EMPLOYMENT DECISIONS MADE BY MOTHERS OF INFANTS

This study was designed to contribute to our understanding of employment-related behavior in women with infants by assessing how individual characteristics and perceptions of infant needs are associated with decisions about employment. Utilizing a longitudinal approach, data were collected on 172 mothers at infant birth and at 3, 8, and 12 months of infant's age. Four study groups were formed, based on mothers' early plans to work and actual work status later in the infant's first year. Groups were compared, and findings about decisions to work or stay home were interpreted in light of maternal demographic and personality attributes, and maternal perceptions of infant needs and characteristics.     

Homo Touristicus,or the jargon of authenticity 2.0

This paper argues that the concept of authenticity has evolved since the time of Adorno’s critique in The Jargon of Authenticity, and that an analysis of tourism offers a way of grasping the altered status of the concept of authenticity and its current ideological function in the contemporary capitalist system. It is suggested that authenticity no longer refers to an existential state, but instead to a purchased experiential moment. This paper traces the alterations in the understanding of existential authenticity from its origins in existential phenomenology to its current status as a key concept in tourism research. It suggests that, while Adorno’s critique of authenticity has become somewhat outdated due to changes in the social relations of modern capitalism, its central argument still holds true, in that contemporary notions of authenticity still play an ideological role in securing the socio-economic status quo by both expressing and concealing the sense of alienation caused by social relations under capitalism.     

Thoughts on the Interaction of Trauma,Addiction, and Spirituality

This article reviews the prevalence of trauma, substance use disorders, and their co‐occurrence in both clinical and community populations. Deeper understanding of these phenomena is providing new and promising treatment modalities. Spiritual development and growth complement these emerging treatments.     

The Ethical Potential of Love in the Wake of Sexual Violence

The Journal of Ethics - The myth that sexual violence is perpetrated by strangers in dark alleyways has long since been debunked; the vast majority of sexual assaults are committed by someone known...     

Book reviews

Evans, J. St. B. Thinking and reasoning: Psychological approaches. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1983. Pp. 256. ISBN 0-7100-9460-4. £12.95.

Anderson, J. R. and Kosslyn, S. M. (Eds.). Tutorials in learning and memory: Essays in honor of Gordon Bower. San Francisco: Freeman. 1984. Pp. xiii+264. ISBN 0-7167-1571-6. £12.95.

Tighe, T. J. and Shepp, B. E. (Eds.). Perception, cognition, and develop-ment. Interactional analyses. Hillsdale, N.J., and London: lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1983. Pp. 383. ISBN 0-89859-254-2. £41.65.

Rock, I. The logic of perception. Cambride, Mass.: The MIT Press. 1983. Pp. 13+365. ISBN 0-262-18109-6.