Despite a growing recognition of cultural connectedness as an important protective factor for First Nations (FN) peoples' health, there remains a clear need for a conceptual model that organizes, explains, and leads to an understanding of the resiliency mechanisms underlying this concept for FN youth. The current study involved the development of the Cultural Connectedness Scale (CCS) to identi...

There is limited prospective research on the relation between school connectedness (i.e., the extent to which students feel accepted, valued, respected, and included in the school) and mental health symptoms in adolescents. A sample of 2,022 students (999 boys and 1,023 girls) ages 12 to 14 years were measured at 2 time points (12 months apart) on school connectedness and mental health symptoms...

Introduction This paper discusses the concept of 'connectedness', exploring its relationship with the concepts of 'social presence' and 'awareness', and arguing that although 'social presence' and 'awareness' have received most focus in previous research, 'connectedness' is, in fact, a more fundamental concept. 'Connectedness' is potentially a key concept in the analysis of communication and th...

Adopting the point-neighbourhood definition of topology, which we think may in some cases help acquire a very good insight of digital topologies, we unify the proof technique of the results on 4-connectedness and on 8-connectedness in Z . We also show that there is no topology compatible with 6-connectedness. We shortly comment on potential further use of this approach.

BACKGROUND Few studies have considered the joint effects of social and physical environments on physical activity (PA). The primary purpose of this study was to examine the compounding effects of neighbourhood walkability and social connectedness on PA. METHODS Data were collected from adults (n = 380) in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Perceptions of neighbourhood social connectedness and walkabi...

This paper attempts to provide a systematic view to the λ-connectedness method. This method is for classification/segmentation, fitting/reconstruction, and inference. A common type of partial connectivity that describes the phenomenal of gradual variation is studied in various domains. The previous research work on λ-connectedness was abstracted and integrated into a unified framework: a networ...

Adolescent suicide is a major public health concern. Stressing the need for public health-based solutions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified "connectedness" as one means of pursuing this agenda. To advance this effort in suicide prevention with adolescents, (1) consistencies and variation in the literature overtly linking connectedness to suicide thoughts and behaviors (...

As a fairly new establishment for childcare, afterschool programs are understudied. However, some research proposes that these environments provide risk prevention for problem behavior. This research investigates the roles of attendance and connectedness in afterschool programs upon children's substance abuse and problem behavior. Multiple regression analysis was used among 22 programs to gauge...