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  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,439 Views
22 Pages

27 June 2018

This study assessed relationship characteristics and social capital from the perspective of interdependent linkage between sharing economy businesses and consumers, which can create the social network and relationship competitive advantage. It verifi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sharing Economy and Its Role in Fostering Sustainability: How Trust and Regulation Shape Relations of Providers and Consumers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,711 Views
13 Pages

26 November 2020

This study examines the antecedents of social commerce intention by conceptualizing a model that includes two exogenous variables; relationship quality and social support, and an endogenous variable; social commerce, along with a mediation effect of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,937 Views
12 Pages

31 August 2021

This study aimed to examine whether school physical education (PE) promotes students’ social health using a longitudinal design. To this end, data from 1979 students from a 4th grade cohort, established by the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Child and Adolescent Health: Challenges and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,765 Views
9 Pages

2 December 2018

Social customer relationship management (SCRM) is a new philosophy influencing the relationship between customer and organization where the customer gets the opportunity to control the relationship through social media. This paper aims to identify (a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Community Informatics Design for Digital Social Systems: The Ultimate Tool for a Human Digital Age)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,464 Views
15 Pages

Presence of Social Client Relationship Management within the Nigerian Construction Industry

  • Rapheal Ojelabi,
  • Opeyemi Oyeyipo,
  • Adedeji Afolabi and
  • Lekan Amusan

Client relationship management (CRM) has become a subject matter of interest to both academics and business practitioners. This is because it reflects the need to manage successful and profitable client relationships for organizations. Construction o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,511 Views
14 Pages

20 January 2021

The aim of this study was to verify the relations between exercise frequency, social relationships, sense of community, and subjective happiness among adolescents. The data analysed in the study were from the 11th Korean Child–Adolescent Happin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Activity, Health and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,551 Views
22 Pages

Since human movement patterns are important for validating the performance of wireless networks, several traces of human movements in real life have been collected. However, collecting data about human movements is costly and time-consuming. Moreover...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Opportunistic Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
747 Views
26 Pages

24 March 2026

Third-party punishment involves bystanders voluntarily incurring costs to punish norm violators, thereby maintaining social norms and cooperation. While prior research shows reduced punishment when the bystander and violator are friends, less is know...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Cognition and Cooperative Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,641 Views
7 Pages

Relationship researchers have long studied factors that boost or detract from relationship success. Social support and premarital counseling are factors that have been shown to boost relationship satisfaction and relationship success. However, little...

(This article belongs to the Section Family Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,815 Views
13 Pages

24 November 2023

Background: For sustainable and healthy relationships with pets, attributing some degree of human abilities to the pet (anthropomorphization) might be necessary. We hypothesize that the tendency to anthropomorphize pet animals is related to relations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on the Human–Pet Relationship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
11,868 Views
23 Pages

Based on para-social interaction (PSI) theory and social identity perspective, this study explores the mechanisms driving consumers’ impulse buying in social live shopping. It examines how live content design, namely information comprehensivene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,552 Views
19 Pages

12 May 2017

In mobile opportunistic networks, the social relationship among nodes has an important impact on data transmission efficiency. Motivated by the strong share ability of “circles of friends” in communication networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Wechat a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Identification, Information & Knowledge in the Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
12,655 Views
13 Pages

Relationship Satisfaction and Infidelity-Related Behaviors on Social Networks: A Preliminary Online Study of Hispanic Women

  • Juan Aníbal González-Rivera,
  • Francisco Aquino-Serrano and
  • Emily M. Pérez-Torres

The purpose of this online study was to develop an explicative model regarding the origin of infidelity-related behaviors on social networks for Hispanic women. We propose that sexual satisfaction and emotional intimacy have a direct impact on the sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,582 Views
17 Pages

9 October 2021

This study examined how members of beauty-related one-person media networks build sustainable ties with other members through various exchange activities and diffuse information based on the social contagion effect. Accordingly, social exchange relat...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,052 Views
21 Pages

In this cross-sectional study, the interactions between demographic characteristics and the body, mind, and social dimensions among participants of a holistic training program for social and personal development were examined and compared to a contro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,651 Views
21 Pages

Exploring Social Customer Relationship Management Adoption in Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

  • Marjeta Marolt,
  • Hans-Dieter Zimmermann,
  • Anja Žnidaršič and
  • Andreja Pucihar

With the emergence of social media, customer relationship management has undergone noticeable changes and gained a great deal of attention from researchers and practitioners in recent years. In this paper, we provide additional insights into how inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
127 Citations
9,548 Views
20 Pages

28 November 2018

The concept of social sustainability is gaining attention within the field of supply chain relationships and international business. There are conflicting arguments regarding the effectiveness of contract governance and collaboration in an interfirm...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
342 Views
16 Pages

27 August 2026

Adolescents in international secondary schools develop their social lives across culturally diverse campuses and digitally connected peer networks. Although friendship quality, social media use, and adolescent well-being have each received substantia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Communication, Language, Education and Society in a Digital Age: Emerging Interdisciplinary Perspectives from DIFCON-CLESS 2026)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,974 Views
17 Pages

23 September 2021

COVID-19 is the latest among the many pandemics in the last few decades in the world, and it has stricken the global economy severely. It has consequently affected the stock market, which affects the economy of the country to a great extent. Some res...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,209 Views
24 Pages

From Data to Delight: Leveraging Social Customer Relationship Management to Elevate Customer Satisfaction and Market Effectiveness

  • Ibrahim A. Elshaer,
  • Alaa M. S. Azazz,
  • Sameh Fayyad,
  • Shaimaa A. Mohamed,
  • Amr Mohamed Fouad and
  • Eslam Ahmed Fathy

27 December 2024

The current study aims to investigate ways through which the data on social customer relationship management (SCRM) enhance customer satisfaction (CS) as well as market effectiveness (ME) in the hotel industry. Moreover, it examines the mediator role...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Management, Digital Trust, and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Era of Social Media, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,051 Views
12 Pages

(1) Background: In times of social crisis, the way individuals manage their emotions undergoes substantial changes. As emotion regulation strategies also vary across cultures, how they impact relationship dynamics between U.S. and Korean populations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
147 Citations
12,870 Views
18 Pages

In the present time of web-based social networking, visual communication assume a key job in business and public communication. Social networking with its astute features has the ability to pull in numerous to interface with others. Visual communicat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
800 Views
35 Pages

21 January 2026

Intimate relationship stability is fundamental to human wellbeing, yet its quantitative assessment faces dual challenges: the inherent subjectivity of psychological constructs and the complexity of social ecosystems. Symmetry, as a fundamental struct...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,565 Views
25 Pages

29 October 2022

Aiming at the problem of data sparsity, cold start, and privacy concerns in complex information recommendation systems, such as personalized marketing on Alibaba or TikTok, this paper proposes a mobile social recommendation model integrating users&rs...

(This article belongs to the Section Complex Systems and Cybernetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,629 Views
26 Pages

In today’s service-driven economy, brands increasingly turn to social media marketing activities (SMMA) to build meaningful, long-term customer relationships. Grounded in social exchange theory (SET), this study examines how SMMA influences cus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,988 Views
13 Pages

16 December 2022

With much research into physical, cyber, and verbal bullying victimization, social bullying victimization is a type of victimization that can be hidden. Studies about Black father involvement have found involvement to be a buffer to adverse and risky...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Attachment and Social Development: Old Questions, New Insights)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,284 Views
18 Pages

17 May 2023

While all vulnerable adolescents are more at risk online than their non-vulnerable peers, those with special educational needs (SEN) require targeted and specialised support. Although they are not a homogenous group, SEN adolescents commonly experien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,239 Views
12 Pages

With the number of smartphone users growing around the world, children are using smartphones from an increasingly early age. Consequently, a significant number of children are being exposed to the risk of smartphone addiction, which is emerging as a...

(This article belongs to the Topic Impact of Globalization on Healthcare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
12,904 Views
17 Pages

28 May 2021

This study adopts a brand relationship quality (BRQ) perspective to reveal the reason firms’ investments in social media-based brand communities should increase their social relationship marketing performances. An empirical analysis with 234 Facebook...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,028 Views
15 Pages

Callous-unemotional (CU) traits are associated with social adjustment difficulties, but few studies have examined the underlying mechanisms in Chinese preschoolers. This study examined the relationship between CU traits and social adjustment among Ch...

(This article belongs to the Section Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,787 Views
15 Pages

10 April 2020

As overtourism has become a serious threat to the tourism industry in recent years, this study attempts to extend the theoretical framework of organization-public relationship (OPR) developed in the public relations scholarship to the context of over...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Tourism in the Social Media and Big Data Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
24,189 Views
16 Pages

In this digital era, the internet, and Social Media (SM) has had a radical impact on the shopping behavior of “costumers” The SM provides a platform where “costumers” are exposed to the best product with the best price along w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,764 Views
21 Pages

5 April 2024

The pursuit of efficiency or legitimacy is an important choice facing corporate sustainability, especially in uncertain environments. Digital transformation contributes to corporate efficiency, while fulfilling corporate social responsibility (CSR) i...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,081 Views
16 Pages

Self-Reported Social Relationship Capacities Predict Motor, Functional and Cognitive Decline in Huntington’s Disease

  • Pablo Lemercier,
  • Laurent Cleret de Langavant,
  • Jennifer Hamet Bagnou,
  • Katia Youssov,
  • Laurie Lemoine,
  • Etienne Audureau,
  • Renaud Massart and
  • Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Lévi

27 January 2022

Huntington’s Disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease characterized by a combination of motor, cognitive, and behavioral disorders. The social and behavioral symptoms observed in HD patients impact their quality of life and probab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Many Faces of Huntington Disease)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
14,611 Views
15 Pages

Social networks are particularly significant in marketing and advertising because they provide platforms that offer interactive network channels to develop consumer brands. Among the most useful platforms of this type for capturing leads for business...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research, Literacy, and Communication Education: New Challenges Facing Disinformation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
12,393 Views
13 Pages

21 January 2023

Teacher social-emotional competence plays a crucial role in teacher professional development as it is associated with effective stress alleviation at work. However, how and under what conditions teacher social-emotional competence contributes to job...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,619 Views
12 Pages

Clustering is a technique for dividing a network into different group of nodes and managing the transmission of data among the interacting nodes, to improve the effectiveness and safety of information transfer. Clustering have been well studied and a...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
16,353 Views
15 Pages

30 March 2021

We investigated how dog–owner relationship–with a focus on possible behavioural problems–might associate with the individual variability in dogs’ social learning performance. Dog owners first completed a questionnaire about their relationship with th...

(This article belongs to the Section Human-Animal Interactions, Animal Behaviour and Emotion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
12,164 Views
15 Pages

22 December 2023

Rejection sensitivity (RS), the tendency to expect, perceive and overreact to rejection from others, has been linked to children’s and adolescents’ increased vulnerability to depressive symptoms, negatively affecting their perceptions of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances of Counselling Psychology for Children and Youth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,597 Views
13 Pages

31 January 2023

Improvements in early screening and treatment have contributed to the growth of the number of cancer survivors. Understanding and mitigating the adverse psychosocial, functional, and economic outcomes they experience is critical. Social wellbeing ref...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimizing Integrated Cancer Care from Diagnosis to Survivorship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
64,501 Views
22 Pages

Trust in Social Media: Enhancing Social Relationships

  • Islam Habis Mohammad Hatamleh,
  • Amjad Omar Safori,
  • Mohammed Habes,
  • Othman Tahat,
  • Amer Khaled Ahmad,
  • Rania Abdel-Qader Abdallah and
  • Rahima Aissani

20 July 2023

This study aims to explore the moderating effect of trust on the relationship between social media engagement, relationship benefits, and social relationships, utilizing an innovative framework grounded in social exchange theory. Employing a quantita...

(This article belongs to the Section Childhood and Youth Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
17,453 Views
15 Pages

17 July 2022

In the current study, the authors looked at how companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives affect their reputation in the community using the stakeholder theory. More specifically, it is claimed that CSR initiatives with a par...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,770 Views
16 Pages

26 March 2021

Social media has emerged as a flexible and interactive communication medium in the present digital era. Contemporary businesses use social media to achieve different communication objectives. However, using social media as a communication medium for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Consumer-Brand Relationships in the Era of Social Media and Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
22,338 Views
35 Pages

6 September 2024

Social media has introduced influencers and influencer marketing (IM), which is becoming increasingly popular among marketers. The effectiveness of IM is significantly influenced by parasocial interactions (PSI) and parasocial relationships (PSR) tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,544 Views
12 Pages

Families with a prematurely born child may be exposed to various difficulties associated with prematurity. The study aimed to explain the relationship between social support and the quality of the partnership among mothers of children born prematurel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Anxiety, Depression and Stress in Pregnancy: Effects of Women)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,338 Views
21 Pages

The present study investigated how the quality of teacher–student relationships and students’ social status among peers relate to bullying experiences in children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and those with typical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bullying and Cyberbullying Among Youths)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,121 Views
12 Pages

Human rights sensitivity (HRS) is essential for social workers advocating for and providing services to people with mental illness. In this study, the authors employed vignettes of two chronic mental illnesses—schizophrenia and alcoholism&mdash...

(This article belongs to the Section Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,000 Views
22 Pages

6 May 2023

As climate change continues, environmental sustainability has become a popular topic among brands and consumer groups. The fashion industry has detrimental impacts on the natural environment; however, little is known about how brand benefits can help...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,151 Views
10 Pages

Measurement of Social Strain in People with Dementia: A Preliminary Study of the Reliability and Validity of the Negative Relationship Quality Questionnaire in Indonesia

  • Amelia Nur Vidyanti,
  • Galenisa Falinda Santika Putri,
  • Aditya Rifqi Fauzi,
  • Rizqa Nafiati,
  • Astuti Prodjohardjono and
  • Christantie Effendy

15 September 2022

People with dementia (PWD) may exhibit symptoms that negatively affect their relationships with their families or friends which could cause social strain. The Negative Relationship Quality (NRQ) questionnaire can be used to measure social strain in P...

(This article belongs to the Section Geriatric Neurology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,474 Views
19 Pages

2 August 2018

Outdoor environment can have significant connections with place relationships. This study tried to explore the connection in detail. First, the relationship was examined through an integrated view of environmental planning, followed by reviewing impa...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Built Environment)

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