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Drug Use among Residents of Juvenile Correctional Center in Kerman, Iran, and its Relationship with Personality Dimensions and Self-concept

Background: Identifying the status of substance misuse and its psychosocial correlates among residents of juvenile correctional centers, as a high risk group, could potentially illuminate the roadmap to prevention of drug use in this group. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 93 individuals aged 13 to 18 were enrolled. A self-administered questionnaire was completed and dropped in a sealed ...

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON The Relationships between Conviction Trajectories of Fathers and their Sons and Daughters

[The actual image of male patients with paranoid schizophrenia in perception of the patients themselves and their parents].

AIM The aim of this study was to answer following questions: Does the self-image of male schizophrenics differ from the image their parents have? Do parents judge their sons more negatively or more positively than they themselves do? Are opinions of the mothers and fathers different or consistent? METHODS 30 unmarried male patients with paranoid schizophrenia (diagnosis based on ICD-10) were ...

POLICING THE CRISIS 30 YEARS ON Still Policing the Crisis?

Writing this has been a troubling experience. Returning to a text 30 years on in this way combines intellectual, political and personal refl ections in an unsettling way. These range from a powerful attachment to processes of collective or collaborative intellectual work that Policing the Crisis (PTC; Hall et al., 1978) embodied and enhanced to a rather depressed sense of how many things the bo...

Mothers’ and Fathers’ Attitudes Toward Their Children’s Academic Performance and Children’s Perceptions of Their Academic Competence

Do mothers’ and fathers’ attitudes towards their children’s academic performance influence children’s perceptions of their academic competence? Two types of parental attitudes—parents’ level of satisfaction with their children’s performance in school and the importance parents place on children’s academic success—were the focus of this study. The data from children (n= 248), mothers (n= 219), a...