This article focuses on Turkish girls who wear the veil and their sense of belonging in Germany. Data was collected five different cities federal state North Rhein Westphalia from were 13 to 21 years old. Focus group interviews, socio-economic questionnaire life history interviews source for data. The data analysed with Grounded Theory (Charmaz 2019). analysis interprets how being Muslim, weari...

The research investigates the factors leading to user loyalty of Web 2.0 sites. Survey of users in a popular Web 2.0 site in Taiwan was conducted. Results show that sense of belonging and service quality have direct effect while trust affects loyalty indirectly via sense of belonging. In addition, service quality also affects loyalty through trust and sense of belonging. One surprising finding ...

This research investigates how a sense of belonging functions as protective mechanism against loneliness. Inspired by the work of Berry (1980) on acculturation strategies (i.e. integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization), we distinguish migrants who feel a relatively strong or weak sense of belonging to larger society and those who feel a strong or weak belonging to the "own grou...

Background: Globally, adolescent sexual behavior is a major health concern and the focus of many researches. However, negative attitude towards premarital sex and sense of community belonging have not been examined in relation to adolescent sexual behavior. The purpose of this study was to examine whether these two factors are associated with adolescent sexual behavior. Methods: We conducted a ...

BACKGROUND The children of migrant workers can experience several mental health problems after they enter the cities, among which, loneliness is the most prominent and the most common psychological problem. The current study aimed to examine the impact of discrimination perception on loneliness of migrant children, mainly focused on confirmation of the mediator role of sense of belonging. MET...

this paper is a research conducted based on the basic question that why house belonging is removed from today houses. answer of this question will further demonstrate more importance and necessity of such studies compared with previous studies. this is because addressing such studies plays an important role in recognition of the principles of traditional architecture while modern designers and ...