In current situations, quantitative and qualitative reduction of water resources has become global crisis. This subject has created many problems in Iran’s agriculture sector. In this research, effective factors on participation rate of farmers in Hashtgerd regarding optimum Utilization of irrigation networks are studied. The statistical population included all 1500 farmers in Hashtgerd city. A...

Current research on social integration and mental health operationalizes social integration as frequency of interactions and participation in social activities (i.e., social contact). This neglects the subjective dimension of social integration, namely group identification. We present two studies comparing the effect exerted by social contact and group identification on mental health (e.g., dep...

One of the variables that can be effective in reducing social problems, including alienation, is social capital. Because each of its components, such as trust, participation and group bounds, can lead to greater integration and, consequently, social order. Hence, due to the importance of the subject, the sociological explanation of the impact of social capital on forms of alienation has been di...

this research examines the relationship between social participation and social tolerance. to examine the social tolerance the classification of vogt has been used and to examine the social participation, theories of participation has been studied. population of research is all of students in payam noor university of meshkinshahr (3041 people).according to cochran formula, 307 persons have been...

Social media plays an important role in the process of political engagement, especially in societies where significant constraints over traditional media and participation still exist. Little is known about how social media use is related to these constraints. This study examines how citizens’ perceptions of government control predict social media use and how this use is related to offline part...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to examine the reciprocity between pain catastrophizing, social participation and quality of life outcomes (pain intensity, pain disability, negative affectivity) in patients with low back pain in a multidisciplinary pain treatment. METHODS Patients undergoing inpatient rehabilitation were surveyed at the beginning and two weeks after the end of rehabilitat...

this paper aimed to investigate the relationship between components of social capital (security, trust, social norms, social networks and participation in social activities) and physical activity participation among the adolescent students in yazd city. the statistical population of the study included adolescent students (14-17 years old) from yazd city. 382 adolescents were randomly selected t...