Search

In the social sciences, emotions are increasingly important in explaining actions. Although emotions are limited to the individual domain, they need to be interpreted on a collective basis in terms of their formation and consequences. Collectively constructed emotions determine the individual's action. This collectivity is at the root of the fear of the unknown, one of the most powerful emotions in the modern world. With the increasing global migration movements, "foreigners" have become the subject of collective fear. Xenophobia, which expresses hostility towards foreigners based on fear, determines the content and limits of the relationship that the individual establishes with the other in his/her world of understanding, interpretation, and action. The existence of a constantly produced fear and this emotion-based hatred and violence necessitates that these emotions be handled in a collective framework rather than subjective experiences. The main purpose of this study is to discuss xenophobia as a collective emotion in the construction of migrant as "The Other". The collective character of xenophobia is formed on two grounds: The first one is the collective emotion created by group belonging. The individual constructs "We" and "The Other" by defining the group of belonging and the boundaries of this group, and the feelings he/she develops against the Other in the context of group privileges are a result of this collective belonging. The function of xenophobia to provide political control of the masses constitutes its second collective aspect. In today's society of fear, the field of political power is created by the control of foreigners who are constructed as a threat, and when the political function of the media is included in this process, xenophobia is built through a perception that affects the masses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The usage of internet's becoming widespread and the rapid expansion of its area of use come with some negative consequences. One of these negative consequences is internet addiction. Internet addiction is an important risk factor for adolescents, especially in our country. In this context, the objective of the study is to determine the relationships among internet addiction, parental acceptance-rejection perceptions, regulation of emotions, and psychological symptoms. The research was designed with a multifactorial predictive correlation research model in terms of quantitative research approach. The Sample group is composed of 464 high school students (231 females/243 males). Demographic Information Form developed by researchers, Young's Internet Addiction Test-Short Form, Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire, Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire (REQ) for Adolescents and Brief Symptom Inventory were used to collect data. In this study, descriptive statistics methods, independent samples t-test, Pearson correlation analysis, and hierarchical multiple regression were used to analyze the data. According to the results of the study, it has concluded that female participants have higher levels of anxiety, hostility, somatization, negative self, depression levels and internal dysfunctional emotion regulation and external functional emotion regulation than male participants. It was observed father rejection that male participants have higher levels of than female participants. There has a positive relationship between the level of internet addiction from depression, anxiety, negative self, somatization, hostility, internal dysfunctional emotion regulation and external functional emotion regulation and external functional emotion regulation levels. Anxiety, negative self, hostility, time spent on the internet, internal and external dysfunctional emotion regulation have been found to be one of the predictors of internet addiction levels. The results discussed in the light of the relevant literature and recommendations have been made within the scope of psychology practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]