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Mythical Individual and Surrogate Individual : The End of Civilization as a Desire
This last chapter focuses on the distinction between the mythical individual, linked to an understanding of the world endowed with meaning, from the...
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The Association of Financial Socialization with Financial Self-Efficacy and Autonomy: A Study of Young Students in India
The idea that young students learn a wide range of financial beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors from family members supports the theory that family...
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Relative Importance of Individual and Community Predictors of Wellbeing
Inspired by theory in wellbeing science, we examined the relative importance of lifestyle factors and living conditions when predicting two...
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Empowering your victims: Why repressive regimes allow individual petitions in international organizations
The growing literature explaining why repressive regimes ratify human rights treaties fails to explain why some regimes take the additional step to...
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Autonomy on the horizon: comparing institutional approaches to disability and elder care
This article asks how people come to interpret themselves and others as autonomous given their multiple dependencies. We draw on a cross-case...
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Examining Autonomy and Consent in Gender Assignment Decisions on Intersex People in India
Intersexuality, particularly in the Global South, remains under-researched. In this chapter, I explore the cultural, social and medical discourses...
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Inclusive leadership and innovative work behaviour: the mediating role of job autonomy
The aim of this study is to investigate the role of inclusive leadership as a predictor of job autonomy and innovative work behaviour (IWB). The...
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Seniors: Maximizing Autonomy
This chapter focuses on seniors, who represent an important cohort in Jewish communities. Organized Jewish communities have invested, and continue to...
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Meta Integration: Co-constructing for Autonomy
In a search for alternatives, the discussion shifts from describing, analyzing, and exposing, to creating a new set of relations and forms, which...
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Daily Adolescent Purposefulness, Daily Subjective Well-Being, and Individual Differences in Autistic Traits
Despite being a valued resource for adolescent health and development, the field maintains an incomplete view of how youths’ sense of purpose in life...
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Mechanisms, Systems, Autonomy, Hermeneutics, and Understanding Human Life
As we have seen throughout this work, many if not all social sciences adopt different approaches to human life. None, however, genuinely tries to...
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Esca** Eritrea, Entering Sidet: Young Refugees Realizing Voice, Autonomy and Responsibility in Exile
This chapter explores conceptions of wellbeing and transitions to adulthood held by youth and young adult Eritreans in migration. It focuses more...
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Does generativity matter? A meta-analysis on individual work outcomes
Ongoing demographic changes and global population ageing require organisations to pay special attention to their employment policies. With working...
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Women Decision Making Autonomy as a Facilitating Factor for Contraceptive Use for Family Planning in Pakistan
Pakistan is 5th most populous country in the world and striving to achieve population equilibrium. Unfortunately, one in five women in Pakistan has...
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The Compensatory Association of Autonomy and Relatedness Satisfaction on Affect and Aggressive Feelings
This article presents the results of an examination of self-determination theory; in this examination, the theory is extended through deeper insight...
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Freedom of the Press Under Andres Manuel López Obrador: The Struggle Between Journalistic Autonomy and National Sovereignty, 2018–Present
The second alternation in the Mexican presidency, this time from the right to the left, brought about new subjects and issues of contention, as a...
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The State, Civil Society and the Individual
In this chapter, the theoretical position of the book is outlined. By bringing together two different research fields that rarely talks to each...
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The Challenge of Autonomy: What We Can Learn from Research on Robots Designed for Harsh Environments
In addition to areas of application in people’s everyday lives and the area of education and services, robots are primarily envisioned in...
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Individual and country-level factors associated with self-reported and accelerometer-based physical activity in old age: a cross-national analysis of European countries
This study aimed to investigate associations between individual-level (personality traits, quality of life) and country-level (gross domestic product...
