The present study aims to clarify the 7th DSM-IV criterion for Borderline Personality Disorder: "chronic feelings of emptiness." Emptiness has been the subject of little empirical investigation. The relationship of emptiness to boredom and other affect-states is uncertain, and patients and clinicians can find it difficult to generate verbal descriptions of emptiness. In the present study, two s...

A lthough the dinosaurs are gone, extant vertebrates provide clues to the development of photorecep-tion among the clades that probably preceded and then radiated into the dinosaurs. The ancient order Rhyncho-cephalia, which includes Sphenodon as its only family, with two surviving species, had its heyday between 200 million and 100 million years ago. While this order is reptilian, these creatu...

high-cholesterol diet can be the fast track to a heart attack. But scientists are only now discovering that one of cholesterol’s most damaging effects might stem from its ability to make blood cells self-destruct. The findings appear in a pair of recent studies directed by Ira Tabas (Columbia University, New York, NY). Cholesterol is abundant in atherosclerotic lesions, which become most danger...

This study investigates major challenges encountered by Syrian refugee youth in public high schools Turkey, focusing on three sources of assessment: the students themselves and their parents educators. Based qualitative interpretive research methodology, twenty-three individual semi-structured interviews were conducted. The simultaneously hears voices as well those parents, teachers, principals...

Loneliness is a severe problem in New Zealand and most prevalent among the young, namely Generation Z. In March 2020, went into lockdown due to Covid-19, there was spike young people indicating loneliness as an issue. This age group experienced feeling loneliest.
 The experience of subjective for all individuals; however, lonely relates broader shared social, economic, political, environme...

The Solitary Reaper is one of William Wordsworth’s representatives which portrays an Irish girl working and singing solitarily in a field. This poem fully reflects the loneliness of the poet. He uses varying wording and phrasing, the lonely image of the reaper, the expanding of the lonely music, and the way of expressing his loneliness to set the lonely atmosphere. Therefore, it is necessary to...

Studies of the psychological well-being of elderly living alone have yielded inconsistent results. Few investigators have distinguished living alone from loneliness in the same study. Thus, the present study examined the independent and interactive effects of living alone and loneliness on depressive symptoms (GDS score) and quality of life (SF-12 MCS score) in a prospective 2-year follow-up co...

World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) supporting rich and complex social interactions among over 8 million players worldwide. In this study, we explore implications of the pervasive “lonely gamer” stereotype, which portrays online gamers as socially isolated and addicted young people, usually male, with few real-life (RL) social ties. This is the first study to di...