Understanding Of Interpersonal Relationships Research Articles

Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics.

This article discusses the application of artificially intelligent robots within eldercare and explores a series of ethical considerations, including the challenges that AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology poses to traditional Chinese Confucian filial piety. From the perspective of Confucian ethics, the paper argues that robots cannot adequately fulfill duties of care. Due to their detachment from personal relationships and interactions, the "emotions" of AI robots are merely performative reactions in different situations, rather than actual emotional abilities. No matter how "humanized" robots become, it is difficult to establish genuine empathy and a meaningful relationship with them for this reason. Even so, we acknowledge that AI robots are a significant tool in managing the demands of elder care and the growth of care poverty, and as such, we attempt to outline some parameters within which care robotics could be acceptable within a Confucian ethical system. Finally, the paper discusses the social impact and ethical considerations brought on by the interaction between humans and machines. It is observed that the relationship between humans and technology has always had both utopian and dystopian aspects, and robotic elder care is no exception. AI caregiver robots will likely become a part of elder care, and the transformation of these robots from "service providers" to "companions" seems inevitable. In light of this, the application of AI-augmented robotic elder care will also eventually change our understanding of interpersonal relationships and traditional requirements of filial piety.

Effect on Self-Directed Learning Abilities, Interpersonal Understanding, and Satisfaction with the Class among University Students based in a Team-Project Lesson

The purpose of this study is to establish the relationship between self-directed learning abilities, interpersonal understanding, and satisfaction of participants in team-based, focused classes. To achieve the purpose of this research, 409 university students who participate in team-based classes at a university located in South Korea were selected as candidates for the study. For data processing methods, we did frequency analysis, reliability analysis, and correlation analysis using SPSS 21.0 for Window, and used a structural equation model to verify the analysis of confirmatory factors and the theory of research using AMOS 18.0. Our findings were as follows. First, the self-directed learning ability of the team-based class participants affected interpersonal understanding. Second, the self-directed learning ability of team-based learning class participants affected satisfaction with the class. Third, the understanding of interpersonal relationships between team-based class participants affected the level of satisfaction with the class.

The Fairytale Semantic Differential Technique: A Cross-Cultural Application.

The “Fairytale Semantic Differential” method, in which the respondent assesses several fairytale characters according to a set of personal characteristics, is designed for individual psychological work with children 4–10 years old. Personality characteristics, according to which the characters are evaluated, are formulated in terms understandable to child respondents, i.e., these are words that parents and teachers use when dealing with children of this age. An analysis of the child’s attitude to a certain fairytale character makes it possible to determine the individual properties of his/her moral value sphere. Quantitative indicators that can be calculated on the basis of the data collected by the questionnaire are discussed. These indicators characterize the child’s personality, his/her understanding of interpersonal relationships, the dimensionality of the categorial space of interpersonal perception, the content of these categories and its hierarchy, the level of cognitive development in this domain, and the degree of socialization. The results of an empirical study that was conducted in Moscow, Baku, and Tashkent are presented. Age and sex differences were found in the cognitive complexity of interpersonal perception and socialization. Also, an example of individual semantic space is presented.

The Effect of Action Learning-Based Teaching and Learning Strategies on Metacognitive, Problem Solving, Interpersonal Relationship and Team Efficacy of Nursing Students

The study is a single-group experiment design for the operation and measurement of nursing management practice training by applying action learning-based teaching-learning design. The study performed a total convenience sampling of 105 senior nusing students of N University in G Metropolitan City who applied for nursing management practice curriculum. The nursing management practice was implemented from Aug. 4 to Sept. 26, 2014. Each team consists of 4-8 subjects who participated in the practice for two weeks, for a total eight weeks. Prior to practice, pre-survey was carried out and post-survey upon the completion of the practice. A skill survey tool of metacognitive tools developed by Printrich & Groot(MSLQ) edited by Woo, and Marshall(2003), and modified by Kwon (2010) was used as a a tool to measure initiative in problem solving, understanding of interpersonal relationships, and team efficacy. The study result showed a statistically significant difference in subjects in Metacognitive (t=-5.124, p<.001), initiative of problem solving (t=-5.817, .000), understanding of interpersonal relationships (t=-4.947, .000), and team efficacy (t=-3.483, .001) after participating in action learning-based team project activities.

Jorie Graham's _____ s

Jorie Graham's blanks offer the chance to see how lyric intersects with the historical vicissitudes of material culture. The word-length line segments in Graham's poems function as both a graphic representation of lyric and as a reflection of late-twentieth-century material culture, a way of writing the surfaces and textures of everyday life. While reducing to the simplest expression the alienating distance that gives the lyric I its definitive privacy, the blank also replicates the nebulous substances of late-century technology—latex, spray paint, Formica. Such substances become a material idiom of mediation, a repertoire of images that shape our understanding of interpersonal relationships, which in contemporary culture are both void of definition and thick with significance. While much lyric criticism defines the genre in terms of transhistorical rhetorical patterns, the example of Graham's blanks suggests that lyric must also be considered as an intimate material history.

Euphoria or despair? Coping with multiple births from ART: What patients don't tell the clinics

Patients' perception of family life after a multiple birth: euphoria or Pandora's box? The aim of this article is to explore the realities of parenting children from a multiple pregnancy as an aid to decision-making about the number of embryos transferred. Outcome research regarding parenting of children from twin, triplet and higher order births is described and, in particular, children of multiple births from assisted reproductive technology. Current understanding of interpersonal relationships in multiple birth families is also discussed. The evidence from these various sources is put in the framework of social risk factors as an aid to predicting outcomes and as an essential part of decision-making with the full participation of patients. The implications of such an approach is presented in relation to support for such families. Case studies are included of three triplet families. Reference is made to fetal reduction as an option.

Understanding Peace and War: A Review of Developmental Psychology Research

Over the past decades the number of studies dealing with the developing understanding of peace and war among children and adolescents has considerably increased. No coherent overview is available despite this increase. The purpose of this review is to address this absence and to offer a systematic discussion of early and contemporary studies. Besides the absence of a coherent review, most studies fail to offer a theoretical framework for the interpretation and examination of the developing understanding of peace and war. In the discussion of the literature it is shown that there is no overall consensus about the meaning of peace and war. For instance, children and adolescents in different cultural settings (i.e., geographically different areas or countries) are reported to differ in the development of the meanings they attach to peace and war. Early and contemporary studies offer ample evidence, not only for a dependency of the findings on employed measurement procedures and designs, but also for the apparent presence of a multitude of variables which affect the development of the understanding of peace and war. In all early and in most contemporary studies, age and gender are the major explanatory variables for the observed variations. In more recent studies indications are presented for a structural relationship between the understanding of interpersonal relationships and the understanding of peace, in particular. The influence of other variables such as social institutions and socialization agents on the development of this understanding appears to be primarily theoretically discussed, but rarely empirically supported.

Working with Racial Themes in Group Psychotherapy

Racial themes frequently emerge in group psychotherapy but are often unaddressed by therapists. Confusion about the relevance of race to the psychotherapeutic process, countertransferential responses, and a lack of training in how to address racial content contribute to therapists' reluctance. Approaches to addressing racial content in groups are examined. Case examples are used to demonstrate therapist characteristics and perspectives on the group process that create a climate where racial content can be explored. An exploration of the meaning of racial content provides an opportunity for deepened understanding of interpersonal relationships for patients and therapists.

Personal Power: a Taoist Perspective

This article draws from the teachings of Taoism to provide a possible framework from within which we may consider personal relationships and especially personal power. Personal power is viewed as a mode of being, something existential, something to be lived rather than to be acquired. As Carl Rogers (1977) notes, when perceived in this manner personal power becomes the basis for a quiet revolution which has "gone to the root of many of the concepts and values of our culture." To understand the contributions of Taoism to humanistic psychology we must first understand the concept of ch'i ( ki in Japanese). Ch'i is the vital force that permeates and flows throughout the universe. The enhancement of ch'i is central to creative expression and personal power as expressed through Chinese poetry, art, medicine, and martial arts. By gaining a better understanding of ch'i, we can gain a better understanding of interpersonal relationships and personal growth. In my work with both acute and chronic psychotics I continually noticed that an increased ability to be empathic and an increased feeling of personal power were intimately related. Those people who were willing and able to enhance their abilities to be empathic were also able to improve their level of functioning so they could be discharged. Those people who were unable to become more empathic or who were unwilling to do so (which was more often the case) usually continued at the same general level of functioning. Through my practice of meditation and Chungdokwan Taekwon-do I became aware of how ch'i directly affects daily life. There are moments in the practice of a martial art when: You and your opponent will no longer be two bodies separated physically from each other but a single entity, physically, mentally, and spiritually inseparable. Therefore the motion of your opponent may be considered to be your motion [Murphy &amp; White, 1978, p. 34]. There are moments in a counseling relationship as well as in any interpersonal relationship when this happens also. Perhaps as the Taoists suggest, the underlying principle behind this is ch'i. If this is so, present conceptions of personal power can benefit from a greater understanding of the Taoist concept of ch'i.