Party identification, local context, and Australian attitudes toward immigration and asylum policy
Publication date: Available online 12 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Timothy B. GravelletAbstractThe acceptance of newcomers as either immigrants or asylum seekers has been a recurring issue in Australian politics. Both the size of Australia's intake of economic migrants and the resettlement of asylum seekers held offshore have been contentious political issues. Research in other immigrant-receiving countries has identified numerous factors shaping attitudes toward immigration and asylum policy. These include political factors (such as party identification) and local demographic context – both immigr...
Source: Social Science Research - March 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: Social Science Research - March 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Exploring activation: A cross-country analysis of active labour market policies in Europe
Publication date: Available online 8 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Mauro Pinto (Source: Social Science Research)
Source: Social Science Research - March 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parental joblessness and the moderating role of a university degree on the school-to-work transition in Australia and the United States
Publication date: Available online 9 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Matthew Curry, Irma Mooi-Reci, Mark WoodenAbstractDoes parental joblessness delay young adults’ school-to-work transitions? If so, can a university degree moderate this relationship? We examine these questions using a representative sample of young adults who lived with their parents prior to entering the labor market in Australia (N = 2152) and the U.S. (N = 811) during the period 2001–2015. Results from Cox proportional hazards models demonstrate that parental joblessness (the proportion of time spent living in a househol...
Source: Social Science Research - March 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Testing the content progression thesis: A longitudinal assessment of pornography use and preference for coercive and violent content among male adolescents
Publication date: Available online 7 March 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Ivan Landripet, Vesna Buško, Aleksandar ŠtulhoferAbstractContent progression thesis (CPT), a direct application of conditioning theories to conceptualizing exposure to pornography, proposes that pornography use leads to viewing increasingly more extreme material due to the effect of satiation. To test this assumption, association between the frequency of pornography use and the preference for violent and coercive content were examined over a 24-month period using an online panel sample of male adolescents. Participants were 248 high ...
Source: Social Science Research - March 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
What's not fair about work keeps Me up: Perceived unfairness about work impairs sleep through negative work-to-family spillover
This study examined whether perceived unfairness about work was linked to midlife workers' insomnia symptoms over time, and if the association was mediated by negative work-to-family spillover (NWFS). We used 3 waves of longitudinal data across 20 years from the Midlife in the United States Study (N = 971, Mage = 40.52). Results revealed that, wave-to-wave increases in perceived unfairness about work predicted wave-to-wave increases in NWFS over 20 years. Wave-to-wave increases in NWFS, in turn, predicted wave-to-wave increases in insomnia symptoms. Perceived unfairness about work was indirectly, but not directly a...
Source: Social Science Research - March 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
When neighborhoods matter: Developmental timing and youth reading achievement and problem behaviors
We examined two cohorts of children, early childhood and adolescence, to compare the relative associations between neighborhood socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage, as measured by U.S. Census data. We conducted multilevel latent growth models (MLGMs), investigating children's initial status and growth in reading, internalizing and externalizing behaviors across the three developmental periods by neighborhood characteristics, controlling for a rich set of child- and family-level covariates. Results provided some support for the childhood and adolescent exposure models, but not precisely as hypothesized. (Source: Social Science Research)
Source: Social Science Research - February 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Mothers’ employment and child care choices across the European Union
Publication date: Available online 27 February 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Inmaculada Cebrián, María A. Davia, Nuria Legazpe, Gloria MorenoAbstractThe aim of this paper is to analyse cross-country differences in the maternal employment patterns and the demand for formal and informal child care as interrelated decisions across Europe. We explore a sample of preschoolers and their mothers drawn from the EU-SILC (2005–2013) in a set of 11 EU countries with different institutional settings. The analytical strategy – a set of simultaneous tobit models – allows for mutual interdependencies across decisi...
Source: Social Science Research - February 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Are grandparents a blessing or a burden? Multigenerational coresidence and child-related spending
This study also contributes to a growing literature giving primacy to parents' socioeconomic disadvantage as moderating the association between multigenerational relationships and child well-being. Results indicate that, when compared to similar two-generation households, multigenerational households are associated with increased spending on education and with decreased spending on child care. Differences in child-related spending between multigenerational and two-generation households differ according to parents' income and relationship status. Overall, living with grandparents represents an adaptive strategy that helps l...
Source: Social Science Research - February 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cash vs. vouchers vs. gifts in web surveys of a mature panel study––Main effects in a long-term incentives experiment across three panel waves
In this study, we evaluate short- and long-term effects of three different prepaid incentives: a ballpoint-pen (gift worth approximately 2 Swiss francs), a voucher (cash card worth 10 Swiss francs) and cash (a 10-Swiss-francs’ banknote) on young panellists’ cooperation and response rate in three waves of a mature panel study with a sequential multi-mode design (web-based online survey, CATI, and PAPI). The survey experiment involved an alternative procedure to analyse the effect of different types of prepaid incentives, taking selective attrition into account as well as considering problems related to causal inference....
Source: Social Science Research - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The reproduction of benefit receipt: Disentangling the intergenerational transmission
Publication date: Available online 23 February 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Sanne Boschman, Ineke Maas, Marcus H. Kristiansen, J. Cok VroomanAbstractAdult children of benefit recipients are more likely to also receive benefits themselves. This may be a spurious effect, resulting from similarities between parents and children, but it is also possible that parental benefit receipt generates more benefit recipiency among their offspring. Such a non-spurious effect may be due to children's educational attainment, information, beliefs, and norms about welfare or work. We analyse longitudinal administrative data...
Source: Social Science Research - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The effects of race/ethnicity and racial/ethnic identification on general trust
Publication date: Available online 18 February 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Jan E. Stets, Phoenicia FaresAbstractGeneral trust in others can facilitate social cooperation and reduce uncertainty on a personal level. However, those from the dominant group in society are more likely to trust than those from minority groups. We examine the gap in trust for whites compared to blacks and Hispanics in the U.S., with special attention to how strongly individuals identify with their racial/ethnic group, which may help restore trust for some when it is lacking. Using the 2014 GSS Identity Module, we find, as have ot...
Source: Social Science Research - February 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
In the mix: Social integration and social media adoption
Publication date: Available online 19 February 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Hana Shepherd, Jeffrey LaneAbstractWhat is the nature of the relationship between online and offline social life? Specifically, how does participation in the traditional forms of social life of a community shape social media adoption? Using a unique, two-wave panel dataset with saturated network data from over 20,000 students in 56 New Jersey middle schools, we test how measures of integration into a community are associated with adoption and de-adoption of social media platforms over the course of a school year. Social media adopt...
Source: Social Science Research - February 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Trajectories through postsecondary education and students’ life course transitions
Publication date: Available online 16 February 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Patrick DeniceAbstractToday's college students travel increasingly heterogeneous pathways through their postsecondary education by delaying the transition from high school to college, attending part-time, and enrolling in multiple institutions. Variation in how students move through college is important to concerns about stratification since non-normative pathways are disproportionately distributed among student subgroups and can have negative consequences for degree attainment and other later-in-life outcomes. In this article, I c...
Source: Social Science Research - February 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Black/white differences in mortality among veteran and non-veteran males
Publication date: Available online 15 February 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Connor Sheehan, Mark D. HaywardAbstractU.S. military veterans are a large and racially heterogeneous population. There are reasons to expect that racial disparities in mortality among veterans are smaller than those for non-veterans. For example, blacks are favorably selected into the military, receive relatively equitable treatment within the military, after service accrue higher socioeconomic status and receive health and other benefits after service. Using the 1997–2009 National Health Interview Survey (N = 99,063) with Li...
Source: Social Science Research - February 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
