Although information and communication technology (ICT) has a radical impact on people's everyday lives, bringing new social experiences and new ways for people to interact, there is still a large ...difference in social behaviour in this area between people in different age groups. Online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. are becoming increasingly important social media, but people aged 50 years and over use these resources at lower rates than those in younger age groups. In this paper we aim to investigate the factors affecting the use of online social networks by active older Internet users in Slovenia. Additionally, we address how often, and to what extent, active older Internet users are engaged in using ICT. A research study is presented that was conducted among active older Internet users, on the basis of a non-standardised research questionnaire. Collected data were analysed with basic descriptive, univariate and multivariate statistical methods, followed by induction of a decision tree using the WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) 3.7 programming environment. Research findings revealed that female participants are more familiar with the term 'online social network' and are also more frequent users, compared to male participants. Additionally, the results showed that age, gender and education seem to be the most important factors having a direct or indirect impact on the use of online social networks by active older Internet users.
•We analyse attitudes of active older Internet users toward online social networking and factors affecting their use.•Findings give insight in actual knowledge of active older Internet users about the online social networks.•Age, gender and education are the most important factors affecting the use of online social networks.•Use of online social networks is positively correlated to Skype use.•Active older Internet users use online social networks to maintain social relationships and to prevent loneliness.
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GEOZS, IJS, IMTLJ, KILJ, KISLJ, NUK, OILJ, PNG, SAZU, SBCE, SBJE, UL, UM, UPCLJ, UPUK, ZRSKP
This article researches the professional development of trained psychologists (holding a bachelor’s degree in Psychology) that work as school counsellors in Slovenia utilising the life-story method. ...Using the Case Study methodology on four examples, it tries to determine which factors, they deem important for their professional development and how they explain the influence of those factors on their work. The professional development factors were then categorised based on recognising similarities in school counsellors’ life-stories, dividing them into areas: (first and second phase) university education, preparation for professional work, work climate, relationships with co-workers, stress & burnout and protective factors & work motivation. Results of our study mostly correspond with previous studies and show that school counsellors work is diverse and often stressful.
Čeprav je raven formalne izobrazbe pomemben dejavnik sprejemanja znanstvenih spoznanj in zaupanja v znanost, raziskave kažejo, da tudi bolj izobraženi posamezniki niso »imuni« za protiznanstvena ...stališča. Izobrazba se denimo v nekaterih raziskavah ni izkazala kot statistično značilen dejavnik poznavanja znanstvenih dejstev o cepljenju, izobrazba prav tako ni enoznačno povezana z namero za cepljenje proti nalezljivim boleznim. Iz dosedanjih raziskav je znano, da je zaupanje v zdravstveni sistem prav tako dejavnik, ki vpliva na stališča in vedenja, povezana z zdravjem, nejasno pa ostaja, ali to zaupanje moderira učinek izobrazbe na znanje o cepljenju in stališča do njega. V raziskavi nas je zanimalo, ali v Sloveniji bolj izobraženi posamezniki izkazujejo boljše znanje o cepljenju, ali je izobrazba povezana z namero za cepljenje proti covidu-19 in ali stopnja zaupanja v zdravstveni sistem moderira omenjena odnosa. Analizirali smo podatke, pridobljene s pomočjo spletne ankete, in sicer v novembru 2019 (Študija 1; n = 661) in marcu 2020 (Študija 2; n = 851). Multivariatna analiza je pokazala, da v primerjavi z najvišje izobraženimi udeleženci udeleženci z višješolsko izobrazbo do 1. bolonjske stopnje izkazujejo slabše znanje o cepljenju. Ta izobrazbena skupina je poleg tistih, ki imajo do srednješolsko izobrazbo, prav tako v najmanjši meri izkazala namero za cepljenje proti covidu-19. Nadalje smo ugotovili, da zaupanje v zdravstveni sistem moderira učinke izobrazbe na znanje o cepljenju in nameri za cepljenje proti covidu-19. V skupini z manjšim zaupanjem v zdravstveni sistem se verjetnost boljšega poznavanja cepljenja in namere za cepljenje proti covidu-19 poveča med udeleženci z zaključeno 2. bolonjsko stopnjo ali višjo izobrazbo v primerjavi z nižje izobraženimi udeleženci. V skupini z večjim zaupanjem v zdravstvo izobrazba nima učinka na poznavanje cepljenja, ima pa učinek na namero za cepljenje, in sicer skupini s srednješolsko izobrazbo in zaključeno visokošolsko izobrazbo do 1. bolonjske stopnje izkazujeta manjšo verjetnost cepljenja kot najvišje izobražena skupina. V sklepnem delu prispevka razpravljamo o implikacijah naših rezultatov.
The primary purpose of this study was to explore the association between individuals’ attachments to their mothers and fathers, and their subsequent attachments to partners, based on research ...conducted in Slovenia. Participants in the empirical study were antenuptial couples who attended the premarital counselling course organized by and offered through the Franciscan Family Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In order to explore more fully the concept of attachment, the authors of the study focused on the following dimensions: trust, communication and estrangement. The results of the study showed greater similarities in the three identified dimensions to the way in which both women and men experience attachment to their mothers and partners, while there were marked differences in the subjects’ experience of attachment to their fathers.
School counsellors are permanently in action, the success of which depends on their systemic approach to their action. Due to the difficulty, complexity and scope of their work, school counsellors ...are often under a lot of stress, which may eventually develop into occupational burnout. Thus, it is very important that school counsellors can use appropriate i.e. systemic, i.e. requisitely holistic ways of coping with stress and occupational burnout. Recently, after many years, supervision has been gaining importance as an action in the form of professional help to school counsellors to enable them to cope effectively with stress and to prevent occupational burnout. The primary purpose of the reported-about study is to determine how supervision, in accordance with the relational family model, affects the perception of stress and occupational burnout. The sample included 30 school counsellors in Slovenia. They were divided into an experimental group (with the presence of supervision) and a control group (without supervision). Results show a positive effect of supervision, in accordance with the relational family model, on the school counsellors’ perception of stress, since stress decreased after supervisory meetings, while the school counsellors’ perception of their professional burnout after supervisory meetings did not change significantly.
Understanding contemporary society requires recognition of the role of sport. Sport is an important international phenomena associated with both societal problems as well as solutions. Positive ...effects of sport could be enhanced and negative effects significantly reduced by 'proper' sport education. Thus, improved understanding of the relation between sport, sport education and society seem to be essential for further development of the cross - disciplinary research between these fields. In this manner a topic taxonomy and topic interface matrix sustaining diversity and progress of individual research topics were established using bibliometric analysis and visualisation. Corpus was retrieved from the Scopus database using the search string 'sport AND education AND society' in the title, abstract and keywords. The search resulted in 1138 information sources, among them 917 with complete abstracts. First information sources were published in 1968 and the production was steady till 1994. After that period, the growth become linear and in 2002 exponential, with a plateau in the period 2005 - 2009.The descriptive bibliometric analysis showed that the most productive countries were United States of America, china, United Kingdom, Japan and Canada. The information sources were published in top ranked journals. From the bibliographical mapping and use of meta - synthesis four main and most productive topics emerged: health issues, training & competition, physical activity and education & research forming the basis of the derived taxonomy. A couple of interesting and not quite expected relations between topics become evident from the interface matrix. Taxonomy and topic interface matrix together with term maps present a framework which might be helpful to new researchers in the field trying to get involved in the research as well to those already engaged to foster and guide their future research activities. Additionally the framework gives insights into the current state of sport education and society research and might lead to new ideas to enhance its further development.
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The study done in Slovenia examined grammar and elementary teachers’ perceptions of cooperative learning. The sample consisted of 542 Slovene elementary and grammar school teachers, who teach ...Slovene. The main question of the research was how teachers assess the value of group learning in comparison to individual forms of learning. From their perceptions, we can draw conclusions about their development, the introduction of group work within lessons and about the encouragement of pupils towards collaborative learning. The main finding of the research is that elementary school teachers place greater importance on group learning than grammar school teachers. In addition, when teachers are grouped according to their years of experience (seniority), there are differences in their assessment of group learning. However, it is not possible to get a linear pattern from the results (e.g. showing that years of experience do or do not contribute to the perception of the importance of group learning), a finding which supports the critical opinion that teachers’ experience depends not only on the quantity (years of experience), but also on the quality of experience.
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This article explores the importance of teachers' conceptions of student learning. In the first part, we focus on the teacher conceptions that stimulate process-oriented instruction. In the second ...part, we present the results of empirical research on teachers in Slovenian border areas. The principal aim of the research was to determine to what extent the teachers' conceptions of student learning are process-oriented (contrary to traditional orientation), and whether there are any differences between teachers who graduated from different faculties and those that were educated in different teacher education programs.Keywords: cognition, teachers' conceptions, conceptions of student learning, teacher education
In the first part of the paper, the author finds that in the present the question of collaboration between members of the majority and the members of cultural, religious, social and other minorities ...is one of the most essential civilisational questions. Consequently, intercultural pedagogy and intercultural education play an important role here. Due to such multicultural conditions, school counseling, too, has developed some special features. Furtheron in the paper, the author defines and presents the characteristic features of intercultural counseling set up for pupils who are members of cultural minorities and immigrants, as well as for people who live and work with them. The final part of the paper defines the intercultural competence of a school counselor. The latter should be able to detect cultural aspects relating to the counselee, to recognise their role in the causing of the problem of the person seeking counsel and its solution. He/she should be able to incorporate them in the counseling situation and process.
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