, and behavior itself. Our study tries therefore to fill the gap in the literature by investigating the relationships between the ability to understand emotions as an emotional intelligence skill and antisocial behavior in early adolescents from very different countries; namely South Africa and Slovakia. Two groups were studied – one in Bratislava, Slovakia (Eastern Europe), and the other in Cape Town, South Africa. In Slovakia, all 6th graders from five state primary s chools that agreed to participate were approached for research matters. From that group, 155 learners were enrolled in study. The average age of this sample was 12.09 (SD 0.75). In South Africa, 242 students were chosen from three state schools which agreed to participate. The mean age of these students was 11.21 (SD=0.62). The schools were picked from different areas of Cape Town so that different ethnic groups were represented in the sample. All 6th grade students in the selected schools of Cape Town and Bratislava (N=397) were invited to participate, and were allowed to do so if their parents provided written consent and they themselves provided written assent. To measure the emotion understanding as a component of emotional intelligence, a performance test – Situational Test of Emotional Understanding (STEU, MacCann & Roberts, 2008) was used. The STEU is based on Roseman’s model of the emotions system. According to this model, the 17 most common emotions can be explained by a combination of seven appra isal dimensions. Antisocial and risk behavior and attitudes towards antisocial behavior were measured using subscales taken from The Social and Health Assessment Questionnaire (SAHA, Ruchkin, Schwab-Stone & Vermeiren, 2004). For our research purpose we selected several subscales: school attachment, academic motivation, affiliation with delinquent peers, victimization, parenting scales (inconsistent parenting, parental involvement, parental supervision, parental warmth), prosocial beliefs, alcohol use, substance use, cigarette use, antisocial behavior scales (conduct problem, less severe delinquency, severe antisocial behavior, legal consequences), beliefs legitimizing aggression, “hard to say no” scale and expectations about the future. Our study is focused on exploring associations between attitudes towards antisocial behavior, emotion understanding and parenting styles. According to the existing research it was possible to hypothesize: 1. There is a link between higher level of ability to understand emotions with less frequency of involvement in antisocial behavior as well as stronger attitudes against participation in antisocial behavior. 2. The parenting styles including parental involvement, supervision and warmth are connected with less involvement in antisocial and risk behavior. 3. Individuals with higher ability to understand emotions have a better parental background (especially warmth and involvement) in comparison with individuals with lower understanding of emotions. We applied exploratory analysis, calculating Spearman correlations and Mann-Whitney U-test in SPSS (since not all variables were normally distributed) and linear regression (in R) with quasi-poisson distribution, in order to examine associations between ability to understand emotions, antisocial behavior and other variables. A Generalized Linear Model UNIANOVA with quasi-poisson distribution was the most suitable for our data as they were not normally distributed, and did not fulfill the condition of the Poisson model (where mean must be equal to its variance). The analyses were conducted separately in samples of Slovak and South African early adolescents with regard to examining the relationships between key variables in both groups separately, and then to study the differences between them. The obtained results only partly support expected significant associations between higher level of emotion understanding and lower level of involvement in antisocial behavior. On the contrary the linkage between lower level of understanding of emot ions and higher rate of negative forms of behavior was manifest. These relations were only evident with Slovak adolescents, but not with their South African counterparts. Findings also revealed the importance of parenting styles in different areas of early adolescent’s behavior. Parental involvement and warmth diminished the expressed involvement in antisocial behavior as well as substance use and increased pro-social beliefs. Regarding the method used to measure emotional intelligence, we conclude that the performance test of emotion understanding (STEU) is only partly a suitable tool for exploring this construct. First, the STEU – even though modified for this population – had some problems with internal consistency; and secondly, the degree to which these instruments serve as indicators of real life behavior is also questionable. Although our findings support only some relationships we expected to find, we believe that even these findings of associations of ability to understand emotions with some aspects of behavior and influence of parenting style in early adolescence could assist as baseline facts and offer new ideas and inspirational base for further research studies.

Assessing the symptoms of Internet Gaming Disorder among college/university students: An international validation study of a self-report

Author(s): Dejan Stevanović,Ana Đorić,Yatan Pal Singh Balhara,Nikola Ćirović,Sidharth Arya,Ramdas Ransing,Tuong Vi Vu Thi,Truong Ngoc Huong,Ivana Tadić,Jelena Jović,Saša Radovanović,Helin Yilmaz Kafali,Zahir Vally,Mita Rani Roy Chowdhury,Pawan Sharma,Rabi Shakya,Paulo Moreira,Atilola Olayinka,Avicenna Mohamad,Luís Antônio Monteiro Campos,Pedro de Abreu Monteiro Campos,Cristiane Moreira Silva,Jose Carlos Tavares,Massimiliano Buoli,Julius Burkauskas,Iva Ivanović,Anna Rebeka Szczegielniak,Rajna Knez / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

The present study evaluated the psychometric properties of a self-report scale for assessing Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) symptoms according to the DSM–5 and ICD–11 among 3270 college/univers ity students (2095 [64.1%] females; age mean 21.6 [3.1] years) from different countries worldwide. Croatian, English, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Turkish, and Vietnamese versions of the scale were tested. The study showed that symptoms of IGD could be measured as a single underlying factor among college/university students. A nine itemsymptom scale following DSM–5, and a short four-item scale representing the main ICD–11 symptoms, had sound internal consistency and construct validity. Three symptom-items were found non-invariant across the language samples (i.e., preoccupation with on-line gaming, loss of interests in previous hobbies and entertainment, and the use of gaming to relieve negative moods). This study provides initial evidence for assessing IGD symptoms among college/university students and will hopefully foster further research into gaming addiction in this population worldwide especially with taking into account language/cultural differences.

ASSESSMENT OF FAMILY ENVIRONMENT AND OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENERATIONS – DATA FROM AN INVESTIGATION IN SUCEAVA COUNTY

Author(s): Elena Bujorean / Language(s): English / Issue: 11/2019

Our work is based on a common sense observation of the relational difficulties betweenparents and teenagers, trying to place emphasis on their perspective on the familyenvironment. The psycho-social investigation followed the analysis of student opinionregarding the quality of the family environment as a whole, as well as on the following levels:the frequency and quality of communication, manifestation of affection, mutual gratificationand encouragement, giving the right to an opinion and the exercising of autonomy. A deeperknowledge of the problems which could influence adolescent behaviour could serve as astarting point for practical attempts at educational counselling.

Attachment to parents and friends as a context for development of self-concept in adolescence: The personality traits as mediators

Author(s): Ksenija Krstić / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2016

The aim of the research is to study developmental relations between attachment to mother, father and friends and dimensions of adolescents’ self-concept. More specifically, we examine if this relation is direct or mediated by some personality construct. A sample of 878 students (13 and 16 years old) from Belgrade urban lower secondary and upper secondary schools participated in this research. Participants completed ECR for mother, father and friend; Self-perception profile for adolescents and NEOFFI. The results have indicated that dimensions of attachment are correlated with dimensions of self-concept, and that they can explain 13% of variance in dimensions of self-concept. When the personality traits are introduced as mediators, attachment dimensions explain only 4.5% of variance in self-concept. The quality of attachment relations with parents is not related to adolescents’ self-concept, while attachment to friends is correlated with social dimensions of self-concept. Hence, this study suggests that adolescents with particular parental attachment styles differ according to their self-concept profiles, but that peer attachment is important for adolescents’ social self. Beside that, this study reveals significant gender differences: relation between parental and peer attachment and adolescents’ self-concepts is not the same for boys and girls.

Az érzelmi elhanyagoltság, az érzelmi intelligencia. az erkölcsi/vallásos fejlődés (1)

Author(s): Emőke Tankó / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 01/2019

Becoming a Mother after Infertility: A Theoretical Analysis

Author(s): İlkay Boz,Elif Özçetin,Gamze Teskereci / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2018

In order to have a baby due to infertility, couples often resort to assisted reproduction therapy. In cases of pregnancy, even if the meaning of pregnancy is a happy and enjoyable process for these couples, the burden of infertility diagnosis and treatments can turn into a challenging process. Especially women can experience emotions such as not accepting pregnancy, fear of losing their baby, worrying about their health, uncertainty. It is known that pregnant women after infertility treatment can be ignored among spontaneous pregnancies. In qualitative studies at international literature, pregnant women with assisted reproductive treatments do not easily adjust to gestation and postpartum period. With this review, the experiences of the mother who became pregnant after infertility treatment were reviewed and analyzed theoretically.

Being at home: Global citizenship in Norwegian schools. A study of children’s poems

Author(s): Susan Erdmann / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

The paper addresses the question of self-perceived identity in children attending international schools in Norway. In this population, the distinction between “home culture” and “host culture” is no longer relevant, since most of the children represent “hyphenated” (e.g. Asian-British or American-Scandinavian) or merged nationalities and cultures. The goal of the study is to investigate how these pupils define themselves and the notion of “home”. To achieve at least a preliminary picture of the children’s self-perception, the authors have analysed poems on two topics: Me and Home, written by pupils of an international school and a Norwegian school, both informant groups aged 11-13. A semantic analysis of the poems indicates that the international school children present strong assertions of individual identity as defined against societal roles, while the Norwegian school pupils do not conceptualize identity formation as a struggle and their poems reflect a high degree of social, familial and national integration.

Beliren Yetişkinlik Döneminde Bağlanma Stilleri ile Psikososyal Olgunluk Arasındaki İlişkide Anne-Baba Tutumlarının Aracı Rolü

Author(s): Banu Çiçek Akbaş,Nilhan Sezgin / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 16/2020

The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between attachment styles and psychosocial maturation levels of emerging adults through the mediator role of perceived parental attitudes. For this purpose, Modified Erikson Psychosocial Stages Inventory, the Experiences in Close Relationships Inventory, Parenting Styles Quastionnaire and a questionnaire to collect data on their demographic characteristics were administered to 452 university students whose ages are 17-30. The findings of the research indicated that, the correlations between psychosocial development levels and all subscales were statistically significant. Parental warmth and control partially mediated the relationship between anxious attachment style and psychosocial maturation. In addition, parental control partially mediated between avoidant attachment style and psychosocial maturation. While parental warmth may be considered as a protector factor for psychosocial maturation of anxious attached individuals; parental control may be as a risk factor for psychosocial maturation of anxious and avoidant attached individuals. In the light of the obtained results, it is revealed that attachment styles and perceived parental attitudes may be notably important for psychosocial maturation levels of emerging adults.

BENEFICIILE PRACTICE ALE STUDIULUI PIANULUI IN DEFICIENTELE LATERALE CORTICALE

Author(s): BODIS Adam / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2019

În acest caz de studiu se prezintă efectele benefice ale studiului pianul și a meloterapiei la un tânăr, C.V., care suferă de deficiență vizuală corticală în combinație cu motricitate finăși un nivel de întelegere ușor redus. După scurtă prezentare a originii, evoluției și a simptomelor specifice ale acestui caz, se vor prezenta experiențele și experimentele proprii ca profesor de pian în predarea muzicii și a pianului în acest caz, dezvoltareaunei metodologii proprii, speciale, menite pentru a-i servi la îmbunătățirea sănătății și a aptitudinilor persoanei.

Bíkulturní zkušenost a její vliv na identitu mladých Vietnamců v České republice

Author(s): Mai Hoa Nguyenová,Jan Širůček / Language(s): Czech / Publication Year: 0

Ačkoli jsou Vietnamci jednou z největších národnostních menšin u nás a druhá generace původních přistěhovalců již dospěla a začíná zakládat rodiny, skutečnost, že se jimi psychologická odborná literatura v Česku téměř nezabývá, může být stále opakována jako mantra. Přitom právě v případě druhé generace (těch, kteří se již v Česku narodili), respektive jedenapůlté generace Vietnamců (těch, kteří se sem s rodinou přistěhovali během dětství či dospívání) badatelům nemůže překážet jazyková bariéra. Tito mladí lidé totiž díky svému vyrůstání v českém prostředí zdatně ovládají nejen jazyk, ale také si osvojili mnoho znalostí, které s místním kulturním povědomím souvisí. Zároveň se však odmalička setkávají s kulturou, která s tou českou může stát v příkrém kontrastu — s kulturou vietnamskou, pocházející ze země mnoho tisíc kilometrů vzdálené. Jak lze tuto bikulturní zkušenost charakterizovat? A jak může ovlivnit formování identity těchto mladých lidí, kteří na prahu dospělosti přemítají nad podobnými otázkami jako jejich čeští vrstevníci — tedy kým jsou a kam patří? Těmito otázkami se kromě samotných Vietnamců zabývali rovněž autoři této kvalitativní studie, jež má vzhledem ke stavu psychologické odborné literatury v tuzemsku explorativní charakter a představuje příspěvek k možné diskusi nejen na téma mladých Vietnamců, ale také o životě a integraci cizinců v naší zemi obecně.

Binden und Lösen im Lebenslauf: Drei psychologische Stationen zur Entwicklung der Familie und in der Familie

Author(s): Andreas Wittrahm / Language(s): German / Issue: 02/2015

At certain stages of everyone’s career the family constitutes the most important milieu of physical, psychological and social development. However, it is important for family members to change not only as individuals but together as a family in order to ensure that they can mutually help, strengthen and support each other in certain situations and at certain stages of life. For that, families and individual family members need internal and external resources, social confidence and participation on the one hand, and capability for emotional res onance on the other. When a family is established, at the birth of the first child, during the transition period when children reach young adulthood until they leave home, and, finally, at the time when elderly children provide care for their very old parents, valuable family resources and the necessary family competencies become particularly visible.

Bir Gözden Geçirme Çalışması: Ana-Babalık Hedefleri ve Alan Özelinde Sosyalleştirme Yaklaşımı Çerçevesinde Etkili Ana-Babalık

Author(s): Dilek Saritas-Atalar / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 09/2017

Parenting practices have different effects on children. It is not easy to decide which practices are associated with positive outcomes and which of them with negative ones. The aim of this review was to handle effective parenting within the frame of the parental goals and domain-specific socialization approach. According to the domain-specific socialization approach, parent-child interactions occur in different domains in accordance with parenting goals and children’s needs. Each domain corresponds to a different need of the child (protection, control, play, guidance, group participation), and the parenting practices meeting these needs are stated in this approach as well. The emergence of an effective parenting depends on the match between parents' goals and children’s needs. Further, children are not passive receivers. Same parenting practices may lead to different outcomes for different children. Therefore, while choosing parental practices, parents should take their children’ gender, temperament, and age into account. Finally, the more parents know their children and the more knowledge they have about them, the more their practices would meet their children’ needs.

Body esteem in adolescent hair pullers

Author(s): Erin M. Altenburger,Esther S. Tung,Nancy J. Keuthen / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Trichotillomania (TTM) often first presents in adolescence, a developmental period marked by vulnerability in body image. To date, no one has studied the relationship between this disorder and body esteem. Methods: 49 adolescents with DSM-IV TTM or chronic hair pulling (HP) and 23 control adolescents were administered diagnostic assessments and self-report measures of hair pulling and body esteem. Results: HP youth vs. controls reported lower levels of body esteem on all Body-Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA) subscales (appearance, attribution and weight satisfaction). HP contributed to lowered body esteem, independent of comorbid anxiety or depression. As expected, HP youth with vs. without comorbid anxiety or depression reported lowered levels of body esteem. Further, greater HP severity and distress were significantly associated with lower levels of body esteem. HP severity alone but not distress/impairment predicted lower levels of body esteem, independent of comorbid anxiety and depression. Conclusions: Both hair pulling and comorbid anxiety and depression can independently impact body esteem in adolescent hair pullers.

Body mass index, personality traits, and body image in Italian pre-adolescents: An opportunity for overweight prevention

Author(s): Veronica Rosa,Manuela Tomai,Marco Lauriola,Gabriela Martino,Michela Di Trani / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2019

We investigated the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and personality traits, socioeconomic status (SES), and body image (BI) at the beginning of preadolescence. Data were collected from 238 Italian children aged 10–11 years using self-report scales. Information about SES was derived from parental education and professional status. BI was the variable the most strongly associated with BMI. Controlling for BI, SES, and gender, Agreeableness was inversely associated with BMI, whilst Extroversion was related to BMI in girls only. Gender did not moderate the associations between BI and BMI at this age. The relationship of certain personality traits with BMI is likely to emerge during preadolescence. Early interventions to reduce overweight and obesity could consider the interplay of Agreeableness and Extroversion with gender, BI, and SES.

BULLYING in schools - Activities through which teachers can prevent Bullying at school

Author(s): Ana-Maria Ţebrean,Andreea Ţebrean (Sabie) / Language(s): English / Issue: 9/2018

In this paper entitled BULLYING in schools - Activities through which teachers can prevent Bullying at school, we propose to present a worrying reality of our day by proposing some preventive ways that could come in support of a worrying phenomenon, which has increased in size in schools in Romania. We consider that the teaching staff also plays an important role in trying to stop this phenomenon, by implementing some active-participatory activities in the classroom, activities that we intend to highlight in this paper.