Information on personality, on anxiety and depression and on several aspects of religion was collected in 1974 Dutch families consisting of adolescent and young adult twins and their parents. Analyses of these data showed that differences between individuals in religious upbringing, in religious affiliation and in participation in church activities are not influenced by genetic factors. The fam...

OBJECTIVE To examine where rural physicians grew up, when during their training they became interested in rural medicine, factors influencing their decision to practise rural medicine, and differences in these measures according to rural or urban upbringing. DESIGN Mailed survey. SETTING Rural Canada. PARTICIPANTS Rural family physicians who graduated between 1991 and 2000 from a Canadian...

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS The number of illicit drug users incarcerated in Sri Lanka has been growing over the last decade. This paper presents drug-use characteristics and risk-taking behaviours among a group of male incarcerated drug users. DESIGN AND METHODS An interviewer-administered structured questionnaire was completed by 278 drug users in three prisons in Sri Lanka. RESULTS The majorit...

Shortages of health care professionals have plagued rural areas of the USA for more than a century. Programs to alleviate them have met with limited success. These programs generally focus on factors that affect recruitment and retention, with the supposition that poor recruitment drives most shortages. The strongest known influence on rural physician recruitment is a "rural upbringing," but li...

Members of the net generation are born and grow up in a digital world. They are different in attitudes and behavior from their parents and teachers who had to adapt to digital trends. The introductory part of the paper analyzes their typical characteristics and their special, new-millennium style of learning and gaining knowledge. These skills, which are supported by leading contemporary paradi...

Jeanette Winterson’s novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) illustrates story of a young girl, Jeanette, who experiences suppressive upbringing at hands her mother and surroundings. Through portrayal transition into adulthood, novel touches on numerous challenging issues such as gender, identity, reliability mainstream patriarchal discourse. The main character’s gradual transformation rev...