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A longitudinal study of language learners’ images about Russia

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Nikitina L.

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tom 4

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nr 2

103-117

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Several studies in the field of applied linguistics have explored images held by language learners about a target language country. However, for the most part, these studies focused on learners of modern European languages, such as German, Spanish and French and they were conducted in Western educational contexts. Besides, none of the previous investigations attempted to conduct a systematic classification of the language learners’ images. The present longitudinal study addressed these gaps in the research literature. It explored images about Russia held by Malaysian learners of the Russian language in a large university in East Malaysia. This article reports the findings of three questionnaire surveys conducted in 2004, 2007 and 2010. It was found that the images about Russia held by the participants were diverse and clustered around eight countryrelated aspects. Content of some categories of images was stable and changed little over time. Other categories were more fluid and more prone to change. The paper concludes with a discussion of pedagogical implications that can be derived from the findings.

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Being more idiographic in the nomothetic world

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Korulczyk T. , Biela A. , Blampied N.

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tom 50

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nr 2

207-216

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Since psychology emerged as an independent field of knowledge, there has been no consensus as to how it should develop, either, in the idiographic or nomothetic way. In the course of time, due to a commitment to what was seen as objectivity in science, the nomothetic approach came to dominate psychology. Thus, researchers used mostly quantitative psychometric methods to establish general rules of human behaviour. In doing so, the essence of nomothetic research is to be extremely careful when interpreting results not to make a reasoning mistake such as the ecological fallacy, as may happen when a researcher draws conclusions about nature of the individual in the group based on average results of the whole group. In the article, we presented two methods for longitudinal research designs which address this problem, and give more idiographic information about participants; via the Reliable Change Index and the Modified Brinley Plot. Finally, we provide a IBM SPSS Statistics syntax automatizing the whole process of computation for these new features.

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Being more idiographic in the nomothetic world

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Korulczyk T. , Biela A. , Blampied N.

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nr 2

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The factorial structure of job-related affective well-being: Polish adaptation of the Warr’s measure

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Mielniczuk E. , Łaguna M.

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nr 4

429-443

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Objectives The first aim of the study reported in this article was to test the factorial structure of job-related affect in a Polish sample. The second aim was to develop the Polish adaptation of the Warr’s job-related affective well-being measure published in 1990, which is designed to assess 4 types of affect at work: anxiety, comfort, depression, enthusiasm. Material and methods A longitudinal study design with 2 measurement times was used for verifying the psychometric properties of the Polish version of the measure. The final sample consisted of 254 Polish employees from different professions. Participants were asked to fill in a set of questionnaires consisting of measures capturing job-related affective well-being, mood, and turnover intention. Results The first step of analysis was to test the theoretically-based structure of the job-related affective well-being measure in a Polish sample. The confirmatory factor analysis revealed that a 4-factor model best describes the structure of the measure in comparison to 5 alternative models. Next, reliability of this measure was assessed. All scales achieved good internal consistency and acceptable test-retest reliability after 2 weeks. Finally, the convergent and discriminant validity as well as the criterion and predictive validity of all job-related affective well-being scales was confirmed, based on correlations between job-related affect and mood as well as turnover intention. Conclusions The results suggest that the Polish adaptation of Warr’s job-related affective well-being measure can be used by scientists as well as by practitioners who aim at assessing 4 types of affective well-being at a work context. Int J Occup Med Environ Health 2018;31(4):429–443

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Metodologiczne aspekty jakościowych badań par – synteza doświadczeń terenowych

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Żadkowska M. , Olcoń-Kubicka M. , Gądecki J. , Mizielińska J. , Stasińska A. , Schmidt F. , Halawa M.

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nr 3(230)

41-69

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Celem artykułu jest prezentacja i uwspólnienie doświadczeń oraz wniosków płynących z jakościowych badań skoncentrowanych na parze i różnych aspektach jej funkcjonowania, prowadzonych w Polsce przez ostatnią dekadę przez wybrane zespoły badawcze. Odwołując się do przykładów z badań terenowych wskazujemy na szereg praktycznych oraz sytuacyjnych aspektów badania par i pokazujemy, że w celu zgłębienia relacji między dwojgiem ludzi i zrozumienia dynamiki ich wspólnego życia konieczne jest zastosowanie różnych konﬁguracji metod i narzędzi badawczych. Bazując na wnioskach z realizacji różnych projektów badawczych proponujemy podejście oparte na trzech ﬁlarach: zastosowaniu wywiadu diadycznego, połączeniu go z wywiadami indywidualnymi oraz prowadzeniu badań nad parą w formie wizyt domowych w schemacie podłużnym. Dzięki reﬂeksji nad już zrealizowanymi projektami możliwe było stworzenie metodologicznych rekomendacji dla badaczy i badaczek planujących w przyszłości prowadzenie badań w tym obszarze.

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The aim of the article is to present the frameworks and ﬁndings of qualitative research focused on couples and various aspects of their functioning. The research has been conducted by several research teams in Poland over the last decade. Relying on the examples from the ﬁeld, we point to a number of practical and situational aspects of research on couples. We argue that in exploring the relationship between two people and in understanding the dynamics of their life together, it is crucial to use different sets of research methods and tools. Drawing on the ﬁndings from several research projects, we propose an approach based on three pillars: using a dyadic interview, combining a dyadic interview with an individual interview, and conducting research on couples through repeated home visits stretched over long period of time. Being an outcome of the conducted projects, the methodological recommendations for the researchers planning the studies in this subject area are suggested.