Set Of Personal Characteristics Research Articles

SOFT SKILLS: МЕТОДОЛОГІЯ ФОРМУВАННЯ КОМУНІКАТИВНОЇКОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ В НАВЧАННІ ІНОЗЕМНИМ МОВАМСТУДЕНТІВ-ФІЛОЛОГІВ

Soft skills, also known as interpersonal skills, are a set of personal characteristics and skills that allow individuals to interact effectively and harmoniously with others. In the context of language education, soft skills play an important role in promoting the development of communicative competence among students majoring in philology. This article examines the methodology of integrating soft skills into language teaching and their importance in shaping the success of philology students in learning communicative skills and language proficiency. Soft skills cover a wide range of characteristics, including communication, teamwork, adaptability, empathy and cultural awareness. These skills are essential in language learning because they allow students to interact with the language and its cultural context. The integration of soft skills in language education is integral to the formation of a comprehensive educational experience and the improvement of students' success. Communication skills, cooperation and teamwork, adaptability and flexibility, empathy and cultural awareness, as well as leadership and initiative are important soft skills that contribute to students' language and intercultural competence. By prioritizing the development of soft skills alongside linguistic competence, educators can help students become effective communicators, culturally sensitive individuals, and learning participants in a multilingual and multicultural world. Experiential learning methods, such as study abroad programs and language exchanges, immerse students in authentic linguistic and cultural contexts. Learning occurs through social interaction and collaboration, which makes experiential learning an effective method of developing communication skills and cultural awareness. The integration of soft skills in language teaching is important for the formation of communicative competence among philology students. By including interactive educational activities, authentic materials, and feedback mechanisms, teachers can help students become effective interlocutors.

Eğitim Yönetiminde Yeni Liderlik Yaklaşımlarının İncelenmesi

Leadership is a skill or trait that is used to bring people together and lead them towards a specific goal.Dec. Leadership is studied and defined by many different theories and models of leadership with different styles and approaches. Leadership approaches are theoretical frameworks used when studying leadership, and they offer different perspectives to explain leadership. The characteristics approach is a leadership approach that bases leadership on a set of personal characteristics and qualities. According to this approach, it is thought that it is necessary to have certain characteristics and qualities in order to be a leader. Behavioral leadership claims that leadership is a series of behaviors and that these behaviors are decisive on the influence of the leader. Behavioral leadership requires the leader to exhibit different behaviors in order to understand the needs of team members, motivate and guide them. The situational approach is a leadership approach that tries to explain leadership by using the appropriate leadership style for a particular situation. According to this approach, the effectiveness of leadership argues that the leadership style that the leader should use depends on the situation that the leader is facing and the leadership styles required by this situation. The situational approach focuses on three main characteristics of leadership situations: the competence level of team members, the motivation level of team members, and the structure of the leadership situation. These characteristics are used to determine which leadership style the leader should use. Key Words: Educational Management, Leadership, New Leadership Approaches

A Cohort Study on Diabetic Undocumented Migrants in Italy: Can Charitable Organizations Contribute to Higher Adherence?

The increasing presence of documented and undocumented migrants increases the commitment of the Italian National Health Service to their health needs, following its founding principle of equity. In particular, chronic diseases, such as diabetes, represent a crucial area where patients' health is affected by their adherence to care pathways, for which the recent literature has reported alarming low levels. In the case of migrants, obstacles to adherence, such as language or organizational barriers, could be overcome thanks also to charitable organizations providing healthcare services. In this study, we aimed to compare the adherence among documented and undocumented migrants who received healthcare services in Milan, Italy, either from the National Health Service (NHS) or from a charitable organization. We identified a cohort of newly taken into care diabetic patients composed of two groups: (i) documented migrants that attend the NHS; and (ii) undocumented migrants that attend a charity. Information was tracked by merging two datasets: the regional healthcare information system of Lombardy, and a unique dataset that collects data on specialistic visits and pharmaceutical prescriptions for all people visiting one of the most prominent charitable organizations in Italy. The annual diabetologist visit was used as the measure of adherence. The probability of being adherent was compared among the two groups by using a multivariate log-binomial regression model, considering a set of personal characteristics that may impact health behaviors. The cohort comprised 6429 subjects. The percentage of adherence was 52% among the documented migrants, and 74% among the undocumented. Regression results confirmed this pattern: undocumented patients have an increased probability of being adherent by 1.19 times (95% CI: 1.12 to 1.26) compared to documented ones. Our study revealed the potentiality of charitable organizations in guaranteeing continuity of care to undocumented migrants. We argue that this mechanism would benefit from central coordination by the government.

ВЛИЯНИЕ ЛИЧНОСТНЫХ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИК ТАЛАНТЛИВЫХ СОТРУДНИКОВ НА ИХ ДОБРОВОЛЬНОЕ УВОЛЬНЕНИЕ

Despite the growing interest in talent management issues, there is still no consensus in theliterature regarding the characteristics and features of talented employees work behavior. One of the approaches stands out as an objective view postulating that there are a set of personal characteristics, which determine an employee as a talented one and influence their labor behavior. This research attempts to identify a list of these personal characteristics and assess their impact on work behavior. The list of characteristics incorporates personalitydimensions contained in the Big Five model. As a form of labor behavior is voluntary resignation. The research empirical base is the data on the talent management program at Sheremetyevo International Airport. We constructed econometric probit model, where the fact that a talented employee voluntarily quit during the first year of employment was used as an explanatory variable. The focus on resignations in the first year is related to an attempt to reduce the influence of factors that form sustainable attitudes towards job characteristics - satisfaction and loyalty to the organization. The set of independent variables is represented by organizational and socio-demographic characteristics in addition to personal characteristics.The results confirmed the hypotheses on the influence of higher values of openness to experience, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and extraversion, regardless of the organizational context, on the probability of voluntary turnover. The findings provide an empirical assessment of theobjective approach to talent in the Russian labor market and can be used for verificationin other corporate contexts or while trying to assess their sustainability with a longer work experience. In practical terms, the findings can be used to develop personalized talent management practices in Russian companies

Емоційний інтелект в системі управління персоналом: структура та проблеми оцінювання

The growth of the acceptability of emotional intelligence as a major factor in the assessment of personality and effective human resource management is substantiated. Emotional intelligence as the ability to develop potential, empathize, cooperate, motivate and develop others cannot be separated from the system of effective activity and human resource management. The human personality is crucial in determining organizational leadership and success in terms of challenges and opportunities, as well as the passage of both international and bilateral relations. The main areas of emotional intelligence are: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions and managing emotions.The key components of emotional intelligence in the workplace are: self- awareness – the ability to understand one’s emotions, when making decisions, being aware of weaknesses and strengths, determining one’s goals and life values; self-regulation – the ability to manage emotions without succumbing to impulses; motivation – the ability to achieve one’s personal goals for increasing productivity – for the fact of achievement; empathy – the ability to understand the emotions of others, empathize with them and, despite this, make objective decisions; social skills – the ability to build strong relationships with your team. Nowadays there are no clear metrics for evaluating EQ yet, but there is a set of personality characteristics that helps determine the approximate level of the emotional indicator. The growing complexity of the business world requires great self-confidence, honesty, communication, conflict management and diversity to keep a global enterprise on the path to productivity and sustainability. It is emphasized that when managing a company, the relationship between employees and managers should have a mutual understanding of each other’s emotions, what they feel or think, what views on various topics they have, what strengths or weaknesses they possess, how they react, approach to work that motivates them and so on. It is emphasized that the understanding of the truth of emotional intelligence is still being studied in various fields, because its perception is individual.

Decomposing the effect of hardiness in military leadership selection and the mediating role of self-efficacy beliefs

ABSTRACT Psychological hardiness is a set of personality characteristics that is linked to better health, performance, and leadership in demanding environments. Research indicates that candidates who score high on hardiness have an advantage during military leadership selection. In this study, we deconstruct the effect of hardiness into three separate measures of leadership performance: interview performance, field performance, and the probability of voluntary withdrawal from a challenging field exercise. Additionally, we hypothesize that the dispositional effect of hardiness is partly due to an indirect effect of contextual self-efficacy beliefs regarding military leadership ability. We test our hypotheses in a sample of candidates seeking admission to officer training in the Norwegian Armed Forces during a three-week selection process. The results confirm that hardiness was associated with successful admission and showed that hardy candidates scored somewhat higher on the interview and field exercises and were notably less likely to drop out of the field exercise. Using generalized structural equation modeling and mediation analysis, we find that the effect is partly mediated by self-efficacy beliefs, but the direct effect of hardiness is more pronounced than the indirect effect of self-efficacy. Overall, the results add to the growing body of hardiness as a predictor of military leadership performance and shows that this advantage is partly, but not primarily associated with contextual self-efficacy beliefs.

Effect of Personal Characteristics in Field of Finance on Entrepreneurial Intention of Students of Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran

The main purpose of this study is to apply the theory of planned behavior to investigate the impact of personal characteristics in the field of finance, including financial optimism, perceived access to finance, financial self-esteem, and excessive financial confidence in students' entrepreneurial intention at the University of Tehran. In order to conduct this research, 294 graduate students of the faculty of entrepreneurship, at the University of Tehran were selected as the statistical population by stratified sampling. A questionnaire was used to collect data and PLS software was used to analyze the collected data. The results showed that a set of personal characteristics in the field of finance, including financial optimism, understanding of financial access, financial self-esteem, and excessive self-confidence in the field of finance, affect the entrepreneurial intention of students in the faculty of entrepreneurship. On the other hand, the role of gender adjustment was not confirmed and showed no effect on the relationship between any of the studied variables and students' entrepreneurial intent; In addition, the findings of this study indicate that the entrepreneurial experience has a positive and significant effect on students' entrepreneurial intentions.

Validating an individual innovation competence assessment tool for university–industry collaboration

University–industry collaboration produces networks that may be capable of innovations, such as novel products and services. The collaboration projects also need to benefit student learning, yet teachers have little clarity with regard to innovation competence development. Individual innovation competence is a set of personal characteristics, knowledge, skills and attitudes that are connected to create concretised and implemented novelties via collaboration in complex innovation processes. The paper reports on the findings from the development and validation of an individual innovation competence assessment tool. The aim is to determine which individual innovation competences are significant in university–industry collaboration and which of these competences are sensitive to educational interventions. The study used a three-phase method involving development of the questionnaire items, validation in teacher and student panels, and a pilot pre- and post-survey study. All seven domains of individual innovation competences were significant and sensitive to educational intervention (a multidisciplinary innovation project conducted with industry). The most responsive competence domains regarding change were concretisation and implementation planning skills, and project management skills. The paper concludes with application opportunities for the tool and recommendations for further research.

Evolution of scientific ideas about giftedness

Currently, working with gifted children is one of the priority areas of work in the country and regions. Special attention is paid to this issue in the construction of an all-Russian system for the identification, support and development of abilities and talents in children and youth. One of the key substantive guidelines and at the same time mandatory for the implementation of state program documents in the system of working with gifted children was the federal project “Success of each child,” implemented as part of the national project “Education.” In a modern school, the issue of individualization of the educational process and the work of identifying and supporting gifted children is becoming more and more urgent - two important priorities of modern educational policy, which are closely related because, on the one hand, work on the development and disclosure of talent almost always requires an individual approach, and on the other hand, any individualization always, directly or indirectly, helps school student to believe in forces. The article analyses scientific ideas about giftedness as a set of personal characteristics that have developed independently of the will of the person himself and, especially, his teacher-mentors; the phenomenon of giftedness is considered in terms of the outstanding abilities of a particular person (child) given to him by nature and requiring timely development and targeted support through professional pedagogical tools. It is proposed to consideration of the author’s definition of an individual educational program (IOP), which involves the construction by an adult of a system of educational activity as a model of the personal world, a personal universe, which at the same time allows this person to realize potential - and is itself the product of his ideas and actions.

Nostalgia marketing: Examining music retromania

Nostalgia has a solid presence in marketing. Studies have shown that nostalgic marketing strategy could be a powerful tool to market some goods and services. It has been seen that nostalgic marketing campaigns are becoming a preferred way of making the most out of brand equity possessed by old products, logos, and packaging. This study examines the prospects of nostalgia marketing for the music market and probes the level of nostalgia among various sets of personal characteristics. The study has applied a two-stage stratified sampling method. Seven strata have been identified based on respondents’ occupation, then a random sampling technique for final sample selection has been applied. Results suggested that nostalgia proneness varies among different groups of people. The study also found a strong association between nostalgia proneness and some individual and group characteristics. The study is thus telling decision-makers to seriously look into the nostalgia fact so that opportunities could be exploited. As a future research direction, it is advised to conduct multiple rigorous studies to comprehend the issue from varied perspectives.

Наблюдательность профайлера при решении конфликтных ситуаций

the article describes the profiling methodology as one of the most relevant areas used in practical social psychology. The connection between training in profiling and observation as a professionally important quality of profilers is shown. A set of personal characteristics is defined, the leading role among which is played by social intelligence as the basis for the ability to resolve conflict situations adequately. The technology of solving conflict situations by profiling techniques in a way through the development of observation is shown.

Asian football: how corruption disrupted marketing value in the game’s largest fan market

Theoretical basis This case is focused on the allegations of corrupt practices within the strategic leadership at the board level of an international sports organization – the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The theoretical premise is that the practices and decisions of the AFC’s leadership will have a profound impact on the AFC’s performance. However, because the AFC is the continental governing body, the impact is theorized to be far larger, across an entire industry. In writing the case, the authors were guided by upper Echelons theory (UET) (Hambrick and Mason, 1984; Hambrick, 2007; Hambrick et al., 2015), which argues that an organization’s strategic direction is directly influenced by its leader’s values. The authors selected UET for the theoretical framework, as it considered a spectrum of factors from industry, leader characters (values), their choices and the results of their actions. Such a comprehensive theory aligned with the complexities of the AFC and its leadership. In constructing the case roadmap using UET, the authors first adopted an ethnographic methodology. This was motivated by the fact that one of the authors had been embedded for many years as part of the leadership team at the AFC. His career work notes based on direct interactions and observations of these leaders helped in two ways: to identify the complex set of personal characteristics of these leaders (i.e. background, their careers outside football and financial standing) as they originated from 47 different nationalities. UET refers to these as observable factors to better theorize the hidden intentions of their alleged corrupt behaviors. UET identifies this second set of non-observable factors as psychological factors. These two different sets of observations combined helped to theorize their drivers, intentions and strategic decisions (options). For the second methodology, the authors accessed archival, publicly available media news and reports to understand the consequences of their actions to the AFC and the Asian football industry. This completed the final parts of the UET framework (Yamak et al., 2014). Research methodology This case relied on information that was widely reported within international media, press announcements by various organizations, published decisions by tribunals and publicly available information on the AFC. All of the names and positions in this case are actual persons. Case overview/synopsis This case focuses on the role and influence of the AFC as the Asian football governing body. The AFC is a member of the world football governing body – FIFA. With a US$1bn budget, the AFC has a strong impact on the future of football among Asia’s three billion people. Unfortunately, the AFC has been unable to create the value in its sports events or properties that attracts fans and investors. Central to this problem is the issue of corruption and corruption allegations within the AFC, especially with regard to its leadership. This case, therefore, attempts to highlight the various issues, discusses the circumstances around these challenges and brings forth the complexities of leading a truly international organization across 47 countries. Such factors are then tied to the value of the organization’s products or services in the marketplace. Complexity academic level The case is written and designed for a graduate level (MBA) class or an upper level undergraduate class such as corporate strategy, leadership, international management, international marketing, contemporary issues in management, cross-cultural management, sports management and sports marketing. In general, the case will also be a good fit for courses that discuss leadership, organizational strategy, organizational structure, organizational ethics and organizational behavior.

THE MAIN STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE SECURITY SECTOR SPECIALISTS’ PSYCHOLOGICAL READINESS FOR PRECISION SHOOTING

The article examines the main developmental stages of psychological readiness for precision shooting with specially designed author's program that improves personal characteristics of professionals in the security sector necessary for their accurate shot. The determination and justification of the developmental stages of psychological readiness for precision shooting was carried out from the standpoint of the activity and systematic approaches, which contributed to a comprehensive study of the features of psychological readiness development and helped characterize the content, objectives, success criteria and the specifics of each stage implementation. The psychological readiness for precision shooting is understood as an integrative psychological characteristic, combining a set of necessary knowledge, skills, professionally important qualities and motives for successful actions, as well as a set of personal characteristics that make up the content of this phenomenon. The article describes the structure of psychological readiness for accurate shooting, represented by the unity of intellectually-operational, motivational, emotional-volitional and psychophysiological components. It substantiates the necessity of the development of security sector specialists’ personal characteristics, important for successful shooting skills formation, and presents the author's program developing psychological readiness for precision shooting, which has three stages, namely: motivational-orientation, operational-reflective and developmental-regulatory. The tasks and the content of each stage are described in detail; the criteria for their successful implementation are presented. The implementation of each program stage includes: the motivational-orientation stage – forming a positive attitude and motivation to develop psychological readiness to precision shooting, awareness of its importance during shooting and knowledge on basic developmental methods, mastering the theoretical aspects of firearm usage; the operational-reflective stage – working out the techniques and rules for pistol firing and bringing them to automatism, development of corresponding cognitive processes, the ability to reflect and differentiate one’s own feelings; the developmental-regulatory stage – improvement of volitional qualities, skills of emotional and volitional self-regulation, ability to control one’s own actions and adjust them according to shooting conditions. Security sector specialists’ psychological readiness for precision shooting is justified as a key to their effective use of firearms at professional task solving. Thus, the main formulated conclusion is that the effectiveness of firearm usage by security sector specialists in stressful situations is determined by developed psychological readiness for precision shooting. The development of the latter takes place at firearms training and involves the implementation of the stages described above, which can improve security sector professionals’ personal characteristics required for precision shooting. Developed psychological readiness will help them to overcome negative mental states, reduce anxiety, increase adaptive capacity and confidently at situations involving the firearm usage.

Use of Mobile Health Applications and the Self-Management of Cancer: A Gendered Approach

The growing use of mobile health applications for health purposes increased the expectations about their effectiveness. The study examines the effectiveness of mobile health applications on the self-management behaviors of 168 individuals diagnosed with cancer. The results of a secondary analysis indicate that using extensively mobile health applications significantly increases women’s health empowerment attitudes—reaching health decisions, changing their approach to health concerns, seeking additional health consultation. However, the use of mobile health applications does not increase the likelihood of adopting self-management behaviors. The study indicates that the effectiveness of mobile health applications in self-management practices is contingent upon a set of personal characteristics and the level of technology skills.

Phonetic Cues Relevant to Drug Intoxication State Identification (Experimental Research)

This paper presents the results of analysis of perceptual auditory features enabling identification of drug intoxication states. The aim of the present investigation was to expand a set of personal characteristics of speech associated with the influence of drugs regarding Russian native female speakers. This paper presents preliminary results of the first stage of the investigation, the aim of which was perceptual auditory assessment of rambling speech (speech incoherency) by a set of parameters with regard to drug-intoxicated female speakers (opioid addicts) that can be regarded as distinctive features to be used for identification of drug-intoxicated speakers solely by their speech characteristics. At the present stage of the research, the perceptual auditory analysis method was used to single out the features relevant to drug intoxication identification. Further research is underway to establish automatically detectable acoustic correlates of these features.

Личностные особенности и антисоциальная креативность на примере кадетов и сотрудников МВД

We present and analyze the results of two empirical studies conducted in the framework of adaptation of "The malevolent creativity behavior scale" (Hao et al.) on samples of cadets-students grades 9-10 (N=89, 70-boys) and police officers (N=62, average age 26 years, men). The hypothesis that the implementation of original solutions in behavior harmful to other people is due to the interaction of aggression/its components and a set of personal characteristics was tested. The results showed: 1. a special contribution belongs to the cognitive component of aggression-hostility (Bass-Perry questionnaire), both in adolescents and adults; 2. there are age and gender features in predictors of anti-social creativity. It is shown by the example of cadets that Machiavellianism, low neuroticism, agreeableness (NEO-5 FFI) can be included in the complex of personal characteristics. Analysis of the results obtained in the sample of police officers with non-legal education showed that the combination of low hostility with high self-regulation and self-control of the individual ("self-directedness ",TCI-125) can become a resource of resistance to anti-socially directed behavior, in particular corruption.

Личностные особенности и реакции на фрустрацию (по результатам исследования студентов-актеров)

The paper presents the results of a study of relationships between personality features and reactions to frustration among the student-actors. We tested the hypothesis about the correlation between behaviors in situations of frustration and such personal characteristics as empathy, trust, and reflexivity in relation to social behavior. Sample: 142 first-year students of a Moscow theatre college. Methods: R. Cattell’s 16 PF Questionnaire and S. Rosenzweig’s frustration picture test. Results: it is shown that projective emotional sensitivity is associated with two types of reactions — self-defense through aggression and self-defense through the acceptance of guilt. Conclusions: we revealed the important role of reactions aimed at resolving the frustrating situation through appealing to the interaction partner; this mode of behavior in a conflict situation is associated with a set of personal characteristics corresponding to the Groundedness factor in Cattell’s test, which implies attention to the specific circumstances of the action.

MULTI-POTENTIALITY IN MICHAEL AVALLONE’S NOVEL KRAKATOA EAST OF JAVA

Abstract The research is about the protagonist’s multi-potentiality with three points of analysis: multi-potentiality in career, in self-discipline and making friend. Multi-potentiality exists when strong genetics and a desire to practice come together to create superior ability. Discipline means order or code of behaviour. Self-discipline refers to the ability to control one’s own feeling is very important. Self-Discipline leads to overcome one’s own weaknesses. Life without Self-discipline is no life. There are many valuable things in life, but friendship may be one of the most important. To live life without the experience of friendship is life without living. Human interaction is a necessity to survival, but developed friendships are essential to the successful well being of anyone. True friendship is a feeling of love, sharing and caring. The theory of multi-potentiality is proposed by Timoty (2008) stating that from knowledge and skills comes multi-potentiality, a set of personal characteristics that enhance one’s ability to achieve expertise in an accelerated manner. These traits allow one to improve at quicker rates than others in their field that are at the same level of expertise. Descriptive qualitative method by Bickman (2010) is applied to analyze all the data concerning multi-potentiality and conducted to demonstrate association or relationships between things in the world around us in this matter, significant events in the novel and how all the events are molded into a story. The result shows that the protagonist has multi-potentiality in the forms of ability in career, self-discipline and making friends. Keywords: self-discipline, potentiality, career

Internet use and well-being: A survey and a theoretical framework

How does Internet use affect well-being? This paper presents a survey of the literature investigating this question, and it develops a framework to analyze both positive effects and potential risks. We point out four distinct channels through which Internet can shape well-being: it changes time use patterns, creates new activities, facilitates access to information, and acts as powerful communication tool. We show how these four channels impact well-being in distinct domains of life. A central point emerging from the literature review is that the effects of Internet on well-being are mediated by a set of personal characteristics that are specific to each individual: psychological functioning, capabilities, and framing conditions (culture and beliefs). Hence, it is the interaction between human beings’ activities in distinct domains of life and their own personal characteristics that explains why the use of Internet has stronger positive effects for some individuals and social groups than others.

Entrepreneurialism and health-promoting retail food environments in Canadian city-regions

The retail sector is a dynamic and challenging component of contemporary food systems with an important influence on population health and nutrition. Global consensus is clear that policy and environmental changes in retail food environments are essential to promote healthier diets and reduce the burden of obesity and non-communicable diseases. In this article, we explore entrepreneurialism as a form of social change-making within retail food environments, focusing on small food businesses. Small businesses face structural barriers within food systems. However, conceptual work in multiple disciplines and evidence from promising health interventions tested in small stores suggest that these retail places may have a dual role in health promotion: settings to strengthen regional economies and social networks, and consumer environments to support healthier diets. We will discuss empirical examples of health-promoting entrepreneurialism based on two sets of in-depth interviews we conducted with public health intervention actors in Toronto, Canada, and food entrepreneurs and city-region policy actors in St. John's, Canada. We will explore the practices of entrepreneurialism in the retail food environment and examine the implications for population health interventions. We contend that entrepreneurialism is important to understand on its own and also as a dimension of population health intervention context. A growing social scientific literature offers a multifaceted lens through which we might consider entrepreneurialism not only as a set of personal characteristics but also as a practice in networked and intersectoral cooperation for public and population health.