Infertility can be an agonizing experience, especially for women. And, much of the agony has to do with luck: with how unlucky one is in being infertile, and in how much luck is involved in determining whether one can weather the storm of infertility and perhaps have a child in the end. We argue that bad luck associated with being infertile isoften bad moral uck for women. The infertile woman o...

Intimate partner violence against women and victimblaming attitudes among Europeans Enrique Gracia a Department of Social Psychology, University of Valencia, Avda. Blasco Ibáñez, 21, 46010 Valencia, Spain. Correspondence to Enrique Gracia (e-mail: [email protected]). (Submitted: 8 October 2013 – Revised version received: 16 January 2014 – Accepted: 24 January 2013 – Published online: 5 Febru...

Disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability. We must acknowledge the human-made components of both vulnerability and hazard emphasize human agency in order to proactively reduce disaster impacts.

Although countering denial, minimization, and externalization of blame is a key component of most interventions for individuals who have been abusive in their intimate relationships, these attributions have only seldom been the focus of empirical investigation. Using a sample of 139 male and female university students, the current study examined the associations between self-reported minimizing...

• dispels any misconceptions about the staff’s degree of response to the error. • helps to alleviate their feelings of isolation, helplessness, and confusion about how and why the error occurred. • reduces self-blaming and blaming of individual staff members as the system-based causes of errors are revealed and described. • minimizes their frustration and anger.1–3 • demonstrates the organizati...

BACKGROUND Worldwide heterosexual sex is the most common mode of HIV transmission, with the marital heterosexual route becoming a major contributor in sub-Sahara Africa. This study examined the role of inappropriate HIV status disclosure, after diagnosis, on marital sexual experiences of HIV positive women. METHODS The study employed a descriptive cross-sectional design. An interviewer admini...