Objectives: Health refers to the condition of perfect physical, mental and social well-being. The appropriate social well-being is the opposite of loneliness and depression. Social well-being is a psychosocial concept that is affected by many factors. This study determined the relationship between social function and social well-being in older adults. Methods: This was a descriptive-analytical...

Humans and many other animals form long term social relationships with each other. These relationships confer a variety of benefits upon us, both as individuals and as groups. Computational systems that can form social relationships like those formed by animals could reap many of the benefits of sociality, both within their own groups and in their interactions with people. This dissertation exp...

social capital is a concept that has been proposed in various fields. the importance of social capital is that people and successful community provide activities. emotional intelligence has a major role in the workplace. due to, that social capital depends on the relationships between people and the undeniable effects of emotional intelligence on the formation of interpersonal relationships, th...

Social networks are flourishing because of fast growing Internet and the World Wide Web, and more research efforts have been put on Social Network Analysis (SNA). A social network can be modeled like a graph, where the nodes represent persons, and an edge between them represent direct relationship between the persons. One of the issues in SNA is to identifying criminals from groups of individua...

eople use the Internet intensely for interpersonal communication, sending and receiving email, contacting friends and family via instant messaging services, visiting chat rooms, or subscribing to distribution lists, among other activities. The evidence is clear that interpersonal communication is an important use of the Internet, if not its most important use. For example, both self-report surv...

Two decades of research indicate causal associations between social relationships and mortality, but important questions remain as to how social relationships affect health, when effects emerge, and how long they last. Drawing on data from four nationally representative longitudinal samples of the US population, we implemented an innovative life course design to assess the prospective associati...

In this study, we investigate peer relationships and participation in social and recreational activities among 235 adolescents and adults with autism who live at home. The prevalence of having friendships, peer relationships, and participating in social and recreational activities were all low and comparable to previous research. Both individual and environmental factors were investigated as pr...

Psychological phenomena take place at the border between person and environment. Indeed, psychology as a whole may be seen as a science of human liminal constructions, a science concerned with the dynamic relationships that exist between people and what surrounds them and with the constant border crossing that defines the arena within which all human development takes place. From this perspecti...

In order to come across as life-like or animate, characters must change their attitudes (‘evolve’) as a consequence of their affective interaction histories with other agents. This paper describes a model of attitude and familiarity change that allows to model simple forms of evolving social relationships. We illustrate our model by means of two web-based interaction scenarios that feature anim...