People who suffer from the victim syndrome are always complaining about the 'bad things that happen' in their lives. Because they believe they have no control over the way events unfold, they don’t feel a sense of responsibility for them. One moment, they present themselves dramatically as...

Research suggests that certain personality characteristics lead to greater (or lesser) withdrawal from work, yet little research has examined exactly how personality translates into withdrawal behavior. To address this question, the present study demonstrated that the approach-avoidance...

Sociologist Dawn R. Norris uses in-depth interviews to offer insight into the experience of losing a job-what it means for daily life, how the unemployed feel about it, and the process they go through as they try to deal with job loss and their new identities as unemployed people. Job Loss,...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why Identity? -- 3. “That’s Not the Way We Do It at Gentay”: Feedback Mismatches -- 4. “I Wasn’t the Same Person”: Time Mismatches -- 5. “Me Caveman . . . I Club Deer”: Status Mismatches -- 6. “On the Mommy...