Areas Of Interpersonal Relations Research Articles

Propedeutyka wiedzy o mediacji w szkole. Kompetencje mediacyjne nauczyciela i ucznia

The changes attendant to the social and political system had an impact on Polish schools. Due to these changes, teachers need to handle such challenges as a tarnished image of schools and teachers, hyperactive parents, excessively direct students’ behaviors and social problems, especially school violence; all of them are greatly deconstructive for the school system. An effective coping method is not only teachers’ lifelong development, especially in terms of social competencies, but also establishing students’ competencies from the very early stage of education. To achieve that, teachers should create a suitable atmosphere in the area of interpersonal relations, which can be achieved by creating a very effective internal communication system. A constructive dialog at school may importantly influence not only the development of students’ mediation skills, but also the mitigation of conflicts and tensions. This is also a key component of facilitating the mediation process.

Complaints and Satisfaction of Patients in Psychiatric Hospitals: The Case of Israel.

The main objective of the research is to advance knowledge in the field of patient experience. First, the research provides a classification of verbal responses by patients to an open-ended question (using content analysis) into distinct categories of concerns and complaints; and second, it examines (using regression analysis) the extent to which different types of complaints exert a differential impact on the level of patient satisfaction. The content analysis reveals that patient voice extends across a wide variety of issues, including complaints regarding physical conditions of the facility, quality of food, cleanliness, caregiver attitudes, availability of medical staff, lack of communication with staff, malpractice, and lack of privacy and respect. Linear regression analysis reveals that patients who complained about the hospitalization experience, especially complaints about interpersonal relations, are less likely to express satisfaction regarding hospitalization. The findings underscore the importance of patient’s complaints for understanding patient satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with hospitalization. Patients’ complaints, especially in the area of interpersonal relations, are found to be consequential for the patient level of satisfaction.

Association Between Executive Functioning and Functional Impairment Among Pediatric Cancer Survivors and Controls.

To examine the impact of cancer treatment upon neurocognitive and functional impairment; and to explore the relationship between these constructs in pediatric cancer survivors compared to controls. A cross-sectional cohort of survivors (n = 26) and controls (n = 53) was included. Survivors were off treatment an average of 6.35 years (SD = 5.38; range 1-15 years) and demonstrated an average "medium" Central Nervous System (CNS) treatment intensity score. Participants completed measures of neurocognitive functions including intellectual assessment (RIST) and executive functions (NIH Examiner), while parents reported on children's functional impairment (BIS). Survivors were similar to controls in neurocognitive ability, including intellectual and executive functions, and functional impairment. Regardless of group membership, NIH Examiner performance and functional impairment increased with age. Increased impairment was associated with different neurocognitive variables for survivors versus controls. Research regarding functional impairment of cancer survivors and the association between neurocognitive deficits and functional impairment has been limited. Our results demonstrate that, while low treatment intensity may confer relative sparing of neurocognitive and executive functioning among survivors, functional impairment continues to be a potential risk. In conclusion, pediatric cancer survivors should be screened for functional difficulties, particularly in the areas of interpersonal relations and self-care.

Total Quality Management (TQM) Practices of School Administrators in Relation to School Performance among Teacher Education Institutions in the Province of Quezon

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Cechy kultury organizacyjnej na różnych poziomach dojrzałości procesowej wybranych urzędów miast

Implementing the concepts used in business entities to public organizations has been gaining in popularity for some time now. One such concept is process management. Process-based solutions, known from business organizations, in the management of public organizations require identifying the internal and external capabilities for their implementation. These depend on a number of factors, such as the organizational structure, employee motivations and attitudes, finances, service delivery processes, IT solutions, and the impact of external factors, such as legal conditions. One of the critical areas for implementing process management in public organizations is an organizational culture that can either support or boycott these solutions. Organizational culture is closely linked to the performance of the tasks of every organization, including public administration, and is therefore considered to be a factor which enables organizations to fulfill their goals more efficiently and effectively. The purpose of the research included in the article is to identify the impact of organizational culture on the level of process management implementation in public organizations on the example of City Offices. Research shows that to the group of most important cultural characteristics for process management one can include: honesty, respect for the customer, high personal culture, ethics of conduct and respect for the environment. In the City Offices examined, cultural values and attitudes of the least importance to the purposes of the office include the area of interpersonal relations and the entrepreneurial approach.

The contemporary model manager as a new man the creator

The paper aims to depict work of a contemporary manager within the framework of critical sociological and philosophical analysis. Referring to classic concepts of labour and productivity, the paper identifies what is historically specific in the work-activities of the model manager. Although performed in a very different cultural context, the work of a contemporary model manager has numerous similarities with homo faber's activities, depicted by Hannah Arendt. A manager adapts homo faber's values and ways of acting into the area of interpersonal relations. Competencies and activities required of managers can be therefore seen as an adaptation of classic cultural patterns within a modern corporate organisation.

Contribution of divergent thinking to community functioning in schizophrenia

Fluency deficits have been associated with poor community functioning in patients with schizophrenia. In our previous study we demonstrated that the ability to generate higher-quality responses on tasks of divergent thinking as measured by several fluency tests was impaired in patients with schizophrenia. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the contribution of the deficits in divergent thinking to community dysfunction in schizophrenia. Forty Japanese outpatients with schizophrenia and 32 healthy control subjects were recruited for this study and assessed over a broad spectrum of the neurocognitive domain. Their capacity for divergent thinking was assessed by idea, design, and word fluency tests. Community functioning was assessed by using the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF), the Life Assessment Scale for the Mentally Ill (LASMI), and the Social Functioning Scale (SFS). The results confirmed the qualitative deficits of divergent thinking in schizophrenia. Stepwise multiple regressions using neurocognitive and demographic/clinical variables as predictors revealed that the higher-quality response scores on the tasks of divergent thinking significantly contributed to community functioning. Moreover, the deficit on the verbal task of divergent thinking significantly contributed to impairment in the area of daily living, and the deficit on the nonverbal task of divergent thinking significantly contributed to impairment in the area of interpersonal relations. The results of this study reveal the importance and the possibility of cognitive remediation and cognitive training with strategies that target capacity for divergent thinking to improve community functioning in patients with schizophrenia.

“Things Have Gotten Better”

Emerging adulthood involves a number of developmental changes, including in the areas of interpersonal relations, religious views, and sexuality. The current study examined individuals’ perceptions of changes in these areas as a result of the transition to university. Participants (N = 205, 61% female, age range 18 to 25) responded to open-ended questions about changes in their relationships with parents, religious views, and views about sex. These responses were coded for themes and positivity. Changes were most common in relationships with parents, and least in religious views. Associations were found between types of changes and year in school. Changes in all three areas were generally portrayed positively. Belief or quality changes were more common than behavioral changes.

Changes in pathological narcissism.

This study investigated types of change that occur over time in the psychopathology of narcissistic patients. Baseline scores on the Diagnostic Interview for Narcissism of 20 patients, clinically diagnosed as having narcissistic personality disorder, were contrasted with their scores 3 years later by means of t tests and chi-square statistics. The authors then compared these changes in narcissism with the patients' accounts of their life events during the interval between the two assessments. A significant decrease in the overall level of pathological narcissism was found, particularly in the areas of interpersonal relations and reactiveness. At follow-up, 60% of the subjects had reached the cutoff score on the diagnostic interview that indicated significant improvement, and 40% remained unchanged, with a high level of pathological narcissism. A high baseline level of narcissism in interpersonal relations was associated with absence of change at follow-up. Examination of life events in the interval between assessments suggests that changes in pathological narcissism are related to three kinds of experiences: achievements, new durable relationships, and disillusionments. The instability of narcissistic psychopathology found in this study raises questions about the construct validity of narcissistic personality disorder as a diagnostic category and about the core construct of pathological narcissism.

Are Educators Racially Prejudiced?: A Cross-Occupational Comparison of Attitudes

Abstract Racial attitudes of school teachers, school administrators, other professionals, and general occupational groups are examined using data from six national samples gathered as part of the General Social Survey between 1972 and 1977 by the National Opinion Research Center (N = 9210). Respondents' attitudes were measured on the following topics: open housing, programs to integrate housing, interracial marriage, interracial social relations, segregated schools, busing, and explanations for the Blacks' inferior jobs, income, and housing. The results indicate that in areas of interpersonal relations and housing, teachers and educators do harbor prejudicial attitudes; however, educators are comparable to other professionals regarding these attitudes and less prejudiced than laborers, farmers, clerical workers, craftsmen, managers, and administrators. Within the teaching profession, kindergarten and elementary teachers appear slightly more racially prejudiced than secondary school teachers. Implications ...

Dealing with Resistance in the Nursing Care Conference

The psychiatric nurse specialist is moving into a number of new practice areas, and one of them is working with general hospital staff in areas of interpersonal relations. We work in that capacity at General Rose Memorial Hospital, a private 345-bed hospital in Denver, Colo. The staff is made up primarily of young nurses with baccalaureates, who use the team approach, with approximately two teams per unit. There are no permanent teams or team leaders, and there is a large staff turnover. The staff makes frequent use of the nursing care conference, and we have made use of it as a consultation tool to help in problem solving. Throughout the opening, working, and closing phases of these conferences, we have been aware of anxiety and resistance.

DEALING WITH RESISTANCE IN THE NURSING CARE CONFERENCE

The psychiatric nurse specialist is moving into a number of new practice areas, and one of them is working with general hospital staff in areas of interpersonal relations. We work in that capacity at General Rose Memorial Hospital, a private 345-bed hospital in Denver, Colo. The staff is made up primarily of young nurses with baccalaureates, who use the team approach, with approximately two teams per unit. There are no permanent teams or team leaders, and there is a large staff turnover. The staff makes frequent use of the nursing care conference, and we have made use of it as a consultation tool to help in problem solving. Throughout the opening, working, and closing phases of these conferences, we have been aware of anxiety and resistance.

Relationships and change in religious communities

The purpose of this paper is to apply Argyris's theoretical statements concerning interpersonal competence acquisition and organizational effec tiveness to one kind of organization currently undergoing rapid change?reli gious communities such as those in the Catholic Church. Even the most casual observer of church and religious affairs is aware of the ferment and change?often agonizing?that have increasingly pervaded the scene since Vatican II. What is happening in most religious communities is a case in point. Precious little, if anything, is exempt from earnest questioning and experimentation. Values held sacred and untouchable, in some cases for literally centuries, are suddenly the object of searching reappraisals. Not only the modes of living religious life but the very concept of religious life is grist for the mill. It is scarcely surprising, then, that the processes of change have been attended by so much confusion, fear, and suspicion. Perhaps no area of change has been as controversial and emotionally charged as the area of interpersonal relations in religious life. What place do personal relations have in the life of a religious community? What kinds of relationships are appropriate? How do they affect community objectives? On these and similar questions virtually no one stands neutral. The issue reaches deeply into persons and values. In what follows, we intend to summarize one set of criteria for assessing interpersonal competence and then relate these criteria to the interpersonal world of religious life. Interpersonal competence

A conceptual guide to friendship formation.

Treating friendship formation as a subclass of interpersonal attraction, this paper suggests the relevant dependent variables and definitional elements in friendship states and presents a conceptual guide to models of friendship formation. Two dimensions considered crucial for the friendship state are (1) commitment or loyalty which may be viewed as a continuum of resistance to dissolution of the relationship and (2) mutual desire to explore intra-individual behaviors as well as vital aspects of the relationship. Variables considered relevant to the second dimension include: (a) a tendency to accept aspects of the negative self-concept of the other, (b) a willingness to risk self-disclosure, (c) an attempt mutually to fulfill needs, and (d) a mutual modification of constructs, attitudes, and values. Within the general area of interpersonal relations and group behavior, friendship formation focuses on select dynamics and antecedents of dyadic attraction. Importance of physical and social proximity is recognized. Four models are presented as all inclusive, but not mutually exclusive: (1) incremental, (2) shared stress, (3) perceived similarity, and (4) perceived need complementarity.

Use of a Sound Recorder in Nurses' Home Visits

N URSES WORK with people so closely and under such varied conditions that the area of interpersonal relations has a special significance for this group. Consideration of the circumstances which produce effective patient-nurse relationships has long been of concern to practitioners, administrators, and educators in the field of public health nursing. The most common methods for obtaining information about such contacts have been supervisory observations or stenographic and process recordings. Though these methods have been useful to varying degrees, each has certain drawbacks. Any method based on recall of events suffers from possible lack of accuracy and objectivity. While the stenographic transcript may overcome these objections, it fails to reveal the tone and pace of the patientnurse relationship. Reports on the use of sound recording equipment seemed to indicate that this method might overcome some of the objections to the procedures previously employed. For some time recording machines have been used in clinic situations to record interviews, and one investigator is using a sound recording device in the field to gather information for curriculum purposes. Further investigation of the use of sound recording equipment for gathering data on the content and conduct of nursing visits in the home was made during the spring of 1953 by the Public Health Service with the cooperation of the Alexandria (Va.) Health Department. Participating in the field trial in the use of this equipment were 6 public health nurses of the Alexandria Health Department, with 20 of the families they served. As a preliminary to the activity, the group of nurses met to discuss details of procedure. All of them were agreed that, in this trial, they did not want to be responsible for the operation of the recorder. They were sure that it would be impossible for them to conduct an adequate interview under such circumstances sinc6 they would be unable to concentrate on the visit content while, at the same time, they made sure that the recorder was operating satisfactorily. They also felt they would be more comfortable if the third person present during the patient-nurse contact was another nurse since they would then have a greater sense of freedom in talking with the patient. Furthermore, the nurses believed that the patients would find it easier to accept the presence of another public health nurse as, in many instances, it would not be the first time two nurses had been in the home at the same time. For these reasons a second nurse was made responsible for recordings in the field.