Influence Of Passion Research Articles

Love and Relationship Satisfaction as a Function of Romantic Relationship Stages

AbstractThe strong influence of the components of love in the relationship satisfaction is very described in the scientific literature. The current cross-sectional study evaluated the associations between participants’ love and relationship satisfaction across different phases of a relationship. For this propose, we recruited a sample of 1102 Brazilian participants, including 756 (68.6%) women and 346 (31.4%) men (mean age = 25.52 years, SD = 7.98), from 12 Brazilian states and the Federal District. Participants’ relationship was coded in order of bond levels: 0 - unrequited relationship, 1 - non-established relationship, 2 - dating, 3 - living together or engaged, and 4 - married. A linear regression analysis indicated that the influence of passion on relationship satisfaction is higher, and the influence of commitment is lower, in more advanced phases of one’s relationship. Multilevel regression showed the role of bond, interacting with the dimensions of love on the prediction of relationship satisfaction. The associations between types of love and relationship satisfaction differ across relationship stages. While the influence of passion and intimacy on relationship satisfaction grows across the relationships’ stages, the influence of commitment decreases. This study also suggests that type of relationship can be understood as an ordinal variable, instead of categorical.

Thomas Reid’s Conception of Practical Ethics

The article analyzes the concept of practical ethics in the moral philosophy of Thomas Reid (1710–1796). The significance of this study is determined by the fact that Reid, for the first time in the history of ethics, offers an internally differentiated conception of moral philosophy, which includes two parts: the theory of morality and practical ethics. The theory of morality studies the conditions for the possibility of morality (moral psychology and epistemology). Practical ethics is normative, deals directly with the content of morality (duties, rules, and first principles). Both parts of moral philosophy is cognitive in the nature. By distinguishing the theory of morality and practical ethics, Reid expresses a key idea for him: the distinction between good and evil and the fulfillment of duties is attainable to any reasonable person free from the influence of passions and prejudices. They do not need any special philosophical knowledge to fulfill their duty. Reid’s idea was perceived in contemporary ethics as a possible key for overcoming the difficulties that applied ethics faces today: (a) the problem of confirming its philosophical status; (b) the problem of the relevance of its guidelines, which are often perceived as abstract theorizing by specialists in specific fields. Reid showed that in morality, unlike other sciences such as anatomy, there can be no experts, and in order to be relevant, ethics must speak the same language with those to whom it addresses, and about those specific problems that are essential to them.

Discussing Psychological Changes in College Students Who Participate in Physical Education Using Structural Equation Modeling

Objectives: To examine self-esteem in college students who participate in physical education (PE), the influence of psychological trends on self-esteem, and the possible influence of passion. Motivations: This study aims to determine whether passion affects participants’ self-esteem and psychological well-being. Methods: Subjects included 183 students enrolled in university PE classes (46 men and 137 women) with an average age of 19.58 (SD = 6.19). Self-esteem, passion, and psychological well-being were measured using a fuzzy questionnaire and descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling were performed through fuzzy statistical analysis. Findings: 1. The self-esteem, passion, and psychological well-being scales had good reliability and validity. 2. The model’s dimensional goodness of fit was satisfactory (χ2 = 281.601(182) = 1.952, GFI = 0.863, AGFI = 0.821, RMSEA = 0.072, SRMR = 0.649, TLI [NNFI] = 0.918, IFI = 0.925, CFI = 0.942). 3. Passion had a direct influence on well-being and an indirect influence on self-esteem. Well-being had a direct influence on self-esteem. Innovations: The passion scale and psychological well-being scale were confirmed to have good reliability and validity. The new method of fuzzy statistical analysis used in this study provides new research techniques for investigation and research into psychological trends in the field of sports. Value: In the teaching process, PE teachers should encourage students’ passion for participation to better their psychological well-being and self-esteem.

From Individual Consumption to Venture Development: the Role of Domain Passion in the Videogame Industry

This paper explores how individual domain passion influences venture development. Albeit passion is one of the most debated concepts in psychology, entrepreneurship and marketing literatures, a framework describing how passion for consumption shapes the entrepreneurial process is still lacking. Based on an inductive qualitative approach, the paper addresses these issues via analysing an Italian and a Japanese videogame companies. The paper provides two important contributions to existing research. First, it shows that obsessive and harmonious passion influence venture growth strategies through what we call a ‘passion-fulfilling’ and a ‘passion-orchestrating’ venture development models. Second, it sheds light on the role of contextual factors in shaping passion. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

Numerical investigation of stress analysis of composite materials with various elasicity

Composite materials have a widespread use in engineering applications and modern structures because of the qualified physical and mechanical properties. Therefore, study the structures of composite material becomes attractive and reserchers to obtain novel materials that qualified environment updates. In this study, the displacements and stress analysis of two-dimensional composite materials have different modulus of elasticity and mechanical properties have discussed. Finite difference method was used in this study where the model solved using Fortran 90. The results show that, the change in elasticity in one of the layers has significant effects on the displacements and stresses distributions of the layers of the composite. In addition, the influence of passion’s ratio with elasticity at the same time is discussed. They have important effect on the stress analysis. The results were in the acceptable limit which confirms the reliability of the finite difference method.

The mediating role of self-regulation on harmonious passion, obsessive passion, and knowledge management in e-learning

Few studies have investigated whether harmonious passion (HP) and obsessive passion (OP) make a distinctive contribution to explaining individual differences in knowledge management through self-regulation in e-learning contexts. This study aimed to identify four types of passion (internal HP, external HP, internal OP, and external OP) in e-learning and, further, to examine the relationships between different types of passion, self-regulation, and knowledge management in e-learning. The participants were 1209 college students. Three 4-point Likert scales were employed to measure the concerned variables and structural equation modeling was employed to examine the proposed model. The findings revealed that the four types of passion were interrelated and that the proposed model was a good-fit model. Specifically, self-regulation mediated the influence of passion on knowledge management in e-learning. However, HP and OP predicted self-regulation and knowledge management in the opposite way, and HP played a more crucial role than OP in e-learning. The result in this study not only support the two-dimensional model of passion but also suggest that the four types of passion, though positively correlated, interact in ways that have different effects on college students’ self-regulation and knowledge management in e-learning.

PASJA I KREATYWNOŚĆ JAKO DETERMINANTY ROZWOJU ZAWODOWEGO

The current labour market conditions require from active people the skills of distinguishing themselves. This allows for undertaking work giving a sense of accomplishment and positively affecting the quality of life. Hence, passion and creativity have become notable issues. Having these attributes makes it easier to find a career path that allows for use of the possessed abilities and interests to realize one's life plans. This paper presents the essence of both passion and creativity, and their mutual interdependence. This description provides the backdrop for the essential part, in which by using examples of famous people pursuing their career passions, the influence of passion and creativity for career development has been defined.

The Influence of Passion towards Critical Thinking Disposition among Athletes in University

Passion is a real strength enabling individuals go to action and achieve great things. Many glories of discoveries and achievements were only reached due to enthusiasm and the perseverance that characterize passionate behavior. Critical thinking disposition is essential affective component of critical thinking skills that really beneficial in growth of cognitive knowledge. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of passion towards critical thinking disposition among athletes in higher education. The study employs a correlational research design by using survey procedures. A questionnaire composes passion items and critical thinking disposition items were used to collect the data. T- Test was employed to compute the mean in order to identify the significant differences on passion and critical thinking disposition construct between technical and social science fields. Results showed that there was only significant difference on passion in sport but not in critical thinking disposition construct. The multiple regression analysis indicated that harmonious passion weakly influenced critical thinking disposition (Adj. R Square= .052) and most of its subscales. Based on the findings, researcher concludes that harmonious passion towards sport has an impact on critical thinking disposition. More research is needed to concern on critical thinking development underlying harmonious passion among national athletes. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2p569

The Influence of Passion and Empowerment on Organizational Citizenship Behavior of Teachers in Assumption University Mediated by Organizational Commitment

The present research aims to explore the direct and indirect influence of passion and empowerment on organizational citizenship behavior of Teachers in Assumption University of Thailand mediated by organizational commitment. The sample comprises of 124 teachers teaching in the University and the Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale, adapted by Podsakoff and Mackenzie (1990), Passion Scale, developed by Vallerand et al. in 2003, School Participant Empowerment Scale (SPES) developed by Short and Rinehart (1992) and Organizational Commitment Scale which was modified from the original scale of Allen and Meyer (1991) by Meyer, Allen, and Smith (1993) were employed. The path model with the dependent variable organizational citizenship behavior and the independent variables passion, and empowerment and the mediating variable organizational commitment was tested using regression analysis. There are relationships between passion for teaching, teacher empowerment, and organizational commitment on the organizational citizenship behavior of teachers in Assumption University, Thailand. The teachers have high level of organizational citizenship behavior, suggesting that they exhibit behaviors of discretionary nature that are not part of their formal role requirements, but which promote the effective functioning of the University.

The Influence of Passion and Work–Life Thoughts on Work Satisfaction

AbstractThe Dualistic Model of Passion has gained increasing attention in social psychology in the past decade. Besides defining passion as “a strong inclination or desire toward an activity that one likes, finds important, and in which one invests time and energy” (Vallerand et al., 2003, p. 757), it acknowledges two types of passion, harmonious and obsessive, which develop according to how individuals internalize an activity in their self‐concept. A growing body of empirical research, particularly in nonwork settings, has demonstrated that harmonious passion and obsessive passion have distinct outcomes. As such, this two‐dimensional passion construct may be particularly useful for developing a more comprehensive understanding of how individuals engage with work compared to the existing one‐dimensional constructs of job engagement used in organizational literature. The present study develops hypotheses and tests the direct effect of harmonious and obsessive passion with work satisfaction. It also aims to develop theory by connecting the dualistic passion approach with work–life conflict; in doing so, it tests how individuals' off‐task thoughts at work and on‐task thoughts off work may mediate this relationship. Using a quantitative survey, the hypotheses are tested on a random sample of individuals engaged in business start‐ups in Sweden. Whereas harmonious passion exhibits a direct effect with work satisfaction, obsessive passion exhibits an indirect effect through on‐task thoughts off work with work satisfaction.

Influence of passion on innovative behavior: An empirical examination in Peoples Republic of China

Passion plays an important role in innovation, but theoretical understanding of what it does is lacking. The study proposes a model of two types of job passion, harmonious and obsessive passion, to employees’ innovative behavior, via the mediating mechanism of cognitive absorption and organization-based self-esteem (OBSE). Results from a survey conducted with 228 employees from 19 firms of China indicate that employees with harmonious passion have more innovative behavior at work, and that this relationship was mediated primarily by cognitive absorption and OBSE. However, even though obsessive passion was negatively related to OBSE, it did not have a significant relationship to cognitive absorption overall. The author identified and discussed research and practical implications for job passion and employees’ innovative behavior. Key words: Harmonious passion, obsessive passion, organization-based self-esteem, cognitive absorption, innovative behavior.

The Influence of Passion on Computer Game Addiction and The Mediating Role of Hostility and Social Skills in the Relation of Computer Game Addiction to Interpersonal Relation and Social Anxiety

The Influence of Passion on Computer Game Addiction and The Mediating Role of Hostility and Social Skills in the Relation of Computer Game Addiction to Interpersonal Relation and Social Anxiety

Етичні погляди Георгія Кониського: про вчинки і пристрасті.

The purpose of the article is to analyse and synthesise the ethical views of the Kyiv-Mohyla scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in order to create a holistic view of ethics as a practical science through the study of such phenomena-terms as "behaviour", "human action", "rules of conduct", "customs", "skills", "good", "happiness", "justice", and "passions". The author identifies the general specificity of the ethical views that dominated the philosophical courses of the professors of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; analyses the ethical reflections of Heorhii Konyskyi; demarcates between the types of good, justice and happiness; and explores the essence of the psychological state of a person acting under the influence of passions.

Reason and Passion

I Once gave a series of talks to a group of psychoanalysts who had trained together and was rather struck by the statement made by one of them that, psychologically speaking, ‘reason’ means saying ‘No’ to oneself. Plato, of course, introduced the concept of ‘reason’ in a similar way in The Republic with the case of the thirsty man who is checked in the satisfaction of his thirst by reflection on the outcome of drinking. But Plato was also so impressed by man's ability to construct mathematical systems by reasoning that he called it the divine element of the soul. And what has this ability to do with that of saying ‘No’ to oneself? And what have either of these abilities to do with the disposition to be impartial which is intimately connected with our notion of a reasonable man, or with what David Hume called a ‘wonderful and unintelligible instinct’ in our souls by means of which men are able to make inferences from past to future?It must readily be admitted that there are few surface similarities between the uses of ‘reason’ in these contexts. No obvious features protrude which might be fastened on as logically necessary conditions for the use of the term ‘reason’. But beneath the surface there may be lurking common notions that are, or can be, of importance in our lives. To make them explicit is to give structure and substance to what is often called ‘the life of reason’ and to show that this is not inconsistent with a life of passion as is often thought. This seems eminently worth attempting at a time when many people seem hostile to reason. For those who demand instant gratification, who adopt some existentialist stance, who cultivate violence or mystical experience, or who merely do what others do, are all, in various ways, resisting the claims of reason on them. And what they are resisting is not just the demand that they should reflect and calculate; it is also the influence of passions and sentiments that underlie a form of life.

Reason and Passion

I Once gave a series of talks to a group of psychoanalysts who had trained together and was rather struck by the statement made by one of them that, psychologically speaking, ‘reason’ means saying ‘No’ to oneself. Plato, of course, introduced the concept of ‘reason’ in a similar way in The Republic with the case of the thirsty man who is checked in the satisfaction of his thirst by reflection on the outcome of drinking. But Plato was also so impressed by man's ability to construct mathematical systems by reasoning that he called it the divine element of the soul. And what has this ability to do with that of saying ‘No’ to oneself? And what have either of these abilities to do with the disposition to be impartial which is intimately connected with our notion of a reasonable man, or with what David Hume called a ‘wonderful and unintelligible instinct’ in our souls by means of which men are able to make inferences from past to future?It must readily be admitted that there are few surface similarities between the uses of ‘reason’ in these contexts. No obvious features protrude which might be fastened on as logically necessary conditions for the use of the term ‘reason’. But beneath the surface there may be lurking common notions that are, or can be, of importance in our lives. To make them explicit is to give structure and substance to what is often called ‘the life of reason’ and to show that this is not inconsistent with a life of passion as is often thought. This seems eminently worth attempting at a time when many people seem hostile to reason. For those who demand instant gratification, who adopt some existentialist stance, who cultivate violence or mystical experience, or who merely do what others do, are all, in various ways, resisting the claims of reason on them. And what they are resisting is not just the demand that they should reflect and calculate; it is also the influence of passions and sentiments that underlie a form of life.