The extensive availability of Internet has led to the recognition of problematic Internet use (so called Internet addiction, IA) mostly involving adolescents. There are limited data about the prevalence and consequences of IA in adults especially among high school teachers. Here, we present a cross-sectional prospective study focusing on the association of Internet addiction with burnout, depression, insomnia, and lower quality of life among high school teachers taking many co-variates into account. Overall, 623 males (34.3%) and 1194 females (65.7%) participated in our study. Internet addiction was detected in 5.2% (95/1817) based on the Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire. Internet addiction was associated with severe burnout (10.5 vs. 2.7%, p < 0.001), moderate (36.8 vs. 1.7%, p < 0.001), and severe (6.3 vs. 0.1%, p < 0.001) depression, insomnia (23.1 vs. 11.4%, p < 0.001), and severe sleep disturbance (severe insomnia, 27.4 vs. 3.8%, p < 0.001) and lower quality of life in all domains (p < 0.001). There was also a significant correlation of the severity of the above-mentioned parameters and the severity of IA (overall scores, p < 0.001 in all cases). In a multivariate analysis including demographic criteria, risk factors medical conditions and the above-mentioned parameters as co-variates internet addiction was significantly associated with depression (OR = 3.836, CI: 2.92–5.44, p = 0.03), and insomnia (OR: 3.932, CI: 3.6–5.69, p = 0.002). This is the first study from Hungary and is one of the first studies showing the association of IA with mental issues, burnout, and lower quality of life among adults. It underlines the clinical importance of problematic Internet use among adults.

The relationship between human rights and religion cannot be seen as a relationship between two entirely distinct sets of values Human rights are deeply rooted in the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. However, throughout history religious institutions have interpreted human rights differently and have supported or hindered their implementation. This paper discusses the relationship between human rights and religion in the social and cultural matrix of post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. Our statistical analysis focuses on Hungary as an example of the region. In our view, the variations in the relationship between human rights and religion in Central and Eastern Europe are primarily determined by the region’s wounded collective identity and the resulting overriding national and state security needs. Politically and culturally, the region is characterized by its betweenness, embodied in centuries of vulnerability to the great powers. Therefore, the social status and political discourse of human rights and religion should be tied to this primary regional marker. While examining the relationship between religion and human rights, we should be aware that the primary relationship is between human rights and the collective identity of the nation-state and between religion and the identity of the nation-state.

János Kornai’s critique of overcentralization, shortage, and the soft budget constraint remains indispensable for analyzing socialist and post-socialist institutional failure. Yet Kornai’s framework is not, on its own, a theory of justice or human flourishing. This article argues that a more normatively robust reading of Kornai emerges when his work is placed in dialogue with Amartya Sen’s capability approach. The article proceeds from the claim that hard budget constraints are necessary to discipline firms, curb clientelism, and protect public resources, but they become socially destructive when they are translated into a generalized withdrawal of capability-supporting public goods. Drawing on the Hungarian experience from the transition of the 1990s to the renewed centralization of the 2010s and 2020s, the paper examines how market discipline, welfare restructuring, state activism, and democratic backsliding have interacted in practice. It contends that a livable society cannot be secured either by indiscriminate bailouts or by an abstract celebration of market discipline. Rather, Hungary needs a capability-sensitive regime of fiscal discipline: one that hardens budget constraints for politically protected organizations while guaranteeing reliable access to the infrastructures of human development, including education, health care, mobility, and democratic voice. Such a synthesis preserves Kornai’s insistence on accountability while supplying the normative orientation that Sen brings to questions of freedom, dignity, and inclusion.

Iván Zádori’s book traces the life‐histories and memories of nearly sixty members of Southwest Transdanubia’s Jewish second generation—those born between 1945 and 1965 to Holocaust survivors. Using an oral‐history approach, the book reveals how these “children of survivors” negotiated Jewish identity, community life, and the legacies of trauma in postwar rural Hungary. Spanning childhood through to the present, Zádori interweaves personal narratives with regional history, highlighting both the singularity of Transdanubian experience and its resonance with broader debates on memory, identity, and intergenerational trauma. This review situates Második within national and international Holocaust scholarship, underscoring its methodological rigor, narrative richness, and contribution to understanding how memory and identity are co‐constructed across generations.