The currently fashionable theory of self-organisation has its origins in statistical physics. Many believe that the underlying physics model, which is based on inanimate systems, can be employed to explain and predict the emergence of social structures, even of history itself. Some are even convinced that it will be possible to construct a social physics to displace the social sciences. The pur...

In this article, we draw from Conservation of Resources Theory to advance and test a framework which predicts that emotional exhaustion plays an explanatory role underlying the relation between workplace anxiety and job performance. Further, we draw from social exchange theories to predict that leader-member exchange and coworker exchange will mitigate the harmful effects of anxiety on job perf...

Despite the large body of work on the work-family interface, hardly any literature has addressed the work-family interface in safety-critical settings. This study draws from social exchange theory to examine the effect of employees' strain-based work-to-family conflict on their supervisors' rating of their safety participation through job satisfaction. The sample consisted of 494 drivers from a...

This chapter addresses the evolutionary roots of the, by and large, uniquely human capacity for helping other people who are not closely related. It is argued that prosocial tendencies have evolved through natural selection pressures associated with the need to solve critical interdependence problems, which can often be modeled as social dilemmas. Solutions to social dilemmas involve engaging i...

Organizing and satisfying the increasing demand for social and informal care for older adults is an important topic. We aim at building a peerto-peer exchange platform that empowers older adults to benefit from receiving support for daily activities and reciprocally offering support to others. In situated interviews and within a survey we investigated the requirements and needs of 246 older adu...

Students attending large lectures in today’s universities encounter problems like an impersonal atmosphere, difficulty of individual participation and collaboration as well as shyness and passivity among the audience. The use of digital backchannels can increase interaction by providing awareness, which is defined as the understanding of the activities of others that provides a context for one’...

This research investigates how loneliness and life dissatisfaction affect consumers’ acceptance of social networking services and the moderating role of perceived self-disclosure to intervene so that users seek social support online. Drawing from theoretical foundations of quality of life theory, social exchange theory and the technology acceptance model (TAM), the research model utilizes the c...

In a new era, the organizational climate has built as the norms, values, beliefs, traditions, and ceremonies where people work together to solve problems and face challenges. This study was to determine whether there is a relationship between each of the three dimensions of organizational climate (supervisory support, autonomy, and goal direction) and Organizational Citizenship Behavior-Individ...