2010 – Volume 19, Issue no. 1

Big Five©plus Re-Test. Or the Reliability of a Psychological Measure Derived from the Five Factor Model

Big Five©plus Re-Test. Or the Reliability of a Psychological Measure Derived from the Five Factor Model

Ticu Constantin, Alexandra Elena Macarie, Alexandra Gheorghiu, Mihai Cătălin Potlog, Mădălina Iliescu
Following a concise description of the well-known Five Factor psychological model and an explanation relating to why this model is important and useful for projects that aim at evaluating human personalities…

Traffic norms between safety and perversity

Traffic norms between safety and perversity

Grigore Havârneanu, Andreea Goliţă
Perverse norms are believed to be an important factor leading to deviance in traffic (Fernández-Dols & Oceja, 1994; Pérez, et al., 1998; Pérez et al., 2002). From a particular social perspective, norm violation originates in the general perception of norms being irrational or…

School dropout: causes, effects, prevention and intervention strategies

School dropout: causes, effects, prevention and intervention strategies

Mihai Curelaru, Mioara Cristea, Versavia Curelaru
There are few published articles analyzing the school dropout and offering a broad imagine of the phenomenon. Most of these studies are focused on testing concrete programs of intervention or on meta-analyzing the efficiency of several programs applied to…

Psychotherapy in Eating Disorders

Psychotherapy in Eating Disorders

Ion Dafinoiu
After a brief presentation of the diagnosis criteria for eating disorders – anorexia (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN)- , the author has analysed the main psychological explanations as well as the results of recent research on certain personality traits of…

Gender and Empathic Differences in the Attribution of Pride and Joy

Gender and Empathic Differences in the Attribution of Pride and Joy

Andreea Roxana Iordache, Daniela Victoria Zaharia
Following the differential tradition in the study of emotions, we were interested in exploring the differences between joy and pride as perceived by students. As a first objective of this study, we aimed at developing a scenario-based instrument that differentiates between pride and joy.

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