Parents of pediatric dental patients were observed in a university clinic waiting room as they were greeted by student dentists. Soon after the dentist left with the child, the parents completed a series of scales assessing their perceived social support from the dentist, their anxiety and distress levels, and their confidence in the dentist. Regression analysis indicated that perceived social ...

Since the early 1980s, when confidence in institutions was first measured in an Australian academic social survey, Australia and the world has faced many political, social and economic changes. From corporate scandals and company collapses, to unprecedented terrorist attacks, to major ongoing international conflicts, to changes in government and all manner of political machinations, to the glob...

Social tagging is an increasingly popular way to describe latent semantic information of web resources and thus is widely used to improve the performance of information retrieval system. However, there also has been significant variance of the quality of social tags because they can be annotated by folks on the web freely. As a consequence, how to measure the quality of social tags (referred to...

Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) often experience isolation and poor health, but normalized social opportunities aid recovery. This study aimed to determine social dance's feasibility and effects on mood, functional mobility, and balance confidence in 12 people with SMI. Participants danced once per week in 1-hour lessons for 10 weeks. Before and after lessons, participants were ev...

the revolution of 1919 and its positive and negative results reflex on the story’s form and subject. in this period, people were interested to draw events and reflect political and social events of society in their works. they want no more to see their desired world in phantom and dream, because their information to problems of society had increased and they had acquired sufficient statement ab...

extended abstract 1. introduction one of the important aspects of sustainable social development is the use of the concept of social capital in its social term. in fact, social capital is a key to the establishment of civil society and civic life. disruption of social relations in the city, urbanization, increase in the migration from rural to urban areas and cultural, social and economic diver...

the subject of self-esteem and self valuably is one of the most basic factors in childs and adults favorable character growth. having animus and confidence, decision making power and invention, creativity, think health and mental hygiene have direct relationship with the rate and manner of self-esteem and individual's self-valuable feeling. today in correction and treatment of adults and childs...