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The current study aims to explore various facets of Work-Family Conflict (WFC) in a Romanian sample and examine the reconciliation strategies challenging it. 100 participants completed a Romanian version of the IMFJR-Indicator for the Measurement of the Family-Job Reconciliation. An exploratory factorial analysis reveals reciprocal influences between work and family, and how related constraints may impact upon individual's personal growth and development.

This study aims to underline some aspects regarding the termination of supervision period in the case of the drugs dependent offenders. Out of the total number of persons under judicial supervision during 2008-2011, a sample of drugs dependent cases was followed and analyzed with the aim to evaluate the impact of decisions imposing a treatment for addiction in the case of these subjects. Results demonstrate that this kind of judicial decisions may support the drugs dependent offender to successfully finalize the supervision period due time and facilitate his or hers social reintegration.

Research in cognitive science, science education, and developmental psychology has long investigating how children, based on their everyday experience, construct mental models of the world they live in. This paper provides a review of the research investigating the nature of mental models in the context of child-computer interaction, review elicitation techniques used within the field, and discusses its potential to further inform the design process. Exploring children's mental models of new technologies may bring about some further understanding in their cognitive and conceptual development, thus promting parents and teachers to guide them in exploring the new technological environment.

The present study is, in particular, an attempt to test the relationship between tax level and political stability by using some economic control variables and to see the relationship among government effectiveness, corruption, and GDP. For the purpose, we used the Vector Autoregression (VAR) approach in the panel framework, using a country-level panel data from 59 countries for the period 2002 to 2008. The salient features of this model are: (a) simplicity is based on a limited number of variables (five) are categorical or continuous and not dependent on complex interactions or nonlinear effects. (b) accuracy: a low level of errors, the model achieves a high percentage of accuracy in distinguishing countries with inclination to political instability, compared to countries with political stability, (c) generality: the model allows to distinguish types of political instability, both resulting from acts of violence and failure of democracies to show, and (d) novelty: the model incorporates a tool that helps evaluate and exclude many variables used by the conventional literature. This approach is mainly based on the recognition of state structures and the relations between elites and parties.