Although his work has been largely overlooked by symbolic interactionists and other students of deviance, Aristotle (c384-322BCE) addresses community life, activity, agency, and persuasive interchange in ways that not only are remarkably consistent with contemporary symbolic interactionist approaches to deviance, but that also conceptually inform present day theories of deviance and provide val...

Workplace bullying is a phenomenon that can have serious detrimental effects on health, work-related attitudes, and the behavior of target. Particularly, workplace exposure has been linked to lower level general well-being, job satisfaction, vigor, performance higher burnout, deviance, turnover intentions. However, psychological mechanisms behind these relations are still not well-understood. D...

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate and analyze the ergonomic behaviors order to select the best work shift group in an Iranian petrochemical Company, in 2010. Methods: The methodology was based on the Ergonomic Behavior Sampling (EBS), and performed using ELECTRE method. In this study 1147 behaviors were observed. Results: The results indicated that 43.6% of workers’ behaviors were ...

Workplace bullying is often held as a precursor of expulsion in working life, but the　claim builds on sparse empirical groundwork. In the present study, bullying is investigated as an antecedent to indicators of expulsion, be it from the workplace (change of employer) or from working life itself (disability benefit recipiency and unemployment), using a nationally representative sample (n=1,613)...

Workforce safety is a precondition of patient safety, and safety from both physical and psychological harm in the workplace is the foundation for an environment in which joy and meaning can exist. Achieving joy and meaning in the workplace allows health care workers to continuously improve the care they provide. This requires an environment in which disrespectful and harmful behaviors are not t...

Purpose. Smoking is prevalent in psychiatric facilities among staff and patients. However, there have been few studies of how contextual factors in specific cultures influence rates of smoking and the health promotion role of psychiatric nurses. This paper reports the findings of a classical grounded theory study conducted to understand how contextual factors in the workplace influences the smo...

objective: the purpose of the present research was to determine the role of perceived communication deviance and inconsistent control (parental) in the family of malejuvenile offenders (age 12 yrs-18 yrs) through its comparison with their non-offender counterparts. methods: sample of the present research consisted of 200 adolescents divided into two groups of offenders and non- offenders from l...

Evidence regarding the effectiveness of after-school programs (ASPs) for reducing problem behaviors is mixed. Unstructured ASPs may increase antisocial behavior by increasing "deviancy training" opportunities, when peers reinforce deviant attitudes and behaviors. This research analyses approximately 3000 five-minute intervals from 398 observations of activities delivered as part of an ASP in fi...