Research on the health benefits and consequences of close relationships has suggested the linkage in daily emotions (i.e., coregulation) between close partners is an important relationship dynamic. While the coupling of daily emotions among family members (parent–child and marital dyads) has been widely documented, research examining emotional coregulation among ethnic minority youth during adolescence, a period marked by heightened emotion and risk for psychopathology, remains an important area in need of exploration. This study examined correlates of emotional coregulation in a sample of Mexican-origin adolescents (Mage?=?15.02, SD?=?.83) and their parents (Mage?=?41.93, SD?=?6.70). Dyads reported on daily levels of distress and happiness for 14 consecutive days across two waves of data collection a year apart (nwave1?=?428 dyads, nwave2?=?336 dyads). Dyads who reported getting along were more likely to coregulate their daily happiness. Importantly, coregulation of distress was only present in older adolescents who reported above average levels of internalizing symptoms. The results suggest coregulation of distress may shape or be shaped by poor mental health during the later years of adolescence, a time when youth may be establishing a degree of emotional autonomy from parents.
Self-harm is widely recognized as a significant adolescent social problem, and recent research has begun to explore its etiology.
Drawing from Agnew’s (1992) social psychological strain theory of deviance, this study considers this issue by testing three hypotheses about the effects
of traditional and cyber bullying victimization on deliberate self-harm and suicidal ideation. The data come from a school-based
survey of adolescents in a rural county of a southeastern state (n = 426); 50% of subjects are female, their mean age was 15 years, and non-Hispanic whites represent 66% of the sample. The
analysis revealed that both types of bullying are positively related to self-harm and suicidal ideation, net of controls.
Moreover, those relationships are partially mediated by the negative emotions experienced by those who are bullied and partially
moderated by features of the adolescent’s social environment and self. Regarding the latter, exposure to authoritative parenting
and high self-control diminished the harmful effects of bullying victimization on self-harm and suicidal ideation. The article
concludes by discussing the implications of these conclusions for future research and for policy efforts designed to reduce
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Getting to peace is not a straightforward process. In Uganda, internal conflict has raged for more than 20 years between the
Government and the Lord’s Resistance Army. The construction of a comprehensive negotiated settlement is at the mercy of conflicting
ideologies and influences at the international, national and grassroots levels. This paper examines the Juba peace talks,
the major actors in the negotiation process, and tension between prosecution and amnesty.
The return of devolution to Northern Ireland in May 2007 marks an important turning point in the Northern Ireland peace process,
but there remains the issue of the “on-the-runs”—a term used to describe persons suspected of committing a range of terrorist
acts during the Troubles, who were never arrested, charged, prosecuted, or tried. It is thought that the On-the-Runs want
to return to Northern Ireland, but determining the conditions for their return is a difficult and controversial issue, raising
legal and moral concerns and causing strong and painful reactions among the victims of terrorist violence on all sides of
the Northern Ireland conflict. It is also an issue that is complicated by the fact that while the Belfast Agreement of 1998
did not address expressly the situation of the On-the-Runs, it did provide for the accelerated release of a significant number
of paramilitaries, both republican and loyalist, from prisons in both Ireland and Northern Ireland. This paper reviews the
possible options in law for addressing the situation of the On-the-Runs, including extradition and prosecution, as well as
trial and amnesty, and pardons. While the paper makes clear that the political offence exception to extradition is no longer
the obstacle it once was, it also concludes that politics, rather than law, or simply the passage of time is more likely to
offer the solution to the problem posed by the On-the-Runs.
State-society relations around low-cost housing in Canada changed from a period of strong federal leadership centred on social rights to a period of state retrenchment. A coalition of housing stakeholders from the public, private, and voluntary sectors self-organized in Winnipeg to create new low-cost housing following the 1993 discontinuation of federal social housing programs. This move toward urban citizenship was not received in the same way by Aboriginal peoples pursuing a distinctive set of rights centred on self-determination alongside common social (housing) goals. While Aboriginal rights are given regard at the federal level, they were not embedded in localized citizenship processes. Expanding the theorization of urban citizenship, the empirical results in this article reveal that discourses of democratic racism and cultural neutrality permeate mainstream views, running counter to Aboriginal citizenship pursuits. 相似文献
Critics of the civil jury have proposed several procedural reforms to address the concern that damage awards are capricious and unpredictable. One such reform is the bifurcation or separation of various phases of a trial that involves multiple claims for damages. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of bifurcating the compensatory and punitive damages phases of a civil tort trial. We manipulated the wealth of the defendant and the reprehensibility of the defendant's conduct (both sets of evidence theoretically related to punitive but not to compensatory damages) across three cases in a jury analog study. We wondered whether jurors would misuse the punitive damages evidence in fixing compensatory damages and whether bifurcation would effectively undo this practice. Our findings indicated that mock jurors did not improperly consider punitive damages evidence in their decisions about compensation. Moreover, bifurcation had the unexpected effect of augmenting punitive damage awards. These findings raise questions about the merits of bifurcation in cases that involve multiple claims for damages. 相似文献