recently, the world health organization has made the need for countries to improve the school context and enhance the health of students at the school in terms of quality of life. this study aimed to determine the relation between improvement, adventure, social solidarity and opportunity with perceived stress among students. during the correlational qualitative research, among the population of...

Abstract Considering the importance of conducting studies on youth, young girls in particular, and also the importance of paying attention to social capital and its role in development process of a society and decreasing social problems and loss; the present study is an attempt to investigate the structure of social capital and its constructing components (solidarity, social participation, eth...

Ill health is a major social problem and source of social inequality in the United States. Although the US spends more on health care than other wealthy countries, it falls far behind on most measures of health outcomes and indicators of heath care quality, access, efficiency, and equity (Davis et al., 2010). As an illustration, mortality rates for white males in the United States have climbed ...

Social interaction is pivotal to the formation of social relationships and groups. Much is known about the importance of interaction content (e.g., the transfer of information). The present review concentrates on the influence of the act of conversing on the emergence of a sense of solidarity, more or less independently of the content. Micro-characteristics of the conversation (e.g., brief sile...

This chapter examines the way online language users enhance social interaction and group collaboration through the computer mediated communication (CMC) channel. For this, discourse analysis based on the linguistic politeness theoretical framework is applied to the transcripts of a real time online chat. Analysis of the data shows that online participants employ a variety of creative devices to...