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The aim of this study was to analyze the components of appearance in the structure of perception of other people's age. The main method of study: original methodology «Identification of person’s age using photovisualization». Participants of study estimated the age of 20 people (10 men and 10 women aged from 18 to 58 years represented on the photos) and answered the question: «What in this person allows you to make a conclusion about his or her age?’. Subjects of perception were 60 respondents. As the result 3268 ...

The aim of the investigation was to determine the attitude of parents towards the diagnosis of their children and to focus on the problems of families with children suffering from a deficit of partial functions, as well as on the cooperation with specialists and the school and the ways of tackling the education difficulties of these children. This research is part of a larger project - the research concerning the educability dynamics at children and pupils in need of special education support measures and the fact...

It is frequently stated that the present times relate to the spirit of Apocalypse. In psychological terms, the meaning of the statement underlines dynamic patterns, with intentionality and a complex interdependency. Apocalypse means revelation and intricate processes of evaluation, destruction and rising of a new order, towards a new meaning of human lives. In sciences, new researches bring out new perspectives upon energy and matter, medical interventions are reoriented by the genetics and epigenetics, the cybern...

The birth of a child with a pathology is experienced by a parent as a stressful situation, which defines the need for psychotherapeutic assistance. It should be provided at the neonatal pathology department where a child stays during the period of acute condition, and parents get informed of the causes of the pathology, severity of condition and possible consequences. The article presents data on examining the effectiveness of rational emotive behavior therapy techniques in working with mothers of newborns with se...

Morality as a concept has once again invoked scientific curiosity, not only from the philosophical point of view, but from the perspective of other social sciences - especially psychology, which has offered new ways of rethinking the concept. Within the context of cognitive-developmental approach, moral reasoning is interpreted as a central construct of the morality in general (issues such as moral behaviour, moral sensitivity, moral motivation etc.). The main aim of this study was to identify some potential moral...

This study examines the relationship between conflict and the effectiveness of work groups. The authors used multi-dimentional models of intra group conflict and performance groups. The first model includes three levels of conflict such as interpersonal conflict (between individuals), microgroup conflict (between some individuals and non formal subgroups within a group) and group conflict (between some individuals and a group). Each of these levels contain within them two types of conflicts — job conflict and subj...

Professional deformation and burnout in our days are more and more recognized in many professions also in aviation industry. Aircraft cabin service staff starting work completely unaware that the work is physically and emotionally very heavy. This research task is to find are there professional deformation and burnout symptoms of them among cabin crew. The aim of research paper is to find is there professional deformation and burnout between cabin crew and is there any correlation between them. Research methods: R...

Emotional competence - the ability to understand, express and regulate one’s own and other’s emotions - has an important consequence on personal and academic life of students, contributing to their wellbeing, mental health, resilience to stress, academic and social success. Emotions influence both minor and important decisions in real life: they can be crystallized as cognitive style in decision making, (e.g. avoidant, vigilant, preoccupied or intuitive). Most studies were focused on self-report emotional intellig...

The aim of this study is to investigate psychological factors contributing to the self-perceived creativity constructs (creative self-efficacy, creative role-identity and creative behavior). Based on previous findings, the first hypothesis is that the parents’ educational level will affect the way students think about their creative outcomes. Secondly, it has been investigated the role of intelligence and some integrated competencies (thinking, verbal) in creative self-efficacy. General intelligence was measured w...

A successful balance between work and private life provides benefits to employees and companies. Employees are an essential resource in the companies operating in the business sector, and, according to the long-term estimates in the labour market, the services sector will continue to develop in Latvia in the future as well, and, consequently, there will also be a demand for human resources. The aim of the research study: To study work and private life balance differences between various generations of the personne...

The article describes results of the research that revealed correlation between emotional intelligence and adaptation in the group of foreign students RUDN University. The text describes actuality and the importance of study the subject of adaptation in the not native culture in psychological science. Also the article describes the actuality of theme of emotional intelligence and touches upon the question about current research trends in this context. The main individually determinants of emotional intelligence, a...

This paper systematizes the main results of the phase 2.2 of the original grounded theory “surviving the streets” (GT-ST). Primarily the paper includes a brief description of the main phases of this original theory and its major distinctive features, emphasizing its similarities with other scientific theoretical and research contemporary studies. The method section includes a summary of participants’ characterization [homeless (n = 38), professionals (n = 47) and previously homeless (n = 11)], instruments (observa...

The present article investigated three main constructs of self-perceived creativity: creative self-efficacy, creative role identity and creative behavior. Culture being an element of the social context, it could influence creativity, more specifically the level of development, or predictors of creativity, for example the creative self-efficacy or creative role identity. Moreover, previous studies showed that culture may shape creativity via its influence on some environmental factors. Based on these findings the m...

Background: The main aim of the research study is to present partial results from comprehensive research focused on: a) finding out teachers' attitudes towards the thematic units and contents of technical education, b) finding out views about the importance of thematic units, c) finding out views about the level of training and competencies achieved in the technical area, d) finding out views about changes in the standard content of technical education, e) finding data about using the technical classrooms, f) find...

The article studies the interconnection of life events and such psychological states as hope/hopelessness and its intensity in a non-verbal behavior of the individual. The authors point out that emotional imbalance and likewise states can find its representation in a non-verbal behavior within the people representing the terrorist threat. Hopelessness and negative life events can cause low people`s sensitiveness to the terrorist threat. The results of the research studying the peculiarities of the hope intensity a...

This paper considers the aspect of adopting discriminatory behavior towards women with different ethno-religious design of the external appearance. An empirical study is presented, with the object of 807 people: 436 women and 371 men, aged 18 to 35 years. Respondents were offered a set of photographs of girls in hijab and without it (5 pairs of photographs). Three situations were proposed for each photo from the "Assessment of Acceptance of Discriminating Behavior towards Ethnic Groups" methodology, proposed by V....

Cultural differences have always been observed in the way that drivers act suggesting that in part, the cultural aspects could bring an insight into risky driving behaviors. Two hundred and five drivers from 3 countries (Morocco, N=30; France, N=87; Romania, N-=88) have taken part into an exploratory study aiming to analyze how various cultural values might have an impact on risky driving behavior and driving anger. Participants had in average 22 years (SD=2.12, min=18, max=25), had had their driving license for 3...

A Recent survey of household pro - environmental behavior in Latvia (March 2016; n 1009), clearly indicates that 56.7% of respondents identify themselves as certainly green thinking or as rather environmentally friendly, however most of the time they do not act pro – environmentally. The aim of this research was to explore different pro – environmental behaviors and intentions by using multidimensional scaling as well as to look for patterns these behaviors form. Clusters of habit and non-habit driven behaviors as...

Objectives: In this study the relationship between social skills and behavioral problems in secondary school students was examined. In addition, the gender differences between these variables were investigated. The main aim of the study was to analyze the relation between the social and emotional competencies and behavioral problems. Furthermore, the prognostic role of social and emotional competencies in the prevalence of problematic behavior was analyzed. Methods: Participants were selected from a Hungarian mino...

The results of the study of the content of representations about professional success and attitude towards it in connection with the professional motivation, purpose-in-life and value orientations of 90 students of the South-Russian universities are presented. The complex internal relations between the representations about professional success, values and professional motivation of the person are discussed. The orienting, motivating and evaluative functions of the representations about professional success are an...

The paper deals with the first translation of the IAS-R psychological test (Revised Interpersonal Adjective Scale by J. S. Wiggins) and its application during the pilot study at the Faculty of Education at the University of South Bohemia. The Interpersonal Adjective Scales provides an efficient and structurally precise measure of major dimensions that underlie interpersonal transactions: Dominance (DOM) and Nurturance (LOV). Furthermore, eight octants are defined within the 64 scaled items that describe specific p...

The aim of this paper is to present the Five Ways to Wellbeing method. This original Anglo-Saxon concept in applied the Czech Republic as part of therapeutic interventions for persons with addictions. The experience with this method is described in the qualitative analysis. The ultimate question is whether the Five Ways to Wellbeing method is applicable in the Czech Republic. What are the specifics and whether they are consistent with the conventional methods and procedures used in the target group. Another aim wi...

Theoretical framework. The research is based on the psychological conception of metaphors as a way of social cognition. It touches on the problem of distinctions of representations about "friend" and "alien" persons with different ethnocultural appearance reflected in metaphors and narratives. The objective of this research was comparative analysis of metaphors of "friends" and "aliens" with different ethnocultural appearance of persons with different stratificational characteristics (gender, age, level of educati...

Knowing the abilities and the personality traits which affect the academic success we could be able to intervene, helping students to achieve better grades. The purpose of our research consists in exploring and identifying personality traits which reflect significantly upon academic performance (the marks registered by the students). Personality refers to the organized psychophysical systems (within the individual) which determine specific behavior and thinking. The Five Factor Model (FFM) was investigated. The in...

Autistic Spectrum Disorders as a heterogeneous group of disorders in the dysogenogenesis are an object of interest in many specialties and interdisciplinary sciences. As far as the mental development disorders are examined by the psychology, the somatic and neurological disorders are a subject to pediatrics and child neurology, it seems that the problems of social cognition of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders remain in the background. Considering the fact that social work and social activities generally a...

Mindfulness has been successfully practiced for over 2,500 years with the goal to “quiet the mind’s constant chattering: thoughts, anxieties, and regrets” [14]. Organizational mindfulness refers to a combination of observation of existing expectations and willingness to invent new expectations, and identification of new possible dimensions with aim to improve foresight and current functioning of the organization, in addition to swiftly act in response to emerging threats [15]. According to Jacqueline Carte [3], mi...

The paper deals with an experimental application of computational linguistic analysis of Czech text in psychological assessment and psychodiagnostics. The paper presents the design and methodology of an interdisciplinary research CPACT (Computational Psycholinguistic Analysis of Czech Text), as well as its predecessor and pilot study QPA-FPT (Quantitative Psycholinguistic Analysis of Formal Parameters of Czech Text). The CPACT research aims to understand the relations between a person’s personal characteristics an...

Occurrence of cognitive distortions in managerial work relates to the objective conditions of this work but also to the subjective characteristics of managers. In this context, the presented paper focuses on the analysis of gender specifics of the links between the attributes of emotional intelligence of managers and assessment of the occurrence of cognitive distortions of managers. Data were collected from 67 female and 80 male managers using the methodologies TEIQue (emotional intelligence) and PCD18 (occurrence...

Efficiency is one of the most important indicators of elite professionalism. Measuring this indicator we reveal the quality of a particular elite community, their professional training and acmeological level. Empirical data only gives an external quality measure. Personal assessments of elite subjects are made In the role of an internal criterion. It is the comparison of the objective and subjective (external and internal) indicator which gives us an adequate assessment of the effectiveness of modern political eli...

The aim of our research was to study the socio-psychological characteristics of personality with a strong need to control oneself and others. The subject of the study was the intensity of the need to control oneself and others, and its connection to the other social needs, self-attitude parameters of the person, focus and level of the subjective control of the person. Hypotheses of the research: We suggested that intensity of the need to control oneself and others can be interconnected with a number of socio-psych...

Ethnic affiliation, people respectively nation is a factor that affects the formation of attitudes and consequently the formation of ethnic bias. Besides many human needs, some authors point out that there is a connection with the group identify with the group. The need to meet the group, social psychologists say, is imperative; it deeply affects human social activity. Belonging to ethnic groups play a significant role in shaping the attitudes of the individuals. The person will choose those attitudes that serve t...

Background: Working environment is one of the most important sources of occupational stress that may cause a whole range of emotional, cognitive, behavioural and physiological reactions of the worker. Coping is a process of moderating the negative effects of occupational stress on mental health and also serves to prevent distress, burnout and psychological maladjustment. Its effectiveness depends on the mechanisms that are used and these coping strategies could be adaptive or maladaptive. Methods: The aim of our r...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between teachers' basic needs satisfaction, self-efficacy and burnout. Questionnaires measuring satisfaction of the need for autonomy, competence and relatedness, teacher self-efficacy, emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment and depersonalization were completed by 220 Transylvanian Hungarian and Hungarian (Hungary) high school teachers. Results show significant correlations between perceived need satisfaction and all three aspects of teacher burnout....

Language is a central area of neuropsychological assessment. The child's capacity to phonologicallyanalyze the words represents one of its important components. The purpose of this study is to emphasize the influences of Taekwondo practice on the phonological processing capacity of children in the middle childhood period. The research wasconducted on a total of 15 children aged between 6 and 11 years. To assess their language development level, it was used the NEPSY battery: A Developmental Neuropsychological Asse...

Children exhibiting ADHD symptoms have been shown to be at high risk of academic failure, grade repetition and poor academic achievement. Few research studies have addressed the problem of assessing the incidence of ADHD symptoms in Transylvanian children. In this study, besides the prevalence of ADHD symptoms: inattention and hyperactivity, emotional and behavioral problems were assessed among elementary school students without formal diagnosis of ADHD. Teachers completed the Teacher Report Form (TRF) for 68 chil...

This article investigates relations between person's propensity to experience different affective states and dimensions of temperament in terms of Reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST). RST proposes several functional brain systems that organize reactions to different classes of reinforcing stimuli, facilitating approach and avoidance behaviors, and generating affective states involved in these facilitation processes. Thus, individual differences in sensitivity of behavioral approach and inhibition systems are pr...

Included as a vital component of an in depth research project, concerning homelessness and life trajectories of homeless people, this study is devoted to the identification of communalities and singularities between daily life and survival strategies of homeless men and women. To accomplish this major goal, the researcher participated in outreach interventions (6 teams, nextgreater400) and performed 96 in depth interviews with (formerly) homeless people and professionals [38 homeless, 11 formerly homeless, and 47 ...

Fishing is one of the oldest occupations and together with hunting it has had a significant economic and social importance during history. Nowadays fishing can be associated with biodiversity conservation, recreation and also with environmental and cultural psychology of the local population. Chondrostoma nasus (nase), a widespread reophilic fish species from the family Cyprinidae is considered at the criteria Least Concerned (LC) by the IUCN Red List being locally threatened in many areas of Europe by loss of sui...

A quantitative meta-analysis was conducted to estimate the empirical support for the effect of well controlled experimental studies which addressed the improvement of objectively measured performance in academic and organizational- training setting in adult population- trough goal-setting intervention. In our digital age these relatively low-budget interventions may help individuals in achieving better performance in formal and informal learning and performance outcome and this qualitative analysis might help in t...

Introduction: The survey was focused on the influence of canis therapy against anxiety and depression in older adults in two retirement homes in the Czech Republic. Methodology: Mixed design approach was chosen for the research. Two questionnaires were used for data collection: BDI-II and Beck anxiety inventory. Interviews investigate the opinion with subjective benefit of canis therapy. The survey was conducted in 2014. Survey group consisted of 80 elderly. This group underwent canis therapy. The control group co...

The article acquaints with the means of dramatherapeutic intervention in two addictions departments – the Centre for secondary prevention and addiction treatment at the Military Hospital in Olomouc and the toxicorehabilitation department at the Psychiatric Hospital in Kromeriz. The first department runs a detoxification and short-term (one month) intervention programme while in Mandala, a medium-term (as long as half a year) dramatherapeutic programme is being implemented. The second part of the text presents th...

Coping with demanding situations in managerial practice is closely related to the overall effectiveness of managerial work. Social intelligence is considered to be a significant predictor of coping with demanding situations in the work of managers. Prediction of behavior of managers in demanding situations is one of the possibilities of selection of the correct persons for managerial positions and of adequate adjustment of the preparation of managers. The report presents the results of an analysis of links between...

The methodological approach to abilities composition and measurement of adequate interpretation of nonverbal behavior is based, from one side, on those features of human nonverbal behavior, nonverbal expression of personality that are identified in numerous studies, from the other side, it takes into account the characteristics of psychological interpretation of expression, deliberate encoding of expression, and, from the third side, it is based on fundamental assumptions concerning the nature of social abilities,...

Young drivers have the highest rates of car crash involvement despite extensive measures taken to prevent it. During the last decade, research has focused on analyzing peer influence and peer pressure in order to gain a better understanding of young drivers' high rates of car crash involvement. This paper analyzes how risk is perceived in traffic situations and how risky driving behaviors are identified by using the perspective of both peers and passengers. Furthermore, this paper analyzes the perceived role of pa...

Several studies have shown that risky driving behaviors are often associated with the involvement in road crash fatalities. Therefore, a deeper understanding of influential factors is required to inform targeted countermeasure implementation. While considerable research has examined the role of personality and situational factors associated with risky behavior in traffic, less is known about the mechanism underlying the relation between personal driving style and risky driving behavior. The present study attempts ...

This study aimed to investigate levels of life satisfaction depending on socio-demographic and mental health factors among Romanian young adults. Method: N= 1509 (891 woman, 618 man) young adults were included in our study. Satisfaction with life, health and mental health were assessed with an online questionnaire including: self-rated health, self-esteem, optimism, subjective happiness, self-efficacy, depression anxiety and health risk behaviors. Findings: Overall Romanian young adults reported being satisfied wi...

The article presents the results of the study of personal and behavioral features of the orphan children who survived ill treatment and violence in the parental family and specifies the main spheres of the personality, psychological influence on which will promote the formation of positive presentation model of behavior. 65 adolescents without parental care, 11-17 years of age (N = 65), acted as subjects. This work was supported by the grant of the President (Russia) MK-99.2014.6.

One of the basic human psychological necessities is the need to have a connection with absolute superior being which is God. In this article we explored how the Romanian students relate to transcendent (religious representations), how important is prayer in their spiritual lives and how parents' spirituality is reflected in their lives. In Orthodox Christian tradition spirituality is the essence of religious life. The purpose of this descriptive study was (a) to investigate how students use prayer as a way to cope...

Objective: Longitudinal analyses examined the extent to which positive resources accumulated in adolescents lead to greater life satisfaction in young adulthood. Method: Data were drawn from a 2 wave (3 year) longitudinal study of the health and development of around N=1459 Romanian nationally representative sample of adolescent and young adults. In the first wave a set of psychological resources were assessed by an online questionnaire. Life satisfaction was assessed with SWLS scale as an outcome in the second wa...

Part of a larger research project, subordinated to the comprehension of the experience of homelessness in contemporaneity, this paper focuses on the analysis of the roles that vocational training and transitions to and from the labor market, assume in the context of experiencing this form of severe deprivation. Although quite unknown to professionals, agents with governance responsibilities (local, regional and national), as well as citizens, homelessness comprises, for many of the adults inhabiting the Portuguese...