The role of time perspective in predicting Iranian farmers’ participatory-based water conservation attitude and behavior

ABSTRACT

In current perspective, farmers’ participatory behavior toward conservation of water resources (FPBCWR) is one of the most important strategies under water resource management in rural Iran. In this regard, understanding the predictors of farmers’ participatory-based water conservation behaviors and attitudes is gaining more importance than earlier. Among different dimensions of farmers’ participatory behavior, the potential of temporal frames was examined rarely. Thus, 322 Iranian farmers were investigated to examine the potential of their time perspectives in predicting their participatory-based water conservation behavior and attitude. According to the study results, the effects of present orientation on attitude and behavior were negatively significant, while the effects of future orientation on attitude and behavior were positively significant, whereas its effects (path coefficients) were stronger than present orientation effects. Past orientation did not have a significant effect on attitude, though attitude positively and significantly affected farmers’ participatory behavior. The results of causal analysis revealed that presented model accounted for 58% of variance in farmers’ ‘behavior’ and 42% of variance in “attitude.” In conclusion, a few demonstrable illustrations of policy implications are presented to enable utilizing the important findings and concluding results of this study that is linked further with water resource management domain.     

The Roman Catholic Church: A Centuries Old History of Awareness of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse (from the First to the 19th Century)

Debates in international forums and in mainstream media on the role, responsibility, liability, and response of ecclesiastical authorities of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) toward clerical child sexual abuse (cCSA) fail to take into account the historical roots and awareness of the problem. Reports also fail to mention the historic organizational laws RCC developed over centuries. In contrast, RCC documents evidence that the Catholic Church not only carried century’s old history of cCSA, but also repeatedly condemned cCSA by successive papal authorities, organizational laws, and institutional management mechanisms. During the first millennium, however, church laws remained confined to the bookshelves and were not converted into appropriate management policies and infrastructural models. This was largely due to the absence of a central administrative organizational structure, which developed later in the 12th century, following the Second Council of Lateran (1139) when the Papacy asserted its authority to establish administrative control over the organizational church. It was only then that management policies started to be framed and institutional structures enacted to deal more appropriately with cCSA from the 14th to 20th centuries. Despite this, RCC developed a culture of secrecy using clandestine organizational management models and institutional laws prescribed in 1568, 1622, 1741, 1866, 1922, and 1962 which aimed to manage cCSA. The current study traces reported cCSA as far back as the first century and critically examines the organizational laws, and institutional policies developed by RCC to address clerical sexual misconduct up to the end of the 19th century.     

Supportive Group Interventions with Caregivers of Frail Older Adults

The use of supportive group interventions with caregivers of frail older adults is discussed in this article. Four categories of group interventions are described: (1) mutual support groups, (2) psychoeducational groups, (3) social, recreational and educational groups, and (4) service and advocacy groups. Research evidence on the efficacy of group interventions with this population is also considered. Recommendations are made on when to refer caregivers to support groups and on what type of support group is most appropriate. Consideration by practitioners and program planners of a broader range of types of supportive groups is also encouraged.     

生命早春里的一缕轻烟——对《小城三月》主人公翠姨的命运分析

萧红是中国现代文学史上一位风格独特的女作家,翠姨是她最后一部作品<小城三月>中的主人公.萧红采用平视叙述视角,使人体会到翠姨之死,一方面是呼兰小城那愚昧、保守的社会环境造成的;另一方面翠姨自身软弱的性格和对男权至上传统道德观念习俗的认同深深毒害了她的思想,这也是她悲剧归宿的深层原因.     

交际框架下大学英语视听说课的课堂教学艺术

本文从目前大学英语视听说课教学中存在的问题出发,进一步探讨了其课堂教学的艺术。     

民间文化视野中的徐渭

在越地民间流传的徐文长传说是对徐渭历史形象的演绎 ,更是民众历史情感的表达方式。其中大量存在的内容复杂、形象暧昧的传说是民间文化性格的对象化显现 ,也是底层百姓的一种精神体操。在民间文化视野中 ,徐渭已经成为了一种历史风物 ,是民众历史情感和于越民间文化性格的对应物。     

灵魂深处的拷问与自救--心理学视野中的"设论"体

心理学视野中的"设论"体,具有超越文体本身的文化内蕴,它并非一般意义上的问对体,而是中国古代文人内心苦闷与自救的精神载体."客主问对"的结构形式,从心理本质而言是内心矛盾双方的对话;现实的"合理化"、谐谑,以及道、佛的渗入则是心灵自救的具体方式.     

青年学生时间洞察力结构的初步探讨

通过文献分析和开放式问卷调查,初步构建了青少年时间洞察力的理论结构.探索性因素分析表明:该研究所构建的时间洞察力结构比较合理,可以分为过去时间洞察力、现在时间洞察力和未来时间洞察力三个维度,每个维度下又包含相应的几个因素.     

试析建筑空间向度的外延

通过对建筑的营造和建筑空间的分析,尝试表述新的空间向度。向度的概念就是建筑的范畴,它包括社会的、人文的、艺术的和技术的等。有了这个向度,不仅可以开阔我们的建筑思维,还可以让我们更清楚地认识建筑,证明建筑是人类文明的载体。     

中外银行贷款项目风险管理比较

我国商业银行一直存在惊人的不良资产,政府和银行都为根治这一"硬伤"在作努力,但成效甚微。项目贷款在我国银行不良贷款中占极重要地位。通过对中外商业银行贷款职能及对借款人角色的比较,笔者认为,西方商业银行项目贷款的全职能管理机制和他们对借款人多维的视角的认识有助于我们从根本上扭转"在信贷交易中借款人总是处于支配地位"的不正常现象。