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Work-family conflict refers to a situation where the demands and responsibilities from work roles and family roles are mutually incompatible...

Although work-family research has typically focused on the difficulties of participating in both work and family roles (i.e., work-family conflict),...

Work/life litigation refers to legal action taken against employers for discriminating against a worker or workers due to their family...

Although the popular press has paid considerable attention to workaholism, very little research has been undertaken to further our understanding...

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) of 1992 was passed by the U.S. Congress in part to provide...

The workforce research of the Hudson Institute has consistently emphasized the role of “shaping forces.” The research took its most...

The Career Attitudes and Strategies Inventory (CASI) is a 130-item, paper and pencil, self-report assessment by John L. Holland and...

The Jackson Vocational Interest Inventory (commonly known as the Jackson Vocational Interest Survey or JVIS) is a standardized, normed career...

The Values Scale (VS) is used to assess values in life roles, largely in relation to work. Items query both...

The Transition Behavior Scale, Second Edition (TBS-2) has as its intention the identification of behaviors that are thought to interfere...

Marmosets are the smallest platyrrhines or New World monkeys (NWMs). They are closely related to Goeldi’s monkeys, tamarins, and lion...

The Marquesas, high-rise volcanic islands with jagged peaks and razor-edge ridges, are 740 miles northeast of Tahiti in French Polynesia....

From the Latin marito, “to marry,” marriage is the social institution making the sexual union of two heterosexuals (and recently...

Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in Trier, Germany, and he died on March 14, 1883, in...

Marxism, both as a political ideology and as a social theory, ultimately derives nearly entirely from the Communist Manifesto, a...

A ceremonial mask is defined as a headdress or an object that covers the face for purposes of protection, ritual,...

Societies survive and successfully reproduce themselves only insofar as they meet the elementary material needs of a certain minimum of...

Matriarchy is a term we use with two main meanings: (1) domination by female members of society and (2) women-centeredness...

The French-born sociologist and anthropologist Marcel Mauss is best known for his analysis of gift-giving societies and their relationship to...

Since ancient times, Mayan peoples have inhabited a region that included the easternmost states of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala together...

Before a jury trial begins, attorneys must select a jury from a panel of community members who have reported for...

Both the size of the jury and the number of jurors who must be in agreement for a verdict to...

Research has shown that jurors in many types of cases frequently fail to understand the jury instructions they receive. However,...

Correctional programs designed to be similar to military basic training are called “boot camps.” Although there are some programs for...

Broadly defined, a risk factor for juvenile offending is any experience, circumstance, or personal characteristic that increases the probability that...

Despite disagreement about its exact contours, most conceptualizations of psychopathic personality disorder emphasize traits of emotional detachment, including callousness, failure...

The controversy surrounding the juvenile death penalty is not new; the courts have struggled with the issue for decades. Meanwhile,...

In its broadest sense, legal authoritarianism refers to the constellation of beliefs held about the legal system that is relevant...

Negotiation is extremely common in legal settings. In the criminal context, most cases are resolved through the plea bargaining process...

Legal socialization is the process of developing attitudes toward rules, laws, and the legal system. Legal socialization research studies this...

Professional certification serves to identify individuals  who  have  obtained  or  maintained  qualifications to perform a specific work responsibility or task....

Consulting may be described as a temporary relationship  that  is  developed  when  an  individual  or entity  seeks  information  or  advice. ...

To  call  oneself  a  psychologist  (at  least  in  the United States and Canada), or use the terms psychologist, psychological, or...

The  term  drop-out  has  two  meanings.  In  elite sport, drop-out refers to a premature termination of  a  sport  career  before ...

Ethics  is  the  investigation  of  the  primary  moral assumptions held by individuals, organizations, or professions  that  are  used  to  help ...

Sport and exercise psychology (SEP) services (e.g., team   interventions,   one-on-one   interventions, and  consultation  with  organizations)  aim  at  performance  enhancement  with ...

Sport  psychology  professionals  maintain  an  ethical  obligation  to  ensure  services  are  helping  clients (and conversely, not harming them), and thus...

Supervision is a central component of professional training  and  development,  providing  opportunities  for  sport  psychology  (SP)  practitioners  at  all levels ...

Individuals  preparing  for  a  career  in  sport  and exercise  psychology  (SEP)  have  traditionally  followed  one  of  two  educational  paths,  training ...

The term transition has been employed in various academic fields to explain a process of changes in a  certain  phenomenon, ...

When individuals engage in social interaction, regardless of the relationship they have with each other and the context within which...

Proxemics is the study of how humans perceive, structure, and use space as communication. Space helps people manage the dual...

Social interaction is a complex, yet often subtle, process through which humans transmit information, pursue social goals, and initiate and...

Relational control is the most dynamic of the three dimensions of social relationships proposed by Millar and Rogers (1987) –...

Relational dialectics is an interpretive theory of meaning-making in familial and non-kin relationships. Formally articulated in 1996 by Leslie Baxter...

Relational maintenance refers to activities that occur in interpersonal relationships after the relationship is developed and before the relationship is...

Schemas are defined as large-scale cognitive structures representing general knowledge, often also described as subjective theories, about some object or...

Approximately 50 percent of first-time marriages, and an even higher percentage of remarriages, end in separation or divorce. Because researchers...

Relational uncertainty is the degree of confidence people have in their perceptions of involvement within interpersonal relationships. The construct has...

Knowledge structures are mental representations of regularities believed to exist in social situations and people’s dispositions and behaviors. Specifically, knowledge...