Household wealth and adolescents' social-emotional functioning in schools
This study attempts a two-part shift in educational research narrowly fixated on the socioeconomic determinants of student test-score performance. First, we focus on variations in how to measure wealth. Second, we move beyond achievement and focus on the wealth determinants of adolescents' social-emotional competencies. Using data from a nationally-representative sample of US eighth graders, we find that the correlation between wealth and social-emotional competencies varies according to how the partitions among the upper class, the middle and working classes, and the poor are defined. By emphasizing wealth in the producti...
Source: Social Science Research - July 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Investigating the impact of the economic crisis on children's wellbeing in four European countries
Publication date: Available online 2 July 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Antonella D'Agostino, Caterina Giusti, Francesca Gagliardi, Antoanneta PotsiAbstractThis paper analyses the impact of the economic crisis on children's wellbeing from a comparative European perspective using a multidimensional and fuzzy methodology. Comparisons of children's wellbeing based solely on monetary resources are likely to give a partial picture, because wellbeing can be related to different capabilities and the economic crisis impacted them differently. The use of several indicators captures the multidimensional and interrela...
Source: Social Science Research - July 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Decomposing patterns of college marital sorting in 118 countries: Structural constraints versus assortative mating
Publication date: Available online 27 June 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Albert Esteve, Joan Garcia, Iñaki PermanyerAbstractTwo broad forces shape the patterns of marital sorting by education: structural constraints and assortative mating. However, we lack specific and comparative quantification of the extent of these two forces. In this paper, we measure the specific contributions of (i) assortative mating, (ii) the level of college education and (iii) the gender gap in education on marital sorting patterns and the corresponding polarization levels between college and non-college educated couples. Unlike ...
Source: Social Science Research - June 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Spousal migration and married adults’ psychological distress in rural China: The roles of intimacy, autonomy and responsibility
Publication date: Available online 21 June 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Yuying Tong, Feinian Chen, Binbin ShuAbstractSpousal separation due to migration is a prevalent phenomenon in the developing world, but its psychological consequences for left-behind partners are largely understudied. Using data from 2010, 2012 and 2014 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this paper first examined whether spousal migration causes rural married adults any psychological distress; this finding was then advanced by testing the mechanisms that could potentially explain the linkage between these two variables. Inverse Probabi...
Source: Social Science Research - June 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Explaining the cross-national variation in the relationship between religious organization membership and civic organization participation
Publication date: Available online 11 June 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Yun Lu, Jong Hyun Jung, Shawn BauldryAbstractWe examine the relationship between belonging to religious organizations and participating in nonreligious civic organizations through use of a large international sample of individuals. Moreover, we assess how this relationship is contingent upon social context, that is Protestant percentage, economic condition, and democratic level of a nation. Using data from the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (2010–2014), our multilevel analyses reveal that religious organization members are mor...
Source: Social Science Research - June 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Media messages and attitudes toward muslims and ethnic minorities: A panel study among ethnic majority adolescents in the Netherlands
This study uses large-scale panel data on adolescents in combination with newspaper data and takes advantage of an extensive fieldwork period during which media salience of Muslims has fluctuated. All unmeasured time-invariant characteristics are accounted for by adopting a fixed-effects panel design. The results provide evidence of immediate attitudinal responses to media salience: the more media salience of Muslims on the day of survey participation, the more negative adolescents feel about Muslims. However, the results do not point toward a secondary transfer effect because media-induced negative attitudes toward Muslim...
Source: Social Science Research - June 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: Social Science Research - May 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Revisiting economic threat and cultural concerns: Public opinion toward immigration and non-citizens by race
Publication date: Available online 18 May 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Maruice MangumAbstractThis research examines opinions on issues related to immigration and non-citizens. Using ordered logit, this study assesses whether the cultural theory and realistic group conflict theory, through cultural considerations and economic threat, respectively, describes best the opinions across racial groups. Unlike most other studies on the subject, I find that while Americans are not very much concerned about cultural influences from immigrants, they clearly perceive immigrants as an economic threat. Also, unlike most...
Source: Social Science Research - May 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The skill divide in post-unemployment job quality
We examined whether unemployment promoted the skill divide in job quality with a variety of post-unemployment job-quality indicators. Using a large German panel survey, we found that high-skilled respondents were more prone to decreased post-unemployment job quality with regard to financial and job security aspects, yet more likely to experience better skill-matches. Further analyses revealed that this finding can be attributed to a considerable post-unemployment downward mobility of the high-skilled respondents. We discuss a possible ‘floor-effect’ for low-skilled workers. (Source: Social Science Research)
Source: Social Science Research - May 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Assessing the spatial scale of context effects: The example of neighbourhoods’ educational composition and its relevance for individual aspirations
Publication date: Available online 15 May 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Andreas Hartung, Steffen HillmertAbstractThe neighbourhood environment has repeatedly proven to be a relevant context for central aspects of individuals' lives, such as educational attainment. The conventional approach of measuring neighbourhood characteristics within disjunct geographical units fixed at a particular scale is less suitable for representing the characteristics of individual action spaces in everyday activities and for detecting scale-dependent relationships. We, therefore, adapted an ego-centred context approach by aggre...
Source: Social Science Research - May 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Can non-cognitive skills compensate for background disadvantage? -- the moderation of non-cognitive skills on family socioeconomic status and achievement during early childhood and early adolescence
Publication date: Available online 2 May 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Airan LiuAbstractCombining the theory of resources substitution and recent evidence on the importance of children's non-cognitive skills from social sciences, this study asks whether family socioeconomic status' effects on achievement are contingent on or moderated by children's non-cognitive skills. I address this question from a longitudinal perspective by focusing on two developmental stages: early childhood and early adolescence. To overcome the methodological challenges involved in answering these questions, I use Structural Nested ...
Source: Social Science Research - May 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The utility of a follow-up interview for respondents to a longitudinal survey with frequent measurement
Publication date: Available online 4 May 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): James Wagner, Mick P. Couper, William G. Axinn, Heather GatnyAbstractSocial processes that change quickly are difficult to study, because they require frequent survey measurement. Weekly, daily, or even hourly measurement may be needed depending on the topic. With more frequent measurement comes the prospect of more complex patterns of missing data. The mechanisms creating the missing data may be varied, ranging from technical issues such as lack of an Internet connection to refusal to complete a requested survey. We examine one approach...
Source: Social Science Research - May 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Can non-cognitive skills compensate for background disadvantage? — the moderation of non-cognitive skills on family socioeconomic status and achievement during early childhood and early adolescence
Publication date: Available online 2 May 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Airan LiuAbstractCombining the theory of resources substitution and recent evidence on the importance of children's non-cognitive skills from social sciences, this study asks whether family socioeconomic status' effects on achievement are contingent on or moderated by children's non-cognitive skills. I address this question from a longitudinal perspective by focusing on two developmental stages: early childhood and early adolescence. To overcome the methodological challenges involved in answering these questions, I use Structural Nested ...
Source: Social Science Research - May 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Educational expansion and trends in intergenerational social mobility among Korean men
Publication date: Available online 2 May 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Inkwan Chung, Hyunjoon ParkAbstractScholars have explored three channels through which educational expansion contributes to increased intergenerational social mobility: the compositional effect, educational equalization, and class returns to education. Existing literature on impacts of educational expansion on intergenerational social mobility is primarily based on experiences of European societies and the United States. We expand the existing literature by investigating the relationship between educational expansion and intergenerationa...
Source: Social Science Research - May 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Open markets, closed societies: The dual assimilation of immigrants in Western Europe
Publication date: Available online 17 April 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Elyakim KislevAbstractThis paper provides an examination of seven groups of first- and second-generation immigrants in Western Europe. The aim of this study is to track the trajectories of these immigrants’ economic and social assimilation and to compare them. Data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) are integrated here in a multilevel analysis. Findings show that while Western European immigrants show an improvement in economic indicators over time and generations, they show no imp...
Source: Social Science Research - April 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
