Social distance toward schizophrenia is a reason for delays in receiving early treatment for the disorder. This study attempted to identify the factors underlying social distance. The participants were 2690 parents of adolescents. Factor analysis using a social distance scale identified two factors: private relationship and social relationship. Regression analysis revealed that gender, age, and...

Negative maternal attitudes toward schizophrenia may be linked with delayed treatment of their children. We investigated the relation between negative attitudes toward schizophrenia and help-seeking among mothers of junior and senior high school students in Japan. The participants were 1309 Japanese mothers of junior and senior high school students. Social distance was evaluated by using the So...

| In this paper we demonstrate that two common metrics, symmetric set diierence, and Eu-clidian distance, have normalized forms which are nevertheless metrics. The rst of these jA4Bj=jABj is easily established and generalizes to measure spaces. The second applies to vectors in R n and is given by kX?Y k=(kXk+kY k). That this is a metric is more dii-cult to demonstrate and is true for Euclidian ...

Let Γ denote a near polygon distance-regular graph with diameter d ≥ 3, valency k and intersection numbers a1 > 0, c2 > 1. Let θ1 denote the second largest eigenvalue of Γ. We show θ1 ≤ k − a1 − c2 c2 − 1 . We show the following (i)–(iii) are equivalent. (i) Equality is attained above; (ii) Γ is Q-polynomial with respect to θ1; (iii) Γ is a dual polar graph or a Hamming graph.

This study aims to examine how Iranian EFL learners perceive and apply mitigation devices in request speech act in 4 asymmetrical situations. Role-play interactions and questionnaires were used to elicit the required data from Iranian informants (male vs. female). The results obtained from the analysis of data revealed that in identical situations, male requestors were comparably more certain t...

The desire for social distance towards individuals with obesity as part of the stigmatization process has not been investigated. The aims of this study include: (a) determining the prevalence of social distance and its domains in a population-based sample; (b) reporting levels of emotional response; and (c) investigating the association of BMI, emotional response and social distance. The data w...

background: co-authorship is one of the most tangible forms of research collaboration. a co-authorship network is a social network in which the authors through participation in one or more publication through an indirect path have linked to each other. the present research using the social network analysis studied co-authorship network of 681 articles published in journal of research in medical...

This study explores how consumers, who differ in their psychological distance toward the purchasing event (i.e., temporal distance) or toward product review writers (i.e., social distance), comprehend concrete or abstract reviews. Two experiments were conducted. The first experiment examined how a consumer’s perception of temporal distance, near future or distant future, would affect his/her co...

In a series of interviews, it was collected a heterogeneous set of several million relations of positive and negative knowledge that a group of thousands of people has about a set of circa twenty-two thousand Portuguese Proverbs. This is a unique source for socio-cultural analysis of the mechanisms of transmission of oral culture in geographic discontinuous spaces. We present in this article so...