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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021)
TABLE OF CONTENTSLink between Sensory Processing Sensitivity and Self-esteem Using the Example of a Group of Polish Adolescents [5]MONIKA BARYŁA-MATEJCZUKJUDYTA BIENIEKALICJA ŚLUSARCZYKThe Prediction Power of Family Structure for Different Subtypes of Resilience [19]BIANCA PELTEAConsequences of Parental Divorce [33]CLAUDIA-GABRIELA DUMITRIUALEXANDRA DUDUThe Play in Eugen Fink's Philosophical Reflection [45]PANAGIOTIS ASIMOPOULOSGender Barriers and Academic Management of „Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi [57]GEORGE MARIAN ICHIMSanta Claus: Fictional Character with Real Impact. Is It Safe to Tell Children that Santa Claus Exists? [65]MARANA ANA LAURA CIUBOTARU -
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021)
CONTENTSNeurobiological Features and Their Impact on the Intellect and Behavior of the Institutionalized Child [5]Bogdan Marius ISTRATE,Alina Budacu AIAZZIABSTRACT: Institutionalized children often suffer from a vulnerability and neglect that can affect their lives throughout its course, leaving even the sequelae that imprint them and a certain delay in their hormonal, physical and emotional-behavioural development. The environment from which these children come, the family particularities and the nature of the institutionalization, are decisive factors that exert their action and impact in time, often leaving irreversible wounds with a sufficiently visible imprint on the adult life. This article is intended for the analysis of some retroactive findings, observed in institutionalized children aged between 2 and 8 years, findings from more special points of view that have not been the subject of many publications found in the literature. Thus, are described particularities of behavior during institutionalization as well as “post-institutional syndrome”, cerebral impairments at the neurobiological and neurogenetic level, delays and deviations in the development of the intellect and, subsequently, their integration into society.Keywords: neuropsychiatry, child, behavior, neurobiology, institutionalized, development, delay The Role of Personality Traits in Developing Resilience [13]Simona MARICAAlexandra MAFTEIABSTRACT: The research aimed at obtaining information about the impact personality traits have on one person’s resilience. Instruments: We used three tests, namely: 1) The Holmes-Rahe Stress Scale – for determining the adverse events lived by the respondent; 2) The Wellbeing Scale – for determining the wellbeing perceived by the respondent; 3) The 5-Neo-PI-RInventory – for evaluating the personality traits of the respondents. The results obtained upon having the questionnaires filled in were evaluated using SPSS. Results: The research aimed at verifying some hypothesis which were built starting from the personality traits within the 5-Neo-Pi-R questionnaire: neuroticism, conscientiousness, openness, agreeableness, extraversion, allowing to draw a conclusion for obtaining an answer to the question: which personality traits are specific to resilient persons? The answer to this question can be used both for improving the results obtained in psychotherapy, and also in developing new studies on resilience, so that knowing it might be used at a larger scale, increasing as much as possible the efficiency of the psychotherapy process.Keywords: resilience, personality, neuroticism, conscientiousness Effectiveness of Stop Smoking Program. Identifying Variables That Can Predict the Success of the Smoking Cessation Process [21]Amira RĂDULESCUMagdalena CIOBANURaluca SFETCUABSTRACT: According to the WHO, tobacco kills about half of its consumers, almost 7 million people a year, of whom nearly 1 million are passive smokers. Europe has a worryingly high level (28%) regarding the prevalence of smoking among people over the age of 15 and the adolescent segment. These issues make tobacco use an epidemic. The “Stop Smoking” National Program is coordinated by the Institute of Pulmonology “Marius Nasta” and is funded by the Romanian Ministry of Health, being implemented in 6 centres across Romania. The program aims to give smokers access to a complete treatment program to help them quit smoking, according to the recommendations of the World Health Organization and similar programs at the international level. The “Stop Smoking” program results have so far been evaluated only in terms of success rate, namely the percentage of abstinent patients at the end of the program (about 60% of all enrolled) and six months after quitting (about 40%). This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the National Program (“Stop Smoking”) as well as the impact of factors such as age, Fagerstrom score, number of cigarettes smoked daily, previous attempts to quit smoking, the number of months of abstinence in previous attempts and individual psychological counselling on the program performance. Results show that, in Bucharest centre, 74.8% of the total number of participants in the program was abstinent at the end of the program and 52.3% were abstinent six months after the conclusion of the program.Keywords: behavioural therapy, evidence-based cessation treatment, nicotine dependence, quitting tobacco How We See Motion Pictures. Illusion and Reality in the Perception of the Cinematographic Image [35]SILVIU ȘERBANABSTRACT: The study of motion perception is initially related to the prehistory of cinema. The Plateau’s apparatus, the phenakistoscope, shows up the classical theory, “the persistence of images on the retina”, that explains the movement perception through a phenomenon of the inertia of the retina. At the beginning of the 20th century, Max Wertheimer and Gestalt psychology initiate the paradigm shift in understanding the same process, but later, like Plateau’s explanation, Gestalt hypotheses are experimentally rejected. Nevertheless, subsequent discoveries reveal the existence of several types of motion perception. Moreover, what turns out to be even more interesting is that these new experimental results of psychologists complement the discourse of classical film theorists. Thus, both the logic of the evolution in understanding the movement perception and their correspondences with certain aspects of the classical film theory are subjects of this article.Keywords: phi phenomenon, long-range apparent motion, short-range apparent motion, long take, analytical montage The Educational System in Bulgaria in Conditions of Reform-Preserved Traditions and Innovations [65]Tamara DRAGANOVAABSTRACT: The article presents the educational system in Bulgaria in the conditions of educational reform after 2016. The normative and procedural frameworks are presented through content analysis, situational and conceptual analysis. Macro-models of the specifics of state educational standards, curricula are presented and the traditions and innovations in the educational system at different levels and normative dimensions are systematized.Keywords: educational system, educational reform, learning plans, Curricula, school education, normative framework, traditions and innovations, school subjects Linguistic Impact on Self-Awareness and Social Affiliation [75]Svilen STANCHEVVesela BELCHEVAABSTRACT: Along with its prime function as a means of human communication, language is also a factor with considerable impact in the spheres of human psychology and social behaviour – psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics have now been well established as innovative branches of linguistic research. In the first part of the paper we examine the role of human language on the4 systemic level with regard to the language – thought correlation and especially against the backdrop of the widely popular Sapir – Whorf Hypothesis. We touch on relativism and linguistic determinism and the impact of linguistically acquired thought patterns on the construal of one’s self-awareness. The second part of the paper tackles regional language variation i.e. deviations from the national norm and the elusive language vs. dialect divide, which has often fuelled morbid nationalism and has even served as casus belli for aggressive regimes.Keywords: language and thought, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, sapir-whorf hypothesis, nationalism, language vs. dialect -
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2020)
CONTENTSTrauma and Dissociation [5]CORNELIU IRIMIAABSTRACT: This article regards trauma mainly from the perspective of the dissociative phenomena that occurs during and after the traumatization process. Trauma often leads to extreme states of mind that one cannot understand, work through or integrate without psychological and psychotherapeutical tools. Dissociation plays an essential role in the psychic development of the traumatized person. Dissociative phenomena occur not only in the traumatic context: they can continue transforming the personality during the later stages of life, creating even more complex and damaging psychological structures, as we can see in post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorders, borderline personality disorder and so on. An “internal care system” can develop, so that the retraumatization never takes place again. But the costs are very high, since the affected person is no longer able to feel himself/herself truly alive, possessing a coherent sense of self and getting in contact with both inner experience and the external world.Keywords: trauma, primary, secondary and tertiary dissociation, psychological survivalsystemSophocles’ Oedipus Rex at Pasolini [20]PANAGIOTIS ASIMOPOULOSABSTRACT: The tragic figure of Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King” functions diachronically as a favourite thematic basis of inspired creations and unparalleled artistic incarnations. The unconventional character of the legendary hero harmoniously adopts the dramatic codes of the ancient Greek tragedy. It emphatically expresses Oedipus’ existential agony which is transformed into metaphorical and mystical autobiography. He is strongly opposed to the relentless imperatives of the unpredictable Fate and he succumbs to the consequences of his shameful actions. However, the high moral and the amazing bravery lead Oedipus to his redeeming self-purification. He reasonably exercises a catalytic influence on later scholars, as he provokes the striking interest of ground-breaking theatre writers. Thus, in 1968, in the surrealist film “Edipo re”, Pasolini formalistically achieves the experimental interpretationof the ontological parameters that are closely related to the mythical background. At the same time, the filmmaker re-examines the primordial diptych of love and death. He portrays his problematic approach to cinematographic poetry and articulates an utmostmodernistic discourse that is a perfect combination between pragmatic passions and dreamy elements. The anti-spiritual hero gradually emerges as a sacrificial victim of the entire social system; he enters into the intricate aspects of the collective subconscious; herecreates urban conventional mind-sets and breaks down crystallized structures. Although he is deeply aware of his inevitable crash, he predicts the violent release from the historical context and the radical redefinition of the physical order.Keywords: “Oedipus Rex”, Sophocles, tragedy, Pasolini.Career Management in Nowadays Education System [30]SEBASTIAN CRISTIAN CHIRIMBULARISA SADOVEIABSTRACT: The issue of career management of accredited teachers is increasingly being addressed as a strategic priority of the policies of management of teaching staff at institutional level. A teacher is a key figure for every education system, including the national education system. The mission of teachers is to improve the education system, to implement student-centred learning based on learning outcomes, to train skills, attitudes, etc. In this context, the education system acquires a central role and the teacher becomes one of the main actors in the society. In this perspective, teacher training must be an essential strategy to ensure the adaptation of the education system to the requirements of today’s society and, at the same time, to ensure the quality of the educational process. As education systems are characterized by dynamism, the continuous training of teachers is transformed into an important lever to ensure the necessary reorientations of education.Keywords: career, teaching career, education, professionalization, continuous training.The Therapeutic Potential of Odor Evoked Autobiographical Memories [38]TEOFILA RĂDEANUDRAGOȘ CÎRNECIABSTRACT: The main objective of this study was to establish the impact of autobiographical recollection evoked by olfactory stimuli training on reducing stress. The practical objectives were to study the impact that autobiographical memories recollection training has reducing stress level. Two groups of subjects, women and men, aged between 20 and 45 years, were targeted for this study: group 1 of 29 subjects participated in the experimental group; group 2 of 30 subjects participated in the control group. The obtainedresults led to the conclusion that the autobiographical recall training through olfactory stimuli decreases the stress level. After the autobiographical recall evoked by olfactory stimuli training, the differences between the control group and the experimental group, in Post Test, were significant, as well as easiness in remembering dreams. Implications for practice and directions for future research are discussed.Keywords: autobiographical memory, odour-evoked memories, stress, therapyNeurocinema/tics, the (Brain)Child of Film and Neuroscience [46]RAMONA L.CECIUABSTRACT: This paper examines the evolution of cinema since its initial paradigms to the present-day experiments where film and neuroscience have joined to give birth to a new form of art – the ‘scientific art’ of neurocinematics. It looks at the inter- and multidisciplinary exchange between psychology, cognitive sciences, film, neuroscience and neuromarketing, their instruments of research and their input in the creation of neurocinema. The main argument of this article is that neurocinema dismisses classical notions of realism, authorship, film language and signification, to become an instrument of probing and modelling the human mind, emotional response, and behaviour according to specific objectives. In this context, the paper surveys studies highlighting the main cognitive processes involved in film viewing, the benefits and disadvantages of employing neuroimaging techniques in filmmaking, as well as the effects of neurocinematics on spectator’s perception, cognition and emotion triggered in the complex dialogical interaction between films and audiences.Keywords: neurocinema, film[ology], neuroscience, psychology, cognition, emotion. Çiftlik Bank: A Tragicomic Fraud as an Example of Politicization of the Discourseabout Nutrition Sector in Contemporary Turkey [63]DENİZ YOLDAŞABSTRACT: Politicizing of consumption like the boycott is a part of modern life.Politicizing of nutrition production discourse as a fraud in contemporary Turkey is a unique example of Turko-Islamist ruling ideology’s instrumentalization in the nutrition sector.Çiftlik Bank by Turkish Capital Market Board is a Ponzi scheme. The founder is a 27 years old young Turkish amateur failed internet phenomenon and amateur rap singer Mehmet Aydın. From 2016 to 2018, Mehmet Aydın collected approximately 128 million USD from 80.000 victims. He fled to Uruguay. The aim of the study is to discuss the social, economic and political root of “easily conned” practices in the Turkish society’s common mind-set in making a semiotic analysis of the Çiftlik Bank’s founder Mehmet Aydın’s speech. From Çiftlik Bank’s Youtube account three videos are used as the materials of the study. The method is a semiotic discourse analysis method of Raymond Williams, cultural materialism.Mehmet Aydın’s discourse utilizes Tayyip Erdoğan’s elements. It could be evaluated ludicrous, absurd and surreal for a commercial business. The economic infrastructure of the Turkish society could be evaluated as a coherent base for anti-democratic, ultra-nationalist, xenophobe, revanchist and dogmatic dominant collective minds. For this type of mind-set,easily conned could stay as a frequented and associated practice.Keywords: politicization, nutrition, food, farming, AKP. -
Vol. 20 No. 2 (2019)
Annals of Spiru Haret University. Journalism Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal with all contributions being refereed anonymously by acknowledged international experts in the field. Its scope includes the history of journalism practice, the professional practice of journalism, journalism training and education, and journalism practice and new technology. While one objective is research into contemporary journalism theory and practice, the journal is also interested in advertising, communication, information technology, government, media studies, politics and public administration. The journal will provide both scholard and industry practitioners the opportunity to publich and read applied research, and will include research papers, invited essays, and reviews of books. Annals of Spiru Haret University. Journalism Studies is interdisciplinary and publishes both theoretical and empirical work and contributed to the social, economic, political, cultural and practical understanding of journalism. It includes contributions on current developments and historical changes within journalism. The journal has been ceased as of 2020. The successor journal publication is published with the title Journal of Communication and Behavioural Sciences (ISSN 2668-9650) -
Vol. 20 No. 1 (2019)
Annals of Spiru Haret University. Journalism Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal with all contributions being refereed anonymously by acknowledged international experts in the field. Its scope includes the history of journalism practice, the professional practice of journalism, journalism training and education, and journalism practice and new technology. While one objective is research into contemporary journalism theory and practice, the journal is also interested in advertising, communication, information technology, government, media studies, politics and public administration. The journal will provide both scholard and industry practitioners the opportunity to publich and read applied research, and will include research papers, invited essays, and reviews of books. Annals of Spiru Haret University. Journalism Studies is interdisciplinary and publishes both theoretical and empirical work and contributed to the social, economic, political, cultural and practical understanding of journalism. It includes contributions on current developments and historical changes within journalism. The journal has been ceased as of 2020. The successor journal publication is published with the title Journal of Communication and Behavioural Sciences (ISSN 2668-9650)
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