Showing papers by "Ivana Marková published in 1983"

The haemophilic patient's self-perception of changes in health and life-style arising from self-treatment.

Abstract: Twenty three adults and twenty children with haemophilia, all on self-treatment, participated in the present study. They were interviewed as to how they perceive the effects of self-treatment upon various aspects of their life. It was found that the ability to treat themselves was perceived by patients as a great improvement over their previous treatment regimes for which they had had to go to hospital. Twelve of the adult patients had participated in our previous studies concerned with the social an psychological aspects of haemophilia. The analysis of the responses of these twelve patients showed that self-treatment is perceived so positively that some of the patients' earlier perceptions were distorted to correspond with their present and more optimistic perceptions of their condition. However, the number and type of psychosomatic symptoms was found to be unchanged by self-treatment and the unemployment rate has not decreased.

The origin of the social psychology of language in German expressivism

Abstract: The origin is traced, in the period 1770–1830, of the social psychology of language in the works of Herder, Humboldt and Hegel. For these German expressivists, language was an inherently social phenomenon. Their social and developmental approach to the study of language and thought stands in sharp contrast to the Cartesian paradigm which pervades most contemporary research in psycholinguistics. German expressivists initiated the study of language as a means of interpersonal interaction; conceived of reflexion, consciousness and self-consciousness as genuinely social phenomena; introduced the idea of meaning potentialities in words; and coined the term ‘empathy’. Whilst this tradition survives, e.g. in the social psychology of G. H. Mead, its origins in the work of the German expressivists is not always explicitly acknowledged.