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Jul 08, 2021Open AccessArticle
Thinking styles refers to the preference a person displays during cognitive processing, or as Sternberg puts it,
“The process used to solve a problem or to devise an answer.” A style of thinking is therefore, a preferred way
of thinking. It is not ability but rather a preferred way of expressing one or more abilities. How do people think
about things?" Harrison and Bramson, through their research detailed in their text the Art of Thinking, found
that in Western society there are five distinc...
Psychology
Sep 22, 2017Open AccessArticle
The Qur'an, a holy book that guides all Muslims. The Qur'an is the embodiment of the guidance to bring each individual to the salvation of the world and the hereafter. Everyone has different ways of interacting with the Qur'an, one of them by memorizing the Qur'an. Individuals who interact with the Qur'an by means of memorizing of course have different responsibilities. Teenagers who are Al Quran memorizing students have certain signs in expressing self-presentation that may be different from ot...
Psychology
Aug 04, 2017Open AccessArticle
This study was conducted in order to investigate the attitudes of university students towards elderly people. The sample of research consists of 150 students from the Faculty of Health Sciences, at which students take lessons about old age and elderly care, and the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, at which students do not receive any special education for old age. The Personal Information Form and the Age Discrimination Attitude Scale were used to collect the data. The Age Discr...
Public Health
Sociology
Geriatrics
Psychology
Aug 15, 2016Open AccessArticle
In the last six decades, work life and family life spheres of employees have undergone various changes. This paper presents an empirical study of major factors which have influenced employee work-life balance and popular work-life balance tools initiated at organisational level to help an employee balance different life segments such as work, family, personal finances, career and health. Current work-life balance approach, tools and programmes at organisational level primarily address those issu...
Welfare Economics
Human Resource Management
Sociology
Labor Economics
Psychology
Anthropology
Organizational Behavior
Aug 15, 2016Open AccessArticle
The paper outlines the study of translation S-universals and is based both on the psycholinguistic model of literary translation, which combines two approaches to language organization in today’s neuroscience – cognitivism and connectionism, and on the experimental data that demonstrate its validity. A free word association test was used to identify a translator’s cognitive style as a universal tendency determining his linguistic choice. This psycholinguistic tool helped explore the ways how the...
Psychology
Linguistics
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