This article aims to explore the effects of personal, interpersonal, and situational variables on social integration in the community. Structural equation analyses from two-wave panel data (N1⁄4 536) of adult participants living in an urban area showed that personal determinants (perceived stress and depressive mood), and situational determinants (undesirable life events) were statistically rel...

The purpose of this secondary analysis of prospective longitudinal data was to determine the variables predictive of diminished social integration in older adults over time. Using generalized estimating equations to model diminished levels of social integration over the 12-year study period, the following variables were predictive of diminished levels of social integration over time: bad overal...

cultural integration and social admission among ethnicities is one of the most trusted ways to reach social integration in multiethnic society of iran. using a sociological approach, this thesis assesses the extent of intercultural sensitivity and its associated factors among kurds and turks of the city of qurve. according to the theoretical sextuplet model of intercultural sensitivities of mil...

among others internal, regional, international, political, economic, technical, social and cultural factors are reasons that theorists introduce for beginning of integration at a region. by looking at the functions of the shanghai cooperation organization and the association of southeast asian nations (asean), we understand that there are two basic pragmatic factors, the support of the great po...

This study explored the impact of attending a 2-year (vs. a 4-year) institution on African American male students’ academic and social integration experiences in the first year of college. Descriptive and multivariate analyses of the 1996/1998 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study showed that African American males attending 4-year institutions were more likely to report higher le...

Social information influences decision-making through an integration of information derived from individual experience with that derived from observing the actions of others. This raises the question as to which extent one should utilize social information. One strategy is to make use of uncertainty estimates, leading to a copy-when-uncertain strategy that weights information from individual an...

BACKGROUND Although social integration is a well-established influence on health, less is known about how the specific types of social connection (social roles, social networks, and social support) influence knowledge, attitudes, and practices for specific prevention goals, and how to utilize these influences in interventions with priority populations. This research examined the prevalence of s...

Culture and social relations play a significant role in the formation of the structure of vernacular housing of any region, especially in the Islamic countries where privacy has a considerable effect on the vernacular culture, and consequently, on the house’s structure. Among the house spaces, the kitchen is more affected than other spaces by such issues so that its relations pattern with other...

Open Network Learning Environments (ONLE) are online networks that afford learners the opportunity to participate in creative content endeavors, personalized identity projections, networked mechanism management, and effective collaborative community integration by applying Web 2.0 tools in open environments. It supports social interaction by integrating User-Generated Content, Participatory Web...

Corporate social responsibility represents for IKEA a competitive factor of extraordinary importance. Social policies of racial integration are one of the challenges that the Swedish multinational faces day to day. In the present work it stands out as the racial integration is not only a socially desirable goal; the economic utility of a multi-ethnic integration policy is also highlighted, beca...