The goal of the present study is to explore link between Islam and deviance using a sample 1,596 young adults from public university in Türkiye by employing multivariate statistical analyses. core independent variables are importance political identity (Islamic, nationalist, social democrat/Ataturkist, apolitic, other). dependent life-time (an index), cheating on exams, skipping school, cigaret...

Most health communication campaigns, especially those that draw upon the diffusion of innovations tradition, are premised on the following tenets (Rogers, 2003; Singhal & Dearing, 2006; Singhal, 2010): that new health information or ideas come from the outside and are promoted by a change agency through expert change agents, who use persuasive communication strategies to educate their client au...

BACKGROUND Family planning programmes in developing countries need a better understanding of nurse-patient communication in order to improve the quality of counselling. OBJECTIVES To identify factors in the clinic and in the community that enable nurses and patients to communicate effectively with one another. DESIGN The study explored the personal experiences of nurses and patients who com...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between job stress and deviant behaviors, which include organizational frontline deviance, moderating effect person–organization (P-O) fit on these relationships. Design/methodology/approach sample consists 259 employees working in Surabaya, Indonesia. Respondents were asked complete a questionnaire distributed by survey assistant...

cities, as the focused centers for human residence and settlement, are faced with various issues and problems. the high rate of crime and anomic behavior are characteristics of today’s major cities. fear of crime and anomic behavior is perceived as the most important reasons leading to a decline in the use of public spaces in cities by its residents. according to the mutual relation between env...

It is very common in medical studies for a patient to experience more than one event rather of interest. This led exposing an individual multiple risks and practitioners need account these concerning some prognostic factors. There are many methods dealing with events survival data classically, however, break down when considering the top-down effect factors concurrently correlated (competing ri...

Pro-social rule breaking (PSRB) is a form of constructive deviance characterized by volitional rule breaking in the interest of the organization or its stakeholders. Over the course of three studies, we developed a generalizable measure of PSRB and placed it in a nomological network with personality, workplace perceptions, counterproductive behaviors, and task and contextual performance ratings...