Papers by Gheorghita Nistor
Sustainability, Feb 8, 2024
For sustainable educational integration, universities are tasked with the aim of educating specia... more For sustainable educational integration, universities are tasked with the aim of educating specialists who are chosen based on particular criteria in order to promote sustainable development. In the domain of social work, it is crucial to take into account young individuals who express a desire to pursue studies in this field and who have prosocial orientations and tendencies. This research was based on the application of a Prosocial Orientation Questionnaire on a group of 238 students (M-2.4 years, 89.5% female) using questions with a purpose, but also a scale for measuring prosocial tendencies (PTM). The findings regarding the prosocial guidelines highlighted the role of the family in the multidimensional development of prosocial behaviour (PSB), but also the involvement in voluntary activities. The results revealed a high association with the six scales of PTM, with higher values being obtained for three dimensions (Compliant, Dire, Emotional) that show a stronger development. Assessing prosocial orientations and tendencies can help select a career and pursue university courses in the social field. The use of these instruments provides evidence of the effectiveness of PTM in assessing prosocial tendencies and supports the idea that PSB is multidimensional. This is demonstrated by the correlations observed in young individuals pursuing a social career.
Editura Universitara eBooks, 2021
Acest volum contine o parte dintre articolele si materialele de studiu prezentate la Conferinta I... more Acest volum contine o parte dintre articolele si materialele de studiu prezentate la Conferinta Internationala ”Familia in secolul 21”, organizata de catre FICE Romania, si este realizat in parteneriat cu Asociatia Comunelor din Romania (ACoR).
All children have the right to be helped to develop normally, to reach their maximum potential in... more All children have the right to be helped to develop normally, to reach their maximum potential intellectually, but not all benefit from an optimal model of education that meets their individual needs and achieves balance between these and society. There are some issues to be tackled which require reflection: difficult communication/cooperation between institutions or between various specialists, stereotypes and old mentalities, discrimination, rigidity and complexity of Romanian bureaucracy, differences between educational institutions in urban and rural areas, training in professions which are not required on the labour market etc. Risk factors that lead to absenteeism and school dropout can be grouped by a number of variables: a. geographical area, community living and the dropout rate in the area: the level of development, infrastructure, unemployment, poverty, residence, ethnicity etc; b. family: socio-demographic structure, economic and social situation, education level of pare...
Revista De Cercetare Si Interventie Sociala, 2014
The Romanian reality shows a specific dynamic regarding the young generation’s vulnerabilities an... more The Romanian reality shows a specific dynamic regarding the young generation’s vulnerabilities and their implications, and many experts have carried out differential studies in this area. Based on these researches and on the theoretical framework of social policies, we did a research study aiming to reveal the young generation’s social perception regarding social policies and the level of personal implication in dealing with the young generation’s problems. We also had in mind some specific operational objectives and a certain assumption when we selected the subjects for our research (460 subjects, 350 teenage pupils in 6 high schools of Bucharest and 110 students of the Bucharest University). We used the following investigation methods: The IN-GN ‘2011 Questionnaire, Focus Group-3 and the SWOT analysis, the Internal Factor Assessment Matrix, the External Factor Assessment Matrix, the competitive profile Matrix, Document analyses/social reports from different agencies and authoritie...
Sustainability, 2021
Students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are discriminated against and stigmatized by the sch... more Students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are discriminated against and stigmatized by the school community. The objective of this study is to analyze the school inclusion process of students with ASD by reducing discrimination and stigmatization through contact-based education sessions. This can be achieved through school projects. In the present study, discrimination and stigmatization toward children with ASD were analyzed in high school students (N = 141) through Haghighat’s standardized stigmatization questionnaire (SSQ1). In the active group, a student diagnosed with ASD also participated in the awareness activities of the problems faced by the students with ASD and the contact-based education (CBE) sessions carried out in the classroom. The results showed significant differences in reducing discrimination and stigmatization in high school students, both in the control group and especially in the active group. It was observed that the development of CBE (inclusion of the st...
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
Young prisoners' health needs represent a matter of constant importance for any prison administra... more Young prisoners' health needs represent a matter of constant importance for any prison administration. These are addressed through direct medical services, as well as through other activities of health promotion. If the medical services are provided by trained medical staff, health promotion is usually provided by non-medical staff, such as social workers, psychologists, educators etc. Also, because healthy behaviors are best promoted through social modeling, such activities require the involvement of all prison staff, including non-specialists such as guardians. Thus, for health promotion to be effective it needs to be approached by the whole prison staff, meaning that the medical and non-medical specialists, as well as other prison staff need to have a common understanding of young prisoners health needs and to work as a team. This can be done through prison staff training. The article addresses these issues by summarizing the Romanian country reports of the project "Health Promotion for Young Prisoners" funded by the EU in the framework of the Public Health Program.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
Communication is an art we have to master especially in those professions that involve interperso... more Communication is an art we have to master especially in those professions that involve interpersonal relations, emotionally, diplomatically and historically charged. In the present paper we challenge a topic sometimes underestimated: the signals and messages we transmit by nonverbal communication in interpersonal relations. Nonverbal communication is inevitable, as it refers to the transmitting of information and to the influencing of behaviours and reactions of humans. Artefacts, i.e. clothing, jewellery, sartorial accessories transmit information regarding gender, age, economical, social and professional status. What we interpersonally communicating through sartorial accessories worn during a series of high ranking meetings.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
A serious analysis of an unhealthy organisation, which encourages work addiction, can reveal comm... more A serious analysis of an unhealthy organisation, which encourages work addiction, can reveal communication issues, unsolved or unknown conflicts, unrealistic tasks or deadlines, a poor management, a poor control of the leadership, high-level stress. To workaholics, the organisation is the place where work becomes obsessive and the other sides of personal life suffer. Work addiction is regarded as being negative, at individual and organisational level, a failure to management that cannot cope correctly with employee problems. By using secondary data analysis, case study we will try to grasp the specificity of the phenomena. Should we think of layoffs, increased unemployment, lack of working place certainty, we find these as being far more serious than working after hours. Modern organisations are confronted with new challenges which organisational management must properly manage. And sometimes the solutions are not so hard to find unless we find the equilibrium in all we do.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
There is an acknowledged tendency in nowadays Romania that there is a demographic aging of popula... more There is an acknowledged tendency in nowadays Romania that there is a demographic aging of population i.e. a phenomenon that the western countries already deal with. This study presents challenges of contemporary society, the growing needs of the elderly people and proposes adaptive strategies used in adult education. In this respect, strategies to educate elderly people regarding social-medical need to be found in order to improve their quality of life. Social pedagogy can bring a significant contribution by adapting the pedagogic methods of teaching adults to the new informatics and communication technologies. The necessity of medical services and social protection is not determined by a high rate of persons of a certain age or older, but by other much more relevant factors such as progress, technology, the increasing complexity of co-morbidity correlated to age. All social actors have to take part and concentrate their efforts in order to ease and improve the mechanism of maintaining the adult in his family. The social policies in the area of elderly social protection need to foresee the development of complex programmes of adults' education by promoting certain proactive attitudes regarding the prolonged behaviour and psychological-social-medical care at home. Where there is a possibility, the public and private suppliers would take care of these needs.
Revista de Asistenţă Socială, 2019
Sustainability, 2024
For sustainable educational integration, universities are tasked with the aim of educating specia... more For sustainable educational integration, universities are tasked with the aim of educating specialists who are chosen based on particular criteria in order to promote sustainable development. In the domain of social work, it is crucial to take into account young individuals who express a desire to pursue studies in this field and who have prosocial orientations and tendencies. This research was based on the application of a Prosocial Orientation Questionnaire on a group of 238 students (M—2.4 years, 89.5% female) using questions with a purpose, but also a scale for measuring prosocial tendencies (PTM). The findings regarding the prosocial guidelines highlighted the role of the family in the multidimensional development of prosocial behaviour (PSB), but also the involvement in voluntary activities. The results revealed a high association with the six scales of PTM, with higher values being obtained for three dimensions (Compliant, Dire, Emotional) that show a stronger development. Assessing prosocial orientations and tendencies can help select a career and pursue university courses in the social field. The use of these instruments provides evidence of the effectiveness of PTM in assessing prosocial tendencies and supports the idea that PSB is multidimensional. This is demonstrated by the correlations observed in young individuals pursuing a social career.
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