Faculties’ empowerment is one of the effective tools for increasing productivity and optimum use of their individual and group abilities and capacities to reach organizational goals. Organizational culture is the main component of decision making in universities and one of the requirements of psychological empowerment (i.e. meaning, competence, self-determination, trust, impact). Given the impo...

The purpose of the article is to outline a comprehensive conceptual framework for life skills interventions by integrating aspects of Basic Needs Theory (BNT) and Life Development Intervention (LDI). In particular, we advocate the integration of (a) the three basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness and (b) the needs-supportive motivational climate from BNT with the LD...

The purpose of this overview is to provide a background for understanding the relation between the biological maturation of the frontal lobes and the development of the psychological concept of executive functions. In the first section, an interactive hierarchical feedback model is presented as a heuristic way of conceptualizing the relationship of the frontal lobes and executive functions to o...

This article focuses on how psychological science can be used to maintain and elicit desirable behaviors. It discusses human motivation, decision-making, attitudinal changes, long-term versus short-term goals, group process, leadership, communication and change process. Attitude change is presented as a three-stage process: unfreezing, moving, and refreezing, and attempts to change an attitude ...

T h e M u n i c h L o n g i t u d i n a l S t u d y o f G i f t e d n e s s ( H e l l e r & H a n y , 1986), was c a r r i e d o u t f r o m 1985 t o 1989. T h e s t u d y is based on a mu l t i d imens iona l g i f t e d n e s s c o n c e p t . P e r ­ f o r m a n c e b e h a v i o u r is c o n s i d e r e d as a p r o d u c t o f t h e p r e d i c t o r s g i f t e d n e s s , p e r s o n a l...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, sporcuların antrenman ya da müsabaka sonrasındaki psikolojik toparlanma durumlarının belirlenmesi için Sporda Psikolojik Toparlanma Ölçeği’nin (SPTÖ) geliştirilmesidir. Ölçeğin katılımcı grubunu yaşları 16-48 (Xyaş=19,41; ±4,35) aralığında olan 177’si kadın, 331’i erkek toplam 508 sporcu oluşturmaktadır. Verilerin yapı geçerliklerini test etmek AFA ve DFA; yakınsak ıraksak ...