PURPOSE Widowhood eliminates a key source of support that may trigger greater involvement in social activities and volunteer participation, which are related to better late-life health and functioning. We reexamine and build upon 2 recent studies exploring recent widowhood and social participation. Using different data, we perform a quasi-replication of Utz, Carr, Nesse, and Wortman's (2002; "T...

social participation has a critical effect on quality of life in any society. in this paper, we try to evaluate eventual relationships between the structure of power in family and quality and quantity of social participation. the main objective is to measure the correlation between the type of socialization in the family of orientation (origin), and the type of social participation and its scop...

political participation is an important factor for political survival of the society and government. this concept is a symbol showing people’s presence at actions of government, and it is a substantial index for people’s satisfaction in democratic countries. election can be the most important symbol of political participation. this is why people’s presence in election is carefully investigated ...

social capital and quality of life are one of the most important growing concepts in society. social capital is productive as any other capital and it is considered as a suitable ground to take advantage of economic and cultural capitals as well as a way for the success of a society. this study aimed at evaluating the effect of social capital on the quality of life of azadshahr's citizens....

this study was conducted to examine family social capital and sport participation adolescent students. the statistical population consisted of male and female students in rasht city who were studying at third grade state high schools in 2011-2012 (n=5682). the sample was 415 adolescent students (155 males, 265 females) who were selected by cluster-stratified sampling method using morgan table. ...

Whereas falls are frequent and traumatic events for the elderly, their long-term consequences in terms of the social lives of older fallers are understudied. This study aimed to identify the impact of falling on the trajectories of social participation and social support of older people in Europe. Our sample consisted of 16,583 people aged 50-95 years from 10 European countries who responded to...

new concepts have formed in transition of traditional urban planning concept that their essence refers to sociology and even psychology and so has made urban planning interdisciplinary concept, could be titled social capital and sense of place and participation. in fact places have two aspects, material and immaterial and can form emotional feeling among its residents. these feeling which led t...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the levels of participation in social and civic community life in a metropolitan region, and to assess differential levels of participation according to demographic, socioeconomic and health status. To contribute to policy debates on community participation, social capital and health using these empirical data. DESIGN Cross sectional, postal, self completed survey...

the main purpose of this article is to study comparatively the political participation of young and middle-aged people in noorabad mamasani and its related social factors. to explain the research problem, we have used the theory of political socialization and milbrath’s theory. we distributed questionnaires among 610 young and middle aged people in noorabad mamasani, who were selected through a...