Ciprian Ceobanu

Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza | UAIC · Department of Training for Educational Staff

Background and objectives: Although previous studies showed that thought and emotion suppression represent risk factors for intrusions development, the mechanisms that explain these relations were less explored. This study aims to examine the relationships between thought and emotion suppression and the symptoms of intrusion following the exposure...

This study examines the relationship between the Big Five personality traits, social support and traumatic stress symptoms in the context of secondary exposure to traumatic life events. Moreover, we examine if emotional and informational social support moderate the relation between personality traits and all the three dimensions of traumatic stress...

For several years, we have seen how technological advances have introduced different devices that handle digital information and, at the same time, facilitate the user's mobility. Also, the astonishing advance in communication and technology changed our day-to-day life. While some can underestimate the benefits of this new technology, there is no d...

A total of 12 European countries with significant Roma populations are taking part in the Decade of Roma Inclusion, 2005-2015 (the Decade). Each of these countries developed a Decade Action Plan with the aim of eliminating the marginalization and discrimination of Roma in the areas of housing, health care, employment and education. Nonetheless, as...

If a few decades ago, the education received in school could be in most of the cases enough to go with for the rest of one's entire life, today the situation has changed dramatically. The individual has to be prepared for a new type of life and training, namely lifelong learning. The individual's survival in society could depend on his capacity to...

Educational technology is increasingly used in multicultural contexts and across national cultures. Educational technology users with different national and professional backgrounds may, however, exhibit different attitudes towards technology. Previous research provides isolated evidence of the relationship between learning technology acceptance an...

In this paper the authors started from the widely accepted idea that the cultural inheritance of modern society becomes the key to its own development. Within the context of economic and institutional change, after institutional reforms continuing for twenty years, Romania still has the lowest economic performances compared to other countries in Ea...

Technology-enhanced learning is increasingly used in international and multicultural contexts. However, little attention has been paid to learners' attitudes towards technology within different ethnical and professional cultures. This study attempts to integrate cultural dimensions (sensu Hofstede, [1]) into an established technology acceptance mod...

Romania has to face a great number of challenges linked to the spreading of the Information and Communication Technologies and the development of a knowledge-based society and of Lifelong Learning for all the persons involved in educational processes. These challenges have been integrated into national educational programs and have been supported b...

ELearning and the use of Information and Communication Technologies show a high degree of update and implementation especially due to the involvement of Romanian institutions of higher education in European and international projects that had the use of Information and Communication Technologies as the main aim. This paper is a case study that inve...

Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to investigate differences in student satisfaction across different programs of the same business college, and to identify dimensions underlying overall perceived quality. It also aims to investigate the existence of differences in perceived quality among programs and factors determining those differences....

The study approaches the problematic of psychosocial effects of the floods, a topic with few researches in Romania, in three different areas in the country seriously affected by the floods occured in the past years. The research design includes the investigation of the inhabitants (the interview through focus groups) and local authorities (the meth...

Advances in information and communication technologies, especially in Multimedia, Networking and Software Engineering allow the appearance of a new generation of computer-based training systems. Despite its obvious advantages in terms of reduced costs, simplified training programs and flexibility, e-learning was not always the miracle solution. Con...

The emergence and subsequent development of cyberculture have been themes of interest to many scholars, predominantly representing philosophy and anthropology. Building on previous work within the extant literature (Alava, 2004; Finkelkraut, 2001; Levy, 1995, 2005; Lovink, 2004; Peraya, 2000), this study highlights the cultural realities of cybersp...

The self-efficacy construct refers to people confidence in successfully performing certain tasks. It refers both to very specific type of tasks (i.e., mathematical problem solving) and broad type of activities (i.e., coping with general life type of problems). This paper is an explanatory research in self-efficacy issues for marketing graduates. Si...

ABSTRACT The accelerated development of the information and communication technologies determined universities, companies and educational institutions to implement alternatives to the traditional teaching methods, thereby leading to the development of e-courses. New Information and Communication Technologies mediating learning represent an importan...

Service organizations, including higher education providers, increasingly recognize that today's customers have many alternatives to chose from, that they may more readily change providers if not content, and that satisfaction largely depends on the quality of service provided. In the case of higher education institutions, this seems to be the case...

The purpose of the present study was to add to the existing spectator motivations literature (e.g. Kim, Greenwell, Andrew, Lee & Mahony, 2008; Won and Kitamura 2007; Trail and James 2001; Funk, Mahony, Nakazawa, and Hirakawa 2001) by investigating the buyer motivations of Romanian sport fans. In response to the suggestions of earlier researchers co...