Human sexuality is a complex phenomenon and is consequently a subject of frequent concern for client and counselor alike. Unfortunately, however, many counselors fail to adequately address their clients’ sexual concerns. The source of this omission in clinical focus has been the…
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This paper explores the relationship between language, culture, and emotion in the Indonesian English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. It does this by focusing on the Indonesian concept of malu , an emotional response often translated as "shame." Malu is a complex emotiona…
This dissertation focuses on neo-Nazi and violent jihadi propaganda and its role in defining social boundaries. Frame analysis was used to gain a deeper understanding of how neo-Nazis and violent jihadis construct propaganda to neutralize objections and promote drift. Specifical…
Christianity originated in what has often been described as an honor-shame culture. In Mediterranean antiquity, society, rather than the individual, defined both worthy behavior and a person's worth. While who and what was honored varied according to location and community, the …
The purpose of this dissertation is to identify the semantics of honor and shame in the Hebrew Bible and to demonstrate how these social values intersect with Israel's fundamental social organizing principle, covenant. Though many scholars have claimed that honor and shame are p…
Available social psychological studies of honor cultures have mostly focused on emotional, cognitive, and behavioral consequences of perceiving an honor insult. The aim of this study was to examine possible ways of re-instilling a sense of honor and thus avoiding the negative em…
The literature addressing suicidal behaviour in young South Asian women is reviewed. Most published literature cites 'culture conflict' as a causal mechanism for the high rates of suicidal behaviour found in this group. Whilst this concept is undoubtedly of relevance, it is ill …
This dissertation explores the nature of shame and the purpose of the reflections on shame by the ancient Israelites in their search to understand the nature of God and their relationship with him. It argues that the ancient Israelites experienced shame primarily as divine aband…
Although Victorian England was a strongly shame-based culture, no book-length study explores the nineteenth century understanding of shame or its influence in the oeuvre of a major Victorian novelist. Because George Eliot and her partner George Henry Lewes worked at the crux of …
This dissertation explores literary and visual representations of shame with a particular focus on the 14th to 16th centuries. Through a survey of prose literary works and Early Modern visual culture, this project argues for an understanding of shame as a social construction of …
Guilt, particularly around sexuality, is a concept commonly associated with those who practice Catholicism. Additionally, women in the United States (US) often navigate many mixed messages surrounding sexuality. Women who are raised in religious traditions that hold strong messa…
This study sought to determine if types of narcissism could be discriminated through their correlation with shame: Covert narcissism was expected to correlate with shame, and overt narcissism was not expected to correlate with shame. Both types of narcissism were not expected to…
This study is an analysis of verbal insults in the Hebrew Bible. Beginning with the conviction that language is a social phenomenon, the study recognizes that insults are acts of rudeness and insolence, which are deeply rooted in the symbolic world of ancient Israel. Some featur…
