As an extension of colonialism, globalization is globalists' "controlled democracy" founded on the limited participation. It rule concealed totalitarianism political single-mindedness, for sake protecting global right capital, profit maximization, rationalization neoliberal ideology domination, smaller part one percent richest in order or real inequality, meaninglessness general vote by reducin...

Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an example of existential threat, we conducted a nationwide survey in March 2020 asking 445 Americans about their hopes and fears, opinions coronavirus pandemic, attitudes for getting through public health crisis. In present research, examine complex problem explore its effects on respondents’ levels optimism to resolve While much existing research examines influe...

We tested if boredom is associated with pornography use and what role low perceived meaning in life plays their association. Following work on the existential escape hypothesis, we hypothesised that consumption may be used to from meaninglessness signals. whether predicted increased via using for emotional avoidance. Subsequently, this indirect serial relationship scales measured excitement see...

Serum-based biomarkers and GDS-30 score and subscales of depressive symptoms were examined in a cross-sectional sample of 81 elderly men drawn from the TARCC cohort. Measurements included neuropsychological assessment and serum. Thirty three patients met consensus diagnosis for probable AD and forty eight were cognitively intact. Although initial regression analysis of all subjects showed signi...

Here I present a medical narrative, as a catharsis, regarding Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus in an attempt to elude meaninglessness in my difficult everyday practice of critical care medicine. It is well documented that physicians who practice critical care medicine are subject to burnout. The sense of despair that occasionally overwhelms me prompted my rereading of Camus’s classic text an...

A theoretical model of adolescent behavior is examined separately for males and females (N = 722). The model hypothesizes that depression and self-derogation may lead to a lack of purpose in life, which, in turn, may lead to suicide ideation and substance use. Confirmatory factor analyses and structural equation procedures were used to examine the model, using Bentler's (1984) EQS computer prog...

Existential Psychological Theory was employed as a conceptual and theoretical foundation for the use of hypnotically facilitated therapy in the management of intractable pain, nausea, and vomiting in 3 end-stage, terminally ill cancer patients. The existential principles of death anxiety, existential isolation, and existential meaninglessness were addressed with a combination of classic and Eri...