Motivation is assumed to influence behaviors via perceived agency over goal pursuits, but empirical research integrating motivation and action-control processes in social development is close to nonexistent. We applied this perspective to the study of early adolescent friendships by examining motivation for and perceived control (ability and effort) over establishing and maintaining friendships...

This study examined whether self-esteem mediated the association between peer relationships and internalizing problems (i.e., depression and social anxiety). A total of 7290 (3756 girls) adolescents (ages 13–18 years) completed self-report measures of peer relationships, including direct and indirect victimization, social isolation, friendship attachment (alienation and trust) and friendship qu...

We used stochastic actor-based models to test whether the developmental dynamics of friendships and antipathies in preschool peer groups (followed throughout three school years) were co-dependent. We combined choices from three sociometric tasks of 142 children to identify friendship and antipathy ties and used SIENA to model network dynamics. Our results show that different social processes dr...

The article demonstrates the presence of (homo)sexual subjectivity in rural Poland early 1920s using remarkable correspondence between two men who stood trial for committing homosexual acts 1925. It argues that their relationship should be understood as first documented same-sex secret marriage Poland. By investigating relations urban and spaces spread sexual knowledge Second Republic, also ana...

BACKGROUND Bagalkot district in Karnataka state is one of the highest HIV prevalence districts in India. A large proportion of the girls also marry at early age in the district and negative pregnancy outcomes among the HIV positive women likely to have large pregnancy wastages. Therefore, this study examined the pregnancy wastages and the associated factors among HIV positive women in a high pr...

• Greek origins of utility as in Aristotle’s trichotomy of utility, pleasure, and virtue as the three goads for friendship ([5] Nichomachean Ethics Book VIII) from which follows a broad discussion of the nature of friendship, • or Epicurus’s linking of utility to happiness ([8]) and his discussion of justice: Natural justice is a symbol or expression of usefulness, to prevent one person from ha...

Abstract We document the participation of women in European academia from first universities to eve Industrial Revolution. A total 108 taught at or were members academies arts and sciences. Most them active Catholic southern Europe—an unexpected result. conjecture that Protestantism left less room for top distribution human capital exercise their talent. The percentage ever-married female schol...