Growing evidence from countries in the global North and South indicates that a disproportionately high number of migrants are being physically emotionally, economically socially affected by COVID-19 pandemic. This suggests everyday experiences living time pandemic is not same for everyone. There an emerging scholarship argues to understand dissimilar impacts on migrants, it necessary take into ...

Background Social media addiction (SM) is a widespread and severe problem in today’s world. It associated with both self-esteem (SE) general belongingness (GB). There are many studies related to these associations the literature, but this research an attempt was made explain mechanism based on social comparison theory. The aim of study examine indirect effect (SC) relationship among SM, SE, GB....

The terms'Ethnicity' and 'conflict' are often correlated when discussing the conflicts within any nation's boundaries. Most likely, state of Myanmar conflict with Rohingya one recent examples. This study intends to investigate how ethnic identity people manifested itself as strife in society. Two questions: Firstly, why has ethnicity become a question "belongingness"? Secondly, howis entwined p...

Quality of life (QOL) is a broad, multiply determined construct with both objective and subjective components. Objective indicators of QOL can include physiological markers of fitness and disease, a nation’s Gross Domestic Products, marital status, church attendance, or even the number of minutes per day spent laughing. But objective indicators do not always reflect one’s own assessment of or s...

introduction: the focus on social capital in recent years has been based on the effect of this capital on producing and increasing the human capital and also improving the level of general health in the society. the social capital is discussed as a potential in successful social welfare programs and general health; and for the same reason, a specific place has been assigned to investigate and c...

In this paper we propose a generalization of K-means algorithm, which is adapted to integrate Procrustean metrics and full mean shape estimation, with the aim of clustering objects with either multiple or fuzzy contours. First we are concerned with the representation of fuzzy shapes and introduce appropriate shape metrics and descriptors. Next, we discuss Procrustean methods for aligning shapes...

In a previous study we could show that social fear can be induced and extinguished using virtual reality (VR). In the present study, we aimed to investigate the belongingness effect in an operant social fear conditioning (SFC) paradigm which consisted of an acquisition and an extinction phase. Forty-three participants used a joystick to approach different virtual male agents that served as cond...