This paper presents new results obtained from investigating the data from a 2015 Vietnamese entrepreneurs' survey, containing 3071 observations. Evidence from the estimations using multinomial logits was found to support relationships between several sociocultural factors and entrepreneurship-related performance or traits. Specifically, those relationships include: (a) Active participation in e...

The risk factors for compulsive exercise are unknown. This study aims to explore longitudinal sociocultural risk factors for compulsive exercise, using a 12-month prospective design. A sample of 332 male and female adolescents (aged 13-15 years at baseline) completed self-report measures of sociocultural risk factors and compulsive exercise at baseline and eating disorder psychopathology and co...

Computational systems can use sociocultural knowledge to understand human behavior and interact with humans in more natural ways. However, such systems are limited by their reliance on hand-authored sociocultural knowledge and models. We introduce an approach to automatically learn robust, script-like sociocultural knowledge from crowdsourced narratives. Crowdsourcing, the use of anonymous huma...

The present study examined roles that perceived English fluency and sociocultural adaptation difficulty play in predicting self-efficacy beliefs for teaching in a sample of 119 international teaching assistants (ITAs) from East Asian countries of China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Results showed that a positive relationship between perceived English fluency and teaching self-efficacy was not appar...

Recent research from Kinshasa, DRC, has shown that only one in five married women uses modern contraception; over one quarter have an unmet need for family planning; and almost 400 health facilities across Kinshasa report that they provide modern contraception. This study addresses the question: with reasonable physical access and relatively high unmet need, why is modern contraceptive prevalen...

Facing the strict and alienating rules imposed by the totalitarian communist party in all aspects of civil life and having to have their children educated in the communist education system, the Romanian families found innovative ways to keep and pass on the rich cultural and religious traditions together with the ancient beliefs and values. However, this was accomplished with sacrifices and lon...

A sociocultural framework for understanding partner preferences of women and men: Integration of concepts and evidence Marcel Zentner & Alice H. Eagly To cite this article: Marcel Zentner & Alice H. Eagly (2015) A sociocultural framework for understanding partner preferences of women and men: Integration of concepts and evidence, European Review of Social Psychology, 26:1, 328-373, DOI: 10.1080...

Differences in the prevalence and natural history of diseases between races have been well recognised. The prevalence of Hepatitis B infection, nasopharyngeal carcinoma and systemic lupus erythematosus for instance, is relatively high among the Chinese as compared to the Malays and Indians living in apparently the same community. Black Americans have a higher prevalence of hypertension than Whi...

Short Description Epilepsy is a chronic medical condition with many social aspects, documentations of which exist since earliest historical times. This chapter looks at a selection of topics comprising religion and superstitions, work and mobility, family, and legislation. In the broad public, superstitions and stigma have been slow to react to medical progresses. The many evolutions that moder...

In the latter part of the nineteenth century, diverse sciences grounded in natural history made a virtue of field research that somehow tested scientists' endurance; disciplinary change derived from the premise that witnesses were made reliable by character-molding trials. The turn to the field was a function of structural transformations in various quarters, including (but hardly limited to) g...