Commitment to a relationship is associated with a number of consequences, including willingness to sacrifice for the relationship, greater cognitive interdependence between partners, and increased trust in one’s partner. Consistent with such consequences, we hypothesized that greater commitment is associated with decreased perceptions of one’s partner as a source of harm to the self. We conduct...

The participation of China’s civil society in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake reconstruction featured a number of NGOs and social work organizations. Additionally, participatory development theories were broadly accepted and applied in their community efforts. However, our three-year field work effort in an earthquake-stricken village finds that those theories, based as they are on the presumption ...

There is a paucity of research examining the attitudes of employees toward their employer after termination. We argue that post-termination organizational commitment by employees (in the form of affective commitment and organizational endorsement) is affected by the past actions of the organization, specifically those associated with the process of termination. This suggests that organizations ...

The problem of woman’s identity, as a social construction imposed on the woman from the outside, makes the object of the present paper. Having as a starting point Simone de Beauvoir’s formula: « on ne naît pas femme, on le devient », this article attempts to show how woman’s identity is gradually constructed, within society. Drawing its source from the Marxist theory and from Julia Kristeva’s s...