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Cognitive education and counseling psychology in the Arab world
El Rali Aharchaou
Abstract
This work aims to provide evidence to back up the belief that cognitive competences are likely to be improved and analyzed, assuming, hence, that modern psychology’s task is to find feasible solutions for issues such as acquisition, learning, adaptation and integration in everyday life. It is now proven that human cognitive capacity is flexible and predisposed to improve by counseling and intervention. This reality is confirmed by the the available Programs and methods used to enhance cognitive flexibility. It is not sufficient to have high cognitive abilities in order to success in achieving different tasks easily and efficiently, but it is necessary also to use these capacities in different situations. This fact highlights the importance of cognitive diagnostic and programs of cognitive education especially in the evaluation of cognitive competences and its development. It contributes also to making aware of the efficiency of strategy learning in improving learning and enhancing performance. This can be done by asserting that the cause of any failure does not depend on competence deficiency but it could be related to a deficit in cognitive functioning and personal weak effort or acquired feeling of deficiency.
Keywords: Cognitive education; Counseling; Competences; Cognitive diagnostic; Cognitive educational programs
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Social competence and its relation to self-efficacy among university students
Ali Abdulraheem Salih &Husam Mohammad Manshid
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This study aims at defining social competence and its relation to self-efficacy in university students. The sample of this research consisted of (200) university students of both sexes chosen randomly. In order to achieve these aims, we built two tests, one of social competence (20 items), and the other of self-efficacy (22 items). We used different procedures to analyze the tests, such as Reliability and Validity. After subjects had been tested, we found that students of high social competence, have self-efficacy. So we concluded that there was a strong correlation between Social Competence and self-efficacy in university students.
Keywords: Social Competence; Social skills; Self-efficacy
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Differences in the level of Future Anxiety among a sample of secondary, university and vocational training students
Ahmed Zegaoua
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The main purpose of this study was to investigate differences in the level of Future Anxiety among a sample of secondary, university and vocational training students, according to gender and educational level. The researcher developed a questionnaire about future anxiety consisted of (30) items, which was distributed on (1200) students who belong to three groups: secondary, university and vocational training students using a comparative explorative method. The results revealed that there was moderate level of future anxiety among the students (60.08%), low level of anxiety (28.83%), and high level of anxiety (11.08). There were also statistically significant differences at the level of future anxiety among males and females in favor of females. There were also statistically significant differences in the level of future anxiety attributed to Educational Level in favor of secondary school and vocational training students. Some recommendations and suggestions were listed.
Keywords: Future anxiety; Students; Secondary school; Higher education; Vocational training
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Contribution of structural family therapy to the treatment of in the treatment of drug addiction (clinical study in Oran)
Khadija Kebdani
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The early streams of family therapy showed that family is an entity subject to changes, hence the manifested symptoms of one of its members is the expression of its interaction and functioning and its psychological and social organization. Thus, the family is the identity matrix that permits to its members achieving their individuality while conserving the feeling of belonging. In this sens, the family is considered as a system in which each alteration affecting it could have direct impact on its members. Generally the individual carry the symptoms of the family when he shows maladaptive behaviors. The social calamities spreaded in our society reflect these alterations, so it’s important to take care of the family as a whole structure. Therefore the importance of this study consists in sheding light on the phenomen of toxicomania in adolescent using structural family therapy (SFT) of Salvador Minuchin.
Keywords: Family; Toxicomania; Structural family therapy
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Differences in self esteem among subjects with intellectual disabilities attending the functional training center and the social rehabilitation center in the State of Qatar
Mariam E. Al-Shirawi
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This study aimed at identifying differences in self-esteem among subjects with intellectual disability attending Al Shafalah Training Center for the mentally disabled in the State of Qatar. This study also aimed to compare self-esteem among subjects of both sexes aged between 16-18 years in the vocational program, and 18-29 years in the employment training program. The sample consists of 47 subjects with mild intellectual disability; 26 of them were males and 21 females. We evaluated self-esteem by “Culture-free self-steem inventories Scale (Battle, 2003)”. The results showed differences between the two groups; so those attending the “Employment Training Program” have high self-esteem than those attending the “Vocational Program”. Furthermore, the study also revealed that self-esteem tends to increase with age. Also, we noted that males have higher self-esteem than females, but we found no differences in social self-esteem between males and females and age groups.
Keywords: Self-esteem; Mentally disabled; Vocational Program; Social rehabilitation
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The effect of the cultural dimension on the responses to the Rorschach test and the interpretation of its results: Field study of 40 students from 6 uiversities in Oran -Algeria- with comparitive analysis of Western and Algerian interpretations
Nafissa Mansouri & Khadija Kebdani
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This descriptive and analytic study aims at evaluating the effect of cultural factors on responses to “Rorschach” in a sample of university students. This projective test can uncover the personal aspects of the individual and show the effect of culture on the explanation of results. Therefore, the goal of this study was to determine the impact of culture on “Rorschach” responses and to build a specific measure for the algerian society.
The study took place in 6 faculties of Oran and was conducted on 40 students from different specialities. The results show the impact of culture on “Rorschach” responses and were differents from French results. We observe also differences du to the speciality of the participants.
Keywords: Rorschach; Algerian society; Culture; Interpretation of response
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The need of psychological support for families of autistic children
Abdelaziz Allioui
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The majority of scientific studies in the field of autism focused on the autistic person in terms of diagnostic, classification and therapeutic and educational intervention. So, there are few interventions oriented to the families of the autistic persons, although the importance of the family as a principal actor in the global support of the autistic person. It is therefore essential that family members are integrated in the educational and therapeutic device for autistic persons. It’s about giving back place to the family as a basic actor in building and implementing any plan of reeducation and readaptation. This work aims at highlighting the importance of providing psychological support for the families of children with autism, while evoking the principles of this support through some practical models.
Keywords: Autism; Family; Psychological support
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Explanatory Styles and Prediction of Sport Performance in children aged between 8 to 12 years
Marei Salama-Younes
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In this work we intend to validate and adapt a tool to evaluate the explanatory modes in children (CASQ); we aimed also to test the effect of contextualized explanatory mode on the prediction of sport performance of children and pre-teens. Finally, we tested the effect of explanatory modes (optimist versus low neutral versus high neutral versus pessimist) on those performances. For the transcultural validation, we first adopted the method proposed by Vallerand and Hess (2000). Then, a version was contextualized in sport domain. We tested in this study four principal hypothesis. The results show that the explanatory mode have an effect on the sport performance, but this effect was mediatized by the expectancy of success. We found also that only the contextualized explanatory mode and the expectancy of success are the variables that mediatized the effect of the perceived competence on the sport performance, the results uncover that children with optimist explanatory mode (O) reach better sport performance than those who have a neutral or pessimist mode.
Keywords: Explanatory mode; Sport performance; Children
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Meta-stereotypes of Tunisian Muslim, strange schemata and individual strategies of identity restoration
Kaouther Souissi
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This study summed up a part of my doctoral thesis that I carried out its field study before tunisian revolution during the repression of muslim brothers by Ben Ali government. The goal of this work was to uncover the effect of this policy on the social face of the muslim identity. In others words, following the policy of sanction and control over religious, what judgments the Muslims of the East emitted against the Tunisian Muslims, and to what extent young Tunisians were influenced by these judgments in their Muslim self-image and how they responded to these judgments. We analysed free verbal associations and their valence in 219 practicing and non-practicing Tunisian students of both sex. They talk first about their conception of the Muslim, and then about how the Muslim of the East views the Tunisian Muslim. In this perspective, two inter and intra-subject comparative studies were carried out, the first aimed at identifying the in-group representations and the level of affirmation of the young adults of their Muslim identity according to the prototypical or even ideal traits of the Muslim, the second concerned the intergroup representations and the impact of Tunisian Muslim meta-stereotypes (internalized judgments) on ingroup identity. The results were discussed with reference to the theory of social representations and theories of identity and social categorization. On the whole, they showed a big gap between the traits of the Muslim in general and the features of the Tunisian Muslim. The analysis in terms of strange patterns has highlighted the presence of individual strategies of identity restoration adopted by some subjects to rationalize their contradiction and reduce the state of anxiety that produced their negative judgments.
Keywords: Meta-stereotypes; Tunisian Muslim; Social representations; Negative judgments
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Epileptic Child problematic in the light of Rorschach
Abla Zioui
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The present work analysed the importance of using the Rorschach test in the field of Neurology, and more particularly in the psychological study of epilepsy, insofar as it allows to understand the relationship between physiological and psychological mechanisms. Indeed, epilepsy is a disease that particularly affects thought, since the crises occur abruptly and suddenly, which causes the interruption of psychological and physical continuity. We will expose the results of the clinical study, which was conducted on a group of five children with epilepsy using the Rorschach test. We assume that epilepsy could be related to narcissistic fragility in terms of constantly threatened body image, as well as the feeling of loss (loss of consciousness, loss of control, loss of relationship, …), in addition to the dispersion of thought which is manifested in inhibition, blockage or arbitrary repetition as defenses against the threats that affect the image and the continuity of oneself.
Keywords: Epilepsy; Rorschach test; Narcissistic fragility; Body image
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