Veronika Zibrinyiova

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice · University Counselling Center - UNIPOC

The following contribution is a theoretical study focusing on the difficulties which young people are experiencing during a life period called emerging adulthood. We believe, emerging adulthood is a transitive and heterogeneous developmental stage. It is not universal for every young person and it is mostly typical in developed countries. Based on...

The paper pays attention to stereotypes in the field of employment, particularly stereotypes connected with IT professionals. We observed differences in university students’ perception of IT professionals’ personality. The sample included 159 respondents of two different nationalities: Slovak students (no – 83, average age – 23.28) and Lithuanian s...

Emerging adulthood is one of the currently researched transitive life periods. As such, there is a potential risk for a crisis which Robbins and Wilner (Dabis, Yates, 2014) are calling „Quarterlife Crisis“. The aim of presented research is to find out to what extent are young people between the age 20 and 30 experiencing this crisis. At the same ti...

The following theoretical study focuses on a current topic of enhancing self-regulation through the executive functions training. We are building upon the ideas of recent findings (e.g. Hofmann, Schmeichel, Baddeley, 2012) suggesting that the training of executive functions has significant potential to improve the level of self-regulation. Our goal...