Sentences with phrase «find social acceptance»

As humans we have a natural desire to feel that we belong, and we find social acceptance to be significantly rewarding and social rejection to be considerably threatening.

Others wonder where the children raised by white parents will find social acceptance as adults.

Not exact matches

Far from being an indicator of social acceptance of homosexuality, a movie such as The Birdcage - sanitized of what homosexuals actually do with their plumbing, and of grim specters such as AIDS - is a very traditional instance of people finding homosexual behavior, especially in its more flamboyant cross-dressing variations, ludicrously funny.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

They exhorted the individual to accept social responsibility; true inner freedom was to be found through and in this acceptance.

But the Tory Mods have found a (post hoc) acceptance of social liberalism a high profile and pretty cost free way to show that they have changed.

RealClearPolitics.com quoted openly gay Republican U.S. House candidate Carl DeMaio about how he's been received by opposite ends of the political spectrum: «I've found more tolerance, acceptance and inclusion from social conservative groups who have to reconcile that I'm a Republican who happens to be gay... versus the intolerance the LGBT leaders see me as a gay man who happens to be a Republican.»

I find this pretty incongruous, because the older woman can benefit the younger one with her skills in bed, acceptance in high class social circles, as well as kind words of advice and compassion should the cub be feeling down.

Research indicates social acceptance of finding love online.

Whatever parents are seeking for their children — improved academic performance, more engaged teachers, social acceptance, freedom from bullying, special needs programming, and so on — they are more likely to find it when they have more than one choice.

Helen's success as compared to White's initial struggles with Gos led me to wonder about the nature of an obsession - how much is environmental, how much does social stigma or how much is found in our own nature seeking for acceptance, love and fulfillment.

The measure of social status, of social acceptance, of prestige, is now to be found in our consumptive patterns.

Herr et al29 found that maternal BPD symptoms were negatively correlated with Harter social acceptance scores, and ability to make close friends in their 15 - year - old sample, and that this relationship held even after maternal depression was controlled.

In Westernized contexts, social withdrawal has been linked to peer rejection.40, 22,43,44 But recent findings have revealed that social withdrawal is also associated with rejection among children in India and industrialized China.45, 8 Thus, the correlates of peer acceptance and rejection across cultures appear to be similar.

We also explored whether depressed youth would show altered reactivity to peer acceptance or rejection relative to controls in regions typically associated with reward processing, such as the NAcc and mPFC, but were unsure whether to expect blunted or increased reactivity given conflicting initial findings on response to monetary and social reward in depressed youth (Forbes et al., 2006, 2009; Davey et al., 2011).

In addition, the finding that loneliness but not perceived social acceptance mediated the link between clique isolation and depressive symptoms provides insight into underlying cognitive - emotional constructs, which may be helpful in preventing depressive symptoms in early adolescence.

In accordance with our findings, research on coping with infertility has suggested that the most adaptive coping strategies for addressing the problem of infertility appear to involve active problem - focused coping, social support and information seeking (Leiblum and Greenfield, 1997) as well as emotion - focused coping (Berghuis and Stanton, 2002) and acceptance of the condition.

For instance, social anxiety is found to be related to problematic peer relations, perceived social acceptance and loneliness (e.g., La Greca and Moore Harrison 2005).

Our finding that the probability of being isolated from cliques from age 11 to 13 years were associated with low perceived social acceptance seems to support the theory that children's self - esteem regarding their social competencies is based on their actual experiences in the peer group (Cole 1991; Harter et al. 1996; Mead 1934).

Findings indicate that siblings are similar to comparison peers in regard to social behavior, number of friends, number of reciprocated friendships, and level of peer acceptance.

Moreover, we found that loneliness, but not perceived social acceptance mediated the association between being isolated from cliques and depressive symptoms in early adolescence.

Whereas loneliness mediated the link between clique isolation and depressive symptoms, no such mediation effect was found for perceived social acceptance.

However, we found that the association between clique isolation and perceived social acceptance was only significant for boys.

The combined findings of mediation by loneliness but not by low perceived social acceptance seem to suggest that the acute awareness of being isolated from cliques — rather than the more indirect process of developing negative self - schemata concerning one's own role in this specific negative experience — underlies the association between clique isolation and subsequent depressive feelings.