Citizen participation in community activities has gained popularity, especially in Niigata Prefecture. This study examines present conditions and perspectives of citizen participation in Community Living Rooms. It analyses, from the participant viewpoint, factors explaining the spread of citizen participation, using a questionnaire among local resident participants. The results are used for qua...

PURPOSE Much more attention should be paid to instruments documenting social participation as this area is increasingly considered a pivotal outcome of a successful rehabilitation. The purpose of this study was to document the reliability of a participation measure, the Assessment of Life Habits (LIFE-H), in older adults with functional limitations. METHODS Eighty-four individuals with physic...

Objectives: Participation is defines as involvement within a life situation and the ultimate outcome for individuals with disabilities. One of the most common cause of chronic disability that restricts participation of individuals is Cerebral palsy (CP). The main goal of rehabilitation is empowering participation of their clients in different life areas. To achieve changes in participation, ass...

Leisure provides the context for much of adolescent behaviour and development. While both theory and research point to the benefits of participation in leisure activities that are highly structured, the association between structured leisure and psychosocial adjustment is not uniformly high. This paper presents a model of adolescent leisure comprising three dimensions: structure, effort, and so...

abstract: the objective of this paper is to measure and explain the relationship between facebook users’ social capital and their political participation in real world. following political changes in the world and in the middle east, there are growing interest among researchers to work on political participation and facebook usage. we therefore developed this interest into this research paper i...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between social capital and entrepreneurial behavior of strawberry farmers. the study was a descriptive - correlational one. the research population was comprised of the strawberry farmers in the sarvabad city of kordestan (n = 193). sample size, according to kerjcie & morgan table (1970) was determined to be 127 persons, selecte...

The authors first examined the concurrent moderating role of lifestyle engagement on the relation between cognitive status (cognitively elite, cognitively normal [CN], and cognitively impaired [CI]) and executive functioning (EF) in older adults. Second, the authors examined whether baseline participation in lifestyle activities predicted differential 4.5-year stabilities and transitions in cog...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association of participation in arts and cultural activities with health behaviours and mental well-being in low-income populations in London. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional, community-based observational study. METHODS Data were taken from the cross-sectional baseline survey of the Well London cluster randomized trial, conducted during 2008 in 40 of the most dep...

OBJECTIVE To investigate differences in different aspects of social participation and social capital among baseline daily smokers that had remained daily smokers, become intermittent smokers, or stopped smoking at one year follow up. DESIGN/SETTING/PARTICIPANTS/MEASUREMENTS 12,507 individuals, aged 45-69 years, interviewed at baseline between 1992 and 1994 and at a one year follow up were inv...