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Latvian children’s and young people’s literature, being a significant segment of literary production, in the course of history has not attracted attention on regular basis but rather fragmentarily; studies of its development trends have not been regular and have often remained marginal against the background of the total literary research. But child’s image is one of the most important components in the structure of childhood narrative; great significance is attributed in its depiction to characters’ portrait, act...

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...

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...

In organizations, besides various issues related to profit and efficiency, increase importance of staff relations. To ensure the effectiveness of the organization, it is necessary to develop not only hard (professional) skills for employees, but also soft (personal) skills. Employees are reared to independently plan and direct their activities towards a specific goal, achieve the goals and evaluate the results achieved to increase your sense of self-efficacy. Various self-regulation theories determine that the dev...

The main objective of the article is to introduce a less known Slovak author Matúš Kavec. From the theoretical and practical point of view and the orientation of the study one of the sub-objectives is the characterization and interpretational analysis of the author’s work. In the context of the Slovak literature the author is being listed as a writer of the inter-war period. From the thematic aspect, the work of Kavec is divided into two main areas: urban environment and tinker theme. Since tinkering is a Slovak c...

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...

Machiavellianism is known in many areas of politics and psychology as a behavioral strategy where a qualified manipulator achieves his or her benefits through deception, flattery, intimidation, bribery, suggestion of false targets. Manipulative behavior as part of Machiavellian manifestations is a significant factor that occurs in the interpersonal context of behavior. Conceptualization and operationalization of this construct are a prerequisite for exploring manipulative manifestations as well as their theoretica...

The interest in Freemasonry has shifted today from the field of metaphysics to the scope of aesthetics. The method of the “new hermeneutics”, proclaimed by Ulitskaya, presupposes an appeal to the world culture codes. The mythology of Freemasonry occupies an important place, which is connected both with interest in the Silver Age, and with a common for transitional epochs attention to the problem of world evil. The principle of high game, helping to overcome the boundaries of what is visible in the name of existenc...

The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between aspects of mindfulness, adaptive functioning, emotional problems and somatic complaints in older Latvian adults. The study participants were 287 adults (215 women, 72 men) without serious cognitive or functional impairments, ages 60 to 91 years. They completed the Older Adult Self-Report and Mindful Attention Awareness Scale. The results showed that the women indicated higher depression, anxiety and worry ratings than the men, but the women also rep...

The paper investigates memory narratives in contemporary Latvian and North American life-writing with the focus on Latvian writer Anita Liepa's autobiographical fiction and Canadian writer Alice Munro's short stories. The theoretical framework of the paper is related to the fast developing memory culture after the end of the Cold War in Europe and Latvia as well as globally, and sketches out the theoretical framework of memory writing referring to the studies of Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora, Paul Ricoeur, Aleida...

In the article the author proceeds from the conception that family as a social institution takes a significant part in socialization of the child, being the basic support and a pattern for imitation as a model of the world around. The relations of parents between themselves and the relations of parents with children form a sense-value sphere of the child and as a result his/her life-sense strategies which direct the future life of the child. The theoretical grounds of the research are based on the theories of mean...

The concept of the dynamic nature of the system of a person's relations (Myasishchev, 1995) [1] and the social-psychological approach to appearance, its assessments and self-assessments (Labunskaya, Drozdova, 2017) [2] served as the methodological preconditions of the study. The goal of the study was studying the age-related dynamics of a person's assessment of the components of his/her appearance and its integral characteristics. Methods of the study: 1) V. Schutz Interpersonal Relations Questionnaire [3]; 2) met...

The theoretical foundations and the basis of the comparative research are based on empirically substantiated theories and research outcomes in the area of manipulative cover-up techniques in the interaction/ communication of individuals. They are a result of research on the position of evaluations in expressive therapies (especially feedback and self-exploration as part of so-called specific effective factors) and the role-system of the Russian structuralist Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (the author of arguably the m...

For over two decades we work under increasingly changing conditions. These changes are mostly the result of globalization, deregulation of labor markets and increasing competition. Among these changes we should name above all the growth of insecure employment. In the context of downsizing and more temporary or short term contract work, many employees may consider their jobs insecure. According to results of many investigations job insecurity influences negatively attitudes towards the job and the organization, as ...

The article presents the results of the theoretical analysis of development and empirical research. Objective: Identification of patterns of socio-cultural partnership in the prevention of children’s ill-being on the basis of theoretical analysis and empirical research. Methods: theoretical analysis (comparative-correlative); generalization of the experience of socio-pedagogical and socio-cultural practice; diagnostic methods (testing, questionnaire survey); methods of mathematical statistics (Student’s t-test). F...

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...

Career decisions have always been some of the most important decisions to undertake, and, in chronological order, the first to intervene at the age of 18, when young people have to choose a faculty, a direction, in which their professional life will be in the years to come, or maybe even in all the years of activity. The study was attended by 112 high school students, all of them in the 12th grade, from high schools in the South-West Oltenia Region (Romania), who attended a summer school during their vacation in J...

Background: Everyone intuitively knows that art therapy works. Moreover, scientific literature recognized improvements with art therapy in depression. However, it is needed to provide evidence for the efficacy of art therapy and more standardized techniques in order to become an “evidence-based” treatment, both to confirm and increasing professional competence of the therapist, and enhancing the benefits of the patients with more prediction and control about the treatment. Methods: The Millon Clinical Multiaxial I...

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 adolescents’ resilience in relation to disharmonic tendencies during the structuring of personality. The subjects were 62 adolescents from Bu...

According to the National Authority for Persons with Disabilities, in 2017 there were 791.761 Romanians with disabilities. Disability is a dynamic construct, outlined at the interplay between medical impairments, personal factors and social and environmental barriers that impede equal chances and normal participation in the community. The goal of the current study is to catch a glimpse into internet usage among people with disabilities. Internet of Things comes as a valuable asset in helping them connect with othe...

The aim of the study was to identify, which psychological constructs predict career decidedness of students. Survey sample consisted of 74 Slovak grammar school students (Mage = 16,51; SDage = 0,61, 63,5 % women and 36,5 % men). The analysis derives from previous research, which identified the most important predictors of career decidedness. These constructs are defined by Theory of Cognitive Information Processing. The following questionnaires were used: The Career Decidedness Scale (Lounsbury, 2011), The Career ...

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 «disbelieving» ? (1961-1979 birth years) and «informational» 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 the...

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 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 loc...

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 humanity’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 cons...

The material of Yakut literature is a great illustration to the problem of the dialogue between cultures. Typological parallels can be found between Yakut Olonkho and other peoples` heroic songs, for example, Turkic heroic songs and European archaic significant sites like Celtic legends and Scandinavian Poetic Edda. The old comparative linguistics exceptionally found similarity reasons of artistic-literary phenomena in immediate connections, migratory subjects or mythological archetypes. But representatives of the...

Background. Any chronic disease or disorder has a psychological burden on patients. Almost a third of asthmatics are psychologically distressed. The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between the quality of life and the scores of depression and anxiety among inpatients with occupational asthma. Study design. A cross-sectional study of prevalence was performed among patients admitted in hospital with diagnosis of occupational asthma. Material and methods. In addition to the usual clinical and lung fu...

The aim of this paper is to describe German literature in a Czech region called Moravian Wallachia in years 1848-1948, when Wallachia was seen as a distinctive multicultural space, which included the Czech culture and also significant traces of German and Jewish cultures. The paper focuses on the following issues: basic tendencies in German-written literature from Moravian Wallachia, methodological problems of this research, correlations in literary epochs, ties to the canon of German literature, perception of the...

In this work, the phenomenon of ‘visions’ 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 ‘Visions of the Theotokos’, 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 ‘archetype’, which is interpreted i...

Background. One of the prominent tasks of the psychology of physical appearance is to investigate the factors influencing the growth of lookism accessibility during communication. The researchers stress various cultural, social-psychological, and personality factors that impact lookism [4]. In spite of the central role of physical appearance in lookism development little research was conducted scrutinizing the interplay of appearance perfectionism, satisfaction and concern with own appearance in these processes. N...

Fanny Burney at 15 wrote in her diary addressing her thoughts to ‘Nobody’, to her silent self and interlocutor. Nobody learnt about this fact until her diaries were published. She became famous with her first epistolary novel about a young lady entering the world, though in the Preface to the novel the author pretended to be an editor of the letters. Her writing could be compared to contemporary blogs. Novelty and variety of subjects, personally coloured irony and wit, acute eyesight, ability to entertain a reader...

Background. Online therapy has been making progress over the last 50 years, both in the world and in Romania. However, more details are needed to increase addressability to this form of therapy. Methods. Since 2011, we have developed the “Gandeste Sanatos” (Think Healthy) program, a cognitive behavioral online psychotherapy program. The program consists of several modules designed for customer education for therapy followed by specific information for several disorders: anxiety, depression, panic disorder obsessiv...

Introduction: Breast cancer belongs to the most frequent types of cancer in women and its incidence has been increasing worldwide. Mastectomy is one of the treatment options. Breasts represent the symbol of feminity and motherhood, therefore, their loss or surgery resulting in a shape deformity or a scar may lead to psychological problems and low self-esteem. The work aimed to determine the level of overall life satisfaction and the differences in individual scales after complete or partial mastectomy in women. Me...

In the path of gender transition, the body may assume a very important role. Through gender transition it is possible to undertake hormonal treatments, surgical operations in order to modify the primary or secondary sexual characteristics, but also other practices of body change and care not bounded to the medical context. These possible interventions or actions may imply different processes of change, meanings and needs, sometimes with doubts and difficulties, for the person in transition who is engaged in giving...

Objectives: In this study parent-child and parent-teacher accordance was examined concerning children’s behavioral and emotional problems in secondary school students depending on children’s social-emotional competencies. The main aim of the study was to analyze the agreement or disagreement between parent and child ratings on children’s behavioral problems and to examine the extent of this congruence. Methods: Participants were selected from a Hungarian minority group of 561 children (N=561) from Romania, aged be...

Contemporary brain activity monitoring is called Hemoencephalography (HEG), which shows the quantitative changes in brain activity in a different way. Hemoencephalographic neurofeedback training is a modern alternative to physiologically affect the condition in children with ASD, ADHD and other deviations in mental development. Hemoencephalographic neurofeedback can also be used as an alternative supportive therapy in other conditions with frontal lobe pathology alone or in combination with established drug therap...

Accompanying people with disabilities (PwD) throughout the end-of-life and dying is an important topic in many scientific and study fields. On the basis of a literary research it can be stated that this topic is being relatively neglected in published studies covering rather recurrent themes. PwD have specific needs, require specific access and means of communication, etc. The found published studies have focused on the end-of-life period predominantly in people with mental retardation and cognitive disabilities f...

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...

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...

Our main research goal was to define the effectiveness of intervention programme focused on second career directional choice of grammar school students. The intervention programme was based on the Theory of Cognitive Information Processing. An assumption of change in experimental group was to increase the self-knowledge and improve the competence that is necessary in process of second career directional choice. The following questionnaires were used: Career Decidedness Scale (Lounsbury, Gibson, 2011), The Career M...

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...

This article sets forth the problem of attitudes towards women in connection with their ethno-religious characteristics of the processing of their appearance (for example, hidjab (Islamic head-cover)) and sex and age of respondents. Research design. The object of the study were 794 people (350 male; 444 female), aged 18 to 40 years (mean age 27 years), residents of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Methods. The study used the author's questionnaire, which consisted of stimulus material (2 sets of photos of 5 girls; in one ca...

In the article the author proceeds from the conception that family as a social institution has got many functions the fundamental one of which is preservation and transference of family values, cultural wealth and traditions. The family has also a significant part in socialization of the person, being the basic support and forming an adequate self-attitude and an attitude to the world as a whole. And transformation of attitudes and values of young men and women is an extremely urgent social-psychological problem i...

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...

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 ...

The study aim was to verify empirically the relation between two new intelligence constructs of social-personal approach, i.e. moral intelligence (MI) conceptualized by Lennick and Kiel and their Moral Competence Inventory (MCI, [7]) and trait emotional intelligence (EI) by Petrides and his Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-Short Form (TEIQue-SF, [13]) on gender perspective. There were no significant inter-gender differences by U-test analysis (no to little effect size difference, ?2?.02) in global level ...

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...

The experience of flow has been known for a long time across all cultures of the world. It was not a privilege of rich elites from industrial countries. Similar terms have been used by old Korean women, adults from Thailand, teenagers from Tokyo, members of the Navajo tribe, farmers from the Italian Alps, and workers from Chicago. Happiness is not a result of coincidence; it is not something you can buy or achieve when you are in power. It does not depend on outside conditions. Happiness is a state for which one h...

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...

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 (...