scholarly journals THE STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF SOCIAL PERCEPTION IMAGES IN THE CONSCIOUS OF FOSTER MOTHERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 416-427
Author(s):  
A.A. Strelenko
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Foster Child ◽  
Single Mechanism ◽  
Foster Mothers ◽  
Child Research ◽  
Study Participants

This article examines the problem of the image of a foster child in the representations of foster mothers. The goal of the work is to determine the structural features of the foster mother's I-image, the You-image of the foster child. Research hypothesis - the structure and content of I-images and images of foster children are statistically and qualitatively related. Study participants were 78 people, foster mothers aged 29-66 years (М=49,64; SD=7,54). Based on the results of the empirical study, structural and content features were revealed in the ideas of foster mothers about themselves and their foster children. There are differences in the components of images: social intelligence (p≤0,05), behavioral (p≤0,05), bodily (p≤0,05), neutral (p≤0.05), negative (p≤0,05). Correlations were established between the characteristics of the images reflecting attitudes toward a person. Comparison of social-perceptual images in structure and content indicates the similarity of the I-images of mothers with the You-images of their foster children. The results obtained are based on a single mechanism for the development of socio-perceptual images. Foster mothers choose a child and build interaction with him/her, relying not so much on the reflection of real personal features of the child, as on their own ideas about themselves, on their I-concept.

scholarly journals Socio-perceptual images as regulators of child-parental relations in foster families

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-147
Author(s):  
V.L. Sitnikov ◽  
A.A. Strelenko ◽  
S.I. Kedich ◽  
A.V. Komarova
Keyword(s):  
Foster Children ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Psychological Injury ◽  
Foster Child ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
Biological Mothers ◽  
Foster Mothers ◽  
Parental Relations

Objective. Definition of communications of I-images of mothers with He-images of the own children, I-images of the foster mothers with He-images of foster children became the purpose of our research; establishment of communications of I-images of the foster mothers with the child parental relation and interaction. Background. The problem of social and perceptual reflection is current because the number of families with receptions and the sponsored children grows. Quite often adoptive parents aren’t ready to adequate interaction with nonnative children and return them in the system of guardianship, putting to children a severe psychological injury. One of the most important reasons of it is the discrepancy of ideal fixations on need of children for family and real perception of specific children by adoptive parents, rigidity of their attitudes — social installations. In this regard studying mechanisms and regularities of perception of the child in family since how the child is perceived in family, formation of his “Ya-concept”, formation of the personality, the relation with relatives, peers, teachers, with surrounding people directly depends is of particular importance. To minimize emergence of such psychoinjuring situations the in-depth study of mechanisms and regularities of social perception in the replacing families is necessary. Study design. Links between the structures of I-images of mothers and He-images of their native and adoptive children were investigated; links between socio-perceptual images and child-parental attitude (interaction) in foster families. Participants. Sample: 18 women from 29 to 59 years (M=48,05; SD=7,77) with only foster children and 20 women aged 37 to 48 years (M=39,85; SD=3,93) having only their biological children. Measurements. The technique “The structure of the image of a person (hierarchical),” developed by V.L. Sitnikov; two versions of the VRR questionnaire by I.M. Markovskaya, to study the interaction of parents with children and adolescents. Results. I- and He-images are indicators of child-parental relations in foster families. At the replacing mothers the controlling behavior in relation to the child is expressed. And high control can be shown in petty guardianship, persistence, to lead to restrictions and the bans. Conclusions. Reliable connections of socio-perceptual images of members of substitute families and child-parental relations were revealed, proving that these images are indicators of child-parental relations. The images children have similarity on structural characteristics both at foster, and at biological mothers. In representations of the foster mothers when forming an image of the foster child the orientation to the I-concept and ideas of what has to be the child is noted. The foster mothers identify themselves with foster children in the present and the future, more close relations with the foster child seek to establish. In comparison with foster, biological mothers are more open in communication with the children.

Monitoring, browsing and being aware – Keeping abreast and staying updated with professional information in Swedish regional libraries

2021 ◽  
pp. 096100062110429
Author(s):  
Ola Pilerot
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Individual Preferences ◽  
Work Tasks ◽  
Normative Dimension ◽  
Professional Information ◽  
Study Participants

A substantial part of the work conducted by librarians at Swedish regional libraries concerns staying alert and informed in ways that allow for continuous development of the kind of knowledge and abilities that are required for doing a qualified job, but this part of the work is elusive and hard to identify. This paper presents an empirical study that elucidates this specific kind of work of keeping abreast and updated with professional information. Empirical data were produced through interviews and logbooks with 10 members of staff at 4 regional libraries in Sweden. The data were analysed by employing Marcia Bates’ model of different information-seeking modes. The results of the study show that the activity in focus is seamlessly intertwined with other work activities and enacted in a variety of ways that are adapted after other work tasks (than the information seeking in itself) and dependent on individual preferences and routines. Since there is a certain conception of this activity as something that should be carried out in a certain systematic way and since it is something that one as a librarian ought to be good at, it is furthermore often associated with a normative dimension that provokes a sense of guilt among the study participants.

scholarly journals Defining Inspection Techniques for Detecting Privacy Problems in Online Social Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Andrey  Rodrigues ◽  
Natasha  M. C. Valentim ◽  
Eduardo  Feitosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Network ◽  
Effective Alternative ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Inspection Techniques

In the last few years, Online Social Networks (OSN) have experienced growth in the number of users, becoming an increasingly embedded part of people’s daily lives. Privacy expectations of OSNs are higher as more members start realizing potential privacy problems they face by interacting with these systems. Inspection methods can be an effective alternative for addressing privacy problems because they detect possible defects that could be causing the system to behave in an undesirable way. Therefore, we proposed a set of privacy inspection techniques called PIT-OSN (Privacy Inspection Techniques for Online Social Network). This paper presents the description and evolution of PIT-OSN through the results of a preliminary empirical study. We discuss the quantitative and qualitative results and their impact on improving the techniques. Results indicate that our techniques assist non-expert inspectors uncover privacy problems effectively, and are considered easy to use and useful by the study participants. Finally, the qualitative analysis helped us improve some technique steps that might be unclear.

Changes in Legislation on Foster Family Care in the Arab Republic of Egypt

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamido A. Megahead
Keyword(s):  
Foster Children ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Foster Child ◽  
Foster Family ◽  
Biological Family ◽  
Egyptian Child ◽  
Care System

This article reports on changes in legislation on foster family care in the Arab Republic of Egypt, specifically the replacement and/or addition of terms to the Egyptian Ministry Decree (17) 1968 and Egyptian Child Law No. 12 of 1996. The replacement of terms refers to Terms 4 and 10 in Article 87 of the Egyptian Child Law No. 12 of 1996. Term 4 addresses the numbers of biological siblings and foster children permitted in a foster family. Term 10 relates to how contact should be managed between a foster child and its biological family. The terms added are Terms D and H in Article 83 and Terms 10 and 12 in Article 87 of the Egyptian Child Law No. 12 of 1996. Terms D and H focus on the objectives of the foster family care system. Terms 10 and 12 address the process of reuniting a foster child with its biological family and the issue of retaining a foster child’s original parentage.

Parenting stress and parenting behavior among foster mothers of foster children with externalizing problems

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 1742-1750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Femke Vanschoonlandt ◽  
Johan Vanderfaeillie ◽  
Frank Van Holen ◽  
Skrällan De Maeyer ◽  
Marijke Robberechts
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Parenting Behavior ◽  
Foster Mothers

New Findings About Social Intelligence

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Conzelmann ◽  
Susanne Weis ◽  
Heinz-Martin Süß
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Performance Test ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Social Understanding ◽  
Scientific Psychology ◽  
New Findings ◽  
The Social

Social intelligence (SI) is an ability construct with a long history in scientific psychology which has yet to be clearly established. SI tests show low convergent validity and can hardly be distinguished from academic intelligence. This may be the result of conceptual ambiguity and a lack of reliable and valid performappance tests that apply nonverbal stimuli. The Magdeburg Test of Social Intelligence (MTSI) is a new multimedia-based performance test battery relying on a potential-based concept of SI. It presently comprises subtests for social understanding, social memory, and social perception, each of which is measured with real auditory, video-based, pictorial, and verbal task material. It applies target scoring to the social understanding tasks. Two studies with 127 and 190 participants, respectively, examined the psychometric properties and construct validity of the MTSI. Discriminant construct validation was conducted with well-established academic intelligence and personality tests. The findings revealed satisfactory psychometric properties for nearly all of the 22 tasks. A general SI and a social perception factor were not substantiated. Social understanding was separate from academic intelligence, whereas social memory and social perception tasks showed systematic correlations with academic intelligence. The SI tasks were not systematically related to personality traits.

Experiences Following the Deaths of Disabled Foster Children: “We Don't Feel Like ‘Foster’ Parents”

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Fudge Schormans
Keyword(s):  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Severe Disabilities ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Foster Child ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Experiences ◽  
Parent Child Relationships

Foster parents in the child welfare system occupy a unique position in our culture. While expected to parent and provide safe, loving, and normative family experiences to a child removed from her/his family of origin, they are, simultaneously, expected to remember that they are not the child's biological parent. Increasingly, foster parents are being asked to care for children with severe disabilities that sometimes precipitate an early death. How do foster parents experience the death of a foster child with disabilities in their care? Semi-structured interviews with bereaved foster parents revealed foster parents' self-identification as “parents” who shared “parent/child” relationships with foster children whom they considered to be part of their families. The foster parents' experience of the death of the foster child with a disability was reported comparable to the death of a birth child, however, their identification as legitimate grievers was often disenfranchised by others.

scholarly journals SOVIET FACTORIES OF ANGELS: THE SYSTEM OF FOSTERAGE BEFORE AND DURING THE HOLODOMOROF 1932–1933

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
I. Shugaloyva
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Foster Child ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Communist System ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
Different Types ◽  
System Establishment ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Significant Attention

The article reveals mechanisms of the fosterage system establishment and its organisation. Foster care used to mean a system of care for children to adjust them to society and labour activity. It is important to notice that fosterage discredited itself when the Communist authorities stopped paying over to families that took their children into foster care (during the imperial period, families with a foster child used to receive a regular pay-offs in an amount of 3 rubbles). Having lost government financial support, many foster parents began to dishouse children. In fact, among the population, fosterage was traditionally called as "angel factories". In the article demonstrates the analysis of the reasons for the actualization of the fosterage practice by the communist authorities, different types of patronage, as well as the attitude of children and patrons to such a system of education is clarified. Furthermore, the authors studied the genesis of fosterage, identified the features of its activities during the years of artificial famine in the 1921 – 1923, as well as its transformation during the NEP and the late 1920s. Significant attention was paid to the characteristics of the fosterage during the Holodomor 1932 – 1933 and transforming them into the factories of angels. The authors conclude that the communist system of education tended to use fosterage to relieve shelters. The living conditions for children were not under control by the authorities. For the peasants exhausted by the norms of grain procurement, it was physically impossible to keep a foster child. As a result, the mortality rate of foster cared children used to be extremely high. The republican social education authorities were aware enough of the difficult situation concerning the fosterage practice. In 1934 and 1936, numerous legislative attempts were made to improve the situation of foster children. However, the published guidelines remained only in the frameworks of the Soviet legislative myth-making. Therefore, the Soviet "factories of angels" never underwent any transformations, once again destroying the communist myth of a happy Soviet childhood.

scholarly journals The Effect of the Intensity of Happy Expression on Social Perception of Chinese Faces

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaning Li ◽  
Zhongqing Jiang ◽  
Yisheng Yang ◽  
Haizhou Leng ◽  
Fuhua Pei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Happy Expression ◽  
Trait Impressions

Numerous studies have shown that facial expressions influence trait impressions in the Western context. There are cultural differences in the perception and recognition rules of different intensities of happy expressions, and researchers have only explored the influence of the intensity of happy expressions on a few facial traits (warmth, trustworthiness, and competence). Therefore, we examined the effect of different intensities of Chinese happy expressions on the social perception of faces from 11 traits, namely trustworthiness, responsibility, attractiveness, sociability, confidence, intelligence, aggressiveness, dominance, competence, warmth, and tenacity. In this study, participants were asked to view a series of photographs of faces with high-intensity or low-intensity happy expressions and rate the 11 traits on a 7-point Likert scale (1 = “not very ××,” 7 = “very ××”). The results indicated that high-intensity happy expression had higher-rated scores for sociability and warmth but lower scores for dominance, aggressiveness, intelligence, and competence than the low-intensity happy expression; there was no significant difference in the rated scores for trustworthiness, attractiveness, responsibility, confidence, and tenacity between the high-intensity and low-intensity happy expressions. These results suggested that, compared to the low-intensity happy expression, the high-intensity happy expression will enhance the perceptual outcome of the traits related to approachability, reduce the perceptual outcome of traits related to capability, and have no significant effect on trustworthiness, attractiveness, responsibility, confidence, and tenacity.

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