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Bargaining Citizenship: Women’s Organizations, The State, And Marriage Migrants In South Korea

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DISSERTATION ABSTRACT

Since 1948, South Korea has maintained restrictive immigration and citizenship policies that promote ethnic homogeneity and discourage the settlement of immigrants who do not have marital or family ties to ethnic Koreans. From 2005, the Korean government has instituted unprecedented reforms that have included local voting rights to permanent residents, dual citizenship for certain categories of citizens, and policies that promote multiculturalism; such reforms have made Korea the country with the most progressive stance on immigration in East Asia. Why has the Korean government proactively embraced immigrant incorporation under the banner of multiculturalism, after decades of promoting ethnic homogeneity and racial purity?

In contrast to previous studies that focus on the adoption of liberal international norms, the remnants of the developmental state, and grassroots pressures from civil society, this dissertation explains immigrant incorporation in Korea as the unintended consequences of the negotiations between state efforts to...

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The Dangerousness of Persons with Delusional Jealousy

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Delusional jealousy has received increasing recent attention from the psychiatric community and the public.5 This renewed interest is related to a greater appreciation of the linkage between delusional jealousy and subsequent aggression, especially aggression associated with domestic violence. Delusional jealousy may thus be one of the important variables to be studied when addressing violence prevention or setting social policy in domestic or similar dyads. Despite renewed interest in the study of delusional jealousy, relatively little systematic work has been done to investigate it from the perspective of a forensic psyhiatrist. Even less work has been done to develop a comprehensive bio psychosocial perspective of delusional jealousy by integrating neurobiological, psychological, ecological. and cultural parameters. The objectives of this article are as follows: (1) to report important psychiatric and psychosocial characteristics in a sample of 20 cases of delusional jealousy; (2) to explore the degree o...f

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When You Say Nothing at All: Non-Disclosure in Intimate Relationships

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Abstract

8 interviews and 2 groups of ginabayang talakayan revealed the range of motivations/intentions that increased the probability of non-disclosure of a significant other in an intimate heterosexual relationship and the range of reactions elicited by the non-disclosure. The researchers also looked into the possible topics that were often not disclosed. We found that the range of motivations for non-disclosure, largely based on the anticipated consequences after disclosure, could be classified into three depending on who will benefit: a) self-centered non-disclosure; b) other-oriented non-disclosure; and c) kapwa-oriented non-disclosure. To put this range of motivations into context, a cognitive model, which suggests the steps a discloser goes through in deciding whether to disclose or not, was posited. Finally, the benefits of non-disclosure in increasing the level of intimacy in a relationship, with emphasis on the shared identity of the two people involved in the,,,

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Aspects of Morbid Jealousy

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Jealousy is a common, complex, ‘normal’ emotion. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word jealous as ‘feeling or showing resentment towards a person one thinks of as a rival’. This definition indicates that it is the belief in the presence of rivalry that is the key issue, and that whether or not such a rivalry truly exists is less important. Jealousy within a sexual relationship has clear advantages in evolutionary terms: behaviour that ensures the absolute sole possession of a partner allows the propagation of one’s own genes at the expense of those of a true rival (Daly et al, 1982). However, when the belief in rivalry is mistaken, much time and effort may be wasted in attempting to eliminate a false threat. Morbid jealousy describes a range of irrational thoughts and emotions, together with associated unacceptable or extreme behaviour, in which the dominant theme is a preoccupation with a partner’s sexual...

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Interpersonal Relationships At Work: An Examination Of Dispositional Influences And Organizational Citizenship Behavior

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ABSTRACT

Positive interpersonal relationships at work foster a variety of beneficial outcomes for individuals and organizations. Past research has examined contextual and demographic antecedents of friendships at work. Forming interpersonal connections should have strong dispositional roots. The authors use structural equation modeling to analyze data from 438 frontline service employees from a casual dining, national restaurant chain in the United States. Results from this study support the hypotheses that extraversion, agreeableness and emotional stability are each positively related to forming valued interpersonal relationships at work. In addition, interpersonal citizenship behavior is hypothesized and supported as an outcome of positive interpersonal relationships at work. Testing a full model of all the hypotheses enabled us to identify valued interpersonal relationships as an intermediary variable of the relationship between personality and interpersonal citizenship behavior. Interpersonal relationships at work: An examination of dispositional influences and organizational citizenship behavior Positive interpersonal relationships at work have an advantageous impact on both organizational and individual variables. Research has...

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I Do Not Take Rejection Well

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I do not take rejection well at all. I have had a crush on a man for a long time, even though we have never talked to each other. For a long period of time he would look at me and give me signals that he liked me, but that has since stopped. I have tried to think of someone else who I might like, but somehow my mind always seems to wander back to this man. Part of me wants to stop liking him and move on, but I don’t know how. I’m afraid to tell anyone about this, because once I spoke of things to a friend, but when we parted ways she told everybody everything I had told her in confidence. This usually brings down my self-confidence. My parents say that they worry that I have emotional issues and want me to see a psychologist instead of a therapist. Why? I have emotional issues, not psychological issues!

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Betrayal, Rejection, Revenge, and Forgiveness: An Interpersonal Script Approach

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Introduction

Throughout recorded human history, treachery and betrayal have been considered amongst the very worst offences people could commit against their kith and kin. Dante, for example, relegated traitors to the lowest and coldest regions of Hell, to be forever frozen up to their necks in a lake of ice with blizzards storming all about them, as punishment for having acted so coldly toward others. Even today, the crime of treason merits the most severe penalties, including capital punishment. However, betrayals need not involve issues of national security to be regarded as serious. From sexual infidelity to disclosing a friend’s secrets, betraying another person or group of people implies unspeakable disloyalty, a breach of trust, and a violation of what is good and proper. Moreover, all of us will suffer both minor and major betrayals throughout our lives, and most of us will, if only unwittingly, betray others (Jones & Burdette, 1994).

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Factors of Attraction and Relationship Satisfaction: The Love-is-Blind Bias and Perceived Risk of Infidelity

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Attraction and relationship satisfaction have been topics of increased investigation over the past several decades (Yela & Sangrador, 2001; Buss & Schmitt, 1993; Hall & Taylor, 1976). The love-is-blind bias hypothesizes that individuals within fulfilling relationships exhibit the phenomenon of rating their partner’s attractiveness higher than self-ratings of their own attractiveness, a product of positive partner illusions (Swami & Furnham, 2008; Gagné, & Lydon, 2004). Using the Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS) and novel measures for attraction and perceived infidelity, this study applied the love-is-blind hypothesis against relationship satisfaction and perceived risk of infidelity. The creation of two new subscales for measuring the love-is-blind bias, self-perceived love-is-blind bias (SPB) and externally-perceived love-is-blind bias (EPB) were instrumental in computations. Significant positive interactions between both scales of the love-is-blind bias and both attraction, and relationship satisfaction were found. Perceived risk of infidelity was negatively related to all positive scales. The findings suggest a system of interactions among the love-is-blind bias, perceived risk of infidelity, relationship

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Self-Disclosure and Starting a Close Relationship

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In this chapter we examine various topics about self-disclosure and starting a relationship. We examine how background factors (e.g., culture, personality, and gender) and communication medium (e.g., face-to-face versus Internet communication) influence self-disclosure at the start of a relationship. We show how self-disclosure is incorporated into conversations to intensify or restrict intimacy and closeness between new acquaintances. We describe how the reactions of the disclosure recipient and the discloser to self-disclosure input assist new acquaintances to assess feelings of intimacy for one another and whether or not to seek a closer relationship. We also illustrate how a relationship-building exercise incorporating self-disclosure may increase feelings of closeness between new acquaintances. First, let us define self-disclosure and review influential, early approaches about the role of self-disclosure at the start of a relationship. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved

See Also: Self-disclosure and starting a close relationship.

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The Evolution of Jealousy

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Love wasn’t the only thing in the air on Valentine’s Day 2003. A Texas jury had just found C. Harris guilty of killing her husband in a “sudden passion.” After encountering him at a hotel with a mistress, she had driven the car over his body again and again. As others were exchanging tokens of love, the “Mercedes murderer” was sentenced to spend 20 years in jail. Clara Harris was hardly the first woman to stand accused of murdering in a jealous rage. In various studies, jealousy is often ranked among the top three motives for nonaccidental homicides where motive is known—along with rage arising from a quarrel and murder during the commission of a crime. Across the ages the confounding power of sexual jealousy has inspired poetry, novels, drama, art and opera. It has also captured the attention of psychologists, who have used a variety of theoretical approaches in their pursuit of scientific understanding.

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The Effects of Occupational Stress on Marital Self-Disclosure

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This study investigates the effect of occupational stress on self-disclosure levels in married couples. Occupational stress is the strain and anxiety a person experiences about their career, which might impact self-disclosure levels. This study predicts marital self-disclosure will be negatively affected by increased occupational stress. Self-disclosure was measured with the Marital Self-Disclosure Questionnaire (Waring, Holden, & Wesley, 1998). Krantz’s Jobs Rated Almanac (2002) was used to evaluate occupational stress. This study recruited 40 married participants. Results showed a non-significant correlation between self-disclosure and occupational stress. Limitations and future research are discussed. The Effects of Occupational Stress on Marital Self-Disclosure We smile at the elder couple, dressed alike, holding hands walking down the street. Everyone wants to meet that one person they are destined to be with to become their husband or wife. Couples aspire to be the cute older couple smooching under the shade tree in thirty years. There is a social cliché with being...

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Aggressive Responses To Betrayal: Type Of Relationship, Victim’s Sex, And Nature Of Aggression

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The present investigation explored young adults’ aggressive responses to hypothetical and actual episodes of betrayal. In two studies, we tested the following hypotheses: (a) aggressive responses would be most severe in romantic relationships when compared with friendships; (b) men and women would respond similarly to betrayal; and (c) verbal aggression would be more frequently described than physical and psychological aggressive tactics. Participants endorsed greater use of verbal aggressive tactics in response to hypothetical transgressions committed in romantic relationships when compared with friendships. In response to actual transgressions, betrayals in friendships and romantic relationships elicited similar reactions. As predicted, no sex differences were found in responses to betrayals.Betrayal is one of the most devastating experiences in a romantic relationship. A betrayal is defined as an act committed by a relational partner that goes against the other partner’s expectations of the relationship and, as a result, causes pain to that individual (Jones & Burdette, 1994)...

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Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and Neglect: Responses to Dissatisfaction in Romantic Involvements

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A typology of characteristic responses to dissatisfaction in romantic relationships is discussed, and hypotheses concerning the determinants of each category of response are outlined. It is argued that the four primary reactions to relationship decline are exit, voice, loyalty, and neglect. Three investment model variables (Rusbult, 1980a) should predict the conditions under which each response is most likely to be enacted: (a) the degree of satisfaction with the relationship prior to the emergence of problems, (b) the magnitude of the individual's investment of resources in the relationship, and (c) the quality of the best available alternative to the relationship. Four studies provided generally consistent support for the hypotheses. As predicted, to the extent that prior satisfaction was high, voice and loyalty were more probable, whereas exit and neglect were less probable. Similarly, increases in investment size encouraged voice and loyalty, whereas lower levels of investment appeared to inspire exit or neglect responses. More attractive alternatives promoted exit while hampering loyalist behavior. These results are in agreement with investment...

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Marriage Proposals: From One-Size-Fits-All to Postmodern Marriage Law

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THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF COLE PORTER 121 (Robert Kimball ed., 1983).

While it has been suggested that Porter may be legal authority since he has been cited by Justice Scalia, Stephen M. Feldman, The Supreme Court in a Postmodern World: A Flying Elephant, 84 MINN. L. REV. 673, 693- 97 (2000), that is not my purpose here. Rather, Anything Goes is background music, suggesting two major underlying themes of this Article. First, there is a widespread perception that “anything goes” with respect to contemporary marriage. We tend to think of this perception as “new,” and even mildly daring, notwithstanding exhaustive evidence of its historical repetition, just as we endlessly rediscover Porter. Second, we are more likely to notice the availability of divergent norms, and to address them,Porter does) in times of economic upheaval, such as the thirties (when Porter wrote the play for...

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Dealing with Rejection Part 1: Handling Others’ Rejecting Behavior

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I've received multiple requests to discuss a difficult dating topic - "dealing with rejection". This is a topic near and dear to my heart as well. The misconceptions, bad behavior, and hard feelings surrounding rejection can sometimes create deep wounds. I've seen too many good men and women suffer needlessly because of it. As a result, "rejection" is an important topic for successful and respectful dating and relating. It also has two sides:

1. Managing the rejecting behavior of others, and Declining a request from others.
2. Declining a request from others.

I will address "managing" in this article and speak to "declining" in Part 2. For now, I hope to reverse some of the misconceptions surrounding "rejection", and help individuals avoid the negative emotional experiences that often accompany it. Read on...and hopefully you will see and feel better.

(If you want skip the explanation and jump directly to the "take home points" go to Breaking Down Rejection Distortions and Feeling Better below).

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Deception And Dating: Knowledge Of Tactics May Improve Detection Accuracy

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This study investigates the effect of occupational stress on self-disclosure levels in married couples. Occupational stress is the strain and anxiety a person experiences about their career, which might impact self-disclosure levels. This study predicts marital self-disclosure will be negatively affected by increased occupational stress. Self-disclosure was measured with the Marital Self-Disclosure Questionnaire (Waring, Holden, & Wesley, 1998). Krantz’s Jobs Rated Almanac (2002) was used to evaluate occupational stress. This study recruited 40 married participants. Results showed a non-significant correlation between self-disclosure and occupational stress. Limitations and future research are discussed. The Effects of Occupational Stress on Marital Self-Disclosure We smile at the elder couple, dressed alike, holding hands walking down the street. Everyone wants to meet that one person they are destined to be with to become their husband or wife. Couples aspire to be the cute older couple smooching under the shade tree in thirty years. There is a social cliché with being...

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