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Die Lebensgeschichte als Gefäß in der Seelsorge:Dem bisher Unbekannten begegnen
No full textStories provide access to the experience. The relational activity of sharing stories then offers opportunities to change the perspective on one's own life or specific events. This article argues that with good spiritual care it is not only the getting to know oneself and close others more precisely that contributes to transformation, but also the careful handling of what one does not (yet) know
Being an accountant, cook, entertainer and teacher-all at the same time:Changes in employees' work and work-related well-being during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
No full textIn March 2020, the world was hit by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic which led to all-embracing measures to contain its spread. Most employees were forced to work from home and take care of their children because schools and daycares were closed. We present data from a research project in a large multinational organisation in the Netherlands with monthly quantitative measurements from January to May 2020 (N = 253-516), enriched with qualitative data from participants' comments before and after telework had started. Growth curve modelling showed major changes in employees' work-related well-being reflected in decreasing work engagement and increasing job satisfaction. For work-non-work balance, workload and autonomy, cubic trends over time were found, reflecting initial declines during crisis onset (March/April) and recovery in May. Participants' additional remarks exemplify that employees struggled with fulfilling different roles simultaneously, developing new routines and managing boundaries between life domains. Moderation analyses demonstrated that demographic variables shaped time trends. The diverging trends in well-being indicators raise intriguing questions and show that close monitoring and fine-grained analyses are needed to arrive at a better understanding of the impact of the crisis across time and among different groups of employees.</p
How soccer scouts identify talented players
No full textScouts of soccer clubs are often the first to identify talented players. However, there is a lack of research on how these scouts assess and predict overall soccer performance. Therefore, we conducted a large-scaled study to examine the process of talent identification among 125 soccer scouts. Through an online self-report questionnaire, scouts were asked about (1) the players’ age at which they can predict players’ soccer performance, (2) the attributes they consider relevant, and (3) the extent to which they predict performance in a structured manner. The most important results are as follows. First, scouts who observed 12-year-old and younger players perceived they could predict at older ages (13.6 years old, on average) whether a player has the potential to become a professional soccer player. This suggests that scouts are aware of the idea that early indicators of later performance are often lacking, yet do advise on selection of players at younger ages. Second, when identifying talented players, scouts considered more easily observable attributes, such as technical attributes. However, scouts described these often in a broad sense rather than in terms of specific predictors of future performance. Finally, scouts reported that they assess attributes of players in a structured manner. Yet, they ultimately based their prediction (i.e. final score) on an intuitive integration of different performance attributes, which is a suboptimal strategy according to existing literature. Taken together, these outcomes provide specific clues to improve the reliability and validity of the scouting process
Patterns of motivating teaching behaviour and student engagement:A microanalytic approach
No full textPositive student engagement is a prerequisite for students' educational success. In this study, a microanalytic approach was used to explore patterns in teachers' use of specific motivating teaching behaviours from the perspective of self-determination theory in relation to indicators of students' positive engagement. The lessons of 52 teachers were observed and event-based coded. Results showed that specifically asking motivating questions and providing positive feedback and support during exercises were associated with subsequent positive student engagement. Unexpectedly, some demotivating teaching behaviours were also found to relate to positive student engagement, although to a lesser extent. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.</p
Membership change, idea generation, and group creativity:A motivated information processing perspective
No full textMembership change has been found to stimulate collective idea generation but to not always benefit group creativity-the generation of final outcomes that are novel and useful. Based on motivated information processing theory, we propose that membership change challenges group members to generate more ideas, but that this only contributes to group creativity when members have high levels of prosocial motivation and are willing to process and integrate each other's ideas. In a laboratory study of 56 student groups, we found that incremental, but not radical, idea generation mediated the positive effect of membership change on group creativity, and only when group members were prosocially motivated. The present study points to different roles of incremental versus radical ideas and underscores the importance of accounting for prosocial motivation in groups for reaping the benefits of membership change in relation to group creativity.</p
White Hallucinations
No full textIn this paper, the concept of white hallucination is developed through the prism of a recent debate about the permissibility of defending colonialism. The latter is, unsurprisingly, steeped in colonial nostalgia and a defence of free speech. These arguments, however, have to be related to the operation of whiteness itself. White hallucinations concern the psychopathological tendency of whiteness to incessantly reinscribe its mastery of the world. Cases for defending colonialism expose whiteness as a delusion that is reasserted by demanding ‘proof’ against its normativity while simultaneously discarding alternative knowledge claims made by testimonial epistemologies of colonial subjugation and dehumanization. The argument further unravels whiteness as a position-without-positionality that seeks to maintain its normativity and supremacy by aligning itself with rationality, objectivity and humanity as such and subjugating non-white perspectives, experiences and knowledges to the spectre of nonexistence
WHO NEEDS THIS RADIO TODAY?
No full textThe author makes an attempt to consider the reasons for the cultural depreciation of Russian broadcasting, and highlights, in his opinion, the objective prerequisites for reducing consumer interest in audio information. Among such prerequisites, the author sees: strict censorship, the commercial imbalance of modern radio broadcasting, the preponderance of the visualization in the information and digital space, an emphasis on horizontal communications, a sharp technical change in the specializations of media production, the scientific and pedagogical collapse of the media industry and media education. The author proposes his own concept of linear and non-linear audio broadcasting in the context of total digitalization.http://mediamusic-journal.com/Issues/13_3.htm
ASMR ART
No full textThe author makes an attempt to determine the communicative and aesthetic features of an immersive online fiction sound cinematography associated with ASMR-stimulation. On the example of videos, primarily hosted by YouTube, the researcher distinguishes the categories of "personal media broadcasting", "virtual intimacy" and "brain stimulation", performed mainly by sound triggers. The author focuses on the connection between direct physical pleasure and aesthetic pleasure, directed to figurative interpretations of visual and sound triggers. At the same time, based on the diegetic analysis of sound, the author proposes a new artistic and communicative subcategory "antidiegetic sounds".http://mediamusic-journal.com/Issues/13_1.htm
Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis
No full textConjoint analysis is one of the most popular methods to measure preferences of individuals or groups. It determines, for instance, the degree how much consumers like or value specific products, which then leads to a purchase decision. In particular, the method discovers the utilities that (product) attributes add to the overall utility of a product (or stimuli). Conjoint analysis has emerged from the traditional rating- or ranking-based method in marketing to a general experimental method to study individual’s discrete choice behavior with the choice-based conjoint variant. It is therefore not limited to classical applications in marketing, such as new product development, pricing, branding, or market simulations, but can be applied to study research questions from related disciplines, for instance, how marketing managers choose their ad campaign, how managers select internationalization options, why consumers engage in or react to social media, etc. This chapter describes comprehensively the “state-of-the-art” of conjoint analysis and choice-based conjoint experiments and related estimation procedures
Montecassino
No full textThe Benedictine abbey located on the acropolis of a rocky mountain (altitude: 519m) by the same name, in Italy (province: Frosinone)