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Introduction
Remus RUNCAN is professor habil. at the Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, teaching disciplines in the field of social work. He is invited to various radio and television shows. He has a PhD and a post-PhD in Sociology from the West University of Timisoara, Romania.
His areas of scientific interest are: communication, social work, education, and virtual networks. He has published 11 books as single author, contributed and published 34 scientific articles in international journals.
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February 2021 - March 2022
October 2015 - August 2020
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October 2013 - March 2016
October 2002 - July 2003
October 2002 - July 2003
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Integrating ideas of safety, trust, cooperation, and empowerment across many practice areas, trauma-informed interventions have become a necessary paradigm in social work. Research trends, thematic clusters, and citation impact are examined in this bibliometric analysis of 227 records taken from the Web of Science Core Collection under the terms "t...
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) in social sciences research introduces both transformative potential and critical ethical dilemmas. This study examines the role of researchers as either ethical gatekeepers or pioneers of AI-driven change. Through a bibliometric analysis of 464 records from the Web of Science Core Collection, we...
Intense use of Instagram and comparable social media networks can have adverse effects on an individual's psychological health and overall wellness. This research aimed to explore the mediating role of addiction to Instagram in the relationship between the duration of Instagram use and anxiety over physical appearance. A total of 203 young adults,...
The concept of artificial intelligence (AI), while enjoying its current spotlight in global discourse, is not a new idea. Its origins can be traced back over 16 centuries, where early versions of the idea appeared in myths and philosophical thought. Today, AI is an integral part of modern conversations, particularly in discussions surrounding its p...
This paper aims to comprehensively explore and analyze the experiences of educational counselors amidst workplace learning disruptions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The present research unfolds the challenges, actions, and results (CAR) framework, providing a comprehensive understanding of educational counselors' responses to workplace learni...
The concept of NEETs, originated in the late 1990s, has garnered substantial focus over the past decade. This study endeavours to elucidate various facets of NEET, exploring the interrelation between youth mental ill-health, substance use, and NEET status. It examines the progression of NEET rates within the European Union and its member states fro...
Introduction
This article presents the findings of an experimental study aimed at investigating the impact of coercive and assertive communication on children’s emotional responses and behavioral tendencies within parent–child interactions.
Methods
The study tested four hypotheses related to children’s feelings, personalization bias, the need to e...
The present study aim sto analyze the phenomenon of cyberbullying on educational platforms among students from Timiș County who stepparents were temporarily working abroad during the state of emergency March-June 2020. Within the quantitative approach of the research we used, we used sociological analysis as a research method, the opinion questionn...
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to individuals worldwide, demanding the rapid development and utilization of coping mechanisms to navigate the recurring waves of uncertainty and disruption. Coping mechanisms are mediated by personality traits, cognitive schemes and developed perceptions. They are activated in states of stre...
In the current era, globalization as a cultural phenomenon is principally marked by the expansion of transnational migration and identities. Transnational migration, coupled with transnational identities, encompasses a considerable population of migrants who may encounter situations of pluricultural, bicultural, transcultural, intercultural, multic...
The objective of this study is to review and make a synthesis of peer- reviewed
scientific research (articles and books) related to grandparent– grandchild relationships and grandparenting to boost Romanian research on grandparenting. The Internet was searched without limitations on the publication date, and only articles in English were included....
Fiecare om vrea să-și trăiască viața bucurându-se
de ceea ce are. Romanii spuneau ,,Ne quid nimis”
(,,Nimic prea mult”), o preluare probabilă a expresiei
grecești μηδὲν ἄγαν (midén ágan) (,,nimic în exces”).
Conform gânditorilor greci Socrate, Platon și Aristotel,
cumpătarea era văzută ca o virtute cardinală prin care
succesul material trebuia ținu...
În societatea europeană se vorbește mult despre
valori, aproape fiecare persoană având propriul set de
valori. Unele au fost adoptate de la părinți, altele au fost
impuse de mediul cultural în care o persoană a crescut
sau de religia care îi aparține.
Se vorbește mult despre valorile europene.
„Conform Parlamentului European, Uniunea Europeană
este...
Theories of development point out that childhood experiences are relevant across the lifespan, and that the parent-child relationship is essential for a child's physical and psychological wellbeing. The aim of this study is to investigate whether parental abandonment influences self-conscious emotions such as guilt and shame. This quasi-experiment...
The relationship between narcissistic personality and art and beauty appreciation has recently become the focus of research investigations. Adaptive narcissists raise their sense of worth in order to shield themselves from harm caused by others. Because they aspire to be more attractive, healthier, and successful versions of themselves, they freque...
Metodologia cercetării în științele sociale: Cercetarea
calitativă se adresează studenților facultăților de științe sociale
care studiază discipline academice ca arheologia, antropologia,
asistența socială, economia, geografia umană, lingvistica,
sociologia, știința comunicării, știința managementului și
științele politice.
Primele patru capitole p...
The aim of this study is to review and synthesize peer-reviewed research from scientific journals and books pertaining to eating disorders in adolescents. Our analysis will focus on both typical and atypical eating disorders, including their specific comorbidities, culture-related diagnostic issues, emotional issues, functional consequences, gender...
The aim of the study was to review alexithymia in adolescents-related studies (AARS) published between 2004 (since the first public archive volume is available) and 2022 in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The present paper attempts to explain the increasing interest in alexithymia as shown by the large number...
Adolescence is a very complex period of life, full of challenges, and explorations that young people have to face on the path to becoming adults. In adolescence, specific deviations from the everyday lifestyle, as well as emotional failures or imbalances, may also occur. When things tend to become more and more unclear, adolescents come to directly...
Domestic chores are a topic of great interest for couple relationships since they are a source of conflict between intimate partners. The purpose of the present research is to investigate offering and asking for help with domestic chores and the respondents’ tendency to be intuitive or verbal or to do chores alone. A vignette applied to children an...
The interaction between teachers and students is critical to the learning process. Student success and learner satisfaction have consistently improved in educational situations where instructors and students connect frequently and meaningfully. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework, as well as the sense of belonging concept, have received a sign...
The interaction between teachers and students is critical to the learning process. Student success and learner satisfaction have consistently improved in educational situations where instructors and students connect frequently and meaningfully. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework, as well as the sense of belonging concept, have received a sign...
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This study investigates how compatibility and perceived enjoyment affect the link between intention to use and actual technology use in Romanian preschool education, building on earlier studies.
Methods:
300 participants were invited to participate in this research from 15 Romanian counties. 182 preschool teachers' questionnaires wer...
Introduction
Generally, people do judge a book by its cover. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of teachers’ attire on students’ perception of 34 psychological dimensions.
Methods
The research is an experiment, with self-reported data, in groups, based on a questionnaire. The participants were 173 students (Mage = 12.16, SD...
Adolescence can be marked by numerous challenges among which stigmas. Stigma is about difference rather than deficit, and it can be attached to numerous areas, of which half also apply to adolescents. Some of these areas have been analysed more (fat/ obese/ weight stigma) than others (alcohol abuse, consumption, intellectual abilities). Stigmas hav...
This volume includes a selection of the papers presented at the International Conference "Education in the Perspective of Values", the XV th edition, held at the Moldova State University, Republic of Moldova, in Chişinău, on September 29 th - October 1 st, 2023. The organizers of this edition were: "1 December 1918" University of Alba Iulia - Roman...
A certain number of tasks that social work should perform through social work services, but also through social workers, can be determined. The nature of these tasks represents the special and often difficult position that social work should take between individual care and control of society. Social work should represent the individual and his/ he...
Recent findings suggest that quarantine adversely affects an individual's wellbeing. Social isolation generally leads to many negative psychological outcomes in child development and to significant shifts in parent-child relationships. The aim of the present research was to investigate three aspects of parenting during the COVID-19 quarantine: what...
This paper presents the history of the main documents – charters, covenants, declarations, and rules – regarding the protection and promotion of the rights of the child and, implicitly, child placement and child adoption. The period analysed covers almost more than six decades (from 1924 to 1989). This type of concern – separated or linked to the p...
THE RELATIONSHIP BET'I4/EEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND SCHOOL SUCCES,S. The theme of this research is the study on the relationship between emotional intelligence and school success in primary school students and the measures that the modem school takes to develop students' emotional intelligence. The study was conducted in the city of Balti by app...
Lucrarea de față reprezintă o invitație și totodată
o provocare pentru cei care doresc să facă primii pași în
domeniul sociologiei, fie sub rigoarea unui parcurs
curricular, fie din dorința unei dezvoltări profesionale
sau, pur și simplu, din curiozitate. Autorul, un erudit
cadru didactic, teolog si asistent social, propune o
structură cu 14 capito...
Crisis in all its forms has been the social reality brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic these two years� Social science specialists and social work specialists have analyzed the causes and the impact of the pandemic, while providing solutions for the wide range of issues it has generated� To decide what type of intervention is needed for a speci...
Fiecare om vrea să înțeleagă și să definească ceea ce este un dar, dar și un dat tuturor oamenilor, VIAȚA. Pentru a defini diferitele fațete ale vieții, folosim diferite metafore („figură de stil care constă în a da unui cuvânt o semnificație nouă, printr-o comparație subînțeleasă” – NODEX).
Această lucrare își propune să definească viața prin inte...
Adolescence is a complicated, full of challenges and explorations period in life on the way to adulthood. The behaviour of adolescents is considerably re-configuring under the pressure of biological, psychological, and social transformations, and the internalization of community rules and values, as well as the adoption of desirable behaviours, is...
One of the questions that many Christians who have in their families disabled people ask themselves is if they can truly believe to be redeemed, and if these people can be evangelized. Can they really understand the most important concepts of Christianity? Will they be redeemed just like any other person or is there a complementary way? The purpose...
Migration is a frequent phenomenon in the current European context. It is culturally differentiated according to every country, and it has a major role in the social sustainability of families and the next generation. This paper aimed to determine the impact of parents leaving to work abroad on the lives of their left-at-home children. This gives r...
Disabled people are still subjected to attitudinal, economic, environmental, and institutional barriers despite the huge efforts of the international community to free them from dependency, exclusion, isolation, and segregation. This paper reviews the prejudice-, discrimination-, and stereotype-related terms ending in-ism or-phobia referring to ind...
The value of people in their various dimensions is a priority in the postmodern era. In this respect, programs are being implemented for disadvantaged social categories to compensate for differences, reduce discrepancies, and integrate marginalized people into society. This, however, is not easy, and the work of professionals with people in difficu...
Teenagers not always act in ways that might serve their own best interests: thus, their perception of the risks of particular actions and/or behaviours may be unrealistic, which makes them make decisions that leave them vulnerable to both physical and psychological harm with negative impacts on their health and viability. Alcohol intoxication, exce...
Risk is a common feature of social work. To fight it properly, social workers need to properly identify it, which is not easy in the absence of proper definitions. Defining the risk of social exclusion (perhaps the most common type of risk in Romanian society) should start with defining social exclusion. Literature abounds in definitions of social...
Facebook needs to be looked at more closely because it is the most widespread profile site at world level and, because of this, it deserves all the attention of any sociologist interested in communication through virtual social networks.
The term tip should be interpreted as a spearhead that has penetrated this generation with a powerful marketing...
The theoretical documentation of this work was carried out around the notions of education, moral-Christian education, character, and prosocial behaviour. These aspects were analysed with the aim of clarifying the research theme and of demonstrating, from a theoretical point of view, the importance and influence that moral-Christian education can h...
This article is an attempt to differentiate between social distancing and physical distancing based on the literature published starting with March 2020. Identifying the specific issues with social distancing and the specific issues with physical distancing, the authors analyse the way social work responded the challenges of social/ physical distan...
The multiple facets of this volume belong to five large themes. The first theme, that of persuasion and manipulation, is studied here through electoral campaigns (i.e., mental filters used in voting manipulation, the mechanisms of vote mobilisation, manipulation and storytelling models). The institutionalization of education represents the second t...
Adolescent substance use, misuse, abuse and dependence is a family-oriented problem given that prevention, early detection, tracking adolescents at high risk (child maltreatment, delinquency, sexually-transmitted diseases, substance use, suicide), treating dependent individuals and their family, and follow up are important. Drug abuse is prevalent...
The most common causes of self-harm in adolescents are related to family (abuse, arguments with parents, poor communication), school (bullying), and behaviour (cyberbullying, illicit substance use, rejection by a boy or girl friend). Adolescents self-mutilate because of difficulty talking about their feelings, of peer contagion, of peer pressure, o...
The multiple facets of this volume belong to five large themes. The first theme, that of persuasion and manipulation, is studied here through electoral campaigns (i.e., mental filters used in voting manipulation, the mechanisms of vote mobilisation, manipulation and storytelling models). The institutionalization of education represents the second t...
Rezumat. Pandemia de COVID-19 a ce a determinat fenomenul de lockdown în majoritatea statelor Uniunii Europene, dar nu numai. În acest context teama ajuns la cote îngrijorătoare. Într-o cercetare calitativă. Folosind metoda interviului lucrarea explorează aceste sentimente de frică resimțite atât de profesioniștii din sistemul de asigurări sociale...
Background: In recent years, Facebook has increasingly become an essential part of the lives of people, particularly youths, thus many research efforts have been focused on investigating the potential connection between social networking and mental health issues. This study aimed to examine the relationship between Facebook use, emotional state of...
This study provides the synonyms for the terms deliberate self-harm and self-destructive behaviour, together with a psychological portrait of self-harming adolescents, the consequence of self-harm, the purpose of self-harm, and the forms of self-harm. It also presents the results of a survey regarding the prevalence of people with non-suicidal self...
According to Romania's National Rural Development Programme, the socioeconomic situation of the rural environment has a large number of weaknesses-among which low access to financial resources for small entrepreneurs and new business initiatives in rural areas and poorly developed entrepreneurial culture, characterized by a lack of basic managerial...
The Covid-19 pandemic has posed great challenges for all social work clients and their families, caregivers, medical and mental health care providers, and support systems. Social work clients are vulnerable to the detrimental effects of restrictions (isolation) and are confronted with adverse consequences from distancing and new rules, which may tr...
Marital satisfaction is the key to maintaining strong marriages and to ensure individual and couple wellbeing, and one way to increase marital satisfaction is to educate people religiously. Religiosity is also an effective in preparing couples for marriage and a defensible clinicians intervention counselling couples having problems in their marriag...
We are living nowadays in a social paradigm characterized by a high degree of fluidity. From professional career to leisure, from family patterns to neighborhood relationships, from cultural consumption to domestic technology, almost all the components of social reality have changed during recent decades. A given couple’s experience is not insulate...
Teenage suicide continues to be a serious issue both worldwide and in Romania and, therefore, it deserves to be studied by educators, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and sociologists. A close study of literature in the field of adolescent/ teen suicide over the last fifty years shows that it has been studied in a relatively small numb...
The social hermeneutics is a specific content analysis technique that follow to redraw an image about the reality on the base of qualitative interviews applied to people that have an extensive representation about the subjects. This technique represents a full qualitative approach and thus it involves a quite high field experience for the researche...
Alexithymia has been extensively studied for almost five decades now all over the world, except for Romania. This paper presents an overview of literature in the field of alexithymia, in general: it provides the etymology of the word alexithymia, its various definitions, its main types (primary, secondary, organic, and normative), and its features....
Abstract. The avalanche of studies on cyberbullying in the last 15 years draws world’s attention to the negative effects (alienation, anger, anxiety, depression, distress, embarrassment, helplessness, hopelessness, isolation, sadness, self-blame, self-harm, suicide, etc.) of this new type of bullying, particularly in teenagers. Romania is also conf...
Hundreds and thousands of lives have come to an end either because of an overdose or suicide caused by substance addiction. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that over a quarter of a billion people aged 15-64 have used illegal drugs (UNODC, 2019), a multiple-stage suicide. The main purpose of this research is to assess the...
This study assesses the view of evangelical Christian families on divorce and settlement methods to preserve their marriage. The study was carried out in 2018, in the city of Chişinău, Republic of Moldova. The research method was qualitative, conducted through an interview guide. Results were collected using a semi-structured interview guide. For s...
This study examines the negative effects of the phenomenon of migration on daughters and mothers. The study was conducted in 2018 in the village of Brînza, using a semi-structured interview addressed to mothers who are abroad and whose daughters are left in the Republic of Moldova. Using the semi-structured interview method disclosed why mothers ch...
This study provides the synonyms for the terms deliberate self-harm and self-destructive behaviour, together with a psychological portrait of self-harming adolescents, the consequence of self-harm, the purpose of self-harm, and the forms of self-harm. It also presents the results of a survey regarding the prevalence of people with non-suicidal self...
According to Romania’s National Rural Development Programme, the socio-economic situation of the rural environment has a large number of weaknesses – among which low access to financial resources for small entrepreneurs and new business initiatives in rural areas and poorly developed entrepreneurial culture, characterized by a lack of basic manager...
The Covid-19 pandemic has posed great challenges for all social work clients and their families, caregivers, medical and mental health care providers, and support systems. Social work clients are vulnerable to the detrimental effects of restrictions (isolation) and are confronted with adverse consequences from distancing and new rules, which may tr...
Adolescence can be marked by numerous challenges among which stigmas. Stigma is about difference rather than deficit, and it can be attached to numerous areas, of which half also apply to adolescents. Some of these areas have been analysed more (fat/ obese/ weight stigma) than others (alcohol abuse, consumption, intellectual abilities). Stigmas hav...
UNO’s Resolution of May 14, 1990 recommends that prisoners have access to
education, i.e. to basic education, creative activities, cultural activities, higher
education, library facilities, literacy programmes, physical education and sports,
religious education/instruction and training (through activities such as Bible
studies, church attendance, h...
ABTRACT Sex education is still a taboo in the Romanian education system: schools promote the idea that families should teach about sex, while families claim schools should do that. This paper is an attempt to answer such questions as: Who should teach sex education? What should sex education emphasise? What should sex education not emphasise? What...
Abstract: The theoretical framework of this paper focused on the concepts of paternal education, self-esteem, relationship. These notions have been examined from the perspective of girls in the specific human development period identified as adolescence, with the aim of discovering the possible consequences of their father’s education on them. The...
Alcoholism, drugs, lack of love, infidelity, poverty, and violence are among the most important reasons for divorce all over the world. Hence, the researchers' interest in studying these factors, including infidelity. After defining infidelity, presenting the types of infidelity, and trying to explain the increasing rate of infidelities, the articl...
Abstract. Addiction is one of the most dangerous traps that a person can fall into. There
are two reasons for which a person becomes addicted, either because of ignorance, it
begins without taking into consideration the fact that in time s/he can become addicted,
or because of a belief in her/his own will based on the assumption that: such a thing...
Articolul trateaza problema legalizarii prostituției în Romania
Communication is the great gift that God gave to men and women, in order for
them to enter into relationship with Him and with each other. One of the most
wonderful experiences for Adam and Eve was to meet God and communicate
with Him. They could hear God’s voice, and this experience served to bring the
created being closer to the Creator.
Communic...
One of the fields that has developed the most and the quickest in Romania
in the last twenty-three years is social work. A large number of
professionals are involved in social work, trying hard to find original,
revolutionary principles or develop social policies or programmes.
We can but admire the golden-hearted people who want to find ways to
he...
One of the most serious sins condemned by the Scriptures is idolatry. Idolatry is when a man or a woman worships anything – another person, animal, plant, object etc. – apart from God. The Second Commandment forbids any kind of artistic representation of the Divine. This can be quite challenging for the man who wishes to explore, in a rational or i...
The present research aims to study the relationship between undergraduate social work students’ attitude towards research methods and statistics, self-efficacy, effort and academic achievement. Self-administered questionnaire was chosen as the primary data collection method and a sample of 109 students from Social Work Department in one Romanian to...
Although there is still a certain difficulty in moving from the principle of accepting the importance of the domain (as a desirable social element) to its concrete operationalization in indicators, measures, levels, models, and the specific issue of quality assurance in general, and quality in higher education in particular, is gaining more and mor...
This study explores the possible effects of Facebook communication on the human psyche and on the way humans relate to other social actors. The study was conducted in 2016 in Timişoara, Romania, during a focus group organised with two categories of Facebook users: teenagers and youth from schools and specialists (counsellors, therapists, spiritual...
Mai putem oare să fim ALTFEL într-o lume a valorilor inversate? Ne mai
dorim oare să fim altfel într-o lume în care anormalul tinde să ia locul
normalului şi în care încep să se pună “etichete” tocmai acelora care spun
adevărul, care trăiesc sau măcar încearcă să trăiască Biblia?!
Ne mai dorim oare să fim ALTFEL într-o lume în care compromisul tind...
The present research aims to study the relationship between undergraduate social work students’ attitude towards research methods and statistics, self‑efficacy, effort and academic achievement. A self‑administered questionnaire was chosen as the primary data collection method and a sample of 109 students from Social Work Department in one Romanian...
This paper presents a study of the effects Facebook has on the youth who have an account on this social network and who see only the advantages of this platform that offers quick communication, without declared costs and that reduces distances (no matter how long) to a click, allowing information to reach any corner in the world in just a second. T...
Tinerii au fost cuceriți de acest tip de socializare care își are indiscutabil avantajele ei, dar care în același timp are mari carențe atunci când persoanele dedică prea mult din timpul lor pentru acest gen de relaționare la semeni. Pericolul este maxim atunci când oamenii se mulțumesc cu socializarea mediată de calculator și nu mai investesc sufi...
