A large body of empirical studies shows that religion often serves as a factor promoting positive, healthy outcomes in the lives of American adolescents. Yet existing theoretical explanations for these religious effects remain largely disjointed and fragmented. This article attempts to formulate a more systematic, integrated, and coherent account of religion's constructive influence in the live...

Nowadays, the university pedagogy has increasingly used group work to help students increase their group work skills by gaining social recognitions while working with others. The factors investigated in this study may predict the different gender based roles among students’ relationships, especially the female students’ roles during group work in university. In this subject, there are questionn...

While most of the literature on Black men prescribe to a deficit model that focuses on academic failures and poverty, this work focuses on the positive by profiling Black men who have successfully entered information technology (IT) majors. Here we reveal various capitals, their accumulation, and their effects using Bourdieu’s framework to inductively uncover that Black men succeed in IT career...

BACKGROUND The Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development strategy provides financial support for the development of early to mid career researchers through its Research Capacity Building Initiative and Research Development Program. Practice nurses can provide valuable contributions to research practices undertaking research projects. OBJECTIVE This article documents the experien...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Educators should document students' clinical skills experience and whether curriculum and other course changes impact this experience. We wanted to determine the factors associated with students' clinical skills experience during their third-year family medicine preceptorship. METHODS We conducted an observational study of 1,419 third-year students at the University ...

the present study examined the role of social capital on financial performance of farming cooperatives in khouzestan province. the method of research was descriptive- correlative. the population consisted of 3273 members of farming cooperatives. based on cochran formula, 213 persons were selected. the survey was conducted using a questionnaire. content validity of the questionnaire was determin...

background & aim : stress is a common phenomenon in nursing profession, but novice nurses usually experience more stress. this stress can result in job dissatisfaction and quitting the occupation. this study aimed to explore the novice nurses’ experience of stress at the beginning of their clinical practice. methods & materials : this study was conducted using a qualitative content analysis. th...

The European Monetary Institute have narrowed down the choice of candidate strategies for a single monetary policy within European Monetary Union to inflation targets or monetary aggregate targets. In practice it is unlikely to be a simple choice between these targets, since all monetary authorities that currently pursue either of these strategies also monitor a wide set of economic and financi...

background: in every organization, productivity is considerably related with organizational knowledge, experience, creativity, and skills. therefore, an organization must develop training programs to extract and supply individual, occupational, and organizational needs. this case study described the management performance promotion plan in the iranian ministry of health and medical education (m...