As online communities grow and user generated content increases, the need for community management also rises. Community management has three main purposes: to create a positive experience for existing participants, to encourage appropriate, socio-normative behaviors, and to encourage potential participants to make contributions. Research indicates that the quality of content a potential partic...

Background Depressive patients can derive consolation as well as struggle from their religion. Outside the Western-Christian cultures these phenomena have not received much empirical exploration. The current study aims to describe how positive and negative religious coping strategies relate to depressive symptoms in different ethnic groups in The Netherlands. Methods Interview data were derived...

Individuals experiencing high levels of social anxiety report frequent and intense anger. Yet, little is known about how they manage this emotion. Despite general tendencies towards anger suppression, subsets of individuals with social anxiety regulate anger through outward expression. In this study, we investigated rejection as an antecedent to anger, examined how and when individuals with hig...

Although a number of scholars have examined the determinants of intergroup violence, there is little research on why thousands of ordinary people take part in attacks on other ethnic, religious, sectarian, national, or partisan groups. This paper proposes a two-part emotional theory of participation. First, the theory argues that participants are driven by the emotion of intergroup anger. Anger...

BACKGROUND Although religions is important to many people with cancer, few studies have explored the relationship between religious coping and well-being in a prospective manner, using validated measures, while controlling for important covariates. METHODS One hundred ninety-eight women with stage I or II and 86 women with stage IV stage breast cancer were recruited. Standardized assessment i...

The state acknowledges the existence of indigenous religious believers, yet given social stigma since considered primitive, heresy, and even atheist. to believers negatively results in personal relationships eventually influencing believers’ life aspects. Thus, management communication strategies are essential when interacting with other people their environments. This research depicts how mana...

abu zeyd balkhi, the iranian muslim scholar, theologian and philosopher, who lived in third and fourth hijri centuries, is the first scientist who studied the interplay between the mental hygiene or health and the body hygiene or health. he reported his findings and opinions in his book “masalih al-abdan va al-anfos”. balkhi has attributed the orders of creation and universe to the wisdom of go...

“Anger Management” is the most popular lay term today for any therapy designed to eliminate destructive rage in relationships. The therapeutic community also uses the expression “anger management” most frequently, in lieu of any other term, when marketing to the public’s needs in this area. From a marketing perspective, this makes good sense. Yet, there is a subtle loss of opportunity if all co...