GISELA TROMMSDORFF Technische Hochschule, Aachen HELMUT LAMM Universitat, Koln The present study is an analysis of the relationship between delinquency, institutionalization and future orientation, based on a social-learning theoretical framework. Two hundred and forty male adolescents (institutionalized and noninstitutionalized delinquents and nondelinquents) answered open and structured quest...

Social Comparison is important as it can be either encouraging or discouraging for the person who makes it. Although studies concerning social comparison in the classroom context abound, few deal with the relationship between the role of social comparison orientation and tendencies in academic achievement in a competition based educational context. Adopting a non- experimental ex-post facto des...

objectives: the aim of this study was to survey relationship between religious orientation and happiness in elderly man and woman in tehran. methods and materials: the present study was descriptive and causal- comparative. in order to survey the relationship between religious orientation and happiness among the elderly men and women in tehran 389 aged people above 60 years including 247 men and...

small business and entrepreneurship play critical role in stimulating economic activity, creating jobs, alleviating poverty and uplift living standards in africa. it is widely accepted that the micro and small enterprise (mse) sectors have the potential to provide a livelihood for a considerably large number of poor rural and urban women in ethiopia. women account for the larger share of the in...

the present study was an attempt to assess religious orientation and life satisfaction as well as to find out relationship of religious orientation with life satisfaction among university students. university students were also compared on religious orientation and life satisfaction with respect to their gender. the data for the present study was obtained from university students [n=200 (males ...