scholarly journals LONELINESS AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION: CASE STUDY

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-152
Author(s):  
Alexandra Mihaela FERLAI
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Alcohol Dependence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Alcohol Addiction ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Biological Perspective ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Point

The theme of loneliness is one with a very long history, in ancient times being debated by philosophers and usually regarded from a positive point of view. The present work does not highlight the positive aspects of loneliness, but aproaches loneliness as a negative experience that accompanies the use of alcohol. Thus, we discuss about loneliness as the way in which individuals perceive, experience and evaluate the lack of communication with others. Then, we examine the relationship between loneliness and alcohol use, either as a cause, effect or maintenance factor. The paper highlights the interplay between loneliness and alcohol use and its importance in specialised treatment of the alcoholics. Also, the purpose of this paper is to illustrate the imperative need for the specialists to adress the problems that our clients deal with, from more that just a biological perspective. The case study illustrates a female's three attempts to escape alcohol dependence, each of the three attempts, enriching the intervention in order to compose a multi-faceted intervention, that we hope it will, ultimately, prove to be complete.

Where is semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology heading? Contemporary reflections on the trajectory of an approach to cultural psychology

2021 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2110173
Author(s):  
Danilo Silva Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims to discuss the relationship between personal cultural experience and knowledge construction in psychology, from the perspective of the Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism. The thoughts here presented are, at the same time, from within psychology and about psychology. The researcher is culturally situated and science is a field of production of cultural works that aims to create perspectives of knowledge about the world. Researchers can and must create some detachment from their field of study to be able to understand the course of their own knowledge constructions. This detachment is achieved through a historical–philosophical view on the theoretical–methodological propositions of their field of research. As a case study, we selected for analysis the field’s pioneer productions, from the years 1982 to 2004. The material showed that the rationality that characterizes scientific research is directed, in this field, to creating semiotic resources for further developing reflexivity in psychology, as a recursive and open-ended process. The theoretical–methodological work of the researcher concerns its own personal cultural experience and the tradition of the already constructed knowledge, selected to a dialogue about the ethical implications of human action. Therefore, advances in psychological knowledge construction cannot be addressed from an external, allegedly neutral point of view, focused on the efficacy of the instruments resulting from the said “scientific progress.”

scholarly journals Economic Evaluation of the Management of Municipal Firms at the Level of Rural Local Self-Governments (Case Study)

Economies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Peter Ágh ◽  
Roman Vavrek ◽  
Marek Dvořák ◽  
Viera Papcunová
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Time Of Operation ◽  
Own Name ◽  
The Relationship

The municipality generally uses its property to perform self-governing functions, and public or business activities. In the conditions of the Slovak Republic, the municipality operates either as a legal entity in its own name or carries out business activities with the help of a contributory and budgetary organization or business firm established by the municipality. Revenues from business activities form an important part of the revenue of local self-government budgets. The aim of this paper was an economic evaluation of the management of municipal firms at the level of rural local self-governments in the conditions of the Slovak Republic on the basis of selected economic indicators. At the same time, we analyzed the relationship between selected economic indicators in relation to the size, lifespan and number of employees of the firm. The analysis was performed in the time period 2015–2019 on a sample of municipal firms at the level of rural local self-governments. For the analysis, we used selected mathematical–statistical methods (Shapiro–Wilk test, Kruskal–Wallis test, and regression analysis). The analysis showed that the differences in the profitability of municipal firms from the point of view of the region in which they operate as well as from the point of view of the number of employees is not statistically significant. Statistical significance was not demonstrated even within the volume of revenue of municipal firms from the point of view of the region in which the municipal firm operates. The volume of revenues of municipal enterprises with the population of the municipality as well as the length of time of operation on the market is growing, but these are not the only factors on which these results depend.

scholarly journals “Claim vs. Reality”—A German Case Study on Modes and Functions of Sports-Pedagogical Communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Jaitner ◽  
Swen Koerner ◽  
Esther Serwe-Pandrick
Keyword(s):  
Direct Synthesis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
Disciplinary Identity ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Functional Point ◽  
Supporting Pillar ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Academic sports pedagogy continuously assures itself of its disciplinary foundations and determines its position in the structure of modern sciences. While communication is based on differences, the distinction between claim and reality plays a crucial role in sports pedagogy. However, the forms and functions in which the distinction appears have not been more closely investigated in sports pedagogic. This article starts with this in mind, exemplarily focusing on academic sports pedagogy in Germany. While analyzing 212 scientific texts of sports-pedagogical provenance, three central variations of the distinction could be identified, which persist until today and are present in the discipline's central discussion lines: (1) hierarchical demarcation, (2) unsystematic approach, (3) direct synthesis. From a functional point of view, the distinction between claim and reality continuously (re)organizes the relationship of sports pedagogy to other scientific disciplines, educational policy guidelines, and school practice expectations, thus proving to be a supporting pillar of disciplinary identity work.

Ethics, Wearable Technology, and Higher Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 1581-1596
Author(s):  
Marcia Alesan Dawkins
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Wearable Technology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Google Glass ◽  
Interactive Instruction ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Communication Culture ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter explores the relationship between ethics, wearable technology, and higher education through the lens of teaching with Google Glass. Beginning with an introduction to Glass and to the contemporary concept of the digital citizen, the chapter traces out a pedagogical framework aimed at preparing learners to embrace their civic duty to contribute to the virtual world responsibly. Continuing with an investigation of ethical obligations, educational concepts, and learning exercises made available by advances in HET, the chapter describes how to use Google Glass as a case study for examining the limits and possibilities of a new point-of-view angle on interactive instruction. To this end, students' project-based and experiential learning about how Glass impacts communication culture and technology, commerce, security, access, etiquette, branding, ethics, and law is described. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how technology's ethical consciousness continues to be enacted and embodied via a “collusive” point-of-view angle and third voice that shed light on the ongoing rhetorical and pedagogical processes of expression, experience, and identification in the digital age.

Some Remarks on Manumission and Consecration in Hellenistic Chaeronea

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 129-151
Author(s):  
Sara L. Zanovello
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Specific Mode ◽  
Central Greece ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article aims to discuss the relationship between manumission and consecration from a legal perspective, by analyzing as a case study the corpus of inscriptions from Hellenistic Chaeronea, which is usually believed to represent a specific mode of “sacral” manumission, namely, through consecration of a slave to the god. Chaeronea provides the bulk of the evidence for this alleged form of manumission, and the content of its inscriptions are highly formulaic: they typically attest the consecration (anatithemi) of a slave (doulos) as sacred (hieros) to a god, generally Serapis. After pointing out the legal nature of manumission, the article will challenge the traditional scholarly interpretation that holds that, as an effect of consecration, slaves became free individuals. The identification of consecration with manumission, in other words, raises a number of problems. Through a close look at the single elements which characterized the condition of hieroi in Hellenistic Central Greece, the article will argue that while from a legal point of view, hieroi were slaves of the god, the absence of an actual owner exercising the powers descending from his right of ownership meant that their de facto condition resembled in several ways that of free individuals. The inscriptions from Chaeronea do not attest to manumission, but rather to consecration of slaves to the god, which ultimately result in a transfer of ownership over slaves from the human to the divine sphere.

scholarly journals The Impact of Organizational Silence on a Sustainable Competitive Advantage: A Case Study of the Electrical Industries Company

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Muayad Abdulkareem Shakir Al-naqeeb ◽  
Imad Khaleel Ismael
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Inverse Correlation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Organizational Silence ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study seeks to analyze the factors causing organizational silence and the impact of this on the sustainable competitive advantage of organizations, The researchers used the descriptive approach, being the best approach from the researchers' point of view, to clarify the relationship between the research variables and the achievement of the study objectives, The Electric Industries Company was chosen to understand the reality of organizational silence and analyze what is required in order to make the necessary recommendations that can contribute to sustaining the company's competitive advantage and reducing the phenomenon of organizational silence and its effects. The results of research confirmed the inverse correlation between organizational silence and the sustainable competitive advantage, also that the organizational silence has a negative effect on the sustainable competitive advantage.   Received: 11 February 2021 / Accepted: 20 April 2021 / Published: 17 May 2021

scholarly journals Psychological portrait of the co-dependent teenager

2020 ◽  
pp. 198-207
Author(s):  
Marina V. Shamardina ◽  
Olga А. Dorovskikh ◽  
Apollinaria A. Kozhevnikova
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Dependence ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Alcohol Addiction ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Parental Alcoholism ◽  
Dependent Behavior ◽  
Preventive Work ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The Relationship

The article considers personality characteristics of codependent adolescents. The aim of the study was to determine the components of the psychological portrait of a teenager with co-dependent behavior from among families where parents have alcohol addiction issues. The authors of the work studied the influence of a specific family environment on the personality of a teenager in the context of parental alcoholism. According to the results of the study, the personality characteristics of a teenager with one or two parents with alcohol dependence were identified. The dependent behavior of one of the parents forms certain emotional states in the adolescent, which leads not only to the appearance of negative personality characteristics, but also changes the behavior of the adolescent as a whole. The article also presents a psychological portrait of a co-dependent adolescent, lists its main components, shows the characteristic trends that show dependence, shows the relationship between infantility and conformism in co-dependent adolescents. The authors propose a book therapy method that can be used in preventive work with the emotional states of co-dependent adolescents.

scholarly journals HAPPINESS IN ADOLESCENTS WITH TWO FATHERS AND TWO MOTHERS

PSIMPHONI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Meylin Nur Anggita Putri ◽  
Dyah Siti Septiningsih
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Data Credibility ◽  
Positive Point

This study aimed to find happiness in adolescents with two fathers and two mothers. The focus of this research was happiness in them. A qualitative method with a case study approach was used in this study. The participants were the adolescents with two fathers and two mothers and two other informants namely family and close friends of participants. Data credibility used triangulation of sources by comparing data obtained from each source. Triangulation of techniques was conducted by comparing data generated from several different techniques with the same sources. The results discussed and linked the aspects of happiness with the research findings. The results showed that the participants accepted and enjoyed the past, had a positive activity environment, had ambitions in the future, had an effort to achieve goals, had hopes, and a positive point of view on the future.

scholarly journals Impaired control in heavy drinking and its association with alcohol craving and alcohol use disorder severity

Salud Mental ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 151-157
Author(s):  
Edén Sánchez ◽  
Carlos S. Cruz Fuentes ◽  
Corina Benjet ◽  
María Elena Medina-Mora
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Alcohol Dependence ◽  
Perceived Control ◽  
Alcohol Use Disorder ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
Alcohol Craving ◽  
Heavy Drinkers ◽  
Impaired Control ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction. Impaired control over drinking has been frequently cited in diverse theoretical descriptions regarding harmful alcohol use and is considered a DSM criterion for alcohol use disorder. Differences in the frequency of endorsement of impaired control have been viewed as a reflection of the severity of the problem. Moreover, it has been posited that the ability to place a limit on alcohol consumption may be mediated through enhanced craving. Objective. In this study, we addressed the relationship between impaired control, self-reported craving, and alcohol dependence severity among heavy drinkers. Method. We conducted a latent class analysis of impaired control dimensions (perceived control, failed control, and attempted control) of 208 heavy drinkers. To determine whether the identified classes could represent different forms of severity of the disorder, the best-fit model was contrasted with scores on the Alcohol Dependence Scale. Furthermore, we assessed the relationship between impaired control criteria (using the Impaired Control Scale [ICS]) with alcohol craving. Results. We identified a three-class solution based on impaired control severity. A graded increase of the craving scores and alcohol severity among the three classes was also identified. Only the ICS items comprising perceived control and partially those related to failed control, but not those evaluating attempted control, distinguished the gradient among the latent classes. Discussion and conclusion. This study provides further support of the proposal of a unidimensional continuum of severity among heavy drinkers and strengthens the theoretical relationship between impaired control and alcohol craving.

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