Title of Document: MATERNAL AND PATERNAL PERCEPTIONS OF HOSTILITY TOWARD THEIR ADOLESCENTS: LINKS TO ADOLESCENT PEER-REPORTED SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR. Heidi Marie Butler, Master of Science, 2008 Directed By: Professor Jude Cassidy, Psychology The goal of the present study was to examine the links between parental perceptions of hostility and peer-reported adolescent social accepta...

Social media has phenomenally changed the communication landscape. Particularly social network sites have received enormous popularity and user acceptance globally. The business model of many social network sites is based on advertising. The survival of these social network sites depends on the user acceptance of advertising appearing on these websites. Users usually accept the advertising whic...

In Bangladesh a commonly accepted notion of citizenship endowed with certain minimum basic rights does not exist. Although a generalised concept of citizenship has been formally articulated, i.e. in the constitution, and has the appearance of being all-inclusive, this is more in form than in content and reality. The meanings/concepts of citizenship at the level of peoples lived realities are no...

OBJECTIVE In this paper we consider the role that acceptance plays in fatigue and physical and social functioning. We predicted that lack of acceptance would be positively correlated with fatigue and impairment in functioning; that there would be a significant relationship between perfectionism and acceptance; and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) would increase acceptance. METHODS Two hund...

The primary aim of the current study was to replicate and extend previous findings by examining the relation of self-perceived competence with symptoms of depression and social anxiety in older adolescents. Focusing first on cross-sectional relations, we found that older adolescents' depressive symptoms were similarly related to levels of perceived scholastic competence and social acceptance, w...

CONTEXT Paranoia embodies altered representation of the social environment, fuelling altered feelings of social acceptance leading to further mistrust. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) may relieve paranoia and reduce its impact on social acceptance. OBJECTIVE To determine whether MBCT alters momentary feeling of paranoia and social acceptance in daily life. DESIGN Randomized contr...

The advancement of communication tools has changed interpersonal communication among consumers. Companies leverage different communication tools to reach customers, while it is unclear, how communication types affect online referral acceptance. This study draws on affordances and social presence theory to investigate the role of two communication types (i.e. private and public) in social networ...