according to the logic of 'weak ties' partnership organized through links with a wider range of people causes of social capital among a group of citizens will increase. so it seems, increasing participation among people, ultimately leading to increased cooperative activities among them. while the impact of social networks on political relations, much attention has been. there is very ...

Past research reveals inconsistent findings regarding the association between aversive workplace conditions and absenteeism, suggesting that other, contextual factors may play a role in this association. Extending contemporary models of absence, we draw from the social identity theory of attitude-behavior relations to examine how peer absence-related norms and leader support combine to explain ...

the purpose of this research is to predict knowledge sharing through dimensions of social capital. knowledge sharing occurrence depends directly upon tendency of knowledge holder to sharing as well as knowledge receiver to take it from holders. in other side, social capital is defined as linkage among people and their unifying factors such as trust. in this research, social capital is conceptua...

background: diabetes is one of the major concerns in the third millennium; affecting more people every day. the prevalence of this disease in iran is reported to be high (about 7.7%). the most important method to control this disease and prevent its complications from happening is self-care. according to various studies, this method has not found its appropriate place among patients with diabet...

purchase and consumption are an inseparable part of man’s social actions and play a vital role in allocating resources for the production of various products, their distribution pattern as well as economic, political and social development. if this issue is to be seen from the perspective of consumer behavior, consumption patterns and purchasing are considered a cultural phenomenon to be explai...

Existing research consistently shows that informal workplace support, such as family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB), are more effective at reducing work–family conflict than formal organizational supports. The purpose of this study is to integrate propositions from the stereotype content model and social role theory understand how supervision related evaluations supervisors (i.e., perce...

BACKGROUND Exaggerated cardiovascular reactions to psychological stress are considered a risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity. Social support may reduce such risk by attenuating cardiovascular reactivity to stress. PURPOSE To examine the effects of three independent social support variables and their interaction on cardiovascular reactivity to acute stress. The variables were stranger or ...