Serious incompatibility between work and family life among faculty is well known, and various work-family policies have become available to faculty. Due to the traditional academic work culture (e.g., the ideal worker norms and the individualism norms), however, these policies tend to be underused. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an academic work culture that is more supportive of faculty...

We conducted this study on 52 adolescents from Tehran to investigate their perspectives on health. We used the grounded theory approach and the constant comparison analysis method. Identity emerged as a core variable along with the concepts of friendship and relationships, education, family, lack of limitation and community. Identity affects adolescents' health regarding the emerged concepts. P...

The study of relationship antecedents of externalizing behavior problems has primarily focused on potentially harmful aspects of relationships such as conflict and hostility. Although a large body of literature has investigated the role of family and peer relationships in the development of externalizing behavior problems, few research efforts have focused on studying these relationship domains...

In this paper we provide a purely combinatorial proof of the Friendship Theorem, which has been first proven by P. Erdös et al. by using also algebraic methods. Moreover, we generalize this theorem in a natural way, assuming that every pair of nodes occupies ≥ 2 common neighbors. We prove that every graph, which satisfies this generalized -friendship condition, is a regular graph.

A friendship graph is a graph in which every two distinct vertices have exactly one common neighbor. All finite friendship graphs are known, each of them consists of triangles having a common vertex. We extend friendship graphs to two-graphs, a two-graph being an ordered pair G = (G0, G1) of edge-disjoint graphs G0 and G1 on the same vertex-set V (G0) = V (G1). One may think that the edges of G...

I postulate that social norms and individuals’ behaviors are shaped by a common process capable of generating a multitude of outcomes. In games of friendship links and behaviors, I propose k-player Nash stability—a family of equilibria, indexed by a measure of robustness given by the number of permitted link changes, which is (ordinally and cardinally) ranked in a probabilistic sense. Applicati...

Abstract The quality of individuals’ social relationships consistently predicts greater well-being. But little is known about the relative importance different relationship types for life satisfaction, including friendships compared to other relationships. Some have theorized that one intimate all you need. However, romantic partners, family, and friends may contribute uniquely or interactively...

It is easy to slip into sentimental platitudes when talking about friendship. Great writers such as Cicero and Montaigne avoided this pitfall, but mainly by describing not what friendship is, but what it ought to be. The close connection of intimate comradeship Wlth mental health is being increasingly recognised. A few aspects of this connection will here be outlined. In the first place, the ty...

Middle-aged gay men in Manchester differentiate themselves through accounts of ‘friendship family’ from relating/kinship associated with heterosexuals and younger gay men. Based on interviews with 27 men aged 39–61, I explore narratives of friendship family. This critical space enables development/mobilisation of the resources of ageing ‘ageing capital’ – needed to reclaim self-worth in the fac...