Research on religion and intimate partner violence does not appear to have integrated well the current evidence religion/spirituality, marital functioning, mental health lacks a cross-sectoral perspective that bridges psychology, public health, international development, anthropology, sociology. A better integration could reveal how religious experience be leveraged resourcefully in developing ...

In the paper, the objects, tasks, and a general procedure of the sociological analysis of Web search engine query logs are described and illustrated by a methodologically complete study of the cross-nation search image changes based on two-year spaced query logs of the national search audience.

Background and Objectives: Breast Cancer is the most common malignancy and is the second leading cause of mortality due to cancer in women. One of the important psychological factors in these patients is death anxiety. Given the role of religious orientation to this psychological factor, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between religious orientation and death anxiety in ...

In the past twenty years there has been increasing attention given to the relationships between various dimensions of religiosity and mental health. By now several thousand studies have been conducted demonstrating positive associations between the two (Koenig, King and Carson 2012). On balance those who are more religious have better indices of mental health. The vast majority have been cross-...

OBJECTIVE Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is associated with elevated levels of anxiety and depression and a reduction in health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Nonadherence to treatment is also frequent in IBD and compromises outcomes. Religious coping plays a role in the adaptation to several chronic diseases. However, the influence of religious coping on IBD-related psychological distress,...

One of the major challenges the healthcare profession face is understanding the variability and different meanings of the concepts of age and aging within different cultural, social, religious, and ethical contexts. People over the age of 65 in the Middle Eastern countries are estimated to comprise 4.7% of the population and are expected to grow rapidly. In the Middle East, cancer is the leadin...

Atheism is not only a prevalent but a highly stigmatized element in American society, yet atheists have been denied a voice within sociological literature. As such, our knowledge of atheists is both limited and superficial. To compensate for such shortcomings, I focused my research on the stigmatized and marginalized minority of American atheists. As the atheist identity is generally achieved, ...

background and objectives: breast cancer is the most common malignancy and is the second leading cause of mortality due to cancer in women. one of the important psychological factors in these patients is death anxiety. given the role of religious orientation to this psychological factor, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between religious orientation and death anxiety in ...

1. Introduction Severe plastic deformation (SPD) is nowadays used to produce sizeable amounts of bulk nanocrystalline materials, which renders them suitable for different innovative applications, owing to favourable combinations of high mechanical strength and enhanced ductility they offer. Enhanced grain boundary diffusion is largely responsible for the resulting property combinations. SPD pro...