The article is devoted to the problem of human relationships with special attention paid to the experience of helplessness, powerlessness and social anxiety in contacts with other people. The problem is described from the existential-psychological and social-cultural perspective. At first the author presents the essence and reasons for feeling helpless and anxious in the psychological context. Then various aspects of human alienation in contemporary culture are enumerated. In the second part of the article the author discusses the category of usefulness and utility in thinking about oneself and other people, the alienation of language and loss of the so-called “individual initiative”. Theoretical considerations have been supplemented with the results of the author’s own research. At the end of the article the author indicates the role of education in preventing the development of helplessness among young people.
The article refers to the currently shaped issues of human personal safety in relation to threats arising from events and situations. At the same time, it points out that an exhaustive expression of the need for security is rather unfeasible because this scope in personal view will be categorized by: physiological properties, age, environmental and situational conditions, knowledge, and socio-cultural conditions, as well as life experiences. The author focuses in particular on the analysis of organized crime in Mexico and the impact of these structures on the personal safety of people, social, ethnic, and professional groups, indicating their causes. The rooting or deepening of the indicated social problems and the lack of perspectives to improve them means that the main assumptions of the security strategy, including among others public safety improvement programs, and thus personal safety, is a very complex and extended process. The analysis of the functioning of the Mexican state in the security sphere clearly shows that in this respect state institutions transfer this issue to the citizen. Fears for their safety result from the presence of criminal structures, shocking ones, their uncompromising attitude, sense of impunity, and ruthlessness towards anyone who has been defined by "crime syndicates" as a threat to their existence.
Motherhood is a special kind of love, that connects with the child’s sex. We would like to think, that the relationship is unconditional, but having a child relates to some consequences and causes some projections, expectations, isn’t neutral. What happens when a child – equipped in particular gender – has a mental disability? What are the mothers feelings, how does she behave, when she is a mother of handicapped boy or a girl? This work contains the results of researches of psychosocial function of 115 mothers of handicapped children. Relationships between sex, coping, collective self-esteem of mothers and their personal self-esteem, social anxiety, consciousness of stigma (stereotypisation) was analyzed in this study. Results revealed, that child’s sex is meaningful for the mother. Mothers of handicapped sons have more problems than girl’s mothers. They have lower level of personal self-esteem, higher social anxiety, they show strong identification with the category of disability, feel worse in groups, prefer avoiding ways of coping, their attitude to the child’s therapy is negative.
The aim of the study was to compare the level of anxiety of participants with different levels of depression symptoms in four different experimental conditions: deprecating self-presentation in the situation of failure, enhancing self-presentation in the situation of failure, deprecating self-presentation in the situation of success, enhancing self-presentation in the situation of success. 220 secondary school students completed two questionnaires: Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Participants with depressive tendencies in comparison to the non-depressed ones experienced a fall of situational anxiety after enhancing self-presentation in the situation of success (primarily) and in the situation of failure. Other kinds of experimental conditions did not cause diversified changes in the level of anxiety of participants with different level of depressing symptoms.
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Celem artykułu było porównanie poziomu lęku u badanych z różnymi poziomami objawów depresji w czterech różnych sytuacjach badawczych: deprecjonującej autoprezentacji w sytuacji porażki, faworyzującej autoprezentacji w sytuacji porażki, deprecjonującej autoprezentacji w sytuacji sukcesu, faworyzującej autoprezentacji w sytuacji sukcesu. 220 uczniów szkoły średniej wypełniło dwa kwestionariusze: skali depresji Becka (Beck Depression Inventory, BDI) oraz skali lęku (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, STAI). U badanych z tendencjami depresyjnymi w porównaniu do tych niebędących w depresji zaobserwowano doświadczenie zmniejszenia się lęku sytuacyjnego po faworyzującej autoprezentacji w sytuacji sukcesu (głównie) oraz w sytuacji porażki. Inne rodzaje warunków badawczych nie spowodowały zróżnicowanych zmian w poziomie lęku u badanych z różnymi poziomami objawów depresji.
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