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The paper is devoted to the problem of studying the personal representations about safety as a component of worldview and a person’s activity regulator. The research purpose is to develop and verify a questionnaire that would be able to detect a person’s representations about safety. The study includes different methods of analyzing data: theoretical analysis, content-analysis, interview, testing, correlation analysis and factor analysis. Two hundred and four subjects, aged from 18 to 25, participated in the study...

The market segmentation tool is an additional methodology during the in-store field studies with psycho-physiological parameters. During the in-store measurements, it is frequently necessary to segment and profile participants. This methodology is based on the Limbic Type® system that performs segmentation according to the motivations of purchase decisions. Paper based questionnaire and the participants’ verbal feedback were used for the scales pilot testing (n=80). The final scales constructions were tested with ...

Lifelong learning has been advocated for the following three reasonreasons: 1. to acquir e new knowledge and technology 2. to mak e life rich 3 . to reconnect with the communitycommunity. Lifelong music learning is useful particularly in making life rich, and reconnecting with the community. I selected Yokohama, as an example of one city that is providing lifelong learning opportunities. I plan to research and report in detail the various aims, rules and activities that pertain to Yokohama. By doing this research,...

The report presents the results of a research aimed at identification of common dimensions of cognitive distortions. The research sample consisted of 336 respondents. Occurence of cognitive distortions was ob served with the help of 10 categories based on Becks Cognitive Theory [ 1]. Cognitive distortions were identified by means of daily records containing 10 pages per diary. The factor analysis generated four factors of cognitive distortions (selectiveelective-extrem e thinking thinking, personalizationersonaliz...

This paper draws on our work as an ESP teacher with the 2nd year students from The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania and its branch in Bal?i, The Republic of Moldova. Since one of the topics discussed during the English seminars is corporate social responsibility, we will present our students’ perception of the matter based on the activities and exercises that were chosen to develop their active/ productive (speaking and writing) and passive/ recept...

The paper proves the necessity for continuing education course “Scientific Speech” for PhD students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty members. The objectives and principles of the course are presented in the paper. Much emphasis is given to the course modules and their content. The methodological substantiation of the course with thorough description of the aims of each module is given: The proposed course is based on the author’s teaching aids and long-term experience of teaching the course “Scientific Speech” t...

The article presents the possible impact of populism on the two basic dimensions of education: moral education and religious education. The current society is characterized by a decline in moral and religious values on the personality formation of the trainee and on the metaphysical- religious conception of the world and man. This phenomenon causes a vulnerability of the educational system and the Church to the aggressiveness of the manifestations of the populist phenomenon, a phenomenon on the rise in Eastern Eur...

The year 2011 represents a major milestone in the history of the Romanian education mainly due to the appearance of the new law on education no. 1/2011. From the following educational year a new generation of pupils has started their studies in the school: the preparatory class or so called “zero grade” was introduced by the new law. The context represented a challenge for every actor in the field: from the minister’s stuff and local representative personnel to the teachers and parents. The present paper offers an...

The purpose of this paper is to provide some insights about entrepreneurship education in Russia and to explore Russian student’s entrepreneurial intentions. Understanding Russian youth’s attitude towards entrepreneurship and factors hindering young people from creating their own business are highlighted. The study is based on data collected in Sverdlovsk region (one of the regions of Russia). The research is based on information received during a survey of 347 people from Sverdlovsk region and 1164 students from ...

The results of empirical investigation of the specific features of children and adults’ behavior in the situations of physical and psychical strain are presented in the article. The phenomenon of steady transfer of the complicated situations by the personality is connected with the pattern of self-restriction. It is shown that self-restriction is a way to overcome internal personal conflict within the trichoyomy of “I want – I cannot – I need to”. This pattern is mastered by the children and adolescents when they ...

Prostitution is a subject that raises an intense debate in all the societies. Nowadays, the discussion exists as to whether it is work like any other or exploitation of women. In this sense, we can find a discourse that considers it as a free activity between adults and so defends its existence and another view that considers prostitution one of the patriarchal practices that has to disappear before achieving equality. The debate is polarized and intense in the academic and activist scene, but little is known abou...

Children and adolescents with HIV are prone to neurological and psychological problems, not only due to the drugs they take, but also because of stigma, prejudice and discrimination that this disease frequently involves (New, Lee, & Elliot, 2007). Studies show that they present more behavioural and learning problems and reveal attention deficit (Armstrong et al., 1993; Brouwers et al., 1998). The main goal of this study was to assess emotional and behavioural problems of children and adolescents infected with HIV,...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the relationship between attitudes toward the tax system, the financial risk propensity and tax morality among entrepreneurs and employees. According to the results of the previous studies, positive tax attitude, manifesting in e.g. the belief that the long-term tax benefits are proportionate to the tax burden, has a positive effect on tax paying. However, it can be assumed that the propensity to take risk in the financial area, in particular the stimulating risk (taken no...

Kosovo, facing sustainability challenges that are challenging the global ecosystem, is moving towards broader inclusion of the education for sustainable development in its curriculum. This approach followed intensive curricular developments in the post-war Kosovo, especially in the new national curriculum adopted in 2011, a competency based curriculum and with many innovation in the educational system. This paper has been prepared by analyzing and comparing the inclusion of education for sustainable development in...

The aim of this article is to give a theoretical overview of the problem dealing with manager?s personality, personal characteristics, personal and work burden and, last but not least, coping with difficult situations and burden in management. Among partial aims of this article include the specification of chosen features of manager role and evaluation of alternative solutions to stress situations. The present study introduces our own research, experimental evaluation of working hypothesis, evaluation of research ...

Adolescence is a period of vulnerability for risk behaviours such as substance use or unprotected sexual activities that pose significant threats to the health and wellbeing. A nationally representative sample of 3,524 high school seniors was included in our study. A self-administered online questionnaire assessed the health-related risk behaviours such as substance use, sexual behaviours and suicidal history. Overall results indicated that risk behaviours prevalence was higher among Romanian adolescents compared ...

The myth of emotional dependence in victims of gender-based violence women is explored in this paper in a sample of Psychology undergraduates. The dependent personality diagnostic criteria of DSM-IV are taken as reference, such as is formulated by the IPDE (International Personality Diagnostic Examination). Identifying these beliefs, patriarchal and socially constructed shared in future professionals of psychology, we will outline the need for specialized gender training for appropriate intervention for this probl...

The objective of this work is to contribute to validation of the Meyer and Allen Commitment Questionnaire for the call centre population in Portugal. According to the authors, organizational commitment is a psychological state, a mindset, a dependent variable that explains the link between individual and organization. Eighteen hundred employees (32.1% male; 56.9% female; M = 31.12 years, DP = 8.91) answered the Affective and Continuance scales of the tool. We carried out exploratory factor analysis with 30% of tea...

Prevention and eradication of corruption which becomes increasingly complex requires a multidiscipline approach; one of which is a psychological approach. It is often debated whether salary and family situation, as well as the way individuals place themselves in the relational context between self and others, influence individuals’ moral emotions (corruption tendency). This research aimed to address that question by using a quantitative, predictive correlational design. Participants of this study were 308 civil se...

The paper presents the criteria for assessing primary scientific genres written by master’s students. The criteria and scoring developed in accordance with students’ needs, curricular goals, level of EFL students’ proficiency and genre variety are adapted to the scale of assessment used at Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia. The notions of primary scientific genre and subgenre are defined. The model of primary scientific genres are proposed.

Article is devoted to a problem of formation of independence to the teens which are in a situation of family trouble. The purpose of research ? to identify characteristics of independence of teenagers from dysfunctional families in comparison with adolescents from healthy families. Methods are used in research: the theoretical analysis of a problem of development of the identity of the child in dysfunctional family, poll, testing, conversation, the ?*-test. In this paper analyzed the importance of family in the fo...

A swift acceleration of global processes nowadays, intensification of new tendencies in world development call for setting new priorities in dynamically changing world. Providing security is a fundamental priority of international safety. So, all efforts must be concentrated on achieving the following basic aims: - Providing national safety, keeping and strengthening sovereignty and territorial integrity. - Building favorable conditions for steady and dynamic growth, raising the standard of life. - Consolidating w...

Background: For cancer patients, all aspects of life are influenced negatively. Several factors associated with QOL dimensions, such as age, fatigue, depression, anxiety, perceived social support have been identified. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine demographic and psychosocial factors (anxiety, depression, social support, mastery) and their influence on the quality of life (QOL) among gynaecologic cancer patients. Methods: 211 gynaecologic cancer patients (cervix, endometrium – 115; breasts –...

The effort to know and minutely analyze the neuropsychological developmentin children must accompany any educational intervention, because child’s stimulation towards the specific evolving trends will lead to the early emergence of its positive effects, while an intervention that doesn’t comply with the developmental laws and trends may be considered by the psychic system as a perturbing factor. Due to its extension to other scientific fields, too, sports psychology has constantly passed through major developments...

The initial training for teaching in Romania is provided during university studies for those students who are attending an optional psycho-pedagogical module, including the teaching practice as an important discipline. Through this article we want to demonstrate that teaching practice is the discipline that mostly provides the training for the students` teaching skills. The research methodology used for this survey is based on analysis of work products, including lesson plans and the apprentice students` essays ab...

The aim of this research is to verify if the Organizational Cooperation Questionnaire [1] fits the previous factorial structure when applied to a large sample of call centre operators. Cooperation has been considered a key-concept for organizational effectiveness. This importance is valid in different industries and levels of organizational functioning. Eighteen hundred employees in Call Centres (32.2% male; 56.7% female; M = 31.06 years, DP = 8.82) answered the Organizational Cooperation Questionnaire. We perform...

Motivation of addicted clients is perceived as a part of the “essential treatment-related perceptions” complex. The level of motivation when entering treatment significantly influences the duration of treatment and its outcome. Therefore, motivation is very important and the knowledge of particular components essentially influences possible interventions and maintenance of abstinence of an addicted person. We also suppose that it can be a predictor of premature dropout. One of cited components is external motivati...

People strongly prefer options with exact probabilities of outcomes to those with uncertain probabilities, expressing ambiguity aversion. Its manifestations are reflected in various domains of real-life decisions, particularly among monetary choices. Recent research suggests amplification of ambiguity avoidance under social influence, however with several methodological limitations. Therefore, we tested the effects of accountability and responsibility on aversion towards ambiguity in two between-subject experiment...

Since 2010, ethical education has been included in the official Framework Education Programme for Elementary Education in the Czech Republic as a cross-curricular subject. Currently, there are no certified teachers of ethical education, though there is a high demand for them at Czech schools. The number of lecturers who specialize in ethical education should increase soon, as in 2012 the University of Hradec Kralove introduced ethical education as a subject of study within the Specialization in Pedagogy programme....

The first part of the article reviews researches conducted at psychiatric hospital Kromeriz at the department for neurotics in the first psychotherapy community for persons with neurosis in Czech Republic. Therapists of two departments of this hospital conducted dramatherapy sessions and followed these researches by their own study focused on evaluation of dramatherapy process. The article presents the results of the investigation of validity of the evaluation rating used in this hospital during dramatherapy sessi...

Russia’s ingress into global teaching environment calls for innovative methods in syllabi design. Many of them tend to fuse the knowledge acquired in the process of specific studies. Thus, one of the new challenges is an interdisciplinary approach to higher school learning in general and to ELT in particular. An innovative method of foreign language competence formation in the field of professional communication, worked out for teaching ESP students is discussed in the article. This method produced by us presuppos...

In the period of globalization, the question of effective communication between people of different nations is essential to ensure that all parties emerge with the same understanding. Without the right approach, cultural differences can greatly affect governments, businesses, organisations and individuals. Intercultural communication is no longer an option, but a necessity; therefore there is a need to integrate intercultural communication in the university programmes and to give students the opportunity to develo...

Human society is characterized by upbringing, education, organization? of work and life as a basic human activity from the very beginning and throughout its future development. We must be honest and reasonable that education, training and organization de facto benchmark for the existence of society as a whole, and each individual human individual, and we are free to conclude that their absence means dysfunctional society. They are aware of the actions of every individual - a person, but in the community as a whole...

Lie detection through nonverbal behavior is not a standard m ethod, but it is intuitive process, applied by lay persons and professionals. In our research we are interested in the ability of different professional groups to detect lie this way. As a part of this research we also follow certain characteristics that m ight differentiate between more and less successful persons. We focus on different cues they follow in their decision making process and certain stereotypes they might use during their decision. In ano...

The article address research focused on differences of the social support extent, which is considered a protective factor dependent on the scope of cyberbullying in adolescent groups. In particular, it concerns the social support provided by parents, friends, schoolmates, and teachers. The research has been realized in year 2014 on the sample consisting of 200 adolescent students of Slovak universities (68 man 132 women) by means of the Questionnaire of social support for children and adolescents (2002). The quest...

In the article authors confirm and prove the suitability of using videoconference system in the education. Based on the obtained results the authors state that teachers have a tendency to use the information and communication systems in teaching and they also show an interest in education focused on multimedia technologies, especially videoconference systems. Based on the research conclusions, an opinion regarding suitability of videoconference systems in education as the alternative for pedagogical practice of st...

Higher education of the 21st century is aimed at getting students prepared for living and working in a changing global environment as responsible citizens, creative persons and efficient professionals possessing both general and special competencies. In Russian Federation the structure and content of professional competences is determined by state standards for each industry serving as benchmarks for creating study programmes and specified in descriptors as expected learning outcomes. Communicative competence deve...

The main aim of this article is to aquaint the readers with the history of women in Wladyslaw Heinrich’s laboratory of experimental psychology at the Jagiellonian University. I will present historical background and women education and their activity at the Jagiellonian University and I and also a bried description of the founder of the Laboratory, Wladyslaw Heinrich. In the end of the XIX century Galician universities started to solve a problem of the higher education for women. After several years of researches ...

Cognitive impairment and dementia are the problems of great importance in neurology, psychology, neuropsychology, psychiatry and clinical linguistics. Causes for cognitive impairment and dementia are various: Alzheimer’s disease, vascular diseases (Binswanger’s disease, CADASIL – Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy, etc.), dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal degeneration, Huntingtons disease, Creutzfeldt’s – Jakob’s disease, multiple sclerosis, diabetes,...

In this paper we discuss the relationship of motivation and faculty members’ willingness to innovate. Our main contention is that willingness to innovate determined by the type of employee motivation. Each type of motivation corresponds to a type of willingness to innovate.

The purpose of this study is to accentuate the problems of describing pain by neurological bilingual patients according to the McGill Pain Questionnaire, which is used all over the world to measure and evaluate pain in neurology, anesthetics and clinical linguistic studies, to prove the necessity to translate, create and validate other questionnaires which could help to reveal the origin of pain. Our article also contains additional descriptions of pain that are not connected with the MPQ or other questionnaires, ...

Topic: A study of current literature focusing on modern ways of remedying visual perception loss from the perspective of a special education teacher. In recent years, the number of new devices that use individual parts implanted in the eyes or brain of a human with a visual impairment and which restore visual perception has been rapidly increasing. These people then need comprehensive rehabilitation to know how to use these devices properly and follow the principles of working with them. With the change of clients...

Background: The health care sector is a major employer. Great attention will be paid to health care professionals as a result of the increasing demand for health care due to an aging population. The nursing profession forms the majority amongst medical staff. It is a profession involving both physical and mental demands. The research focuses on the rate of burnout syndrome, motivation factors of Herzberg’s two-factor motivation theory and their mutual relationship amongst general nurses working at the General Univ...

The present paper offers the results of the linguistic research dealing with the theory and practice of lexico-semantic fields interconnected with mathematical (matrix, set and weight) theories. Matrix of the observed lexico-semantic field represents semantics of the synonymic row of the noun happiness in a formalized way and with its help all the semantic interconnections between all the members of the lexical stock under study can be studied and noted down in a transparent way. Matrix analysis has its irreplacea...

TSKBM vigilance control system is designed to maintain locomotive drivers wakeful during work shift. The aim of our study was to assess the effectiveness of this system by simulating work conditions at night. The simulation was performed on 30 participant train drivers in a specialized training complex "Drivers compartment of EP1M locomotive”, which allowed to register operation errors; continuous video recording and electroencephalography were used as additional control. At the end of a simulated trip, participan...

The aim of study was to find predictors of psychological critical thinking in university students. We have hypothesed that the main factors which could predict the level of critical psychological thinking will be cognitive competence, scientific thinking, learning approach, and academic achievement. As methods of data gathering were used the self-referencing techniques (Lawson’s test of psychological critical thinking, Magno’s scientific thinking inventory, Approaches to Studying Inventory developed by Tait, Entwi...

The linear assumption among globalization, international competitiveness, human capital and higher education makes many countries to undertake the expansion of higher education. However, this mission is mainly reliant upon the private sector because neo-liberalism, a core philosophy of globalization, has become a predominant ideology viewing a free market as the best model to improve efficiency and ensure service quality. Its advocates argue that public services cannot meet the diversified needs of people and the ...

Our paper aims at the analysis of the rapport between reading and interpretation for high-school teaching. It also involves the description of the interpreting mechanisms which affect the quality of the reading process and disturb the relationship between reader and text, instead of enabling a thorough understanding of the literary work. The aspects we will take into account are the following: a. the projection of a certain image of the author, b. the reading stereotypes and the standard interpretative frames, c. ...

The aim of this paper was to describe the possible relationships between internet addictive behaviour, daily time of using the social networks and some variables about users (age, sense of real time, self-confidence in virtual environment and boredom susceptibility). The sample, comprising 306 slovak university students (102 males, 204 females), was divided into three age-groups (18-20 years, 21-23 years, 24 and more). The respondents were administered the questionnaire, consists of 20-item Internet Addiction Test...

The paper describes selected results of a longitudinal research study focusing on the changes in the attitudes of the students of the Faculty of Education, Palacky University, Olomouc (referred to as FE PU) to a wider educational reality. The research study was performed on a sample of 809 respondents. The respondents were students of the same fields of study in two consecutive stages in 2006/2007 (grade 1) and 2009/2010/2011/2012 (final grades). The aim of the first research stage was, using a simplified standard...