This review of literature analyzes the factors that lead to teacher burnout including increased demands, unrealistic expectations, and lack of administrative or collaborative peer support. The roles of the mediating factors such as principal support, physical activity, classroom management, social support, psychological support, and teacher preparation programs are discussed. The focus of the a...

background: during recent years the rapid increase in the senior population, their disabilities, reduced independence, and increased dependence have drawn more attention toward issues related to social support in this group. social support impacts different dimensions of health of the senior population.  meanwhile, one of the important aspects of health which is less considered in this group is...

Katrina Panovich MIT CSAIL Cambridge, MA 02139 [email protected] Abstract Many people set goals, like running daily or writing some amount each day. In this paper, we present a novel tool for supporting daily goals: Habitbot. Habitbot is a Twitter-based tool designed to support habit formation and maintenance. Habitbot uses Twitter as a social support system, as well as a tool for peer pressure. It ta...

BACKGROUND Social relationships, which are contingent on access to social networks, promote engagement in social activities and provide access to social support. These social factors have been shown to positively impact health outcomes. In the current systematic review, we offer a comprehensive overview of the impact of social activities, social networks and social support on the cognitive func...

Background Military conflict has been an ongoing determinant of inequitable immunisation coverage in many low- and middle-income countries, yet the impact of conflict on the attainment of global health goals has not been fully addressed. This review will describe and analyse the association between conflict, immunisation coverage and vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) outbreaks, along with...

China is home to nearly half of the world’s 50,000 large dams, which provide irrigation, flood protection, and hydroelectricity. Most of these projects involve substantial population displacement, which can disrupt social capital, the webs of interdependence and support that community members maintain with one another through relationships of trust and reciprocity. We use new empirical evidence...

Social mix policies have become controversial. Claims about the harms caused by neighbourhood effects have been challenged while counter-claims have been made about the potential benefits for low-income households from living in poor communities. This paper examines two aspects of this debate: whether deprived communities provide greater access to social networks and hence resources in the form...

In this paper, we report on the initial design and implementation of a project entitled RE@L Research Environments Associated with Learning through Social Networks. Our goal is to examine how future science gateways that rely on immersive virtual environments and Web 2.0 technologies can bridge the gap between research and education. To this end, we strategically apply middleware technologies i...

A measure of social support, the Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ), is described, and four empirical studies employing it are presented. The SSQ yields scores for (a) perceived number of social supports and (b) satisfaction with social support that is available. Three of the studies deal with the SSQ's psychometric properties, its correlations with measures of personality and adjustment, and t...