UNLABELLED This study investigates the personality characteristics of individuals who have stigmatizing attitudes towards people with mental illness. MATERIAL AND METHOD 700 final-year university students completed the "Dangerousness Scale,' the "Affective Reaction Scale" and 88 items of the "Defense Style Questionnaire" (DSQ). RESULTS The results showed that there is a strongly positive co...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate temperamental, psychodynamic, and cognitive factors associated with dissociation. METHOD Fifty-three subjects with DSM-IV-defined depersonalization disorder and 22 healthy comparison subjects were administered the Dissociative Experiences Scale, the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire, the Defense Style Questionnaire, and the Schema ...

Modern cyber security educational programs that emphasize technical skills often omit or struggle to effectively teach the increasingly important science of cyber deception. A strategy for effectively communicating deceptive technical skills by leveraging the new paradigm of honeypatching is discussed and evaluated. Honey-patches mislead attackers into believing that failed attacks against soft...

Critics of mass culture often identify 1950s-style status competition as one of the central forces driving consumerism. Thomas Frank has challenged this view, arguing that countercultural rebellion now provides the primary source of consumerism in our society, and that ‘cool’ has become its central ideological expression. This paper provides a rearticulation and defense of Frank’s thesis, first...

This paper describes the experiences of a sociologist as a mitigation expert during the "typical" first degree murder case, from indictment through the penalty phase of the trial. The author, who has worked in death penalty cases (capital murder) since 1988, has served as a mitigation expert in over 40 such cases. Topics covered include: working with a death penalty mitigation team and what to ...

Introduction: Breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in women with an increasing outbreak. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between defensive styles and Islamic quality of life (QoL) with death obsession in women with breast cancer. Methods: This research was a correlational study. The statistical population of the study included 220 female patients with...