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 ...

Culture and family structure provide a sense security. Further, the chrono, macro and micro contexts of development influence developmental transitions and timetable particularly owing to variations in the macrosystem associated with non normative life events like migration. Migration threatens family links, security and attachment bonds. Rising migratory trends have prompted an increased inter...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed at describing the prevalence of illicit drug use among 9th grade students in the morning period of public and private schools in Brazil, and assessing associated factors. METHOD The Brazilian survey PeNSE (National Adolescent School-based Health Survey) 2012 evaluated a representative sample of 9th grade students in the morning period, in Brazil and its five regions...

This study was undertaken in order to identify and describe the nature of socialization of females into sport. A fixed-alternative questionnaire was administered to 585 women who were currently active in sport. Results indicated that peers and family were the significant agents of socialization during childhood, peers and school were aost significant during adolescence, and peers were most sign...

Author Bio: Johanna Shapiro, Ph.D. is professor of family medicine and director of the Program in Medical Humanities & Arts, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine. As a psychologist and medical educator, she had focused her research and scholarship on the socialization process of medical education, with a special focus on the impact of training on student empathy; and on the docto...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to offer aspects of a conceptual model that can be applied as an organizational instrument for aiding preclinical and clinical chiropractic students to develop a thorough understanding of their roles among the next generation of health care providers for the 21st century. DISCUSSION It is necessary for chiropractic physicians to comprehend the basis of...

Objective: The objective is to acknowledge difficulties experienced by family caregivers of elderly individuals with Alzheimer's disease and build strategies that deal with these difficulties in the process of care for such individuals. Methods: This is a descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach, conducted with six family caregivers of elderly individuals with Alzheimer's d...

Research on the role of the family in political socialization has often assumed that intergenerational continuity and conflict are opposing models of political development. In a longitudinal design, cross-lagged correlational analysis and path analysis were used to examine the causal relations among parental political ideology, parent-student interpersonal relations, and student political ideol...