Copyright: © 2012 Theofilou P. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Adherence is the extent to which a person’s behavior is consistent with health care recommendations [1-4]. The problem of poor adh...

Given the limited research on young adults' reactions to 12-step programs, the purpose of this study was to explore young adults' views of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Qualitative interviews with 26 young adults who had attended Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous were conducted. Most participants viewed 12-step programs favorably, reporting that the programs provided h...

In our work we analyse the political disaffection or “the subjective feeling of powerlessness, cynicism, and lack of confidence in the political process, politicians, and democratic institutions, but with no questioning of the political regime” by exploiting Twitter data through machine learning techniques. In order to validate the quality of the time-series generated by the Twitter data, we hi...

ABSTRACT Little is known about the factors that influence whistleblowing for contingent workers. This study compares intentions of 146 traditional full-time and We find workers are significantly less likely to whistleblow than Some these differences in appear be due feelings powerlessness, organizational citizenship behavior, commitment have relation their organizations. offer future research i...

This article reviews the work of significant humanities and social science scholars for their thoughts and theories about advertising’s social and cultural consequences. In brief, they view advertising as intrusive and environmental and its effects as inescapable and profound. They see it as reinforcing materialism, cynicism, irrationality, selfishness, anxiety, social competitiveness, sexual p...

Situated within the field of platform governance studies, this paper shares findings from an ‘autoethnography automated powerlessness’, drawing researcher’s disempowering experience being a heavily moderated social media user. Using theoretical frameworks blending affordances and World Risk Society theories, contextualises my experiences moderation pole dance instructor, activist blogger accoun...