social and cultural harms of female students such as abnormal behavior, less useful leisure, identity confusion, drug use, sex crimes, political apathy or aggression, etc. can be observed among university students which are generally caused by external factors. studies in this field are few especially for female students. subjects are also non-functional and the results are unclear and they are...

The Internet and social media are thought to be democratising tools, especially in contexts where democratic participation is limited due either political apathy from the citizens or authorit...

A lzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia (1,2) and is characterized by cognitive deficits and behavioural and psychological symptoms. These behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) include delusions, hallucinations, aggression, aberrant motor behaviour, sleep disruptions, agitation, depression, and apathy (3,4). Research in the pathobiology of AD has reveal...

REVIEW QUESTION/OBJECTIVE This review aims to identify and synthesize the effectiveness of multisensory stimulation in managing neuropsychiatric symptoms in older adults with major neurocognitive disorder.More specifically, this review focuses on the following questions: what are the effects of multisensory stimulation in managing neuropsychiatric symptoms such as delusion, hallucination, agita...

access through the selective view of certain television programmes, and articles in the Press, presented in the last year. A drab picture is painted; the atmosphere of apathy, of old men and women sitting around the edge of a room with tiled floors, doing nothing all day except going to the lavatory. A few may be reading, whilst others might watch television. Most people visiting Homes for the ...

Verkaik R, van Weert JCM, Francke AL. The effects of psychosocial methods on depressed, aggressive and apathetic behaviours of people with dementia: a systematic review. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2005;20:301–14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

The authors conducted two studies to explore online game players’ flow experiences and positive affect. Our findings indicated that online game are capable of evoking flow experiences and positive affect, and games of violent or nonviolent type may not arouse players’ aggression. The players could be placed into four flow conditions: flow, boredom, anxiety, and apathy, as determined by level of...

Many studies have revealed that conventional forms of political participation, especially among young people, women, minorities and migrants, are currently in decline (e.g., Blais & Dobrzynska, 1998; Franklin, 2002; International IDEA, 2004; Putnam, 2000). However, two different explanations have been put forward to explain this phenomenon: some authors argue that political apathy and alienatio...