this research aimed to investigate the relationship of basic beliefs and life-management strategies with subjective well-being. 467 university students (255 boys and 212 girls), selected through multistage cluster sampling, filled basic beliefs inventory, life-management strategies questionnaire, satisfaction with life scale, and positive and negative affects scales. results showed that belief ...

This paper seeks to show that virtual worlds provide a useful addition to the use of computer mediated learning tools. We discuss the underlying educational context and link this to the properties of virtual worlds and, in particular, that of Second Life. We report on the progress of a project for developing group work which seeks to link affordances in the environment to learning outcomes and ...

Virtual Worlds are largely adopted as places where students can perform normal class activities, including lectures. In this paper we describe a didactical experience conducted in Second Life during an Italian-Spanish collaboration which occurred in spring 2010. We proposed to a group of university students that they make use of a virtual world for carrying out the presentations of the projects...

Contemporary virtual worlds provide unique environments in which users may collaborate in the development of shared digital artifacts. However, the ways in which such collaboration takes place is to date under researched. This paper uses an activity theory perspective to analyze the development activities of two communities within the virtual world of Second Life, based on data gathered using e...

The purpose of this study is to search for any difference in self-expression of Second Life residents with different levels of shyness. For this purpose, we used sixty students from two fifth-grade elementary school classes. Thirty students were assigned to the high shyness group and the rest to the low shyness group. Each group completed preand postself-expression tests. After six weeks of spe...

Theories of the meaning of life are divided into two categories: nihilistic and anti-nihilistic. The latter is divided, in turn, into the view that life is meaningful and the view that life can be made meaningful. In this paper, we deploy a descriptive-analytic method to discuss Jean-Paul Sartre’s view of nihilism. In his view, God does not exist, the human being is born and dies without a reas...