background: according to the world health organization viewpoint, social well-being is an important dimension of health along with physical and mental aspects. evaluation of social well-being is necessary in students, especially in medical sciences students due to future responsibility as health care professionals. the present study attempted to investigate the level of social well-being, five ...

Title of Document: ENHANCING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND NONRESPONSE IN HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS Ashley E. Amaya, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Directed By: Professor Stanley Presser Joint Program in Survey Methodology Nonresponse and nonresponse bias remain fundamental concerns for survey researchers as understanding them is critical to producing accurate statist...

Community integration is one of the most important as well as most frequently identified goals of rehabilitation and habilitation for people with disabilities. Although rehabilitation professionals have identified community integration as an important goal, the role of community leisure ser vice providers in this process has not been as clear. This article offers the core ideas associated with ...

The problem addressed in this study was the exploration of present uses of technology in secondary social studies classrooms and secondary social studies teachers’ perceptions of effective technology integration. This survey study examined teachers’ and students’ technology use, teachers’ pedagogical practices, teachers’ beliefs about technology and motivations when using technology, and teache...

Grounded in a social functional perspective, this article examines the conditions under which group affect influences group functioning. Using meta-analysis, the authors leverage heterogeneity across 39 independent studies of 2,799 groups to understand how contextual factors-group affect source (exogenous or endogenous to the group) and group life span (one-shot or ongoing)-moderate the influen...

In this work, we formulate the problem of social network integration. It takes multiple observed social networks as input and returns an integrated global social graph where each node corresponds to a real person. The key challenge for social network integration is to discover the correspondences or interlinks across different social networks. We engaged an in-depth analysis across six online s...

In many mammals, females form close social bonds with members of their group, usually between kin. Studies of social bonds and their fitness benefits have not been investigated outside primates, and are confounded by the relatedness between individuals in primate groups. Bonds may arise from kin selection and inclusive fitness rather than through direct benefits of association. However, female ...

This article presents a model of social identity development and integration in the self. Classic intergroup theories (e.g., social identity theory, self-categorization theory) address the situational, short-term changes in social identities. Although these theories identify the contextual and environmental factors that explain situational changes in social identification, the intraindividual p...