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- research articleBehavioral sciences. Basel : MDPI, 2023, vol. 13, iss. 2., p. 1-16The current study investigates the Simple Model of Environmental Citizenship (SMEC) in a representative sample of Lithuanian emerging adults. The SMEC is a practical model of assessing environmental citizenship and is intended to be simple to use in interventions and longitudinal research. A total of 700 individuals (50% female) with a mean age of 30.6 years participated in the survey. The participants filled in a questionnaire comprising measures assessing all the components of the SMEC as well as a personality trait measure. Participants were clustered by their personality traits and the resulting profiles were used as a moderator for the SMEC. The results revealed that the SMEC functions differently for individuals possessing different personality trait patterns and that in order to promote environmental citizenship or to engage in education for environmental citizenship, different strategies might be more effective for different individuals.
8WOS© IF 2.286WOS© AIF 5.134Scopus© SNIP 0.965 - research article
; Journal of Baltic studies. Portland : Taylor & Francis, 2022, vol. 53, iss. 1., p. 119-1361WOS© IF 0.484WOS© AIF 1.291Scopus© SNIP 0.787 - research article
; ; Żadkowska, MagdalenaSocial Psychological and Personality Science. SAGE Publications, 2022, 00, 00., p. 1-17Social role theory posits that binary gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in less egalitarian countries, reflecting these countries’ more pronounced sex-based power divisions. Conversely, evolutionary and self-construal theorists suggest that gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in more egalitarian countries, reflecting the greater autonomy support and flexible self-construction processes present in these countries. Using data from 62 countries ( N = 28,640), we examine binary gender gaps in agentic and communal self-views as a function of country-level objective gender equality (the Global Gender Gap Index) and subjective distributions of social power (the Power Distance Index). Findings show that in more egalitarian countries, gender gaps in agency are smaller and gender gaps in communality are larger. These patterns are driven primarily by cross-country differences in men’s self-views and by the Power Distance Index (PDI) more robustly than the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI). We consider possible causes and implications of these findings.WOS© IF 5.316WOS© AIF 3.861Scopus© SNIP 2.397 - research article
; ; Behavioral sciences. Basel : MDPI, 2022, vol. 12, iss. 10, 351., p. 1-20Background: This study intended to explore the role of personality traits and basic psychological needs in law enforcement officers’ ability to recognize emotions: anger, joy, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust, and neutral. It was significant to analyze law enforcement officers’ emotion recognition and the contributing factors, as this field has been under-researched despite increased excessive force use by officers in many countries. Methods: This study applied the Big Five–2 (BFI-2), the Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Frustration Scale (BPNSFS), and the Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces set of stimuli (KDEF). The data was gathered using an online questionnaire provided directly to law enforcement agencies. A total of 154 law enforcement officers participated in the study, 50.65% were females, and 49.35% were males. The mean age was 41.2 (age range = 22–61). In order to analyze the data, SEM and multiple linear regression methods were used. Results: This study analyzed variables of motion recognition, personality traits, and needs satisfaction and confirmed that law enforcement officers’ personality traits play a significant role in emotion recognition. Respondents’ agreeableness significantly predicted increased overall emotion recognition; conscientiousness predicted increased anger recognition; joy recognition was significantly predicted by extraversion, neuroticism, and agreeableness. This study also confirmed that law enforcement officers’ basic psychological needs satisfaction/frustration play a significant role in emotion recognition. Respondents’ relatedness satisfaction significantly predicted increased overall emotion recognition, fear recognition, joy recognition, and sadness recognition. Relatedness frustration significantly predicted decreased anger recognition, surprise recognition, and neutral face recognition. Furthermore, this study confirmed links between law enforcement officers’ personality traits, satisfaction/frustration of basic psychological needs, and emotion recognition, χ2 = 57.924; df = 41; p = 0.042; TLI = 0.929; CFI = 0.956; RMSEA = 0.042 [0.009–0.065]. Discussion: The findings suggested that agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, and neuroticism play an essential role in satisfaction and frustration of relatedness needs, which, subsequently, link to emotion recognition. Due to the relatively small sample size, the issues of validity/reliability of some instruments, and other limitations, the results of this study should preferably be regarded with concern.WOS© IF 2.286WOS© AIF 5.134Scopus© SNIP 0.965 - research articleVisual Communication. [Thousand Oaks] : SAGE Publications, 2022, 00, 00., p. 1-15This article thematizes the specific process of cancer detection in radiology, which presupposes a delicate synthesis of the specifics of oncoradiology images and the skilful actions performed by the radiologist. The enactment of cancer via meaningful action rather than recognizing static depiction puts the structures of image consciousness into the wider context along with memory, free imagination and amodal completion, among others. Hence, by way of reinterpreting phenomenological projects via enactivism and incorporating them into the radiologist’s work (cases, radiograms), medical diagnostics in general and oncoradiology in particular presuppose a multimodal categorial structuring (of meaning) that goes far beyond direct sensory givens. In most branches of radiology, we cannot tell what the cancer is without attending to the multitude of its appearance and the perceptual and imaginative strategies of those who make it appear. As such, this article also considers the wider problem of how knowledge is related to the (embodied) subjectivity in a particular social setting.
WOS© IF 1.79WOS© AIF 3.24Scopus© SNIP 1.623 - research article
; 4WOS© IF 3.905WOS© AIF 5.027Scopus© SNIP 1.069 - research article
; WOS© IF 2.577WOS© AIF 3.861Scopus© SNIP 1.607 - research article
; WOS© IF 3.889WOS© AIF 5.729Scopus© SNIP 1.31 - research article
; ; Current psychology. New York : Springer Science+Business Media, 2022, vol. 41, iss. 12., p. 9087-9102The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between psychological hardiness, basic psychological need (BPN) satisfaction (Self-Determination theory, Deci & Ryan, 2000), soldiers’ engagement, and general self-reported health. We hypothesized that the effect of psychological hardiness on soldiers’ engagement and general health is mediated by the satisfaction of basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence, and relatedness). Data from a questionnaire survey was collected among soldiers of the Lithuanian Armed forces (N = 506) using The Hardiness – Resilience Gauge (HRG), Basic Need Satisfaction at Work Scale, Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES – 9) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ – 12). Structural equation modelling was used to evaluate the hypothesis of a mediating role of BPN satisfaction within the relationship between hardiness and soldier’s engagement and general health. The results showed mediating effects of satisfaction of BPN on psychological hardiness and health, and engagement relationship, thus providing support for our hypothesis. Implications of the results are discussed.WOS© IF 2.387WOS© AIF 3.956Scopus© SNIP 0.936 - research article
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