Two-hundred and eighteen low-income, minority, adolescent mothers were interviewed during the perinatal period and 3 years later about their social networks, including their relationships with their children's fathers. Few adolescents were involved with fathers at both time points. Relationships with fathers were, in general, less supportive and less problematic over time. Moreover, although fa...

social capital and quality of life are one of the most important growing concepts in society. social capital is productive as any other capital and it is considered as a suitable ground to take advantage of economic and cultural capitals as well as a way for the success of a society. this study aimed at evaluating the effect of social capital on the quality of life of azadshahr's citizens....

methods the current cross sectional study included all female high school students in tehran in the 2014 - 2015 academic year. of these, 477 females were selected by multistage cluster sampling. results the results of the correlation matrix was indicative of a significant negative relationship between self-esteem and self-concept clarity with social comparison (p < 0.000). there was a significa...

aim and background: it is estimated that coronary heart diseases (chd) will be the major cause of mortality by the year 2020. the traditional factors such as age, genetics, smoking and obesity, account only half of the variance in chd.  therefore, regarding increasing concern about the psychosocial factors, the purpose of present study was to evaluate the role of personality, stress and social ...

This paper studies the role of social security in the prevention of social deviances. About 304 of high school girl students in Shoush (South west of Iran) were (systematic) randomly chosen. The research method was survey with questionnaire. The data were analyzed through spss along with Pearson coefficient correlation, Analysis of Variance, multivariable regression and path analysis were used ...

abstract: the objective of this paper is to measure and explain the relationship between facebook users’ social capital and their political participation in real world. following political changes in the world and in the middle east, there are growing interest among researchers to work on political participation and facebook usage. we therefore developed this interest into this research paper i...

Social species create emergent organizations beyond the individual. These emergent structures evolved hand in hand with neural, hormonal, cellular, and genetic mechanisms to support them because the consequent social behaviors helped these organisms survive, reproduce, and care for offspring sufficiently long that they too reproduced. Social neuroscience seeks to specify the neural, hormonal, c...

abstract previous research have shown that physical and mental illness and mortality are influenced by class status, material life standards, genetics and infection, but today social context attracted attention. in this paper social capital as a composition of social trust, support and relations seen as a mental health determinant. the aim of this paper is examining the relationship between soc...