Despite the recent theoretical debate over importance of addressing emotions in fieldwork, most European undergraduate programmes anthropology still lack methodology courses that specifically focus on emotional impact doing research. In this article, I draw from my research with activist parents autistic children Portugal to explore affective dimensions fieldwork experience. particular, give an...

Researchers have found that religious affiliation, religious attendance, religious beliefs, and prayer are associated with teen sexual attitudes and behavior.(Wallace & Williams, 1997; Whitehead, Wilcox, & Rostosky, 2001) Holding strong religious beliefs and praying are linked to reduced sexual activity among adolescents (Meier, 2003; Resnick et al., 1997) and teens (girls in particular) from m...

abstract background: pregnancy rate among iranian adolescents below 20 years of age is increasing. pregnancy during adolescence is considered a social issue associated with medical, emotional, and social outcomes for the mother, child, and family. the current research examines the experience of pregnancy among iranian adolescents. materials and methods: the qualitative content analysis method w...

This study investigated the effects of religious education on student religious identity over and above parent religiosity by examining student perceptions of two aspects of teacher functioning: teacher caring and teacher as role-model. We posited that effects of these variables on students' religious identity are mediated by student perceptions that the school provides a non-alienating religio...

Virtually all current theories of choice under risk or uncertainty are cognitive and consequentialist. They assume that people assess the desirability and likelihood of possible outcomes of choice alternatives and integrate this information through some type of expectation-based calculus to arrive at a decision. The authors propose an alternative theoretical perspective, the risk-as-feelings hy...

These booklets, in a series called the Doubleday Papers in Psychology, are evidently intended for supplementary reading in undergraduate courses in psychology and as separate treatments of particular topics of interest to the general reader. The basic idea seems to me a good one, for an instructor, or a layman seeking enlightenment on a particular topic, could from such a series secure what he ...

Within the last few years the relationship between religiousness and psychosocial adjustment has become a subject of increasing interest. However, previous research did not explicitly differentiate between dispositional religious commitment and situation-specific religious coping. The current cross-sectional study investigated the relative power of religious commitment, positive and negative re...