Pädagogische Beratung und psychoedukatives Coaching

This article presents a teaching concept that lets students of the educational fields acquire counselling qualifications along with their curriculum. The importance of offering this course at the university of Hamburg, where a first test-run is conducted, is discussed. Further, the theoretical background, course contents and structures of the planned addition qualification “educational counselling and psycho-educative coaching” are shown. Finally, the current implementation and its progression is described together with an accompanying survey.     

Ein Experiment zum Einfluss der Situation auf physische und psychische Nähe

The influence of the social situation on the physical distance and, as measured by a questionnaire, emotional intimacy between participants was experimentally studied (N = 90) in a cooperative, a competitive, and a neutral social situation. Results indicate that the physical distance was greatest under neutral conditions. The cooperative condition produced the strongest feeling of intimacy. It is argued that the neutral condition is irrelevant to the participants’ behaviour and level of attention to other persons. Further, intimacy can only arise if an interaction is both positive and relevant. The correlation between physical and emotional distance turned out to be relatively small, in accordance with the range usually given for attitudebehaviour correlations.     

Qualitätsmanagement: Entwicklung,Problemfelder und ein integrativer Lösungsvorschlag

Quality Management: History, problems and an integrative modelStarting with a critical examination of the history and the commonly known concepts and systems of Quality Management, the paper discusses a broader understanding of quality in a genuinely managerial perspective. This is shown by generating and applying five basic dimensions of the quality concept. An integrative concept of Quality Management is presented.     

Was tun Lektoren?

What is the work of editors? Counselling of a ?service in background“The work of editors as employees in publishing houses or as free lancers is a ?service in background“ and hence it is less well-known in comparison with other media professionals. Nevertheless, editors have an important role as intermediary between authors and the reading public. The author delineates the profession of editors and the technical aspects of their work and explains some typical conflicts which may be relevant to a coaching of editors.     

Coaching und Psychotherapie — Differenz und Konvergenz

Coaching and psychotherapy — difference and convergence. A discussion on counseling between professional and personal issuesThe author discusses the relation between coaching and psychotherapy. He emphasises several crucial differences, but here he is concerned with the interfaces between these formats. He demonstrates, that in many cases psychotherapeutic views — basing on corresponding qualifications — may offer an important improvement of coaching. This is illustrated by some case studies.     

Die Rolle von Psycholog/innen in den Medien

The role of psychologists in the mediaDiscribing the phenomena of frequently asking journalists the authors are trying to describe the social meaning of role-and functiontaking of the science of psychology in the public discussion. They are following the question whether it could be possible to publish scientific results without banalizing, taking part in voyerism and reprehensible emotion creating.     

Auswirkungen von Downsizing-Maßnahmen auf das organisationale Commitment der verbleibenden Mitarbeiter: Ein Vorher-Nachher-Vergleich

This study examines the consequences of downsizing efforts on organizational commitment, job satisfaction and work motivation of the remaining workforce (?survivors“) in a middle-sized telecommunication company. Employees were surveyed five months prior to the downsizing process (n=150) and eleven months thereafter (n=160). The assessment of organizational commitment was based on a questionnaire that was developed by Allen and Meyer (1990) within the scope of their three-components-model which includes affective, continuous and normative commitment. Although layoffs — as one part of the whole downsizing process — were not implemented in the investigated company, but only in a sister enterprise, which is part of the same holding, the affective commitment of employees towards their corporation dropped. On the other hand, the normative and the balanced commitment remained constant. Moreover, every second survivor showed reduced job satisfaction and work motivation. It should be noted that although the results of reorganisation and restructuring did not directly affect the employees of the investigated company, the emotional linkage between employees and employer was affected in a negative way. Additional findings from qualitative interviews suggest that restructuring was perceived to cause a crack in the prevailing corporate culture and the psychological contract. In addition, a deterioration of work conditions through work overload resulted.     

Entwicklung eines Programms zur kollegialen Introvisions-Supervision (KIS) für inner- und außerschulische Handlungsfelder

This article presents a new program of collegial supervision called ‘Collegial Introvision-Supervision’ (KIS). This phased program is based upon different concepts of collegial supervision (Pallasch, 1996; Spiess, 1996; Voss, 1996) and in particular on concepts of the TZI group supervision (Meister, 1996). The theoretical development is based on the ‘Integrative Introvision-Councelling’ and the practical foundation builds upon numerous supervision experiences of the author as well as upon tests in two projects of the professional education of teachers and social workers. A substantial aim of this new program is to find a procedure that optimises the perception of the factors taking part in the educational situation in order to make, based on that new perception, a new situational processing possible which allows a more appropriate educational reaction. The core of this change of perception is to reduce biographically caused aspects of a stress-generating estimation of the situation and to establish a calmer educational-acting mode.     

The finite-sample performance of robust unit root tests

This paper investigates the relative small sample performance of several robust unit root tests by means of a simulation study. It is confirmed that the traditional least-squares based Dickey-Fuller test has substantially lower power than several robust alternatives if the error distribution is fat-tailed while its power gain is small at the normal model. Particularly good results are achieved by a quasi-maximum likelihood test. However, all robust tests under consideration exhibit severe size distortions if the disturbances follow a skewed distribution. Moreover, under additive outliers, robust tests fail to produce stable sizes and good power properties. Consequently, the value of using robust unit root tests depends heavily of the type of nonnormality at hand.     

元人关于文学本体问题的思考

元代文论家从哲学高度对文学本体论进行了深入的探讨 ,形成了文学本于“理”和本于“气”两种文学本体论 ,这成为考察元代文学思潮不可回避的一个既复杂又重要的问题。元人对这一问题的探讨 ,也深化了对一些文学基本问题的认识。在元代 ,文学“气”本论占据了主导地位 ,而且形成了理论体系 ,这一理论体系在中国文论史上具有较高的理论价值