Divergent roads: A cross-national intercohort analysis of affluence and environmental concern
Publication date: Available online 10 April 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Tom VanHeuvelen, Nikolas SummersAbstractIn this research we combine insights from two lines of research on environmental attitudes. One tradition emphasizes heterogeneity in the relationship between environmental concern and affluence, at both the individual- and country-levels. Another examines the mechanisms that lead to change in environmental concern among affluent countries from one birth cohort to the next. We argue that a reconciliation of these two lines of research leads to new theoretical understandings of environmental conc...
Source: Social Science Research - April 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Racial/ethnic disparities in depression: Investigating how the sources of support and types of integration matter
Publication date: Available online 10 April 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Tse-Chuan Yang, Kiwoong ParkAbstractAlthough social support and social integration are key predictors of depression and exhibit racial/ethnic patterns in the US, previous research has not examined how they shape racial/ethnic disparities in depression. Applying hybrid models to data from the Americans' Changing Lives Study from 1986 to 2002, this study analyzes how sources of social support (spouse and friend/relative) and types of social integration (informal/formal) explain black-white and Hispanic-white disparities in depression. W...
Source: Social Science Research - April 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: Social Science Research - April 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Predictors of life satisfaction in a large nationally representative Japanese sample
Publication date: Available online 2 April 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Joonha Park, Mohsen Joshanloo, Heinz ScheifingerAbstractLife satisfaction (LS), as a major indicator of subjective well-being, is a rapidly growing concern all over the world. Despite their country's powerful economic status, Japanese people experience relatively low levels of LS. This paper investigates demographic, social and psychological variables associated with Japanese people's life evaluation, and identifies important factors in each age and gender group. Using a representative annual survey of Japanese respondents, we find tha...
Source: Social Science Research - April 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social capital in the creation of cultural capital: Family structure, neighborhood cohesion, and extracurricular participation
Publication date: Available online 30 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Weihua An, Bruce WesternAbstractPast research has found that participation in extracurricular activities helps develop children's cultural capital that is crucial to both education and career successes. Previous studies have examined various determinants of extracurricular participation, but mostly focused on social class, demographics, and school characteristics. In this paper we renew the Coleman tradition by putting social capital (as measured by family structure and neighborhood cohesion) in the spotlight and studying the effect o...
Source: Social Science Research - March 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
No generalizable effect of income inequality on public support for governmental redistribution among rich democracies 1987–2010
Publication date: Available online 28 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Nate Breznau, Carola HommerichAbstractWe revisit a longstanding hypothesis that the public become more supportive of redistributive policy as income inequality rises. Previous tests of this hypothesis using various forms of general least squares regressions are inconclusive. We suggest improvements and alternatives to these tests. Using the World Inequality Data and International Social Survey Program we analyze 91 surveys in 18 countries. We incorporate three alternative measures of income inequality, including a measure of liberaliz...
Source: Social Science Research - March 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Great migration's great return? An examination of second-generation return migration to the South
Publication date: Available online 26 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Christine Leibbrand, Catherine Massey, J. Trent Alexander, Stewart TolnayAbstractUsing novel panel data spanning 1940–2000, we examine the adult offspring of the Great Migration who returned to the South. We observe two types of return migrants: (1) southern-born, “lifetime” return migrants who were born in the South, resided outside of the South in 1940, and returned to the South by 2000, and (2) northern-born, “generational” return migrants whose parents were born in the South but who, themselves, were born in the North, r...
Source: Social Science Research - March 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The fairness identity and the emergence of inequality
Publication date: Available online 22 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Scott V. Savage, Peter J. Burke, Jan E. Stets, Phoenicia FaresAbstractSocial exchange theories explain how differences in structural power can generate inequalities in exchange networks. We argue here that even in the absence of structural power differences, inequality can emerge out of the identity process. We posit that when structurally equivalent actors are uncertain about the resource levels available for distribution, different levels of the fairness identity and responses to identity non-verification will influence how they neg...
Source: Social Science Research - March 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Does college education make people politically liberal?: Evidence from a natural experiment in South Korea
Publication date: Available online 23 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Haeil Jung, Jung-ah GilAbstractOur study examines the impact of college education on individuals’ ideological orientations (identifying as politically liberal or conservative) using a massive expansion of opportunities to attend college known as the graduation quota program in South Korea. A 1979 military coup in South Korea mandated that all public and private colleges expand their college admission quotas by thirty percent in 1981 and fifty percent in 1982. As an ideal natural experiment for our study, the mandatory increases in c...
Source: Social Science Research - March 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Relative deprivation in context: How contextual status homogeneity shapes the relationship between disadvantaged social status and health
Publication date: Available online 21 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Xiaozhao Yousef Yang, Anning Hu, Scott SchiemanAbstractWe examine the relationship between disadvantaged social status and adverse health outcomes within a context-contingent thesis of relative deprivation. We argue that the health effect of low relative status depends on contextual status homogeneity, which is measured as income inequality and group diversity. Applying mixed effect modeling to the pooled 2011–2013 Chinese General Social Survey and exploring the cross-level interactions, we found that 1) people in the bottom socioec...
Source: Social Science Research - March 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Do Co-ethnic concentrated neighborhoods protect children with undocumented parents? Focusing on child behavioral functioning
Publication date: Available online 22 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Jeehye KangAbstractUndocumented immigrants concentrate in ethnic enclaves, but little is known about the implications of living in such neighborhoods for children of undocumented immigrants. Using data on Mexican-origin children from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey and the decennial census, this paper examines the influence of co-ethnic concentrated neighborhoods on children's behavioral functioning, and the extent to which parental nativity and documentation status moderate the neighborhood effects. Multilevel linear r...
Source: Social Science Research - March 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The growing American health penalty: International trends in the employment of older workers with poor health
We present estimates of how employment rates of older workers with poor health in 13 high-income countries changed 2004–7 to 2012–15 using HRS/SHARE/ELSA data. We find that those in poor health in the USA have experienced a unique deterioration: they have not only seen a widening gap to the employment rates of those with good health, but their employment rates fell per se. We find only for Sweden (and possibly England) signs that the health employment gap shrank, with rising employment but stable gaps elsewhere. We then examine possible explanations for the development in the USA: we find no evidence it links to labor ...
Source: Social Science Research - March 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The long shadow: Social mobility and political participation in urban China, 2006–2012
Publication date: Available online 15 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Xiaoguang Fan, Fei YanAbstractUsing a diagonal reference model to analyze data from three waves of Chinese General Social Surveys conducted between 2006 and 2012, we examine how social mobility affects political participation in urban China. We classify political participation into three main categories: voting participation (grassroots elections in the People's Congress and neighborhood committees); voluntary participation (civic activities in social organizations and NGOs); and mixed participation (activities in state corporatism or...
Source: Social Science Research - March 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Separating the influence of inequality on burglary and robbery by level of analysis: A multilevel approach
Publication date: Available online 19 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Marin R. WengerAbstractMost research on communities and crime finds a positive association between economic inequality and crime. Various levels of analysis have been used, but much of this research has only analyzed associations at one level of analysis at a time, and most recent research has focused on neighborhoods and smaller levels of analysis. The current investigation measures inequality at three levels simultaneously to distinguish the independent effect of inequality on crime at each level. I combine demographic information f...
Source: Social Science Research - March 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The long shadow:Social mobility and political participation in urban China, 2006–2012
Publication date: Available online 15 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Xiaoguang Fan, Fei YanAbstractUsing a diagonal reference model to analyze data from three waves of Chinese General Social Surveys conducted between 2006 and 2012, we examine how social mobility affects political participation in urban China. We classify political participation into three main categories: voting participation (grassroots elections in the People's Congress and neighborhood committees); voluntary participation (civic activities in social organizations and NGOs); and mixed participation (activities in state corporatism or...
Source: Social Science Research - March 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
