A study of ecologically unequal exchange for 89 countries between 1990 and 2015
This study aims to understand the uneven distribution of CO2 emissions between high-income countries (HICs) and middle and low-income countries (MLICs). In this paper, I expand on previous research by including additional measures of ecologically unequal exchange and I also identify the underlying causes to that exchange. I use both productionbased and consumption-based CO2 emissions as outcome measures. The descriptive statistics for 89 countries from 1990 to 2015 show that the HICs are net-exporters while the MLICs are net-importers of CO2 emissions, and the structural relationship has become increasingly unequal. I then...
Source: The Social Science Journal - February 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
CEOs versus members’ evaluation of cooperative performance: Evidence from China
Publication date: Available online 4 February 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Xiao Peng, Qiao Liang, Wendong Deng, George HendrikseAbstractCooperatives are special because the members not only own the cooperative, but also patronize it. CEO’s decision has an impact on the overall members’ interests. Understanding how CEOs differ from members regarding their evaluations on cooperative performance and what causes the differences, is valuable for CEOs to best serve the members. This paper evaluates the difference between CEO and member evaluation regarding their cooperatives, based on a set of first-hand ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - February 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Feeling authentic during playing pickleball in later life: Predicting positive psychological functioning
Publication date: Available online 4 February 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Jungsu Ryu, Jinmoo Heo, Chungsup Lee, Amy Chan Hyung Kim, Kyung Min KimAbstractAuthenticity, being trustful with oneself, is regarded as a principle predictor of healthy functioning. However, the association between authenticity and psychological functioning has not been examined, even though leisure is an ideal context within which to experience authenticity. Therefore, this study examined the association between authenticity and psychological functioning in older adults playing pickleball. A convenience sample of 112 males and ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - February 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Family and Sustainable Development, Montserrat Gas, Rita Cavallotti (Eds.). Aranzandi-Thompson Reuters, Pamplona, Spain (2015), 394 pp
Publication date: Available online 31 January 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Marc Grau-Grau (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - February 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social media and life satisfaction among college students: A moderated mediation model of SNS communication network heterogeneity and social self-efficacy on satisfaction with campus life
This study explored whether and how communication network heterogeneity on social networking services (SNSs) is associated with college students’ satisfaction with campus life. In particular, it examined the mediating role of social self-efficacy in the relationship between SNS communication network heterogeneity and campus life satisfaction and whether such indirect effects of SNS network heterogeneity on life satisfaction via social self-efficacy are contingent upon college students’ origins (in-state vs. out-of-state). The findings show that having greater communication with heterogeneous others on SNSs was positive...
Source: The Social Science Journal - February 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Pursued Justice: Black Preaching from the Great Migration to Civil Rights, Kenyatta R. Gilbert. Baylor University Press, Waco, TX (2016), , 210 pp
Publication date: Available online 30 January 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Robert L. Boyd (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - January 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Iraq and the Politics of Oil: An Insiders Perspective, Gary Vogler. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (2017), 318 pp. ISBN: 9780700625062 (hardcover); 9780700625079 (ebook)
Publication date: Available online 30 January 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Leslie R. Alm (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - January 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Complexity and Evolution: Toward a New Synthesis for Economics, David S. Wilson, Alan Kirman (Eds.). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2016), 408 pp. ISBN: 978-0-262-03538-5
Publication date: Available online 30 January 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Robert Zupko (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - January 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Handbook of Social Resource Theory: Theoretical Extensions, Empirical Insights, and Social Applications, Kjell Törnblom, Ali Kazemi (Eds.). Springer, Dordrecht (2014), ISBN 978-1-4939-1352-7
Publication date: Available online 30 January 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Gustave Goldmann (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - January 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Characteristics of persistently unhealthy counties: A comparison of white and black mortality over time
Publication date: Available online 26 January 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Wesley James, Julia Wolf, Jeralynn CossmanAbstractThis research examines differences in white and black persistence of mortality in the United States over a period of nearly 50 years. Using data from the National Center for Health Statistics Compressed Mortality File, we calculated race-specific, all-cause age-adjusted mortality rates for ten time periods from 1968 to 2015. Counties ranking in the top 20% of mortality in at least half of the time periods are classified as persistently unhealthy. Race-specific mortality persistenc...
Source: The Social Science Journal - January 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Illuminating the Sewol Ferry Disaster using the institutional model of punctuated equilibrium theory
Publication date: Available online 23 January 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Ki Woong Cho, Kyujin JungAbstractThe Sewol Ferry Disaster undermined the South Korean government’s efforts to establish the country as a crisis-free region. Considering the number of fatalities and the immensity of the disaster, the South Korean legislators passed three acts concerning the Sewol Ferry Disaster: the Sewol Special Act, the Government Organization Act, and the Yoo Byung-eun Act. The strength of this study is that it illuminates the Sewol Ferry Disaster using the institutional model of the punctuated equilibrium th...
Source: The Social Science Journal - January 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Loneliness and the use of social media to follow celebrities: A moderating role of social presence
Publication date: Available online 22 January 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Jihyun Kim, Jinyoung Kim, Hocheol YangAbstractBecause social media provide users with the possibility of an easy way to communicate with celebrities in society, it has become a more common practice to follow celebrities through social media. However, there exists few studies that examine how people’s individual characteristics are related to their celebrity-following behavior. In this regard, the current study examines whether celebrity followers’ loneliness is associated with the following behavior of their favorite celebrit...
Source: The Social Science Journal - January 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Objective versus subjective comparisons of body size against thin media models, media pressures, internalization, and body satisfaction
This study examined associations among the objective and subjective comparisons of one’s own body versus thin media models, media pressure, internalization, and body satisfaction. Korean females aged between 20 and 39 years (n = 300) completed an online self-report questionnaire incorporating measures of these constructs. Body mass index (BMI) and perceived body size similarity to thin media models were used to measure objective and subjective comparisons of one’s own body to the thin bodies of media models. When both BMI and perceived body size similarity were tested simultaneously, only perceived body size ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - January 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Perceived discrimination, family and spousal relationships, and psychological distress among Asian Americans: Testing mediation and moderation effects
This study tested the main, mediating, and moderating effects of family cohesion and conflict and of spousal/partner social support and strain on the relationship of perceived discrimination to psychological distress. The data were derived from 1,462 married/cohabiting Asian American respondents to the National Latino Asian American Study. Perceived discrimination, family conflict, and spousal/partner strain was positively associated with increased psychological distress, whereas family cohesion and spousal/partner support were not statistically significant. About 40% of the association between perceived discrimination and...
Source: The Social Science Journal - January 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The conditional effect of income distribution on mortality risk of men in Tunisia: Poverty effect or wealth effect?
Publication date: Available online 19 January 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Moheddine Younsi, Mohamed ChakrounAbstractThe paper examines the conditional effect of income on mortality risk of men in Tunisia in a population based case-control survey study combining individual data from two databases on 11,231 survivors and 1,498 deceased. The main question addressed in the study is whether inequalities in health, as measured by mortality, in Tunisia mainly reflect the effects of poverty or are they caused by a socioeconomic gradient? Using logistic regression models with various income specification, our e...
Source: The Social Science Journal - January 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
