BACKGROUND Smoking tobacco is a global health problem, and this study highlights adolescent smoking in Taiwan. Smoking was completely banned on campuses under the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act and School Health Regulations. Few have investigated the association between personnel smoking/school smoking policies and adolescent smoking in Taiwan. The smoking rate has gradually increased for senio...

The friends-and-neighbors effect, which refers to voters' tendency support politicians near hometown areas, has not yet been tested systematically for party leaders. Linking a built-for-purpose dataset on 266 leaders sample of 380,208 voters from 50 country elections in 19 parliamentary democracies drawn the Comparative Study Electoral Systems (CSES) project, this article examines effect leader...

The behaviour based trust models generally compute social trust using interactions of a member with other members, referred to as “friends”. These models largely ignore the interactions of friends with their friends, referred to as “friendship effects”. Results from social studies and behavioural science show that friends have a significant influence on the behaviour of the members in the commu...

Using panel data method, this study examines the effects of different dimensions of social capital on innovation at the societal level across 21 countries (19 Asian countries plus Russia and Egypt) for the period 1995-2011. Dimensions of social capital that have been considered in this study include generalized trust, trust toward friends, institutional trust, civic participation, and norms of ...

Abstract The aim of this paper is to shed light on the complex relations between friendship and blame. In first part, I show that be friends have certain evaluative, emotional behavioral dispositions toward each other, distinguish two kinds norms friendship, namely friendship-based obligations friendship-constituting rules. Friendship-based tag actions as obligatory, permissible or wrong, where...

This study examines the effects of best friends' emotion regulation strategies (regarding the emotions anger, fear, and sadness) on the development of adolescents' emotion regulation strategies and subsequent depressive symptoms. Based on a two-wave longitudinal sample of 238 German adolescents, true change analyses showed positive effects of best friends' adaptive strategies (T1) on the change...