in this article, the social capital concept has been thoroughly surveyed. consequently, this concept and its related dimensions and factors has been extracted from imam ali's point of view (nahjolbalaghah letters). by implementing the extracting adaptive concepts and exerting suitable qualitative research methods, an islamic framework for social capital improvement in islamic communities h...

A theoretical model describing interpersonal trust in close relationships is presented. Three dimensions of trust are identified, based on the type of attributions drawn about a partner's motives. These dimensions are also characterized by a developmental progression in the relationship. The validity of this theoretical perspective was examined through evidence obtained from a survey of a heter...

BACKGROUND A growing body of empirical evidence indicates that low-level social capital is related to poor mental health outcomes. However, the prospective association between social capital and depression remains unclear, and no published studies have investigated the association with longitudinal data in East-Asian countries. METHODS We analyzed data from the ongoing Korean Welfare Panel St...

This study provides insight into how social relationship factors influence on electronic Word-of-Mouth (EWOM) behaviors in social networking sites. By using the sample from Taiwan and Vietnam college students who spend more time on social networking sites, we investigate these determinants of EWOM behaviors such as social capital, trust and interpersonal influences, and compare the results betw...

We investigated the effects of intranasal oxytocin (OXT) on trust and cooperation in borderline personality disorder (BPD), a disorder marked by interpersonal instability and difficulties with cooperation. Although studies in healthy adults show that intranasal OXT increases trust, individuals with BPD may show an altered response to exogenous OXT because the effects of OXT on trust and pro-soc...

Trust is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. Organizational trust is an important part of professional relationships between co-workers, between managers and employees, or between employees and managers. Trust can be either interpersonal or institutional in nature. To measure, understand, and explain trust in an organizational context, it is important to identify different dimensions of ...

anxiety is one of the most controversial issues in mental disorders that its prevalence is increasing in today's society. preclinical anxiety that is causing some anxiety disorders in adults can help us in the prevention of mental disorders. in this paper an attempt has been made to have an analytical review of attachment anxiety and its significance in childhood and adulthood. attachment ...

The present study aims to examine the dimensionality and criterion validity of institutional trust construct in Slovakia using a comprehensive list thirty-three public institutions. A representative sample 600 Slovaks first reported their level institutions then on social trust, propensity dispositional radius measures. holdout cross-validation method was used evaluate construct. Exploratory fa...

Social memory plays a pivotal role in social behaviors, from mating behaviors to cooperative behaviors based on reciprocal altruism. More specifically, social/person recognition memory is supposed, by behavioral-economic and game-theoretic analysis, to be required for Tit-For-Tat like cooperative behaviors to evolve under the N-person Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Game condition. Meanwhile, human...