The associations between patterns of precarious employment and workers’ health
Publication date: Available online 19 December 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Youngmin ChoAbstractAlthough the prevalence of precarious employment has been on the rise due to structural changes in the global labor market, there is still lack of a clear understanding of whether precarious employment is a social determinant of health. Data from the 2006–2010–2014 General Social Survey (N = 5,411) were used to examine the relationships between patterns of precarious employment and perceived health among US workers. Based on a multidimensional construct of precarious employment, latent class ana...
Source: The Social Science Journal - December 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Publication date: December 2019Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 56, Issue 4Author(s): (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - November 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The influence of correctional education, skill proficiency, and lifelong learning on social outcomes of incarcerated individuals: Results from PIAAC
Publication date: Available online 22 October 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Roofia Galeshi, Riane M. BolinAbstractA rich body of scientific research suggests a positive relationship between education and social and political engagement. Active social engagement is important for incarcerated individuals if they are to successfully reintegrate into communities and desist from further involvement in crime. While a plethora of research has focused on the importance of correctional education, the extent of association between other forms of human capital such as cognitive skills and adult lifelong learning is...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Improving interorganizational collaborations: An application in a violence reduction context
This study introduces relational coordination to ICs aimed at reducing gang and youth violence. Through a quasiexperimental design in which two sites received relational coordination interventions and two did not, sites were assessed on the degree to which IC coordination and communication was improved in four rounds of surveys over a two year period. Significant, positive changes were seen in one intervention site from baseline to end. In the other intervention site, initial positive changes were eroded by the end of the second year. No significant positive effects were demonstrated in comparison sites. Qualitative analys...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Exploring the boundaries of societally acceptable bias expression toward Muslim and atheist defendants in four mock-juror experiments
Publication date: Available online 3 October 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Monica K. Miller, Jordan D. Clark, Mauricio J. AlvarezAbstractReligious minorities have experienced bias in many domains including the criminal justice system. The Normative Window of prejudice model posits that some bias expression is societally acceptable, while other bias expression is unacceptable and thus suppressed. Four mock-juror studies test the boundaries of normative expression of bias toward religious minorities. Participants expressed bias against (i.e., prejudice) Muslim defendants who commit violence motivated by re...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Do economic institutions count in giving aid? Comparative observations on aid allocation between the U.S. and other Development Assistance Committee members
This study identifies whether the quality of recipient countries’ economic institutions was a determining factor in the aid allocation practices of donor nations. Three criteria that would influence aid decision were proposed: recipient institutions (economic and political), donor strategic interest, and recipient need. By examining a panel of 109 countries during 2007–2016, our findings suggest that there is a distinct contrast in the patterns of aid allocation between the U.S. and the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) regarding institutional fac...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Forecasting changes of economic inequality: A boosting approach
Publication date: Available online 27 September 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Christian Pierdzioch, Rangan Gupta, Hossein Hassani, Emmanuel Sirimal SilvaAbstractWe use a boosting algorithm to forecast changes in three income- and three consumption-based inequality measures. Unlike the existing literature, which basically deals with in-sample predictability, we analyze the role of large number of predictors in out-of-sample prediction of inequality growth. Further, deviating from the annual data-based literature on inequality, we study quarterly UK data covering the period from 1975Q1 to 2016Q1. We find t...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social network determinants of screen time among adolescents
Publication date: Available online 21 September 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Robert BondAbstractThis research investigates the screen-based media consumption of adolescents in their social context, using social contagion theory to understand how screen-based media consumption is affected by an individual’s social environment. To assess the possibility of person-to-person spread and the social network determinants of screen-based media consumption behavior, analyses were performed on the social networks of adolescents. First, the social networks of adolescents were assessed for the degree of clustering...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
An examination of blameworthiness on the federal sentencing of organizations to implement corporate compliance programs
This study examines a primary consideration when sentencing criminal organizations that is drawn from the focal concerns framework: the blameworthiness of the organization in the commission of the crime. The study uses data compiled by the U.S. Sentencing Commission from federal documents for 1,125 organizations that were sentenced in federal criminal courts between October 1, 2010, and September 30, 2017. Results showed that several measures of blameworthiness were significantly related to the sentencing of corporate compliance programs, showing partial support for the focal concern of blameworthiness. The policy implicat...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Using traditional or flipped classrooms to teach “vascular access skill”: A pilot study to investigate the impact of the flipped classroom approach on students' competencies
Publication date: Available online 18 September 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Baris Sezer, Melih ElcinAbstractThe aim of this study was to analyze the effect of the flipped classroom (FC) approach on the skill acquisition of students, and to garner feedback from them about the effectiveness of this approach. A prospective controlled post-test and delayed-test research design was applied involving a comparison with a control group, while a qualitative research method for answers to follow-up questions. The participants in the study were 363 second-year students from the Faculty of Medicine of Hacettepe Un...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Measuring place of residence across urban and rural spaces: An application to fears associated with outdoor recreation
Publication date: Available online 14 September 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Eileen E. Avery, Michele D. Baumer, Joan M. Hermsen, Braden T. Leap, Jill R. Lucht, J. Sanford Rikoon, Sonja A. Wilhelm StanisAbstractPlace of residence is one factor that may affect individual engagement and experiences in outdoor recreation. In this paper we assess four measures of place of residence and their associations with fears related to outdoor recreation. Data are from a statewide survey of Missouri households conducted in 2013 (n = 3,204). Logistic regression models are used to examine different measuremen...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The health promoting effects of social flourishing in young adults: A broad view on the relevance of social relationships
Publication date: Available online 13 September 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Carol Vidal, Jenna Silverman, Emilia K. Petrillo, Flavius R.W. LillyAbstractSocial relationships are important to physical and mental health, but research is largely limited to examining a unitary social relationship construct as related to a few health outcomes. We analyzed data from a survey conducted in a large sample of college students (N = 40,250) from 54 universities across the United States. We compared three constructs of social relationships as measured by the Social Flourishing Scale (1) supportive and rewa...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Viewing equality as a loss: How highlighting policy costs and benefits influences attitudes
Publication date: Available online 10 September 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Thomas Hayes, Christopher GuayAbstractAs economic and political inequality has increased in recent decades, scholars and policymakers have turned their attention to the American public’s reaction and response to this phenomenon. While most opinion polls demonstrate Americans general dislike of both economic and political inequality, there have been few implementations of policy that would reverse the trend of rising economic inequality or the outsized role that the wealthy have over policy. Moreover, redistributive tax polici...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Publication date: September 2019Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 56, Issue 3Author(s): (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Are defaults supportive of autonomy? An examination of nudges under the lens of Self-Determination Theory
Publication date: Available online 30 August 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Alexios Arvanitis, Konstantinos Kalliris, Konstantinos KaminiotisAbstractNudges, one of the rapidly growing law-making and public policy tools, are considered by their proponents to have a generally neutral effect on autonomy. Our study is the first to test nudges under the prism of Self-Determination Theory, a motivational theory which posits that autonomy is a basic psychological need. We focus on a specific type of nudge, defaults, and test it within the context of making a choice among a hypothetical set of insurance programs ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
