Although social withdrawal is a prominent symptom of sickness, the mechanisms associated with this behavioral change remain unclear. In animals, the amygdala is a key neural region involved in sickness-induced social withdrawal. Consistent with this, in humans, heightened amygdala activity to negative social cues is associated with social avoidance tendencies. Based on these findings, we invest...

OBJECTIVE The primary purposes of this review were to identify key social-environmental influences on the physical-activity behavior of women and to propose an organizing framework of these influences in the social environment. DATA SOURCES Computerized searches of MEDLINE, Science Direct, and CINAHL were conducted to identify relevant research. Study Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria. Studies...

customer activity has received more attention due to the increase of social network applications. moreover, customer activity could be an answer to the research debate about the significant relationship between retention rate and lifetime profitability of customers. several researchers believe that an increase in the retention rate of customers may enhance their customer lifetime value (clv), o...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To examine the influence of social support on the physical activity behaviours of individual's with a traumatic brain injury. MAIN OUTCOMES AND RESULTS The paper defines social support as a multi-dimensional construct and reviews relevant literature describing how the type and source of social support changes post-brain injury. These findings are then applied to a physical a...

Background and Purpose: Physical activity may be classified as intense, moderate, and low. Despite their health-related benefits, Iranian women have a low rate of physical activity. Women face numerous obstacles and challenges for participating in physical activity programs, most notably are household chores and taking caring of children, long distance between home and workplace and the other p...

The fact of growth of inequality in distribution of income both inside the national economies and between the countries is confirmed by many empirical studies. In particular, these are annual reports of the World Bank, UNIDO and European Commission. The growth of inequality in distribution of income causes social tension inside the countries and promotes conflicts between the countries. Entrepr...

OBJECTIVE To examine the synergistic effect of interaction between perceived health and social activity on depressive symptoms. METHODS We investigated whether the interaction between perceived health and social activity has a synergistic effect on depressive symptoms in the middle-aged and elderly using data from 6590 respondents aged 45 and older in the Korean Longitudinal Study on Aging (K...

Predictability and controllability of events influence attributions and affect in many research domains. In face-to-face social interaction, behavior is predictable from actor's own past behavior (internal determinants) and from partner's past behavior (social determinants). This study assessed how affect ratings are related to predictability of vocal activity from internal and social determina...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association of chronic degenerative diseases with locomotor activity limitation and social participation among older British women. METHODS Cross-sectional survey of 4,286 women aged 60-79 years from 23 towns in England, Scotland and Wales. RESULTS The prevalence of locomotor activity limitation was 37.2% and 33.5% of women had difficulty with some aspect of social...