Social competences of professional foster parents

2020 ◽  
Vol 595 (8) ◽  
pp. 44-58
Author(s):  
Jan Basiaga ◽  
Iwona Łukasik
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Social Competence ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Foster Mothers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Foster Fathers ◽  
High Level ◽  
Social Competences

The aim of the study was to determine the structure of social competences of professional foster parents using the Social Competence Questionnaire A. Matczak (2001). The study included 167 professional foster parents carrying out family emergency tasks in the Śląskie and Małopolskie voivodships. Research results show that more than half of the respondents are characterized by an average, and more than one-third by a high level of social competence. Compared to the results of the general population, foster mothers have significantly higher competences on the intimacy scale, and foster fathers on the assertiveness scale. In comparison with representatives of other social professions (nurses, family assistants), foster mothers have significantly higher social competences in the intimacy scale compared to nurses. In comparison with family assistants, the results obtained are comparable.

scholarly journals PROSPECTIVE FOSTER PARENTS‘ ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE PROVIDED SOCIAL WORKER‘S ASSISTANCE: A CASE OF AN X LITHUANIAN TOWN

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Irena Leliūgienė ◽  
Inga Stūglytė – Novickienė ◽  
Angelė Kaušylienė
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Social Service Workers ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Children Rights

The article introduces the significance of social worker's assistance to prospective foster parents: a case of an X Lithuanian town. The best place for the child development and improvement is the family. For some reasons not all the children are raised in families. Some children have no possibility to live with their biological families, therefore according to the established legislation, they live in foster homes under the supervision of foster parents or are adopted. Children adoption in our country is regulated by different acts of legislation. The activity of the ombudsperson for children’s rights is governed by the Law on the Ombudsman for Children Rights Protection of the Republic of Lithuania (2000), Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania, Regulations of organization and management of children guardianship (2002), etc. Research <strong>aim</strong> is to analyze the social service worker's assistance to the prospective foster parents. The following objectives to reach our <strong>goal</strong> are presented: to analyze theoretical conception of adoption procedure and enforcement; to discuss the system of the social service workers’ assistance to prospective foster parents; to investigate foster parents' approach towards the social service worker's assistance and to reveal the main problems. <strong>Research methods</strong>: analysis of the scientific literature – scientific analysis of adoption issues. The stages of adoption procedures and the requirements overviewed and analysed are provided; document analysis: documents, acts of legislation, laws and regulations of child adoption regulations are analysed and overviewed; a qualitative study: semi-structured interview, analyzing the foster parents' approach towards the social service workers' assistance; problems and probable solutions are identified. The research results are obtained by content analysis. <strong>The article presents the following generalizations:</strong> 1) adoption is considered as a social process when specific rights and responsibilities are provided to foster parents in order to guarantee the child's safety. In case of inter-country adoption, the adoption opportunities are estimated, the child is prepared for the adoption and the family for the child is selected. At that period foster parents face internal and external factors. Seeking to grant the children rights and smooth adoption process, professional social workers should coordinate it; 2) institution of the Ombudsman for Children Rights of the Republic of Lithuania and State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour are also engaged in the adoption and foster care; 3) the research results reveal that the biggest problems for prospective foster parents are extensively long adoption period, lack of social service workers' assistance and poor knowledge on the available assistance.

scholarly journals Socijalna kompetencija polaznika pedagoško-psihološke i didaktičko-metodičke izobrazbe

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1.) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Brust Nemet
Keyword(s):  
Social Competence ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Violent Behaviour ◽  
Partial Difference ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Social Competences

Social competences of the future teachers are one of the most important competencies for successfully working in educational institutions. A teacher’s social competences imply empathy, communication skills, tolerance, cooperation and mutual assistance, responsibility to oneself and others, perseverance in carrying out tasks, postponing any satisfactions, controlling violent behaviour, showing a sense of value, uniqueness and a positive self-image. It is essential to encourage communication skills, as the most important element of social communication, with the attendants of the pedagogically – psychological and didactically – methodical education because only the socially competent experts from various fields will be able to master the management of learning and knowledge, and encourage the social competence of students, while working in the educational institutions. The results of the of quantitative research conducted among 179 participants of the pedagogically – psychological and didactically – methodical education in Slavonski Brod, Koprivnica and Zabok show that the attendants have self-evaluated themselves as socially competent with developed communication skills. Analysis of variance and the Post Hoc test have proven that there is no statistically important difference in the assessment of social competence of the participants, regarding sex, number of years of working experience and senior scientific positions, while there is a statistically important partial difference in the assessment of social competence of the participants, regarding the age.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN LIFELONG LEARNING AND SOCIAL COMPETENCES OF HUMAN RESOURCES

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 263-268
Author(s):  
Dávid Miško ◽  
Matúš Vagaš ◽  
Zuzana Birknerová ◽  
Juraj Tej ◽  
Eva Benková
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Competence ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Competences

The primary aim of the research was to find out the existence of statistically significant connections between the assessment of the effectiveness of lifelong learning and the identification of social competence by human resources who completed social competence development training and those who did not. The starting point for data collection was the VVOS questionnaire concerning the effectiveness of lifelong learning, and the AKMK questionnaire focused on identifying social competence. The research was conducted on a sample of 211 human resources, of which 118 (55.9%) were women and 93 (44.1%) men aged from 23 to 66 years. Using correlation analysis, we identified statistically significant connections between the factors for assessing the effectiveness of lifelong learning and the factors for identifying the social competence of human resources, who have completed training to develop social competence.

scholarly journals Plasma donors in the social and information field in a pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol IX(258) (47) ◽  
pp. 42-46
Author(s):  
A. Litovchenko ◽  
D. Boiko ◽  
O. Nekhaienko ◽  
O. Muradyan ◽  
D. Yashkina
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Fixed Position ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Effective Inclusion ◽  
High Level

The article presents the results of a study of plasma donors as an agent of information impact in a pandemic situation. The key problem is the need to socially advance anti-pandemic measures in the face of poorly managed social responses to the fight against a pandemic. The analysis of the research results demonstrates a sufficiently high level of rational critical thinking of plasma donors in relation to being informed about the pandemic and combating it. It is concluded that the fixed position of plasma donors in the information space creates a stable foundation for the effective inclusion of this group in the processes of information support of anti-pandemic measures.

scholarly journals Developing social competences of children with Down syndrome by playing

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-147
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Jędrzejowska
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Social Competence ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Free Play ◽  
School Integration ◽  
Basic Form ◽  
Children With Down Syndrome ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Competences

The subject of this article is a report from a study on the functioning of children with Down syndrome in a pre-school integration group and the rationality of attending kindergarten. During the research, children with Down syndrome in two groups in a kindergarten in Wrocław were observed. The research started with the thesis that play is the basic form of children’s activity, in which, among others, the social competence of children is shaped. The activity most willingly chosen by children during free play were theatrical forms (role playing, puppet theatres, shadow theatres). The research was conducted for nine months; I was a researcher and educator in this kindergarten.

scholarly journals SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR THE FORMATION OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-128
Author(s):  
G.S. Saudabayeva ◽  
◽  
A.D. Toleukhanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Social Competence ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
School Students ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
High Level

The article deals with the need to study the high level of social competence of high school students in modern conditions and new methodological approaches to the study of social problems. Of particular importance in the education system is the issue of studying the experience of implementing the social competence of high school students. The article analyzes the main theoretical approaches in scientific research on the social competence of high school students in the context of cultural and national values. An excursion into the history of problems of social competence of high school students was conducted. Based on the analysis of scientific research by Russian and domestic scientists, it was decided to determine the main methodological approaches to the social competence of high school students. When considering this issue, it is necessary to pay special attention to the historical, cultural and spiritual values of the ethnic group, along with modern socio-cultural realities.There is an urgent need for an interdisciplinary study of the problems of social competence of high school students.

scholarly journals Work experience of tourism and recreation students and the level of social competence. Selected issues

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-30
Author(s):  
Bożena Alejziak
Keyword(s):  
Social Competence ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Voluntary Work ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Abroad ◽  
Social Competences ◽  
Different Levels

The aim of this article is to present results of a study concerning the level of social competences displayed by students of tourism and recreation and how it relates to their work experience. The author hypothesized that the fact of being employed could help to differentiate between different levels of social competences in the student population. Factors such as the length of work experience, positions held, work abroad, internships, and voluntary work were analysed. The study was based on quantitative and qualitative data collected using such tools such as the Social Competence Questionnaire and the Questionnaire for Self-Assessment of Student’s Professional Achievements in order to identify forms of professional activity among the respondents. Full-time students of tourism and recreation were found to have an average level of social competences, and their work experience, considered as a form of social training, did not differentiate between different levels of social competence. No statistically significant correlations were found between the level of social competence and internships at secondary schools, internships at university, work experience in general and in tourism and recreation in particular, and voluntary work. Also, positions held did not differentiate the level of social competence. It could therefore be concluded that the respondents’ work experience was too short to have a measurable effect on the level of their social competences, which take much more time to develop and depend on personal and environmental factors.

Psychometric Properties of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C)

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Ogliari ◽  
Simona Scaini ◽  
Michael J. Kofler ◽  
Valentina Lampis ◽  
Annalisa Zanoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Social Phobia ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Child Anxiety ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
The Social ◽  
General Populations

Reliable and valid self-report questionnaires could be useful as initial screening instruments for social phobia in both clinical settings and general populations. The present study investigates the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C) in a sample of 228 children from the Italian general population aged 8 to 11. The children were asked to complete the Italian version of the SPAI-C and the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that social phobia can be conceptualized as a unitary construct consisting of five distinct but interrelated symptom clusters named Assertiveness, General Conversation, Physical/Cognitive Symptoms, Avoidance, and Public Performance. Internal consistency of the SPAI-C total scores and two subscales was good; correlations between SPAI-C total scores and SCARED total scores/subscales ranged from moderate to high (Generalized Anxiety Disorder, for social phobia), with the SCARED Social Phobia subscale as the best predictor of SPAI-C total scores. The results indicate that the SPAI-C is a reliable and sensitive instrument suitable for identifying Social Phobia in the young Italian general population.

What Can We Learn From Factorial Surveys About Human Behavior?

Methodology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Petzold ◽  
Tobias Wolbring
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Factorial Survey ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Intended Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
High Level

Abstract. Factorial survey experiments are increasingly used in the social sciences to investigate behavioral intentions. The measurement of self-reported behavioral intentions with factorial survey experiments frequently assumes that the determinants of intended behavior affect actual behavior in a similar way. We critically investigate this fundamental assumption using the misdirected email technique. Student participants of a survey were randomly assigned to a field experiment or a survey experiment. The email informs the recipient about the reception of a scholarship with varying stakes (full-time vs. book) and recipient’s names (German vs. Arabic). In the survey experiment, respondents saw an image of the same email. This validation design ensured a high level of correspondence between units, settings, and treatments across both studies. Results reveal that while the frequencies of self-reported intentions and actual behavior deviate, treatments show similar relative effects. Hence, although further research on this topic is needed, this study suggests that determinants of behavior might be inferred from behavioral intentions measured with survey experiments.

Academic motivation and professional skills development in the Specialty of Social Sciences and Tourism at a public university [Motivación académica y desarrollo de competencias profesionales en la Especialidad de Ciencias Sociales y Turismo de una universidad pública]

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Ana Cecilia De Paz Lazaro ◽  
Jessica Luz Palomino Collantes
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Motivation ◽  
Public University ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Competencias Profesionales ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

The objective of the research is to determine the relationship between academic motivation and the professional skills development in the specialty of Social Sciences and Tourism. The study is quantitative and the design is non-experimental correlational translational. The results indicate that there is a high level relationship (0.914) between the independent academic motivation variable and the professional competences development in the Specialty of Social Sciences and Tourism. In conclusion, motivation is directly related to the professional skills development in the specialty of Social Sciences and Tourism. The research results conclude that there is a high relationship between the variables.

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