Advances in Psychology Research: Volume 1

Is there a consistent pro-life attitude?; Professional fulfilment and frustration -- nurses' perceptions of their workplace; The attribute-mediation and product meaning approaches to the influences of human values on consumer choices; Trends in suicide mortality, 1955-1989 -- America, Africa, Asia and Oceania; Cognitive processing anomalies in depressive mood disorders; Body image and anxiety in paranoid schizophrenia; A social norms extension of the investment model; A cross-cultural analysis of alcoholism and social alienation in Panama and the US; The Social correlates of migration; The issue of semantic mediation in word and number naming; Why write 'black' -- reclaiming African cultural resource knowledge in diasporic contexts; Anticipated social contact with persons in wheelchairs -- age and gender differences; Social and emotional development in Chinese children and adolescents -- a contextual cross-cultural perspective.