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The relationship between personality and career choice
Published in Janet Thomas, Understanding and Supporting Professional Carers, 2021
For a child to feel secure, her world must be a safe and predictable environment. Traumatic events during childhood result in feelings of vulnerability and powerlessness. According to Klein,5 children who are affected in this way may develop personality traits that help to restore a sense of security and control. Ritual behaviour, clinging on to a carer and temper tantrums are all ways of trying to be in control. More subtle ways of being in control of others include manipulative behaviour, charm or being ‘good.’ A child learns what to do to get what she wants, and this is a normal phase of child development. In a healthy family a child gradually learns to feel secure, and controlling behaviour becomes less frequent. For adults, the need to be in control may be manifested in the choice of an influential and well-paid job.
Effect of Infra-Low Frequency (ILF) Neurofeedback on the Functional State of the Brain in Healthy and Depressed Individuals
Published in Hanno W. Kirk, Restoring the Brain, 2020
Vera A. Grin-Yatsenko, Juri Kropotov
Case 2. Paul, a 50-year-old engineer, suffered from depression and chronic fatigue for decades. Several years ago, his business crashed, his wife left him, and after the divorce he had to move from his own apartment to a communal flat. He sank into apathy and lost interest and motivation to engage in any activity. During recent years he constantly felt anxious, thinking about the war in Donbass (where he had lived as a child and where his relatives remained), about a mad neighbor in a communal flat, and his unsatisfactory income. He also experienced unreasonable fears that developed in him a tendency toward hyper-controlling behavior. In recent times, he had experienced concentration and memory problems, and learning difficulties. During the day, he felt unexplained mood swings and constant leaps from thought to thought. He had suffered from alcohol and smoking addiction, and from sleep problems for many years. He has a history of prenatal stress due to his father having behaved cruelly to his mother during pregnancy, and he experienced childhood psychological trauma. He was raised without his father, and his mother often sent him to live with grandmothers. Three times he nearly drowned as a child. At work from 28 years up to the recent time period, he felt stress and hardly survived the death of his best friend at age 31. He had not been medicated in the past and used alcohol to relieve stress.
Consent to treatment
Published in Paul Lambden, Dental Law and Ethics, 2018
Lastly, for consent to be ethically valid it must have been given voluntarily as respect for autonomy requires that an individual’s decisions are free from control by others. Control over a person should be distinguished from influence, which is resistible and therefore compatible with their autonomous decision making. Three categories of controlling behaviour have been described:23 coercion, manipulation and persuasion.
Location of Power within Psychiatry: A Fifty-Year Journey as Represented in Film
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2020
Lois Biggin Moylan, Ian Needham, Kevin McKenna, Jeanne Kimpel
The negative side of the nurse gaining a degree of power and autonomy on the unit is the greater ability to be abusive and perpetuate psychological violence without close oversight of the psychiatrist who trusts in her professional judgment. An example of the psychosocial abuse is shown when Nurse Ratchet violates confidentiality during group therapy sessions by providing information to the group that humiliates a patient. Her desire to have absolute power over patients is the principal theme of the film. This leads to a destructive power struggle between the nurse and a new patient who refuses to submit to her controlling behavior as other patients have. This behavior is congruent with what Killian (1981) reports concerning the lack of even- handedness in the treatment of staff by those superior in the hierarchy, resulting in the less powerful staff sometimes acting as petty tyrants within their area of authority. The character of Nurse Ratchet is described by de Carlo (2007) as stereotypical.
A Conditional Process Analysis of the Coach-Created Mastery Climate, Task Goal Orientation, and Competence Satisfaction in Youth Soccer: The Moderating Role of Controlling Coach Behavior
Published in Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 2019
Siv Gjesdal, Ellen M. Haug, Yngvar Ommundsen
The present study has several limitations. First, the main aim of a conditional process analysis is to establish causality, and therefore the cross-sectional design is a limitation. Longitudinal investigations are needed to establish the directionality of the relationships that emerged in the present study. Second, players in the present sample reported relatively low levels of controlling behavior. Researchers would do well to replicate the current model in settings where control plays a more integral part. Third, only one dimension of the motivational atmosphere surrounding youth soccer was included, namely, the coach-created climate. Recent research suggests that peers and parents can be highly influential in terms of task goal orientation and competence (Atkins et al., 2015). Last, given inconsistencies between observer, player, and coach reports in previous research (Smith et al., 2015), and the lack of agreement within the teams in the present study, future work should rely on several sources to increase the practical value of the findings.
Who Wears the Pants: The Implications of Gender and Power for Youth Heterosexual Relationships
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2018
Laina Y. Bay-Cheng, Eugene Maguin, Anne E. Bruns
Four women and two men reported being in relationships (three dating, three serious) with dominant partners who exhibited controlling behavior. This manifested in “extreme possessiveness,” “extreme jealousy,” and being “demanding” to the point that the participant felt “unsafe and uncomfortable.” One man described a girlfriend who “made me question every move I made and she started to control when I could go see my friends and how I spent my time,” that this induced “self-loathing” in him, and that her infidelity “destroyed my self-confidence.” Interspersed among these comments, which were part of a single open-ended description of the relationship, he also noted that “the best part, and honestly the only good part, was the sex,” and he summed up their relationship as “three miserable years filled with great sex but nothing more.” The other man also commented on the sexual component of his relationship with a high school girlfriend who had “temper and control issues,” though his recollections were less favorable: “Unfortunately for me, while she was incredibly attractive, I am convinced that she is asexual because we never did anything more than light touching.”