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The aim of our research was to study the representations of real personalities, who belong to a certain society or social stratum etc. The everyday representations of Enemy and Friend are formed within the everyday communication, and because this type of representations include the following components: Representations about the relation system of Friend and Enemy towards the Other; Representations of Enemy’s and Friend’s appearance; Representations of the gender specific characteristics of Enemy and Friend. Hypot...

Although most psychotherapeutic interventions have a significant impact on the patients` well-being, there is no consensus on the optimal psychotherapeutic intervention in working with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) patients. The study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of different therapeutic strategies and to determine which type of psychotherapeutic intervention can improve the patients` psychosocial integration, ART (antiretroviral treatment) adherence, anxiety and depression. A number of 80 HIV-posit...

Engagement of students in the learning process seems to be a crucial element of a successful teaching/learning process. Practising and reinforcing language skills belong to the most essential and important parts in foreign language education. Carefully prepared study materials play a very important role in the teaching/learning process. Special attention must be paid when teachers consider and choose study materials for adult learners, whose memory mechanisms are not so reliable and fail more often than at early a...

The submitted survey was focused on the analysis of opinions and attitudes expressed by the teachers participating in the national project called ?Education Process Modernization at Elementary and Secondary Schools? performed in selected training centres on the territory of Slovakia in years 2008 – 2013. The main objective of the project was innovation and modernization of teaching procedures, methods, and education forms, supported by a suitable and didactically well-prepared application of available digital tech...

Education is not just simple information acquisition. It represents a set of knowledge, skills, habits, cognitive abilities, interests, attitudes and values of a person. Nowadays especially issues relating to humanization of the educational process rise to prominence. Humanism puts emphasis on the overall dignity and value of human beings and their ability of self-realization. The basic condition of humanisation in education is a new defining of teacher-student relations. A teacher is expected to be humanistic and...

This study aimed the construction of an elaborated inventory regarding the tendency for Narcissistic aspects of the personality, designed for the organizational purposes. The need for these inventories is emphasized by recent studies showing the increase of the number of negative consequences of Narcissistic dimension on subordinates. We used a multi-step approach: documentation (DSM 5, personality disorders papers and books, papers regarding the Narcissistic behavior in organizations and its effect etc), the cons...

One of urgent problems on the way to society humanization is the society tolerance to various groups of population. The article deals with the point of the school community tolerance towards the children with disabilities. The authors carried out the sociological research in the school community of Krasnoyarsk. The research purpose was to identify the school community attitude to the joint teaching of the ordinary children and children with disabilities. The research was done by on-line questioning as well as inte...

The difficulties in life connected with upbringing of a child with special needs lead to high level of distress for parents. Mainly negative influence of the child’s disease upon intrafamilial and extrafamilial functioning, psychological well-being of parents define the necessity of regular help for such people. Aims of rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) correspond to psychological problems of relatives of children with special needs. As few sources show, REBT has a significant potential in assisting parents...

Recently, due to the widespread occurrence of the manipulations in the public life and interpersonal relationships as well, the study of the effect of the persons manipulative tendencies on his relationships in the group is of great current interest. The aim of our study was to investigate the relationship satisfaction in the group of subjects who are prone to manipulations. The methods of the study were survey, sociometry method, conversation, observation. The study involved 85 people, members of 4 groups. The st...

The paper presents an experimental research of two functional subsystems which emerge in the process of bilingual lexicon formation: the mixed (L1+L2) subsystem and the monolingual L2 subsystem. The functions of both subsystems and their structural- dynamic properties are discussed.

The paper deals with structure variability of the interconnected values “country”, “ethnos”, “religion”, and relations between them in bilingual consciousness depending on the language of value representation. The research material is informants’ reactions in directed chain associative test. The test was carried out with bilinguals (Komi-Permyaks and Bashkirs; for each group the test was run in two languages). Qualitative and quantitative features of the semantic word groups, representing the values under study we...

The paper describes the main trends in leadership development based on changing world environment. There are summarized trends of world development that will be projected into the new needs of leadership development, so that the future leaders will be able to lead companies sustainable successfully. The main challenges for the future are globalization, development of technologies, especially IT, innovation and flexibility, turbulent environment and demographical changes. Globalization brings new approach to the ma...

The text deals with mutual relationship of the language and culture; with the influence of culture on the language and structure of its discourse in cases when Arabic is the target language and English is the language of teaching and communication in the class. It starts with a brief explanation of the main notions (language, culture); points at the differences between individualistic and collectivist cultures and their impact on the language. These differences can be observed in discrepancies that appear when we ...

The aim was to explore gender differences in cyber-violence in high school samples from a small town. Research was conducted on two samples of second grade students (N1=249 school year 2011/2012, N2=339 school year 2012/2013). Cyber Victim and Bullying Scale (CVBS) was used. Prevalence of internet violence in first sample was 24.9% (experiencing) and 27.7% (committing) and in second sample was 17.7% (experiencing) and 16.5% (committing). Decrease is probably the result of some preventive actions, but the numbers a...

At least in the adult population, it is well known that certain cognitive styles constitute vulnerability factors for specific emotional disorders. A preference asymmetry towards negative stimuli is common to both mood and anxiety disorders. For the purpose of understanding how this pervasive asymmetry towards negative features of stimuli influences emotional development the most promising area to examine is how emotions develop typically or become problematic during adolescence according to cognitive particularit...

Luthans et al. [10] suggested organizational behavior would focus on Positive Organizational Behavior (POB). Adopting the positive emotions as the object of study, hope, resilience, self-efficacy and optimism were presented as POB states that could represent a superior order of configuration called Psychological Capital (PsyCap) Avey et al. [1]. Luthans et al. [10] proposed the PsyCap Questionnaire for the American population, in order to measure a new concept in the area of organizational psychology. Despite Mach...

Present study is aimed to perform a model of symbol creation in self-cognition. Symbol is here specified as a kind of a sign with variable connections between its meaning and the object this meaning is signified with. The author’s self-cognition method regards symbol as a multifunctional instrument for problems’ solution in psychological counselling. The study’s methodological basis is a synthetic qualitative analysis of counselling practices carried out in the author’s self-cognition method, the method’s adaptati...

The paper focuses on the description and analysis of social competencies and self-efficacy in university students. The research participants were 210 university students (68.6 % were male) with a mean age of 22.7 years. The research was conducted in two countries: Slovakia (N = 102) and Czech Republic (N = 106). The Social Skills Inventory developed by Riggio, & Carney and Sherer’s et al. Self-Efficacy Scale were used as the techniques of data gathering. The research results showed a significant relationship betwe...

The paper deals with development of the Inventory for teachers’ self-assessment in classroom management styles (ITSCMS). The starting standpoint was model which distinguishes three classroom management styles: interventionist, interactionist and non-interventionist. The initial content of Inventory consisted of 36 items in the form of Likert scales (ranged from 1 to 5), describing each style by 12 items. Inventory was given to the sample of 169 teachers from Serbia. Results showed that the instrument has good reli...

Cognitive structure and its creation is a very important characteristic that contributes to the overall quality emotional and social life of man. This phenomenon can be divided into two parts - one of which is the need of individual cognitive structure and the second is the ability of this cognitive structure to create. Authors such as Piaget (1970), Bar-Tal (1962), Neuberg, Newson (1993), Ceresnik, Sarmany-Schuller (2004), Baranovska (2013) investigated how the need to develop cognitive structure translates into ...

Euro implementation in all three Baltic countries provides an opportunity for pan-Baltic organisations to centralise financial market and accounting operations. In order to achieve efficiency and reduced costs, international teams with local expertise will need to work on a best solution for all three Baltic countries. Projects usually involve discussions, arguing and conflicts. In conflict situations stereotypes can negatively affect communication process (people tend to concentrate on people not on a problem). T...

The article describes the results of studies of coping behavior of orphans in difficult (crisis) situations. The testees are 100 adolescents without parental care, 13-15 years old (N = 100). Markers of mental trouble of orphan children are analysed, the analysis of protective models of behavior of the teenagers who have endured ill treatment in a family is carried out. Typical destructive models of behavior of orphan children in crisis situations are revealed, their comparative characteristic is submitted. The wor...

The results of the survey of personal growth as creative major senior students’ moral development are presented. Methodological basis of the experiment to be cultural-historical conception of psyche development having allowed us to carry out the experiment in the delicate and active sphere of the student’s personality mental life to be moral choice was shown.

The aim of this research was to analyze and systematize complex data of qualitative research on purpose to determine substantial and peculiar traits of A.Alekseichik’s “Intensive Therapeutic Life (ITL)” method. Goals of research: 1) discuss A.Alekseichk‘s impact on (post)Soviet psychotherapy, 2) to present theoretical background and basic concepts of ITL, 3) to discern specific ways of therapist’s work during therapeutic process according to ITL. Paper is based on qualitative research which consist of analysis of ...

Car accidents represent a constant concern in the European Union. Romania ranks as fourth in the EU in terms of number of car accidents and fatalities. Young drivers’ high accident involvement is particularly worrisome, as they represent only a very small percentage of the overall population. Generally, it is considered that there are two main reasons for young drivers’ high accident involvement: the lack of experience and risk taking behaviors. These two aspects are especially involved in overtaking maneuvers of ...

Social projection is a ubiquitous phenomenon representing attribution of own beliefs and evaluations to others. In a between-subject experiment (N = 61) and a correlation study (N = 80) we tested whether social projection is susceptible to framing (original versus typical) and which individual characteristics predict its level or guide its occurrence. In this regard, we tested indicators of perceived similarity to a target group, need for uniqueness, socio-demographic parameters, cognitive reflection, open-minded ...

The people coordination in extreme situations involve correct communication form. Lot of deaf and hearing impared people are using lips reading or total communication TC as a main communication form. They prefer Virtual speaking head in extreme situations, as is crisis time as fire, flood, bombs, and different evacuation and as a communication form in high mountains, in caves and on lonely areas. A viseme is a representational unit used to classify speech sounds in the visual domain. A "viseme" describes the parti...

It is generally believed that the more the growing global competition makes it strategically important to continuous improvement for all types of organizations, therefore different methods are geared to develop continuous improvement in production processes (such as Total Quality Management or more recently, Six Sigma ): although all that there are few scientific studies on this topic. We consider continuous improvement performance of a worker as the behaviors of perfecting and enhancing in the job tasks. The pres...

The mediumistic art is a psychic phenomenon in which the subject appears to be possessed by an entity that guides the creation of an artwork. Until today it is preferred to classify this kind of creative performances as parapsychological or paranormal events calling them Channeling Phenomena. Through the study of some cases, we have analyzed the mediumistic art by a scientific point of view, classifying this psychic phenomenon as abnormal or anomalous manifestation of the human creativity, that in some neurophysio...

Anchoring effect, systematically influence by random and uninformative starting points, is robust. In a between - subject experiment (N = 199; groups: control, anchoring, with forewarning alone, in conjunction with overconfidence note) we placed the participants in a certain numerical information and then we attempt to diminish the impact of this number of judgments about various issues they did not suffer a knowledge about. The experimental questions were sorted according to the extraction of particular anchor (s...

Cooperation within organizations has been considered a key asset for organizational performance, effectiveness and overall success. The aim of the present research is to study the psychometric properties of the Organizational Cooperation Questionnaire in a sample of research team members. The innovation of this study is in assessing organizational cooperation in a sample which has not been widely researched. Given its distinctive characteristics of teamwork, goals interdependence and effort coordination, research ...

Politicians and political parties very often hire advertising specialists that serve like experts – consultants during pre-election campaigns creating the images that correspond to the demands of the electorate [4]. The aim of the research is to investigate the social representations of the politicians of Latvia about the ideal image of a politician. The research methods are method of association analysis and interview (partially structured). The research selection was made up of the Latvian politicians (N=114). O...

This study aimed to investigate whether perception toward coach’s resilience and coaching efficacy of coaches, as well as perceived sport’s masculinity play a role in predicting student athlete’s resilience. This study used a quantitative, predictive correlational design. The participants, as many as 201 student athletes (age of 18-23 years old), were taken using purposive sampling technique. Multiple linear regression analysis of survey questionnaire data showed that the perception toward coach’s resilience and p...

With the rapid growth of user generated content on blogs, forums, social networking and microblogging sites, social media analytics has become popular research topic in many different domains in order to shape marketing activities, management strategies, forecast trends, and for better understanding of consumers. Information spreads rapidly through social media sites and has a big impact on shaping public opinion. Negative comments about company, brand or a product/service can have drastic effects on the companys ...

The education modernization is impossible without the information and communication technologies usage. They are one of the most important tools of the improvement and development of the existing higher education methods. In particular, training in geometry of the future teachers of mathematics is impossible without the computer technologies advantages usage, the ready teaching programs usage. In the period from 2008 to 2013, authors carried out monitoring of level of knowledge of geometry of the first-year studen...

Today, smart phones represent one of the most modern tools used in business, especially in the relationship with customers. In many situations, the learning environment is included in a business environment. Starting from this idea, we consider that mobile application development has to become a habit in educational activities. In this paper we emphasize the importance of mobile apps in distance learning. If we have a business on learning, besides the use of websites, we can improve our relationship with the learn...

Higher education is an extremely fast growing service industry and it is exposed to the globalization processes every day more and more. Highly educated population have been thought as a key comparative advantage of the region in receiving long-term economic benefits through the knowledge effect, refferring to the knowledge production and technology transfer function of universities. Main purpose of this paper is to investigate has the perceptions of the main stakeholders of educational process, academic (teaching...

Now in the Russian and the world community the increased interest to the lie phenomenon is felt. It is confirmed by the number of scientific publications, popular books, the success of the television series "Lie to Me", and the discussion of this topic on the Internet. The twenty-first century is the information age, and its broadcasting holds the possibility of its distortion. In this regard the development of the protection mechanisms against the information distortion becomes more actual, both at intergroup, an...

The article is devoted to theoretical and empirical studying of a problem of a normative (humanistic) orientation of the identity of students and experts of helping professions. It contains data on degree of expressiveness of an altruistic orientation at teachers and students of a pedagogical profile also. It is revealed that high expressiveness of altruistic motives is characteristic for smaller number of future teachers (students) in comparison with acting teachers. It, in turn, confirms importance of creation o...

The increased interest in the religious fact and, consequently, in spirituality, has gradually led to a milder reserve regarding their introduction in the study of man’s “psychical” health from the perspective of psychology. Man is neither just a body nor just a soul, but a soul and a body at the same time, having bodily, psychic (related to the soul) and spiritual needs, which gives him a threefold dimension: somatic, psychic (of the soul) and spiritual. Therefore, man lives psychological states, yet his spiritua...

Background: In the article the process of forming holistic world outlook in education space of modern university through the synthesis of both cultures: scientific and humanitarian. Methods: The authors focus on the evolutionary-synergetic approach where transdisciplinary links, relations and interactions are integrated. The differences between disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary education structures are denoted. Results: The function of interdisciplinary synthesis in overwhelming cultures aliena...

This study focuses on the Task-Technology Fit model (TTF) of Goodhue and Thomson that analyzes the match between user task needs and the available functionality of the IT in workplace. Our research wants to study if a good Task-Technology Fit improves the employee’s job satisfaction and IT use. Moreover our model suggests two new different antecedents of TTF: the perceived reliability of the IT and organizational collective efficacy. A sample of 505 Italian workers filled out a questionnaire. Partial least squares...

This article deals with the term "transdisciplinarity" and its types; with the prospects and some advantages of the transdisciplinary approach in the higher school educational process. According to the concept of activity training the model of the future expert impacts on the appropriate model of his/her training. Presented as the system of professional problems, tasks and functions, the complete content of professional work is expressed in a system of educational problems, tasks and situations coming more closely...

The article is devoted to the requirements to information competence of future Russian teachers of the humanities. Today, the Russian Federation is going through the process of reforming of the higher education. The Federal state educational standard of higher education is built on the base of competence approach. There is a problem of definition of information competence which will be necessary for future teachers. This article sets out to give a general overview of such requirements. The future humanities teache...

The paper describes the lexicographic system developed under cooperative project of the Mathematical Linguistics Department of Saint Saint-Petersburg State University, Institute for Linguistic Studies of the R ussian Academy of Sciences, and Saint Saint-Petersburg Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO UniversityUniversity). The various possibilities of developed software are described, such as text storage, the parameterized search systemsystem, integration with external elect...

In our daily ophthalmological practice we often met psycho-emotional traits in our patients, associated by experience with glaucoma. This led us to assess the glaucoma patient’s behavior and personality compared to non-glaucomatous patients using a psychological personality psychometric instrument. The trial was performed on 80 glaucoma patients and 80 non-glaucomatous patients. We used the psychometric instrument NEO PI-R (The Revised Personality Inventory) to assess the personality profile in both groups. Glauco...

This article is theoretically-professional studies dealing with the issue of school experimental work and its prospects in the context of the modern methods of teaching. The article discusses creating a complex educational environment in the constructivist concepts, such as the environment, which affects the fundamental level of competence of educator and makes his professional prowess.

Modern society requires specialists ready to develop and implement innovative, unconventional ideas, but the problem is the complexity of e-learning developmental plan. There are several perspective solutions in terms of e learning. The authors self-reflective technology (self-examination development) was substantiated as a set of methods, tools and techniques that intensify the process of self-discovery and self-development in a media environment. Main features and structural composition of modular multimedia com...

Decision making competencies belong to a broad group of general competencies. Relationships between decision making competencies and maximization tendency were investigated in a sample of 118 high school students. The Adult Decision-Making Competence was used to assess six decision making competencies and Maximization Scale to inspect maximization tendency and its three components. Multiple linear regression was used to predict maximization tendency. The entire model was found to be significant and almost all corr...

Space exploration and mapping and communication are crucial abilities of mobile robots for the intelligent autonomous systems. Space monitoring and correct results representing requires understanding communication method. The best form to represent the results form research simulations is the 3D visualization. The paper describes the communication form between pupil - robots and virtual pupil and developed tool for generation and communication art of warning messages by using the virtual speaking head.