Self-alienation is a component of authenticity robustly connected to psychological flourishing. Building on theorizing about the importance an experiential sense self-ownership for feeling one's true self, we tested whether intentional and unintentional mindwandering differentially correlate with experience self-alienation. Participants (N = 278) completed baseline measure trait self-alienation...

The following discussion presents an overview of Marx’s theory of alienation. In contrast to the usual presentation of the subject, we will demonstrate that Marx’s theory of alienation is unintelligible without a prior assimilation of the philosophical method by which it was derived. This in turn leads to a major problem. The philosophical outlook and categories employed by Marx are quite forei...

“Three personal aspects of this work might be of interest: (1) it documents the often-praised interplay between teaching and research; (2) it was a successful example (rarer than one might think) of interdisciplinary collaboration; and (3) it illustrates how a work’s success can bring irritation as well as pride. “My concern for clarifying the meaning of alienation began when I taught a course ...

this research was about the modification of work alienation of personnel at the payame noor university. in order to measure the work alienation, this study has used siman’s model. beside, the analysis of profile test has used for comparing the experimental and control groups from the viewpoint of work alienation and its three dimensions and ultimately testing hypothesis. research was carried ou...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between cultural capital and social alienation. According to Pierre Bourdieu’s Standpoint, cultural capital involves habitus, rhetoric styles, different forms of knowledge and tastes. According to Bourdieu, the individuals who are in high economic and social hierarchical level have different patterns, habitus and type of cultural goods...

Objective: Referred obese adolescents often display psychological problems. The present study aimed at investigating whether Young’s schema theory constitutes a comprehensive framework to understand psychopathology in youth in general and in referred obese adolescents in particular. Methods: 91 youngsters referred for obesity treatment and 91 normal weight controls (all between 12 and 18 years ...