نتایج جستجو برای: community cohesion

تعداد نتایج: 375352  

Journal: :International journal of law and psychiatry 2014
Liliane Cambraia Windsor Alexis Jemal Ellen Benoit

Theoretical approaches traditionally applied in mental health and criminal justice interventions fail to address the historical and structural context that partially explains health disparities. Community Wise was developed to address this gap. It is a 12week group intervention informed by Critical Consciousness Theory and designed to prevent substance abuse, related health risk behaviors, psyc...

Journal: :American journal of public health 2014
Holly B Shakya Nicholas A Christakis James H Fowler

OBJECTIVES We identified communities of interconnected people that might serve as normative reference groups for individual-level behavior related to latrine adoption. METHODS We applied an algorithmic social network method to determine the network community from respondent-reported social ties of 16 403 individuals in 75 villages in rural Karnataka, India; data were collected from 2006 to 20...

2002
Steve Counsell Emilia Mendes Stephen Swift

It is a little over ten years sinc e Chidamber and Kemerer's obje ct-oriented (OO) metric suite which included the Lack of Cohesion Of Methods (LCOM) metric was rst proposed [9]. Despite considerable e ort both theoretically and empirically sinc e then, the softwar eengineering community is still no ne arer nding a generally ac cepte d de nition or me asure of OO cohesion. Y et,achieving highly...

2009

This paper studies the diffusion of WorkFinder, an intelligent task recommendation system, in Wikipedia. We investigate both factors that predict who adopts WorkFinder and its impact on adopters’ future contributions to this online community. Analyzing logged data about participants’ activities in Wikipedia, we found that both individual characteristics and social ties influence adoption. Speci...

2016
Zheng Wang Fangzhu Zhang Fulong Wu

This study explores the current neighbourhood cohesion in Chinese cities and how it might be affected by the influx of migrants. Our multilevel analysis is based on a 1420 sized household survey conducted in Shanghai in 2013. The results reveal that the influx of migrants does not generate all negative results contrasting existing literature where migrants tend to reduce cohesion in the neighbo...

2015
Namkee G. Choi Jinseok Kim Diana M. DiNitto C. Nathan Marti

Objective: To examine both cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between older adults' perceptions of social cohesion in their community and depressive symptoms and the potential mediating effect of the frequency of going outside one's home/building. Method: Using two waves (T1 and T2) of the National Health and Aging Trend Study (n = 5,326), gender-stratified structural equation model...

2004
Douglas D. Perkins Joseph Hughey Paul W. Speer

Concepts and research from community psychology can inform community development practice by reframing social capital theory. Social capital (SC) is generally defined and measured at the interpersonal, community, institutional, or societal levels in terms of networks (bridging) and norms of reciprocity and trust (bonding) within those networks. SC should be analyzed in a multi-level ecological ...

2009
Jennifer Xu

Identifying community structure in networks is an important topic in data mining research. One of the challenges is to find local communities without requiring the global knowledge of the entire network. Exiting techniques have several limitations. First, there is no widely accepted definition for community. Second, these algorithms either lack good stopping criteria or depend on predefined thr...

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