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Introduction.Lifestyle marks in a specific manner the health and disease through health-risk behaviors, that kind of prosanogene behaviors that it shows up. Risk behaviors can be avoided or at least reduced, and the prosanogene behaviors can be learned and assumed.We intend to have a complete and concrete image on lifestyle components of the University of BucharestВґs students and identify and quantify the risk factors for health; Research methods used in this study were: scientific documentation; Survey method: T...

Aim of study: The main aims of our work were to ascertain the degree of requirements of food and fluid intake as well as the amounts of fluids and food currently served to women during labour. We focused also on the reasons for restrictions in fluid and food intake per os, occurrence of nausea and vomiting following oral intake, as well as the women's foreknowledge about fluid and food intake during labour. Materials and Methods: The respondents were represented by 100 women during the postpartum period, after spo...

Chemical companies can be considered as ones of the most important companies affecting changes in climatic conditions and other environmental elements, and they also show strong impacts on the society in the social context. The growing interest of the important stakeholders in the problems of social impacts of the produced items, have brought a lot of important questions concerning the rate of influence of the produced items on the environment and society. Social impacts assessment methods of chemical companies on...

The article focuses on spiritual communities, and on possible implications for community social work. Czech society is characterized by low level of social capital, and high level of secularization. Community social work on the other hand works with tightly knit groups. For this reason we focused on spiritual groups as a means to create some level of community. Our inquiry focuses on meditation groups based on the principles of so called Christian meditation, in particular the form developed by John Main and furth...

This paper is focused on a new way of stimulating the elderly people. The authors focused on the use of Entertaining Exercises for Developing Reading Skills to stimulate the eye movements, phonemic perception and short-term memory in a group of elderly clients. This Exercises has been created on the base of Eye Movements Test – T 256. [8]. The text obtains a short explanation of Eye Movements Test which was the basis of these Exercises. Based on an investigation it was found that these Exercises are not only sui...

Organization of collective solutions to social and environmental problems of the urban environment requires the active use of technology for the purpose of crowdsourcing. The latter in turn is possible with certain active life position of citizens. The study showed low desires residents to participate in solving social and environmental problems that narrows the social base of the introduction of social and environmental technologies and crowdsourcing requires organization PR activation procedure populations.

Leadership is a fundamental function of management. It can be depicted as a system of influencing people so that their activities contribute to the achievement of organizations goals. Leadership is also the ability to persuade colleagues to achieve the goals of an organization; therefore leadership is a part of manager workload. Motivational approaches aimed to the fulfillment of tasks can be described as one of the priority areas of manager's work. The aim of the submitted paper is to analyze the selected issues ...

Introduction: Preoccupations for oro-dental health are a constant practice of the Romanian healthcare system, as oral diseases are getting higher prevalence and alter the individual's quality of life. The potential technical difficulties found in fixed partial denture technology are a reality, being a fact of observation, not a pretext for theoretical discussions. Their occurrence is always a particularly difficult moment, being mostly noticeable by their detection rather than by the impossibility to remedy them. ...

Health care system is conventionally regarded as an important determinant in promoting the general physical and mental health and contributes to the ultimate goal of societal well-being. Is health care system ready to meet every person's needs considering age and different traumatic experience? Several aspects of psychological well-being, such as level of happiness, hope, good everyday feeling, etc., subjective attitude towards own life and traumatic experiences were assessed in the study. The participants indicat...

These current paper analyses the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility in relation to Human Resource (HR) management in the Czech Republic. Corporate culture and its capabilities become resources for the competitive advantage and employee perceptions of CSR activities play an important role in employee attachment to their company as well as corporate performance. Therefore, this paper examines the CSR activities of social pillar and their actual use among companies involved in research in perspective that emp...

The deepening of the economic crisis, the alarming increase in unemployment and the continuous degradation of the living standard have affected the Romanian society in general, but especially the vulnerable categories of population, among which the Roma ethnic group. In spite of the restrictions regarding the access on the labour market in the E.U., the Roma families have initiated real survival strategies, and the emigration to the developed countries of the European Union represented, in the majority of the case...

In recent decades attention has become a scarce resource not only in politics and economics, but also in the social sphere. Problematization may be considered a way of attracting attention to negative circumstances and situations. The list of current social problems is not determined by their scale and impact, but by their attractiveness to different public groups. In this regard, the theory of social problems focusing on the rhetoric of statements (claims-making activity) is of particular relevance. Based on soci...

Among the drug classes recently introduced into therapy in the second half of the 20th century, drugs with depressant action on the central nervous system are indisputably in the lead. Given the changes occurring in the daily lifestyle, as well as the stressful daily challenges and their impact on the functionality of the CNS, research and trials aimed towards combating nervous tension have led to the emergence of a drug class currently called anxiolytics. A major success in this regard was achieved by the introdu...

This paper analyzes reproduction of discrimination in visual communication through the investigation into discourse on lookism in contemporary Russian children's animation (2000-2014). The lookism is considered to be a form of discrimination on the grounds of appearance, which can be produced by film or cartoon with help of transmitting discrimination situations as well as stereotypes and myths regarding peoples' appearance. Using methods of discourse analysis and semiotics, we study visual and verbal films' disco...

The Internet audience is increasing every year, and the age group of the elderly people also increases very constantly. But the elderly is a specific audience with specific requirements for the usability and content of Internet web-sites. Web-interface is the main communication channel between the person and the system. The concept of the user interface includes not only the picture which the user see at a screen, but also the ways of user interaction with the system. Each new program or web-site can have its own ...

Aim: To investigate the potential systemic risk factors for periodontal disease in a population from Constanta, Romania. Method: A cross-sectional sample consisting of 740 dentate adults 18-85 years of age (mean 39,9В±17,89) were selected from patients attending dental clinics of Constanta Faculty between 2012-2013. The charts of patients were examined to determine patient's self-reported systemic condition: diabetes, cardiovascular pathology. In addition, periodontal probing depth (PPD) and bleeding on probing (B...

The focus of this article is to discuss and analyze the therapeutic principles and ethical dilemmas that might be encountered in our medical practice during cerebral palsy (CP) rehabilitation. Because of the complex nature of cerebral palsy, health care can be a context in which the persons with cerebral palsy are confronted with important ethical and social challenges. Child's family, life environment and health care professionals are the specific external factors with direct implications in case management. To a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The present study sought to replicate on a sample of 194 Romanian first-year students, the results obtained in the mid-1970s and late 1980s by David Hamilton and Robert Gifford, regarding the role of cognitive factors in stereotyping, namely the people's propensity to build negative impressions of minorities based on false associations (the illusory correlation effect). The method implied presenting the participants with a number of statements about each member of two imaginary groups (Group A - the majority group...

This paper focuses on the specific features of the communication of children in the Internet communication platforms (especially social networks), in situations where the child communicates with an unknown Internet aggressor. The paper describes the forms of communication in the various stages of an attack - from the initiation phase (in which the attacker makes contact with the child and seeks to gain his/her confidence), through manipulation stage (in which the attacker affects the opinions and attitudes of the ...

Subordinated to the key question "what is (are) the main problem(s) and/or concern(s) of homeless people?" this study aimed at the generation of a theoretical model, explanatory of the different processes that embody diverse trajectories, since its emergence to successful exit. Entitled surviving the streets, the generated GT emerged from the analysis of information gathered through complementary observation approaches (e.g., unstructured observation, observation of street interventions), and 96 interviews [homele...

College is considered to be an important phase in the life of people. The obtained academic outcomes may impact the future of individuals in many areas. In our correlational study we analyze the role of intrinsic motivation (interest/enjoyment), self - regulation skills and contextual characteristics (stressful events, having a job, etc.) on the academic achievement of 150 minority undergraduate students from Transylvania. We have explored the above characteristics considering objective academic outcomes, starting...

Associative thinking is a key aspect for designers in the phases of their creative work. This type of thinking is based among others on analogical and metaphorical reasoning and reasoning by visual posters. Visual analogy and visual thinking play an important role in the field of design. They are often assisted and guided by visual stimuli. Our main goal was to conduct a global quantitative meta- analysis regarding the relation between analogical reasoning and creativity. The scientific literature was explored and...

Many scientific articles concluded that analogical reasoning can influence creativity in different ways. Some of them claimed that this way of thinking can induce fixation which in turn has a negative influence on the generation of creative ideas. Furthermore, other studies considered analogical reasoning as a key factor of creative thinking. Based on these results we have focused on the relationship between analogical reasoning and creativity. Our main purpose was to investigate figural analogical thinking and cr...

The article presents the study of interrelation between the level of development of communicative competence (through some of its components) and sociometric status in psychology-students. Also the model of communicative competence as predictor of student's sociometric status in an educational group is described. Four characteristics have been included in the model: general index of communicative tolerance, such component of tolerance as inability to forgive, or rancor, the total index of communicative competence ...

Introduction. European models as practiced in most countries in the European area of higher education are based on the educational process and the results of university graduates. The main purpose of the research is to highlight the effectiveness of motivational strategies on student participation in physical education classes at the University of Bucharest. This approach aimed at identify the effects achieved by the training programs and operational structures proposed in the research, specifically targeting the ...

Introduction: Oral health is primarily linked to an individual's overall health, self-esteem. Currently, dental medicine has to consider the diversity of the dental restorative materials. The extent to which they provide opportunities for the mechanical aesthetic, phonetic and biological imperatives is subordinated in their qualities. The emergence of the modern ceramic materials, adhesive methods, and new technologies has increased the interest for all ceramic systems in dentistry. A facilitating technological en...

Background: Personality predispositions play an important role in coping with stress, and therefore can be perceived as an important component in the prevention of burnout in the helping professions. Aim of this study was to examine relationships between risk and protective personal characteristics and burnout syndrome among helping professionals. In this context, social support is discussed in terms of protective effect against burnout. On the other hand, Type-D personality is considered as negative factor with r...

Festivities, national and public holidays have to be regarded as the antithesis of everyday life, they may be considered a universal phenomenon of culture and human existence. The growing interest in the festivity phenomenon is directly linked with the extensive changes occurring in the culture of the last three decades. During a transition period in human life and society when social structures grow weaker or are transforming, festivities carry a special functional load. By reflecting the changes in social landma...

Ideas of nonlinear dynamics are widely used in various fields of human knowledge. The study of nonlinear phenomena shows that they reflect the real dimension of fractals and chaos. In this paper we consider some nonlinear mapping: fractal curve van der Varden modified conversion Baker and building of Julia sets by examining the graphical representation of the attractors of a rational map and developed algorithms to detect singularity Yang-Lee.