The current study aimed to investigate the impact of individualism, collectivism, and hopelessness on substance use. Hopelessness was hypothesized as a mediator between individualism and substance use, and between collectivism and substance use. We tested the hypothesis using a survey of 641 young rural-to-urban migrants in China. Consistent with our hypotheses, individualistic orientation pred...

Current work suggests that individualistic values are more likely to be invoked in judgments about welfare recipients when the latter are black. Nevertheless, this “racialization” hypothesis has yet to be directly tested by looking at whether generalized individualism is more strongly related to hostility toward welfare recipients among whites when the recipients are black. In this paper, I con...

This paper describes how a startup business process outsourcing (BPO) provider named Liberty Source helped a large U.S.-based client reshore business services from an established Indian BPO provider. Founded in 2014, Liberty Source is a for-profit firm that provides a competitive alternative to offshoring while fulfilling its social mission to launch and sustain the careers of U.S. military spo...

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 80 (1999) 136–156 0031–5621/99/0200–0000 © 1999 University of Southern California and Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Published by Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. Abstract: Those interested in securing the compatibility of anti-individualism and introspective knowledge of content (henceforth ‘compati...

Because humans need both autonomy and interdependence, persons with either an extreme collectivist orientation (allocentrics) or extreme individualist values (idiocentrics) may be at risk for possession of some features of psychopathology. Is an extreme personality style a risk factor primarily when it conflicts with the values of the surrounding society? Individualism-collectivism scenarios an...

Reviving community requires progressive politics The coronavirus pandemic may have forced us into isolation, but it has also highlighted our dependence on one another. Across the world, crisis led to huge increases in volunteering, and here Britain thousands of people formed mutual aid groups provide help support their neighbours. Might this signal that we are heading towards less individualist...

Purpose While it is argued that entrepreneurship provides considerable freedom, also underlined might have the potential for exclusion and oppression. The study contributes to this debate aims investigate how entrepreneurs with disabilities (EWD) ascribe meaning freedom in a contested terrain informed by entrepreneurial autonomy as well constraints due impairments an ableist social environment....

Cross-domain identity management is gaining significant interest in industry. A wellknown example is the Liberty Alliance’s specifications for single signon of web users across different enterprises. The Liberty Alliance stresses that account linking is voluntary for the users and that privacy is an important consideration. We evaluate the privacy of these specifications in detail. We point out...