background drug dependence is one of the major problems in today’s world which has turned into a serious, concerning threat due to its destructive and preventive effects on the development and prosperity of the society. objectives the study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of social skills training on tendency to addiction among high school female students of ahvaz city. patients and meth...

A review of recent research (1988 to 1998) on gender differences in environmental attitudes and behaviors found that, contrary to past inconsistencies, a clearer picture has emerged: Women report stronger environmental attitudes and behaviors than men. Additional evidence of gender differences in environmental attitudes and behaviors was also supported across age (Study 1) and across 14 countri...

Parenting behaviors, such as the provisioning of food by parents to offspring, are known to be highly responsive to changes in environment. However, we currently know little about how such flexibility affects the ways in which parenting is adapted and evolves in response to environmental variation. This is because few studies quantify how individuals vary in their response to changing environme...

The purpose of this study is to explore the behaviors of the residents of a Taiwanese nursing organization through their style of sharing bedrooms with other residents. This study examines day-to-day behaviors, and the differences and connotations. The investigation employs the environmental behavioral observation method in order to observe and maintain records of the residents' behavior. As pe...

Studies of past emergency events have revealed that occupants’ behaviors, local geometry, and environmental constraints affect crowd movement and govern the evacuation. Occupants’ social characteristics and the unique layout of the buildings should be considered to ensure that the egress systems can handle the actual occupants’ behaviors in egress. This paper describes an agent-based egress sim...

Angelman syndrome is a neurogenetic disorder associated with unique behaviors and characteristics, including an unusually happy expression, inability to speak, ataxia, mental retardation, and abnormal EEG. Previous research has suggested that smiling and laughing behaviors in Angelman syndrome are inappropriate, excessive, and dissociated from contextual events. In the present study, the variab...

Research on environmental behavior highlights the role of information systems in the information acquisition and attitude formation process. Computer-mediated social networks (CMSNs) are forms of social structures that support social activity through computer-mediated communication and interactions. CMSNs can have an influential effect on social norms surrounding various issues, including envir...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between cognitive function in pediatric sickle cell disease (SCD) patients and mothers' reports of social-environmental stress, depressive symptoms, and parenting. A total of 65 children with SCD completed comprehensive neuropsychological testing to assess several domains of cognitive functioning, including general intellectual ability, acad...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the number one cause of death in the world. In most analyses of health problems, environment plays a significant and modifiable role in causing the problem either directly or indirectly through behavior. OBJECTIVES This study aims to understand the patients and healthcare providers' experiences about the environmental determinants of CVD risk fact...

Numerous behavioral theories and models include “environment” as a construct. For example, social cognitive theory posits that behavior is influenced by individual factors in combination with the social and physical environment (Bandura, 1986). A social ecologic perspective acknowledges multiple levels of behavioral determinants, including individual, interpersonal, organizational, and communit...