Swinging high or low? Measuring self-esteem in swingers
This study sought to examine the self-esteem of individuals involved in a consensually non-monogamous relationship, the swinging lifestyle. Utilizing the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the self-esteem of swingers was quantified and compared to a general sample. The results reveal that swingers have higher self-esteem. However, gender differences emerged in post hoc analyses whereby men who engage in swinging have higher self-esteem, but women who engage in swinging have self-esteem comparable to others. Results are discussed in terms of evolutionary and clinical importance. Limitations and future directions are also discusse...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 31, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Your lying, incompetent and selfish member of Congress: Cynical appeals in U.S. Senate advertising
Publication date: Available online 26 October 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Sanne A.M. Rijkhoff, Travis N. RidoutAbstractScholars still do not fully understand what activates cynicism in citizens. Although many expect that negative campaigning contributes to this, no consistent evidence has been found. This research introduces a new measure of appeals to cynicism that expands the commonly used positive–negative taxonomy of tone in advertising. Through a content analyses of more than 600 political advertisements aired during U.S. Senate elections, we identify the extent to which candidates use cynical a...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
College student television binge watching: Conceptualization, gratifications, and perceived consequences
Publication date: Available online 25 October 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): J. Mitchell Vaterlaus, Lori Andersen Spruance, Kala Frantz, Jessica Sloan KrugerAbstractLargely facilitated by technological convergence, television binge watching is a newer media phenomenon. The current exploratory study recruited a random sample of college students (18–25 years old; N = 406) from a university in the western United States. Using a Uses and Gratifications framework, qualitative methods were implemented to better understand how college students conceptualize binge watching, their motivations for engag...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 26, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Evolution of Atheism, S. LeDrew. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2016), 262 pp
Publication date: Available online 22 October 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Joseph Langston (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Defining Death: The Case for Choice, Robert M. Veath, Lainie F. Ross. Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC (2016), 167 pp. IBSN: 9781626163553
Publication date: Available online 22 October 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Sandra Marklin (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
What determines the acceptance of government surveillance? Examining the influence of information privacy correlates
This study, using data from the Pew Research Center’s Privacy Panel Survey, identifies the determinants regarding ordinary U.S. citizens’ acceptance of the American government’s monitoring of their communications, and those of domestic and foreign leaders. A regression analysis was used to examine whether a set of cognitive and behavioral correlates related to information privacy perception significantly affected the acceptability of government surveillance. The analysis found that while surveillance concerns, perceived transparency, regulatory needs, and self-identified ideology have a significant influence on surve...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Labor quality and production technology in provincial China
This study explores the coordinated development of labor quality and production technology, using provincial data from China. The results show an interaction between labor quality and production technology. However, China’s coordinated development of labor quality and production technology is low because of issues including its innovativeness, education expenditure, technology value, and the openness of the economy. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
An investigation of the effectiveness and determinants of seeking support among adolescent victims of cyberbullying
Publication date: Available online 10 October 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Sara PabianAbstractThe purpose of this study is to investigate longitudinal associations between seeking social support and cyberbullying victimization and between seeking social support and internalizing problems. A two-wave panel study was conducted among 2,128 adolescents aged 10–17. A cross-lagged panel analysis among those adolescents who indicated being a victim at Time 1 (N = 234) demonstrates that seeking support is associated with lower cyberbullying victimization six months later. However, this seems only tr...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Citizen engagement and trust: A study among citizen panel members in three Dutch municipalities
Publication date: Available online 11 October 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Vinitha Siebers, Raymond Gradus, René GrotensAbstractCitizen engagement is a key component of democracy, especially in local governments. It is seen as a way to generate input and support, and to find creative solutions to problems and challenges governments face. Currently, Western democracies are witnessing a challenge in which citizens have less trust in their government. This explorative study examines if citizen engagement is a valuable strategy based on citizen panels of three Dutch municipalities. Four different direct fo...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
I know people who can and who cannot: A measure of the perception of economic inequality in everyday life
Publication date: Available online 9 October 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Juan Diego García-Castro, Guillermo B. Willis, Rosa Rodríguez-BailónAbstractThis paper describes the development of the Perceived Economic Inequality in Everyday Life (PEIEL) scale. It is written and validated in Spanish. We first carried out an exploratory study, using a sample of 205 participants (52.2% men and 47.8% women; age: M = 24.69, SD = 8.95). We then conducted a confirmatory study with a sample size of 215 individuals (43.7% men and 56.3% women; age: M = 23.83, SD = 6.46). Resu...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Framing Immigrants: News Coverage, Public Opinion, and Policy, Chris Haynes, Jennifer Merolla, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan. Russell Sage Foundation, New York (2016), 278pp., ISBN: 9780871545336
Publication date: Available online 9 October 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): T. Mark Montoya (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social capital or liability? Gender, network size and self-rated health (SRH) among community-dwelling adults in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
This study examines the relationship between social capital and health by focusing on a novel empirical case: Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). Specifically, it examines individual- and community-level associations between network size and self-rated health (SRH) among community-dwelling Lao adults, and how gender may moderate those associations. Data come from the original survey (of 979 respondents in 50 villages) conducted in Laos in 2015. Using pooled and stratified subsets of data, we fitted a series of (2-level) hierarchical generalized linear models to investigate the network size-SRH linkage, while adjustin...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Exploitation in contemporary societies: An exploratory comparative analysis
Publication date: Available online 5 October 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Milan ZafirovskiAbstractThis paper undertakes an exploratory comparative analysis of exploitation among contemporary capitalist Western, and comparable, societies such as OECD countries. It aims to contribute to a better understanding of the patterns and factors of economic exploitation among these societies. It reconsiders the concept of labor exploitation in earlier economics and sociology by providing an overview of relevant contemporary conceptions and analyses of labor and similar exploitation. It outlines a theoretical frame...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Explaining cross-national variation in the climate change concern gender gap: A research note
Publication date: Available online 25 September 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Kyle W. KnightAbstractPrevious research has documented and investigated the gender gap in climate change concern (and environmental concern more generally) in the USA to understand why women tend to be more concerned about this issue than men. However, a largely missing element of the existing research on this topic is the role of macro-level context. The consideration of contextual factors is important because, as shown in this study, aggregate gender differences in climate change concern vary widely across countries. Drawing ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Researchers as brokers: Reflections from a study of migrant physicians in Chile
Publication date: Available online 29 September 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Mariana Lazzaro-SalazarAbstractThe perils that migrants face when arriving in a new country are many. To deal with the host community requirements, they often turn to their country people, those who arrived before them, and they build networks that help them manage their new needs and situations. At times, however, when involved in a research project, they also turn to the researcher who can provide help in ways nobody else can. In this paper, I discuss my experience of investigating intercultural communication with migrant phy...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
