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    The impact of impulsivity on work engagement - data from a standard interview regarding the issue

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    Statistical data from a research project verifying the socio-organizational constraints and personal resources of participants in various employee organizations. The research took into account hard (genetically determined) personal resources, which, depending on the conditions of social and organizational factors, may be both resources and job demnds of involvement in the implementation of tasks at work

    Psychological analysis of NIMBY syndrome

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    The NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) concept is commonly using to explain public opposition to new developments near houses and communities, such as: wind farms, electricity pylons, large dams, medium and maximum security prisons, commercial nuclear power plants, and gambling casinos. Despite its common use, the concept has been extensively critiqued by social scientists as a useful concept for research and practice. In this article we attempt to explain the NIMBY syndrome referring to psychological factors. Four hypotheses of this phenomenon were included: the spatial theory, understanding of the NIMBY phenomenon as selfish, NIMBY syndrome recognized from a perspective of the dynamics of attitudes, and finaly NIMBY syndrome as the sense of territorial identity. The NIMBY syndrome theory has also been analyzed from the point of view of impacts in social factors
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