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Perceived Stress level, GI Symptoms, and Dietary Intake Among College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Get PDFIncreased Nutrient Content through the Use of Transgenic Crops: A Way to Improve Nutrition for All
Get PDFThe Personality Profile and Leadership Style of China’s President Xi Jinping
Get PDFThis paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality and leadership style of China’s president, Xi Jinping, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon.
Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Xi were collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with DSM-III-R, DSM-IV, and DSM-5.
The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed on the basis of interpretive guidelines provided in the MIDC and Millon Index of Personality Styles manuals. Xi’s primary personality pattern was found to be Dominant (in the controlling range of scale elevation), complemented by secondary Conscientious (respectful–dutiful range) and Ambitious (confident–self-serving range) patterns and subsidiary Accommodating/cooperative (conciliatory) and Dauntless/adventurous (risk-taking) tendencies. In addition, there is equivocal evidence for Reticent/circumspect features.
Dominant individuals enjoy the power to direct others and to evoke obedience and respect; they are tough and unsentimental and often make effective leaders. Conscientious leaders are dutiful and diligent, with a strong work ethic and careful attention to detail, excel in crafting public policy, and are more technocratic than visionary. Ambitious individuals are bold, competitive, and self-assured; they easily assume leadership roles, expect others to recognize their special qualities, and often act as though entitled.
The concurrently elevated Dominant and Conscientious pattern in Xi’s overall personality configuration is indicative of an aggressive enforcer personality composite. Leaders with this personality prototype are tough, uncompromising, and believe they have a moral duty to punish and control those who deviate from socially sanctioned norms.
Leaders with Xi’s personality profile are likely to exhibit a deliberative leadership style; they are well informed, exhibit depth of comprehension, are able to visualize alternatives and weigh long-term consequences, understand the implications of their decisions, and are cautious and emotionally controlled.
Based on his personality profile, Xi’s foreign policy orientation is anticipated to be primarily that of a high-dominance introvert with an expansionist orientation, characterized by a tendency to dichotomize the world in terms of moral good vs. evil, tenacity in striving to reshape the international system in accordance with his personal vision, and preoccupation with establishing institutions or principles to keep potentially disruptive forces in check
The Glory of the Lord Whose Likeness is as the Appearance of a Human Being/Adam: A Study of Ezekiel’s Son of Man/Adam Anthropology
Get PDFEzekiel has often been criticized as a dehumanizing book. Still it is alternative humanisms that have done so much to dehumanize mankind with the totalitarianism of self-deifying individualism or the totalitarianism of collectively-imposed manmade metanarratives. Far from being a dehumanizing book, the objective of the son of man/Adam is certainly to purge his hearers of all anthropologies of autonomy and license, but this Adamic priestly prophet does this to eschatologically resurrect in them an anthropology of dependence and true freedom. Reasserting the creation theology and anthropology of Genesis, Ezekiel insists that authentic humanism, Edenic humanism (i.e., the original humanism), is grounded in the Creator God who eschatologically recreates mankind in the divine likeness and a faith-relationship with him which is maintained by the Lord GOD’s life-sustaining temple presence and exercised in a royal priesthood with sacrificial love toward fellow human beings. Freedom is freedom from rebellious sin and death as well as freedom from the imposition of all manmade anthropologies as necessary ways of salvation. At the same time, it is a sacrificial choice between manifold divine goods (i.e., possible good choices) that is made within the framework of God’s will as well as within a framework of complementary and different vocational duties to each other. Only at the recapitulation of all things will recreation and Edenic humanism become fully actualized
Where Learning Begins: Lessons from a Pandemic
No full textTHE HUMAN TOLL of the Covid-19 pandemic, the widespread illness and death observed in 2020, was unimaginable in the waning days of 2019. Since then, in language education, the pandemic has changed the way we interact with others and forced a transformation of how we deliver content to our students. It has placed experimentation at the forefront of our teaching and provided opportunities for pedagogical growth. Above all, in the spring of 2020, Covid-19 tested our adaptability and agility, both as educators and as students.
This article will touch on some of the broader implications for our profession both in and beyond the classroom. My inferences include overarching considerations such as the importance of listening to student voices, maintaining community among the learners, and continual reflection and reevaluation, as well as some specific recommendations learned by the experience. Regardless of the type and amount of technology infused in the process, teaching remains a quintessential human activity focused on learning, but always tempered by the teacher\u27s care for students\u27 well-being and, indeed, their joy
