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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRuth Prawer Jhabvala's short story 'Rose Petals' sympathetically portrays two opposing ways of living an affluent life while surrounded by poverty. The characters of Mina and her father, the Minister, represent those who...
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From:American Behavioral Scientist (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLiving in certain neighborhoods may exacerbate the poverty problem by affecting the life chances of people negatively. The important question is by which mechanisms the disadvantaged positions of the inhabitants of an...
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From:Journal of Asian Medical Student Association (Vol. 3, Issue S1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Today in the world, mental health is becoming a big problem. In Japan, mental health is also a remarkable problem. There are many social problems caused by various psychotic disorders. Social withdrawal of...
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From:Annals of Family Medicine (Vol. 16, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPURPOSE Social isolation has been identified as a major health problem, particularly in the elderly. In the present study, we examine the association between social isolation and patient experience in elderly primary...
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From:Education & Treatment of Children (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract We evaluated the influence of a positive peer-reporting procedure on positive and negative peer interactions, peer acceptance ratings, and the daily problem behaviors of a 15-year-old boy in residential...
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From:Nature (Vol. 559, Issue 7712) Peer-ReviewedExtended social isolation causes debilitating effects in social mammals such as humans. A study in mice shows that the gene Tac2 is upregulated throughout the brains of socially isolated animals, driving massive...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Depression is a leading mental health problem worldwide. People with long-term conditions are at increased risk of experiencing depression. The COVID-19 pandemic led to strict social restrictions being...
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From:Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCet article est le resultat d'une enquete qualitative des experiences d'accouchees dans les communautes eloignees de la Colombie-Britannique. Les resultats donnent une plus haut taux de mortalite causee par l'obligation...
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From:American Political Science Review (Vol. 87, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe effects of neighborhood poverty on political behavior and African American public opinion are discussed. The study makes use of the 1989 Detroit Area Study to determine if social isolation will necessarily lead to...
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From:Issues in Informing Science & Information Technology (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedThis paper compares the effect of social isolation on students enrolled in online courses versus students enrolled in on campus courses (called in this paper Face-to-Face or F2F). Grade data was collected from one...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSocial isolation has affected a large number of people and may lead to impairment of physical and mental health. Although stress resulting from social isolation may increase cancer progression, its interference on...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedObjectives To assess the relationship between various social isolation indicators and loneliness, and to examine the differential associations that social isolation indicators, loneliness have with depressive...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 55, Issue 7)Byline: DAVID GLENN In the summer of 2006, several major news outlets gave prominent coverage to a sociological study with a grim message: Americans' social isolation had increased radically since the 1980s. Whereas...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 87, Issue 2)It's not that he's sexist or chauvinistic; Willee simply avoids hiring young men to work in his ice cream shoppe. The Tastee Treat is more than a job--he rescued this family business and, therefore, it's his...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs McCullers points out in her outline for The Mute (her original title for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter), the major theme of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is "man's revolt against his own inner isolation and his urge to...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 62, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI was eighteen when I heard the expression "a former life" in a context that wasn't about reincarnation. My teacher at the time, Peggy Rambach, spoke it offhandedly in the course of running a class. I was a bad student...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRetrospective report of social withdrawal during adolescence and current maladjustment in young adulthood: cross-cultural comparisons between Australian and South Korean students J. Kim, R.M. Rapee, K.J. Oh & H.S....
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From:Family Matters (Issue 83)Social contact in older age is vital for wellbeing. Social isolation is a known risk factor for poor physical health outcomes (Cacioppo & Hawkley, 2003) and depression (Hawthorne, 2008), and has been directly linked to...
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From:Urban Affairs Review (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe author examines the relative impact of concentrated poverty neighborhoods and social isolation on the political behavior of white and black inner-city residents. She demonstrates that social isolation undermines the...
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From:Hispanofila (Issue 179) Peer-ReviewedAlberto Fuguet's characters struggle. Many face loneliness, boredom, and drug addiction; many find themselves in dysfunctional relationships or families; most express a palpable disenchantment with life in Santiago....