THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

drinking a lot, going to the disco. I was high school peer group.
trying to fit in with the others at school. I
wanted to be one ofthem.
10. Some people at school started to take 10. S felt gratified when his peers began to
notice of me. They invited me to go with befiiend him.
them to discos, and treated me as a friend. I
was glad to be so important ... that someone
would want to spend time with me.
Could you tell me about your relationship with your sister?
Natural meanin~ units
11. I couldn't stand my sister. She, she was
everything in my parent's eyes. She got to
go to tech, and she got everything she asked
for.
Central themes
11. S, perceiving his sister to be his parents'
favourite child, experienced hatred and
jealousy toward her.
12. I hated school, every second of it. It 12. S's loathing for school and his
seemed like a waste of time to me, and I consequent lack of application resulted in
eventuallyfailed standard seven.
him failing a year.
13. I hated my teachers and they hated me,
you know. I couldn't stand them, couldn't
stand them, andjust didn't want to listen to
them. I hated them because I thought they
were treating me like rubbish.
14. It was a feeling I got towards all
authority figures. It was something inside
me - a feeling I got that nobody liked me.
Looking back on it now, I think it was only
from my own perspective ... no-one actually
hated me as such; it was just a
psychological plot that I thought was going
on. It was afeeling I got that they hated me,
whereas now, when I look back on it, it
wasn't really the case, you know.
13. S's relationships with his teachers, who
he felt mistreated him, was based on
perceived mutual hatred.
14. S despised authority figures, believing
that they hated him.
15. Because I never did my homework and 15. S's antagonistic relationships with his
got into trouble, I got punished a lot. That teachers was aggravated by his refusal to
made the situation worse.
conform to their expectations ofhim.
16. I did used to go to Sunday school. My 16. S disliked the Christian Church meetings
motherforced us to go, and to church ... the his mother forced him to attend.
NG. church. I didn't like church, but just
hadto~o.
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