Study 1 examined whether cultural estrangement arises from discrepancies between personal and societal values (e.g., freedom) rather than from discrepancies in attitudes toward political (e.g., censorship) or mundane (e.g., pizza) objects. The relations between different types of value discrepancies, estrangement, subjective well-being, and need for uniqueness also were examined. Results indica...

THE existentialist approach to psychiatric problems has gained considerable popularity amongst some groups of European psychiatrists, notably in Western Germany, France, Spain and Italy. In Britain and America the few papers that have appeared on this topic have not always been enthusiastic. The problems of psychiatry and psychology are slowly being formulated in ways that lend themselves to th...

Relationships between mothers and their children are expected to be lifelong and rewarding for both members of the dyad. Because of the salience of these ties, they are likely to be disrupted only under conditions of extreme relational tension and dissatisfaction. In this work, the authors drew on theoretical arguments regarding societal norm violations and value similarity to examine the proce...

Temporal communities are the result of a consistent partitioning of nodes across multiple snapshots of an evolving network, and they provide insights into how dense clusters in a network emerge, combine, split and decay over time. To reliably detect temporal communities we need to not only find a good community partition in a given snapshot but also ensure that it bears some similarity to the p...

Estrangement from a family member is characterised by lack of trust and emotional intimacy, often includes ceased communication contact. Existing estrangement research suggests adult children report three main reasons for parent: abuse, poor parenting betrayal. However, into experiences psychological wellbeing sparse. This study used semi-structured interviews to explore this with 7 female part...