This study draws on panel data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey ( N = 1,128) to examine whether how family friends living close-by are associated with individuals’ interneighborhood residential mobility. Additional analyses tap into why proportion of nearby kin linked their The results suggest that perceptions neighborhood patterned by or not they have family—and a lesser ext...

BACKGROUND Community-based studies can describe health status and related variables in people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) while avoiding biases introduced by help-seeking in specific clinical settings. OBJECTIVE To describe general health status, stress perceptions and life satisfaction in people with MS, in comparison to those with other types of disabilities. MATERIALS & METHODS The Part...

In this study, more than 398 high-school students through cluster stratified sampling method were chosen in Hamedan. The data were gathered by a questionnaire and statistical indexes like T.Test, variance analysis, Pearson correlation, multivariable regressions, factor analysis and path analysis were applied. The results show that the average of political participation is 14.83 out of 27.85 and...

BACKGROUND A range of factors have been found to influence the onset and maintenance of smoking among adolescents. The aim was to explore interrelationships among adolescent smoking and certain personal influences (academic achievement, life satisfaction and future-orientedness) and social influences (hostility, social comparison and perceived friends' smoking) using a cultural perspective. M...

BACKGROUND  This study aimed to identify the impact of cosmetic surgery on married women's marital satisfaction and self-concept in Tehran. METHODS This study was causal-comparative research. The study population consisted of all women having or applying for cosmetic surgery in Tehran over the second half of 2015. Convenient random sampling was used to select the participants. Enriching...

To what degree do self-ratings of loneliness converge with informant ratings? In this study, we obtained self-ratings of loneliness from 463 young adults and informant ratings from their parents, friends, and romantic partners. Convergence among these ratings was estimated using structural equation models for multitrait-multimethod data and compared to self-informant convergence of life-satisfa...