Identity,language, and ethnic relations in the Bilingual Autonomous Communities of Spain1

This study surveyed 2446 undergraduates from five Bilingual Autonomous Communities (BAC) of Spain. We propose that the creation of the BAC of Spain in 1978 allowed the development of differing prototypic identities ranging from Spanish only identity, Autonomous only identity, and various permutations of dual Spanish/Autonomous identities. Based on their linguistic and ethnic self‐identifications, the percentage of participants endorsing each prototypic identity was monitored along with their key sociopsychological correlates. Six prototypic identity profiles were obtained. Results indicate that individuals endorsing the Autonomous only (11%) and Spanish only (13%) identities were more likely to engage in problematic intergroup relations. Strong Dual identifiers (9%) are the most likely to act as cultural and linguistic brokers and to foster intergroup harmony. Pro‐Spanish (15%) and Moderate Dual (7%) identifiers are more likely to benefit from language learning in the Autonomous language and emerge as cultural brokers. Esta investigación sondeó 2446 estudiantes de pregrado de cinco Comunidades Autónomas Bilingües (CAB) de España. Proponemos que la creación de las CAB de España en 1978 permitió el desarrollo de diferentes identidades prototípicas que van desde identidades solamente españolas, identidades solamente autónomas hasta varias permutaciones de identidades dobles españolas/autónomas. Basado en sus auto‐identificaciones lingüística y étnica, se observó el porcentaje de participantes que corresponden a cada identidad prototípica y sus correlacionados socio‐psicológicos claves. Se obtuvieron seis perfiles de identidad prototípicos. Los resultados indican que los individuos que asumen una identidad solamente autónoma (11%) y solamente española (13%) tienen más probabilidades de entablar relaciones intergrupales problemáticas. Los que tienen más probabilidades de comportarse como conciliador cultural y lingüístico, y de fomentar armonía intergrupal son los que asumen una fuerte identidad doble (9%). Los que asumen una identidad pro‐española (15%) o una identidad doble moderada (7%) tienen más probabilidades de beneficiar del aprendizaje de la lengua autónoma y se revelaron como conciliador cultural.     

The Transformed Political World of Older Boomers

Abstract

This article describes Vital Involvement Practice, a strength-based approach to clinical practice with elders, including those who are extremely frail. Using this approach, practitioners have been able to help elders increase later-life vitality and associated positive quality of life through: (1) systematic identification of individual strengths and assets (found both in the person and in the surrounding environment), and (2) consideration of these strengths alongside the individual and environmental deficits that are the subject of most geriatric practice. The approach utilizes original data-gathering tools (Occupational Profile; Life Strengths Interview Guide) and a stepwise, work-sheet-structured consideration of these data in order to formulate action strategies for achieving client goals (Domain Scan; Domain Goals; Life Plan/Strategy). All elements of VIP emerged in pilot work with gerontological practitioners and their elder clients in such settings as: primary health care; government social service; subsidized senior housing; private clinical practice; community recreation. Limitations, implications, and promise are noted, with respect to practice and research.     

Gender differences in the association of smartphone use with the vitality and mental health of adolescent students

ABSTRACT

Objective: The present study examined variations in the degree of smartphone use behavior among male and female adolescents as well as the association between various degrees of smartphone use behavior and the vitality and mental health of each gender.

Participants: A total of 218 adolescents were recruited from a junior college in September 2014.

Methods: All the participants were asked to answer questionnaires on smartphone use.

Results: The findings showed that adolescent females as compared with adolescent males exhibited significantly higher degrees of smartphone dependence and smartphone influence. Positive correlations were observed between the duration of smartphone use on weekends and the vitality/mental health of the male adolescents; negative correlations were found between smartphone dependence and the vitality/mental health of males.

Conclusion: The findings demonstrate that adolescent females are deeply affected by their smartphone use. Smartphone dependence may decrease the vitality and mental health of male adolescents.     

Considering Improvisation: Play,Transitional Space,and Discovery

This article explores the concept of improvisation in the therapeutic setting as a complex construction when elaborated in the idiom of jazz music. A composite clinical case is offered that illustrates an impasse and how improvisational thinking offers a way forward. Improvisation has recently been conceptualized through the metaphor of theater improvisation, dance, and rhythm. The therapeutic hour is considered an improvisational dialogue with the main theme (melody) and counter melodies, and harmonic possibilities that underlie the rhythmic pulse of the hour. Improvisation requires a reflective/interpretive process that draws on patterns, structures, and experiences reformulated in the relational field of the participants. The client initiates the call and response pattern, from which improvisation emerges as a mutual process of discovery. A more relaxed, receptive, and reflective posture extends Winnicott’s 1971 notion of play to integrate classic understanding and relational interaction.     

试论池田大作生命尊严思想的几个特点

池田大作生命尊严思想有许多独特的内容,因此形成四个明显的特点:包括汇集中西方文化的菁华,既关注人的生存状况,也注重了解人的内心生活;强调生命尊严的绝对性和至上性,强调宇宙中最重要的是生命,而生命中最重要的是尊严;理论与行动的统一,身体力行,不但进行严肃的理论研究,更把理论研究成果应用到社会实践中去;重塑生命尊严的理论基础,建立生命尊严的宇宙论证明。池田大作生命尊严思想给我们的启示是:应该把生命尊严确立为现代人价值体系中至高无上的原则。     

塑造社会主义先进文化体系——中国特色社会主义先进文化的强大生命力

中国特色社会主义先进文化具有强大的生命力、影响力及魅力,具有特色鲜明、批判继承、厚德载物、海纳百川、与时俱进的内涵,已显示了古为今用、洋为中用、中为洋用、服务人类的魅力及良好开端,有利于促进和谐社会和世界和平的实现.     

"和"文化对中国外交的影响及其现实生命力

“和”文化是中华民族传统文化的重要组成部分。文章梳理了“和”文化的形成与发展过程,认为它已经积淀在中华民族文化心理之中,深刻地影响了中国人的思维和行为模式;分析了“和”文化对中国外交活动的影响,认为“和”文化构成了古代朝贡体系的文化基础,但在近代外交中表现出明显的消极性,新中国成立后,“和”文化越来越成为重要的智力源泉;指出“和”文化在当今世界的生命力之所在。     

建构富有生命力的“助学课堂”——新课程理念下促进学生主动发展的实践研究

"助学课堂",是尊重学生主体地位,运用各种有效手段帮助学生更好的完成项目学习,促进学生主体主动发展的一种"优效"课堂教学模式。"助学课堂"主要理论依据包括课程发展理论、生本教育理论和建构主义理论。"助学课堂"的学习方式有:助学式,即教师帮助学生学;自学式,即在教师指导下学生自己学;多向式,即师生多向传输、及时反馈等。通过建构"以学生为中心"的富有生命活力的"助学课堂",从而有效地帮助学生学会学习,促进学生主动发展。     

刍议进一步增强党的基层组织工作的活力

本文论述了增强党的基层组织工作活力的重要性 ,分析了存在的主要问题 ,提出了改进的具体措施     

基于现代文明之上的生态构想——生态批评视阈中的迟子建小说创作

从黑龙江漠河的白山黑水之间走向文坛的小说家迟子建,其独特的童年生活经历令她对现代文明有着一种根深蒂固的抗拒。尽管迟子建从未在其作品中标榜自己的生态信仰,其仍建构了一种独特的生态创作模式。她通过对现代城市文明的质疑与反感,对大自然灵性的生态感悟,完成了对生态的解构与重构,搭建了属于自己的生态创作视阈。