This paper examines the relationship between Internet use and six activities that are important to childhood development: television viewing, newspaper reading, radio listening, sports and physical exercise, interaction with family, and socializing with friends. Perceived importance of the Internet, television, newspaper, and radio as information sources was also included. A panel of 1,251 seco...

an ad-hoc network based intelligent system working on swarm intelligence principles for socializing system is being presented. The architecture relies on the distributed and decentralized nature and combines the swarm intelligence and crowdsourcing in mobiles. Mobile devices detect the current context, developing information structures about the person condition and inform the other people in t...

Research Summary Unsupervised after-school time for adolescents is a concern for parents and policymakers alike. Evidence linking unsupervised adolescent socializing to problem behavior outcomes heightens this concern among criminologists. Routine activities theory suggests that, when youth peer groups congregate away from adult authority, both opportunity for and motivation to engage in devian...

This study examined associations between characteristics of teenagers' relationships with their mothers and their later socializing behavior and peer relationship quality online. At age 13, teenagers and their mothers participated in an interaction in which mothers' and adolescents' behavior undermining autonomy and relatedness was observed, and indicators of teens' depressive symptoms and soci...

current literatures on urban parks and green spaces showed that people’s preference for visiting urban parks in various group users is different. people visit parks for various motives and activities, leading to several patterns of park usability. however, the patterns in urban park use in majority of iran cities are not yet known. this study presented the preference for activity in urban parks...

This article explores supervision as a form of professional socialization. Accordingly, we provide an overview socialization theories before examining the role supervisors in (re)socializing student affairs educators to norms, values, and standards good practice field their workplaces over span careers.