Irony and contingency are central to Charles E. Rosenberg's scholarship and theoretical stance. Irony is a a way to speak through history both to power and to those who would contest power. The question becomes, What kind of politics is it? The limitations of Rosenberg's ironic trope and its world weariness that can provide critique but no way to change is analyzed.

BACKGROUND With greater numbers of older adults relocating to independent living communities (ILCs), there is an increasing need to determine whether factors such as self-efficacy can facilitate relocation adjustment. However, no relocation self-efficacy instrument is available. OBJECTIVES To develop and test an instrument measuring older adults' self-efficacy to relocate to an ILC. METHOD ...

Although original, intricate and sophisticated, Gregg Rosenberg’s core argument in favor of panpsychism is a version of an argument that has been around for some time. My paper tries to shed some light on Rosenberg's strategy by comparing it to the views of Leibniz (or a fictional philosopher close to him) who took a similar approach. At the heart of the argument is the idea that relational pro...

Increasingly, sustainability is conceived as a crisis of the human mind and the key challenge for pro-sustainability education is developing sufficient motivation in learners. The spiritual aspirations of religious communities contain sufficient motivational force, which may be deployed for effective sustainability education. This paper explores the approaches to sustainability and sustainabili...

Background Few investigators have evaluated pain assessment tools in the critical care setting. Objective To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability (FLACC) Behavioral Scale in assessing pain in critically ill adults and children unable to self-report pain. Methods Three nurses simultaneously, but independently, observed and scored pain behaviors tw...

Starting from the general principles of concept positive discipline, paper points out that schools and teachers can significantly contribute to application discipline affect different aspects a student’s personality development. The potentials applying in school for developing adolescents’ self-esteem are particularly emphasized. Accordingly, this will present results study aimed establish corr...

OBJECTIVE Critical nutrition literacy (CNL), as an increasingly important area in public health nutrition, can be defined as the ability to critically analyse nutrition information, increase awareness and participate in action to address barriers to healthy eating behaviours. Far too little attention has been paid to establishing valid instruments for measuring CNL. The aim of the present study...

Youth encounter physical activity barriers, often called problems. The purpose of problem solving is to generate solutions to overcome the barriers. Enhancing problem-solving ability may enable youth to be more physically active. Therefore, a method for reliably assessing physical activity problem-solving ability is needed. The purpose of this research was to report the development and initial ...

the purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of 12-item core self rating scale (cses) developed by judge, erez, bono, and thoresen (2003). two hundred nineteen employees from shahid chamran and jundi shapour medical sciences universities surveyed were randomly selected. cronbach's alpha was 0.71 and item-total correlations were ranging from .25 to .61, indicating ...

BACKGROUND We analysed genetic and environmental influences on self-esteem and its stability in adolescence. METHOD Finnish twins born in 1983-1987 were assessed by questionnaire at ages 14 (n = 4132 twin individuals) and 17 years (n = 3841 twin individuals). Self-esteem was measured using the Rosenberg global self-esteem scale and analyzed using quantitative genetic methods for twin data in ...