Gender nonconformity refers to the extent to which a person's gender identity, gender role and/or gender expression differs from the cultural norms prescribed for people of a particular sex, within a certain society and era. Most data on gender nonconformity focus on the prevalence of gender dysphoria (which also includes a distress factor) or on the number of legal sex changes. However, not ev...

Purpose Family businesses feature prominently in economies, including the South African wine industry, using websites to convey their family identity. This research paper aims explore identity elements that wineries use on websites, alignment and how these are communicated online. Design/methodology/approach Based Gioia’s methodology, a two-pronged approach was used analyze 113 wineries’ websit...

South Central Texas emergency planners have organised a regional Personal Identity Verification (PIV) project for hospital and emergency workers. This paper describes the development and administrative challenges in designing and implementing an electronic PIV system across multiple organisations in a 22-county region.

Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) have been overwhelmed I7y early life events. However, theirrecollections ofthose events may become distorted in the course of their registration, retention, and retrieval ofthose events, and theprocessingofthose recalled events may itselfprove so difficult that efforts to do so risk retraumatizating them ratherfacilitating their growth. The int...

Previous research suggests there may be links between people’s self-esteem and their musical preferences, although this evidence is inconsistent inconclusive. The present study aimed to reexamine these using measures of collective self-esteem, while also taking into account factors that are likely moderate (i.e., age, gender, personality). One hundred thirty-nine young adults completed an onlin...