Since epidemiological arguments favouring self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic are widely recommended, the consequences of social isolation/loneliness of older people considered to be at higher risk for severe illness are neglected. We identified and described medical, social,...

Even if only the factor Conscientiousness is a predictor of the academic performance, the hypothesis checked by an author in a previous study, the Big Five Plus survey applied on 118 students has helped me make up a personality profile for the students with good and very good performances in the technical department. The existence of personality sub-factors, good predictors of the academic performance, allowed me to build this general profile of personality, which may bring the interest of some related fields: inventics and performatics

Artistic training in higher education involves intense emotional and identity investment that may expose students to structural vulnerability. Anxiety, burnout, and creative blocks are frequently reported among young artists, while institutional responses remain largely reactive. This article argues for a preventive approach based on an integrated pedagogical framework that views vulnerability as inherent to artistic formation rather than as an individual deficit. It proposes a 3P preventive model structured around three interdependent dimensions: Person, Pedagogical Process, and Artistic Pathway, shifting the focus from individual resilience to educational conditions that support sustainable development.

Using an interdisciplinary, empirical perspective, the study explored Orthodox Christians’ perceptions of self-love and its relationship to love of neighbour, love of God and self-sacrifice. Three scales with good reliability were designed and used with 153 Orthodox Christian adults. The main results obtained are as follows: Orthodox Christians have positive perceptions of self-love – they do not see it as a passion or sin as it is described in Christian ascetic literature; they appreciate the importance and benefits of self-love when they perceive it as a separate reality from the love of neighbour and the love of God; some of them have negative or unclear perceptions on the relationship between self-love, love of neighbour and love of God. In this last respect the empirical results of the study contradict important philosophical and theological views. In the study, less than one-quarter of the Orthodox Christians scored high in practising healthy self-love and agreed that self-love can coexist with self-sacrifice in a certain dose or balance. The clinical and pastoral implications of the findings are discussed, and practical suggestions for intervention are proposed.