The book represents a scentific monography of the research work done on the fields of personality, cognitive abilities, wellbeing and mental health, decision making, values and successful life including the author's research in all these fields, among them also the studies dedicated to the personality structure and general factors of personality, cognitive abilities and mental wellbeing.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 251286272Quantitative and qualitative studies of various aspects of the perception of biotechnology were conducted among 469 Slovenian high school students of average age 17 years. Our research aimed to explore relationships among students’ pre-knowledge of molecular and human genetics, and their attitudes to four specific biotechnological applications. These applications—Bt corn, genetically modified (GM) salmon, somatic and germ line gene therapy (GT)—were investigated from the viewpoints of usefulness, moral acceptance and risk perception. In addition, patterns and quality of moral reasoning related to the biotechnological applications from the aspect of moral acceptability were examined. Clear gender differences were found regarding the relationship between our students’ pre-knowledge of genetics and their attitudes to biotechnological applications. While females with a better genetics background expressed a higher risk perception in the case of GM salmon, their similarly well-educated male colleagues emphasized the risk associated with the use of germ line GT. With all four biotechnological applications, patterns of both rationalistic—deontological and teleological—and intuitive moral reasoning were identified. Students with poorer genetics pre-knowledge applied an intuitive pattern of moral reasoning more frequently than their peers with better pre-knowledge. A pattern of emotive reasoning was detected only in the case of GM salmon. A relatively low quality of students’ moral reasoning, as demonstrated by their brief and small number of supporting justifications (explanations), show that there is a strong need for practising skills of argumentation about socio-scientific issues in Slovenian high schools on a much larger scale. The implications for future research and classroom applications are discussed.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 6727033The main research goal was to investigate the self-concept, self-esteem and social support among adolescents with special needs, concentrating on the differences between adolescents who are attending regular schools and those who receive their education in special institutions. Participants filled in three questionnaires: Self-description Questionnaire (Marsh, 1992), Self-Liking / Competence Scale (Tafarodi and Swann, 2001) and Child and Adolescent Social Support Scale (Malecki, Demaray and Elliott, 2000). The results show that the educational institution and type of disability affect studentsʼ self-concept, self-esteem and social support, while parentsʼ disability only has a minor influence on these characteristics. Positive correlations between types of self-concept and social support can also be observed. The results therefore show inclusionʼs positive effect on studentsʼ personal and social functioning: students attending inclusive education have better self-concepts and receive more social support than students attending special schools.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 48554850The monography is dealing with the theoretical and empirical findings about the evacuation and about the behavior during evacuation in the critical or catastrophic events. The authors described and analyzed different psychosocial theories and models explaining evacuation, especially the theories of panic, adherence approach, normative approach and social identity approach. In the discussion, a special attention is devoted to th psychological characteristics of the evacuation. In the chapters of monography, the analyses of some famous examples of evacuation are included (hurricanes Hugo, Andrew and Katrina, nuclear disasters in Windscale, Three Miles Island, Černobil, Fukoshima.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 264816640The book represents an attempt to systemize psychological knowledge about literacy through theory and research and to present research results in this field, especially the results of the author. Even though literacy is one of the basic goals of formal education which overlaps with different professions (linguistic, sociological, psychological, pedagogical, etc.), systematic scientific research of this phenomenon is relatively rare in Slovenia, especially in psychology. The book tries to at least partially fill in this gap and systematically work through psychological aspects of the literacy phenomenon. The results of research have been presented to professional audience on professional conferences (11 times), seminars (for teachers at different schools; 57 times) and on TV (2 times) (see the author's COBISS entries: http://izumbib.izum.si/bibliografije/Y20140504185818 06835.html, points 3.11, 3.16 and 3.25).
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