This paper aims to offer a critical reading of Thomas S. Szasz’s The ethics of psychoanalysis: The theory and method of autonomous psychotherapy (1965 / 1988a). In particular, the critical reading is focused on revealing and investigating the presence of attitudinal biases and beliefs pertaining to the social class of psychotherapy. It will be argued that in Szasz forwarding his thesis, a numbe...

According to attitudinal theorists, justices on the U. S. Supreme Court decide cases largely on political preferences that fall within one dimension of ideology. The focus of this study is to test whether a unidimensional ideological model explains the voting behavior of Canadian Supreme Court justices (1992-1997). The factor analysis results in three areas of law, two of which have never been ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To test the effectiveness of two interventions compared to usual care in decreasing attitudinal barriers to cancer pain management, decreasing pain intensity, and improving functional status and quality of life (QOL). DESIGN Randomized clinical trial. SETTING Six outpatient oncology clinics (three Veterans Affairs [VA] facilities, one county hospital, and one community-ba...

Using the Model of Adoption of Technology in Households (MATH) (Venkatesh and Brown 2001, Brown and Venkatesh 2005), this research investigates the impact of dispositional resistance to change on Social Network Site (SNS) adopters’ and non-adopter’s attitudinal beliefs in order to explain, why individuals resist using Facebook. Therefore, the study is based on psychology research and adapts a p...

Employee attitudinal outcomes are integral to the organization’s stability and functional coherence. Such dispositions toward organization significant others imperative for health overall cohesion of workplace. This paper identified effective leadership as playing a crucial role in perceptions expectations workers thus impacting on employee outcomes. The was designed theoretical paper, specific...

Using meta-analysis, we compare three attitudinal outcomes (i.e., job satisfaction, affective commitment, and turnover intent), three behavioral outcomes (i.e., interpersonal deviance, organizational deviance, and work performance), and four health-related outcomes (i.e., general health, depression, emotional exhaustion, and physical well being) of workplace aggression from three different sour...

Loyalty concept is analyzed under different points of view such as brand, customer or store loyalty. Furthermore, due to the advancements in relationship marketing concept and the raising prominence of building relationship with the customers, this study focuses on the store loyalty aspect and aims to investigate the relationship between store loyalty and the customers’ relational benefits (soc...

A visual information feedback mechanism for group decision making (GDM) problems with triangular fuzzy complementary preference relations (TFCPRs) is investigated. The concepts of similarity degree (SD) between two experts as well as the proximity degree (PD) between an expert and the rest of experts in the group are developed for TFCPRs. The consensus level (CL) is defined by combining SD and ...

BACKGROUND Education is integral to reducing stigma toward the mentally ill. Medical educators have a key role in delivering education that reduces that stigma. Undergraduate psychiatric training and specific education programs are both effective in reducing stigma. However, many students are exposed to concepts of mental illness at a much earlier stage in their education. No previous study has...