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The article presents an analysis of the maintenance of moral development in preschool and younger school age. The mechanisms of moral development are also considered. Principles of construction of programmes for moral development of children are presented and proved.
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This paper discusses the need for positive support in dealing with children in conflict with the law, as well as the successful forms of positive impact on the practice of the local Committee dealing with antisocial activities of minors and underage in the Municipality of Kubrat.
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The present material presents the vision of its authors about the functioning of the theory and method of communication in universities in Bulgaria. The social psychological analysis is oriented towards traditional and modern education strategies. Discussed are contemporary tendencies of the development and dynamics in human relations, distinct are the problems born of socio-cultural distancing. Argumented is a proposal about the introduction of the method of neuro-linguistic programming in order to further communication skills. Presented is the experimental design of research, carried out by the author team with students in psychology.
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The aim of the study is to provide a generalized methodology for planning psychological, pedagogical and social work with clients in need / at risk.
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This article presents a theoretical and applied research on locus of control and styles of participation in group work, considered as factors in the optimization and management of human resources in the administration. Data from empirical research are analyzed and summarized and recommendations are formulated for effective motivation and active involvement of employees in the performance of their duties.
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The study defines the main threats to our country from the refugee crisis in Bulgaria in 2013 – 2014. The psychological analysis is focused on the political, legal, ethical and social aspects of the crisis. Special attention is paid to the examination of the problem in terms of C.G Jung’s concept about the Shadow. The paper outlines the temporal dynamics in the development of the crisis and the possible prospects out of it.
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The term borderline personality organization more accurately describes the people who do have a specific, stable, pathological personality organization, which is not a transitory state fluctuating between neurosis and psychosis. Borderline personality organization is characterized by diffuse identity, the use of primitive defenses, generally intact fragile reality testing, impairments in affect regulation and sexual and aggressive expression, inconsistent internalized values, and poor quality of relations with others.
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The following paper presents the problems of the project oriented training. The analysis is centered on the technology of the modern education strategy. Discussed are the following issues: strong and weak points of traditional education methods, the need to modernize them, the philosophy of the project oriented training and its application in universities by teaching students. Presented is the experimental design of research, carried out by the author team with students in psychology.
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People, in their everyday activities, are faced with multiple choices, decision making and problem solving when aiming at more effective adaptation, goal setting and goal attainment as well as efficient psychic energy expenditure and social integration. The present study aims at the elucidation of the cognitive processes that participate in decision making. It comments on fundamental conceptions in relation to the phenomenon, the stages in the process of decision making, the structure of the problems and the most common decision making mistakes.
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Art arises and there is a basis of spiritual culture, which imposes rules for the creation and development of values. It reflects the relationship between artist and reality, and involves a spiritual communication, allows for self-expression. Important for art is always public. In the context of today’s modern and active functioning of the country, it becomes a consumer. Cultural industries underpins the consumer society in which we live. The only possible way to tackle these problems is the intellectual rebellion. Whoever finds its essence in the process of creativity. Who can deal with the mediocrity and the devaluation of values through the freedom of personal choice in the search for truth.
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Information is knowledge, It is essential in any field of activity and underpins the development and evolution of society. In health services, the information is indispensable, among health professionals and patients being a cornerstone both in research and in accessing these services. In the contemporary period, it is not the access to information that is a challenge, but their quality and the ability of each of them, to select the veracity of those presented by various sources. This article aims to inform the reader about the importance of holding qualitative information, as the basis of a balanced development of the society as well as the need for information in the most important services which are indispensable for life: health services
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School is not an isolated environment but rather an integral part of the broad community, and the problems it faces as an institution and youth training environment concern the entire society. Although there should be a positive climate in school, and any form of violence should be kept under control, there may be forms of violence both between students and between teachers or, unfortunately, between teachers and students. School violence is just one of the manifestations of daily violence. The media are increasingly focusing on youth violence, school violence, trying to raise awareness about society.
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Job demands, like time pressure, consume employees’ limited resources, which need to be restored through recovery in order to maintain psychological well-being and work performance. Employees in high-strain jobs need to replenish their emotional resources throughout the work day. This can take place during breaks if employees are able to psychologically detach from the work demands. Given the stress-relieving functions of humour, we hypothesised that affiliative humour during breaks would attenuate affective impairments related to time pressure and would decrease negative emotional spillover from breaks to subsequent work. We conducted moderated mediation analyses with bootstrapping based on a cross-sectional sample of 170 employees working at four retail stores. Time pressure was positively related to affective irritation, which in turn was related to more spillover of negative (and less spillover of positive) mood from breaks to work. Laughing with colleagues during breaks moderated the link between time pressure and affective irritation, such that this relation became nonsignificant when the frequency of joint laughter during breaks increased. Hence, pleasurable social break activities appear to be important for within-workday recovery. Employers should encourage their employees to take their breaks consistently and to socialise with likable colleagues, especially during periods of high work load.
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Self-image plays an important role in human life, due to its influences on the emotional state level, to its guidance toward self-knowledge by relating to others and due to its leading of gaining self-esteem. In fact, it leads life success and the way of relating to everyone else. Psychological development of children and teenagers depends mostly on the reactions and the attitude of family and teachers. The educational leaders, through the teaching methods and aids, can influence student`s self-image. Refering to the students that have a poor self-image, the cooperative learning method is extremely efficient by sustaining self-awareness, self-knowledge, knowledge of others and positive interactions in class.
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Z generation is so influenced not only by virtual world / communication, by advanced sophisticated and networks, by COVID-19 pandemic, but also by self-valorisation culture. Although they prefer online education because of its freedom for action, Z generation is in risk for an independent self-construction that lead to a devastating individualism for their own life. Our study aims to describe the influence of self-valorisation culture on our candidates’ self-esteem (from Z generation) for Pedagogy and Primary and Preschool Pedagogy. For this purpose, we have analysed the content of their motivational essays – part of their admission file. The results indicate that Z generation candidates’ self-esteem is higher than Y generation candidates’ self-esteem.
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The article presents results of a research of student – teacher relationship styles in the school environment, measured by the stroke economy. The sample includes 339 students between the ages of 13 to 15, of whom 198 are from vulnerable and 141 are from invulnerable groups, and 229 teachers between the ages of 24 to 65. The results present significant differences in the styles used by the three groups. Students from vulnerable groups declare preferences for the styles “Don't accept” and “Don't give yourself”, which is expressed in a tendency to devalue their own achievements and successes. Students from invulnerable groups and teachers express preferences for the styles “Don't accept” and “Don't ask”, which suggests manifestations of characteristics such as confidence and a tendency to reject compliments. The obtained results can be used as an approach to increase the efficiency of the student-teacher relationship and improve the social climate in the classroom.
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Creative motivation is considered in the context of personality structure and flourishing as an indicator of positive development. The aim of the present study is to explore the relationships in the field of creativity and creative motivation as factors for achieving psychological well-being and flourishing, as well as their presence within various psychological profiles. Hypotheses have been raised in order to measure the presence of creativity indicators within certain psychological types in relation to the level of creative motivation and flourishing. The survey instruments used are: Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Torrance Creative motivation scale and Diener Flourishing Scale. The results presented are based on a pilot study conducted in Plovdiv. The sample includes people in early adulthood, authentic folklore dance performers.
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Our study examines the impacts on workers when organisational humour is repeated,sustained, dominating, and potentially harmful, and thus can be considered to be bullying. Inan ethnographic study of an idiosyncratic New Zealand IT company, we observed humour thatwas sexualised, dominating, and perpetrated by the most powerful organizational members.We argue that the compelling need for belonging in this extreme organizational cultureinfluenced workers to accept bullying humour as just a joke and therefore acceptable andharmless even when it contravened societal workplace norms. Our contribution is inidentifying and extending the significant theoretical relationship between workplace humourand bullying that, to date, is not well-explored in organizational research.
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Successfully joining a new workplace community is demanding, especially when this involvescrossing national boundaries in addition to team boundaries. For outsiders, humour is anarea that arguably presents a challenge to full participation, particularly when localunderstandings are not shared, nor even recognized as distinctive. Newcomers face thechallenge of navigating the trajectory from legitimate peripheral member towards core status(adopting the terms of the Community of Practice model). This involves cooperating withothers in interaction, including engaging with humour and laughter as a way of indicatingbelonging. Here belonging is operationalized using the two dimensions proposed by Antonsich(2010), namely (1) a sense of belonging and (2) the politics of belonging as evidenced throughnegotiation with others. Applying an Interactional Sociolinguistic approach, I offer analysis ofnaturally occurring workplace interactions and reflections from skilled migrant interns in NewZealand workplaces. I discuss the place of laughter in attempts to demonstrate teammembership, arguing that these attempts at belonging require the cooperation andendorsement of insiders. The findings indicate that, however benevolently intentioned, thelocal colleagues’ use of humour, and their reactions to the humour and laughter produced bythe skilled migrant interns, often results in a sense of othering and exclusion. This is keenlyfelt by the interns who note the difficulties that taken for granted practices create in theiracceptance and progress. In many cases the result is laughing along, as an outward signal offit, rather than laughing with which suggests a deeper sense of belonging.
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NATO has an interesting history in dealing with the Human Security concept and its derivates. In a non-formalized past, we have considered various efforts in planning and conducting operations as proving the spirit of Human Security: the effects-based approach to operations and the comprehensive approach, the counterinsurgency philosophy, civil-military cooperation (CIMIC), and NATO support to civil emergencies.However, this is not close even to the arguments on the "right to intervene", or the "responsibility to protect", allowing the use – as a last resort – of the hard power in extreme cases of people endangered by their governments, failing to protect citizens from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. For this, we have the illustrative case of Libya, where NATO had a major stake in the crisis resolution.Currently, the Human Security paradigm is present in NATO’s theory and practice, focused on several main lines of effort, in areas NATO conducts operations, missions, or activities. The paper further inquires about the interpretation of Human Security in NATO and its operationalization perspective.
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