Social support or structural change? Social work theory and research on care-giving

Research on Social Work Practice

A Study on Social Hope: A Grounded Theory Research

The present study aims to use the interpretive approach to investigate “social hope” from an emic point of view among Isfahan city residents. The research method is qualitative which uses grounded theory strategy. Based on the purposeful sampling method (Successive Theoretical Sampling) 20 people up to 15 years old participated in the present study and their interpretations of social hope were ...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

IDENTITY THEORY AND SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY Identity theory had its beginnings in structural symbolic interactionism (Stryker 1980) and social identity theory began with work on social categorization

Identity theory and social identity theory have more points of overlap than differences in their understanding of the self. For this reason, we argue that the unification of these two theories is advisable in order to both avoid redundancies in theorizing about the self and to provide a uniform approach to the multifaceted nature of identities in terms of their bases, their processes, and their...

Predicting of Work-Family Conflict Based on irrational beliefs and Perceived Social Support

The purpose of this study was predicting of work-family conflict based on irrational beliefs and perceived social support. The statistical population of the study included all female teachers of first-grade high school in district 3 in Qom city in the academic year 2018-19 (N=1998). 322 Subjects were selected by multistage stratified sampling. In order to collect the data, the work-Family Confl...