background : mental training considers sharing of mental health care information as the primary objective. the secondary objectives include facilitating dialogue about feelings such as isolation, sadness, labeling, loneliness and possible strategies for confronting with these feelings. group therapy trainings have supportive functioning in accepting the environment so that the members are able ...

Background & Objective:  Social anxiety disorder, which involves excessive anxiety of social situation due to fear of negative evaluation, is a debilitating disorder that leads to social dysfunction. The purpose of this study is to investigate Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy (CBGT) versus Group Hypnotherapy (GHT) on Brain/Behavioral Systems of Social Phobia Patients.  Materials ...

community participation, as one of the basic components of sustainable development in a community. this study aimed to determine patterns of community participation, identify factors associated with their social and civic engagement, and examine the relation between the factors and community engagement patterns. patterns of citizen participation were determined in social and civic engagements. ...

Social comparison is a core element of human life (Festinger, 1954; Mussweiler, 2003; Tajfel, 1981; for a collection, see Suls and Wheeler, 2000). This is because comparing oneself to others is the most favored way people use to evaluate themselves. People choose to compare themselves to others with a variety of goals in mind. Obviously, a major concern would be informational: people like to kn...

With the beginning of the new millenium, the concept of group interactions in communication systems was boosted by the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies. Based on this new area of application, the notion of group decisions and group preferences also evolved, leading to new requirements for corresponding modeling frameworks. Purely numeric approaches are barely able to meet these newly emerging ...

A Classification of Residential Neighborhoods (ACORN) and the Registrat General's social class classification were compared on measures of health and service use based on a sample of 5500 primary school children in England. ACORN was shown to differentiate at least as well as social class on the selected outcome measures and to identify small areas with particularly high rates of morbidity. Nev...

We axiomatically characterize the class of pairwise irresolute social choice functions that are group-strategyproof according to Kelly’s preference extension. The class is narrow but contains a number of appealing Condorcet extensions such as the minimal covering set and the bipartisan set, thereby answering a question raised independently by Barberà (1977a) and Kelly (1977). These functions fu...

This paper reveals that a subset of subjects adopting extreme behavior underlies intergroup bias. In a simple task, we replicate previous results that, on average, subjects are less inequity averse allocating income to out-group members. Using a with-in subject design and new econometric techniques, however, we find a group division does not matter for most subjects; social preferences are the ...

backgroundquality of life (qol), is the most important goal of treatment. the aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of mindful parenting, social thinking and exercise on quality of life in adhd children.materials and methodsan experimental design was used. samples consist of 60 students 8-12 years with the dsm-5 classification adhd that were engaging in education in 2015-2016 in ab...