Edwards but not Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability scores influence the predictability of suicidal intent. If this effect occurs because the Edwards Scale records a substantive trait rather than a response set, then it should display predictable associations with variables that are relevant to theories of suicide. In line with the work of Durkheim (Suicide, 1897/195 1) and Baumeister (Psycholog...

This paper discusses Marx's concept of alienated (or estranged) labour, focusing mainly on his account in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. This concept is frequently taken to be a moral notion based on a concept of universal human nature. This view is criticized and it is argued that the concept of alienation should rather be interpreted in the light of Hegelian historical id...

Dr. Childress organizes the alienation process along its core psychological dynamics; the trans-generational transmission of psychological-relationship trauma. Unlike Gardner’s proposal of a new syndrome, Dr. Childress identifies the alienation dynamic within an interpersonal set of recognized and established DSM-IV TR diagnoses, centering on a Personality Disorder in the alienating parent (the...

This study examined a model of the simultaneous and interactive influence of social context, psychosocial attitudes, and individual maturity on the prediction of urban adolescent drug dealing. Five factors were found to significantly increase adolescents' opportunity for drug selling: low parental monitoring, poor neighborhood conditions, low neighborhood job opportunity, parental substance use...

This paper derived from a research project entitled study of the relationship between social alienation and social apathy. It was done by stratified random sampling among 366 students of Islamic Azad University (Mashhad Branch). In this regard, the variables of social alienation and social apathy were assessed by a questionnaire and the reliability was 0.84 too. The results showed that the mean...

This paper draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, to introduce employability as a cultural fantasy that organizes identity around the desire to shape, exploit and ultimately profit from an employable self. Specifically, the paper shows how individuals seek to overcome their subjective and material alienation by maximizing their self-exploitation through constantly enhancing their employability. This...

VAN.Fans of heavy metal music have created their own subculture which. Arnetts 1996 book Metalheads: Heavy Metal Music and Adolescent Alienation argues that. Especially in adolescence and young adulthood Rentfrow Gosling, 2006. Rebellious music rock, alternative, and heavy metal was posi. Culture of alienation among heavy metal fans, which, in turn, was.Attitudes and characteristics of adolesce...

VAWnet is a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. “Given the inherent problems with even the ‘reformulated’ concept of PA, and also the fact that (1) courts and evaluators are unlikely to abandon the concept anytime soon, and (2) alienating behavior is indeed a factual reality, most often inflicted by abusive fathers, this paper offers [a] brief 7 outline of an approach ...