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The fortune-tellers
A carpenter in the West African country of Cameroon goes to a fortune teller and finds the predictions about his future coming true in an unusual way.
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Help-seeking preferences among Chinese college students exposed to a natural disaster: a person-centered approach
Direct exposure to natural disasters is associated with increased mental disorders. Help-seeking behaviour among Chinese adults is low and the barriers and facilitators of help-seeking among Chinese adults exposed to natural disasters is understudied.
Using a person-centred approach, this study describes help-seeking preferences and their correlates in a sample of Chinese college students after experiencing Typhoon Hato, the strongest storm to affect Macao, China in the past 50 years.
The baseline sample was collected one month following exposure to the Typhoon (September 2017). Six months following the baseline study (April, 2018), a total of 815 students (females = 71.5%) completed follow-up and were included in the data analysis. Latent Class Analysis (LCA) and Multinomial Logistic Regression were used to analyse the data via Mplus 7.4 and Stata 15.0.
Three latent classes of help-seeking preferences were identified in this study, including: 'mental health professionals and close people' (MHPCP, 52%), non-seekers (31%), and 'multiple sources' (17%). The results of multinomial logistic regression showed that region of origin (mainland versus Macao, China), self-stigma, perceived helpfulness of professional mental health help, previous professional help-seeking behaviour, and perceived social support, were significantly associated with MHPCP help-seeking preferences.
A large proportion of students preferred to seek support from loved ones and professionals. However, over 30% of the sample preferred not seeking help for mental health concerns. Further research is needed to enhance mental health treatment seeking preferences among Chinese college students.
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Blood curse : the springtime of Commissario Ricciardi
\"Naples, 1931. In a working class apartment in the Sanita' neighborhood an elderly woman by the name of Carmela Calise has been beaten to death. When Ricciardi and Maione arrive at the scene they start asking the neighbors questions. No one wants to talk but slowly a few interesting facts slip out. Carmela Calise was moonlighting as a fortuneteller and moneylender. In her decrepit apartment she would receive clients, among them some of the city's rich and powerful, predicting their futures in such a way as to manipulate and deceive. If economic ruin lurked in their futures, Calise was happy to help. For a price, of course. She had many enemies, those indebted to her, manipulated by her lies, disappointed by her prophesies or destroyed by her machinations. Murder suspects in this atmospheric thriller abound and Commissario Ricciardi, one of the most original and intriguing investigators in contemporary crime fiction, will have his work cut out for him\"--Jacket.
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Appearance of Oracles/Prophecies in the Making of Legends
Kehanet kavramı, bütün antik halkların ilkel inançlarının doğasında vardır. Zamanla bu olgu epik bir yaratıcılığa dönüşmüştür. Türk ve İskandinav halkların destanlarının tipolojik yönlerini kıyasladığımzda bunu görmemiz mümkündür. İzlanda destanlarındaki \"Büyük Edda\" ve \"Küçük Edda\", İzlanda epik kahramanı Kjuhil ile ilişkilidir. Dede Gorgut Kitabı, Manas, Maday Kara gibi birçok Türk destanında da geniş ölçüde kullanılmıştır. Bu çalışmada çeşitli kehanet türleri ele alınmaktadır. Çalışmanın temel konusu, kehanet veya falcılıktır. Sosyal ve psikolojik koşulların sonucu olarak her halkın kültüründe kehanetin yaygın olduğundan bahsetmek mümkündür.
The concept divination is inherent in primitive beliefs of all ancient people. With the lapse of time this phenomenon was transformed and in epic creativity. Comparing in typological aspect eposes of Turkic and Scandinavian people, we make sure of this. So, in the Icelandic epos The Senior Edda and The Younger Edda, in the sagas connected with Icelandic epic hero Kjuhil, as well as in many Turkic epos including \"The Book of Dede-Gorgut\", Manas, Black Maday and others this motive is widely used. The research considers various kinds of divination. The main research subjects are predictions or fortune telling. The research conclusion says that divination distribution in the culture of each people is the consequence of socially-psychological conditions.
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