University of Pécs Hungary

53 The series of Alps-Adria Psychology Conferences has reached its 11 th edition on 18-20 September, 2014 in Pécs, Hungary. By this time the conference has become a popular venue of presenting psychological research of the region. This is reflected in the high number of submitted oral presentations and posters whose abstracts are presented in this special issue. Contributions were all peer reviewed by two international experts. In line with the tradition of the Conference, we have included into the program the keynote lectures invited from each participating Alps-Adria universites. The abstracts of the keynote lectures are also included. Following the previous two editions, young scientists have again been supported through the allocation of a junior award-young scientists under the age of 35, no tenure track-were invited to submit a full scientific paper to be considered for publication in Review of Psychology. Three submitted papers have been chosen for the award and are planned to be published in the next issue of the journal. So as to give an insight into the broad scope and professional quality of the conference, a short annotation for each of them will be given here. The paper by Júlia Écsi shows that the exploration of intraindividual processes is a possible way to reveal complex life historical paths while the distinction of individual specificities may be based on additional information obtained from autobiographical episodes. The analysis of autobiographical episodes enables certain components, formal features, or variables to be investigated in order to draw conclusions on the internal working models, identity state, maturity, and integrity of the self. Based on this approach, this study was aimed at exploring self-images of children diagnosed with ADHD disorder and underpinning the hypothesis that these children may have difficulties with self-reflective functioning, the reflection on their behavioural problems when they are to judge their own conduct and social situation. In contrast, it is hypothesized that autobiographical episodes provided by the children are more suitable for identifying and demonstrating their conflicts and difficulties emerging in social interactions and having crucial importance in several life domains. The paper by Orsolya Pachner deals with the psychological theories of play. Since most of these were generated in the 20th century, some of them simultaneously, they mostly dealt with different aspects of play. Author thinks these theories have common points, which can be called the essence of play. She highlights Piaget's epistemological approach of cognitive …