The Impact of Maternal Relationship Quality on Emerging Adults’ Prosocial Tendencies: Indirect Effects via Regulation of Prosocial Values

Studies document that parents serve as children’s primary socialization agents, particularly for moral development and prosocial behavior; however, less is known regarding parental influences on prosocial outcomes during the transition to adulthood. The purpose of this study was to investigate how mother–child relationship quality was related to prosocial tendencies via emerging adults’ regulation of prosocial values. Participants included 228 undergraduate students (ranging from 18 to 25 years; 90% European American) and their mothers (ranging from 38 to 59 years) from four locations across the United States. Path analyses using structural equation modeling revealed that mother–child relationship quality was related to emerging adults’ regulation of prosocial values, which was, in turn, related to emerging adults’ prosocial tendencies. Specifically, emerging adults who reported higher levels of internal regulation of prosocial values were more likely to report prosocial tendencies that de-emphasized themselves, and were less likely to report prosocial tendencies for the approval of others.

Non-verbal and paralinguistic political communication in sport: an analysis of images of Springbok rugby

Non-verbal communication as a subfield of communication sciences has received increased attention in scholarly publications over the past few decades. Various scholars in the field, such as Real (1975), Ekman (1993), Lunenburg (2010), Garber (2011) and Krauss, Chen and Chawla (2015), emphasise the importance of non-verbal communication in generating, processing and channelling information. Not only facial expressions but also gestures and body language are deemed important. Studies by Real (1975) found that sport plays a crucial role in identity formation and the transmission of meaning and values. In South African sport, rugby-football in particular was used to reflect Afrikaner political prowess and masculinity, and the Afrikaner’s growing influence and dominance. As Salah, Sebe and Gevers (2012) indicate, non-verbal communication should be studied within the context that frames such communication; therefore, their multi-modal approach, used in conjunction with non-verbal communication, is vital for this discussion. In this article, the broader, more inclusive contextual approaches of Salah, Sebe and Gevers (2012) and Lunenburg (2010) are employed to analyse seven iconic photographic images which are steeped in the political dynamics of the period. After focusing on the theoretical aspects of non-verbal communication underpinning the study, the photographs are analysed as examples of impactful non-verbal communication.     

浅谈企业环境保护伦理

企业与环境相互依存、共存共生。环境问题一度成为西方发达国家工业发展和经济发展中的棘手问题。中国在经历了20年的改革开放,经济获得突飞猛进发展之后,环境问题也日渐凸显。企业在履行环境责任中应当遵循不伤害、整体、系统和公正四个伦理准则。     

核心价值体系与和谐文化建设

社会主义核心价值体系的提出,是对马克思主义关于社会理论的发展和创新,又丰富和发展了中国特色社会主义的理论与实践,为社会主义和谐文化建设指明了方向,明确了要求,规定了任务。     

反思与重塑:社会主义核心价值体系建设进程中的信仰养成

社会主义核心价值体系的构建与民族信仰重塑具有同构性和同步性,崇高的民族信仰能为建设社会主义核心价值体系提供强有力的精神支撑和思想保障,社会主义核心价值体系的思想精髓能为民族信仰重塑提供理论支撑和精神导向。当前社会变迁,信仰体系的嬗变一定程度上导致了民族信仰的错位和缺失,严重削弱了人们对社会主义核心价值观的认同感和归属感,因此应在稳步推进社会主义核心价值体系建设的同时,加快民族信仰重塑的步伐。     

重新认识社会主义市场经济条件下的集体主义价值观

在社会主义市场经济条件下,在处理个人与社会、个体与整体的价值关系问题上,仍然必须坚持集体主义的价值观。但是,这种集体主义价值观与传统意义上的集体主义价值观是相区别的。在新形势下,我们不但要对集体主义价值观的内涵做出新的阐释,而且要遵循集体主义价值观的建构原则。     

Challenges for EU governance through Neighbourhood Policy and Eastern Partnership: the values/security nexus in EU–Belarus relations

Whereas the European Union (EU) has had some effect on political and economic reforms in the Ukraine and Moldova, it almost completely failed to impress the regime and population of Belarus. Despite growing consensus at the EU level that the Union's policies for Eastern Europe cannot succeed without Belarus, few attempts have been made to account for the failure of EU governance in Belarus. Having recalled the current legal and institutional set-up of EU–Belarus relations, this article introduces the notion of the ‘values/security nexus’ to explain the limited impact of EU governance in Belarus. It argues that the highly contradictory normative objectives in the Union's current Neighbourhood Policy towards Belarus effectively undermine the EU's credibility in the country: idealist values of ‘winning the hearts and minds’ of the Belarusian population increasingly collide with traditional realist goals of protecting EU interests and the stability of the Belarusian state. By way of conclusion, the article highlights the challenges facing the EU's new Eastern Partnership, including Belarus.     

An Impasse of Reconciliation in Guo Shaoyu’s Theory “Writing as a Vehicle of Values”

As the founder of the basic research paradigm on “writing as a vehicle of Values” in modern China, Guo Shaoyu established a tri-partite notion consisting of “writing to conform to values”, “writing as a vehicle of values” and “writing to illustrate values”, and this practice has influenced several generations of scholars. However, his approach, which draws heavily on Western literary theory, cannot reveal the original meaning of “writing as a vehicle of values” due to its failure to consider its features and the fact that this notion came into being as a result of “literature miscellaneous”. It is necessary to return to the notion on the ontological level so as to better understand the uniqueness of classical Chinese ideology resulting from China experience which, in turn, is made possible only by Chinese actualities.     

利益语境下经济法的价值分析

经济法在平衡利益冲突和化解社会冲突的同时,就意味着对公正、秩序、效率等价值的追求。在现代社会,经济法无论是在观念实体还是制度建构中,都是有其所赖以为基础并在实践中加以贯彻的一套价值准则作为法律制度的内在价值加以固化的。在我国现阶段,经济法价值目标可以表述为:效益优先,兼顾公平。在利益语境下,经济法所追求的价值目标的实质是以社会整体效益的最优为根本价值目标,在此基础上实现个体利益的最大化、普遍化、持续化。     

Public sector innovation in the Asia-pacific trends,challenges, and opportunities

Public organizations face a multitude of challenges that force them to innovate existing processes, policies, programs, and products. Indeed, in recent years, innovation has become a core topic of study in public administration. However, the vast majority of the public sector innovation literature stems from the United States and Western Europe. The lack of Asia-Pacific studies is particularly striking given that countries like Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan consistently rank high on public sector innovation. This special issue brings together state of the art empirical research on public sector innovation in the Asia-Pacific region that examines a range of drivers and outcomes of innovation, including studies comparing Asia-Pacific countries and countries in the East and the West. The findings show that public sector employees in the studied countries all seek opportunities to innovate, whereas cultural norms and values either constrain or enable innovative behaviour and affect the extent to which employees experience leadership support for displaying such behaviour.