BACKGROUND Despite the existence of formal professional support services, informal support (mainly family members) continues to be the main source of eldercare, especially for those who are dependent or disabled. Professionals on the primary health care are the ideal choice to educate, provide psychological support, and help to mobilize social resources available to the informal caregiver.Contr...

In this article, we explore the literature on collective efficacy and crime, but pay attention to three major challenges that confront this literature, and researchers moving forward with the concept in studies of neighborhoods. These challenges are (1) precisely defining and measuring the concept of collective efficacy; (2) determining whether the notions of general cohesion and trust in neigh...

Informal knowledge transfer among individuals is a crucial section of organization knowledge management. Based on theories of knowledge transfer, the hypotheses of influence of social capital to informal knowledge transfer among individuals were proposed. By empirical study, this paper verified and revised the model, and revealed that three dimensions of social capital not only have a direct si...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this article is to investigate whether and to what degree participation in physical activity among adolescents is associated with area economic deprivation in the municipality where they live. In the study we took account of aggregated informal social capital at the municipality level and compositional effects due to spatial concentration of individual variables know...

the relationship between individual s perception of organizational justice and their social capital has been studied in this research. social capital analyzes with trust, involvement and civil leadership, giving and volunteering, informal social ties, diversity in friends. organizational justice divided in three dimensions: they are distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional jus...

Public gathering spaces such as lounges, elevator lobbies, and hallways are places where informal social encounters occur most frequently in the workplace. In addition to serving as the crossroads for day-to-day activities, these spaces harbor a relaxed social atmosphere, where people feel naturally inclined to gather and talk casually about anything that may be on their minds. As a result, the...

Gossip is informal talking about colleagues. Taking a social network perspective, we argue that group boundaries and social status in the informal workplace network determine who the objects of positive and negative gossip are. Gossip networks were collected among 36 employees in a public child care organization, and analyzed using exponential random graph modeling (ERGM). As hypothesized, both...

While some argue that incomplete incentive contracts facilitate the self-enforcement of informal dealings, other authors submit that they substitute for or “crowd out” social norms supporting informal arrangements. We use experimental evidence to test these theories by manipulating the extent to which individuals transact repeatedly and the level of contract costs. We find that, by enforcing co...

BACKGROUND An increasingly significant public health issue in Canada, and elsewhere throughout the developed world, pertains to the provision of adequate palliative/end-of-life (P/EOL) care. Informal caregivers who take on the responsibility of providing P/EOL care often experience negative physical, mental, emotional, social and economic consequences. In this article, we specifically examine h...

El objetivo de esta investigación tiene como fn explorar y exponer el papel la educación a través del aprendizaje informal en práctica socialización digital, particular, rol que tienen los memes, frases e ilustraciones parte currículum coedifcación intersubjetividad jóvenes actuales, redes sociales Facebook Instagram. Como conclusión no se logró hallar existencia general prosumidores [productor...