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The present paper wants to prove that history contribute to the development of interpersonal and intercultural communication. In this sense we include some educational strategies which encourages the communication between students. In specialty literature, history is associated with critical thinking, manipulation and patriotism. But history is a discipline reflections and discussions. History helps to understanding the differences between students in terms of cooperation and reciprocal completion Paper theoretical foundation and related literature Communication is now more and more a held responsible for social dialogue or social, personal and interstate conflict. Communication is also a contributing factor in the formation of human personality and their social and professional integration. The specialty studies do not insist enough by the contribution to their achievement history. For students there is very important to understanding the history like as a scholar discipline that preparing for a social life freed from stereotypical resentment powered by past facts. Author's contribution This paper shows scientific and methodological interest for the educational strategies apllied on the history lesson. For this, we used the results of observations made during the hours of teaching practice and seminar activities. With these working strategies, we believe that the students will manage to understand the need for development of their communication skills with others and with himself through discipline history. Conclusions This paper, we hope, will contribute to the development of the interest manifested by the university education in showing their students the importance of individualizing their pupils. The development of communication skills is related respect the individuality of those involved in activity. Using this, they can be used in order to achieve an efficient and qualitative education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paper Rationale The present paper wants to prove that in order to successfully implement the inclusive education in the initial training of the teachers. This objective is very important because the students with disabilities receive insufficient assistance for their educational needs Paper theoretical foundation and related literature To respect the individuality of pupils and of students during the educational process is a concept largely used in the present day literature and it pinpoints its importance in education and it offers examples of strategies specific for the pre-university educationInclusive School, based on the equal right to education, is the best possibility for the good social integration of the student with disabilities. For students it is necessary for them to apply these principles in their didactic career. Author's contribution Therefore this paper shows scientific and methodological interest for the incluzive education which is approached from the perspective of the initial training of students. Our proposal provides a series of arguments and ways of achieving inclusive education principles in the undergraduate curriculum. In this sense, we have come up with some working strategies which can be applied during the courses and the seminars, and also with some specific topics which can be introduced in the curriculum of the classes focused on didactics and on the management of the class. We demonstrated that without these adaptations curricular the student teachers will be trained to handle these problems. Conclusions We hope that this paper will contribute to the development of the interest manifested by the university education in showing their students the importance of individualizing their pupils and of their social integration, in special of the pupils with disabilities. The future teachers will be aware of the means through which they can identify the particularities of their pupils and how they can be used in order to achieve an efficient and qualitative education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem statement The Contingencies of Self-Worth Scale (CSW) focuses on seven domains in which people frequently base and derive their self-worth. These domains are important internal and external sources of global self-esteem: gaining others' approval and acceptance, physical appearance, outdoing others in competition, academic competence, family love and support, being a virtuous or moral person, and God's love (Crocker, Luhtanen, Cooper, & Bouvrette, 2003). Purpose of Study This paper aims to examine the psychometric properties of the Contingencies of Self- Worth Scale in a student sample. Method The sample consists of 250 Romanian university students with ages from 21 to 35 (mean = 22.87) from different faculties. It were applied the CSWS after translation and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed in order to test the dimensionality of the scale. Findings and Conclusions The results demonstrated the reliability of the seven factors that corresponded with those from English version of the scale. Global self esteem scores significantly correlated with some domains of self-worth. The results supported good psychometric properties of the scale that recommended it as a successful assessment instrument in students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: Subjective feeling of happiness with life is an intensely studied domain in positive psychology because its correlates with health, mental health and social factors. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate levels of happiness depending on three major factors that are considered to influence level of happiness: religious believes, money and health. Research methods: N= 1444 (860 woman, 584 man) Romanian young adults were included in our study who just finished school and entered universities or started to work. Happiness religion, education, financial situation, relationships, were assessed with an online questionnaire. The present study is a part of a longitudinal research project aiming to investigate transition from adolescents into adulthood. Data presented in this paper belongs to the first wave of the study. Findings: All three important variables counted for variance in happiness level. Happiness level increased significantly according to monthly earnings and subjective evaluation of own health. The most unhappy participants were Greco-Catholics and those with no religion (atheists). Baptists, Buddhist and orthodox participants reported above average happiness. Conclusion: This data makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the role of sociodemographic factors in youth well-being and it provides further evidence to cultural generalizability of this model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of technological development new virtual neurological rehabilitation systems have developed, which can be used both in the clinical context and in the family environment. Starting from this idea a number of researches that led to the development of SMART video games for systems that use motion capture software (Jintronix, Virtual Rehab) and which aim to achieve a neurological rehabilitation of people with post-CVA sequelae have been developed. This paper aims to investigate the effects of a treatment additional to physiotherapy based on video games and integrated in Occupational Therapy (due to the playful character). The aim of our research was to determine whether the application of an additional application can improve the neuro-motor performance of subjects in post CVA recovery with easy hemiparesis, due to an increase of the motivation through positive feedback obtained after using movement video games within Microsoft Kinect Program. We studied 5 subjects, aged 45-75 years, of both sexes, who suffered a stroke in the course of 2014. All participants received initial and final assessment carried out by specialists in recovery. They benefited from the recovery program through video games, to which they had access twice a week for 2 months. For the evaluation of the results we used a recording grid of the movement accuracy and its development at every session. For research we used "Virtual Rehab System", Satisfaction Questionnaire for Patients, Satisfaction Questionnaire for physical therapist. At the end of the program each subject obtained a significant improvement of motor abilities. The results depend of the age, etiology of stroke and severity of sequelae of every patient. We conclude from the case studies that the functional rehabilitation of motor skills was more rapid and with positive influences on general implications of the subjects in rehabilitation program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: There is international consensus that there is there is a close connection between conscientiousness as personality trait and occupational interests. The research is based on the theories developed by the Costa and McCrae on personality trait, and by the Holland on vocational interests, taken by Miclea et al. in the platform of the Psychological Evaluation Cognitrom Assessment System (CAS). Aim of Study: The aim of this study was to analize the relationship between conscientiousness, as a personality trait, and vocational interests. This paper study emphasizes the importance of knowing the implication of relationship between conscientiousness, as a personality trait, and vocational interests Holland of students from the final year from the Faculty of Dental Medicine. Research Methods: This study was conducted in july 2015, on a sample of 56 students from the final year from the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Ovidius University of Constanta. Assessments were made at Center of counseling and career guidance within the Ovidius University of Constanta. Assessment tools used in the study are taken from the Platform of Psychological Evaluation Cognitrom Assessment System. Data from the students' questionnaires were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software for MS Windows, version 15.0. The main analysis method used is descriptive statistics test which used to consider the mean level and standard deviation for the variables. Findings: The descriptive statistics test of the obtained results reveal a high positive correlation between conscientiousness, as a personality trait and investigative realistic, and social interests as well as a moderate positive correlation with the enterprising personality type. There was no correlation between conscientiousness, as a personality trait and artistic and conventional interests. Conclusions: These results confirm that all the Dental Medicine graduates meet the requirements relating to occupational interests described by the ideal profile of a dental practitioner. The results of this study will be useful both Center of Counseling and Career guidance from the University to establish a benchmark in terms of the relationship between personality and vocational interests of both current students and the future dental practitioner, as an indicator of profile of its graduates . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: Recently, interest in investigating positive resources like happiness among adolescents and young adults gained interest because of educational outcomes associated with varying degrees of subjective well-being. Subjective feeling of happiness with life is an intensely studied domain in positive psychology because its correlates with health, mental health and social factors. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate levels of happiness depending on sociodemographic factors among Romanian young adults who just finished school and entered universities or started to work. Research methods: N= 1509 (891 woman, 618 man) young adults were included in our study. Happiness and demographics including sex, residential area, ethnicity, education, relationship status and marital status were assessed with an online questionnaire. The present study is a part of a longitudinal research project aiming to investigate transition from adolescents into adulthood. Data presented in this paper belongs to the second wave of the study. Findings: Overall, Romanian young adults consider themselves happy. Moreover, average score of happiness was a little over US college students averages. Woman, those living in urban, being married or having a stable partner reported higher levels of happiness. Conclusion: Results indicate the importance of socioeconomic variables for understanding variations of happiness. Although our findings may be specific to cultural context of Romanian young adults, this data makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the role of sociodemographic factors in youth well-being and it provides further evidence to cultural generalizability of this model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: Among studies which say patients with diabetes have lower performance on cognitive tests most of them found deficiencies especially in the memory level. Regarding the issue of memory disorders in patients with diabetes, study results are inconsistent, often with a high degree of ambiguity, because of discrepancies between methods of measurement and quantification of memory. Purpose of Study:This paper investigates the memory of patients with type 2 diabetes compared to healthy individuals. The study seeks to answer the question whether global cognitive deficiency in diabetics can be narrowed down to some dysfunctions of the memory components (verbal memory, visual memory, general memory, attention and concentration, delayed memory and working memory). Furthermore we analyze the connection between glucose metabolism and the cognitive functions above. Research Methods: The study sample consists of 55 (N= 55) adult participants, homogeneous by age, sex and education, from which 21 participants with type 2 diabetes and the control group consisting of 34 healthy adults. All participants were assessed with WMS-R psychometric test memory. Findings: The results show that the group of healthy adults has a significantly better level of performance in delayed memory and verbal memory than the group of adults with type 2 diabetes, meaning that type 2 diabetes affects this cognitive functions. The regression analysis have shown that glycaemic control was a significant negative predictor of verbal memory, general memory, delayed memory and visual memory. The results also indicate that the group of diabetes with a balanced glycaemic control has a significantly better level of performance in verbal memory, in general memory, in delayed memory and visual memory than the group with unbalance diabetes. Conclusions:Most studies report the negative impact of diabetes on cognitive abilities compaired to healthy individuals. Our study conclude that a good glycemic control in patients with diabetes has little impact on cognitive functions. Our results support the results of previous studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our paper we proposed feed-back presentation participants vis-a-vis some aspects of the training program of four hundred Romanian teachers in secondary education in the field of mentoring employability, developed in SOPHRD project "From debut to success", 36525ID. Specifically we refer to issues such as the extent to which were secured interdependencies between powers under the program; should the program students met expectations in terms of the powers concerned; critical issues raised by students for each of the roles of mentor coach; students' own proposals on other roles of mentor coach. The data were obtained by interpreting the results of guy face to face questionnaires developed within the project and applied to the 400 participants during and at the end of the program period. The analysis of questionnaire responses can draw the conclusion that the results are favorable whole program, that program has achieved the aims in terms of competencies concerned; provided interdependence between powers concerned; students met expectations in terms of the powers concerned. The analysis also provides information questionnaire responses and proposals of the type proposed contents module issues 1, 2 and 3, which students know; issues that students wish to deepen, develop them; unknown or difficult issues; cognitive difficulties; metacognitive hurdles; expectations of students in theoretical and practical perspective; professional and transversal competences that students have and that underlie the proposed study program modules; they establish the connections between students of the three modules covered issues; critical issues raised by students for each of the roles of mentor coach; students' own proposals on other roles of mentor coach. We believe that the results of the investigation presented is a barometer of the current situation of the Romanian education on both the preparedness of apprenticeship mentors and their expectations and proposals on mentoring system more efficient. Also, these results provide a starting point in organizing similar programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study, initiated by the Scheherazade Foundation, Bucharest, carried out between october-december 2014, seeking for opportunities and problems the youth leaving the foster care (FC) institutions are facing at the entrance on the labour market constitutes the ground for the present paper. This is focused on the process of developing abilities and the vocational education these children are offered to in order to prepare them for the labour market. The research consisted of face-to-face interviews and group discussions with specialists, including high-school teachers, which have duties on out topic, but as well as with youth in FC system; 74 persons took part to the research. At the entrance of the labour market these youth are confronting difficulties due to the insufficient accent laid on developing their vocational abilities throughout curricular or extracurricular activities at different ages, despite the support directed to them throughout the social-inclusive policies specific to the labour market. The research has discovered some best practices that have exceeded this barrier. The common feature of the institutional ones is a complex long term support for the children, targeting their abilities and interest for a profession, practical training for it, and providing guidance for independent life, but at the ages they were supposed to know it. In the best practices on the behalf of the FC institutions it was about decreasing the age when children learn about different professions, what these imply and result in, when they were put into situations which develop individual responsibility. The possible directions for improving their inclusion chances revolve around strengthening the cooperation between the FC system and the formal educational one, completed by a clear cut in sharing the responsibilities between each of them, the young people themselves and the state. Not least, the system has to motivate well qualified and adequate in number educators and counsellors to join it, to be able to cope with the complex vulnerability of these children in relation to society and labour market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Being parents of twins is a complex task; in fact, since the news of a multiple pregnancy, a series of fantasies and emotions that can be mixed and conflicting with each other are activated in the minds of parents (Brustia, 2011, 2012). The impact of twin pregnancies on the mental health of parents and their psychological well-being has been scarcely explored, in particular the relationship between the anxiety-depressive symptomatology and the dyadic adjustment was not yet been analyzed (Klock, 2004). The present study was aimed to identify possible relationships between the adjustment of the marital couple, the anxiety symptoms, the presence of depressive symptoms in a group of future parents of twins during pregnancy to the 5th or 6th month (T1) and 4-6 months after delivery (T2). In this paper the main results of the research that contribute to increase knowledge about the condition of the parents of twins in the perinatal period are presented and discussed (Baldoni, Ceccarelli, 2010). The couples were contacted during the course prepartum. The group of participants consisted of 124 pairs at T1 and 97 at T2. Both in the group of fathers and in that of the mothers, we have found significant differences in the level of dyadic adjustment based on the levels of depression and anxiety in the pre- and post-partum period, confirming the complexity of the transition to parenthood. Specifically, results indicated a vulnerability in the adjustment of the romantic couple for fathers who showed high levels of anxiety and depression and for mothers who had high levels of depression (T1 and T2) and anxiety (T2). In addition, the study seems to indicate no incidence of age and number of child on the adjustment, but it showed the negative effects on it of having experienced a stressful event in the prepartum. Anxiety and depression levels also effect on the perception of dyadic adjustment during pre and post childbirth. We also saw how the mothers seem to be more exposed to the risk of a perception of lower satisfaction for the marital couple in the puerperium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present the results of a study on the level of knowledge of Psychology's students on two topics: homosexuality and domestic violence in same-sex couples. Assuming that stereotypes and prejudices about lesbian and gay (LG) population are still widespread in society and that, in the scientific literature, there are several theories and conflicting points of view on the origin and nature of sexual orientation, we investigated the level and quality knowledge about LG issues in 419 heterosexual students attending degree programs in Psychology at the University of Turin. The 18.6% of the subjects were men and 81.4% women, with a mean age of 25.08 years (SD = 4.16). As for domestic violence in same-sex couples, we explored the knowledge of the phenomenon, considering that interpersonal violence is a traumatic experience and its impact, if it happens within a romantic couple bond, is even greater. International scientific studies on this issue show that the severity and types of experience of abuse in gay and lesbians would be similar to those of heterosexual people: this phenomenon exerts, in fact, its incidence regardless of sexual orientation. Our data seem to show that a large percentage of students of Psychology, regardless of their course of study (Bachelor or Master degree), believes that the phenomenon is prevalent in heterosexual couples or does not know the DV in same-sex couples. Even the perception of difficulty in receiving help from the homosexual victims seems to be widespread among students who, presumably, will be professionals in the field of mental health. About knowledge, the answers given by the participants and the level of knowledge seem to reflect the lack of uniformity in the scientific research results and the gaps that remain in the dissemination of a scientific, specific, clear and detailed knowledge about sexual orientation. Overall, the survey results show how much there is still a lack of clarity in the knowledge possessed by the students and how important it is to invest further on the training of future mental health professionals on issues object of our investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: In DSM-V the concept of defense mechanisms (DM) is dissapeared. Allthoe, there are many studies that shows that psychological defense takes two forms extensively discussed in the field of psychology - the defense mechanisms (DM) and coping strategies. Andrews, G., Pollock, C., & Steward, G. (1989) published the paper The Determination of Defense Style by Questionnaire. The conclusions of the studies reveal that adaptive use of DM may be associated with better mental health and less distress translated into lower medical costs. Purpose of Study: The study aimed to investigate the factors structure of Defense Style Questionaire 40 (DSQ40) Romanian version and give possible explanations for small internal consistency of neurotic factor in the original study and among some of the transcultured versions of the questionnaire. Research Methods: The romanian version of DSQ40 (Bouleanu, 2011) was applied to clinical population (chronic somatic patients) (N=126, man=56, female=70, mean age=55.7, SD=11.49). Participants provided written informed consent before completing the questionnaires. An exploratory factor analysis was performed using Principal Axis Factoring (PAF), with varimax rotation. Findings: Initially we identified a structure with seven factors (explained variance: 41.71%). The modest amount of explained variance on factors 4 to 7 and the clinical judgment conducted to a model with 3 factors: factor 1 (eigenvalue 6.64, explained variance: 16%), factor 2 (eigenvalue 3.38, explained variance: 8.44%) and factor 3 (eigenvalue 1.81, explained variance: 4.52%). Cumulative explained variance was 29.11%. Conclusions: For clinical population (chronic somatic patients), there are some slate difference in DM pattern compare with non-patients, described in literature. Affective adjustment is the most common DM in this population. According with DSQ60 romanian version (Craṣovan & Măricuţoiu, 2012) the 3 factors structure is identified as the most acceptable regarding the clinical judgment. According to Saint-Martin, Valls, Rousseau, Callahan & Chabrol (2013), rationalization loaded on the mature (adaptative) factor. We found the same for acting out, despite the tow DM are considered immature mechanisms in literature (Andrews et al., 1989). We infer that affective defense style can predict the existence of clinical condition and in consequence higher costs for health services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper draws on the latest theories on two of the indispensable professional competences for the future society: creative capacity and adaptability to change. It has a social-constructivist view on initial and continuous teacher education in relation to quality assurance and exploration of creative potential. It aims to discuss the way reflective activities can generate learning situations which can be analysed, understood, adopted and implemented into practice. The purpose would be to provide teachers with instruments specific to critical and creative thinking for personal and professional development regardless of the training received. The research is built on the case study of a teacher education programme implementing new reflective systems as independent instruments attached to existing courses and evaluate changes in students' performance. In order to capture a thorough view of the problematic at hand, various investigation instruments were employed, such as reflective essays, the observation, self-evaluation reports and group discussions throughout undergraduate studies. In an interdisciplinary approach there were used psychological, business, pedagogical and sociological models, in the attempt to build an efficient model for teacher education. As this is an ongoing research at the moment of writing, only partial results will be presented in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The qualitative approach is focused on the cognitive representation about space starting from a text by Herta Müller-taken as the stimulus. The paper aims to identify the semantic network connected to space representation and to examine the space images of the target population by quantitative metrics of the actual space. Data were collected at the University of Bucharest in academic year 2014 and the questionnaires were administrated individually in paper- and- pencil format. In this paper we examine the item referring to the cognitive representation of space. The target population was invited to use the words expressing the images of space. The qualitative findings were measured in terms of quantitative metrics. The spatial language sustains the semantic network of the research in terms of philosophy of communication and meaning. The quantitative metrics of qualitative findings infer various images of space topological space, mathematic features of space, three dimensions 3D pictures, absolute space portrayal, concrete images, metaphoric images, etc. that can be processed by segmentation, invariance and distributed representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: Positive and negative emotions, personality traits, level of Well-being and Quality of life were central points of study in le last decades at international and global level. Hence, Murthy Sangeeta &Patil (2015) were interested to highlight differences on personality traits and emotional intelligence between individual and team athletes. Mohsin, Iqbal, Anila (2014) were interested to investigate the moderating role of positive and negative emotions in relationship between positive psychological capital and subjective well-being among adolescents. Vasher (2011) conducted a study in the way of evaluating the relationship between subjective well-being and self-reported efficacy. Purpose of Study: To evidence statistically significant differences between students at psychology and engineering students on positive and negative emotions, personality traits, level of Well-being and Quality of life. Research Methods: The participants were a number of 126 undergraduate students, 64 undergraduate students at psychology, University of Bucharest and 62 undergraduate engineering students, University of Polytechnics. Findings: The results confirmed partially the research hypotheses regarding the statistically significant differences between the two groups on positive and negative emotions, personality traits, level of Well-being and Quality of life (p<0.05). Conclusions: Learning environments are different and can stimulate different the students regarding positive and negative emotions, personality traits, level of Well-being and Quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: Earlier studies highlight the correlations between personality traits and opennes, extroversion and practicing sport (Costa & Oliva, 2012). Furthermore, Mosalalei, Nikbakhsh & Tojari (2014) investigate the relationship between personality traits and organizational citizenship behavior on athletes. Purpose of Study: The study is focused to investigate the possible relationships between the level of Well-being, self-esteem, life satisfaction, openness and sport practicing at students at psychology. Research Methods: The participants were a number of 75 students at psychology, age between 19 and 26 years old, 70 female and 5 male, rural and urban areas, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. Instruments: Ryff Well-being scale with 6 dimensions, Self-esteem scale (Rosnberg), life satisfaction scale (10 items, from 1 to 5 maximum) and Big five markers IPPIP (50 items). Findings: the findings highlighted the correlations between the five personality dimensions and life satisfaction, self-esteem and partially with the dimensions of the Well-being scale. Also, there were found statistically significant differences between the group practicing sports as activity during free time and the control group without practicing any sport activity (p<0.05). Conclusions: Sport activities give to the practitioners life satisfaction, high level of self-esteem and positive thoughts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: the IT Job description offer interactive task performance. Judge & Klunger (2009) highlite the correlation between the variables motivaton adn workplace challages, and the importance of rutine avoidance in order to obtain high performances at workplace. Purpose of Study: to highlight that perceived well-being level, pain perception and perceived quality of life are predictors for the IT services quality in a Multinational Company from Bucharest. Research Methods: The participants were a number of 35 employee from IT Multinational Company from Bucharest, 33 male employee and 2 female employee age between 25 and 45 years old (M=35,86; S.D.= 6.41). The instruments were:1. Quality of Life Scale (Flanagan, J. C. 1982) with 16 items; 2. Ryff Well-being Scale with 42 items and 3. Pain perception questionnaire Vienna Tests System (Schuhfried 2012) with the following dimensions: avoidance, activity, social support, cognitive control. Findings: There are positive correlations between the variables: cognitive control and positive relationships (r=0.681; p<0.01); personal growth and positive relationship (r=0.563; p<0.05); control cognitive and purpose of life (r=0.617; p<0.01); control cognitive and self-acceptance (r=0.524; p<0.05); personal growth and self-acceptance (r=0.639; p<0.05). Conclusions: There are dimensions of the Well-being that need support and development for the IT employee working the IT field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous studies investigated the relationship between driving anxiety and driving skills (Taylor, Deane, Podd, 2008), the relationship between Managing performance anxiety and improving mental skills (Osborne, Greene, Immel, 2014) and the relationship between anxiety and self-regulation, Thought stopping, thinking traps, Social skills and executive functioning (Minahan & Rappaport, 2013). The objective of the study is focused on highlighting the relationship between fine motor coordination and anxiety level at young students at psychology. Method: Participnats were a sample of 30 students at psychology, University of Bucharest, age between 19 and 2 years old, 25 female and 5 male, rural and urban areas. The instruments were the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) (Zung, 1971) and B19 motor coordination test (Schuhfries, 2012). The results confirm the research hypotheses (p<0.05). The practical application is focused on performance obtained at work place, driving and other activities that depend of the level of anxiety experienced by the participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous studies investigated fine motor coordination involving skills and activities using the hands and fingers (Amundson & Weil, 2000), optimization of the life in all aspects of people growth (Damasio, 2003 cited by Charleroy et al, 2012), relationship between audio-visual responses to stimuli and fine motor coordination (Dumitru & Chraif, 2014). The objective of the present study is the investigation of relationship between the aggressive behavior and fine motor coordination at Psychology students, presuming that there is a connection between them. The method: The participants were 30 students at Psychology, University of Bucharest, ages between 19 and 24 years old, 27 female and 2 male, rural and urban areas, with driving license. The instruments were the B19 labyrinth test (Vienna Tests System, 2012) measuring the variables: left hand errors, right hand errors and total errors both hands and AVIS aggressively driving behavior scale (Yorck Herzberg, J. Guthke, 2001) from Vienna Tests System. The Results confirmed partially the research hypotheses (p<0.05). The conclusion underline the evaluation and profile examination of drivers including the aggressively behavior besides other dimensions evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (APS-R, Slaney, Mobley, Rice, Trippi, & Ashby, 1999). The revised version of the scale was used. The 23 items measure adaptive and maladaptive dimensions of the perfectionism construct, revealing three dimensions: high standards, discrepancy and order. High standards and order represent forms of adaptive perfectionism, while order represents a maladaptive perfectionism. We used both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis in order to study the construct validity of the scale. The participants were undergraduate psychology students. The reliability estimates for the three APS-R subscale scores showed a good internal consistency. The exploratory factor analysis confirmed the original structure of the instrument, with three scales. Using the confirmatory factor analysis, the three-factor model with the Standards, Order, and Discrepancy dimensions approached an acceptable fit. Correlations between APS-R subscales and grade-point average and other perfectionism measures provided convergent and divergent validity support for the three scores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is an umanimous consensus thay says the educational process influences the aesthetic education of the students. Due to the activities developed with students and according to the results obtained after using different research methods, it has been proven that there is necessary to be applied a strong informational support, as well as an ethical one, in order to define the aesthetical personality of the students. In order to support the idea that school gives the students the opportunity of knowing the aesthetical values, this survey presents the results of a research in which there were involved fifty-one participants split in two different groups, based on attributes like humanistic and realistic orientation of them. The research methods were: the Method of Analyses and Theoretical generalisation of data from special literature, Observation, The Analyses of the activity products, Experimental Method, Mathematical-Statistics Method and The Graphic and Tables Methods. As a result, the following were observed: the students that study humanistic areas have a lot of aesthetical knowledge and this leads them to the position of leaders in creating beauty. The Conclusion is that art, through its value is an important method during the educational process and in the students' personality as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Constructivists suggest that social interaction is important for learning because higher mental functions such as reasoning, comprehension, and critical thinking originate in social interactions and are then internalized by individuals. Thus cooperative learning provides the social support and scaffolding that students need to move learning forward (Woolfolk, 2001). Cooperative learning is the instructional use of small groups so that students work together to maximize their own and each other's learning (Johnson, Johnson, & Holubec, 1998). Cooperative learning may be contrasted with competitive learning, in which students work against each other to achieve a good grade and only some of them succeed and individualistic learning, in which students work independently to achieve learning goals unrelated to those of other students. This pilot study examined the effects of cooperative and competitive leraning on the social competence and self concept in in primary school students'. The findings and the limits of the study and the research directions will be analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collaborative learning is a relationship among learners that requires positive interdependence, individual accountability, interpersonal skills, face to face promotive and processing. In agreement with the literature, is evidence that cooperative teams achieve at higher levels of thought and retain information longer than students who work quietly as individuals. Proponents of collaborative learning claim that the active exchange of ideas within small groups not only increases interest among the participants but also promotes critical thinking. The shared learning gives students an opportunity to engage in discussion, take responsibility for their own learning, and thus become critical thinkers (Totten, Sills, Digby & Russ, 1991). This study investigated the effect of collaborative learning on students and critical thinking: interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, self-regulation. The investigation results demonstrate the significant effect of cooperative learning education on critical thinking of students. From this research study collaborative learning fosters the development of critical thinking through discussion, clarification of ideas, and evaluation of others' ideas. Future research studies need to investigate the effect of different variables in the collaborative learning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DAP-R was created by G.Gesser, P.Wong, & G.Reker (1987-1988) and previously applied only on Canadian adults. Our purpose in this study was to make a cross-cultural adaptation of this scale using International Test Commission (2001). Fot theat, we translated the scale, creating one that is culturally and linguistically appropriate to Romanians. Then, we back-translated the Romanian version of the scale in English, and verified if the meaning of the questionnaire items was the same for both English versions. We applied both the English questionnaire and Romsanian questionnaire (two weeks later in order to diminish the learning effects). Participants included 76 individuals ( 52 women and 24 men, M = 25.4, S.D.= 7.5) After receiving both of the questionnaire results, we made a statistical interpretation of the data, in order to find more about the inner coherence of both versions of the test, and to compare the means.The value of Cronbach's Alpha for both versions of the test was high, α= 0.808 for the English version, and α= 0.800 for the Romanian translation of DAPR. The Paired Samples T-Test showed us that there was no significant difference between the means of the five dimensions of each scale when compared against each other, thus validating the reliability of the test, as well as showing us that the fact that there is no significant difference between the meanings of the items for the English and Romanian versions. We also wanted to see if gender somehow determines one's attitude towards death. In this purpose, we conducted a One-Way Anova to see the effect of gender (IV) on the test scores/death attitude dimensions (DV).The results showed us that there was no significant effect of gender on attitudes towards death dimensions, the means for both groups being very close to each other, except one thing. This exception concerns the dimension of Neutral Acceptance. It seems that gender has a significant effect on it, at the p <0.05 level for three conditions [F(1, 75) = 6.77, p < 0.01]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous studies were interested in investigating the relationship between Personality and Cognition across Adulthood (Soubelet&Salthouse, 2011), the relationship between higherorder cognition and personality (Ilkowska, 2011) and relationship between personality and motivation (Jude & Ilies, 2002). Present research objectives are circumscribed to investigate the possible correlations between the personality traits and the visual surface comparison capacity, task execution performance, aspiration level and frustration tolerance. Method: The participants were 30 students at the Faculty of Psychology, ages between 19 and 23 years old, 27 female, 3 male, from rural and urban areas. The instruments were the AHA test (Schuhfriend, 2012) measuring the variables: visual surface comparison capacity, task execution performance, aspiration level and frustration tolerance and the Hexaco-PIR personality test (Lee & Ashton) adapted on Romanian population with the dimensions: Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness (versus Anger), Conscientiousness, Openness to Experience. The results confirm partially the hypotheses (p<0.05). The conclusions underline the importance of personality traits in tasks performance execution, motivation and cognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem statement: One of the most ardent goals of service learning, community-service, multicultural, feminist, and community psychology courses has been training students to become more aware of oppression and inequalities determined by membership of particular groups, and to further take more social responsibility (Torres-Harding et al., 2014). The purpose of our study: Torres-Harding et al. (2012) proposed combining the defining elements of social justice, with the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1985) in order to grasp the potential predictors of social justice-related behaviors. The purpose of our research was to analyze the relationships between the components within this theoretical framework, by testing for a conditional process model comprised of attitudes (independent variable), behavioral control (mediator), subjective norms (moderator) and behavioral intentions (outcome variable), while controlling for social desirability (covariate). Research methods: The present sample consisted of 194 Romanian participants (Mage = 21.79; SD = 6.01) recruited from the students attending the same university. The components of social justice, were operationalized by the scores on Social Justice Scale (SJS; Torres-Harding, Siers & Olson, 2012). In addition, the short version of Marlowe- Crowne Social Desirability Scale (Crowne & Marlowe, 1960) proposed by Rudmin (1999) was applied for measuring social bias. Findings: The conditional indirect effects were tested using the Process Macro (Hayes, 2013) for SPSS. The bias-corrected bootstrap confidence intervals suggested that in participants with subjective norms one standard deviation above the mean, the indirect effect of attitudes, on behavioral intentions, via perceived behavioral control, was not statistically significant (B = .02; BC 95% CI [-.003, .069]), while in those with values one standard deviation below the mean the result was statistically significant (B = .09; BC 95% CI [.03, .16]), sustaining the moderated mediation model. Conclusions: To date, few studies have tried to depict the cognitive path between attitudes related to social justice, and behavioral intentions towards social justice efforts. Our research has indicated a significant but somehow counterintuitive conditional indirect effect between these two social justice components. Such findings, if replicated and further tested with appropriate scientific methods, could help professionals develop more efficient programs for enhancing social justice behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Patient C. I, 52 years of age came to the hospital for anxiety, depressive mood and ideation, social withdrawal, numerous somatic complaints and insomnia. A depressive syndrome was identified, which was then linked - according to the psychotherapeutic method "existential analysis" - to a deficit in the 2nd fundamental motivation. According to the existential analysis, the 2nd motivation imply the "enjoyment of life". Instead, to the depressive person, the external world is a place of negativity, helplessness, guilt and various personal deficiencies. The method applied was that of "personal existential analysis". The personal existential analysis method (PEA) illustrates the application of existential analysis in the individual therapeutic practice. The PEA consists of four main steps: In the first step PEA 0 the objective is to gather knowledge on the existential framework of the patient (biases in communication, financial difficulties, etc). In the PEA 1 are taking place the integration of impression in personal emotionality (for example, the somatic manifestations are expressions of his act of running away from himself). In the PEA 2 have place the processing of impression relative to existing values (discussing about the physical symptoms, together with the patient's pessimistic thoughts about his own person and life, bring about constant discomfort); PEA 3 aims to find one's personal expression according to one's stand and the actual circumstances (through a series of conditions that are necessary in order to form a correct perception of the fundamental value of life - closeness to the others, time and relationship). The patient was received an antidepressant treatment during several time, but the symptoms did not improve in a satisfacatory way. Adding to the treatment the psychotherapeutic method "existential analysis" the patient started to feel more relaxed and have less physical complaints, his communication became more efficient, and in a word, the patient senses much more "enjoyment of life". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literature abounds in studies showing the direct connection between individuals' motivation for study, as the process of initiating, sustaining and directing activity, and their learning performance. In general, one's affect towards a particular thing, action, situation or experience represents the way that thing, that action, that situation or that experience fits in with one's needs or purposes, and its resulting effect on one's emotions, or affective variables such as motivation and attitude. In the case of ITE, motivation can precede the classroom situation, or it can be engaged by it. The teacher trainee can have strong reasons for wanting to learn before he or she ever comes to the classroom. In the course of attending a class strong reasons for continuing to attend and learn can emerge. In other words, learning breeds its own motivation and at the same time previous motivation can lead to success. Learners with positive learning experiences are more willing to engage with future ones, more confident in their chances of succeeding, and more likely to persevere in their efforts. The goals of teacher training also include changing trainees' attitudes towards teaching. At the same time the attitude of trainees toward the profession, the learning situation and the roles they are expected to play in the classroom have an important effect on the learning process. Attitudes are not innate, but culturally and socially acquired. Although they can be modified by experience and reflection, they tend to be deep-rooted and persistent. Attitude is related to motivation. Learners' motivation may be determined by their attitude toward teaching and learning environment. This study intended to reveal the motivation for study and the attitudes on career that teacher trainees have as they enroll on ITE courses and they complete them successfully, in order to identify means of action towards better performance during the programme. The study researched used quantitative and qualitative instruments with 80 participants. Data was coded and analyzed by four independent researchers for reasons of validity and reliability. Results informed course tutors on action to be taken for sustaining teacher trainees' performance during ITE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: Paranoid schizophrenia can have a difficult evolution from clinical point of view, especially if it comes on a particular structure of personality with obsessive-compulsive elements and accompanied by the alcohol and hallucinogenic substances. In this way is important to have an evaluation based on the information given by the life history of the patient and a thorough psychiatric evaluation in order to cover the cognitive area (a possible deficit from the last years due to the evolution of the disorder) and also the affective-relational personality one. Purpose of Study: Starting from the difficulty to highlighting the paranoid schizophrenia by presenting the mechanisms that merged together to the onset of disease and considering the personality structure of the patient linked with the alcohol and psychoactive substances abuse, we analyzed the case compared with current literature and we made a psychodynamic approach of this case. Research Methods: - psychiatric evaluation based on DSM and psychodynamic interpretation - psychological evaluation Findings: This study shows the personality profile marked by the multiple types of hallucinations. by the xenopatic control of ideations and by the mental automated syndrome face to the need of control manifested by the patient. A significant role has been seen in the family and social environment which is in contact dally with the patient. Conclusions: The line between paranoid schizophrenia and schizophrenic like disease, given by long time abuse of hallucinogen substances is tortuous and confusing. Unfortunately, as the literature specifies, the substance abuse can be a trigger for a schizophrenia disease, in a certain critical moment, a vulnerable moment in the existence of a patient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: Starting from the following hypothesis: the environment did not allowed to the patient to develop mature coping mechanisms in order to offer an equilibrium between internal resources and events with traumatic potential from her life; a cumulative trauma had a significant role as a trigger in patient long lasting personality change - we are presenting a case of a cumulative trauma overlapped on a fragile Self with an exchange of personality result. Purpose of Study: - identification of defense mechanisms characteristic to the patient and the contribution in vulnerability load - identification of traumatic events with a trigger role in onset of psychiatric disease - identification of cumulative trauma effects on patient personality change - identification of psycho-social and financial factors that could lead to the improvement / deterioration of patient psychical state of mind Research Methods: - psychological evaluation: Hamilton depression and anxiety scales; Schmieschek questionnaire (accentuated personality traits profile), Lusher projective test and Szondi - clinical interview, observation and psychodynamic correlations Findings: As a result of clinical investigations, we have seen a fragile personality aspects, immature, primitive, with insufficient differentiation, impulsive orientated, that permits and tolerates physical long lasting abuse having non-adaptive defense mechanism Conclusions: We can define that there is a causality relation between internal patient vulnerabilities and the acceptance of agresivity, on one side, but also between the agresivity and the trigger of a psychiatric disorder on the second side. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: This case allows us to see haw a craniocerebral trauma that occurred in adolescence can be as a trigger for a schizophrenic like disorder in adult life, in a gradually manner: first an organic personality disorder, then a delirious disorder and at the end a schizophrenic like disorder. Together with predisposing elements that could "smooth" the process to the same result, the cerebral trauma accelerates and strengthens the transition from organic personality disorder area to schizophrenic disorder area. Purpose of Study: - identification of important moments in patient life as they appear in the clinical interview - identification of the factors as triggers for the actual symptomatology - defining the modality of the acceleration of schizophrenic like pathology triggered by craniocerebral trauma Research Methods: - clinical interview, observation, diagnostic visions - psychological evaluation: Hamilton clinical depression and anxiety scales - projective examination: Luscher test ad Szondi test - correlations with published literature Findings: Craniocerebral trauma is a trigger factor for alteration of memory, thinking, perception and affectivity area. In this way, together with predisposant and/or favorable factors (like premorbid personality structure, traumatic events and favorable family or social environment) we see post-traumatic personality disorder. In time, they can degenerate and can compose a table of a schizophrenic like disorder. Once the psychical status worsens the social retreat became more present, the patient sees the environmental factors more stressful and more numerous and incontrollable. Conclusions: Craniocerebral trauma can be a trigger factor for an organic personality disease and correlated with predisposing factors (like antisocial personality structure) or with favorable factors (like social, professional and family environment) assure, in time, the transformation in a chronic disease - schizophrenic like disorder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: Massive unemployment, loss of traditional crafts ethnicity, keeping customs related to marriage at an early age resulted in many Roma families occurrence of extreme poverty and dysfunctional relationships with domestic violence Purpose of the study: the objective is to determine whether parenting education module adapted for Roma families can have the effect of increasing family cohesion and adaptability, increasing emotional parent-child relationship, reducing rejection or overprotection of children by parents. Research methods: 20 Roma children from a village in the north of the country were included in the research. For 10 of them, their families attended a parenting module for 10 sessions that focused on psycho-education, identifying ways of managing stress and anger, learning effective communication skills and conflict resolution, knowledge about child's needs and the effects of child's abuse, different styles of attachment and parenting and learning the ways of behavioral change. The variables were: cohesion and family adaptability, emotional warmth, rejection, overprotection evaluated by Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (Olson, Portner & Lavee) built on two dimensions of family functioning: cohesion and adaptability; short-Embu (Swedish acronym for Egna Minnen Beträffande Uppfostran) containing 23 items and is built on three dimensions: emotional warmth, rejection and overprotection. Findings and results: The results highlight that the parental education module has a positive effect on improving the emotional bonds between parents and children: emotional relation between children and parents increased (p = 0.0001), increased family cohesion (p = 0.020), decreased rejection (p = 0.0001). No positive influence on the family adaptability or the overprotection behavior was found. The research includes a detailed case study. Conclusions: Parental education can bring beneficial changes in family relationships Very traditionalist, from many points of view, Roma family can capture the willingness to learn new behaviors that result in a better relationship with the children. Since childhood emotional relationships and parental models are often at the root of the difficulties of adapting adult parenting. These results are very important and useful especially for vulnerable groups such as the Roma community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: We choose to highlight the case of a 55 years old patient, with diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder in order to try to identify a possible link between psychiatric diagnosis and cumulative traumas suffered by the patient during all development stages. Purpose of Study: - Identification of trauma events that can be assigned as trigger events of various episodes of her psychic disorder - Identification of defence mechanisms specific to this patient and their contribution in creation of existent vulnerability. - Identification of positive and negative prognostic elements, that can sustain the patient to follow a psychiatric treatment and in a sustained qualitative and long term remission of the disease. We started from the following hypothesis: - we supposed that cumulative traumas have favored the occurrence of present psychiatric disorder - we supposed that identifying the patient resources can have a major contribution in her reinsertion (social and professional) Research Methods: We followed the patient by psychiatric and psychological examination Findings: Late onset of psychopathological manifestations for this patient rises the problem of a differential diagnosis between a schizoaffective disorder and a bipolar affective disorder. What tip the balance is the richness of perceptual phenomenon, significantly disorganization on thinking level and on speech level, increase persistence of symptomatology, the bizarre and spectacular delirant ideation. Conclusions: The patient is using the delirant interpretative defense mechanism while in her attempt for finding the truth, feels that somewhere she loses the essence of the things, loosing in this way the capacity of reality testing. During clinical interviews, she is dysphoric with circumstantial speech, she has as a distinctive element the lookalike illusion, she states that the presence of a thought as a third entity and gives symbolic signification to the events that took place in her life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The socio-emotional abilities developed in children while in kindergarten become the foundation of school learning. School success is very much influenced by each child's emotional and social development level. To stimulate the verbal, nonverbal and paraverbal communication abilities during the educational activities is both a major target and an important condition for what we could call the best maturity/growth level for beginning school education, which is characterized by a good socio-emotional adaptation of the child. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to identify the relations between self-esteem and parent autonomy support and involvement in the Romanian high school student's education. In the present study are included a sample of 152 high school students from Brasov County. The instruments used in this study were two questionnaires: the first was Rosenberg's Self-esteem questionnaire and the second questionnaire was Perception of Parents which investigated mothers and fathers autonomy support and involvement. Results showed that there are strong associations between self-esteem and parent autonomy support and involvement suggesting that the two concepts are in an interdependent relationship. We also found differences between students with high self-esteem and low self-esteem regarding whether students feel that their parents encourage autonomy and if are involved and preoccupied with them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: The involvement of the hypochondriac patients in the cognitive-behavioral therapy is rather difficult because of the mistrust they manifest towards medical personnel. Also, difficulties may interfere because of the uncontrolled wish of the patients to discuss and listen to diverse information regarding physical symptoms, despite the preoccupation with psychological factors. These patients have it difficult to accept the idea that their problematic is of psychological nature and make efforts to prove that this approach does not suit them because they are severely ill. Purpose of Study: The present theoretical study aims to present several insertions that refer to problems encountered in the diagnosis and treatment of hypochondriacal states. Research Methods: A series of behavioral factors contribute to erroneous interpretations which the hypochondriac subjects offer to physiological sensations. These are: checking, avoiding, reassurance behaviors and the asking for reinforcements. Another category is represented by behaviors with preventive nature, meant to reduce the risk of future in sickening. Findings: In order to accelerate the cognitive-behavioral intervention it is desired that the patient should give up on numerous medical check-ups which he has the tendency to make. When this happens, the results of the medical check-ups should be utilized along with the behavioral experiments in order to prove the patient the way in which the symptoms ameliorate as a result of reinforcements, showing their psychogenic nature. Conclusions The development of the cognitive-behavioral model of hypochondria has lead to shaping some psycho-therapeutic interventions which turned out to be efficient. The cognitive-behavioral approach suggested in several times that the observation of the symptoms - both on a topographical and functional levels - are remarkably overlapped to anxiety disorders. A consequence of this fact is the reinterpretation given by DSM 5 which classifies hypochondria as Illness anxiety disorder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: Studies investigating cross-cultural differences in socialization goals focus mainly on individualism-collectivism as a source of variations. Since this approach raises several issues, we decided to investigate cross-cultural differences in socialization goals also as a function of power distance, given the relationship of this dimension to child socialization. Taking power distance into consideration is also important because it might be associated with cross-cultural variations in the relationship between parental education and socialization goals. Purpose of Study: Our first objective was to investigate cross-cultural differences in socialization goals as a function of power distance and individualism-collectivism. Our second objective was to investigate if power distance moderates the relationship between education and socialization goals. Research Methods: The research was conducted on a sample of 41.017 parents from 42 countries from 5 continents that participated in the sixth wave of World Values Survey. Using Hofstede's cultural dimensions, countries were categorized as a function of their positioning on power distance, respectively individualism-collectivism. Participants answered a question about highest education level and were presented with a list of eleven socialization goals, being requested to mention the five most important socialization goals. Findings: Using a series of chi-square analysis we found the following results: a) parents from individualistic countries mention more frequently socialization goals like independence, responsibility, imagination, tolerance, determination and self-expression and less frequently hard work, thrift, religious faith, unselfishness and obedience then collectivistic parents; b) parents from high power distance countries mention less frequently socialization goals like independence, imagination, tolerance, determination, and self expression and more frequently hard work, responsibility, thrift, religious faith, unselfishness, and obedience. Power distance moderates the relationship between education and the following socialization goals: hard work, responsibility, imagination, unselfishness, obedience, self-expression. Conclusions: Differences in socialization goals between individualistic and collectivistic cultures were relatively small but congruent with prior findings. Power distance is similar to individualism-collectivism in its association with socialization goals, so taking this dimension into consideration might not improve our prediction of socialization goals differences. Power distance moderated relationships between education and certain socialization goals. The implications for the influence of culture on parenting are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: a) Mental disorder is a global deficiency, that significantly influence the socio-professional adaptation, degree of competence and autonomy, affecting the whole personality. (Ghergut, A., 2005). b)According to Tudose (2011) depression is defined as a basal mood crash, when the unpleasant, sad and threatening feelings are underlined and updated. c)The parenting style represents a children general pattern of growing, defined as a combination of both emotional warmth and control given to the child.(Bonchis 2011) Purpose of Study: O1: Studying the influence of maternal parenting style and family environment on the occurrence of depressive symptoms, and the risk of decompensation, with a mild or moderate depressive episode on young people with mental disorder. O2: Studying the use of imaginary life and fantasy as a method of "coping" by young people with mental disorder. Research Methods: Participants: Fifty young people with moderate degree of mental disorder, aged 20-30 years. The methods: The speech evaluation sheet, Beck Depression Inventory, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Family Drawing Test, Semi-structured interview Findings: The empirical research hypothesis H1: "maternal parenting style directly affects the occurrence of depressive disorder in young people with mental disabilities. Permissive or authoritarian parenting styles positively influence the occurrence of depressive symptoms" was invalidated and cannot conclude or prove the direct influence of maternal parental style on the incidence of decompensation with a depressive episode by young people with mental disabilities. The hypothesis H2:"the occurrence of depressive episode in young people with mental disabilities directly affects the use of fantasies and imaginary life as coping method, meaning that young people with richer depressive symptomatology use more imaginary elements in real life " it was confirmed. Conclusions: a) Maternal parenting style may influence to some extent the degree of depression in young people with mental disabilities, but there is a significant correlation between negative parenting styles (authoritarian or permissive) and occurrence of depressive episode. b) The study on young participants with mental disabilities who experience a richer depressive symptomatology shows, that they will seek ways of adapting to the environment, using fantasy and their own imaginary life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem statement Adolescents' emotions and the ability to adjust them have a tremendous impact upon their well-being and can contribute to satisfying and healthy relationships in their life (Karukivi, 2011). Alexithymia is a term used by Peter Sifneos for the first time in the early 1970s to define a cognitive and affective deficit in processing, adjustment and verbalizing emotions. Many research explored alexithymia amongst adolescents because it's considered a major risk factor at this age, due to its implications like low social skills and affected relationships and to the inherent transitions in adolescence. Purpose of Study - To explore the relationship between alexithymia and interpersonal problems on a sample of 174 adolescents (101 boys, 73 girls) from a high-school with mathematics-informatics profile from Brasov. Research Methods: In order to measure all the three facets of alexithymia (difficulties in identifying emotions, difficulties in describing emotions, externally oriented thinking) we used Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). We also used a short version of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP-32) for assessing eight types of difficulties regarding: assertiveness, sociability, aggressivity, openness, care, supportiveness, involvement and dependency that adolescents may encounter in their interpersonal relationships. Both instruments are based upon a five point Likert scale. Findings: A correlational analysis was performed to assess whether alexithymia is positively associated with interpersonal problems or not. Also, a t-test was used to verify if highalexithymic adolescents report a significantly higher intensity of interpersonal problems than low-alexithymic adolescents. In the end, a regression analysis was used in order to verify if alexithymia can predict interpersonal problems that adolescents have in their relationships. In order to deepen the analysis, we verified three working hypothesis, which revealed that alexithymia is positively and strongly associated especially with difficulties regarding involvement in relationships, sociability and with a non-assertive social functioning. Conclusions High-alexithymic adolescents scored significantly higher on interpersonal problems than low-alexithymic adolescents. Results of regression analysis revealed that interpersonal problems in adolescence can be predicted by alexithymia. Results and implications are further discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study addresses the preschool ages - 141 children from 4 to 6 1/2 years - with the newly created Block Design test (Clinciu, 2014), applied in conjunction with three graphic tests, Draw a Man, Draw a House and Bender-Gestalt Standard tests. The objective of the study was to determine a few psychometric characteristics of the newly created instrument, to study its relationships with the other tests in the battery and its evolution in relation to the demographic factors age and gender. The results show robust psychometric properties of the Block Design, a highly discriminative capacity on the researched ages scale and an important contribution to defining the visuo-spatial-motor factor of intelligence. No gender differences were identified for the used tests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: Communication within the working group is carried out in limited human communities and enables exchange of ideas, feelings, providing conditions for sharing experiences, discussions in order to calm conflicts or find solutions to address them when the state of the issues is escalated. Purpose of Study: The present study aims to investigate the level of efficiency inside a working group based on the act of communication; another objective is represented by the study of relationships between communication and ways of solving conflicts within the working group (N=60). Research Methods: The research lot is composed of 60 employees, 15 of the respondents are female and 45 are male. They are working for a Construction Company in Bucharest. The age of the participants is between 22 and 51 years, with the mean age of 38.9 years and the standard deviation of 7.37. The instruments used in this study were The Communication Group Inventory, The Questionnaire of Professional Motivation and The Inventory for the Assessment of Conflicts. Findings: Regarding the first hypothesis of the research, the Pearson correlation coefficient obtained, r(60) = 0.705, p <0.000 (2-tailed) indicates a significant positive correlation between total scores reported for interpersonal communication and those reported by the subjects investigated for the cooperation technique, as a chosen technique for solving the conflict. In other words, if the level of interpersonal communication between group members will be realized at an optimal level then the chosen conflict resolution technique will be one that is based on cooperation. Conclusions The objectives of this initiative focused on the study of the relation between communication and ways of solving conflicts in the working group and identifying the professional motivation configuration and the interactions with conflict resolution techniques in determining an effective communication. The research hypotheses were built in such a way that it would comprise the main coordinates of interest for the study: communication - conflict solving techniques - and the work group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: Psycho therapeutically use of fairy tales started with psycho dynamic school, following humanistic-experiential orientation and cognitive science, recognizing their importance for mental development in childhood but also in therapeutically frame by activating inner resources, coping mechanisms, increasing reliance and reframing personal experiences. Purpose of Study: To identify any differences and connections from narrative content elements and processes of fairy tales produced by participants (clinically normal vs. mild depressive condition), in order to revel the specificity of mental patterns associated with pathology or health. Research Methods: A new post-modernist approach combining quantitative and qualitative methods as thematic analysis (guided by structural morphology of fairy tales, Propp, 1958) and content discourse analysis using two models: Content narrative analysis model (Gonçalves et al., 2001) and Narrative Processuality model (Angus et al., 1996). Findings: Quantitative analyzes used SPSS.20 package. BDI.II scores divide sample in two subgroups: normally clinic (N= 29, m = 4.05) and mild depressive disorder (N = 25, m = 16.35). Findings reflect important differences about: personal relationships, contact with fairy tales over time, psychological themes. T-test reflects no significant differences between groups regarding dimensions of Setting, Characters and Events, but thematic diversity for normal condition. Similar findings reflect slightly lower level of positive subjectifying and objectifying in depressive condition and higher for negative subjectifying and metaphorisation. Pearson coefficient revels differences between groups regarding dynamics and connections of narrative content and processes, such as: Events and Characters (r=.648, p<.001), Setting and Events (r=.436, p<.001) and Themes and Characters (r=.338, p<.001) for clinically normal, and non for depressive condition but metaphorisation and negative subjectifying (r=.579, p<.005) and also with cognitive subjectifying (r=.562, p<.005). Conclusions: Differences reveled in narrative content and processes sustain capacity of fairy tales to identify patterns and template for social interaction, ability level of decoding social interactions, stimulating emotional experience and deep reflection about significant personal issue; mental mechanism for future projects; increasing empathy, developing creativity in generate new perspective and possibilities, etc. A new multidisciplinary approach could open an integrative vision on fairy tales, discovering their realistic, specific and useful therapeutically role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study was carried out on 370 pupils in the 9th and 11th grades of four high schools in Brasov, out of which two have a high value standard, one has an average value standard and one has a lower value standard. The main purpose of the study was to validate a newly created Battery of Vocational Aptitudes (BVA). Secondarily I tried to highlight the gender differences and the differences that appear at the beginning and at the end of high school when we speak about school results. For this I took into consideration the conjugated action of cognitive and personality factors, and of occupational domains in order to obtain academic performances which are expressed by grade point average (GPA). The results show the predominant role cognitive factors have in obtaining school achievements at high school level, and confirm the e11stence of important differences in connection to gender, parents' studies, structure of the investigated pupils' interests and personality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The six-factor model of personality is known as one of the most valid models of personality, bringing a significant increment regarding the variance explained by the Big Five taxonomy. The aim of this research was to establish the factorial structure of the personality inventory which is based on the HEXACO model. 250 undergraduate psychology students completed an online version of the instrument. We presented item and scale statistics. The factorial structure was established using the exploratory factor analysis, the factors being rotated using the varimax technique. Results resembled closely the original six-factor solution represented by the HEXACO taxonomy. We extracted 10 items for each factor, the instrument being composed of 60 items. In conclusion, the six-factor model of personality is a new empirical-validated model in personality psychology, therefore there is a need to develop new assessment instruments with the aim of bringing new evidence that contributes to the development of this lexical model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this research was to establish a taxonomy of personality descriptors that exists in the Romanian language as well as to identify the factorial structure of the identified taxonomy. We identified 5722 person-descriptive adjectives from a Romanian dictionary. Seven judges classified those adjectives into five descriptive categories. 534 adjectives were considered by the judges as being "dispositions" (relatively stable traits). We performed a factorial analysis on the 534 adjectives in self-ratings from 260 respondents. In the five-factor solution, three dimensions resembled the Big Five Extraversion, Conscientiousness and Agreeableness. The forth factor represents the rotated variant of Emotional Stability and the fifth factor consisted mostly of Intellect and Imagination. The six-factor solution closely replicated the HEXACO model of personality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

1. Topic Approach. I am questioning today's psychiatric practices in the field of music therapy. I will look at interdisciplinary links attempting to connect the music therapy technique with music and medicine. Despite the previous research, the science of music therapy exists only in preliminary forms, and not in well-established structures. 2. The purpose of this study is to gather previously accepted elements and experiments in the practice of music therapy and to form a position towards situations and observations rarely looked-at by peer researchers. I will enunciate reasons for which the topic of psychiatry/psychology in music tied to musical and medical issues is so rarely (and in most cases, amateurishly) discussed. There are neuralgic points that are stopping music therapy as a process to rehabilitate the patient's psychiatric behavior to develop as a science; these steam out of the therapists failures in relating to their patients, which are leading towards unproductive outcomes. 3. Methodology. 1. By implementing a medium to test and quantize the outcomes of various genres (such as choral music, or music for strings) and show improvements in psychiatric balancing, sensomotoric, and body perception in the patient. 2. A special condition proposed by the authors of this study: spontaneous unorganized experimentation (direct/intuitive) in the practice of music therapy. 3. Analyzing the patient- therapist conversation - essentially a psychiatric basis (going around the symptoms sphere, correlated with idiolect experiences). 4. Findings. An issue to re-conceptualize is the restructuring of therapy from the perspective of programing the subconscious through music for the goal of new psychic experiences. "The warming" of the subconscious to receive subliminal information, positive (necessary) emotions, is done through music (musicosophy). We can sustain the processes of psychiatric recovery through exercising; we can focus on breathing, and on those energetic channels that support us. 5. Conclusions. It has constantly been attempted to eradicate the existing incertitude starting from intuitive roots or from processes intentionally researched. It has been concluded that education focusing on getting in the sphere of aesthetics is developing a space of psychical health. Therapy forms such as art-therapy should have a clinical approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Problem Statement: Academic dishonesty is a phenomenon with multiple social implications, which has spread more and more in recent years, not only in Romania, but in other countries as well, questioning the integrity of the degrees offered by educational institutions, as well as the values that we foster in modern society. Moreover, these types of behaviors have proved to be a good predictor for unethical decisions in later professional practice. The theoretical model used in the present research is Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) (Ajzen, 1985; 1991; 2001). Purpose of Study: The main objective of this study was to construct a set of questionnaires that could enable us to conduct a subsequent quantitative research in Romanian universities, in an attempt to test the predictive validity of an extended version of the TPB on academic cheating intentions and to design an intervention plan that might reduce the impact of this phenomenon at university level. Research Methods: We constructed a TPB questionnaire on academic cheating intentions according to the methodology suggested by Ajzen (2002, 2006). We translated from English the LOGO II questionnaire (Eison, 1983). We constructed an additional mixed questionnaire targeted to measure two of the variables included in previous extended versions of the TPB--moral obligation and justifications for cheating, as well as two variables we consider critical for academic dishonesty--academic climate and student's motivations for cheating. Findings: The overall internal consistency for the TPB questionnaire was α = .83, which indicates a very good internal consistency. For the scales of LOGO II questionnaire, Cronbach's α values were quite low as compared to the English variant of the questionnaire: (αen = .76/ αro = .59; αen = .73/ αro = .53). For the mixed questionnaires the Cronbach's α values were very good, except for the Academic climate scale, which was very close to the .70 threshold (α = .68). Conclusions: The results enabled us to revise the questionnaires and to construct the final version of the TPB questionnaire, shading light as well on the underlying motivation behind student's academic dishonesty and on the students' easily accessible beliefs about cheating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aggressive driving is becoming an increasingly important topic, as the number of driving aggression incidents have increased. Aggressive driving is taken into consideration as a potentially important factor that could lead to the escalation of traffic accidents, and thus leading to more severe consequences. Aggressive driving is usually understood as any driving behavior directed towards harming another road user (physically or verbally). The aim of this study was to analyze and compare driving aggression in two samples (Romanian and French) and to investigate its role in predicting self-reported speeding. Two samples were used for this study: a Romanian one comprising 88 young drivers (18- 25 years, M = 22.5; SD = 1.91, and 69% women) having 3.5 years of driving experience (SD = 2.1) and a French one comprising 87 young drivers (M = 21.6; SD = 2.25) with 3 years of driving experience (SD = 2). All participants answered an online questionnaire on driving anger (Driving Anger Expression Inventory, DAX) and on self-reported speeding behavior. Results showed significant differences between Romanian and French drivers on all the three main factors of DAX, Romanian drivers obtaining higher values. Furthermore, our analysis indicated that the some of the DAX factors represent good predictors of selfreported speeding behavior among our samples. Our results seem to indicate that within the Romanian sample, driving anger could represent an important predictor of speeding. It is noteworthy to observe that young Romanians drivers have reported higher values on all DAX factors. These results could be used in order to increase road users' safety and potentially reduce the number of traffic accidents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aims to explore the relationships between resilience, self-perception, and locus of control, hypothesizing that high resilience is associated with high self-esteem and resilient adolescents tend to exhibit higher levels of internality. The study was conducted on an adolescent sample from several high school in Brasov (N = 156). The following instruments were used: - The Adolescent Resilience Scale (ARS - Oshio, Kaneko, Nagamine, & Nakaya 2002) - The Questionnaire of Self-perception (QSP - Clinciu, 2010) - The Levenson Multidimensional Locus of Control Inventory (Levenson, 1973) The results showed that highly resilient adolescent have a higher level of self-esteem and are more internally oriented, rather than externally oriented. There were no gender differences regarding the resilience and its dimensions. The results confirmed the main hypothesis. In order to explore the relationship between the variables, we tested a mediation model, aiming to highlight that locus of control mediates the association between self-perception and psychological resilience. The path analysis showed significant indirect effects locus of control on resilience. The three types of locus of control had significant direct effects on resilience, positive effects for the internal locus of control and negative for the external locus of control. Selfperception has a direct positive effect on resilience. The results confirmed previous research in the field, showing that the level of self-esteem could determine the attitudes towards life (Brown, 2010; Richardson, Ratner, & Zumbo, 2009). In addition, the results showed that locus of control mediates the association between self-perception and resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]