- Author:
Nataliia Lobach
- E-mail:
natasha301277@gmail.com
- Institution:
Poltava State Medical University
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3795-7864
- Author:
Marina Saenko
- E-mail:
saenkomarina89@gmail.com
- Institution:
Poltava State Medical University
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6732-9239
- Author:
Liudmyla Isychko
- E-mail:
jlusya82@gmail.com
- Institution:
Poltava State Medical University
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7269-5126
- Year of publication:
2022
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
13-18
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/ve.2022.03.01
- PDF:
ve/3/ve301.pdf
The article considers the advantages and disadvantages of implementing distance learning for medical students’ training in quarantine. The issues of using e-learning methods in distance learning have been analysed. In the teaching methodology, the questions of determining the feasibility, advantages and disadvantages of implementing distance learning in the educational space and distinguishing between the concepts of “distance learning” and “e-learning” appear. The term “e-learning” is often interpreted as synonymous with “distance learning”, but the authors of this article note that this is not entirely correct. E-learning is only one of the forms used in combination with other forms of learning. Distance learning at the modern level involves the implementation of the educational process only by the network. Distance learning is a method of attending class even if students cannot be there physically. According to the Regulation “On distance learning” in Poltava State Medical University, “distance learning is a set of educational services provided through modern psychological, pedagogical, information and communication technologies”. The purpose of distance learning at the university is to introduce modern information and communication technologies to train the specialists at the educational and qualification levels “bachelor” and “master”, training programmes for interns, and advanced training of doctors according to national educational standards. The article analyses the modern pedagogical research of Ukrainian and foreign schools and presents the results of the analysis of students’ and teachers’ opinions on the introduction of distance learning in the educational process. The article also presents the results of implementing distance education at the Poltava State Medical University in the disciplines “Medical Physics” and “Medical Informatics”. The result of the study proved that distance learning has only advantages theoretically. In practice, many problems need to be solved.
- Author:
Tihana Brkljačić
- E-mail:
tihana@pilar.hr
- Institution:
Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Croatia
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8120-9540
- Author:
Marina Kotrla Topić
- E-mail:
marina.kotrlatopic@pilar.hr
- Institution:
Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Croatia
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9829-3056
- Author:
Andreja Brajša-Žganec
- E-mail:
andreja.brajsa-zganec@pilar.hr
- Institution:
Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Croatia
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0846-6297
- Author:
Marija Džida
- E-mail:
marija.dzida@pilar.hr
- Institution:
Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Croatia
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4969-2143
- Author:
Ljiljana Kaliterna Lipovčan
- E-mail:
ljiljana.kaliterna@pilar.hr
- Institution:
Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Croatia
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2662-3156
- Year of publication:
2023
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
84-95
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/tner.23.72.2.06
- PDF:
tner/202302/tner7206.pdf
This study aims to analyse parents’ perception of the pandemic’s impact on their daily lives, considering experienced stressful COVID-19-related events, and effect on the condition of family members. A total of 1072 triads (mother, father, and child) participated in the study. We assessed the perceived changes in daily lives due to the pandemic and the occurrence of seven stressful COVID-19 events (for both parents) and positive and negative affective states experienced in the last few weeks (for both parents and their children). Fathers who were prohibited from doing their job or experienced a decrease in income during the pandemic were more likely to perceive greater negative changes in the quality of their daily lives. Mothers’ perception of negative changes was associated with decreased income, death of a close person, self-isolation and the father’s negative affect. Personal or child experience of the COVID-19 infection did not contribute to the explanation of the variance of perceived deterioration in daily lives in none of the samples.
- Author:
Karina Leksy
- E-mail:
Karina.leksy@us.edu.pl
- Institution:
University of Silesia in Katowice
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5907-7836
- Year of publication:
2023
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
36-49
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/tner.23.73.3.03
- PDF:
tner/202303/tner7303.pdf
This study aimed to evaluate Polish school principals’ coronavirus-related health literacy (HL) level and explore the respondents’ feelings in the context of the pandemic media information overload . The survey was conducted in 8 out of 16 provinces in Poland between June 2021 and December 2021 using an online questionnaire. Research revealed that the most challenging for Polish school principals was judging the reliability of the media-based information about COVID-19. Moreover, respondents’ coronavirus-related HL was positively associated with feeling well-informed about the pandemic and less confused concerning media information about coronavirus. Enhancing school principals’ HL is recommended, as it can positively affect the entire school community through health-oriented leadership behaviour and prevent an infodemic, facilitating school management and making the right decisions.
- Author:
Katarzyna Borzucka-Sitkiewicz (Corresponding author)
- E-mail:
katarzyna.borzucka-sitkiewicz@us.edu.pl
- Institution:
University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
- Author:
Rafał Muster
- E-mail:
rafal.muster@us.edu.pl
- Institution:
University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8255-7803
- Year of publication:
2023
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
109-122
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/tner.23.73.3.08
- PDF:
tner/202303/tner7308.pdf
The quantitative research, the partial results described in this article, was carried out as part of the COVID-HL network (covid-hl.eu). They aimed to determine to what extent health promotion and safety measures were taken in Polish schools during the COVID-19 pandemic for members of school communities. A survey method was used to conduct the research, which included an online distributed questionnaire. The research sample consisted of principals and deputy principals of schools located in eight provinces (N = 803). The research showed that school principals were highly involved in implementing health promotion activities and were, at the same time, severely burdened with tasks related to ensuring the safety of all school community representatives and maintaining proper organisation of school work during the pandemic.
- Author:
Rafał Miszczuk
- E-mail:
rafalmiszczuk@gmail.com
- Institution:
University of Szczecin (Poland)
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7519-6640
- Author:
Joanna Martyniuk-Placha
- E-mail:
martyniuk.joanna@gmail.com
- Institution:
University of Szczecin (Poland)
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2202-1534
- Year of publication:
2023
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
197-212
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy202380
- PDF:
ppsy/52/ppsy202380.pdf
The aim of this paper is a comparative analysis of the new methods used to organise the 2020 general elections in Poland and the Czech Republic, which were held in the state of the SARS-19 virus pandemic. This paper analyses the voting methods introduced in connection with sanitary regulations in both countries and the scale of votes cast in this way in relation to the total. It discusses and compares the requirements introduced that voters and electoral commission members had to meet on voting day to minimise the risk of infection with the virus. The text shows a number of similarities in both countries in terms of the measures applied to prevent the spread of the virus associated with a personal visit to a polling station. An additional aspect of the comparative analysis of the covid-voting methods in the two countries was a discussion of voting rules for those infected or in quarantine on voting day. Analysis of the data showed that in both countries the alternative voting method, was not very popular.
- Author:
Anna Kobierecka
- Institution:
University of Łódź
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6452
- Year of publication:
2023
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
215-239
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2023.79.11
- PDF:
apsp/79/apsp7911.pdf
The COVID-19 pandemic caused not only substantial turmoil in the international environment, both politically and economically, but it also inspired new forms of diplomatic conduct. Since 2020 we could observe new forms of health diplomacy, which is already well-established among theoretical concept. While counteracting the harmful effects of the pandemic was the primary goal of most of the initiatives, it soon became apparent that health diplomacy can be perceived by many as a political tool, supporting foreign policies and strategic goals. This research aims to investigate International Olympic Committee as a non-state diplomatic actor and its efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic that can be classified as public diplomacy and, more specifically, health diplomacy. The main research question refers to the character of diplomatic conduct, more specifically, whether it can be related to traditional health diplomacy focused on addressing health challenges or also to public diplomacy, aimed at reaching own goals.
- Author:
Justyna Łapaj-Kucharska
- Institution:
University of Silesia in Katowice
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8529-4356
- Year of publication:
2023
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
285-313
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2023.79.15
- PDF:
apsp/79/apsp7915.pdf
For Venezuela, the COVID-19 pandemic has hit a country that already has been in a multidimensional crisis for years in circumstances of economic and social devastation, and authoritarian rule. However, the pandemic accelerated Venezuela’s transformation into a police state by introducing unsubstantiated pandemic restrictions that were enforced by the state security apparatus and abusive armed forces. The aim of the article is to show the instrumentalization of the COVID-19 pandemic in the area of radicalization of the Maduro regime and to answer the questions in which areas of the state’s functioning and in what dimension the Nicolás Maduro regime used the pandemic and the related restrictions on civil rights to strengthen its authoritarian power, radicalize the activities of the security services, violate human rights, and to transform Venezuela into a police state.
- Author:
Anna Baláž Ďurechová
- E-mail:
anna.durechova@umb.sk
- Institution:
Matej Bel University, Slovakia
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4914-0517
- Author:
Lada Kaliská
- E-mail:
lada.kaliska@umb.sk
- Institution:
Matej Bel University, Slovakia
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9700-5980
- Year of publication:
2023
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
21-31
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/tner.23.74.4.02
- PDF:
tner/202304/tner7402.pdf
The study aimed to replicate our research findings of 2019 by comparing the incidence of emotional disorder symptoms and global trait emotional intelligence (EI) and assessing the closeness of relationships of the observed variables in the context of the new COVID-19 pandemic situation. The data were gathered by self-report tests measuring levels of fears (KSAT), anxiety (STAI), depression (CDI) and trait emotional intelligence (TEIQue-ASF) in Slovak adolescents (N 270) aged 18 to 20 years (AM 18.42; SD 0.59) before (N 138) and during (N 132) the COVID-19 pandemic. Results revealed an increased incidence of emotional disorders (situational anxiety, stage fright, fear, and trait anxiety) and also a decreased level of global trait EI in the pandemic of 2019. Strong negative relationships were identified between global trait EI and trait anxiety (r -0.578; p ≤ .001), as well as medium negative relationships with overall fear (r 0.398; p ≤ .01) and stage fright (r 0.398; p ≤ .01). There were weak or no relationships between global trait EI and the other variables. Thus, higher global trait EI is related to a lower incidence of symptoms of specific emotional disorders. Our findings point to the validity of implementing socio-emotional learning elements into secondary school students' education.
- Author:
Ewelina Rabiej
- E-mail:
erabiej@ur.edu.pl
- Institution:
Uniwersytet Rzeszowski
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0420-5217
- Year of publication:
2023
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
231-247
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/ppk.2023.06.17
- PDF:
ppk/76/ppk7617.pdf
The Fiscal Sustainability in the Economic Crisis and the Constitutional Fiscal Rules – Legal and Financial Perspective
The aim of the article is to analyse selected theoretical and practical aspects of fiscal sustainability and the conditions of economic crisis, in the constitutional and financial context. The legal regulations on the stabilisation of state finances and the constitutional fiscal rules are presented. The values of fiscal indicators in the EU countries in the years 2019–2022 have been compared. The research shows that, despite the increasing legal regulations and progressive constitutionalisation of fiscal rules, intensive intervention measures taken to counteract the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to fiscal destabilisation.
- Author:
Anna Kobierecka
- E-mail:
anna.kobierecka@uni.lodz.pl
- Institution:
University of Łódź (Poland)
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6452
- Year of publication:
2023
- Source:
Show
- Page no:
25
- Pages:
33-57
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy202391
- PDF:
ppsy/52/ppsy202391.pdf
In turbulent times of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many challenges to a country’s international reputation. During the pandemic, Sweden, especially in its first stage, was frequently presented by international media outlets, sometimes negatively. Such adverse reporting may have imposed some reputational threats on Sweden. This research aims to investigate Swedish communication through a short-term perspective of public diplomacy (its day-to-day dimension) with the foreign public during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research was based on qualitative content analysis of official statements made by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, the Swedish Institute’s Instagram account, and interviews with the Swedish Institute employees. The main argument of this research is that in Sweden, day-to-day communication within PD served as a tool supporting the crisis management process. The research question refers to whether Sweden, through the activity of the Swedish Institute, used some elements of its public diplomacy conduct to react to the coronavirus pandemic. The hypothesis states that the day-to-day dimension of public diplomacy can be associated with the crisis management process.
- Author:
Ewelina Kancik-Kołtun
- E-mail:
ewelinakancik@o2.pl
- Institution:
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9626-4419
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
225-241
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/ppk.2024.02.16
- PDF:
ppk/78/ppk7816.pdf
The aim of this article is to explore the issue of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Visegrad countries. The paper consists of a theoretical part, an empirical part and a discussion of the results of the research conducted by the author. The first section of the article defines remote work. Later, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market is described. In the next section, legal changes related to remote work in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary are presented. The legal regulations in the V4 countries are examined using a legal-dogmatic method, while the changes in the legislation – with a historical method. Subsequently, the article focuses on empirical research methodology and analyses the research results. The comparative analysis is based on data collected in the four Visegrad countries (Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary).
- Author:
Ewelina Kancik-Kołtun
- Institution:
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9626-4419
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
25-43
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2024.84.02
- PDF:
apsp/84/apsp8402.pdf
The aim of this article is to analyse the empirical research conducted on civic activism during the COVID-19 pandemic and attempt to interpret the findings in terms of comparative analysis in the Visegrad countries. The study is based on survey data collected in the Visegrad Group in the research field of civil society. The data gathered in this way helped to illustrate the actual state of civic activism during the COVID-19 pandemic in individual countries, when the introduced restrictions and constraints changed the world of social activism.