This article highlights the need to recognize that the post-treatment phase of the cancer journey requires attention and that there is a need to develop survivorship services. As a first step, cancer survivors need information ...
Greater economic hardship is widely conceived as conducive to higher
levels of majority hostility towards minority groups. Research in the classical social-
psychological tradition as well as data on political trends ...
The concept of Social Capital suggests that societies with more dense social networks will have more effective political institutions, be more cohesive and display stronger economic performances. However the causal foundations ...
What causes poverty and how does an individual escape it? Factors such as intelligence and social
class background are thought to be important. However, a number of economists have argued that
an individual’s profile of ...
Early school-leaving exerts substantial costs on the individual and society. The literature indicates that quitting school early is predicted by an enmeshed group of indicators including academic and behavioural difficulties ...
Research appears to demonstrate that economic variables are only marginally predictive of levels of social satisfaction. It was hypothesised that a greater association might be found between satisfaction and equality of ...
The paper presents an overview of publications during the past twenty-five years in the area of child psychology and child and adult development by researchers based in Irish institutions or using an Irish sample. Papers ...
Objective: To review and synethize the research material that exists on focus groups with children and adolescents and to provide guidelines for future development.
Methods: Psychlit, Medline and Cinahl electronic ...
Cancer survivor numbers in Ireland are increasing due to the success of modern treatments. Although most survivors have a good quality of life not all survivors return to 'normal' after treatment. The HSE funded CANSURVIVOR ...
In recent years there has been an increase in the use of qualitative data collection techniques in research with children. Among the most common of these methods are focus groups and individual interviews. While many authors ...