The aim of the study is to examine the differences in the diversity of family factors between adolescents with and without Internet addiction and substance use experience. A total of 3662 students (2328 boys and 1334 girls) were recruited from seven junior high schools, six senior high schools, and four vocational high schools in southern Taiwan. Internet addiction and substance experience were...

T. Munsat, MD J. Aarli, MD M. Medina, MD G. Birbeck, MD A. Weiss, MA During the past few years, several publications have documented the striking lack of neurologic health care givers in countries with limited resources.1-3 Neurologic care is particularly deficient in those developing countries where health problems are most severe. Even in those countries where a small number of neurologists p...

How does one decide on the perfect gift? We look at an important tradeoff between desirability and feasibility in gift giving using construal level theory as a framework. We propose that givers construe gifts abstractly, and therefore choose gifts high on desirability attributes over gifts high on feasibility attributes. Support for these propositions emerges in studies examining giver and rece...

caring of a dying patient is more convenient than a patient who knows his/her prognosis. according to pataica mcgorr once the dying patient compliance with the death, care givers can help him/her to overcome on fear of death.   continues reports show that most of dying patients agrees to know the truth. glaser and strauss named different tricks which patents make to know the time of their death...

explanation of the insightful family concept in care of the elderly    pouladi sh [1] , anoosheh m [2] *, kazemnejad a [3] , zareian a [4]     received: 31 may , 2013 accepted: 3 aug , 2013    abstract  background & aims : the elderly care in families with social problems and hardships indicate the insight of family members in elderly care. this study aims to explain the concept of family insig...

Prosocial actions often involve giving something that represents one’s essence, be it one’s name (e.g., signature), personal possessions, or body (e.g., blood donation). This research compares such ‘‘self-giving’’ to the giving of resources of comparable value that are less connected to one’s essence. We show in five studies that self-giving embeds givers with a sense of commitment and generosi...

Reciprocity and reputation are powerful tools for encouraging cooperation on a broad scale. Here, we highlight a potential side effect of these social phenomena: exacerbating economic inequality. In two novel economic games, we manipulated the amount of money with which participants were endowed and then gave them the opportunity to share resources with others. We found that people reciprocated...

The psychological and emotional stress that is brought to bear on the woman, the couple or the family when a perinatal mortality occurs is unimaginable. And similarly care-givers go through a lot of emotional stress when patients they have cared for prenatally lose their babies, though in the developing world this so often happens to the extent that care-givers soon get accustomed to perinatal ...