Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations.

People cooperate every day in ways that range from largescale contributions that mitigate climate change to simple actions such as leaving another individual with choice - known as social mindfulness. It is not yet clear whether and how these complex and more simple forms of cooperation relate. Prior work has found that countries with individuals who made more socially mindful choices were linked to a higher country environmental performance - a proxy for complex cooperation. Here we replicated this initial finding in 41 samples around the world, demonstrating the robustness of the association between social mindfulness and environmental performance, and substantially built on it to show this relationship extended to a wide range of complex cooperative indices, tied closely to many current societal issues. We found that greater social mindfulness expressed by an individual was related to living in countries with more social capital, more community participation and reduced prejudice towards immigrants. Our findings speak to the symbiotic relationship between simple and more complex forms of cooperation in societies.

Community survey of elder maltreatment: a report from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

The survey on the prevalence of elder maltreatment in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was conducted in a representative sample of older people aged 65 and over (N=960) living in private households in different regions in the country (530 females (55.3%) and 430 males (44.7%)). This survey aimed to describe the prevalence of elder maltreatment and to identify risk factors for its occurrence. Results showed that the prevalence of elder maltreatment in this population is high: psychological abuse 25.7%, financial abuse 12%, neglect 6.6%, and physical abuse 5.7%. Of those reporting abuse, 5.6% reported frequent (at least monthly) abuse of one type and 15.7% reported frequent abuse of more than one type. The perpetrator was most often a family member. Risk factors included female gender, older age, physical or mental ill health, sensory dysfunction, lower household income or education. Strategies are needed for the prevention of elder maltreatment which involve multisectoral action from the health, social and justice sectors.