We use individual and aggregate data to ask how the Internet is changing the ideological segregation of the American electorate. Focusing on online news consumption, offline news consumption, and face-to-face social interactions, we define ideological segregation in each domain using standard indices from the literatureonracial segregation. Wefindthat ideological segregationofonlinenews consump...

OBJECTIVE To identify the social, family, personality traits and health locus of control factors which influence physical and mental health, consumption of medications, and frequency of medical consultations. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Twenty participants were included in a two years long longitudinal study. At baseline, the participants' age, gender, family composition, net income, chronic treatme...

Background: The aim of the present study is to compare time perception among drug addicts and controls. Methods: 30 drug addicts were selected, and 30 non-addict individuals were selected as the control group. The two groups performed three tests of time reproduction, time estimation, and time discrimination. Findings: There was a significant difference between the addicts group and the control...

The present study set out to compare the effectiveness of psychological training based on Olson and McMaster models in enhancing family functioning of female teachers. This quasi-experimental research had a pretest-posttest control group follow-up design. The statistical population of the study was comprised of 550 married female teachers in the Khorramdarreh County in school year 2016-17. The ...

AIM To examine whether government-funded tobacco control television advertising shown in England between 2002 and 2010 reduced adult smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption. DESIGN Analysis of monthly cross-sectional surveys using generalised additive models. SETTING England. PARTICIPANTS More than 80 000 adults aged 18 years or over living in England and interviewed in the Opinions ...

family is one of the most important grounds of crime and crime victimization development. the experts, welfare workers, lawyers and sociologists argue that the factor or factors should be identified that provide the kind of conditions under which the individuals abuse, tolerate or accept the crime in order to secure the society, reduce the social harms and finally propose the procedures to refo...