Internal reliability and construct validity of the Novaco Anger Scale-1998-S in a sample of violent prison inmates in Sweden

Abstract

In this study, the internal reliability and construct validity of the recently adapted Swedish version of the Novaco Anger Scale (NAS-1998-S; Lindqvist, Dåderman, & Hellström, Social Behavior and Personality, 8, 773–788, 2003), as well as its scale correlations with demographic and criminality variables, were investigated. Construct validity was established by assessing the correlation pattern of the scales of NAS-1998-S with concurrent scales of similar and distinct constructs. Ninety-five male violent prisoners, ranging in age from 18 to 67 years, participated. The results demonstrated good internal reliability, consistent intrascale relationships, and appropriate construct validity of NAS-1998-S. The number of previous convictions had a moderate negative relationship with the capacity of control. Age and education correlated negatively with the NAS-1998-S scales, except Regulation. In addition to psychometric issues, the results were discussed from a clinical perspective on the offender population.     

‘Done to death by father or relatives’: Irish families and infanticide cases, 1922–1950

In February 1929 the Bishop of Ossory commented on the fact that in Ireland illegitimate infants were often ‘done to death by father or relatives’ (Irish Catholic, 16 February 1929). There were many instances where family members of unmarried women who gave birth were the sole defendants or co-defendants in infanticide cases in post-independent Ireland. Although illegitimate infants were ‘done to death’ by their fathers in a number of cases that were tried at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin between 1922 and 1950, this article will focus on cases where infants were murdered or suspected of having been murdered by relatives of the birth mother both in the Twenty-Six Counties and in Northern Ireland (Irish Catholic, 16 February 1929). For the purposes of this article I have referred to the murder of illegitimate infants as ‘infanticide’ even though there was no separate charge of infanticide in the Irish Free State until 1949. The English infanticide acts of 1922 and 1938 also applied to Northern Ireland. This article discusses the motives of the relatives of single mothers who played a part in the deaths of illegitimate infants. Unmarried motherhood was severely frowned upon in Ireland and the relatives of single pregnant women assisted their female kin in destroying the evidence of extra-marital conception in order to protect the family's honour and moral reputation in the wider community. The records of infanticide trials provide a great deal of insight into the ways in which mainly working-class families dealt with the strain of pregnancy outside wedlock in Ireland between 1922 and 1950.     

新形势下高校廉洁文化建设的困境与对策

高校廉洁文化建设是高校廉政建设和人才培养的重要组成部分,也是全体师生内化廉政知识、提升廉政素养、塑造廉政人格的过程。目前,高校廉洁文化建设虽然取得了一定成效,但仍然存在传承者角色缺位、接受者知行缺位、保障链协同缺位、同构性创新缺位、生态圈导引缺位等困境,需要采取完善管理保障体系、培植廉洁教育体系、创新载体平台建设、设计监督评价体系等措施,积极探索新形势下高校廉洁文化建设新路,为推进高校健康和谐发展提供坚强保障。     

高校高学历女教师角色压力及疏解

作为“传统的现代女人”,高校高学历女教师有着强烈的自我发展需求、主体意识和成就动机,但在沉重的学术压力面前她们更容易出现职业倦怠;作为“现代的传统女人”,未婚的高学历女教师往往面临“结构性剩余”的境地,已婚的高学历女教师则在事业与家庭之间做着“鱼与熊掌”的艰难选择。多种角色压力归根到底是由于传统社会期待与现代价值追求的冲突,疏解这些压力要全社会共同努力,推进社会性别文化的良性发展,高学历女教师也要对自我作理性认知,提高对不同角色的适应能力。     

Religion and the Scottish Independence Referendum

The Scottish independence referendum debate, like the Act of Union of 1707, has significant religious dimensions. The Act gave special recognition through the monarch to the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. The Church, a national church, has not yet declared a position on independence, but is seeking to protect its existing privileges whatever the result. The Roman Catholic Church, recognised by the Scottish Parliament, unlike its formal rejection by the UK Parliament and monarchy, symbolically associates itself with the case for independence. Paradoxically, Catholics supporting independence subject themselves, in their religious lives, to an authoritarian foreign power. The SNP Scottish Government attempts to draw Roman Catholic support for independence from its traditional support base in the Labour Party by cultivating a sense of religious grievance that is not justified by the evidence. Old religious divisions are still relevant but non‐religion is growing fast and resulting in new perspectives on the independence debate.     

高校廉政建设的深层思考与对策

高校廉政建设是一项多方位、多层次、多途径的艰巨而长期的系统工程。本文基于高校廉政建设的主要特点进行实证研究,在剖析造成高校腐败的深层次原因的基础上,提出在加大查处惩治力度的同时,应加强在源头上的预防和综合治理,合理配置教育资源,减少寻租机会,完善内部治理结构,逐步去行政化,保证有力的制约监督与惩治,建立反腐倡廉综合治理长效机制等对策,以推动高校廉政建设的发展,不断提高监督力度和效果,从根本上遏制高校腐败滋生蔓延,保证高等教育事业的健康发展。     

Normalization of antisemitism, 1880–1900: the case of a Jesuit community in Rome

The significance of the political antisemitism of the 1880s and 1890s for developments in the twentieth century remains controversial. Researchers have been divided as to whether the antisemitism of the nineteenth century, or even earlier, was one of the factors that made the Holocaust possible, or whether it was a phenomenon with little or no relevance for subsequent events. The decline of most antisemitic political parties at the beginning of the twentieth century appears to support the latter point of view. Yet some commentators, such as Shulamit Volkov and Peter Pulzer, have convincingly suggested that the importance of nineteenth-century antisemitism lies less in the political fortunes of antisemitic parties than in the way antisemitism came to penetrate civil society. Thus, they have argued, antisemitism came to form a component of a widespread conservative and anti-liberal world-view. Following Pulzer and Volkov, it might be desirable to investigate the processes by which antisemitism could have been transformed from an extremist political position into a common element in the outlook of broad portions of European society: mechanisms that have remained largely unexplored. Dahl's article studies the normalization of antisemitism in the two last decades of the nineteenth century through a scrutiny of shifts in the attitudes to Jews of a restricted group of Italian Jesuits. The analysis is based on a detailed study of La Civiltà Cattolica, a Jesuit community in Rome that published a journal of the same name. Since its foundation in 1850 this institution has been an authoritative exponent of Catholic policy and is generally perceived as having been a protagonist in the formulation of a Catholic stance towards the ‘Jewish question’ in the later nineteenth century. Dahl shows that, while in the early 1880s, most members resisted or opposed the use of antisemitic propaganda, through the following two decades the attitudes of virtually all of them became tinged with antisemitism, supporting the hypothesis that antisemitism became part of a widespread ‘culture’. In his analysis, Dahl does not focus on the wider circulation of ideas that influenced the Roman Jesuits, but on the dynamics within the institution that made possible the gradual acceptance of antisemitism, arguing that a debate over antisemitism among the Jesuits in the early 1880s was a crucial moment in this development. As they failed at this early stage to formulate an anti-antisemitic response, they allowed antisemitism to become part of the culture of their institution, and rendered its later rejection practically impossible.     

当前高校网络安全教育存在的问题及对策

网络安全教育是高校大学生安全教育的重要内容之一。当前高校还存在着对网络安全教育重视程度不够、教育体制机制不够健全、教育内容与形式还不能与时俱进和网络安全教育队伍较为薄弱等问题。针对这些问题,需要从网络安全教育的运行管理机制、教育体系的构建、课程建设、制度建设和加强思政教育等方面做好此项工作。     

基于传播学理论模式的高校思想政治教育渠道研究

通过探讨传播学理论中"游戏论"、"议程设置"理论、麦克卢汉的媒介三论、"两级传播理论"与"意见领袖"对于高校思想政治教育渠道改进与创新的启示,着重提出对于高校思想政治教育渠道改进与创新的建议。     

高校思想政治教育中人文关怀与心理疏导研究

党的十七大、十八大报告相继提出"加强和改进思想政治工作,注重人文关怀和心理疏导",丰富了思想政治工作的内涵,拓宽了思想政治工作的视野,也为高校进一步有效开展思想政治工作指明了方向,是高校深入贯彻落实科学发展观、构建和谐校园的根本要求,也是缓解大学生心理压力,做好高校思想政治工作的迫切需要。但是由于受传统思想政治教育观念的影响,高校思想政治教育中存在着人文关怀与心理疏导缺失的问题,具体表现在忽视学生的主体性、忽视学生个性化以及忽视学生内在需要等方面,严重影响了高校思想政治教育的实效性.因此,高校必须通过关注大学生的感受和需要、构建和谐校园等途径加强思想政治教育的人文关怀与心理疏导,提高思想政治教育的效果。