background: interpersonal communication is considered as an important and effective factor of job satisfaction and efficiency and has special significance in nursing career because of face to face relationship with patients. this study aimed to determine the association between head nurses' interpersonal communication and job satisfaction of nurses under their supervision. the study was conduct...

objective: the aim of the present research was to determine whether depression and interpersonal problems had relationships with alexithymia and coping styles in adolescents. methods: the study population was randomly selected from all of the adolescent students in the schools of sari in iran 441 adolescents (228 boys and 213 girls) were included in the study. the participants completed the tor...

this study compared the use of interpersonal and mass media channels of communication among rural farmers in kogi state, nigeria. the specific objectives were to describe the socio economic characteristics of the farmers, determine the influence of socioeconomic characteristics on the usage of interpersonal and media channels, ascertain farmers’ level of awareness of interpersonal and media cha...

Abstract Malaysia is a multiethnic and multireligious country in Asia that provides rich landscape for the study of intersectional influences on sexual identity development. This adopted constructivist grounded theory research design to explore development 36 Malaysian gay males varying ethnicities religious affiliations. We proposed five-stage Systemic Interaction Model (SIM) theorizes as cont...

L ook carefully at a solitary animal and you will find that it is not so alone after all. Animals play host to entire ecosystems that teem with diverse life. Some of the microbes that live on (or in) animals are beneficial to their host. However, these microbes' more sinister brethren, parasites and pathogens, cause damage and disease. Between these two extremes is a class of organisms that, it...