Abstract This study was conducted to investigate whether socio-cultural context (i.e., urban versus rural), perceived physical health, marital status, and satisfaction with family non-family ties predicted hedonic eudaimonic well-being in late adulthood examine the impact of on well-being, health by controlling age.One hundred one community-dwelling participants aged between 68 94 were enrolled...

Close friends and family play an important role in adults' lives, but little is known about the implications of infrequent or peripheral social ties that adults maintain. Eighty-seven adults, ranging in age from 24 to 87 years (M = 51.25) provided information about their holiday card networks. Participants completed surveys for up to 25 cards that they received during one holiday season (n = 1,...

Engaging social networks to encourage preventive health behavior offers a supplement to conventional mass media campaigns and yet we do not fully understand the conditions that facilitate or hamper such interpersonal diffusion. One set of factors that should affect the diffusion of health campaign information involves a person's community. Variables describing geographic communities should pred...

Highly distributed, loosely organized, independent, informal work organizations sometimes manage both joint efforts and collective welfare at least as well as centralized bureaucracies do. This aligns closely with the view that markets are superior to bureaucracies as ways of organizing both joint efforts and collective welfare. There are other forms of work organization between perfect markets...

Few are aware that spending more time on social media within the home and allocating domestic work can disrupt household's economic equilibrium. Currently, modern way of life has eroded values Muslim homes. On basis Islamic values, household ties reflect an attitude balances satisfaction needs with allocation for work. This study examines relationship between addiction, spending, its impact fam...