4th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions February 20–22, 2017 Haifa, Israel
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“Collection of abstracts of the 4th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions, February 20-22, 2017, Haifa, Israel”
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This study evaluates the association between generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and Internet gaming disorder (IGD) and the role of behavior inhibition in young adults. Methods: We recruited 87 people with IGD and a control group of 87 people without a history of IGD. All participants underwent a diagnostic interview based on the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, IGD and GAD criteria, and completed a questionnaire on behavior inhibition, depression, and anxiety. Results: Logistic regression revealed that adults with GAD were more likely (odds ratio = 8.11, 95% CI = 1.78−37.09) to have IGD than those without it. The OR decreased when controlling for behavior inhibition. IGD subjects with GAD had higher depressive and anxiety score than those without GAD. Conclusions: GAD was associated with IGD. Comorbid GAD can contribute to higher emotional difficulty. GAD should be well-assessed and interventions planned when treating young adults with IGD. Behavioral inhibition confounds the association between GAD and IGD. Further study is necessary to evaluate how to intervene in behavioral inhibitions to attenuate the risk of GAD and IGD comorbidity.
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The discussion presented in this study focuses on consumer behaviour of people aged 65+ in Poland that may be classified as sustainable consumption. The article primarily seeks to offer some insight into sustainable consumption within the consumer decision-making process among Polish seniors. The basis for the conclusions is provided by direct research conducted in the form of a survey questionnaire on a sample of 2,537 people aged 65+ in 2014–2015 in 10 Polish cities of various populations and sizes.
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The article presents the problem of addiction to a smartphone, with particular emphasis on the phenomenon of nomophobia. In recent time both issues are increasingly undertaken by specialists in various fields. The phenomenon mainly affects children and young people, often due to the parents' educational mistakes. The effects of nomophobia can be very serious. Nomophobia even leads to depression.
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Human nature is extremely variable, and that determines the existence of an extremely broad spectrum of beliefs, needs and interests specific to each person. It is therefore very difficult to bring this range of objectives into the organization, the more so as each organization, in turn, act in a certain level, being influenced by external factors. For each organization there is a specific definition of organizational context, specific and strictly limited, both by internal variables and external ones. Therefore, while human needs are broadly similar, specific performance is obtained by each organization separately. Granting awards to employees, both public and private but can be a powerful tool to achieve the objectives of the organization but also a major element of expenditure. Thus, identifying levers that can lead to maximize the organization’s objectives and use a transparent means of allocating resources, can lead to an increased efficiency. The purpose of this study is to identify, on the basis of a questionnaire, which are the key elements that motivate a person, how these needs vary with age, sex and identify a package of rewards that are liked and desired by employees, having as a starting point the classification made by Maslow to the needs. Thus, in the study were performed quantitative analysis using various statistical tools of analysis. The study concludes that only by using all the levers available, levers designed to activate all four types of motivations, the managers may obtain the desired performance.
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Internationalization of higher education and workforce is an increasing phenomenon, due to global competitiveness and global competition for hiring of well-educated workers and talents, in order to generate benefits and progress. In these circumstances, the present article aims to evaluate the ability of young people to manage their learning and work experiences. So, we present the main results and conclusions of a questionnaire-based survey, asking young graduates about their educational and working experiences abroad and their motivations for returning home and decision for working in Romanian companies. The conclusions reveal that there are many forces that drive the returning behaviour of well-educated graduates that shows their ability to support change and transfer learning outcomes and competences from one job to another.
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The author of this paper gave a brief outline of the process and importance of the motivation of the employees in the educational institutions with special emphasis on pre elemenary school institutions. In the first part of the paper author reviews the theoretical bases of motivation of employees, while the second part she presents the results of research of motivation in the child care center Revda and Vildana in Novi Pazar.
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This article describes the causal link between aggressive sexual behavior, including pedophile behavior, moral reasoning disorder and orbitofrontal cortex dysfunction (sometimes a tumor located in this area). The criminological analysis is also justified by the studies published by Charles Choi (2002) in New Scientist where the case of a 40-year-old man whose brain tumor suffered from sudden pedophilia and an uncontrollable obsession for sex, as well as the studies published by Giuseppe Sartori (2016) and collaborators explaining the functional disorder of the orbitofrontal cortex, a brain region responsible for behavioral inhibitions, emotional comprehension, and moral responsibility. From the legal point of view, the criminal responsibility is analyzed in the situation where the discernment is affected by the physiological determinism. In this sense, brain imaging plays an important role.
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In today’s global world access of the consumers to the information about goods and services is getting easier by the help of the technology. Abundance of data makes the consumers more elective. There are factors such as country of origin effect, social, psychological, personal factors, trends etc. that effects consumer decisions. So, this procedure must be evaluated comprehensively. Consumer purchase decision making procedure is defined as a five-step procedure by marketers. These are defining of the need or problem, looking for information, evaluating alternatives, making purchase decision and consumer satisfaction. All of these steps are very essential parts of purchase decision making procedure. Marketers have to know their target groups well and have to consider the specifications of the target group while making the marketing strategies for those groups. Sources that the consumers will be looking for information about goods and services must be defined properly and enhanced consumers’ access to the data.
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The purpose of this research is to reveal the mediating role of organizational cynicism in the influence of mobbing on organizational citizenship behavior. Within the scope of this aim, a questionnaire is applied to 236 assistant doctors, research assistants and lecturers working in public and state universities. The obtained data are tested by factor analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis. Analyzes are performed with the SPSS 22.0 analysis program. As a result of the analyzes made, it is seen that mobbing and organizational cynicism has a significant and negative effect on organizational citizenship behavior. It is also found that mobbing influences the organizational cynicism in positive direction. Nevertheless, it is determined that organizational cynicism has a partial mediating effect in the effect of mobbing on organizational citizenship behavior.
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The severe floods, which struck Serbia in May 2014, inflicted enormous material damage and forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes. The goal of this research was to investigate the motivation of citizens who helped, i.e. to establish the predictors of the motivation for helping behavior as well as its effects on different ways of providing help. Volunteer Functions Inventory, National Identity Scale, Big Five Inventory, and Helping Behavior Questionnaire were applied to the sample of 183 people who provided the flood victims with help. Multivariate analysis of covariance, where the predictors were gender, the prior acquaintance with the victims, six volunteer functions (Social, Understanding, Protective, Enhancement, Values, Career), age, education and financial status, while the criteria were dimensions of helping behavior, shows that the model provides statistically significant explanation of all dimensions of helping behavior, where the Social Motives and Understanding have significant multivariate effects. MANCOVA was used for establishing the predictors of helping motivation.
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The rational choice theory assumes that people when deciding whether to smoke cigarettes or not, use the mathematical analysis in order to estimate the values of indicators of individual preferences. There are risk andtime preferences. The former shows aversion (or inclination) to a risk and is expressed through the coefficient of risk aversion (indicator of risk preferences). The latter measures the degree of preference for presentsatisfaction in relation to the same satisfaction in the future or, in other words, shows the extent to which individuals prefer to satisfy their needs today, instead of in the future. The degree of preference for presentsatisfaction with regard to the same satisfaction in the future is expressed as the rate of time preference (indicator of time preferences). The results of Ida’s and Gato’s researches clearly indicated that the risk aversion coefficient and the time preference rate can predict successful cessation.
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The behavior of individuals shape society, and their effect is largely due to the impact of the system of values and social norms prevailing in a particular society, which deals with sociology as a science. Every society struggles against violations of social norms, however, the fact is that there are companies that do not violate this standard. It is therefore necessary to establish a system that will not sanction any form of deviant behavior that disrupts the functioning of the social system. All this should contribute to the security of society as a major and long-term task of the state and society as a whole. Among other things, the structure of this scientific work was influenced by the need to deal with the prison as an institution in the function security of modern societies, reviewing its social position and its intentionality in order to assess whether in fact such a system is monitored and adjusted to the needs and goals of modern society. The aim of this work is to give contribution to the understanding of the total problem of prison society as a function of security of the state as the basic social and state needs, the basic state values and basic safety guarantees.
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People use their voices to communicate not only verbally but also emotionally. This article presents theories and methodologies that concern emotional vocalizations at the intersection of psychology and digital signal processing. Specifically, it demonstrates the encoding (production) and decoding (recognition) of emotional sounds, including the review and comparison of strategies in database design, parameterization, and classification. Whereas psychology predominantly focuses on the subjective recognition of emotional vocalizations, digital signal processing relies on automated and thus more objective vocal affect measures. The article aims to compare these two approaches and suggest methods of combining them to achieve a more complex insight into the vocal communication of emotions.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior of adolescents. The study was conducted in regional village boarding schools in Tunceli province. Sample consisted of 75 male and 75 female adolescents aged between 11 and 16. Majority of the participants (94.6%) has no access to a computer in their family home and played the game for the first time. The demographic information form and Buss-Perry Aggression Scale were administered. Then participants were randomly assigned to 4 experimental groups and played a violent game (GTA) or a non-violent skill game (Thumblebugs) for 2 hours or 15 minutes. Five days later the aggression scale was administered again. The result showed that interaction effect of the type and the duration of playing violent games was found to increase aggression post test score when pre-test scores were controlled. Moreover, the students who played violent game for longer hours (2 hours) got significantly higher aggression scores in comparison to students’ who played less (15 minutes). The results of the study have supported the idea that playing violent computer games will increase the tendency of aggression.
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There are individual and environmental causes effecting children's being pushed to crime; individual reasons alone are not determinant. Family is the leading environmental cause. The interruption of the socialization process that starts in the family and the incorrect and incomplete continuation of this process with the effect of school, peer groups, working life and mass media cause children to turn into crime. There are biological, psychological and sociological crime theories aimed at resolving crime. In this research, the sociological crime theories are dwelled upon. The aim of the research is to evaluate the causes of juvenile delinquency in the light of Social Bond Theory and Social Learning Theories.
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Expectations of the translator candidates are mostly limited between two languages by transferring words at their first year. Traditional concepts of the translation and the translator may contribute to these expectations. Thus, the first aim is to make translation at basic level and the other should be to make students aware of what the translator behaviors are and how they are shaped. This awareness can be set up in the frame of ethnomethodology whose main research area is to question how people explain their behaviors. At this study, translation process is handled as an organization of the society and students are intended to become aware of translator behaviors. Proposing unexpected translation aims and changing the organization, students are expected to make translation and write about their translation process. Therefore, the aim of this study is to present a sample that shows what the translator behaviors are and how they become explainable by the need of different solutions and translator behaviors for different translation problems by students of translator candidates.
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Review of: Emina Babić - PRIKAZ UNIVERZITETSKOG UDŽBENIKA "MALOLJETNIČKO PRESTUPNIŠTVO" AUTORA SUADA ORLIĆA, IZETA PEHLIĆA I NERMINA TUFEKČIĆA, Zenica, Islamski pedagoški fakultet Univerziteta u Zenici, 2019, 656 str.
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This paper deals with the problem of prevention of behavioral disorders in the local community, focusing on the concept of Positive Youth Development Approach. The main guideline of Positive Youth Development Approach is the fact that helping young people to develop their potentials is the best way to prevent behavioral disorders. But, to make that possible, it is very important to create the resilience community. Paper explains main characteristics of the resilience community, elaborates main issues of Positive Youth Development Approach and offers some ideas of how to implement some elements of that approach in one local community, by presenting few preventive programs.
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The processes of planning interventions for children and young people with behavioural disorders, who are at risk, begin with the identification of the risk factors and/or the needs of a certain local community. Therefore the specific aims of this paper are to determine the risks/needs of children and young people with behavioural disorders, or who are at risk in the area of the city of Pula, the level of risks/needs, and the differences in the levels of risks/needs among examinees, depending on the specific areas of risks/needs. The purpose is to plan interventions for the population mentioned. This paper is part of a larger research project entitled "Models of intervention with the purpose of preventing behavioural disorders of children, young people and adults in the Republic of Croatia" realised by the Department for Behavioural Disorders of the Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation of the University in Zagreb in the period between 1996-1999. The sample of examinees (N:100) are children, young people and young aduhs treated by the Pula Centre for Social Care between 0 I .0 I . I 998. until 30.06. I 999. The Youth Level of Senice/Case Management Inventory form by Hoge, R.D. and Andrews, D.A. (1994) was used during the research and the information received was processed on the level of relative frequencies. The results for the observed sample of the examinees show that the biggest number of risk factors is found in the area of personality-behaviour and some single variables are found related to the family, free-time activities and relations with peers. Looking at the level of risk, areas of prior and current offences/dispositions status, education-employment and freelime activities (leisure/recreation) stand out as having the highest number of examinees highly at risk, while the most frequently evaluated is of medium risk level. In line with the obtained results this paper proposes levels of professional interventions for the local community of the city of Pula.
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