Mainstream psychology can often be criticized for turning the liberal concerns of psychologists into conservative practices focusing on the individual. In the United Kingdom, the discursive turn in social psychology has been marked by an audacious body of work critical of cognitive attempts to theorize the social. A particular psychodiscursive strand has emerged, which combines discourse analys...

The paper is an overview of the connections between scientific psychology and religion. thesis that psychology, which deals with empirical research all manifestations spirituality religiousness within different principles contexts culture, cannot refer to doctrine religion, but it should take into account in its cultural aspects religion without valuing them at individual human level (personali...

The unity of the personality is the keystone of Individual Psychology. Not only the reason, the will, memory, the unconscious, but the life-philosophy and the psychology which an individual accepts are the expression of his "style of life"?"every psychologist talks the language of his own either original, or subsequently modified, style of life." It is therefore possible to trace the connection...

Rapid advancement in information and communication technology (ICT) has enabled vast amounts of health related information including genetic information to be collected, processed, analyzed and integrated, which in turn has contributed to unprecedented breakthroughs in medicine. At the same time, an individual’s health related information including physical condition, illness, treatment, medica...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to investigate the direct and indirect - mediated by job burnout - effects of job demands on mental and physical health problems. The Job Demands-Resources model was the theoretical framework of the study. Three job demands were taken into account - interpersonal conflicts at work, organizational constraints and workload. Indicators of mental and physical hea...

Asset managers are faced with the necessity to reduce total life-cycle costs of their facilities as well as to improve their physical condition and long-term performance while considering the relative consequences of their failure. This paper presents a systematic decision-making approach for asset maintenance management that combines a stochastic Markovian performance prediction model with a m...

Abstract Cultural psychology of education strives to understand the locality developing individual. This article tries interpret mission and vision cultural in background modern society, with individualizing techno-mechanistic social trends as its prominent feature. The concept “contextualized individual” is proposed a potential framework conceptualize relational contextual dependence subject. ...

Underwood, B. J. (1975). Individual differences as a crucible in theory construction. American Psychologist, 30. 128-134. Thum, Y. M. (1994). Analysis of individual variation: A multivariate hierarchical linear model for behavioral data. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. University of Chicago. Thurstone, L. L. (1923). The stimulus-response fallacy in psychology. Psychological Review, 30, 354-3...

BACKGROUND Australian football (AF) is a highly intermittent sport, requiring athletes to accelerate hundreds of times with repeated bouts of high-intensity running (HIR). Players aim to be in peak physical condition for finals, with anecdotal evidence of increased speed and pressure of these games. PURPOSE However, no data exists on the running demands of finals games, and therefore the aim ...

as a result of the epiphany of giant multinational media conglomerates, transnational trade networks and the politics of globalization, it is tempting to believe that individual and national identities have morphed. this article argues that such homogenization in relation to individuation is tedious to accept. it draws from theories of symbolic interactionism, social psychology, foucauldian, an...