This study examined the relationships among eating attitudes, exercise identity, and body alienation in ultramarathoners. Eighty-seven competitive ultramarathoners (73 males, 14 females) completed the Eating Attitudes Test-26, Exercise Identity Scale, and Body Alienation Scale as part of their pre-race registration. Correlation coefficients revealed that eating attitudes were positively related...

This study examined whether self-esteem mediated the association between peer relationships and internalizing problems (i.e., depression and social anxiety). A total of 7290 (3756 girls) adolescents (ages 13–18 years) completed self-report measures of peer relationships, including direct and indirect victimization, social isolation, friendship attachment (alienation and trust) and friendship qu...

For a sample of 305 6th, 7th and 8th grade students, of whom 95% was from economically disadvantaged Hispanic families and for whom English was their second language, evidence was sought regarding the reliability and construct validity of scores on a Spanish version of an academic self-concept measure entitled Dimensions of Self-Concept (DOSC), comprising five subscales bearing the same names a...

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...

The concept of bodily alienation is promising for critical phenomenologies race because it marries description and evaluation. With this concept, we can go beyond mere descriptions lived experience provide arguments challenging the status quo. In fact, steer clear another danger: an overly “objective” form theorizing about that unresponsive to experiences subjects whose lives aims reimagine. By...

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...