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Adolescent Substance Use, Misuse, and Abuse
Get PDFAdolescent substance use, misuse, abuse and dependence is a family-oriented problem given that prevention, early detection, tracking adolescents at high risk (child maltreatment, delinquency, sexually-transmitted diseases, substance use, suicide), treating dependent individuals and their family, and follow up are important. Drug abuse is prevalent among adolescents who, in most cases, ignore the dangers inherent in drug abuse. Many of them engage in drug abuse out of frustration, lack of parental supervision, peer influence, pleasure, poverty, etc. This paper presents a classification of the substances used by adolescents, an inventory of children and adolescents at risk for substance use, an inventory of the domain risk factors for adolescent substance use. The authors also clarify a few terminological issues (abuse, misuse, and use), identify the associations of adolescent substance use, and make an attempt at identifying the parent - adolescent relationship in adolescent substance use with focus on the father – daughter relationship
THE AWARENESS OF METACOGNITIVE READING STRATEGIES AND COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE IN PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN. A CORRELATIONAL STUDY
Get PDFThe comprehension of written texts has a major relevance, both at an academic level and in daily life, as considerable efforts are made in order to identify the variables that contribute to the increase of this competence among students. This research paper aims to examine the extent to which the comprehension of reading is related to the use of certain metacognitive strategies among students of the primary school. The lot of the subjects is formed by 85 students who are in the 4th grade who have completed a self-reported measure known as the Metacomprehension Strategy Index (Schmitt, 1990) and participated in the national evaluation testing of reading comprehension. The results indicated a generally low metacomprehension, previewing being the only metacognitive strategy used more often by the subjects. There was noticed the existence of several considerable positive connections between the comprehension performance and the use of metacognitive strategies, particularly in the case of drawing from background knowledge. Educational implications are discussed
SMARTPHONES – SMART EATING?
Get PDFCurrently, all around us, smartphones have become ubiquitous. One obvious question is if and how suchdevices could help us get healthier eating habits? The answer, based on novel technologies (e.g., advanced sensing andsignal processing), is that smartphones or tablets can very easily help us check not only food quantity intake, but alsofood quality (e.g., freshness, chemical compounds, etc.). In this paper we will briefly survey various techniques allowingus to analyse food quality using these devices. We will start by firstly enumerating the main components of mobile camerasand sensors. Afterwards, we will briefly review nutrition analysis software. Towards the end, we will stress the importancehigh-performance image recognition techniques play for reaching a compelling answer to our question if we are eatingsmart or not yet
Eating and Sports Habits of University Students in Szeged
Get PDFsityof Szeged conducted an online survey on students studying at differentuniversity faculties. The main purpose of the study is to find out how healthconscioustoday’s students are, what are their eating, fluid consumption andsports habits. Methods. In our descriptive basic research the mode of datacollection is structured, largly standardized questionnaire that uses mostlycolosed questions and a Likert scale and the survey could be conducted online.The questionnaire was filled in by 746 people, 69.8% were women (521persons) while 30.2% (225 persons) were men. Results. Their answers gavethe following picture: 50% of the students are currently doing sports, mostof them do it as a hobby and with friends. As a result of sport activities morethan 50% of them changed their eating habits in a positive direction. Nearly75% of students consider their eating habits healthy. They use different typeof diets regularly. The majority eat more times a day and drink acceptableamount of water. The vegetable consumption is higher than fruit intake. Justevery tenth students eat fast food every week. Conclusion. For the resultsmentioned above, it would be important for students to have courses in lifestyleor life coaching, because who do not know the connections betweensports and nutrition do not feel their importance either. Implamenting andorganizing special programmes would also help to transform a young adultinto a conscious and active adult
Aspects of Students Motivation for the Didactic Career: doi>10.24250/JPE/1/2020/ACC
No full textThe paper refers to the motivational aspects that determine students of the 1st and 2nd level of the Psychological-Pedagogical Teacher Training Programme at the West University of Timișoara, Romania, in choosing the didactic career. The sample on which the research has been done is constituted of 100 students, 50 following the 1st level of study and 50 the 2nd one
The Study of Employee Motivation in a Chinese Private Enterprise: doi>10.24250/JPE/1/2020/JW/IR
No full textWith the development of Chinese economy, private enterprises have gradually become the backbone of the competitive market. At the same time, with the rapid development of private enterprises, the incentive of internal employees has been paid more and more attention. Then, the establishment of an effective incentive mechanism is a necessary condition to maintain and increase the value of Chinese private enterprises and to achieve sustainable development. However, due to the improper motivation of employees in private enterprises, the loss of employees is widespread. Therefore, private enterprises should overcome their own operational drawbacks and attach importance to the role of high-quality talents and employee motivation. The purpose of this paper is to test whether the employee incentive measures provided by the private enterprise can meet the needs of employees and find out the specific incentive factors that need to be improved. Subsequently, the analysis results of SPSS software show that there are great differences in employees’ demand and satisfaction. The research results of this paper can provide data reference for the private enterprise to help them find out the incentive factors of employee dissatisfaction to take corresponding measures to gradually narrow the gap between employee demand and satisfaction
Literature review for hate speech perpetuation with regards to empowerment theories - Freire's Theory of Empowerment or the Pedagogy of the Oppressed: doi>10.24250/JPE/1/2020/DVR
No full textTo tackle psychological sources of hate speech, our project Hate’s Journey, financed by Erasmus+, 2018-2-ES02-KA205-011733 has designed an online questionnaire composed by some single item research questions, general data collection and tests regarding emotional regulation, internet content awareness and helping attitudes. The hypothesis of this research is that the revenge thinking pattern and ignoring attitude towards the negative effects of hate speech are powerful predictors of future online perpetrator pattern of hate speech. The revenge thinking pattern and ignoring attitude towards the negative effects of hate speech are powerful predictors of future online perpetrator pattern of hate speech. These results suggest that if an individual is enveloped by a thinking pattern built on revenge and if the level of ignorance is high (regarding the negative effects of one’s actions), then there is a possibility of the individual to engage in a form of hate speech. In the quest of matching these new results with a suitable theoretical framework, the pedagogy of the oppressed thinking felt more appropriate
PREVENTING ABSENTEISM IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL BY SOCIAL WORK COUNSELING: doi>10.24250/JPE/1/2020/AMB
No full textAbstract: Absenteeism is a major problem that affects all levels of the education system from primary to university. Chronic absenteeism leads to gaps in knowledge and difficulties in obtaining adequate school performance.
Two third classes from a general school in Arad were studied: an experimental one and a control one. In the experimental class the children with absenteeism were advised by the social worker for 2 months. At the same time there were five counseling sessions with their parents and a program of interest stimulation for the school was introduced to the class.
The obtained results confirm that by the assistance counseling the number of absences of the children can be reduced and the chronic absenteeism can be prevented
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE PERCEPTIONS AND ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS IN TWO HIGH SCHOOLS WITH DIFFERENT STATUS REGARDING THE PHENOMENON OF BULLYING IN SCHOOLS: doi>10.24250/JPE/1/2020/AM/CG/FLV/DSB
No full textBullying is described as a set of aggressive actions, characterized byintent, repetition and an imbalance of forces. These characteristics refer tothe fact that the aggressor chooses a weaker victim, who will beaggressively and repeatedly assaulted, usually in school. Wanting to explorethis topic locally through the eyes of the students, we conducted a researchto identify the differences in perception and attitude of the students from twodifferent high schools (a national college and a technological high school),regarding this phenomenon. The main hypothesis is that tensions anddifficulties in the school environment can affect the attitudes of studentsregarding violence. We applied a questionnaire to 72 students (36 fromeach high school) from Sighetu Marmatiei. The results show that thestudents from the technological high school, know more information aboutbullying, and they consider this phenomenon to be less frequent comparedto the students from the national college, and the feeling of being safe atschool is greater. Students from both high schools expressed pro-victimattitudes to a greater extent, but the attitude toward the aggressor was morenegative in the case of students from the national college and more positivein the other school. We can conclude that if the academic standards of thestudents are higher, there is more tension is the school atmosphere, whichcan generate bullying situations and feelings of insecurity at school
CHOOSING AN ACADEMIC PATH, A TRUE ACT OF RESPOSIBILITY: 10.24250/JPE/2/2020/DL
No full textThis paper aimes to investigate the degree of satisfaction with the training offered by the academic path, the main reasons why young people choose a certain faculty and the impact of people with authority over young people, when it comes to choosing the academic path. The research group included 221 students ( 1st, 2nd, 3rd year of university study- undergraduate level). A very large number of students, 215 (97.3%) say they are satisfied with the professional skills formed by the study program they attend. A percentage of 50.7% students say they are satisfied, 25.8% are very satisfied and 20.8% are relatively satisfied. The main reason why young people turned to college were personal passions and inclinations (26.2% - 58 subjects), and most young people, almost half, said they made the choice on their own (41.18% - 91 subjects). Concerning those who influenced the young people in choosing the academic path, it was observed that: 32.58% - 72 subjects stated that "someone in the family (parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts)" were the people who had an influence on their decission maiking