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Repressive Coping Style and Its Relation to Psychosocial Distress in Males With Erectile Dysfunction
2010
ABSTRACT Introduction There is evidence that repressive coping adversely affects medical conditions such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, and bronchial asthma. Erectile dysfunction (ED) is known to have a severe and lasting negative impact on health, quality of life, and partnership. Although ED may be eminently threatening for the self-image of affected men, a repressive coping style and its consequences for their mental health and partnership has not yet been investigated. Aim Based on the presumption that the male self-image is threatened by ED, we expected men with repressive coping strategies—although reporting the same degree of impairments regarding their sexual function—to d…
Psychological Conflicts Between Relatives During the Long-Term Course After Successful Living Organ Donation
2008
The German transplantation law prefers living organ donation between close relatives and spouses, which is assumed to guarantee unequivocal altruistic motivation. Since 2001, 68 recipient-donor-pairs, who aspired to have a renal or liver transplantation, underwent a systematic psychosomatic evaluation. Meanwhile, 43 transplantations were performed including 34 renal and 9 liver cases. Seventeen recipient-donor-pairs were readministered evaluations by the department of psychosomatic medicine after 1 to 6 years after transplantation for long-term follow-up. In 10 cases of medically successful transplantation, we identified severe conflicts between donor, recipient, and next-of-kin. Major conf…
A Generative Model of the Mutual Escalation of Anxiety Between Religious Groups
2018
We propose a generative agent-based model of the emergence and escalation of xenophobic anxiety in which individuals from two different religious groups encounter various hazards within an artificial society. The architecture of the model is informed by several empirically validated theories about the role of religion in intergroup conflict. Our results identify some of the conditions and mechanisms that engender the intensification of anxiety within and between religious groups. We define mutually escalating xenophobic anxiety as the increase of the average level of anxiety of the agents in both groups over time. Trace validation techniques show that the most common conditions under which …
A Generic Agent-Based Model of Historical Social Behaviors Change
2016
The primary theme of this chapter is trying to describe, discuss and understand how human societies change over time using agent-based modeling. Agents become a major paradigm of social simulation allow us to model the complex social phenomena under the bottom-up approach. Certainly one of the key points of the bottom-up approach is the emergence of macro level phenomena from micro level actions and interactions. The main objective of this work is to build a Virtual Social Laboratory, from Rafael Pla Lopez Social evolution model, in order to explore the social evolution of a set of artificial societies/agents that evolve within a grid of cells which are characterized by a level of natural r…
Influence of Some Psychosocial Factors on Mobbing and its Consequences Among Employees Working with People with Intellectual Disabilities
2012
Background The problem of mobbing has attracted a great deal of attention over the past few years. This concern has increased the study of the phenomena, which has resulted in many scientific publications. Mobbing has been characterized as an emerging risk at work. The aim of this study was to analyse the influence of some psychosocial factors at work ‐ role clarity, interpersonal conflicts and social support ‐ on mobbing and its consequences ‐ that is, inclination towards absenteeism and psychosomatic disorders. Materials and methods The sample included 422 employees working with people with intellectual disabilities. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to test the hypotheses. Res…
Work-family conflict and its relations to well-being: the role of personality as a moderating factor
2003
Contains fulltext : 63496.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) The aim of the present study was to examine the role of the Big Five personality dimensions as possible moderating factors between two types of work–family conflicts: work interference with family (WIF); and family interference with work (FIW); and their relationship to well-being in the domains of work and family generally as well. The participants were fathers (n=296) who took part in a national family research project in the Netherlands in 1995. All fathers were employed full-time. The results showed that emotional stability moderated the relationships between WIF and job exhaustion and between WIF and depression. In ad…
Luces y sombras del proceso de participación ciudadana en torno al conflicto del embalse de Korrosparri (Álava, País Vasco)
2011
En el anexo II del Plan Hidrológico Nacional se contempla la construcción del embalse de Korrosparri en la zona de la llanada alavesa . A raíz de ello se genera un conflicto, con defensores y detractores de esta infraestructura, bajo el que subyacen dos visiones diferentes: la de quienes, siguiendo con la tradición costista , defienden la necesidad de agua para el desarrollo y crecimiento de la zona; y la de quienes, si bien en un primer momento se movilizan por el no deterioro del entorno natural, durante el transcurso del conflicto, van generando un discurso más amplio en el que cuestionan la asimilación del crecimiento como progreso y defienden una nueva cultura del agua.
Toxic Theisms? New Strategies for Prebunking Religious Belief-Behaviour Complexes
2020
This article offers a brief epidemiological analysis and description of some of the main cognitive (and coalitional) biases that can facilitate the emergence and enable the maintenance of a broad category of toxic traditions, which will be referred to here as “religious” belief-behaviour complexes (BBCs) or “theisms”. I argue that such BBCs played an “adaptive” role in the Upper Paleolithic and have continued to “work” throughout most of human history by enhancing the species’ capacity for material production and promoting its biological reproduction. However, today the theist credulity and conformity biases that surreptitiously shape these kinds of social assemblages have now becom…
Variaciones del drama historial en Lope de Vega
2013
A partir de la exposición de los fundamentos que subyacen a la investigación presentada, y que la vinculan a otras anteriores, y en los que se aborda el concepto y las características del drama historial en Lope de Vega, el ensayo se centra en la distinción de dos modos fundamentales del drama historial: la conmemoración de hechos históricos famosos, por un lado, y el análisis del conflicto moral, casi siempre de índole privada, que estalla en circunstancias históricas concretas, por el otro. Estas dos grandes estrategias de significación, la propia de la construcción de una memoria colectiva, asociada a la de la identidad de la naciente nación, y la propia de la exploración de la identidad…
Rhetorical deliberation. A sustainable normativism from a Gorgianic-Aristotelian perspective
2018
Starting from the discursive turn that has characterized democracy since the 80s of the last century, our article tries to outline a form of sustainable normativism. To do this, we use a theoretical framework derived from ancient Greek rhetoric and in particular from the reflection of Gorgias and Aristotle. In our perspective, on the one hand, the Gorgianic view is a useful reminder of the role that the pursuit of power and the possibility of conflict unavoidably play in the form of argumentation specific to the public sphere, that is, deliberation. On the other hand, Aristotle, thanks to his emphasis on the link between logos and desire and his analysis of truth available in deliberative c…