She started out working in dance and molecular biology and now creates participatory installations and events that
investigate social constructs and corporeal experience.
Not exact matches
His work, which includes sculpture, installation, performance, and photography,
investigates the mediation of
constructed identity in
social arenas and subsequent dislocation.
The exhibition series The Neighbors
investigates artistic concerns and visual languages dealing with identity, an issue tackled less as a personal exploration of ethnicity alone than as an examination of the ways in which
social classes are
constructed and their divisions purportedly manifested.
Stemming from her South American heritage and migration to Europe, Calero
constructs social spaces that use sensory engagement as a democratic entry point for audiences to
investigate socio - political themes of cultural representation and national identity.
By appropriating technologies of representation from the sciences, architecture, and the commercial arts and combining the dimensional properties of video, photography, sculpture, and drawing, Sarah Dornner
investigates the ways in which cultural and
social constructs inform individual perceptions of space.
Some recent examples include using Facebook to predict riots, comparing the use of Facebook with body image concern in adolescent girls and
investigating whether Facebook can lower levels of stress responses, with research suggesting that it may enhance and undermine psycho -
social constructs related to well - being.
Construct validity was
investigated by comparing the five factors adopted as a result of the exploratory factor analysis with the elements of
social cognitive theory used in the hypothetical framework, that is, environment and individual factors.
Therefore,
investigating the link between support - seeking and relationship closeness in the context of
social networks should be an important step towards understanding these
constructs as relationship - general versus relationship — specific components.
The objectives of the present study were (a) to
investigate whether clique isolation from age 11 to 13 years is a
social risk factor for subsequent depressive symptoms in early adolescence; (b) to test the potential role of loneliness and perceived
social acceptance as cognitive and emotional
constructs underlying the link between clique isolation and depressive symptoms; and (c) to explore possible sex differences in the association between clique isolation and depressive symptoms.
Given this broad array of evidence for its
construct validity, future researchers can employ this validated scale to
investigate various forms of
social exchange in Chinese work settings.
The purpose of this research was to examine the validity of an adult attachment style questionnaire, to understand the relationships between the type of attachment style in relation to self - perceived stress and
social support, and to
investigate the influence of gender, ethnicity and religion on the above
constructs.