466 www.thelancet.com Vol 370 August 11, 2007 There are several lessons from the recent Ghana experience (panel). The political and sociological aspects of such events are also important. On the internet forum associated with the fi rst press report about the incident, there was massive outpouring of anger, resentment, paranoia, and vitriol. The situation suddenly became the focus for a wide ra...

Empirical evidence reveals that diversity-heterogeneity in race, culture, gender, etc.-has material benefits for organizations, communities, and nations. However, because diversity can also incite detrimental forms of conflict and resentment, its benefits are not always realized. Drawing on research from multiple disciplines, this article offers recommendations for how best to harness the benef...

Lower subjective socioeconomic status (SSS) and higher personal relative deprivation (PRD) relate to poorer health. Both constructs concern people's perceived relative social position, but they differ in their emphasis on the reference groups people use to determine their comparative disadvantage (national population vs. similar others) and the importance of resentment that may arise from such ...

Austen's extraordinary realism in depicting the dynamic internal processes which follow on the heroine's loss in Persuasion becomes clear in the light of a psychoanalytic understanding of mourning. Persuasion dramatizes the effects of a mother's death in adolescence as these come into play at the time of the heroine's separation from her fiancée and her later mourning. The thesis of this paper ...

Introduction. The relevance of the topic relies on fact that until now, within Russian psychological discourse, problem gender characteristics university students’ resentment did not have an autonomous status. ressentiment in student environment is poorly developed both at theoretical and empirical levels. researchers usually confine themselves to analyzing its individual components (aggression...

INTRODUCTION This study was designed to evaluate the presence of personality disorders (PDs) in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) patients and to determine their influence on the severity of the associated psychopathology. METHODS 132 CFS patients were assessed using SCID-I, Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4+ (PDQ-4+) with its Clinical Significance Scale, and Fatigue Impact Scale. The Beck ...

Maternal depression is a broad term that encompasses several conditions with varying onsets. The conditions associated with maternal depression are as follows: prenatal depression, which occurs during pregnancy; baby blues, with onset a week after birth; postpartum depression, whose onset can be within the first two to three months of birth; and postpartum psychosis, which begins within two to ...

This study examined the role of emotional awareness in couples' relationships and the effects of a tendency to respond to difficult couples' situations with "soft" emotions (including sadness and fear) versus "hard" emotions (including anger and resentment). Participants were 56 heterosexual couples who completed a measure of relationship satisfaction and two measures of emotional awareness, in...

Supply chains can act as effective mechanisms for raising environmental and social standards but can be very blunt instruments. While supply chain action can bring sustainability gains, it can also have unintended negative consequences and cause considerable resentment at the mismatch between costs and benefits along the chain. This article looks at how and why supply chains are being used to i...

There is some picturesque writing and a good deal of sound surgery in the small volume before us. Tropes and figures abound. Thus (p. 5), "setting up inflammation in the surrounding structures, and rendering the skin adherent -and undermined, she (Nature) seeks relief from tension by carrying a lighted torch, as it were, among highly inflammable tissues." This process of " rendering the skin un...