Abstract This article focuses on the case study of an ethnically and culturally mixed Eurasian Macanese community through their phenomenological experience identity ambivalence. Our thematic framework includes structural impact colonial postcolonial political regimes in Macao, historical influences contemporary sociocultural expressions creolisation. It is argued that people illustrate memory a...

Literary theory and critical writing have been traditionally perceived as being in tension, either silently ignoring or polemically rejecting each other. In this paper we argue that literary creative are interconnected on various levels. By acknowledging fact, may be profitably deployed the class, order to enhance writers’ sense of mechanisms, conventions, purposes specific sociocultural contex...

When external requirements conflict with teachers’ personal beliefs and values, the resulting internal struggles can lead to identity tensions. Contributing discussion on development in a challenging context, this study investigated teacher tensions related coping strategies Hong Kong. We conducted 21 semi-structured interviews qualified teachers then performed deductive thematic analysis of da...

One important area of research that has emerged in recent years is the assessment of factors that contribute to the development of body image problems and, more concretely, to the development of body dissatisfaction. The female sociocultural beauty ideal, a constant object of research for over three decades now, is so ultra-thin that it is both unattainable and unhealthy. Likewise, the male bea...

The beliefs of patients attending walk-in clinic and outpatient section, Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore were studied separately. The Walk-in Clinic and Outpatient population were divided into three groups by systematic randomization. The beliefs of Group I, Hand III were left untouched, contradicted and supported respectively. The follow up attendance pattern of the patients was t...

The need for oil and natural gas as a major source of energy is vital. On the one hand, it has affected the political and economic equations at the international, regional and national level. On the other hand, it has had negative effects on sociocultural, legal, and environmental aspects as well as on the physical and mental health of human beings. Therefore, the need to provide an environment...

This ethnographic study examined how rural, lower track, underrepresented students made sense of their place in school and what role school science played in their cultural reproduction. The objectives of the study were to identify key components of science classroom discourse, analyze means of negotiating these components, and explicate participants' beliefs and roles in de®ning microcultural ...

The relationship of challenge to core beliefs, rumination, disclosure, and some sociocultural elements to posttraumatic growth (PTG) were explored. Participants were college students enrolled in psychology classes who reported having experienced a stressful event within the past 2 years and who completed measures in groups. Findings suggested that challenge to core beliefs was the main predicto...