Šizoidin mokytoj situacija: pavojus tapatybei ir k rybiškumo prielaida

Author(s): Lilija Duoblienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 38/2017

In this article, the situation of a teacher and his function in contemporary society is analyzed. From the one side, a teacher’s work is strictly regulated and unificated in accordance with global and local standards, and it is closely defined in written documents; from the other side, a teacher is expected to be creative and able to think and work in an innovative manner. That contradiction creates a schizoid situation. In this article, we are trying to provide answers to what position should a teacher take in such a situation. First of all, we chose some of the concepts created by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari – those of Schizoanalysis, becoming, in-between, affects, artisan, rhizome, nomad – for the analysis of teacher work in these specific conditions. Having in mind these concepts, we analyze some empirical data regarding the condition of teachers at school in different countries (including Lithuania); after that, we analyze the ideas of philosophers of education, such as Inna Semetsky, Jasson Wallin and P. Taylor Webb, on how teachers think and behave in such schizoid situations. Finally, we summarize the analysis and suggest some insights in a short subchapter instead of drawing strict conclusions. Using Deleuzeoguattarian concepts in the overview of empirical data, we found out how these concepts effectively work in real school life. Some of the teachers and some of the schools find in-between ways to live in such a situation, having two or even more faces, employed in a permanent situation of becoming, used for teaching affects, nomadic moves and rhizomatic expansion. With the help of Semetsky, Wallin, Webb and other Deleuzeoguattarian interpreters we described the new, uncertain identity of the teacher, his new function to navigate between chaos and cosmos, to be in-between, to work as a teacher-artisan or mediator, to create networks from heterogenous characters in the classroom and to use schizoid conditions for creativity. Moreover, by relying on posthumanists, we suggest taking into account the increased need for responsibility that the teacher must assume.

Predikcija intenziteta i namere traženja posla na uzorku nezaposlenih

Author(s): Zorica Marić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2005

In this study Ajzen' theory (1991) of planned behavior was used to predict job - seek intention and behavior among unemployed people (N = 650). In addition to theory of planned behavior variables (job - seek attitude, subjective norm, self - efficacy and controllability of job seek process) we used several other psychological (financial pressure, self - mastery, self - esteem and depression) and demographic (gender, age, education, marriage and lent of unemployment) variables to build a model of predictors for both criterium variables. Financial pressure, intention to seek employment, job seek - self - efficacy, job - seek controllability, marriage and job - seek attitude predicted job - seeking behavior, while attitude toward job - seeking, subjective norm, job - seek self - efficacy and financial pressure predicted job seek - intention. Results are discussed in light of theory of planned behavior, current research of job - seeking behavior and recommendations are made for practice.

Professional Honor in the Pedagogical Activity of the Future Teacher

Author(s): Maria Ivanchuk,Oksana Kostashchuk,Nataliia Machynska,Maria Oliynyk / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The state of development of the problem of education of professional honor in the future teachers is revealed on the basis of generalization of philosophical, psychological and pedagogical literature. The essence and content of the key concepts of the research are defined as follows: "honor", "professional honor", "professional honor of the teacher". The professional honor of the teacher is defined as an integral personal-professional quality, which manifests itself in the process of fulfilling professional duties, defines a decent behavior in relation to subjects of pedagogical interaction and recognizes the child as the highest value, and also undergoes public assessment and recognition. It is proved that the process of educating the professional honor of the teacher will contribute to the creation of a "new model teacher", as well as raise the prestige, social status of this profession in our society. The substantive-component analysis of the investigated concept was carried out, which made it possible to identify and map out the leading functions of the teacher's professional honor. Among them: the content-forming, normative-regulatory, integrating and incentive functions. The structure of the teacher's professional honor defines the cognitive (knowledge and understanding of moral qualities of the individual), emotional-value (the ability to know and accept others, the ability to self-esteem) and activity-behavioral components (moral and ethical responsibility and responsible attitude to the performance of professional duties), which allow a deeper understanding of the content of the studied definition.

Schimb de idei şi noi întrebări privind evoluţia psihologiei şi a educaţiei

Author(s): Andreea-Luciana Urzică / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 44/2019

Barbara L. Fredrickson, Puterea emoţiilor pozitive. Cum să depăşeşti negativismul şi să devii mai optimist, Bucureşti, Editura Litera, 2019

Author(s): Septimiu Chelcea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 44/2019

Henry P. Rammelt, Activistes protestataires en Hongrie et en Roumanie, L’Harmatan, Paris, 2018

Author(s): Ovidiu Gherasim-Proca / Language(s): English Issue: 44/2019

Psychometric properties of the Bangla version of multidimensional scale of perceived social support

Author(s): Md. Nurul Islam / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2021

The Bangla version of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS–B) is a popular psychological assessment tool in Bangladesh. It has largely been used to measure perceived social support of Bangladeshi people. In spite of its popularity, it had not gone through an extensive validation procedure yet. Even its psychometric properties were not tested before, except for the test-retest reliability. This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of MSPSS–B through a questionnaire survey among 812adult Bangladeshi people. The MSPSS–B revealed a three-factor structure through exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on the first split sample (n = 403), explaining 71.64% of the total variance. Acceptable goodness of fit indices (χ2/df = 4.293, p = .000, GFI = .920, CFI = .926, TLI = .904, SRMR = .063, and RMSEA = .078) in the MSPSS–B were obtained through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) on the second split sample (n = 409). The three-factor structure of the MSPSS-B was the same as the original English MSPSS. Acceptable internal item consistencies, significant test-retest reliabilities, reliabilities between two scale versions, convergent and discriminant validities, and measurement invariance between two gender groups were also established in the MSPSS-B through different statistical analyses. Thus, the MSPSS–B with its three factors can be used as a valid and reliable measure to assess the perceived social support of Bangladeshi people.

“Over-saturated” constructionist Kenneth Gergen and his offer tendered to (cultural) psychologists

Author(s): Andrzej Pankalla,Krzysztof Bakalarz ,Robert Bezdziecki / Language(s): English Issue: Special/2021

The text is focused on a non-precisely known, or at least not widespread and fully accepted among psychologists, theory of a very well known (and controversial) researcher, Kenneth Gergen. It deals with his dialogue with mainstream psychology, his version of social constructionism offered to cultural psychologists and his attitude toward language, narrative and last but not least – research method of psychology

The circular model of personality traits structure in Lewis Goldberg’s proposal

Author(s): Włodzimierz Strus,Jan Cieciuch,Tomasz Rowiński / Language(s): English Issue: Special/2021

The Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality (Digman, 1990) is one of the most prominent taxonomies of traits. Many empirical studies supporting FFM led McCrae (2009) to the comparison of FFM to the physics of personality. However, researchers have faced some problems in relation to FFM, both theoretical and methodological. The main reason of those problems could refer to the organization of lower-level personality traits. FFM assumes the hierarchical structure of traits. It means that all five basic personality dimensions have their own facets, independent from each other. The Abridged Big Five-Dimensional Circumplex (AB5C) proposed by Hofstee, de Raad, and Goldberg (1992) is a competitive model describing the personality traits structure as circularly organized. Lower-level traits are characterized by loadings on a subset of two from five factors in AB5C model. Each pair of the Big Five factors shape a circumplex that incorporates facets (lower-level traits). In this way, AB5C model consists of 10 two dimensional circumplexes that could be treated – in a metaphoric language – as a kind of “periodic table” of personality traits (Hofstee, de Raad, & Goldberg, 1992). The article presents the main assumptions of AB5C model operationalized by IPIP-45AB5C questionnaire, with the emphasis on differences between hierarchical and circular models of personality traits structure.

O immersyjności escape roomów. Przykład pokoi Tick Tack w Gliwicach

Author(s): Katarzyna Julke-Bogacka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

Escape room (ER) is a live cooperative game in which players need to find a way out of a closed room, or to reach an additional goal by solving a series of riddles and puzzles, in a set amount of time. So far there have been few publications on ERs, particularly in Polish game studies. This paper is an attempt at filling this gap. The history of ERs is described briefly, and the claim is made that the reason for the success and popularity of selected ERs is their immersivity. The rooms of the company Tick Tack, which is located in Gliwice, are used as examples to discuss the topic of ER immersivity and the conditions that a room should meet to engage players fully. The analysis is based on relevant literature and on the author’s own experiences with ERs.

An Experiential Comparative Tool for Board Games

Author(s): David Chircop / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

In the field of game studies, contemporary board games have until now remained relatively unexplored. The recent years have allowed us to witness the emergence of the occasional academic texts focusing on board games – such as Eurogames (Woods, 2012), Characteristics of Games (Elias et al. 2013), and most recently Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games (Booth, 2015). The mentioned authors all explore board games from diverse viewpoints but none of these authors present a viable and practical analytical tool to allow us to examine and differentiate one board game from another. In this vein, this paper seeks to present an analytical comparative tool intended specifically for board games. The tool builds upon previous works (Aarseth et al. 2003; Elias et al. 2012; and Woods 2012) to show how four categories – rules, luck, interaction and theme – can interact on different levels to generate diverse gameplay experiences. Such a tool allows to score games objectively and separately in each of the categories to create a combined gameplay experience profile for each board game. Following this, the paper proceeds to present numerous practical examples of contemporary board games and how it can be used from a design perspective and an analytical perspective alike.

Students’ School Satisfaction: The Role of Classroom Climate, Self-efficacy, and Engagement

Author(s): Tomislava Vidić / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

Students’ satisfaction with school is subjective, cognitive appraisal of overall positivity of school experiences, and precisely because it represents the key aspect of children’s overall perception of quality of life, it is important to find out what influences students’ school satisfaction and to which extent. The goal of this research was to establish whether self-efficacy and engagement function as mediating variables in the relationship between classroom climate and students’ school satisfaction. The research included 597 students from primary schools in Zagreb, Croatia. A structural equation model was designed and tested. The model testing showed that positive classroom climate has statistically significant and positive effects on self-efficacy and engagement. Furthermore, self-efficacy has a significant positive impact on explaining engagement. At the same time, negative classroom climate has a significant positive influence on engagement, which in turn contributes to the final effect on school satisfaction. The model has explained 56% of the school satisfaction variance in total.

DISTANCE AND BOUNDARIES ISSUES IN THE TRANSITION FROM FACE-TO-FACE TALKING THERAPY TO ONLINE THERAPY IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

Author(s): Veronica Maria Mateescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

The primary main aim of this article is to explore the changes and adjustments brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic to the therapeutic process in the transition from face-to-face talking therapy to online therapy. Online therapy sessions, once a niche, have now become the norm in therapeutic work. This, more than ever before, raises the question of the efficacy of online therapy compared to face-to-face talking therapy. A related question is how the “classical” elements of in-person therapies (especially the psychodynamic, affective and relational-based), such as: the therapeutic alliance, the therapeutic containing space, the therapeutic relationship, etc. work in the on-line setting. This article draws on a primary qualitative exploratory research carried among Romanian clients who undergo a psychodynamic type of therapy and who transitioned from face-to-face to online therapy as a reaction to the new constraints engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic and after the measures were relaxed, the transition from on-line to in-person therapy. Our focus is on how they experience online therapy compared to face-to-face therapy in terms of intimacy, therapeutic frame and efficacy, as well as on the boundaries challenged, erased and created by the switch between the two types of therapy settings.

Locus of control and culture of poverty. An appraisal of Lawrence M. Mead’s ideas in ‘Culture and Poverty’

Author(s): Seth Oppong / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2022

Lawrence M. Mead presented an interesting argument as to why poverty exists in the United States. He problematizes the culture of the poor of which ethnic minorities over-represent. By referring to the geographic regions from which these ethnic minorities came from, he globalised the question of poverty in the US. This invites a global policy debate rather than a US-centric policy debate. Indeed, Mead so freely made references to Africa and the African culture severally throughout his commentary. It is against this backdrop that I show that Mead was right to a large extent on the question of inner-driven individualised orientation. However, he overestimates its influence and misreads what culture is. He presented the culture of poverty as the antecedent of poverty. It was concluded that manipulating both internal drive (internal locus of control) and the structure of society is a more effective way to tackle poverty.

ACCEPTANCE OF OTHERS – AN INDICATOR OF PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Author(s): Vali Ilie / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

The present study focuses on the analysis of prosocial behavior. The forms or subspecies of prosocial behavior, the compositional variables constituted in determining factors and its explanatory models are highlighted. The research part presents the answers of the students to the questions of a test regarding the acceptance of others, understood as a necessary condition in the development of prosocial behavior. The theoretical basis is a starting point in our constative research and it includes the results of certain investigations that are considered benchmarks in the study of this topic.

SOCIAL RESOURCES AND SOCIAL STRATEGIES AS PREDICTORS OF DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND STRESS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Author(s): Miljana Pavićević,Tijana Živković Lj / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2021

The aim of the research was to determine the predictive power of social resources and social strategies in predicting depression, anxiety and stress. The sample consisted of 255 respondents (105 males and 150 females) aged 18 to 46, average age AS = 28.91, SD = 6.54. The instruments used in the research are: Social Resources Scale, Social Strategies Scale and Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale. The results of the descriptive analysis show that the most pronounced social resources are leadership and reliable support, and the most pronounced social strategies are the expectation of success, management and seeking social support. Respondents show low levels of de­pression, anxiety and stress. The results of the regression analysis show that social re­sources such as attachment, social interaction and affirmation of self-worth reduce the possibility of depressive and anxiety symptoms and stress, and reduced management and care for others the occurrence of stress. The application of avoidant and passive social strategies, as well as the absence of social support, will lead to depression, anxiety and stress. It can be concluded that social resources and social strategies play a significant role in protecting mental health during the coronavirus pandemic

Conflicting Resources in the Contemporary Couple

Author(s): Iulian Apostu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Whatever the selection criteria, whatever the type of partners, marital life cannot avoid the experience of conflicts over one or more aspects of conjugality. And if in common thinking, the conflict is always seen as a failure of the marital relationship, the specialized studies look at the states of conflict as natural stages in a marital journey. From their point of view, the conflict must be seen as a moment that highlights the differences between the partners. Many of these differences are only highlighted in concrete life situations, when the marital context reveals them. In therapy, highlighting problems is viewed positively, because their awareness invites partners to understand these differences, to negotiate and to build a system that marks both common and individual values. Therefore, the appearance of the conflict is not a negative aspect, but rather one that is meant to help the partners to know each other better, to negotiate their differences, desires and common values. From their point of view, the concept of conflict is not similar to that of scandal. The study aims to make a foray into the main issues underlying the conflicts of the contemporary couple.

Trust and Marital Intimacy

Author(s): Iulian Apostu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The way in which intimacy is built in a conjugal couple consistently influences the solidarity function of the partners and the mutual feeling of trust. The psycho-relational consequences of some acts of the other partner can affect the quality of the couple's life. Partners do not always understand the consequences of certain facts, their depth and the extent to which their own relationship may be affected. Secrets can dig into the basis of the function of solidarity, they can affect the quality of communication, of the interaction in one's own marital relationship, they can keep conflicting in a manifest or latent state, etc. Censorship of opinions or hiding various reactions leads to the vitiation of one's relationship and the feeling of trust gradually loses its intensity. A successful couple's relationship allows the partners to develop day by day, both together and separately, because the strong bond of trust prevents the two from having doubts about the partner's involvement in the relationship. The study aims to analyze the construction of marital intimacy, as the main source for substantiating and strengthening trust between partners.

Primena psihodrame u različitim kontekstima socijalnog rada

Author(s): Jasna J. Veljković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 26/2021

Psychodrama is an action form of group psychotherapy in which people explore the roots of their problems that are reflected in their interpersonal relations. The creator of psychodrama, J.L. Moreno was one of the founders of the Group psychotherapy. Moreno primarily dealt with socially vulnerable and stigmatized populations, helping them to regain self-esteem as well to find their place in society. He also believed that the whole society needed treatment, and he called it-sociatry analogous to the word psychiatry. The basic postulates of psychodrama contain essential values of social work. In the introductiry part we will present Moreno’s work with certain categories of socially endangered persons and later we’ll consider the possibilities of integration Moreno’s methods into the basic values of social work. In the conclusion, we will provide evidence on the effectiveness of the application of psychodame in the field of social work as well as the advantages for it’s application.

Validation of scales for measuring factors of teaching quality from the dynamic model of educational effectiveness

Author(s): Bojana Bodroža,Jelena Teodorović,Smiljana Jošić / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Large-scale educational effectiveness research requires valid student questionnaires to assess teaching practices. This research validated eight scales for measuring teaching factors from the Dynamic Model of Educational Effectiveness (DMEE). Parallel versions of scales for measuring teaching factors in mathematics and biology were constructed and validated in two studies. In the first study, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted on data from 683 students. In the second study, the structure was cross-validated via a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) on a sample of 5,476 students. The multi-group CFA resulted in an acceptable metric invarience for all scales, indicating that the scales have comparable factor loadings. However, unsatisfactory scalar invariance suggested that the scales could not be used to compare teachers of different subjects. Testing alternative structural relations between the teaching factors did not confirm that the data fit the DMEE model adequately, although the fit parameters were better than for the alternative theoretical models. For mathematics, the external validation of the scales showed that the scales correlated with job satisfaction, external control, and teacher self-efficacy reported by the teachers. The scales are reliable and valid and could be applied to different school subjects.