The present study investigated the role of recent life events and other psychological factors relating to alienation, hopelessness, personality dimensions and religiosity in patients with first episode of depression in old age. A sample of 50 subjects who had first episode of depression at or after the age of 50 were selected from Psychiatric Centre, Jaipur along with a matched sample of 50 nor...

The Parental Alienation Syndrome, so named by Dr. Richard Gardner, is a distinctive family response to divorce in which the child becomes aligned with one parent and preoccupied with unjastified and / or exaggerated denigration of the other, target parent. In severe cases, the child's once love-bonded relationship with rejected / target parent is destroyed. Testimony on Parental Alienation Synd...

Context: Empathy, teamwork, and lifelong learning are described as key elements of professionalism. The first recipients of their benefits are professionals themselves. Paradoxically, scarce studies have reported association between professionalism and occupational well-being. The main purpose of this study was to characterize the influence that empathy, teamwork, and lifelong learning, play in...

Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people are a highly-stigmatized population. For this reason, they might internalize society's normative gender attitudes and develop negative mental health outcomes. As an extension of the minority stress model, the psychological mediation framework sheds light on psychological processes through which anti-transgender discrimination might affect menta...

Erroneous computer entry problems [here: ‘e-errors] in hospital labs threaten the patients’–health carers’ relationship, undermining the health system credibility. Are e-errors random, and do lab professionals make them accidentally, or may they be traced through meaningful determinants? Theories on internal causality of mistakes compel to seek specific causal ascriptions of hospital lab eerror...

Employees who drink heavily or who abuse or are dependent on alcohol can undermine a workforce's overall health and productivity. To better understand the reasons behind employee abusive drinking and to develop more effective ways of preventing problem drinking in the workforce, researchers have developed a number of paradigms that guide their research. One such paradigm is the alienation/stres...