The relationship between indicators of workaholism and burnout in specialists and managers

Author(s): Sabina Staszczyk,Aleksandra Tokarz / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2015

The aim of the study was to: (1) confirm the expected positive relationships between workaholism and burnout syndrome; (2) explore the relationships between the indicators of workaholism, burnout, and seniority; (3) build and verify empirically the structural model in an attempt to structure the relationships between the studied variables. The verification of the hypothesis was conducted among white-collar workers of a large company operating in the Polish market. Of the indicators of workaholism, only work enjoyment and work–life imbalance – doing showed significant relationships with both components of burnout. The strongest negative predictor of burnout was work enjoyment. On the basis of correlation and regression analyses, the structural model explaining the variance in burnout syndrome was proposed and tested. Indicators of workaholism and seniority were the explanatory variables.

Pracoholizm – istota konstruktu i trafność nomenklatury jako aktualny problem w badaniach nad zjawiskiem. Komentarz do Staszczyk i Tokarz (2015)

Author(s): Kamila Wojdyło / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2015

The analysis of research findings, presented in previews as concerning “workaholism,” including the results of selected Polish studies, reveals at least three worrisome issues: (a) frequent misapplication of the term “workaholism” to phenomenona that are not related to work addiction, (b) expanding the conceptualization of workaholism to include dimensions defining the healthy form of high work involvement (e.g., work engagement), which do not differentiate workaholism as a disorder from the phenomenon of healthy hard work, (c) using inaccurate interpretation of research results that concern healthy high work involvement as referring to work addiction. The commentary on the article contains a discussion of the above-mentioned issues.

Workaholism: The nature of the construct and the nomenclature as controversial issues in research on the phenomenon. A commentary on Staszczyk and Tokarz (2015)

Author(s): Kamila Wojdyło / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2015

The analysis of research findings, presented in previews as concerning “workaholism,” including the results of selected Polish studies, reveals at least three worrisome issues: (a) frequent misapplication of the term “workaholism” to phenomenona that are not related to work addiction, (b) expanding the conceptualization of workaholism to include dimensions defining the healthy form of high work involvement (e.g., work engagement), which do not differentiate workaholism as a disorder from the phenomenon of healthy hard work, (c) using inaccurate interpretation of research results that concern healthy high work involvement as referring to work addiction. The commentary on the article contains a discussion of the above-mentioned issues.

Psihologia şi Războiul Rece

Author(s): Ana-Maria Ambrosă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 15/2015

In the East-West confrontation, during the Cold War, the psychology had both military and non-military applications, which were at least as important in the functioning of the two camps: in the fields of work, group and leadership relations, mass-media, assessment of intellectual skills and functioning, professional recruitment, space-travel preparation, etc. All these uses seemed to secure for psychology a privileged scientific, social and political positions, both in the Western and the Eastern world. One of the most important stakes in the psychological warfare of the Cold War was to control the mechanisms through which social representations were formed. The construction of the perceptions about the enemies in one’s own camp followed the same logic: in the 1950s and the 1960s, a real frenzy accompanied the circulation of such images as that of the rich kulak, the small bourgeois, the “social parasite” or the “saboteur” within the communist society just as in the West (especially in the USA) there was much talk about infiltrated communist traitors. Besides being used at the societal level to form social representations, the methods of psychology were frequently used in individual cases in order to “normalize” those who proved to be reluctant or even hostile to the established social order. Political prisoners were thus subjected to so-called behavioural change (“therapy”) experiments (see the “Piteşti Experiment”).

Psihosocijalna obilježja korisnika usluga estetske hirurgije

Author(s): Šejma Talić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 08/2015

The aim of this paper is to describe the basic psychosocial characteristics of users of cosmetic surgery, as well as the connection between the outcome of aesthetic surgery and psychological well-being of people who are subjected to them. Some of the psychosocial predictors of using the services of cosmetic surgeries are: gender, age, selfassessment of physical attractiveness, as well as certain psychological characteristics such as low self-esteem. Despite the small number of studies, available data indicate that individuals are generally satisfied with the results of surgical procedures by which they are subject, however, little is known about the actual psychological outcomes, particularly when we are talking about long-term consequences for the psychological benefit of the users of cosmetic surgery.

Partnerski odnosi: mikrokrizni aspekt

Author(s): Alisabri Šabani / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2015

In the present work we try to problematize the emergence of partnerships which by definition belong to the free expression of the will of adults. Research shows that this is not entirely so, and that is the basis of these relations social structures that define their nature. Character risks in relationships largely stem from the nature of modernity in which we pay attention to those theorists who have these issues radicalized in their studies. We believe that partnership is a form of community, but is exposed to the risks of a social nature characteristic of modernity.

Современные пути интеграции людей с ограниченными возможностями здоровья и инвалидностью в социальную жизнь

Author(s): Tatiana Victorovna Gudkova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2016

The article with the social and psychological position of the problem of disability, which is now becoming more urgent. It is noted that one of the key challenges facing society is ap-proaching the maximum opportunities for disabled people to conditions of life of healthy people. The content of the article reflects some current ways of integrating people with disabilities and disability in social life, describes the direction of adaptive physical culture, sport and tourism, which have a great potential for the correction of physical health and adaptation of disabled people in society. Emphasizes the importance of physical education and sport as one of the most effective ways to integrate social and leisure of people with disabilities and special needs. The article focuses atten-manie, in particular on the fact that in many European countries, including Russia, implemented the program to work with disabled sports, allow-ing not only introduce them to the sport, but also give opportunities for their full development . One of the clearest ex-amples of the active integration of people with disabilities into a full social life lead Xia Para-lympic Games in Sochi. It is concluded that a particularly relevant topic accessible environment as a major factor in the development of barrier-free tourism. The process of humanization of sports work with people with disabilities is socially important task and should be integrated.

Мотивирование населения к здоровому образу жизни

Author(s): Nina Alekseevna Barbarash,Dmitry Yur'evich Kuvshinov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2016

The article presents an overview of modern data and results of educational and scientific work carried out within The Normal Physiology Chair at Kemerovo State Medical Academy on working out methods of motivating population to healthy lifestyle.The purpose of this article is to emphasise the main problems of health science and pre-sent the ways of their solving. The authors relied on the opinions of the world's most famous people, provided the examples of health lifestyle demonstrated by medical scientists and the au-thors of this article. The article is accompanied by the booklets on healthy lifestyle as well as tests for health self-assessment. During some motivating lectures and talks the authors use verses of A. Pushkin, O. Mandelstam, I. Guberman, V. Dagurov and humorous approach to some health problems. In conclusion the authors emphasise the role of behavioral factors in forming health of individuals and of the whole population.

Provjera temeljnih postavki razvojnoga modela subjektivne grupne dinamike na ad hoc grupama mladih

Author(s): Jasmina Tomašić Humer,Dinka Čorkalo Biruški / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3/2015

The aim of this paper is to test some of the assumptions of the Developmental Subjective Group Dynamics Model (Abrams, Rutland, & Cameron, 2003) on ad hoc groups of youth. The variables included were: a) differential evaluation; b) differential inclusion; c) intragroup bias; and d) group identification. It was assumed that the participants' age would moderate the relationship of intragroup bias and differential evaluation, while differential inclusion would be a mediator of this relationship. Furthermore, the moderation effect of group identification on the relationship of differential evaluation and differential inclusion was expected. The participants were students 12 to 16 years of age (N = 349). As assumed, the existence of differential evaluation, differential inclusion and intragroup bias was found. However, age had no moderating effect on the relationship between intragroup bias and differential evaluation. Intragroup bias had a direct effect on differential evaluation; however, this relationship was also mediated by differential inclusion. Furthermore, group identification moderated the relationship of differential inclusion and differential evaluation.

Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention:

Author(s): Stojan Debarliev,Aleksandra Janeska-Iliev,Tihona Bozhinovska,Viktorija Ilieva / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2015

This study is designed to examine the effect of the three motivational factors/the intention antecedents proposed in the theory of planed behavior (abbreviated TPB): personal attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control, including a control group of variables on the entrepreneurial intention in the specific economic and cultural settings, in our case in the Republic of Macedonia. The research includes 440 respondents. In order to test the hypotheses the data was examined using hierarchical regression. The applicability of the TPB in the context of entrepreneurship has received empirical support in this study, as well. The three independent variables: personal attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control have a positive impact on entrepreneurial intention. On the other hand, results only partially support the influence of the control group of variables.

Žalovanie a hierarchia – etnografická Analýza.

Author(s): Zuzana Stoláriková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2016

Preschool children tend to organize their groups in very well defined hierarchy. Children use tattling, which is an observable form of gossip, as a tool to punish unacceptable behavior. However, it is also a strategy of dominant children to protect common resources. On the other hand, other studies suggest dominant individuals are the subject of gossip more frequently. This study aims to verify following hypothesis: Less dominant individuals use tattling to weaken the reputation of more dominant individuals in their common children peer group. The results suggest the tattling goal of less dominant children really is to weaken the reputation of those children who are higher in the hierarchy, but it is used to create coalitions also.

Gniew, strach i nadzieja w uporczywych konfliktach międzygrupowych – związek emocji z powstawaniem barier na drodze do pokoju

Author(s): Lidia Pauch / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2015

The main focus of this paper is to analyze the role of emotions such as anger, fear and hope in intractable intergroup conflicts as well as the process of their resolution. According to Bar-Tal's and Krisberg's concept, an intractable conflict produces a specific ethos that enables an individual to function in stressful conditions. It also influences a tendency to generate collective emotions. These emotions play role in the formation of barriers between sides during the peace process. However, they can also have positive repercussions and encourage the feuding sides to take risks and attenpt a negotiated peace.

Psychospołeczne zagrożenia zawodowe w środowisku funkcjonariuszy Służby Więziennej

Author(s): Marta Kierska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2015

The article presents the results of research aimed at identifying psychosocial occupational hazards present in the isolated working environment which is the prison. The study focuses on security department officers, who have the most intensive contact with prisoners. This section is responsible for the safety of not only prisoners, but also other employees of the penitentiary. This all means that the security department officers are exposed to many job stressors which often cannot be eliminated, and therefore only counteracting the effects of their actions remains to them.

Psychologiczne mechanizmy bezpieczeństwa zdrowotnego

Author(s): Agnieszka Florczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2016

The article raises a subject of psychological mechanism of health safety. At the beginning of deliberations a term of health with its classic division was introduced. Health is not merely the absence of disease but also a state of physical, social and mental welfare. Hence, health can be divided into physical (somatic) and psychological. Health and safety are considered the most important value for human. Factors affecting health safety are primarily mental, physical and environmental. The article examines the first two. Somatic factors relate to purely biological aspects of life of an organism, while psychological to adaptability and societal. Through appropriate mechanisms psychosphere forms health safety on the one hand, but on the other the mechanisms in some interactions can pose problems that are explained more extensively in the last part of the work.

Motivacija za postignućem i opšti stav o vrijednosti sporta

Author(s): Bojana Marinković,Bojan Ćorluka / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2016

This paper deals with the research of relations between achievement motivation and the general attitude towards sport values in case of sportsmen (basketball, football and volleyball players). On the basis of the results, we have determined the distribution of the general attitude towards sport values, as well as the relation between achievement motivation and the general attitude towards sport values. Examinees with bold achievement motivation have positive general attitude, they are ready to strive efforts in order to improve their sports results, and they tend to achieve the set, clearly defined and high enough goals. We have noticed that achievement motivation has an important role in the attitude towards sport values. When it comes to achievement motivation, it is very important to know that persons with tendencies towards competition and/or achieving the goal probably would not be successful without developed characteristic of being determined, patient and oriented towards planning. Both psychologists and trainers in the process of sportsmen preparation should be familiar with this fact. The development and fulfilment of acheivment motives through sport activities provide filfilment of many other motives important for relasiation of personal needs, and the engagement in sport and the general postive attitude towards sport vaules.

Family problems, parents separation and psychosocial effects on children

Author(s): Valbona Treska / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2015

Divorce has become a vulnerable social phenomenon in Albania. The Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) indicates the growing trendof the phenomenonsince 1990.Only a few studies have been conducted in relation to this phenomenon in Albania. Such studies have been focused morevon the figure sabout the number of divorces than onthe emotional effects caused by them. Based on thework as an expert psychologist in the courts, it is conclude dthat the greates tnumber of couples seek inglegal dissolution of marriage, practically since one or more year shave not been living together, instead they have lived separately. This study attempts toshed light onthis period of the family,transition andcrisis experienced byall members,with a focus on the children

Kritički osvrt na implikacije teorije koristi i zadovoljstva u online komunikaciji

Author(s): Goran Madžarević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 8/2016

This paper presents a critical insight into the theoretical basis and implications of the theory of use and gratification in the context of online communication. As a starting point in this review we take this theory claim that the recipient of a message is responsible for the potential effects exerted by the message itself. In this context, we emphasize the distinction between so-called the first paradigm in which the message itself had a dominant role and the theoretical approach developed in the period from 1940 to 1960. Thanks to the development of new communication technologies we make a focus on the research whose aim was to investigate the relationship between traditional forms of social behavior and social communication via the Internet, ie. Whether individuals who have a high level of social communication behave the same in the virtual space, or perhaps possibilities of the Internet, privacy and anonymity make it more used by people who have problems with traditional forms of social communication.

Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa „Grupowe oraz indywidualne aspekty socjalizacji, demoralizacji i resocjalizacji” Gdańsk, 18–19.11.2015 r.

Author(s): Radosław Breska,Joanna Jezierska,Małgorzata Piechowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

HENTBOLCULARIN TAKIM BİRLİKTELİĞİNİN İNCELENMESİ

Author(s): İlyas Görgüt / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2017

The aim of this study was to determine team cohesion of handball players who were actively engaged in sport in various categories. The study group consisted of a total of 607 handball players, 317 female and 290 male, selected by random method and from 11 provinces of Turkey according to the some factors. When we examine the age distributions of the participants, 121 athletes appear to be 13 years and under, 309 athletes 14-18 years, 94 athletes 19-23 years, 54 athletes 24-28 years and 29 athletes 29 years and over. In addition, 186 of them expressed their education situation as middle school, 253 of them expressed their education situation as high school and 168 of them expressed their education situation as university. Personal information form and team cohesion scale, developed by Widmeyer et al. (1985) and adapted to Turkish by Moralı (1994), were used as a data collecting tools. The Kolmogorov Smirnov test was used to measure whether the obtained data showed normal distribution or not and nonparametric tests were used to determine the subscale scores because they didn’t show normal disturbance. For binary comparisons Mann Whitney U test, for multiple comparisons Kruskal Wallis variance and for the difference between significant groups Bonferroni Mann Whitney U test were used. As a result of the research, there were significant differences in scale subscale scores in terms of gender, age, educational status, sports experience, income and province variables of handball players.

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND THE ISSUE OF DIVERSITY. A PSYCHOSOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH

Author(s): Ionuţ-Emilian Anastasiu / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2015

In psychosociological literature, Performance Management is defined as a permanent process of identifying, measuring and development of both individual performance and of the group in organizations. The necessary conditions for an assessment to have results are: consistency with the organization’s strategy, completeness, practical nature, relevance, specificity, differentiation, reliability and validity, inclusion, correctness and acceptability. There are some significant differences that separate practical thinking by traditional intelligence tests, among which the fact that intelligence tests suggest implicitly and sometimes explicitly the idea of competition, while practical thinking has the ability to be guided by the social context, favoring cooperation at the expense of fierce competition in certain given situations.