Existing research has found that parental migration may negatively impact the psychological adjustment of left-behind children. However, limited longitudinal research has examined if and how future orientation (individual protective factor) and social support (contextual protective factor) are associated with the indicators of psychological adjustment (i.e., life satisfaction, school satisfacti...

To help geologists in interpreting seismic data, we proposed in a previous article to perform directional filtering using oversampled complex lapped transforms. This 2D transform is extended in this paper to L dimensions, thus allowing to process 3D seismic data. We also propose a method to evaluate the relative importance of different orientations in seismic data. This evaluation is used to re...

Twin research has offered evidence that monozygotic (MZ) twins are more socially close than dizygotic (DZ) twins, but has not paid much attention to the way twins compare themselves with their co-twin. The few studies in this area suggest that 'horizontal comparisons' (social comparison motivated by solidarity or communion with others) matter more for MZ twins than for DZ twins, at least when t...

The well-respected tradition of research on concepts uses cross-cultural comparisons to explore which aspects of conceptual behavior are universal versus culturally variable. This work continues, but it is being supplemented by intensified efforts to study how conceptual systems and cultural systems interact to modify and support each other. For example, cultural studies within the framework of...

We assessed implicit needs for power, achievement, and affiliation in 323 U.S. college students using a Picture Story Exercise (PSE; McClelland, Koestner, & Weinberger, 1989) consisting of 6 picture cues and Winter's (1994) content coding system. Picture cues differed markedly in the amount of motive imagery they elicited and picture motive profiles closely resembled those reported by Schulthei...

Virtual communities have become significant applications for the Internet. Previous studies usually treated virtual communities as places for people to share and exchange information and did not explain the social value of communities well. This study treated a virtual community as a stage on which people can present themselves to other users while others can see the shows of people to satisfy ...

This study adopts a social comparison theory perspective to examine the drivers of frequency (SCF) on Facebook among international travel bloggers who utilize for their blogging activities. An online survey led 99 usable responses covering from 33 countries. Results suggest that there is strongly positive and significant relationship between SCF Ability dimension orientation (SCO), as well opin...

Two studies examined the relationship between social comparison orientation (SCO) and two types of closeness (dimensional closeness and psychological closeness) in the context of appearance-related comparisons among women. A pilot study showed that these two types were relatively independent constructs, and provided evidence for the differential validity of the constructs. Consistent with our e...

One of the main branches of entrepreneurship is entrepreneurial orientation as it certainly plays an important role in the success and growth of the organizations. Entrepreneurial orientation is rooted in adopting a strategy. Many organizational policies which are formulated for the development of entrepreneurship are associated with information and communication technologies, in the other hand...