A review of the psychological, sociological and educational literature indicated that the various conceptualizations of "alienation" could be fitted into five tentative categories appearing to have considerable overlap. An item pool developed to represent these categories of alienation was screened by expert review and pilot testing in the 9th grade and then administered to 500 "normal" adolesc...

In recent years, universities in Nigeria, and indeed elsewhere, have continued to face challenges on how deliver more quality services the stakeholders; both within outside University’s communities. These had do with ways which Universities are funded managed consequently implications organise control academic work i.e. teaching, administration research. main responsibilities for staff conceptu...

according to the structure of education system, the universities accept non-native students who need accommodations. only a few studies have investigated the problems of residents of dormitories. one of the problems is self-alienation. the aim of this study is investigating the of level of self- alienation among girl students in a dormitory and effect of life satisfaction on that. the populatio...

Human connections are key to the promotion of health and prevention of illness; moreover, illness can cause deterioration of human connections. Healthcare professional-patient relationships are key to ensuring the preservation of adequate human connections. It is important for healthcare professionals to develop their ability to foster satisfactory human connections because: (i) they represent ...

The aim of the study was to assess two psychological parameters, sensation-seeking (SS) and alienation (AL), in a sample of thirty DSM-III diagnosed opiate dependence cases, and to compare them on these two parameters with two non-drug-abusing control groups, one from the patients own peer groups and the other from the general population. The opiate dependent subjects were found to score higher...

Because research find ings often do not have direct or immediate relevance to IS professionals in industry, the question arises as to how those findings should be disseminated to them in a suitable form at such time as they do become relevant. A central argument of this paper is that the traditional mechanisms whereby academic researchers disseminate their work are prone to numerous communicati...

This study examined whether social class moderated the relationship between empowering and disempowering processes and psychological empowerment (PE) in a sample of individuals from five community organizing initiatives (N5 490). Hierarchical regression analyses were used to test the relationship between community participation (CP) and alienation on the intrapersonal and interactional componen...

Research findings indicate that there are multiple causal pathways to delinquency. A multicomponent model of delinquency was developed to explore systematically the interrelationships of psychosocial variables and their relationships to delinquent behaviour. Most importantly, alienation was tested for its ability to act as a core mediating predictor variable. One hundred and fifty-two adolescen...