Since parents’ rearing styles may affect adolescents’ behavior and socialization, it is relevant to know how some psychological variables are related to parent rearing styles. This study is aimed to explore this point by analysing altogether parents’ rearing styles (EMBU-P), social values (social power, order, benevolence, and conservatism-liberalism), Big-five personality traits, and marital s...

This paper investigates the factors that affect users’ communication satisfaction within a virtual community, in particular, an online chat room. A research model consisting of 3 aspects—psychological, technological and environmental—is developed to examine effects of anonymity, media richness and activeness of chat room on social presence, privacy concern, and further communication satisfactio...

We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the SOEP to test for social interactions in BMI between spouses. Social interactions require that the cross-partial effect of partner’s weight and own weight in the utility function be positive. Using life satisfaction as a utility proxy, semi-parametric regressions show that the correlation between satisfaction ...

Social group recommender systems aim to recommend items of interest to a social group or a community of people. The user issues in such systems cannot be addressed by examining the satisfaction of their members as individuals. Rather, group satisfaction should be studied as a result of the interaction and interface methods that support group dynamics and interaction. This report first introduce...

OBJECTIVES To examine maternal functioning and wellbeing as important aspects of a family's adaptation to chronic paediatric conditions, in particular, children with diabetes. METHOD This cross-sectional study investigated the difference between the perceived quality of life of mothers of children with diabetes (n = 63) and mothers of children without diabetes (n = 114). The study also examin...

328 With the new enlargement the social situation in the EuropeanUnion has changed dramatically and new challenges for social policy developments have been generated. Enlargement has raised the European Population reaching the level of more than 451 million European citizens but the GDP increasedwas only by 4.5%. The social and economic inequalities across the EUMember States are wider and new ...

This study explored the growth experiences of women abused by their intimate partner, specifically focusing on the associations between social services and empowerment, perceived changes of self, and life satisfaction. The potential effects of demographic variables, social support, coping, and experience of partner abuse were also explored. A survey study was conducted through the collaboration...

The process linking unemployment and economic hardship to depression and marital or relationship satisfaction in couples was examined. Using structural equation modeling, the authors tested models in which financial strain and partners' symptoms of depression influence the behavioral exchange of the couples in terms of social support and social undermining and, in turn, the effects of support a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the process of implementation of a social and physical environmental intervention and to explore differences regarding this process between both interventions. METHODS Context, recruitment, dose delivered, fidelity, reach, dose received, satisfaction, and implementation barriers were investigated. RESULTS Reach for the social and physical environmental interventions ra...

conclusions: marital age, and socioeconomic status had a direct association, and hopefulness and marital satisfaction had an indirect one with iranian women’s decision for timing motherhood. therefore, this is the responsibility of policy-makers and healthcare providers to advise women by providing appropriate interventions and facilities. results: the results revealed that among direct pathway...