Psychological consumer behavior and sustainable green food purchase

PurposeThe study aims to examine the role of consumer psychological attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavior control and pro-environmental self-identity on green food purchase intention. Also, it examines the effect of ecological conscious consumers' behavior (ECCB) on green intention and behavior.Design/methodology/approachThe study has focused on the upper-middle-class segment of Karachi. The authors have used area sampling for collecting the data. Six recruited enumerators distributed 450 questionnaires in five areas of Karachi and received 423 filled-in questionnaires. The study has used the Smart PLS version for data analysis.FindingsThe study found that biospheric egoistic and hedonic values affect attitudes toward green products, and altruistic values have no effect on attitude. Also, the authors did not find any association between attitude and green purchase intention, but found that attitude stimulates ECCB. Subjective norms and perceived behavior control strongly affect green purchase intention and ECCB. The results also suggest that pro-environment self-identity and ECCB are significant predictors of green purchase intention. The authors also found that green purchase intention stimulates green food behavior.Originality/valueThe authors have taken a holistic approach by investigating 13relationships. The authors also examined the association between hedonic values and green purchase intentions, which in the past studies have contradictory results.

The Population Census: a Tool for Consolidating or Irritating Society?

The article provides a historical digression into the population census as the only tool that makes it possible to assess the current socio-economic and socio-demographic situation in a particular territory. The possible factors causing distrust and fear among the population that arise in the process of organizing and conducting this labor-intensive process are listed. Among them: legal support; methodological foundation; consciousness and responsibility of scribes; psychological attitude of respondents.

TOLERANCE FOR AMBIGUITY IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE PERSONAL COMPONENT OF SITUATIONS RELATED WITH PEDAGOGICAL PROBLEMS

Statement of the problem. Improving the quality of resolving difficult situations associated with teachers’ professional activity is possible only by studying those personal and situational variables that a) affect the resolution of difficult situations, b) are included in the personal structure and are available for comprehension. Tolerance for ambiguity (TA), being an intersubjective personality parameter, has all the necessary characteristics and can be considered when developing socio-psychological programs for teachers. However, its contribution to the resolution of difficult situations is currently not well understood. The purpose of the article is to show the place of TA in the structure of the personal component of situations related with pedagogical difficulties based on experimental data. Review of scientific literature on the problem. TA has many interpretations and is considered by researchers as a personality trait, as a metacognitive characteristic, as a socio-psychological attitude. Currently, without denying the multidimensionality of the concept, the emotional, cognitive and perceptual components of TA are considered. This means a return, at a new level, to the original idea of E. Frenkel-Brunswik, author of this psychological concept, who defined TA as an emotional-cognitive personality variable associated with the ambivalence of experiencing negative and positive properties of objects of reality. Sharing the views of E. Lehtinen and K. Merenluoto, we consider TA not as a stable, but as a dynamic characteristic. However, we have to admit that in this aspect the problem has been studied least of all. Therefore, studying the structure of the personal component of situations related with pedagogical difficulties, we consider as a separate task of studying TA as a structural component that develops in personal and situational interaction. Materials and methods. The research methodology is built in accordance with the idea of ​​L.S. Vygotsky and K. Levin, according to which any objective characteristic with which a person interacts becomes subjective through experience. The second foundation is understanding of the personality in the existential and humanistic approach as the leading instance that mediates any interaction with the world and oneself. The third foundation is a situational approach. The study involved 111 practicing teachers, who were offered five problem-solving tasks. Self-reports were processed using content analysis, the results were correlated with the data of personality techniques, including S. Badner’s TA test, and were subjected to factorization. Research results. The paper proves that TA refers to intersubjective parameters that affect the relationship between the personality and the situation. The TA factor turned out to be significant for all three groups of open, closed, and mixed models of interaction in difficult situations and is included in the structure of the personal component of situations related with pedagogical difficulties along with such factors as autonomy, communication, cognitive interest, openness, and creativity. Conclusion. The idea of ​K. Dahlbert that TA is most of all connected with the time factor was confirmed. During the study, it was found out that entering into different combinations within the personality structure, the TA parameter forms different configurations. Combined with the “orientation in time” factor, TA promotes an open type of interaction, while intolerance is associated with categoricalness and a closed type of communication in a situation of difficulty. Temporal competence enhances the personality ability to resolve a situation of difficulty through time resource management. At the same time, expectation of easiness and categoricalness lower the developmental potential of interaction in a situation of difficulty. In general, the high weight of TA in the structure of the personality component of situations related with pedagogical difficulties allows us to consider TA as a task and condition in the development of socio-psychological programs for practicing teachers.

Psychological Attitudes towards Electronic learning in Female and male Students of Physical Education and Sport Sciences / University of Baghdad

The research aimed at identifying the psychological attitudes of students in the college of physical education and sport sciences’/ university of Baghdad. The researchers used a psychological attitude towards electronic learning constructed by Mohammed Qasem to identify the marks that the students get. The subjects were (259) female and male students and the scale was applied to them to conclude that the grades of psychological attitudes towards electronic learning are very low in second, third, fourth-year students while in first-year students the grades were high. Finally, the researchers recommended the necessity of changing programs and styles that teachers use as well as holding training courses to uplift their level of learning.

Intersubjectivity and Embodiment in the Field of Psychotherapy

"Intersubjectivity is one of the most important concepts of the phenomenological school of thought. The approach assumes that our being in the world is based on relations with Others. The idea has a central role not only in the philosophy of perception but in psy-sciences as well. Mostly all branches of psychology agree that the self is constituted by its relations. However, there is much less consensus on how decisive these relations are. Therefore, the question of intersubjectivity has become the question of how we perceive human beings: as biological or social entities. Psy-sciences have never had one coherent and consensual paradigm, although nowadays the natural scientific standards are the most prevailing in the field, which prioritizes biological explanations over socio-cultural aspects. The study attempts to connect the phenomenological approach to intersubjectivity to the psychological approach to embodiment. For this, first, it elaborates on an essential problem of psy-sciences, transmitted by classical philosophy, namely the mind-body dualism, which implicitly establishes the current paradigm. Then, it aims to describe how the phenomenological approach, especially the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, could dissolve the classical dualism through the assumption of the body-mind-world unity. Merleau-Ponty was one of those thinkers of the 20th century who laid down the foundations of the scientific paradigm of embodiment. Afterward, I illustrate the phenomenological concept above through Ben Rumble’s psychological approach, which applies the embodiment paradigm for the therapeutic process as a professional. The final part of the study attempts to establish a relation between the psychological attitude based on embodiment and the psychoanalytic theory of Sándor Ferenczi, the Hungarian psychoanalyst. Keywords: embodiment, intersubjectivity, psychoteraphy, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, critical psychology, Sándor Ferenczi "

Too masculine for healthcare, too feminine for intense sports: correlation between gender conformity and pro-health behaviours

Background: The goal of this paper is to examine to what extent levels of femininity and masculinity are associated with practicing several types of health behaviours among individuals who are physically active and inactive. Material/Methods: A total of 559 individuals aged between 35 and 45 (M = 39.4; SD = 3.2) took part in the study. The inactive group consisted of 211 individuals (n = 85 women, n = 126 men), and the active group consisted of 348 individuals (n = 131 women, n = 217 men). The participants completed the following pen-and-paper questionnaires: the Psychological Gender Inventory, the Health Behaviours Inventory, and the Inventory of Physical Activity Objectives. Results: Physical activity and androgynous psychological gender were shown to be associated with the levels of health behaviours in men and women. Among men, femininity turned out to be a factor protective against hegemonic masculinity, while among women it was observed that it is mainly masculinity that correlates with health behaviours. Physical activity was associated with a better psychological attitude. Conclusion: It is possible to treat physical activity as a protective factor against decreased mood and an aid in coping with decreased mood. Society and culture should encourage the development of femininity and masculinity from the earliest years. Future research on masculinity and femininity and pro-health behaviours should be aimed at looking for ways to promote physical activity among undifferentiated individuals.

Managerial aspect of missionary activity of A. Scriabin

The purpose of the article is to identify the historical and cultural specifics of A. Scriabin's missionary activity in dealing with the features of music management as a value, creative phenomenon of spiritual culture, which has a practical implementation in the conditions of socio-cultural interaction. The methodology includes analytical, comparative-historical, and genre-nominative musicological approaches determined by aesthetic-cultural and philosophical positions, as we have in the works of P. Valeri, O. Losev, L. Sabaneev, in the dissertations of D. Androsova, V. Batanov, Liu Binqian, etc. The methodological foundations of the research are the theory of knowledge, philosophical principles of dialectics of unity and interaction of object and subject, general and individual, spiritual and material, cultural and historical. The scientific novelty lies in the distinctive historical and cultural features of Music Management in the missionary efforts of Fr. Scriabin, directed by the Christian-Hesychast incentives of his ideological attitudes, which fueled both the creative and practical activities of both a brilliant artist and organizational and peacekeeping efforts to protect the "intellectual rebirth" of people during the bloody realities of the first World War. Conclusions. The Christian-Hesychast, including the genesis of the ideological foundations of Fr. Scriabin, who gave the features of music management, organizational and managerial principles determined by the national mentality of the need to "save humanity" through religious unity in an ecumenical-expanding interpretation of planetary-significant actions ("Religare"-communication). Scriabin saw the value-semantic load of organizational and managerial means in the dispatch of the mystery as a planetary-unifying factor-despite the socio-political discord of the first World War. Extra-artistic indicators of missionary activity by their nature are indicated. Scriabins demonstrate the paradigmatic component of combinations of creative-practical and organizational-educational, theoretical-cultural-creative, etc. in the person of outstanding personalities of the last century, the phenomenon of which is indicated in the "Leonardo da Vinci system" by P. Valerie as a marking index of the psychological attitude of a creative person in the last century.

The Role of Value-Semantic Oppositions in Revealing the Deep Literary and Psychological Characteristics of the Narrator’s Image in “Poor Liza” by N.M. Karamzin

Value-semantic oppositions in the novel by N.M. Karamzin, seen as meaningful text dominants in situations of "existential fullness", are discussed in the article from the point of view of an interdisciplinary approach of literary criticism, text theory, psychology and linguistics. The article describes the process of literary and psychological meaning generation, coupled with the narrator’s inherent properties, as well as implicit literary and psychological textual relationships with inherent properties, it also singles out the contextual ways of these characteristics, reflecting motives, attitudes, generalized worldview judgments (generalizations). The author shows the dialog nature of the narrator’s literary and psychological attitude to the realities denoted by various parts of the opposition in the situation of “existential fullness”. The role of lexical markers corresponding to the depicted integral emotional state of the narrator in the privision of active reader's attention and attracting him to the deep literary and psychological characteristics is revealed.

ANALISIS TINDAK TUTUR EKSPRESIF DALAM NOVEL MY LECTURER MY HUSBAND KARYA GITLICIOUS

Expressive speech act is a type of speech act that functions to express a speaker's psychological attitude towards a situation. The novel My Lecturer My Husband is a novel containing education, love, sadness, and loyalty, so it is very interesting to study and serve as an example of novel learning in schools. This study aims to identify and describe expressive speech acts through the characters. The method used is descriptive qualitative. The data of this research are in the form of the utterances of the characters in the novel. The techniques used are reading and note-taking techniques. The results of this study indicate that the expressive speech acts in the novel My Lecturer My Husband consist of expressive speech acts in the form of: a) apologizing in the context of making mistakes; b) expressing gratitude in the context of gratitude for the speaker's good deeds; c) praising in the context of praising the beauty and good looks of the speaker; d) blaming in the context of blaming a friend for following wrong advice; e) protest in the context of refusing an arranged marriage; f) mocking in the context of taunting Lecturers as dry chamois; f) complaining in the context of being given multiple assignments by the lecturer.