Recovery from a mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a challenging process for injured persons and their families. Guided by attachment theory, we investigated whether relationship conflict, social support, or sense of belonging were associated with psychological functioning. Community-dwelling persons with TBI (N = 75) and their relatives/significant others (N = 74) were surveyed o...

• This report examines social cohesion in fast-growing developing countries and provides policy makers with recommendations for ways to strengthen it. A cohesive society works towards the well-being of all its members, fights exclusion and marginalisation, creates a sense of belonging, promotes trust, and offers its members the opportunity of upward mobility. This report looks at social cohesio...

The current emphasis on performance outcomes in schools has threatened to eclipse the importance of social connectedness as an antecedent to student success. Presented is an instrument designed to measure student sense of connectedness with school based on relevant dimensions provided in the literature: student sense of belonging, engagement, expected learning, and trust. Drawing on data from o...

in most of the literature, the presence of women in universities is associated with the issue of occupation. in clarifying and explaining this issue the theories of economists on human resources are, often, used. however this article focuses on other aspects of this phenomenon, and evaluates the social and cultural motives of girl’s entrance into universities. the main questions are that based ...

Virtual communities (VCs) are attracting more attention as they provide a platform for people to share experiences and knowledge, which may further impact their purchase decisions. From a social capital perspective, this study investigated factors that cultivate a VC member’s sense of belonging and their effects on facilitating his participation in the VC in terms of the intentions to get and s...

“justice” is a fine adjective to which various nouns may be attributed. these nouns can be divided into three universal categories: individual person, social situation, and society. each of these nouns has a particular characteristic feature based on which one may not use any given definition for justice. the purpose of this essay is to argue that taking the noun of justice into consideration i...