The goal of the present study is to explore link between Islam and deviance using a sample 1,596 young adults from public university in Türkiye by employing multivariate statistical analyses. core independent variables are importance political identity (Islamic, nationalist, social democrat/Ataturkist, apolitic, other). dependent life-time (an index), cheating on exams, skipping school, cigaret...

‘Symbolic Boundaries’ are the lines that include and define some people, groups, and things while excluding others. These distinctions can be expressed through normative interdictions (taboos), cultural attitudes and practices, and patterns of likes and dislikes. They play an important role in the creation of inequality and the exercise of power. The term ‘symbolic boundaries’ also refers to th...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between job stress and deviant behaviors, which include organizational frontline deviance, moderating effect person–organization (P-O) fit on these relationships. Design/methodology/approach sample consists 259 employees working in Surabaya, Indonesia. Respondents were asked complete a questionnaire distributed by survey assistant...

PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL WORK IS A WESTERN INVENTION, BUT OFTEN IT IS taught as if its methods of interventions are culturally neutral. Because of this oversight, not only do practitioners run the risk of implementing interventions that are ineffective due to a lack of cultural fit between the intervention and the targeted population, but they also miss opportunities to incorporate culturally ground...

cities, as the focused centers for human residence and settlement, are faced with various issues and problems. the high rate of crime and anomic behavior are characteristics of today’s major cities. fear of crime and anomic behavior is perceived as the most important reasons leading to a decline in the use of public spaces in cities by its residents. according to the mutual relation between env...

It is very common in medical studies for a patient to experience more than one event rather of interest. This led exposing an individual multiple risks and practitioners need account these concerning some prognostic factors. There are many methods dealing with events survival data classically, however, break down when considering the top-down effect factors concurrently correlated (competing ri...

Pro-social rule breaking (PSRB) is a form of constructive deviance characterized by volitional rule breaking in the interest of the organization or its stakeholders. Over the course of three studies, we developed a generalizable measure of PSRB and placed it in a nomological network with personality, workplace perceptions, counterproductive behaviors, and task and contextual performance ratings...