Competing predictions about the effect of social exclusion were tested by meta-analyzing findings from studies of interpersonal rejection, ostracism, and similar procedures. Rejection appears to cause a significant shift toward a more negative emotional state. Typically, however, the result was an emotionally neutral state marked by low levels of both positive and negative affect. Acceptance ca...

Despite their enormous success the motivation behind user participation in Online Social Networks is still little understood. This study explores a variety of possible incentives and provides an empirical evaluation of their subjective relevance. The analysis is based on survey data from 129 test subjects. Using Structural Equation Modeling, we identified that the satisfaction of the needs for ...

Better understanding guests’ sense of belonging can explain why some feel quite at home in museums while others would never consider visiting. To do so, we start by developing a model uniquely suited for and cultural institutions. Based on literature expert interviews, it includes three elements belonging: Inclusion, Place Belongingness Context the visit. This study presents an easy-to-use surv...

A framework for thinking about borders in post-globalization scaffolds insights of emerging theory exemplary prevailing in-betweenness the border world. Epistemological advances frame dissensus, power, belongingness, borderscapes and a-territoriality as ridges knowledge above collected connected lore experience, yet this remains topographic incomplete understanding interstitial components borde...

Viewing psychological ownership as a positive resource for impacting human performance in organizations, the present study investigated the components of an expanded view of psychological ownership. Confirmatory factor analyses on a proposed measure of psychological ownership provided support for a positively-oriented, ‘‘promotion-focused’’ aspect of psychological ownership comprised of four di...

Background: The integrated motivational-volitional (IMV) model is the second theory based on ideation-to-action framework. Objectives: current study aimed to investigate motivational phase of this in Iranian population. In study, threat-to-self moderators included cognitive emotion regulation strategies and thwarted belongingness perceived burdensomeness as moderators. Materials Methods: A tota...

This study examined the role of social belonging and self-esteem in acute physical health and mood in 159 young adolescents (aged 11 to 14 years). Standardized self-report measures of belongingness (school, home and community), self-esteem, acute physical symptoms, and affect, were completed for the previous month. Higher levels of inclusive belonging were associated with fewer physical symptom...

Theories of social surrogacy and embodied cognition assume that cognitive associations with nonhuman stimuli can be affectively charged. In the current research, we examined whether the "comfort" of comfort foods comes from affective associations with relationships. Two experiments support the hypotheses that comfort foods are associated with relationships and alleviate loneliness. Experiment 1...

This article provides a theoretical and practical rational for the implementation of an innovative and comprehensive social wellness program in a surgical residency program at a large safety net hospital on the East Coast of the United States. Using basic needs theory, we describe why it is particularly important for surgical residency programs to consider the residents sense of competence, aut...

Software Defined Networking in Cloud paradigm is most suitable for dynamic functionality and reduces the computation complexity. The routers switches located at network's boundaries are managed by software-defined netwrking (SDN) using open protocols specialised programmable interfaces. But security threats often degrade performance of SDN due to its constraints resource usage. sensitive compon...