International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Intertemporal choices are very prevalent in daily life, ranging from simple, mundane decisions to... more Intertemporal choices are very prevalent in daily life, ranging from simple, mundane decisions to highly consequential decisions. In this context, thinking about the future and making sound decisions are crucial to promoting mental and physical health, as well as a financially sustainable lifestyle. In the present study, we set out to investigate some of the possible underlying mechanisms, such as cognitive factors and emotional states, that promote future-oriented decisions. In a cross-sectional experimental study, we used a gain and a loss version of an intertemporal monetary choices task. Our main behavioural result indicated that people are substantially more impulsive over smaller and sooner monetary losses compared to equivalent gains. In addition, for both decisional domains, significant individual difference predictors emerged, indicating that intertemporal choices are sensitive to the affective and cognitive parameters. By focusing on the cognitive and emotional individual ...
Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An interdisciplinary journal, 2020
Theoretical models of ability-based emotional intelligence (EI) present the ability to regulate o... more Theoretical models of ability-based emotional intelligence (EI) present the ability to regulate other’s emotion as part of the emotion regulation facet, but in existing ability-based self-report EI measures, this ability is often not evaluated (e.g., Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, WLEIS, 2004) or is evaluated as a separate facet, in the work context (e.g., Workgroup Emotional Intelligence Profile WEIP-3, 2002). This consideration led to the development of a new self-report EI measure to assess EI abilities (Cluj Emotional Intelligence Scale, CEIS); the process of development and validation is presented in the current paper, across four different studies. Study 1 (n = 218) used item- analysis and exploratory factor analysis to select relevant items. Study 2 (n = 215) tested the factorial structure, convergent and discriminant validity and test-retest reliability (in sub-sample n = 75). Study 3 (n = 164) cross-validates the factorial structure and assesses concurrent valid...
The proliferation of digital gadgets and increased media consumption among adolescents has raised... more The proliferation of digital gadgets and increased media consumption among adolescents has raised interest and concern regarding possible effects on cognitive functioning. Research investigating this relationship has yielded mixed results. This study aims to replicate the research conducted by Baumgartner et al. concerning the relationship between adolescent media multitasking and executive functioning on a sample of 296 Romanian early adolescents. The same methodology as the original study was followed and its findings were partially replicated. Mainly, results of regression analyses indicated that more media multitasking with media activities was related to more self-reported executive difficulties, but not with performance on three computerized executive functioning tasks. Media multitasking with non-media activities was unrelated to executive functioning. When comparing extreme groups, however, heavier media multitasking was associated with faster performance on the task-shiftin...
International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE), 2017
The paper aims to investigate the extent to which the use of virtual patient (VP) improves the le... more The paper aims to investigate the extent to which the use of virtual patient (VP) improves the level of theoretical knowledge and students’ confidence (self-efficacy) of psychology and medicine students to perform clinical diagnostic. We created two classes on an e-learning Moodle platform, presenting, as virtual patient, the evaluation of the same panic disorder case. One class uses a linear VP , the other, a branched VP (a decisional tree type). The sample consisted of 159 volunteer participants, psychology and medicine students, randomly assigned to one of three conditions : control, linear virtual patient ( PVL) and branched virtual patient (PAD). Before and after the training with the virtual patient sequence, a questionnaire investigates the theoretical knowledge and the self-efficacy levels. For self-efficacy evaluation we used the Session Management sub-scale of Counsellor Activity Self-Efficacy Scales, by Robert W. and Clara E. Hill.Both types of VPs are associated with a...
ABSTRACT Experiencing highly stressful events may lead not only to the development of different f... more ABSTRACT Experiencing highly stressful events may lead not only to the development of different forms of clinically significant disorders (anxiety, depression, etc.), but to recovery and growth as well. Regardless the huge amount of research within the domain of 'negative' and 'positive' reactions to stress, the underlying mechanisms that modulate the different reactions and their dynamic has not yet been totally elucidated. Nevertheless, meaning systems have been repeatedly found to play a major role in the denouement of stress-induced reactions. This present research is mostly interested in the investigation of the relationship between global meaning systems and the propensity of stress-affected individuals towards more adaptive or maladaptive reactions. Accordingly, we have appealed to proverbs in order to tap the underlying meaning systems (as 'life-mottos') in diabetic patients by using Q methodology. Finally, the results revealed by the Q methodology have been analyzed together with those obtained from self-report assessments, thus offering a more complete picture of the investigated issue. KEYWORDS: stress-related growth, meaning-making, global meaning system, proverbs, Q methodology INTRODUCTION The reviewing of the stress and trauma literature has revealed that the experiencing of extremely negative events does not necessarily and exclusively lead to the development of distress and disablement. Huge amounts of centurieslong observations have recorded the possibility of turning adversity into growth (Tedeschi, Park, & Calhoun, 1998). Because of its possible adaptive potential, posttraumatic growth has gained more and more attention in the last few years (Zoellner & Maercker, 2006; Taylor, Lichtman, & Wood, 1984; Affleck & Tennen, 1996), and knowledge about this phenomenon has been considerably refined. Notwithstanding, results in this domain are still somewhat contradictory and confusing. Meaning-making has been found to have a huge importance in recovering and/or growing from the encounter with negative events (Affleck, Tennen, & Gerschman, 1985; Silver, Boon, & Stones, 1983), thus several approaches have tried to deal with it (e.g. Park & Folkman, 1997; Nolen-Hoeksema & Davis, 1999; Nolen-Hoeksema & Larson, 1999; Neimeyer, 2001). Consequently, there have been attempts to complete existing models of stress with that of meaning making. One of the most successful approaches that encompass and may be capable of explaining the possibility of possible stress-related reactions is that of Park and Folkman (1997) on meaning making in the context of stress and coping. The authors build their model on Lazarus's Cognitive-Motivational-Relational model of stress and coping (1991), the main tenets of which is appraisal and coping. According to Park and Folkman's (1997) approach, each individual has two forms of meaning-systems, which both intervene in the process of making meaning of the negative event: the global and the situational meaning systems. The Global Meaning system represents the person's beliefs and goals, containing both culturally shared meanings, and individualized meanings. It refers to the system of higher, abstracted and generalized levels of peoples' basic goals and fundamental assumptions, beliefs and expectations about the world (Park & Folkman, 1997). Global meaning systems seem to influence the way people appraise the personal relevance of the encountered event and further on deal with it and its consequences. The Situational meaning system refers to the interaction of a person's global beliefs and goals and the requirements of the particular person-environment transaction (Park & Folkman, 1997) within the encounter with the event. As stated in Lazarus' Cognitive-Motivational-Relational model of stress and coping (1991), situational meaning would be represented by the individual's appraisal of this transaction, which in turn would influence the way the person copes with the demands of the situation (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984; Lazarus, 1991). …
ABSTRACT Finding meaning in and for one's life has been found to have a salutogenic effect on... more ABSTRACT Finding meaning in and for one's life has been found to have a salutogenic effect on people's lives. This issue becomes even more important in traumatic situations. An extremely stressful situation is the diagnosis with cancer, where one's life and future are seriously threatened. Some people succumb under such huge stress, others live an impaired life, and still others bounce back to an acceptable level of functioning. The emotional co-activation theory may stand at the basis of turning such adversity into advantage. One possible mechanism that would help people balance the negative emotions produced by diagnosis and its implications is through finding meaning for life. Our study aims to investigate whether there is a difference in the texture of affective life between those Romanian cancer patients who are able to find meaning for their foreseen future and those who are not. We are also interested in the underlying mechanisms that might contribute to these findings. KEYWORDS: meaning in life, life regard index (LRI) cancer related distress, positive reinterpretation, active coping, co-activation. INTRODUCTION "Man does not live by bread alone, nor by know-how, safety, children or sex" (1997, p. 521). This is how Steven Pinker's chapter on The Meaning of Life in How the Mind Works (1997) begins. This acknowledgement has led him to inventory the functions of different specific human behaviors (music, literature, religion, humor, philosophy, etc.), which seemingly have a major common function - they help people find or attribute/confer meaning to disparate events they encounter during life and life itself. It seems that it is a natural need of humans to be able to find meaning to all happenings in life, great and small, as well as a justification for their existence, to be able to find a place in the bigger picture for their lives (Klinger, 1998; Wong & Fry, 1998). Pinker's acknowledgement is not a recent finding. The importance of the individual's quest of understanding the world, life and his/her adaptation through it to the requirements of each situation has for very long time been a topic of interest. Until recently, the issue of meaning in life has traditionally been one of the most important problems in philosophy, theology, and literature (Debats, van der Lubbe, & Wezeman, 1993), eluding to occupy an important position in mainstream psychology (Debats, 1998). This was due to at least two factors: (i) even today it is extremely difficult to arrive to a unitary definition of this concept, and (ii) because of its 'vague', 'boundless' nature theoretical, and especially empirical approaches had difficulties in operationalizing meaning in life (Debats, 1998). The last decades of social and psychological research have recognized the psychological implications of meaning in/of the individual's life both in usual situations and in extreme cases of loss, harm and trauma (Frankl, 1963; Yalom, 1980; Janoff-Bulman, 1992; Davis, Wortman, Lehman, & Silver, 2000), thus intensifying bith theoretical development and research in the domain. Meaning in life in everyday situations Finding meaning in and for one's life has been found to have a salutogenic effect in all societies, helping people attain and maintain a level of emotional balance and motivation in order to attain goals. Since meaning in life has been found to be a 'positive psychological resource' that promotes health in societies undergoing major political and economical changes too, its implications become even more serious (Skrabski, Kopp, Rozsa, Rethelyi, & Rahe, 2005). As Wong and Fry (1998) have stated, nowadays research has gathered "a critical mass of empirical evidence and a convergence of expert opinions that personal meaning is important not only for survival but also for health and wellbeing" (p. xvii). Finding one's life as meaningful was demonstrated to be positively related to general well-being in the sense that those individuals who could confer meaning to their lives had a higher level of self-efficacy, problem-focused coping, religiousness, high levels of social support, etc. …
Multi-team systems (MTS) are used to tackle unpredictable events and to respond effectively to fa... more Multi-team systems (MTS) are used to tackle unpredictable events and to respond effectively to fast-changing environmental contingencies. Their effectiveness is influenced by within as well as between team processes (i.e. communication, coordination) and emergent phenomena (i.e. situational awareness). The present case study explores the way in which the emergent structures and the involvement of bystanders intertwine with the dynamics of processes and emergent states both within and between the component teams. Our findings show that inefficient transition process and the ambiguous leadership generated poor coordination and hindered the development of emergent phenomena within the whole system. Emergent structures and bystanders substituted leadership functions and provided a pool of critical resources for the MTS. Their involvement fostered the emergence of situational awareness and facilitated contingency planning processes. However, bystander involvement impaired the emergence of cross-understandings and interfered with coordination processes between the component teams. Practitioner Summary: Based on a real emergency situation, the present research provides important theoretical and practical insights about the role of bystander involvement in the dynamics of multi-team systems composed to tackle complex tasks and respond to fast changing and unpredictable environmental contingencies.
This study intended to assess the effectiveness of a mutifocused indicated prevention program imp... more This study intended to assess the effectiveness of a mutifocused indicated prevention program implemented in a community setting. The study was conducted on three (n = 3) preschool children with low levels of social–emotional competencies and high rates of externalizing problems. Using a multiple baseline design, observational data were gathered for four classroom behaviors: compliance to rules, frustration tolerance, prosocial behaviors, and cooperative play. The results suggest that the same intervention strategies which proved effective for clinically referred children are associated with decreased levels of externalizing problems for at-risk children targeted by this community-based intervention. Our study indicated that group interventions for at-risk children exhibit different effectiveness patterns compared with individualized interventions in clinical settings. Changes in observed behaviors in classroom settings are more likely to occur as a result of additive and interaction effects between different intervention strategies or as a result of enhancing age-related developmental processes.
For this article Institutional entrepreneurialism at Babes‐Bolyai University (Romania) serves as ... more For this article Institutional entrepreneurialism at Babes‐Bolyai University (Romania) serves as a premise for more general reflections. These include discussion of the market sensitivity of entrepreneurialism; that is how a university can be very entrepreneurial in one market and less entrepreneurial in another. Consideration is also given to the idea that institutional entrepreneurialism can sometimes collide with the individual entrepreneurialism of academic staff, and universities are then forced to take defensive measures. We also touch on the academic reward system and how it could be changed in order to stimulate academics to exploit their knowledge and create market relevant products.
This contribution presents a concise and up‐to‐date report of doctoral studies in Romania, with a... more This contribution presents a concise and up‐to‐date report of doctoral studies in Romania, with a special emphasis on legal and social aspects. The author also argues that in order to be sustainable, the reform of doctoral studies should be substantiated by the differentiation of universities, reliable post‐doctoral programmes, and a substantive rejuvenation of PhD supervisors.
Based on nine case studies of representative universities in South East Europe, the author presen... more Based on nine case studies of representative universities in South East Europe, the author presents some of the pitfalls and the successes registered by these universities in their efforts to adhere to the guidelines of the Bologna Process. Some of these institutions have come further than others in achieving the objectives of the Process. All of them recognize that these objectives offer them a valuable reform blueprint.
... 97‐98). Despite the efforts of the universities, the expectations created by the new degrees ... more ... 97‐98). Despite the efforts of the universities, the expectations created by the new degrees and the various pathways of the higher ... All the national and local employment agencies are pursuing the same goal as that of the universities: increasing employability and making ...
... Adela PERŢE*1, Mircea MICLEA1, 2 1Cognitrom LTD, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2 Department of Psychol... more ... Adela PERŢE*1, Mircea MICLEA1, 2 1Cognitrom LTD, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2 Department of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania ABSTRACT ... Corresponding author: E.mail: adela.perte@gmail.com Cognition, Brain, Behavior. ...
... CURRENT TRENDS IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH Loredana MIHALCA*, Mircea MICLEA Department... more ... CURRENT TRENDS IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH Loredana MIHALCA*, Mircea MICLEA Department of Psychology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca ... In other words, an educational technology is effective if it can be used to teach the same contents with ...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Intertemporal choices are very prevalent in daily life, ranging from simple, mundane decisions to... more Intertemporal choices are very prevalent in daily life, ranging from simple, mundane decisions to highly consequential decisions. In this context, thinking about the future and making sound decisions are crucial to promoting mental and physical health, as well as a financially sustainable lifestyle. In the present study, we set out to investigate some of the possible underlying mechanisms, such as cognitive factors and emotional states, that promote future-oriented decisions. In a cross-sectional experimental study, we used a gain and a loss version of an intertemporal monetary choices task. Our main behavioural result indicated that people are substantially more impulsive over smaller and sooner monetary losses compared to equivalent gains. In addition, for both decisional domains, significant individual difference predictors emerged, indicating that intertemporal choices are sensitive to the affective and cognitive parameters. By focusing on the cognitive and emotional individual ...
Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An interdisciplinary journal, 2020
Theoretical models of ability-based emotional intelligence (EI) present the ability to regulate o... more Theoretical models of ability-based emotional intelligence (EI) present the ability to regulate other’s emotion as part of the emotion regulation facet, but in existing ability-based self-report EI measures, this ability is often not evaluated (e.g., Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, WLEIS, 2004) or is evaluated as a separate facet, in the work context (e.g., Workgroup Emotional Intelligence Profile WEIP-3, 2002). This consideration led to the development of a new self-report EI measure to assess EI abilities (Cluj Emotional Intelligence Scale, CEIS); the process of development and validation is presented in the current paper, across four different studies. Study 1 (n = 218) used item- analysis and exploratory factor analysis to select relevant items. Study 2 (n = 215) tested the factorial structure, convergent and discriminant validity and test-retest reliability (in sub-sample n = 75). Study 3 (n = 164) cross-validates the factorial structure and assesses concurrent valid...
The proliferation of digital gadgets and increased media consumption among adolescents has raised... more The proliferation of digital gadgets and increased media consumption among adolescents has raised interest and concern regarding possible effects on cognitive functioning. Research investigating this relationship has yielded mixed results. This study aims to replicate the research conducted by Baumgartner et al. concerning the relationship between adolescent media multitasking and executive functioning on a sample of 296 Romanian early adolescents. The same methodology as the original study was followed and its findings were partially replicated. Mainly, results of regression analyses indicated that more media multitasking with media activities was related to more self-reported executive difficulties, but not with performance on three computerized executive functioning tasks. Media multitasking with non-media activities was unrelated to executive functioning. When comparing extreme groups, however, heavier media multitasking was associated with faster performance on the task-shiftin...
International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE), 2017
The paper aims to investigate the extent to which the use of virtual patient (VP) improves the le... more The paper aims to investigate the extent to which the use of virtual patient (VP) improves the level of theoretical knowledge and students’ confidence (self-efficacy) of psychology and medicine students to perform clinical diagnostic. We created two classes on an e-learning Moodle platform, presenting, as virtual patient, the evaluation of the same panic disorder case. One class uses a linear VP , the other, a branched VP (a decisional tree type). The sample consisted of 159 volunteer participants, psychology and medicine students, randomly assigned to one of three conditions : control, linear virtual patient ( PVL) and branched virtual patient (PAD). Before and after the training with the virtual patient sequence, a questionnaire investigates the theoretical knowledge and the self-efficacy levels. For self-efficacy evaluation we used the Session Management sub-scale of Counsellor Activity Self-Efficacy Scales, by Robert W. and Clara E. Hill.Both types of VPs are associated with a...
ABSTRACT Experiencing highly stressful events may lead not only to the development of different f... more ABSTRACT Experiencing highly stressful events may lead not only to the development of different forms of clinically significant disorders (anxiety, depression, etc.), but to recovery and growth as well. Regardless the huge amount of research within the domain of 'negative' and 'positive' reactions to stress, the underlying mechanisms that modulate the different reactions and their dynamic has not yet been totally elucidated. Nevertheless, meaning systems have been repeatedly found to play a major role in the denouement of stress-induced reactions. This present research is mostly interested in the investigation of the relationship between global meaning systems and the propensity of stress-affected individuals towards more adaptive or maladaptive reactions. Accordingly, we have appealed to proverbs in order to tap the underlying meaning systems (as 'life-mottos') in diabetic patients by using Q methodology. Finally, the results revealed by the Q methodology have been analyzed together with those obtained from self-report assessments, thus offering a more complete picture of the investigated issue. KEYWORDS: stress-related growth, meaning-making, global meaning system, proverbs, Q methodology INTRODUCTION The reviewing of the stress and trauma literature has revealed that the experiencing of extremely negative events does not necessarily and exclusively lead to the development of distress and disablement. Huge amounts of centurieslong observations have recorded the possibility of turning adversity into growth (Tedeschi, Park, & Calhoun, 1998). Because of its possible adaptive potential, posttraumatic growth has gained more and more attention in the last few years (Zoellner & Maercker, 2006; Taylor, Lichtman, & Wood, 1984; Affleck & Tennen, 1996), and knowledge about this phenomenon has been considerably refined. Notwithstanding, results in this domain are still somewhat contradictory and confusing. Meaning-making has been found to have a huge importance in recovering and/or growing from the encounter with negative events (Affleck, Tennen, & Gerschman, 1985; Silver, Boon, & Stones, 1983), thus several approaches have tried to deal with it (e.g. Park & Folkman, 1997; Nolen-Hoeksema & Davis, 1999; Nolen-Hoeksema & Larson, 1999; Neimeyer, 2001). Consequently, there have been attempts to complete existing models of stress with that of meaning making. One of the most successful approaches that encompass and may be capable of explaining the possibility of possible stress-related reactions is that of Park and Folkman (1997) on meaning making in the context of stress and coping. The authors build their model on Lazarus's Cognitive-Motivational-Relational model of stress and coping (1991), the main tenets of which is appraisal and coping. According to Park and Folkman's (1997) approach, each individual has two forms of meaning-systems, which both intervene in the process of making meaning of the negative event: the global and the situational meaning systems. The Global Meaning system represents the person's beliefs and goals, containing both culturally shared meanings, and individualized meanings. It refers to the system of higher, abstracted and generalized levels of peoples' basic goals and fundamental assumptions, beliefs and expectations about the world (Park & Folkman, 1997). Global meaning systems seem to influence the way people appraise the personal relevance of the encountered event and further on deal with it and its consequences. The Situational meaning system refers to the interaction of a person's global beliefs and goals and the requirements of the particular person-environment transaction (Park & Folkman, 1997) within the encounter with the event. As stated in Lazarus' Cognitive-Motivational-Relational model of stress and coping (1991), situational meaning would be represented by the individual's appraisal of this transaction, which in turn would influence the way the person copes with the demands of the situation (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984; Lazarus, 1991). …
ABSTRACT Finding meaning in and for one's life has been found to have a salutogenic effect on... more ABSTRACT Finding meaning in and for one's life has been found to have a salutogenic effect on people's lives. This issue becomes even more important in traumatic situations. An extremely stressful situation is the diagnosis with cancer, where one's life and future are seriously threatened. Some people succumb under such huge stress, others live an impaired life, and still others bounce back to an acceptable level of functioning. The emotional co-activation theory may stand at the basis of turning such adversity into advantage. One possible mechanism that would help people balance the negative emotions produced by diagnosis and its implications is through finding meaning for life. Our study aims to investigate whether there is a difference in the texture of affective life between those Romanian cancer patients who are able to find meaning for their foreseen future and those who are not. We are also interested in the underlying mechanisms that might contribute to these findings. KEYWORDS: meaning in life, life regard index (LRI) cancer related distress, positive reinterpretation, active coping, co-activation. INTRODUCTION "Man does not live by bread alone, nor by know-how, safety, children or sex" (1997, p. 521). This is how Steven Pinker's chapter on The Meaning of Life in How the Mind Works (1997) begins. This acknowledgement has led him to inventory the functions of different specific human behaviors (music, literature, religion, humor, philosophy, etc.), which seemingly have a major common function - they help people find or attribute/confer meaning to disparate events they encounter during life and life itself. It seems that it is a natural need of humans to be able to find meaning to all happenings in life, great and small, as well as a justification for their existence, to be able to find a place in the bigger picture for their lives (Klinger, 1998; Wong & Fry, 1998). Pinker's acknowledgement is not a recent finding. The importance of the individual's quest of understanding the world, life and his/her adaptation through it to the requirements of each situation has for very long time been a topic of interest. Until recently, the issue of meaning in life has traditionally been one of the most important problems in philosophy, theology, and literature (Debats, van der Lubbe, & Wezeman, 1993), eluding to occupy an important position in mainstream psychology (Debats, 1998). This was due to at least two factors: (i) even today it is extremely difficult to arrive to a unitary definition of this concept, and (ii) because of its 'vague', 'boundless' nature theoretical, and especially empirical approaches had difficulties in operationalizing meaning in life (Debats, 1998). The last decades of social and psychological research have recognized the psychological implications of meaning in/of the individual's life both in usual situations and in extreme cases of loss, harm and trauma (Frankl, 1963; Yalom, 1980; Janoff-Bulman, 1992; Davis, Wortman, Lehman, & Silver, 2000), thus intensifying bith theoretical development and research in the domain. Meaning in life in everyday situations Finding meaning in and for one's life has been found to have a salutogenic effect in all societies, helping people attain and maintain a level of emotional balance and motivation in order to attain goals. Since meaning in life has been found to be a 'positive psychological resource' that promotes health in societies undergoing major political and economical changes too, its implications become even more serious (Skrabski, Kopp, Rozsa, Rethelyi, & Rahe, 2005). As Wong and Fry (1998) have stated, nowadays research has gathered "a critical mass of empirical evidence and a convergence of expert opinions that personal meaning is important not only for survival but also for health and wellbeing" (p. xvii). Finding one's life as meaningful was demonstrated to be positively related to general well-being in the sense that those individuals who could confer meaning to their lives had a higher level of self-efficacy, problem-focused coping, religiousness, high levels of social support, etc. …
Multi-team systems (MTS) are used to tackle unpredictable events and to respond effectively to fa... more Multi-team systems (MTS) are used to tackle unpredictable events and to respond effectively to fast-changing environmental contingencies. Their effectiveness is influenced by within as well as between team processes (i.e. communication, coordination) and emergent phenomena (i.e. situational awareness). The present case study explores the way in which the emergent structures and the involvement of bystanders intertwine with the dynamics of processes and emergent states both within and between the component teams. Our findings show that inefficient transition process and the ambiguous leadership generated poor coordination and hindered the development of emergent phenomena within the whole system. Emergent structures and bystanders substituted leadership functions and provided a pool of critical resources for the MTS. Their involvement fostered the emergence of situational awareness and facilitated contingency planning processes. However, bystander involvement impaired the emergence of cross-understandings and interfered with coordination processes between the component teams. Practitioner Summary: Based on a real emergency situation, the present research provides important theoretical and practical insights about the role of bystander involvement in the dynamics of multi-team systems composed to tackle complex tasks and respond to fast changing and unpredictable environmental contingencies.
This study intended to assess the effectiveness of a mutifocused indicated prevention program imp... more This study intended to assess the effectiveness of a mutifocused indicated prevention program implemented in a community setting. The study was conducted on three (n = 3) preschool children with low levels of social–emotional competencies and high rates of externalizing problems. Using a multiple baseline design, observational data were gathered for four classroom behaviors: compliance to rules, frustration tolerance, prosocial behaviors, and cooperative play. The results suggest that the same intervention strategies which proved effective for clinically referred children are associated with decreased levels of externalizing problems for at-risk children targeted by this community-based intervention. Our study indicated that group interventions for at-risk children exhibit different effectiveness patterns compared with individualized interventions in clinical settings. Changes in observed behaviors in classroom settings are more likely to occur as a result of additive and interaction effects between different intervention strategies or as a result of enhancing age-related developmental processes.
For this article Institutional entrepreneurialism at Babes‐Bolyai University (Romania) serves as ... more For this article Institutional entrepreneurialism at Babes‐Bolyai University (Romania) serves as a premise for more general reflections. These include discussion of the market sensitivity of entrepreneurialism; that is how a university can be very entrepreneurial in one market and less entrepreneurial in another. Consideration is also given to the idea that institutional entrepreneurialism can sometimes collide with the individual entrepreneurialism of academic staff, and universities are then forced to take defensive measures. We also touch on the academic reward system and how it could be changed in order to stimulate academics to exploit their knowledge and create market relevant products.
This contribution presents a concise and up‐to‐date report of doctoral studies in Romania, with a... more This contribution presents a concise and up‐to‐date report of doctoral studies in Romania, with a special emphasis on legal and social aspects. The author also argues that in order to be sustainable, the reform of doctoral studies should be substantiated by the differentiation of universities, reliable post‐doctoral programmes, and a substantive rejuvenation of PhD supervisors.
Based on nine case studies of representative universities in South East Europe, the author presen... more Based on nine case studies of representative universities in South East Europe, the author presents some of the pitfalls and the successes registered by these universities in their efforts to adhere to the guidelines of the Bologna Process. Some of these institutions have come further than others in achieving the objectives of the Process. All of them recognize that these objectives offer them a valuable reform blueprint.
... 97‐98). Despite the efforts of the universities, the expectations created by the new degrees ... more ... 97‐98). Despite the efforts of the universities, the expectations created by the new degrees and the various pathways of the higher ... All the national and local employment agencies are pursuing the same goal as that of the universities: increasing employability and making ...
... Adela PERŢE*1, Mircea MICLEA1, 2 1Cognitrom LTD, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2 Department of Psychol... more ... Adela PERŢE*1, Mircea MICLEA1, 2 1Cognitrom LTD, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2 Department of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania ABSTRACT ... Corresponding author: E.mail: adela.perte@gmail.com Cognition, Brain, Behavior. ...
... CURRENT TRENDS IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH Loredana MIHALCA*, Mircea MICLEA Department... more ... CURRENT TRENDS IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH Loredana MIHALCA*, Mircea MICLEA Department of Psychology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca ... In other words, an educational technology is effective if it can be used to teach the same contents with ...
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