Multilingual Iconographic Professional Interest Inventory (MIPII): Development and Initial Validation

Vocational interest inventories are widely used by career counselors to help individuals to make career choices. The most common approach to assess vocational interests is based on verbal or textual stimuli. However, some of them are based on pictorials to overcome reading limits and provide additional information about the working environment and the activities related to a particular job. This article aims to present two studies on the development and first validation of the Multilingual Iconographic Professional Interest Inventory (MIPII) on two samples, one composed of 792 high-school students, and one composed of 366 middle school students. The inventory aimed to assesses the vocational interests of people over 19 areas by illustrations representing 95 jobs, five for each one, combined with their title in six different languages (Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French and Italian in this order). Both illustrations and titles are provided separately in the male and female version on the same page.

Comparative analysis of the subjective perception of oneself as a future parent among married couples with different reproductive history

Introduction. The problem of infertility is widely known around the world. According to WHO, 3% of the world's population suffers from infertility. In Russia, the problem of infertility is extremely urgent, the number of couples applying for assisted reproductive technologies is growing every year. However, the number of positive IVF protocols, successful pregnancy outcomes, and the quality of life of children born prematurely is still not high. There are more than 700 factors that affect the outcome of pregnancy, most of which are poorly understood, and research in various fields continues. In addition to the proven physiological factors that affect the outcome of pregnancy, there are a number of poorly understood factors that cause idiopathic infertility.Materials and Methods. Author's semi-structured interview for a married couple during pregnancy. Male and female version of the interview. Repeated author's interview for a woman in the early postpartum period. Content analysis.Results. The main results obtained during the interview were analyzed. Such as the subjective assessment of the perception of pregnancy (physical, emotional experiences), the motive of pregnancy, the assessment of one's own parental readiness to raise a child, parental competencies, changes in marital roles, studying the lifestyle before and during pregnancy, contact with one's own parents, behavior during childbirth, primary contact with a newborn child.Discussion and Conclusions. According to the results of the study, conclusions were obtained indicating the importance of timely provision of psychological assistance to pregnant women as a result of the use of ART. Women who are pregnant with ART are more anxious, less self-oriented, more likely to have obstetric and neonatal complications, difficulties with primary psychological contact with a newborn child, difficulties with breastfeeding.

How Female Students Are “Educated” to Retreat from Leadership: An Example from the Chinese Schooling Context

Women’s continued under-representation in leadership positions is well documented. This article asserts that part of the reason for this can be found within educational settings. Chinese educational environments are examined using secondary data analysis, and it is argued that a) the protective approach that teachers adopt towards female students, b) the reserved and unworldly female images exhibited by textbooks, and c) the improper view of leadership that girls tend to develop through classroom-based leadership experiences combine to damage girls’ leadership potential. These mechanisms are usually unintentional and hard to detect, which means that part of the solution lies in promoting the awareness of teachers and educational leaders. Meanwhile, it is important to note that this issue is not merely about equal treatment for both genders; rather, it is broadly linked to our construction of leadership as a concept. Ultimately, the educational setting is expected not only to produce an equal number of “great women” and “great men”, but also—partly through its explorations of how to cultivate the female version of a “great man”—to contribute to updating and advancing the “leadership” concept and practice as a whole.

PRIAPISM AS A COMPLICATION OF PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY

Priapism is a serious complication of psychopharmacotherapy, which can result in erectile dysfunction if there is no timely diagnosis and treatment. Purpose: to study cases of priapism in patients taking psychotropic drugs which were described in the literature. Articles were searched in the Medline database (1969-2020) in English by keywords – priapism and psychotropic drugs. 265 articles were found, most of which were devoted to the use of trazodone (81 articles) and resperidone (50) in patients with mental disorders with the development of priapism. There were cases of such complication associated with taking 12 antipsychotics (six – of the first generation and six – of the second; three – drugs of prolonged action) and 12 antidepressants (from the group of tricyclic, tetracyclic, selective serotonin and dopamine reuptake inhibitors, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake antagonists/inhibitors, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), as well as four mood stabilizing agents. The prescribed doses of drugs varied widely. Often these medications were used in various combinations. Priapism most often occurred in the first days (month) of treatment with low doses of drugs. Cases of priapism against the background of psychopharmacotherapy are described not only in adults and elderly men, but also in children starting from the age of two, as well as in women who developed clitorism (female version of priapism). Although priapism is caused by many factors, caution should be exercised when adding other psychotropic drugs to treatment, when increasing their single (daily) dose, passing from the tablet to the injectable form, including appointment of depot drugs, and canceling treatment. Special attention should be paid to patients having episodes of prolonged erections and hematological pathology (hemoglobinopathies and thrombophilias) in their medical history. Priapism is a rare but dangerous complication that requires urgent urological care. This condition can develop when taking almost all psychotropic drugs that have serotoninergic, dopaminergic and alpha-adrenergic antagonistic properties.

“…Now I write ‘About Love’…” (The Problems and poetics of the story “The hermit” by M. Gorky)

The article analyzes Gorky’s program work “The Hermi”, which opens his book “Stories of 1922–1924”. The problems and poetics of the story are revealed by comparing the image of the main character with the characters of other works of the writer of this time. It is shown that when creating the image of a hermit, Gorky could start from a memoir essay about John of Kronstadt written by him at the same time. In contrast to the official Orthodox Church, the writer created his ideal of a Russian Holy elder. “The hermit” is also compared with the essay “medicine Woman”, in which Gorky showed a female version of the image of his elder. Sam Sawelij and the witch is Ivanicha — a symbol of the best that Gorky found the Russian man. The main humanistic pathos of the story “The Hermit” is in the statement of unselfish, all-conquering love of man for the world around him, for all living things on earth, for man for man. In conclusion, the question of the idea of the book “Stories of 1922–1924” as a whole is raised and solved, which is revealed when comparing “The Hermit” with the last in the book “A Story about the extraordinary”.

Growing Bellies, Failing Mothers, Scary Offspring

This chapter addresses so-called ‘gynaehorror,’ the type of horror that deals explicitly with female reproductive bodily functions. While first addressing Woolf’s childlessness, the chapter opens with references to the early work of Agnes Varda, Diary of a Pregnant Woman (1958) and One Sings the Other Doesn’t (1977) to then turn to the female version of Rosemary’s Baby with Lyle (Stewart Thorndike, 2014) and Alice Low’s pregnancy-horror film Prevenge (2016). Jennifer Phillips’s film Blood Child (2017) is a chilling story based on true events where a miscarriage is translated into the raising of a ghost child. Furthermore, this chapter looks at complicated mother-daughter relations in Ngozi Onwurah’s The Body Beautiful (1991) and in Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion (2017); and at mother-son relations in We Have to talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsey 2011), Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook (2014) and Goodnight Mommy (Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala 2015). The chapter also discusses some other family relations from hell as depicted Dark Touch (Marina de Van 2013), System Crasher (Nora Fingscheidt 2019) and Family (Veronika Kedar 2017). Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Evolution (2015) takes pregnancy to a post human level and in that sense resonates with some of Butler’s writing, especially her short story ‘Blood Child’.

Women Who Commit Sexual Offences: Improving Assessment to Prevent Recidivism

This chapter explores the utility and potential implementation of a new female version of an assessment tool called the Active Risk Management System (ARMS) along with some of the limitations and challenges academics and practitioners face when attempting to engage with strengths-based approaches. In doing this, an analysis of the areas to be assessed is offered with a special focus on protective factors that have been highly overlooked in the past. Forwarding women to programmes that enhance their strengths and empower them is a very promising strategy that can be used at all levels of prevention (primary, secondary and tertiary) but that can only happen if they are assessed accordingly.