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In this work, the phenomenon of В‘visionsВ’ and mysticism of Fr. John (born 25.09.1946) is considered within the framework of religious studies, philosophy and psychology of religion. The aim of the work is to establish the structure of the phenomenon of В‘Visions of the TheotokosВ’, its deployment and movement. The method of investigation is suggested by the description of the experience given by Fr. John is in his works. The key concept of his diaries and books is the notion of an В‘archetypeВ’, which is interpr...

The article analyzes the use of photos in social psychology as a visual technology. The work emphasizes that this type of visual technology is used in studies aimed at studying communication, interpersonal cognition, impression management, interethnic relations. Within the framework of these areas of research, photographs of the person's external appearance are suggested, which are proposed to be evaluated, categorized as belonging to certain groups (ethnic, religious, social). The article underline that up to the...

The most general expression of child psychological abuse can be any behavior that damages the self-confidence and self-awareness of the child. One of such situation may be a divorce of parents, which means a huge change in the life of a child, regardless of age. The child must adapt to the transition between two different households and to the day-to-day absence of one parent. The paper provides a theoretical overview of the issue of divorce and its negative impact on the child's psyche, pointing to similar aspect...

Background. Sensorimotor alalia (SMA) is regarded as a specific Russian-language term but it has no analogs in neurology and neuropsychology. It is a disorder of impressive and expressive speech development at the early stages without the previous period of normal speech development according to ICD-10. The term SLI (specific language impairment) reflects other types of speech disorders. It is an urgent question if SMA is more closely connected with the disorders of programming, regulation and control functions th...

This article is devoted to the study of the results of empirical data considering young people who actively communicate using computer technologies and the Internet. There were applied methods of studying Internet addiction. Internet addiction is a modern problem caused by an easy access to computers and information on the Internet. Some types of disorders may develop within people who are addicted to the Internet. As a number of psychological researches indicate, the Internet often attracts people who are not sat...

In the context of global social changes, the problem of psychological well-being is increasingly becoming the subject of research. The purpose of the study is to determine the relationship between the students' understanding of the meaning of life and psychological well-being. As a result, it turned out that students with a high level of understanding of the meaning of life and a high level of psychological well-being determine psychological well-being as love, health, self-realization, safety. Students with a low...

Nowadays, the occurrence of crisis situations is increasing in society. Crisis situations are not merely relating to non-disabled people, we need to be aware the situations are equally relating to persons with disabilities. They have particular needs placing specific demands on approach to them, which is necessary to respect. Psychosocial first aid (PFA) can reduce the impacts of crisis situations, however in people with various disability categories it requires certain adjustments and an interventionist`s self-ef...

The present paper focuses on the perception of residential social workers of their own readiness to accompany dying persons in residential social services in the Czech Republic. The pilot study uses a qualitative strategy carried out in a selected retirement home (semi-structured interviews with 9 employees, coding, categorization and thematic analysis). Based on the analysis and interpretation of the results the following 5 areas were defined: (1) Feelings and experience with death; (2) Accompanying; (3) Communic...

Today, we are giving away the emotional education of our children more devastating consequences. One of the solutions is the new insight into how schools can make the students fully educate them by combining their minds and hearts in the classroom, so the goal here should be to provide children with basic knowledge of emotional intelligence. This study aimed to assess the relationship between emotional intelligence, social status and socio-emotional status among high school students. In this study were attended sc...

The purpose of this article is to present the results of the revealed interrelationships between personality factors and motivation for achievement in persons with neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders. The revealed regularities were examined for each group: Neurasthenia (F-48); Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (F-42); Undifferentiated somatoform disorder (F-45.1); Hypochondriacal Disorder (F-45.20; Dissociative Conversion Disorder (F-44) and Mixed Anxiety and Depression Disorder (F-41.2). The research sa...

The goals of study were to explore how signs of the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) correlate with resilience, anxiety, depression and unemployment duration; to explore the difference between resilience, anxiety and depression for unemployed with or without signs of the ASD; to investigate whether resilience by controlling demographic characteristics explain unemployment. In this study were 211 participants in ages ranging from 20 to 59 years old, who are unemployed and not in full time education. The following met...

Different studies indicate that problems occurring during adolescence can impact the appearance of disharmonic tendencies in the development of personality [1]; nevertheless, other studies show that some adults show no signs of such tendencies, as they possess the psychological capacity of resilience [2] [3]. The general objective of this research was to analyse the Romanian adolescentsВ’ resilience in relation to disharmonic tendencies during the structuring of personality. The subjects were 62 adolescents from B...

Background: At the moment Internet technologies play a virtually primary role. The global network opens up a new social reality - a virtual space that becomes a platform for experiments with our self image. The Internet as a part of everyday activities contains a range of opportunities for personal development, but nature of human transformations depends on the choice of the Internet - activity, on conditions of this activity and, of course, on psychological characteristics of users. The study of the peculiarities...

The paper observes a psychological phenomenon called “self- identification” of a human being connected to the characteristics of a personality: life senses and self-management ability. Self- identification is interpreted as an indicator of a person’s own activity and guided by self-management and meaningful life. This ability is available in a desire to choose, follow one’s own way of living and meet external challenges flexibly, while keeping maintaining a tendency to self-development. The combined value-me...

The intensity and scale of socio-political and socio-psychological changes taking place today in modern society imposes special requirements on the psychological resources of a person as a subject of life. In conditions of high uncertainty, rising social tensions and globalization, there is a growing need to master the ways of organizing your life taking into account the time indicators. Modern production methods often require self-organizing in time specialists, who are able to respond adequately to changing cond...

The construct of "generation" is very popular in science. A generation is a social community of people with a common history, common values and a similar type of mentality. The article discusses the comparative study of Russian generations В«disbelievingВ» ? (1961-1979 birth years) and В«informationalВ» Y (1980-2000 birth years). The historical, psychogenetic, comparative and socio-cultural approaches to the problem of generations change are analysed and contrasted. The methods used include personality methods and...

Motivation is key to success in every field of activity. We consider it important to improve sports motivation among young people, because sport is basis for healthy life and provides support to other spheres of life. Through sport we develop adaptation and social skills, we learn how to overcome difficulties and stress, where to find courage to continue attempts and how to motivate ourselves to routine activities. The study purpose was to investigate cultural differences in sports motivation among Bulgarian and R...

While existing studies deal with stress involved in the work-family relation [1], [2], this research includes the academic education (as a cognitive-didactic activity) as a third element of this relation, manifesting itself simultaneously with the other two (given that the continuous education is more and more present). The general objective was to analyze the above-mentioned relation considering variables such as level of stress, coping strategies, gender, profile of the university and educational results. The re...

Religion and religious environment are the factors that affect the development and psychological status of a person. It is important for adolescents, who are sensitive to changes in the environment. The purpose of the study is to highlight the factors shaping the religiosity of adolescents and their idea of God. The degree of religiosity of adolescents were studied using a questionnaire of Professor C.A. Lewis. Correlations were analyzed by Pearson product-moment correlation. Sample was composed by 320 adolescents...

Background: Understanding the individual food preferences is critical for creating tailored strategies to promote individual healthy eating behavior. Individual sensory liking appears to be an important determinant of dietary intake. Taste preferences influence satisfaction and satiety, and may consequently influence weight status and psychological balance. The purpose of this study was to identify the association between taste preferences (sweet, salt, sweet and fat, salt and fat) and the histrionic personality s...

The aim of this article is to analyze the cultural resources of Bulgarian entrepreneurship through the dominant value orientations in this socio-professional group, using the Schwartz Value Survey (Schwartz, 2006, 2008). According to this model, the value system on cultural level is described by seven universal value orientations: embeddedness, autonomy (intellectual and affective), hierarchy, egalitarianism, harmony, and mastery. The relationship between these values reflects three basic contradictions (alternati...

The parental competence was defined as an assembly of knowledge, capabilities and skills supported by specific personality traits that allow the parent to fulfil his parental responsibilities, to prevent and to overcome crises in favour of the child and thus to achieve the objective of educational activities [1]. This study presents the steps taken in developing and validating the Parental Competence Questionnaire in relation to parents having children aged 6 to 11, which started from empirical and qualitative stu...

Persons who show interest in the field of participation in teaching-related projects through service learning have greater opportunities to develop various research programs that are closely related to the advancement of higher education and general development of communities. In this regard, firstly, there is the possibility to improve the practice of understanding in the field of service learning. Taking into account the fact that only SEEU serves teaching on campus conditions as a research population are taken ...

Driving phobia is common in the general population and it is characterized by persistent fear of driving and the tendency to avoid driving stimuli. The aim of the present study is to assess the relation between posttraumatic stress symptoms after a road accident (i.e. intrusions, avoidance, alteration in mood and cognitions, arousal) and traffic phobia (driving fear and driving avoidance). A sample of 298 drivers (54.4 % were men) took place at this study. The participantsВ’ mean age is 33.01 (SD = 11.07). The par...

This study aims to capture the relationship between emotional intelligence, self-esteem and optimism in professional success among students at the Faculty of Dental Medicine in Craiova. In this respect, at this research participated 211 students in the final year of the aforementioned faculty. The study was conducted between April and June 2018 as part of career guidance activities conducted within a European financed project. Four psychological tests have been used to capture the level of emotional intelligence (...

The article describes a study aimed at studying the values and life meanings of the younger generation. Research in the field of human values is the object of undying interest of researchers. The processes taking place in Russia are undergoing changes not only in the economic and political spheres of the state's life but also in the values and meanings of both individuals and society as a whole. From what values will prevail in a person on the basis of them and he will build his life, personal relationships, famil...

Though distant in time and style, the two classics of the European culture display a common and deep understanding of the human nature and of humanityВ’s way of reaching its purpose and truth. Refined observers of human behaviour, they both emphasize, each in his own manner, and with specific artistic means, the human need for self-knowledge and accomplishment, and the way it fails or succeeds in attaining them. With both playwrights, there is no way to self-knowledge and happiness but in the mirror of another con...

In the third wave, the cognitive behavioural therapy is associated with the use of unconventional techniques in psychotherapy (such as mindfulness), where focus is on changes in attitudes to experiencing (the first wave focused on changes in behaviour, the second wave focused on cognitive changes). The authors of the third wave of CBT started to explore the ways of increasing clientsВ’ motivation and increasing the effectiveness of CBT in patients where traditional CBT methods failed. These authors include for exa...

The article analyzes the psychological phenomenon of job insecurity, the history of its study, since the 80s of the previous century, as well as its modern interpretations. By now two approaches have been defined: quantitative and qualitative. The structure of the phenomenon of job insecurity is represented by two components: cognitive (perception of the probability of job loss) and emotional (anxiety accompanying the perception of this possibility). The consequences of the experience of job insecurity are describ...

The works of European painting and their illustrative motifs in a symbolic, sensational or realistic way show the image of many cities. Their authors wanted to immortalize not only their topography, but he also made a perfect cross-section through the social layers inhabiting a selected city over the centuries. Almost every big city is divided into a well-kept center with parks, pavements, meeting places of the intellectual elite and the outskirts inhabited by poor people, sick people and homeless people. The city...

The first aim of the present study is to assess the relation between traffic locus of control, driving cognitions and PTSD. The second goal was to assess if the relations between traffic locus of control, driving cognitions, and PTSD are moderated by gender. A sample of 137 drivers (60.6 % were men) took place at this study. The participants’ mean age is 32.67 (SD = 10.74) and they had been driving for 10.02 years on average (range 0–42, SD = 8.22 years). The participants completed scales for measuring traffic ...

Objectives: Measuring childrenВ’s social and emotional competences is very important in order to develop adequate preventions and interventions. In this study the translation and adaptation of the Social-Emotional Competence Questionnaire (SECQ) at a Hungarian population was examined. The main aim of the study was to analyze the factor structure and psychometric properties of the SECQ in a Hungarian sample from Transylvania, Romania. Methods: The questionnaire was filled out by secondary school students (N=560). P...

Stalking is becoming a substantial social pathology in contemporary times. Nowadays, stalking adopted a form of cyberstalking, which means harassment or intimidation using contemporary communication channels, such as sending a large number of e-mails to the person who does not want it. There have been numerous publications in the scientific literature that described stalking, emphasizing its sociological, psychological and legal effects. These studies have revealed e.g. the causes of stalking or characterized stal...

Clinical psychology is characterized by different theories and approaches to the study of human being, mental disease and the possible ways for identity change. This plurality of points of view represents a richness, since it allows psychologists, psychotherapists and also patients to refer to a wide choice of possibilities (such as the variety of configurations, strategies and tools) in order to improve the quality of wellbeing and life for people who need help. Anyway, each theory, on the basis of its epistemolo...

Wisdom relates to experienced difficult life situations from which one comes out as someone capable of sharing the learned and experienced lessons with other people and able to help other people based on his or her previous experience. Wisdom tops peopleВ’s list of values and desired personality traits. In psychotherapy, acquiring wisdom is one of the most desired objectives. In development psychology, achieving wisdom is considered to be the peak of maturation. Wisdom is related to feeling good or bad. Wisdom aff...