Recently added articles from Cognitie, Creier, Comportament:
RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE DIVISION BETWEEN QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
Dec 01, 2008; ... Qualitative and quantitative research has been conceptualized for decades as two fundamentally different paradigms through which one could study the social and the individual world. Qualitative research methods are explicitly associated with constructivism, while quantitative methods continue to ...
CHANGING STORIES: THE EVOLVING NARRATIVES OF IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT With over 200 million international migrants, immigration is a phenomenon expanding globally at unprecedented rates, having central implications for education and psychosocial wellbeing. In this paper, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods from The ...
REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS OF A MIXED-METHODS APPROACH TO STUDY THE EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG PEOPLE LEAVING CARE IN ROMANIA
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This paper aims to discuss the choice and challenges of a mixed-methods research design implied within a doctoral thesis on the experiences of young people leaving residential care in Romania, as a retrospective analysis leading to messages for further research in the field. Two ...
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: ANALYSIS OF RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS USING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE METHODS
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Several factors are associated to delinquency. It is difficult to change or to reduce risk factors, therefore, the perspective of protective factors promotion appears as an alternative or a complementary approach for the risk behaviour prevention. The present study was developed ...
CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSONAL STRIVINGS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH LIFE SATISFACTION
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This study examined the applicability of broader thematic categories for coding personal strivings, and tested the relationship between both dimensions and contents of personal goals and life satisfaction. We also applied the psychosocial theory of Erikson (1963) to evaluate ...
EXPLORING SMOKING IN ROMANIAN ADOLESCENTS: PREVALENCE, PREDICTORS AND MEANINGS OF SMOKING
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Smoking is known to be initiated during adolescence, making this age group a relevant target for intervention. Quantitative survey data from a sample of Romanian teenagers (N=1562) as well as qualitative data (30 interviews) were gathered as part of the Health Behavior in School ...
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATION EDUCATION AS A NEW SUBJECT IN SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This paper describes a research project from the University of Iceland, Faculty of Pedagogy and Education which focuses on how Innovation Education emerged in Iceland as a new subject and how the subject has developed; what makes the subject special; and what factors, internal ...
RETHINKING THE EVALUATION FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT OF ROMANIAN MAGISTRATES
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Ways of rethinking the professional conduct of a magistrate have been studied by using a mixed (qualitative and quantitative) method approach. A number of 19 magistrates participated in the qualitative study, as members of the Appreciative Inquiry Group, moderated by the author ....
MIXED APPROACH TO MEASURING SOCIAL DISTANCE
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The concept of social distance belongs to a sociological tradition starting back from Simmel, who identified the generative factors for specific society forms just in the distancing processes. In North-American sociology, the Chicago tradition and, specifically, the work of ...
EDITORIAL
Dec 01, 2008; ... Cognition, Brain & Behavior. An interdisciplinary Journal is the direct descendent of Cognitie, Creier, Comportament/Cognition, Brain, Behavior, the official journal of the Romanian Association for Cognitive Science. More than ten years have passed since the first issue of the ...
MATING PREFERENCES IN CHOOSING A FUTURE PARTNER. DOES GEORGIA REPEAT THE SAME WORLDWIDE TREND?
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Georgian market of dating ads was studied using a sequential exploratory strategy, to see whether it repeats the worldwide trend: men look for attractive and younger women, and women look for older and economically well-off men. Numeric content analysis of dating ads provided ...