This study investigated differences between Mexican- and Anglo-American college students on the Psychological Screening Inventory (PSI; Lanyon, 1970, 1973)-a brief personality instrument designed to detect persons who might benefit from more extensive evaluations in mental health settings. Further, this study controlled for the Mexican Americans' acculturation level, age, and socioeconomic stat...

Alienation has been recently revived as a central concept in critical theory. Current debates, however, tend to focus on normative rather than explanatory issues. In this paper, I confront the latter and advance an account of alienation that bears mechanisms bring it about order locate distinctive social psychological fact dissolve paradox seems involve. particular, argue can be explained disru...

The general goal of this article is twofold, First, based on theoretical and empirical foundation of psychiatric disorders this study investigates the association between depression disorder and several variables which are assumed to be more prevalent determinant and predictor of depression disorder in a sample of workers in the city of Tehran. In doing so, we developed six hypotheses related t...

The coefficient of correlation evaluates the similarity of two sets of measurements (i.e., two dependent variables) obtained on the sameobservations. The coefficient of correlation indicates the amount of information common to two variables. This coefficient takes values between −1 and +1 (inclusive). A value of 0 indicates that the two series of measurement have nothing in common. A value of +...

ion Some mention ought also to be made here of Hegel’s use of the term ‘abstract’ which we have already encountered in a few places. In an earlier passage we saw how the “pure thought” of the Stoic was regarded as ‘abstract’ and so lacking in real content. Likewise we have more recently seen how the limited outlook of the ‘Understanding’ is also considered abstract. As might be expected, clarif...

In this paper I critically discuss the epistemological structure of medical anthropological inquiry. The patient has a central role in this analysis, as biomedical epistemology, which informs that of medical anthropology, serves to alienate the patient from society and one’s self. The link in epistemological structure therefore disadvantages the general intent of medical anthropology in the mis...

Building on prior work on rejection sensitivity, we propose a social-cognitive model of gender-based rejection sensitivity (Gender RS) to account for individual differences in how women perceive and cope with gender-based evaluative threats in competitive, historically male institutions. Study 1 develops a measure of Gender RS, defined as anxious expectations of gender-based rejection. Studies ...