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For high-risk organisations, it is essential that employees demonstrate safety-awareness behaviour, as a reflection of their safety personality, to avoid accidents. Several studies confirm that personality is the individual difference that is most associated with the likelihood of an accident occurring; it is therefore necessary to address the identification and expression of the characteristics of safety personality. This paper aims to present a personality questionnaire the authors have created, which was administered to employees of a large Hungarian company in the electricity supply business with altogether 1273 employees obligated to prioritise workplace safety. The final version of the questionnaire contained 59 items. Based on the statistical results, 58.08% of the variance of total variables was explained by 10 factors; the scales of the questionnaire developed are otherwise reliable. The paper also examines the validation of the scales using different psychological measures.

Two studies examined the relation of gender-related physical characteristics (such as a deep voice or broad shoulders) to other aspects of gender. The first study used an open-ended survey to identify physical characteristics and mannerisms that are associated with judgements of masculinity and femininity in men and women. In a second study, subjects' gender-related physical attributes and mannerisms were coded during a five minute videotaped interaction and related to other aspects of gender such as personality traits, interests and role behaviors, gender identity, and gender adequacy. The results showed that gender-related physical attributes were consistently associated with other gender characteristics for men but not women. The studies suggest that physical characteristics and mannerisms should be included as an important component in the emerging multifactorial conception of gender identity.

The article deals with the linguistic characteristics of political discourse. It analyzes the dialogues and monologues presented in the political fable "Animal Farm" written by George Orwell. The author of the article argues that the linguistic characteristics of this work are: various forms of vocative expressions, rhetorical questions, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences. The latter is often presented in the form of slogan. These linguistic characteristics are frequently used in the novel and make the work emotionally charged. The author says that vocative expressions are usually presented with the words: comrade, friend, fountain, lord, gentlemen, etc. In some cases we see personal names as well. Repetition of words is also characteristic for these expressions. What concerns to interrogative sentences, they are usually answered by the speakers themselves.