Saving the World by Your Self: Comparing the Effects of Self-Assessment and Self-Improvement Message Strategies on Pro-Environmental Information Selection and Persuasive Outcomes

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Kate T. Luong ◽  
Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick ◽  
Dana Brooks
Author(s):  
Maria Sarmento ◽  
Diego Galego ◽  
Marta Alexandra da Costa Ferreira Dias ◽  
Marlene Amorim

ICT competences still represent a “stigma” attached to gender around the world. This chapter focuses an analysis on the gender gaps and ICT competences to the access workforce, by analyzing data collected in four European countries (Portugal, Poland, Lithuania and Cyprus) in the scope of a Project “EU Youth: From theory to action (ActYouth).” Within the purpose of answering the hypothesis in understanding, the youth employability, and gender division in the labor market in different regions in Europe, statistical methods were selected and tested. The 537 responses were acquired by questionnaires and interviews and analyzed concerning ICT competences. Data shows that students self-assessment and employer's perspectives of important competences for entry in the labor market. Therefore, an importance performance analysis (IPA) was performed considering the four competences, comparing importance (employers) with performance (students) of competences, and then presented by gender for each analyzed country.


Paleobiology ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold I. Miller

Regardless of the macroevolutionary issues at stake, most students of biodiversity would agree that there is value in calibrating global biodiversity trends through critical intervals. To cite one obvious example, given the overwhelming interest in mass extinctions, we would certainly like to know the extent to which diversity declined during these events. Just as significantly, if we are to argue that any mass extinction was truly a global phenomenon, we must demonstrate definitively that its biotic effects reached around the world. Clearly, “standard” global compendia (e.g., Sepkoski 1992, 2002) are insufficient for the latter objective, because they contain no geographic or environmental information. At the least, a database that compares biodiversity transitions among different regions or paleoenvironments is required. Such analyses have the added benefit of providing opportunities to evaluate geographic and environmental selectivity in extinctions, an important facet of any attempt to understand what caused them (e.g., Raup and Jablonski 1993; Jablonski and Raup 1995).


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Наталья Виноградова ◽  
Natalya Vinogradova ◽  
Г. Калинова ◽  
G. Kalinova

The article discusses the organization of independent testing work of younger schoolchildren in the study of the subject “The World Around Us”. The authors discuss the implementation of the possibility of using different types of independent learning activities to clarify and systematize knowledge, their application in non-standard situations, improve universal learning activities, as well as the development of self-monitoring and self-assessment of students.


2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 17020
Author(s):  
Irina Abakumova ◽  
Anastasia Kolenova ◽  
Marina Elagina

Dynamism in culture and personal value orientations leave their mark on such a socio-cultural phenomenon as success. It is classified as one of those concepts, the life meaning of which is clearly understood by everyday consciousness, but its psychological essence is sometimes not obvious due to the multifaceted nature of its meanings and relationships, expressed in its semantics. It was proved that codependent relationships affect the value-semantic sphere of the codependent, the content characteristics of the value-semantic sphere of the codependent change. Among other things, ideas about one's own life, one's future may change, the image of the I and the image of the world, the idea of success, change. The study involved 167 participants - women in codependent relationships. Research methods: methodology "Research of ideas about successful professional activity" (O. Yu. Klochkova); methodology "Motivation for success and fear of failure" (A. A. Rean); methodology "Self-assessment of manifestations of fear of success" (G.V. Turetskaya); scale of measuring codependency in relationships (L. Spann-D. Fisher, adapted by V.D. Moskalenko). Statistical analysis and data processing were performed using the «Microsoft Excel 7.0» и «SPSS» (22.0). Our comparative analysis of the data made it possible to reveal that there are significant differences in the indicators of ideas about success among women with a high and normal level of codependency, and there is also a relationship between the level of codependency and ideas about success.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 195-206
Author(s):  
Jamie S. Abad ◽  
Venicris M. Alonsozana

A Faith Tourism tour package was proposed in one of the prominent cities in the Province of Cavite, Philippines based on Dr. Sampad Kumar Swain’s basic tour package components. Through Focus Group Discussion, document analysis and survey questionnaire, the study determined eight tour operators and their clients’ knowledge of Faith Tourism including its benefits and opportunities, and the skills and attitudes in making a Faith Tourism tour package. SWOT Analysis determined the marketing competitiveness of Tagaytay City through the World Economic Forum’s Tourism and Travel Competitive Index (TTCI) 2017.  The millenial respondents of the survey questionnaire strongly agreed that the proposed faith tourism tour package is competitive and reflects Swain’s basic components. The common knowledge among tour operators regarding Faith Tourism is it is a pilgrimage, while the basic skills and attitude needed in making Faith Tourism itineraries are professionalism, knowledgeability, and patience. SWOT analysis as a tool for self-assessment revealed that Tagaytay City is “strongly” competitive based on the TTCI 2017 components.


Pedagogika ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-170
Author(s):  
Vaiva Schoroškienė ◽  
Audronė Krivickaitė

As we care to create a successful learning for every student we talk about students’ capacity to evaluate their own studying process. It is thought that when student is able to assess his own learning his academic results tends to be much higher than students who prefer not to assess themselves. Thus, it is recommended to begin self-assessment lessons in a primary school. Nevertheless, the importance of self-assessment is being highly analyzed there are few empirical researches which would show the real situation of how it works with students in the first grade. Also, it is proven that at this age children understands the world as a unified system, thus the subjects at school should be as much related as possible. When talking about self-assessment it is easier to try it in the context which is less difficult to understand. In this research we have integrated two lessons of arts and Lithuanian language. After completing the research we have noticed some significant changes in students’ perception of self-assessment. They mentioned that when they can assess themselves they can notice what was good in their work and where do they have to improve. The majority of students said that self-assessment is necessary for them and after the research they are going to assess themselves more often.


Author(s):  
Viktoriya Edigareva ◽  
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Yuliya Makarevskaya ◽  

In late 2019 - early 2020, the world was faced with a massive infection of COVID-19. The spread of the disease was quite high and affected almost all countries of the world. The infection was transmitted in a severe form, and therefore there were many deaths. Undoubtedly, the situation affected the mental state of people in many regions of the world and our country. Therefore, the aim of our research was to study the mental state of residents of cities and towns during the COVID-19. We assumed that during the spread of COVID-19 across Russia, the indicators of mental states, namely "frustration", "neurotization" and "energy" in cities and towns, will differ. However, the level of "anxiety" will not have significant differences. Particular hypotheses: the level of "frustration" will be higher in big cities, "neurotization" and "energy" will have a higher rate in small towns. The following methods were used in the research: Eysenck H.J. «Scale of mental states, Boyko V.V. «Method of neurotization diagnostics», method "Self-assessment of emotional states" A. Wessman and D. Ricks, nonparametric Mann-Whitney test. The research involved 83 people, 44 people lives in large cities, 39 – lives in small, 16 – males, 67 – females. Age: from 13 to 74. According to the results of the work, the hypothesis of the same level of anxiety in both groups was fully confirmed. The differences in the level of frustration and neurotization were not statistically confirmed. The hypothesis of a higher level of "energy" in regions with a small population was partially confirmed.


Author(s):  
Yutaka Hayashi

Abstract According to the Global Historical Database by the National Centers for Environmental Information, the oldest historical tsunami record in Central America is the earthquake tsunami that occurred in Mexico in 1537; however, this record is doubtful because this tsunami is reported by no authority outside Japan. Here, I examined earthquake and tsunami catalogs and found the source of this suspicious data. Imamura (1925) compiled the first part of the chronological table of major earthquakes in the world from the earthquake catalog of the world by Milne (1912). During this compilation, information on the tsunami caused by the 1531 Spain–Portugal earthquake was not copied. The chronological table was published almost annually until 1962; during this time the table was revised in 1958 by Kawasumi, who was the author in charge at the time. The remarks for the 1531 Spain–Portugal earthquake tsunami should have been added during the revision, but the text “tsunami existence” was erroneously added to the next entry for the 1537 Mexico earthquake. The source of the 1537 tsunami report was this miscopy.


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