Diana Paula Dudău

Titu Maiorescu University | UTM · Faculty of Psychology

Considering the lack of research regarding the association between perfectionism described by Hill et al. (2004) and impostor phenomenon, in this study I aimed to investigate the way these two variables relate one to another, on a sample of 129 Romanian students (Mage = 21.79, SD = 1.28). The instruments that I used were Perfectionism Inventory ( H...

Today, performing automatic language analysis to extract meaning from natural language is one of the top-notch directions in social science research, but it can be challenging. Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count 2015 (LIWC2015; Pennebaker et al. 2015) is one of the most versatile, yet easy to master instruments to transform any text into data, meeti...

The amount of time-stamped digital traces that hint our real-life behaviour, thinking, and feeling is enormous, unleashing a golden opportunity for social scientists to advance research in their field. The visual traces approach has already set a theoretical, topical, and methodological connection between traditional social science and computationa...

Previous research has mostly focused on the link between the linguistic and behavioral footprints found on social media on the one hand and personality on the other. Despite the high amount of image-based contents posted and shared online and the valuable implicit information they might conceal about users' preferences and tendencies, the study of...

Today, there is a range of computer-aided techniques to convert text into data. However, they convey not only strengths but also vulnerabilities compared to traditional content analysis. One of the challenges that have gained increasing attention is performing automatic language analysis to make sound inferences in a multilingual assessment setting...

Cutting-edge computational procedures combined with the fact that social media has become a massive repository of time-stamped traces of behaviours, thoughts and emotions synced with the real lives of millions of people worldwide, create a great opportunity for psychologists to conduct better research in terms of methodology, results and resources...

Diabetes is a chronic disease with a major impact on patients' lives and, sometimes, even on the lives of their close ones. Due to its particularities, it often brings along psychological difficulties that can significantly interfere with the patients' personal, professional, social and family functioning. In fact, depressive symptoms and emotional...

Coaching industry has flourished spectacularly with services usage, revenue, number of certification programs and new career entries being on the rise. The greatest proportion of coaching clients are managers, executives and business owners/entrepreneurs. Given the nature of their work, these individuals are prone to face numerous difficulties that...

În ciuda eforturilor, global, educaţia actuală încă nu reuşeşte să îndeplinească misiunea promisă (World Bank Group, 2018). Încheierea acestei crize educaţionale presupune mai mult decât a găsi metode de îmbunătăţire a performanţei academice a elevilor. Scopul capitolului de faţă este de a evidenţa în ce fel profesorii care activează sub paradigma...

When we think about self-growth, we tend to cling to aspects such as personal limits and resources, or self-goals and self-optimization. The current article highlights both the importance of self-growth for a better living in the community, as well as the way social interactions shape how we perceive ourselves and the world we live in. In this vein...

Torres-Harding et al. (2012) proposed combining the defining elements of social justice, with the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1985) in order to grasp the potential predictors of social justice-related behaviors. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationships between the components within this theoretical framework, by testing for...

Waldorf pedagogy is a form of alternative education that stands out for its philosophical vision and integrative methodology, expecting to entail some physical and psychological advantages. The purpose of this study was to explore the dissimilarities between graduates of Waldorf School, and those of traditional education, regarding impostor phenome...

The present study sought to replicate on a sample of 194 Romanian first-year students, the results obtained in the mid-1970s and late 1980s by David Hamilton and Robert Gifford, regarding the role of cognitive factors in stereotyping, namely the people’s propensity to build negative impressions of minorities based on false associations (the illusor...

Becoming a dental and psychotherapy professional implies multiple demands, challenges and responsibilities that might affect directly or indirectly students’ quality of life and training efficiency. Therefore, we aimed to study professional stress among Romanian dental and psychotherapy students, by introducing into equation the content areas of ir...

Perfectionism is a personality trait that interferes in a complex manner with all aspects of human life. The purpose of this study was to investigate the coping strategies that the medical employees with high levels of trait perfectionism and perfectionistic self- presentation tendencies generally apply in dealing with stressful situations. A sampl...

This paper proposes a REBT understanding of the mechanisms behind the impostor phenomenon, and sustains it by presenting some theoretical and research based arguments, as well as an analysis of the statistical data revealed from an original study regarding the way fraudulence symptoms relate to four different content areas of irrational beliefs (se...

Impostor phenomenon and creativity are two constructs important for one’s capacity to respond highly adaptive to nowadays complex society. Therefore, the current study aimed to partially fill the apparent research gaps regarding the way fraudulence feeling were related to both creative potential and creativity self-perceptions, among a sample of 13...

This study aimed to investigate the possible differences regarding the accuracy of modus ponens and modus tollens inference rules depending on the content of the given conditional problem. As a main hypothesis, I presumed that the overall conditional reasoning and the modus tollens argument would be correctly applied in a higher proportion when the...