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Social isolation and social support in good times and bad times

Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022
People who are socially isolated or lonely report having lower levels of social support. Supportive social networks help buffer individuals against the deleterious effects of negative events and stressors. Supportive social networks also help individuals maximize the benefits of positive events and accomplishments.
Shelly L. Gable, Alisa Bedrov
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Social Time and Social Time Values

Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, 2006
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Tremblay, Diane-Gabrielle, Thoemmes, Jens   +1 more
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Social time preference [PDF]

Journal of Population Economics, 2000
The observed practice of discounting the future should not be rationalised on the grounds of myopia or selfishness. A positive rate of pure time preference is necessary to ensure that heterogeneous generations are treated in an egalitarian fashion. A zero social discount rate would yield intertemporal allocations which are biased against the current ...
MARINI, GIANCARLO, SCARAMOZZINO, PASQUALE   +1 more
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Time, Social Change, and Social Work

Social Work in Health Care, 1984
The nature of time and social change is considered from two points of view, the linear and the synergistic. The implications of both for social work in health care are considered, related to the teachings of Hyman J. Weiner and to an ecological perspective.
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Social Trust, Social Partner Time and Television Time

Social Indicators Research, 2010
Social trust is an important phenomenon, but the influence of important time-based measures upon trust has not been examined. Such measures include social contact and anti-social activity, such as television watching, which allows for the co-presence of other people.
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Time to Develop Social Dentistry

JDR Clinical & Translational Research, 2017
Knowledge Transfer Statement: We are calling researchers, educators, and dental professionals to be at the forefront of actions addressing social determinants of health. We indeed argue that 1) it is the dentists’ and other oral health care professionals’ role to tackle social determinants of health and 2) as researchers and educators, we need to help
C, Bedos, N, Apelian, J N, Vergnes
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Astronomical Time versus Social Time

Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 2018
The archaeological context of a recently unearthed sundial from the Egyptian Valley of the Kings suggests that the object was used to define the work hours of labourers engaged in building tombs. An analysis of the sundial enables us to establish its precision and the scientific rationale on which the measurement of time is based.
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Time's Social Discourses

KronoScope, 2006
AbstractThis essay adresses the analysis of social discourses on time, i.e., the ways social agents suppose time is. Using the data furnished by a sociological research made in Spain on the meaning of working time and its compatibility with personal and family life, I propose to focus on some important and recurrent ambivalences and images of time in ...
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Social Work in a Time of Social Distance

Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, 2020
At the children’s hospital where I work, we palliative social workers are having something of an identity crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic.As palliative social workers, we’re usually not as invo...
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The Part-Time Social Director

The American Journal of Nursing, 1929
5M / OST progressive directresses of nurses appreciate the value of a social director and are eager to have such persons on their staffs. In all except very small hospitals, where the relations between staff and students are necessarily close, one feels that a social director is a need.
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