This qualitative study centers on the career narratives of seven Black youth enrolled at an urban public school in Midwest. We used critical race theory to analyze participants’ responses a narrative counseling intervention, My Career Story (Savickas & Hartung, 2012). The four interconnected themes found were (a) persistence against all odds, (b) unconditional acceptance and connections, (c...

PURPOSE This study explored the meaning of quality of life (QOL) for Sardinian caregivers of people affected with Alzheimer's disease and factors improving and worsening their QOL. DESIGN The phenomenological method was used to study 41 Alzheimer's disease caregivers living on the western coast of Sardinia, Italy. Interviews were conducted and analyzed using Cohen, Kahn, and Steeves's approac...

The present study examined the relationship between personality facets and risk perception using the Big Five model. A broad range of hazards was considered: energy production, pollutants, sex, deviance, addictions, weapons, common individual hazards, outdoor activities, medical care, and psychotropic drugs. Key personality facets that were most predictive of risk perception compared to (or in ...

Recent studies suggest that gender may be less influential on the experience of emotion than originally believed. Most of these studies, however, have focused almost exclusively on gender differences in discrete emotional experiences, paying less attention to the ways in which emotions may co-occur within a relatively short period. Using the General Survey’s 1996 emotions module, I examine the ...

This qualitative study aims to characterize nurses' actions in care for children during emergency situations, at a pediatric unit from a hospital in the interior of São Paulo State, Brazil, by means of semi structured interviews with eight nurses. The interview included questions about professional profile and, next, the research question. The analysis was guided by Bardin's content analysis (1...

Anyone who has resided in a rural area for any length of time realizes that there are existent in both folklore and media a substantial number of myths about the tranquility of "rural existence." This paper examines a few of the common myths of "rural existence" and compares them to some of the documented realities of rural living. The thesis of the paper is that such a comparison should explod...

Recently, there has been considerable interest in attribute based access control (ABAC) to overcome the limitations of the dominant access control models (i.e, discretionary-DAC, mandatory-MAC and role based-RBAC) while unifying their advantages. Although some proposals for ABAC have been published, and even implemented and standardized, there is no consensus on precisely what is meant by ABAC ...

This paper develops a simple model in which adaptive learning by investors leads to recurrent booms and busts in asset prices. The model captures aspects of Minsky’s “financial instability hypothesis” in which periods of tranquility lead investors to increase their estimates of expected returns and reduce their estimates of return volatility. The changes of beliefs drive up asset prices and hen...