Most of the scientific literature concerning former high-level athletes is devoted to their professional retraining. There are comparatively few empirical studies dealing with body representations and practices. Based on Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical framework, this article presents results an interview survey 30 athletes. It shows that relationships bodies result from specific trajectories, ma...

Relations between parental socialization and infants' prosocial behavior were investigated in sixty three 18- and 30-month old children. Parents' socialization techniques (e.g., directives, negotiation, reasoning) differed for the two age groups, as did relations between socialization and different forms of emerging prosocial behavior (helping; sharing).

Cultural socialization attitudes, beliefs, and parenting behaviors were examined in families with internationally adopted children. The authors hypothesized that parents with lower color-blind racial attitudes would be more likely to engage in enculturation and racialization parenting behaviors because they hold stronger beliefs in the value and importance of cultural socialization. Using data ...

This paper conceptualises and empirically examines the varying roles of performance measures and socialization mechanisms on shared performance within strategic buyer-supplier relationships. Previous research has pointed to the importance of using performance measures to manage supplier relationships. However, we argue that socialization mechanisms may play an important role in mediating the co...

Objectives To examine if the empathy levels of first-year medical students are amenable to didactic interventions idealized to promote values inherent to medical professional identity. Methods This is a pretest-posttest study designed to assess the empathy levels of first-year medical students (n=166) comprising two consecutive classes of a Brazilian medical school, performed before and after...

Constructivist literature has recently focused on how agents’ identities are changed when entering into new international communities. Jeffrey Checkel (2005) proposes that socialization is a process in which new members of a community become inducted into the norms of that community resulting in two types of internalization: Type I socialization, in which actors act in accordance with norms wit...

The goal of this article is to highlight the dimensions characterizing the socialization process in a crisis context. Based on the definition of organizational socialization advanced by Van Maanen and Schein (1979) and again employed by Jones (1986), a crisis is presented as a passage from a so-called “normal” situation to an “exceptional” situation. A crisis represents a socialization context ...

Recent evidence suggests that the association between parents' use of non-supportive emotion socialization practices and their children's subsequent negative emotional outcomes varies based on ethnicity. The goal of this study is to test the proposition that African American women interpret parental non-supportive emotion socialization practices less negatively than European American women. In ...

Background The affinity research group (ARG) model is a set of practices built on a cooperative team framework to support the creation and maintenance of dynamic and inclusive research groups in which students learn and apply the knowledge and skills required for research and cooperative work. Using situated learning theory, we conducted a qualitative study of current and former ARG members to ...

OBJECTIVES The importance of professional attitudes in medical care has long been recognized; however, medical training has not stressed attitude development until recently. In previous studies among medical students, we found that gender and specialty preference are important factors in attitudes. In this study, patient-centredness of trainees in general practice and surgery and of final-year ...