{"title":"Coping with the stigma of home birth: Strategies of engagement and disengagement","authors":"R. K. Bommarito","doi":"10.5114/CIPP.2018.73055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/CIPP.2018.73055","url":null,"abstract":"Home birth in most developed countries is stigmatised. Negative discourses frame women planning home births as risk mothers who put their desire for a particular birthing experience above the health and safety of their children. As a result, one of the primary challenges home-birthing women face during pregnancy is how to cope with this stigma.This study was conducted in the upper Midwest region of the United States with women who were planning home births with midwives. Eleven women participated in the study. Data included in-depth interviews, participant-observation field notes, and content from one participant’s blog. Data were analysed using inductive content analysis.Participants coped with home birth stigma in three ways: (1) avoidance, (2) engaging in an education campaign, and (3) focusing on a family tradition of home birth. These responses represent both disengagement and engagement approaches to coping. Nine participants exhibited one dominant coping strategy: three relied on avoidance, three on an education campaign, and three on family tradition. Two participants used more than one approach. Both of these participants used avoidance and family tradition.Home birth stigma is a source of chronic stress for women who choose to give birth at home. Women cope with this stress in a number of ways. Interventions to increase women’s coping resources and processes may be helpful. Changing the environment through efforts to destigmatise home birth may reduce the overall stress experienced by home-birthing women and improve their wellbeing.","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87655496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Ivanova, Oleg Gorbaniuk, Dovilė Blėkaitytė, Eglė Dovydaitytė, A. A. Čepulienė, Greta Mastauskaitė, R. Ramanauskas, Ugnė Jurgelytė, Ringailė Slapšinskaitė
{"title":"Do adjectives exhaust the personality lexicon?A psycholexical study of the Lithuanian language","authors":"A. Ivanova, Oleg Gorbaniuk, Dovilė Blėkaitytė, Eglė Dovydaitytė, A. A. Čepulienė, Greta Mastauskaitė, R. Ramanauskas, Ugnė Jurgelytė, Ringailė Slapšinskaitė","doi":"10.5114/CIPP.2018.73987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/CIPP.2018.73987","url":null,"abstract":"background The psycholexical approach is based on the assumption that the most important individual differences that people can observe have been encoded into the natural language. Thus, by studying the structure of these lexicons, we are able to identify individual differences that are universal across cultures as well as dimensions that are unique to some of them. The aim of the study was to develop a psycholexical taxonomy of the Lithuanian language including different parts of speech.","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"13 7","pages":"171-180"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5114/CIPP.2018.73987","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72427397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A unifying theoretical framework for clinical psychology","authors":"L. Leedom","doi":"10.5114/CIPP.2018.80202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/CIPP.2018.80202","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical psychology lacks a theoretical framework through which to interpret and apply research findings. This com ment explains the theoretical framework of ethology, a discipline that is extinct in the United States. The ethol ogists Lorenz and Tinbergen developed behavioral systems theory as a means to place the proximal causes of behav iors within the context of adaptive goals. This comment asserts that there are four adaptive goals that motivate human social behavior: attachment/affiliation, caregiving, dominance and sex. Tinbergen developed the four questions of ethology as a complete explanation for behavior. The arti cles in this volume are discussed in terms of behavioral sys tems theory and the four questions of ethology.","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"470 1","pages":"343-348"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77047308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When does self-improvement undermine materialistic tendencies, and when does it strengthen them?","authors":"A. Zawadzka","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2018.72050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp.2018.72050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"17-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78422725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Suszek, Krzysztof Fronczyk, M. Kopera, N. Maliszewski, E. Łyś
{"title":"Psychometric properties of the Polish versionof the Self-Concept Clarity Scale (SCCS)","authors":"H. Suszek, Krzysztof Fronczyk, M. Kopera, N. Maliszewski, E. Łyś","doi":"10.5114/CIPP.2018.75842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/CIPP.2018.75842","url":null,"abstract":"background Self-concept clarity is one of the features describing the structural aspect of the self. It refers to the extent to which the contents of an individual’s self-concept are clearly and confidently defined, internally consistent, and temporally stable. The aim of the study was to translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Self-Concept Clarity Scale (SCCS).","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"23 1","pages":"181-187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74641124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Judyta Borchet, Aleksandra Lewandowska-Walter, T. Rostowska
{"title":"Performing developmental tasks in emerging adults with childhood parentification – insights from literature","authors":"Judyta Borchet, Aleksandra Lewandowska-Walter, T. Rostowska","doi":"10.5114/cipp.2018.75750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp.2018.75750","url":null,"abstract":"Parentification is the process of role reversal between the child and the parent, whereby the child provides support and acts as the caregiver for the parent, instead of being supported and taken care of. The phenomenon of parentification may afflict families at diverse stages of development, including those before as well as after the phase of empty nest. Parentification may then pertain a threat to the development of a young person by impeding or preventing him or her from fulfilling developmental tasks. Furthermore, it can be a distracting factor in his/her future role as a partner, parent, or employee. The purpose of this review is to examine the current literature concerning the effects of retrospective parentification on young adults’ difficulties in performing developmental tasks and roles.","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"18 1","pages":"242-251"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84926617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Levels of personality organization and internal relational patterns","authors":"Emilia Soroko, L. Cierpiałkowska","doi":"10.5114/CIPP.2018.80198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/CIPP.2018.80198","url":null,"abstract":"background This study aimed to determine whether level of personality organization is associated with a relational pattern present in an autobiographical narrative about an important interpersonal relationship. The main goals were to explore whether and how the components of the internal relationship pattern, and whether and how the configurations of the components, are related to personality organization, when integrated personality organization (IPO) is taken into account.","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"292-304"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90434551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joanna Zinczuk-Zielazna, P. Kleka, Monika Obrębska
{"title":"Verbal fluency and emotional expression in young women differing in their styles of coping with threatening stimuli","authors":"Joanna Zinczuk-Zielazna, P. Kleka, Monika Obrębska","doi":"10.5114/CIPP.2018.80201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/CIPP.2018.80201","url":null,"abstract":"background In our study we decided to examine whether anxiety defined in personality terms and various emotional states, including the state of fear, measured in two ways – by means of subjective rating scales and by means of a more objective method, the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) developed by Ekman, Friesen, and Hager – would affect emotional verbal fluency understood as the number of words generated in answer to a question about the most liked and disliked trait of one’s personality.","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"2003 1","pages":"330-342"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88938008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The motivational function of an objective in physical activity and sport","authors":"M. Lipowski, Anna Ussorowska","doi":"10.5114/CIPP.2018.72054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/CIPP.2018.72054","url":null,"abstract":"participants and procedures The sample consisted of 2141 individuals: 1163 women aged 16-64 years (M = 23.90, SD = 8.30) and 978 men aged 16-66 years (M = 24.50, SD = 9.40) who completed the Inventory of Physical Activity Objectives (IPAO), which includes the following scales: 1) motivational value, 2) time management, 3) persistence in action, and 4) motivational conflict. There are also questions that allow one to control for variables such as the variety of forms, duration, and frequency of PA, and socio-demographic variables. results Males presented different motives of physical activity than females. Motives related to shapely body and health were more important for females. The most important motives for males were physical fitness and shapely body. The gender of participants moderates the motivational value of the specific objectives of physical activity and persistence in action.","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":"57-66"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81795630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The need for power, need for influence, sense of power, and directiveness in female and male superiors and subordinates","authors":"Dagna Kocur, E. Mandal","doi":"10.5114/CIPP.2018.72200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/CIPP.2018.72200","url":null,"abstract":"results The superiors scored significantly higher on the need for power, need for influence, and directiveness. They also scored higher in terms of the need for power in relations with other people, with colleagues, and in superior-subordinate relations. The number of male leaders was conspicuously greater than the number of female leaders. Furthermore, women had fewer subordinates than men and earned less than men. Female participants scored lower on the sense of power and the need for power scales.","PeriodicalId":43067,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Personality Psychology","volume":"58 1","pages":"47-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84154233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}