ABSTRACTThis study overviews and appraises Turkey’s contemporary public administration system. Its prominent characterizing features are discussed, with an emphasis on both the achievements and problem areas. Turkey has a long history of strong traditional bureaucratic practices and culture, from which its contemporary public administration system has emerged since the Republic was established almost a century ago. Despite its many achievements, public administration has its problems, generally the product of conflicts between tradition and modernity. Due emphasis should, however, be given to addressing the challenges of its over-politicization, strengthening governance practices, enhancing the human factor, and instituting further modern administrative reforms. 相似文献
Previous research has linked greater social connectedness with a lowered risk of self-directed violence among adolescents.
However, few studies have analyzed the comparative strength of different domains of connectedness (e.g., family, peers and
school) to determine where limited resources might best be focused. Data to address that gap were taken from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention’s Student Health and Safety Survey, administered to 4,131 7th–12th graders (51.5% female; 43.8%
Hispanic; 22.6% African American or Black). Logistic regressions (controlling for age, gender, race/ethnicity, family structure,
academic performance, and depressive symptoms) suggest that family connectedness was a stronger predictor than connectedness
to peers, school, or adults at school for non-suicidal self-harm, suicidal ideation, suicide plans, and non-fatal suicidal
behavior. In some analyses, peer connectedness was unexpectedly a risk factor. Results have implications for prevention of
suicide in adolescence, especially in the context of the current trend towards school-based prevention programs. 相似文献
This study aimed to investigate the diagnostic criteria for postbullying disorder, which enable the persons who provide therapy services for bullying victims, because until now, there are no criteria to help clinicians diagnose postbullying disorder. This study employed phenomenological research design. Purposive sampling was adopted to sample six university students who are experiencing the bullying behavior from their colleagues in the university campus. The results revealed that there are eight criteria for diagnosing postbullying disorder among victims. These are trauma exposure, symptoms of penetration, avoidance, perception and negative emotions, self‐destructive behavior, dysfunction due to symptoms, duration (1 month or more) of symptoms, and the criteria that the bullying symptoms cannot be attributed to the use of substances or drugs of another medical conditions. Results shed new light on the diagnostic criteria for postbullying disorder and proved the usefulness of these criteria in understanding the development of the postbullying symptoms among victims. These findings enable schools and universities to plan psychotherapy interventions for victims. 相似文献
Asia Europe Journal - In today’s world, globalization and internationalization of education necessitate new initiatives to catch the new era. Turkey, as a country in between the east and the... 相似文献
Research in developmental psychology highlights youth’s self-schemas as one possible pathway to improve adolescents’ functioning and promote positive developmental outcomes. Despite this, the trajectory of positive and negative self-schemas is relatively understudied. This study addresses this limitation by empirically examining the trajectory of self-schemas in a community sample of 623 youth (M?=?13.04 years; 54% female; 49% African American, 4% Biracial, 47% European American) who were followed over a seven-year period. Caregivers completed measures of parenting practices, maternal rumination and negative inferential style, and adolescents completed a computerized behavioral task assessing self-schemas (i.e., mental frameworks that guide attention, interpretation, and memory of one’s experiences). Multilevel growth curve modeling results demonstrated a quadratic slope for negative self-schemas and no mean-level change for positive self-schemas. These trajectories did not vary by gender or racial group. However, parenting factors differentially influenced the trajectories. Specifically, higher levels of parental involvement at baseline, or an active interest and engagement in a child’s experiences and activities, related to lower levels of negative self-schemas during adolescence. Additionally, higher levels of parental rumination and parental negative control at baseline related to lower levels of youth positive self-schemas at baseline. These findings contribute to models of youth cognitive development.
The genetic polymorphism of C6 was investigated in 329 unrelated Japanese individuals using isoelectric focusing in polyacrylamide gels followed by an electroimmunoblotting technique. Besides six common phenotypes C6 A, AB, B, AB2, BB2 and B2, six rare variants were observed. The allele frequencies were: C6*A = 0.4422, C6*B = 0.4757, C6*B2 = 0.0714, C6*A3 = 0.0015, C6*M1 = 0.0046 and C6*B3 = 0.0046. The population data confirmed that the C6*B2 allele is the third common allele characterizing Japanese. The present electroimmunoblotting technique was applied to demonstrate C6 types in dried bloodstains. The C6 types were determined from bloodstains stored at 4 degrees C for up to 10 weeks, at room temperature for up to 2 weeks and at 37 degrees C for up to 4 days. The results show that this component system offers a new powerful means for the medico-legal grouping of bloodstains. 相似文献
This essay studies the processes of globalization and resistance in Austria by using the Japanese cartoon character, Hello
Kitty, as a case study. Bringing in a number of significant researches on this cartoon character, it targets the “hybridization”
process involved in the Hello Kitty Magazine, a major form of publicity in the country, before moving onto actual reception of the character in Austria, which has apparently
taken the form of “resistance”. As such, the essay fills the gap in current researches on globalization in Austrian studies,
which mainly focus on Americanization but not Japanization, as well as supplements Kinsella’s influential essay on the Japanization
of European youths, which focuses on the United Kingdom, but not the rest of Europe.