Social network sites such as Facebook and Instagram have become an online venue where people nowadays form maintain relationships, socialize exchange social or other information. This study explores the experience its effects on feelings, anxiety a series of related variables. Results self-report quantitative correlative method (n=289) revealed indifference primary feeling associated with use i...

One of the fundamental ideas of structural analysis is that in order to understand social structures, one must begin with relations. Yet where do relations come from? A survey of personal networks in the Toulouse area (France) allows us to demonstrate the importance of social circles in the genesis of dyadic relations. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

background: congruity of values in workplace has a determining effect on personal and organizational outcomes. on the other hand, nurses provide invaluable services during the difficult times of sickness. the aim of this research was thus to investigate the relationship between personal and professional values among nurses working in hospitals affiliated to isfahan university of medical science...

In this paper, it is shown that multilevel methods are particularly well-suited for the analysis of relations in personal networks and the changes in these relations. Justice is done to the hierarchical nested structure of the data and the resulting dependence between observations ‘‘within egos’’. Multilevel techniques can also give more specific insight on why personal networks change: they al...

Despite many theorists’ assertions and researchers’ findings that eating disturbances have personal, sociocultural, and relational correlates, no model of eating disorder symptomatology incorporating all 3 of these domains has been proposed. The purpose of this study, then, was to examine empirically such a model. Personal, sociocultural, and relational variables were chosen, based on their sol...