Background: Infertility as a life crisis is accompanied by a wide range of social, psychological, physical and financial problems. These problems are varied- both in nature and extent- in different locations according to specific cultural- social contexts. Infertility is a source of social suffering for infertile people, especially women. As infertility prevent individuals from achieving the sp...

Participants maintained a social interaction diary and completed a measure of body image. Body image was found to have three factors, body attractiveness, social attractiveness (how attractive people believed others found them to be), and general attractiveness. For both men and women, self-perceptions of body attractiveness and of social attractiveness were positively related to the intimacy t...

this study was conducted to examine the­ relationship between organizational  justice and social capital in the telecommunication company of mianeh in 1391 that lasted one year. in this study, organizational justice as one of the major factors underlying the creation of social capital, has been studied in three dimensions (distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice), and...

The author develops core confidence as a higher order construct and suggests that a core confidence-higher order construct--not addressed by extant work motivation theories--is helpful in better understanding employee motivation in today's rapidly changing organizations. Drawing from psychology (social, clinical, and developmental) and social anthropology, the author develops propositions regar...

1 Toward A Confidence Estimate For The Most-Central-Actor Finding Terrill L. Frantz & Kathleen M. Carley ABSTRACT We introduce a innovative practice of providing a statistical confidence estimate to accompany the reporting of the most-central actor according to social network data; often times, collected relationship-data has some amount of error, which may affect the accuracy of the topactor f...

Research on group influence has yielded a prototypical majority effect (PME): Majority views are endorsed faster and with greater confidence than minority views, with the difference increasing with majority size. The PME was attributed to conformity pressure enhancing confidence in consensual views and causing inhibition in venturing deviant opinions. Our results, however, indicate that PME for...