In this work we were trying to disclose children and adolescents values and self-esteem connection with the learning achievements of music. Tasks: 1. Ascertain children and adolescents self-esteem, orientation of values, psychic self-feeling in music lessons connection with the learning achievements of music. 2. Ascertain children and adolescents self-esteem, orientation of values, psychic self-feelings, achievements and difficulties of learning music connection with the interest of music. 3. Compare children and adolescence, girls and boys, interests of music, orientation of values, psychic self-feeling in music lessons, the difficulties of learning music, self-esteem and achievements of learning music. The methods of research: sociological, psychological, studying and analyzing pedagogic literature, forming. 200 schoolchildren in the investigation participated: 100 children and 100 adolescents. Research results confirmed the hypotheses that when music achievements are growing up the psychic self-feeling is better, it is more interesting, (r = 0,234, p = 0,001), pleasantly (r = 0,234, p = 0,001), successful (r = 0,217, p = 0,002) and like to learn music more (r = 0,211, p = 0,003). Research results confirmed the second hypotheses. It was found out, that when music achievements are growing up the self-esteem is getting better. Adolescents evaluate themselves only for “industry” parameter (r = 0,323, p = 0,001). Children evaluate themselves “capable” (r = 0,437, p = 0,000)... [to full text]

The novelty and urgency of this work is dictated by the fact that there are not much research work dedicated to the Lithuanian pre-school and primary school children popularity and self-esteem comparative analysis. The purpose of the work was to establish find the connections (relationships) between the popularity and stimulation of self-esteem in the children of same age of pre-school groups and primary school classes. The following methods were used in the study: scientific literature analysis; method of sociometric (two-steps social priority estimation methods, by B.T.R. Williams and J.D. Gilmour, 1994); questionnaire for the inquiry on self-esteem, psychological well-being, and orientation towards moral values, developed by D. Beresnevičienė (1995), and adopted to the children of the appropriate age; computer data processing (SPSS software package); descriptive statistics. Samplings use in the study was as follows: 208 children under the research, among which 91 children were chosen from the pre-school group (average age of 6 years) and 117 children (average age of 9 years) from the third-grade class of the schools of Kaunas town. Conclusions: the study has proven a hypothesis that in judging about the self-esteem, according to two parameters, namely that of “nice” (r = -0,162, p < 0,05) and that of “industrious” (the learning criterions) (r = -0,165, p < 0,05), the role of the self-esteem manifests itself in the following manner: the higher the self-esteem, the less is... [to full text]

Kiekvienas žmogus save tapatina su tam tikra grupe (socialine, etnine, konfesine). Sava grupė suvokiama priešpriešinant ją kitai, svetimai grupei. Suvokimą supaprastina bendražmogiškas pasaulio pažinimo būdas: suvokiami objektai kategorizuojami ir kiekvienai kategorijai priskiriami tam tikri stereotipiniai įsitikinimai. Sava etninė grupė suvokiama lyginant savo tautą su kitų tautų apibendrintais vaizdiniais – etniniais stereotipais. Priklausymas tam tikrai grupei ypač svarbus paauglystės laikotarpiu, kas įtakoja savęs ir kitų vertinimą. Lietuvai tapus ES nare ir atsivėrus sienoms vis dažniau susiduriama su kitų tautų atstovais, kyla įvairių incidentų dėl stereotipinių kitataučių bei pačių lietuvių vertinimo. Tyrimo objektas. Paauglių stereotipinių vertinimų ypatumai kitataučių atžvilgiu. Tyrimo tikslas. Atskleisti paauglių stereotipinio vertinimo ypatumus kitataučių atžvilgiu. Tyrimo metodika. Norint išsiaiškinti paauglių stereotipinio vertinimo ypatumus kitataučių atžvilgiu, buvo atliktas kiekybinis tyrimas, kuris vyko keturiose Panevėžio rajono vidurinėse mokyklose. Iš viso dalyvavo 250 paauglių, besimokančių 6-oje ir 12-oje klasėse. Tyrimo tikslui pasiekti bei hipotezei patvirtinti / paneigti naudojama anketinė apklausa, literatūros šaltinių analizė. Etniniai stereotipai mokslinėje literatūroje dažnai apibrėžiami kaip neadekvatūs realybei, perdėti apibendrinimai apie tam tikrų grupių narių elgesį ir kitus bruožus. ... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Each person identifies himself with a group (social, ethnic, confessional). Own group is realised by contraposition of the othe group, the forin one. The perception of universal knowledge of the world easier way: perceived objects are categorized and each category includes a number of stereotypical beliefs. Due to their ethnic group is perceived in relation to their own people to other people's aggregated images - ethnic stereotypes. Belonging to a certain group is particularly important during adolescence, which affects self and other assessments. Because of Lithuania joined the EU and the opening of borders is increasingly the case with other nations, there were some incidents on the stereotype of an international character Lithuanian own assessment. Investigation object. Teen stereotypical characteristics of assessments in respect of an international character. Objectives. To reveal the characteristics of adolescent stereotyped assessment in respect of an international character. Ivestigation methods. In order to clarify the assessment of adolescent stereotyped features of an international character, there was a quantitative survey, which took place in four secondary schools in the district of Panevezys. A total of 250 adolescents studying in the 6th and 12th grades participated in survey. The study purpose and hypothesis approve / deny use of a questionnaire survey, literature analysis. Ethnic stereotypes in the scientific literature are often defined as... [to full text]

Lietuvoje neįgaliųjų sportui skiriama labai mažai dėmesio: išsamūs moksliniai tyrimai, sporto metodikos, mitybos, sporto medicinos ir kitose srityse arba visai nevykdomi, arba nepakankami. Tyrimo tikslas - įvertinti Lietuvos neįgaliųjų sportininkų sveikatą ir jos rizikos veiksnius. Metodai. Tikslui pasiekti panaudota duomenų bazės informacija, kuri surinkta 2007 m. atsitiktinės atrankos būdu pateikiant anoniminę anketą neįgaliesiems sportininkams. Tyrime dalyvavo 157 neįgalieji sportininkai. Duomenys apdoroti SPSS programos 13 versija. Rezultatai. Dauguma sportininkų savo sveikatą vertina kaip patenkinamą (54,8 proc.) nepriklausomai nuo lyties ir atstovavimo rinktinei ar klubui. Tačiau judėjimo negalią turintys sveikatą vertino blogiausiai. Labiausiai paplitę nugaros ir kojų skausmai, o jais dažniausiai skundėsi su judėjimo negalia. Dauguma neįgaliųjų sportininkų nerūkantys, tačiau vis tik rūkymas yra paplitęs tarp klubą atstovaujančių vyrų (34,8 proc.). Alkoholiniai gėrimai vartojami didžiosios dalies tiriamųjų (87,9 proc.), tačiau esminių skirtumų pagal tiriamąsias grupes nerasta. Deja, narkotines medžiagas vartoja 4,5 proc. respondentų. Mitybos įpročių vertinimas atskleidė, kad sportininkai su natūraliu maistu gauna per mažai vitaminų, nepakankamai dažnai vartoja vaisius, natūralias sultis, augalinį aliejų. Dažniausiai vartojami maisto produktai buvo duona, pienas ir jo produktai bei grūdinės kultūros. Nustatyta, kad traumas dažniau patiria rinktinę nei klubą... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / A little attention is giving of Lithuania disability sport: comprehensive research, sports techniques, nutrition, sports medicine and other fields of non-compliance or non-existent or insufficient. Research aim - to assess the health and its risk factors of Lithuanian of disabled athletes. Methods. A database of information was use to achieve the aim and is collected in 2007 at random by an anonymous questionnaire for disabled athletes. The study included 157 disabled athletes. The data for analysis was used program SPSS version 13. Results. Most of the athletes perceived their health as satisfactory (54.8 percent) regardless of gender and the representation of a select or club. However the worst health was assessed by athletes with movement disability. Back and leg pain is the most common, and often complained athletes with movement disability. Most of the disabled athletes aren’t smokers, but smoking is still prevalent among the males witch representing team (34.8 percent). In the majority of subjects alcohol beverages is used (87.9 percent) but significant differences betwean investigative teams were not found. Unfortunately, the drugs are used by 4.5 per cent. respondents. Evaluation of dietary habits revealed that athletes with natural food getting not enough vitamins, fruits, natural juices, vegetable oil. Commonly used food products were bread, milk and milk products and cereals. It was found that more injuries experienced the team athletes than the club members. In... [to full text]

The level of self-esteem regulates one’s behavior in various life situations and influences interpersonal relations qreatly. Self-esteem defines everyone’s psychological self-feeling. The development of self-esteem in adolescence is closely connected to education in the family and at school. It’s important to encourage and to strengthen positive self-esteem of a child and his abilities. Purposive bringing-up helps children to enter into relations, based on honour, confidence, tolerance and defines the quality of a child’s relations with other children. Persons with positive status are the most popular in the group. While repudiated in the group is disliked. One of the most important psychological results of a child being among peers is social acceptance. However unadaptability enables to foresee later serious problems in behavior. The aim of this research is self-esteem of adolescence. The research tasks: to compare the self-esteem of adolescence from different social priority groups; to compare the self-esteem of first-borns and later children; to count up the correlations among the level of popularity and self-esteem. The research methods: self-esteem was measured by the scale developed by D.Beresnevičienė (1995) that is the siocometric test, self-esteem scales by D.Beresnevičienė (1995), the statistic of data was cerried on using the system SPSS. 215 researchers participated in the research, among them 99 girls and 116 boys. The age ranges from 10/11 to 14/15 years. When... [to full text]

The purpose of this work is indentify adults diabetic people sense of coherence ,psichological feel,and self esteem.Received reseach results confirmed first hipothesis, that sense of coherence to diabetic importantly lower than to healthy individuals.Received research results confirmed second hipothesis ,that psychological well being to diabetics adult individuals is importantly worse than to healthy individuals.Received research results confirmed third hipothesis ,that self esteem to diabetics adult individuals importantly smaller than to healthy individuals.

Žmogus auga formuojamas savo šeimos, socialinės aplinkos, visos visuomenės. Nuo to, kokią asmenybę išugdysime pirmaisiais vaiko gyvenimo metais, priklausys jo tolesnio gyvenimo kokybė. Tyrimo objektas – ikimokyklinio ugdymo įstaigas lankančių vaikų ir jų tėvų savivertės ryšys. Šio tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti tėvų ir vaikų savivertės ryšį, o pagrindiniai uždaviniai – ištirti ikimokyklinio ugdymo įstaigas lankančių vaikų savęs vertinimą įvairiais aspektais; ištirti tėvų savivertę ir jų požiūrį į savo vaikų savivertę; ištrti tėvų vertybines orientacijas; ištirti, kaip įvairūs vaikų savęs vertinimo aspektai atsispindi vaikų piešiniuose, jiems vaizduojant savo šeimas. Tyrimo eigoje buvo tikrinamos trys hipotezės: 1) to paties amžiaus mergaičių ir berniukų savivertė yra vienoda; 2) šeimos sudėtis turi įtakos vaiko savivertei; 3) tėvų materialinė padėtis, išsilavinimas, vertybinės orientacijos turi įtakos vaiko savivertei. Pirmajame darbo skyriuje analizuojami mokslinėje literatūroje aprašomi įvairūs požiūriai į šeimą, šeimos įtaka vaiko asmenybės formavimuisi, savivertės ir asmenybės apibrėžimai. Antrajame skyriuje aprašomas tėvų ir vaikų savivertės ryšio tyrimas. Tyrimas buvo atliktas pateikiant uždaro tipo anketas trijų Kauno vaikų darželių auklėtiniams ir jų tėveliams, o anketų atsakymai apdoroti naudojant statistinę tyrimo duomenų analizę. Tyrimo metu anketos buvo teikiamos taip, kad tėvai ir vaikai negalėtų sulyginti savo atsakymų. Be to, tyrime dalyvavę vaikai buvo prašomi... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / A man grows formed by his family, social environment, all the society. On the personality which will be educated during the first year of a child’s life the quality of his future life will depend. The object of investigation has been the self-evaluation tie of the children attending pre-school nurturing institutions and their parents. The aim of this investigation has been to establish the parent and children self-evaluation tie and the major aims have been to investigate the self evaluation of the children attending pre-school nurturing institutions in various aspects; to investigate parent self-evaluation and their attitude towards their children self-evaluation; to investigate the value orientations of the parents; to investigate how various aspects of self-evaluation of children are reflected in children drawings in which they depict their families. During the investigation three hypotheses have been examined: 1) the self evaluation of the girls and boys of the same age is equal; 2) family composition has an influence on child self-evaluation; 3) parent material state, education, value orientations have influence on the child self-evaluation. In the first chapter of the work various attitudes towards family, family influence on the formation of the child personality, definitions of self-evaluation and personality described in scientific literature have been analyzed. In the second chapter the investigation of parent and children self-evaluation tie has been described. The... [to full text]

It is very significant to investigate the self-esteem in the young age. Loss of parents or living apart from them, lack of care of the child, lack or absence of close emotional relationship are one of the most important factors traumatizing children, preventing them from feeling self-importance, diminishing their self-evaluation and determining distrust towards themselves and others. The study analyses factors of self-esteem, academic achievements and interpersonal factors. Poor environments and previous limited experience, lack of love, life apart from parents and negative influence of classmates of children from residential care and children living in families. The purpose of this study is to find out peculiarities and differences of self-esteem and academic achievement of children from residential care and children living in full families. The connection between self-esteem and interpersonal factors is also analyzed. 200 children, from the residential home (N=100) and from families (N=100), among 118 girls and 82 boys participated in the research. Self-esteem was measured by the Harvey differential type scale in three difference factors. Interpersonal relationship was measured by sociological research. The investigation showed that children from residential care evaluated themselves as highly as children living in families. But children from residential care have more problems with teachers, theist self evaluate having no good qualities, anything to be proud of, in most of... [to full text]

The aim of this paper is to reveal peculiarities and to determine the relationship between psychological well being of pupils in upper classes at school and their self-esteem, by comparing those studying in Catholic school with the ones studying in non-Catholic school. In the first and the second (theoretical) chapters the peculiarities of teenagers’ psychological well-being and self-esteem, as well as their importance in the process of personality development have been studied. In the third chapter the aim, the object and the tasks of the survey are indicated. In the fourth chapter the methodology and the sample of the survey are described. In the fifth (practical) chapter the results of the survey are analysed. The conclusions of the research are drawn in the sixth chapter.

Tyrimo metodika. Tyrimas yra lokalus – momentinis, atliktas 2009 metais Pravieniškių I-uosiuose ir II – uosiuose pataisos namuose. Taikyti du tyrimo metodai – anketinė apklausa ir interviu. Tyrimas vyko tarp pilnamečių kalinių. Anketą (klausimyną) sudarė keturi klausimų/teiginių blokai: I – demografiniai klausimai; II – klausimai/teiginiai apie nuteistųjų asmenų fizinę (sportinę) veiklą ir tam sudarytas sąlygas; III – kalinčiųjų socialinių įgūdžių vertinimas pagal E. Gambrill (1995), IV – nuteistųjų savęs vertinimas. Naudota G. Rosenbergo sudaryta iš dešimties teiginių vertinimo skalė. Skirtumai laikyti statistiškai reikšmingais esant ne didesnei kaip 5 proc. paklaidai (p<0,05). Nuteistųjų apklausai pasirinktas struktūruotas interviu pagal iš anksto turimus klausimus ir numatant klausimų eiliškumą. Anketinėje apklausoje dalyvavo 320 nuteistųjų. Interviu metodu apklausta 17 minėtųjų pataisos namų gyventojų Rezultatai. Pakankami fiziškai aktyvūs nuteistieji sudarė 57,8 proc. visų tyrime dalyvavusių respondentų. Kaip parodė tyrimas, fizinis aktyvumas nuteistųjų tarpe yra statistiškai reikšmingai susijęs su jaunesniu amžiumi. Klausdami nuteistųjų: ,,Ar dalyvaujate sporto varžybose”? nustatėme, kad ir fiziškai pasyvūs kaliniai tokiose varžybose dalyvauja. Tačiau statistiškai reikšmingai jų nėra tiek daug kiek sportuojančių kalinių. Varžybose apskritai nedalyvauja trečdalis sportuojančių ir du trečdaliai nesportuojančių kalinių. Dominuojantis kalinių išsilavinimas sportuojančiųjų... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Aim of the study. To evaluate a physical activity as ability to develop for healthy lifestyle and social skills in prisons of Lithuania among the prisoners man. Methods. The research there are topical – instantaneous was done at 2009 in the first and second prisons of Pravieniskes. In the research were used two methods: the questionnaire and interview. Both at one and other of research participated only prisoners (men). The questionnaires consisted of three blocks of questions/propositions: I - demographics questions (age, education, duration of imprisonment, amount of previous convictions); II – questions about physical activity of prisoners. III – evaluation of social skills of prisoners according E.Gambrill (1995). For questioning of prisoners were chose structure interview according beforehand available a questions and predictable a questions succession. At questionnaire poll participated 320 prisoners. In interview were survey 17 already has mention occupant of prisons. Results. An enough physically active prisoners consist 57.8% of all in research to had participated respondents. As shown study, physical active among prisoners are statistics significant relate to more young age. To asked: ,,Do you participate in competition of sport”? to establish fact physically active prisoners participate in such competition. But statistics significant of them is not so much like physically active one. Overall in competition don’t participating third physically active and two third... [to full text]