Psycho-social impacts of virtual communication

Social Communication Behaviors of Virtual Leaders

Psycho-Social Medicine

Malocclusion, psycho-social impacts and treatment need: A cross-sectional study of Tanzanian primary school-children

BACKGROUND studies on the relationship between children's malocclusion and its psycho-social impacts are so far largely unexplored in low-income countries. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of malocclusion, reported dental problems and dissatisfaction with dental appearance among primary school children in Tanzania. The relationship of dissatisfaction with socio-demographic characterist...

Bio-psycho-social impacts and challenges of obstetric fistula on women in northern Ghana

This study is intended to assess the bio-psychosocial effects of obstetric fistulas (OF) on women and the subsequent consequences and impacts on relationships and self esteem of affected womenparticularly in northern Ghana. To facilitate effective discussion of findings, literature was reviewed from international, national and local perspectives.A quantitative research technique was used to obt...

The Theoretical Model of Criminal Social Identity: Psycho-social Perspective the Theoretical Model of Criminal Social Identity: Psycho-social Perspective

Individuals become criminals because of the presence of a persistent criminal identity which has its origin in processes of negative social comparisons carried out by individuals who have failed in their pro-social roles and have exhibited non-conforming behaviour, aggravated and compounded by contextual factors such as a dysfunctional family environment and/or the presence of criminal peers. D...