This paper analyses the quality of the school climate. One of its objectives is to defi ne such basic terms as environment, atmosphere, climate, and selected climate variants, above all the school climate. Attention is also paid to the following fi ve areas of school life, which are of signifi cance: 1) the overall attitude to school and the motivation to study; 2) teachers’ qualities and compe...

BACKGROUND Smoking during pregnancy causes obstetric and fetal complications, and smoking cessation may have great benefits for the mother and the child. However, some pregnant women continue smoking even in pregnancy. OBJECTIVE To review the literature addressing the prevalence of smoking during pregnancy, explore psychosocial factors associated with smoking, and review the evidence of psych...

today in multilingual contexts, many parents prefer to rear their children in the dominant language rather than in their mother tongue. this phenomenon is widespread among native speakers of kalhuri dialect of the kurdish language in the multilingual context of iran, too. nevertheless, some studies have evidenced the privilege of bilinguals in learning an additional language though some others ...

abstractmodernism and social class both are categories rose up from the west capitalism system and create somechallenges for the society. the aim of this discussion is explaining the conflict between tradition andmodernism based on one of the main conflict roots which is called class conflict. in the other words, in thisarticle authors tried to indicate that one the creator or accelerating fact...

Abstract:Background: Despite high prevalence of mental problems among elderly migrants in The Netherlands, the use of psychosocial care services by this group is low. Scientific evidence points at the crucial role of social support for mental health and the use of psychosocial services. We therefore explored the role of social networks in the access to psychosocial care among elderly migrants i...

Data from the Oxford healthy life survey were used to explore social class variations in beliefs about the determinants of health, willingness to contemplate behaviour change and experience of lifestyle advice in primary care.While the association between lifestyle factors and health was well-recognized by all social groups, those in social classes 1 and 2 were more likely than others to stress...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the relation between fibrinogen concentration and social class and other social factors found to be related to mortality. The results regarding cardiovascular disease are unpublished, as yet. DESIGN Cross sectional population study. SETTING City of Gothenburg, Sweden. SUBJECTS 639 Men from a population sample of 1016 men aged 50 in 1983. They were all employed and had...

The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term satisfaction rate among skeletal class III patients following orthodontic treatment. Questionnaires were sent to 315 post-retention (between 5 to 22.5 years) patients who had received orthodontic treatment without any type of surgery for the correction of skeletal class III malocclusion. The questionnaire contained 28 questions: 10 regardin...