Over the last decade cyberbullying has emerged as a public health concern among young people. Cyberbullying refers to intentional harmful behaviours and communication carried out repeatedly using electronic media. Considerable research has demonstrated the detrimental and long-lasting effects of cyberbullying involvement. This paper draws on a social-ecological perspective to identify protectiv...

The article considers the role of a significant other in process socialization younger generation. A distinction is made between concepts and generalized based on classical works G. Mead, I. Goffman, R. Coles, Ch. Cooley, and, also, some contemporary Russian foreign sociologists. authors analyze others at different levels — preconventional stage, conventional postconventional stage. At stage ab...

BACKGROUND Lifetime co-occurrence of violence victimisation is common. A large proportion of victims report being exposed to multiple forms of violence (physical, sexual, emotional violence) and/or violence by multiple kinds of perpetrators (family members, intimate partners, acquaintances/strangers). Yet much research focuses on only one kind of victimisation. The aim of this study was to inve...

This study explored the role of time since diagnosis and whether the care recipient was a child, a parent, or a spouse, on caregiver’s perceptions of the caring role, with a group of 269 female cancer caregivers. Questionnaire measures were used to explore psychological and social resources and psychological distress. Analysis of variance and hierarchical multiple regression were used and ident...

I recent years, case management approaches with severely mentally ill clients have focused on assertive, in vivo interventions by case managers with small caseloads (1,2). Although these interventions are demonstrably effective (2), economic pressures have led many programs to increase caseloads and decrease intensity of case management services. In this column, I will discuss ways in which soc...