The politics of grief and continuing bonds with the dead: the cases of Maoist China and Wahhabi Islam.

The article is a contribution to a cross-cultural theory of grief. It examines the relationship between individual/family continuing bonds with the dead and cultural narratives that legitimize political power. The dead are collective representations (Dirkheim) that mediate the larger culture to individuals and to smaller communities and that reinforce social solidarity and identity.

Politics, religions, and grief: the cases of American spiritualism and the Deuteronomic reform in Israel.

The article is a contribution to the task of developing a cross-cultural model of grief. It shows that grief narratives can be complexly interwoven with the religious and political narratives of the culture. Two political reforms in which religious narratives figured prominently are given as case examples: 19th-century Spiritualism in North America and the Deuteronomic reform in 7th-century BCE Israel.

Relationship between current quality of life and family of origin dynamics for college students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

Objective: This study examines the relationship between current quality of life, family of origin relationship dynamics, and the presence of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in college students.

Method: Participants were 37 ADHD undergraduate college students and 59 non-ADHD undergraduate students. Participants completed a background information questionnaire, Quality of Life Questionnaire, Family Environment Scale, and the Family Adaption and Cohesion Scale II.

Courtship communication and perception.

Although ethologists have detailed courtship rituals for many species, courting behavior of humans has not received extensive study from an ethological standpoint. Yet there are clearly facial expressions and gestures that are commonly labeled "flirting behaviors." These nonverbal signals have been documented recently by several investigators in field studies, but the receptivity of nonverbal courtship signals is still in question.

Factors influencing employee health plan choice in the corporate setting.

This study analyzed the responses of 159 employees making their annual health plan choice. The study also analyzes the factors that influenced the employees' health plan choice. The findings suggest that the distinction made between service and products holds for health plans.

Spiritual bonds to the dead in cross-cultural and historical perspective: comparative religion and modern grief.

Contemporary spirituality within continuing bonds with the dead is placed into the comparative context of Western Christianity and Japanese Buddhism. Throughout history, humans have maintained interaction with two kinds of dead: ancestors and sacred dead, the first characterized by symmetrical relationships and the second by asymmetrical. Continuing bonds are deeply connected with, and are often in conflict with, bonds to the nation and (in the West) to God.

Why adolescent boys dream of becoming professional athletes.

A review of studies which investigated drawings of the ideal man and the occupational aspirations of boys (ages 11-18 years) from several countries indicated that becoming a professional athlete was a popular but unrealistic aspiration for many adolescent boys. Boys who were athletes and nonathletes from diverse ethnic groups and nationalities dreamed of becoming professional athletes. In two additional studies in the United States of America, adolescents were asked why they thought boys most often selected professional athlete as a possible future occupation.

Tibetan Buddhism and the resolution of grief: the Bardo-thodol for the dying and the grieving.

This article is a contribution to the cross-cultural study of grief. The Bardo-thodol (sometimes translated the Tibetan Book of the Dead) and the ritual associated with it provides a way to understand how Buddhism in Tibetan culture manages the issues associated with what is called grief in Western psychology. The resolution of grief in the survivors is intertwined with the journey to rebirth of the deceased.

The deceased child in the psychic and social worlds of bereaved parents during the resolution of grief.

A core dynamic by which grief is resolved by parents in Bereaved Parents, a self-help group, is a series of transformations of the inner representation of the dead child in the parent's inner world and in the parent's social world. As the reality of the child's death as well as the reality of the parent's continuing bond with the child are made part of the socially shared reality, the inner representation of the child can be transformed in the parent's psychic life. The end of grief is not severing the bond with the dead child, but integrating the child into the parent's life in a different way than when the child was alive.

Resolving the dilemma of educating and training professionals in security.

This article is excerpted from a Pinkerton Lecture Series paper, sponsored by Pinkerton Security and Investigation Services, that was presented at the 1997 Plenary Session of ASIS in June. The author presents his views on how best to educate and train the security professional in today's hightech environment. Among his suggestions: a more diverse curriculum broken into smaller packages, use of the Internet or other electronic media, and having security professionals teach courses and integrate security into the curriculum.

The family receiving home care: functional health pattern assessment.

The winds of change in health care make assessment of the family more important than ever as a tool for health care providers seeking to assist the family move themselves toward high-level wellness. Limited medical care and imposed self-responsibility for health promotion and illness prevention, which are natural consequences of these changes, move the locus of control for health management back to the family. The family's teachings, modeling, and interactions are greater influences than ever on the health of the patient.

Girls' relational self in Sri Lanka and the United States.

The self-conceptions of 100 girls (11-17 years old) from Sri Lanka and the United States were studied from the traditional Western perspective of identity development as a process in which adolescents become increasingly independent and autonomous. This perspective is based on male development in Western countries and may not adequately describe the experience of girls of non-Western adolescents, for whom relationships with others may be central to identity formation. The participating girls drew self-portraits and either answered the question "How would you describe yourself to yourself?" or completed the sentence "I am.

The health belief model and consumer information searches: toward an integrated model.

Some health data organizations (HDOs) are producing consumer-level health services information. National reform proposals would suggest that competition between health plans will be developed through the use of outcome information. Policy makers have paid little attention to how consumers might use that information or how that information might be most effectively packaged for consumer use.

A segmentation analysis of consumer uses of health information.

Public and private health data organizations are receiving increased pressure to produce consumer-level health information. In addition, the proposed health care reforms imply that health care networks will have to market their health plans. However, little attention has been given to what format the information should have and what the consumers' information needs are.

Breaking the silence: the need for counselling of HIV/AIDS patients.

The care and management of persons with HIV infection and AIDS pose tremendous challenges to families, as individuals with the disease will more likely be taken care of within their homes when discharged from hospital. For effective care to be provided, relatives and families must be able to provide emotional, psychological and socioeconomic support. The capacity of the relatives to cope with the burden of an individual with HIV/AIDS--a terminal illness often associated with stigma in many communities--may be a major determinant for acceptance or rejection of the HIV/AIDS individual.

Adolescents' views of work and leisure in The Netherlands and the United States.

During early adolescence, youth begin to make choices about their future. Sundberg and Tyler (1970) found differences between adolescents in the Netherlands and the United States as to their possibilities for future occupations and leisure activities. Since there have been many changes in both countries over the past twenty-five years, the present study was designed as a replication and expansion of that research.