Investigation of nomophobia and smartphone addiction predictors among adolescents in Turkey: Demographic variables and academic performance
In this study, Model 4 has been identified to be the most important predictor of smartphone addiction and nomophobia. In Model 4, variables related to smartphone usage are included in the analysis. Recommendations have been made according to the results of the study. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The threat of monument designation as a technique for successful wilderness legislation: Using the Antiquities Act as a carrot or a stick
This article analyzes three instances where this strategy was successfully used and identifies specific steps taken in each situation that ultimately led to congressional action creating new wilderness. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Educational gradient of health in rural China
Publication date: Available online 4 October 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Anning Hu, Xiujin Guo, Yihong WangAbstractThe aim of this paper is to examine whether and how rural residents’ educational attainment is associated with their self-rated health in China. Taking advantage of the National Exercise Facility Survey that was collected between December 2015 and March 2016, we find that educational attainment has a significant and positive correlation with self-rated health, net of the effects of age, gender, and geographical region. This correlation is mediated by factors such as perceived importance ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - October 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Modelling teachers’ acceptance of children’s internet use: A risk-focused inquiry
Publication date: Available online 13 September 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Onur Dönmez, Yavuz AkbulutAbstractIn this two-phase study, teachers’ acceptance of children’s internet use was investigated by surveying 298 preservice and 302 in-service teachers. Thirty-three indicators were retrieved from the literature to measure perceived acceptance, perceived benefits, perceived availability of risks, prevalence of online risks, trust in technology companies, and trust in government agencies. The measurement model was confirmed in both studies without any modifications. In both studies, the trust in ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Effects of perceived parents’ and teachers’ values and beliefs on rural adolescents’ college plans
This study examined rural adolescents’ perceived parents’ and teachers’ values and beliefs and their college plans after high school. Data were drawn from 682 middle/high school students surveyed in northeast Vermont. We found that although there was no difference in the value adolescents placed on college education according to their parents’ level of education, plans to go to college were disproportionately less likely among adolescents whose parents did not have a college degree. Perceived parents’ and teachers’ values and beliefs, along with self-competence, were much lower for adolescents with non-college ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Stress responses to secondary trauma: Compassion fatigue and anticipatory traumatic reaction among youth workers
Publication date: Available online 11 September 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Tanya L. Hopwood, Nicola S. Schutte, Natasha M. LoiAbstractTrauma can have far reaching effects – even for those who experience it indirectly. Compassion fatigue, which often occurs for caring professionals who provide support for traumatized individuals, involves symptoms of secondary traumatic stress and job burnout. Anticipatory traumatic reaction is a future-focused form of distress arising from media reports and social discussions of disasters and large-scale negative events. The current study aimed to investigate the re...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
‘Enclaves of exposure’: A conceptual viewpoint to explore cross-ideology exposure on social network sites
This study suggests an alternative theoretical lens, divergence of exposure – co-existence of user groups with varying degrees of cross-ideology exposure related to the same issue – as a notion that serves as an overarching perspective. We suggest that mediated spaces, such as social media groups, can serve as enclaves of exposure that offer affordances for formation of user groups irrespective of offline social distinctions. Yet social elements cause some of them to display more cross-ideology exchange than others. To establish this claim empirically, we examine two Facebook page user networks (‘Sri Lanka’s Killin...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Natural resources and infectious diseases: The case of malaria, 2000–2014
Publication date: Available online 11 September 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Wen-Yang Chang, Dan WeiAbstractRecent discussions on the natural resource curse theory have expanded from looking at economic and sociopolitical developments to focusing on the impact of natural resources on the spread of, and deaths from, infectious diseases. However, consensus on a link between natural resources and infectious diseases rarely exists, and empirical results are mixed at best. This paper attempts to re-explore such a link by focusing on malaria, a major infectious disease. We argue that in resource-rich countrie...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Immigration and environment in the U.S.: A spatial study of air quality
Publication date: Available online 10 September 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Guizhen Ma, Erin Trouth HofmannAbstractEnvironmental consequences are frequently cited as a justification for restricting immigration to the United States, but there is little empirical research on the environmental consequences of immigration to support such arguments. The research that does exist shows immigration to be less environmentally harmful than native population growth, but is hampered by small samples and fails to account for spatial autocorrelation of air quality. We use the air quality domain of the Environmental ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Individual versus group responses for non-market public goods
Publication date: Available online 7 September 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Craig D. Broadbent, David S. Brookshire, Don CourseyAbstractStated preference methods have been used to value non-market public goods but questions remain about their incentive compatibility. A public goods referendum has proven to be incentive compatible for the more popular contingent valuation method. For attribute based choices, the choice experimental method values goods and services by attribute levels producing marginal values for the economic good. A referendum procedure has been proposed for this attribute based method ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Does customer co-creation value lead to electronic word-of-mouth? An empirical study on the short-video platform industry
This study investigated the effects of CCCV on psychological ownership, customer-based brand equity, and eWOM in relation to short-video platforms. Examination of 337 users on Chinese short-video platforms revealed the underlying mechanism of the shift from CCCV to eWOM in the short-video platform industry by identifying the direct, indirect, and total effects of four research constructs. This study demonstrated that a well-designed co-creation value strategy is a potent reflection of a platform’s customers that enhances CCCV for short-video platforms and transforms customers into intangible assets for eWOM. (Source: The...
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Examining the variation in local water sustainability practices
This study investigates the factors that influence the variation in local sustainability practices in one critical area, water conservation. The variation in adoption of water sustainability programs in municipalities across the U.S. is hypothesized to rely on three key factors: environmental condition, form of government, and fiscal condition. Our findings from an ordered logistic regression model indicate that municipalities with high drought level, high environmental policy priorities, and high community wealth are likely to adopt more water conservation programs. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Understanding youth activism and radicalism: Chinese values and socialization
This study contributes to the literature by providing an innovative way to systematically analyze youth activism and assess the influence of Chinese values. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - September 4, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Childhood gun socialization among college-educated youth: Shaping adult attitudes
This study examines childhood gun socialization and its effect on adulthood gun-related attitudes. The study addresses age of initial gun exposure, sources of initial gun exposure (i.e. parents, siblings, peers), as well as perceptions of firearm experiences during childhood. Data were collected from 298 college students via a 95-item web survey. Findings indicated that an earlier age of first exposure to firearms, as well as gun exposure stemming from a peer, were associated with more pro-gun attitudes during adulthood. Observation of peer gun use was associated with inconsistency of gun attitudes over time. Firearm injur...
Source: The Social Science Journal - August 31, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Carolingians, the Church, and the medieval constitution
Publication date: Available online 28 August 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Andrew T. YoungAbstractIn the eighth century, Charles Martel confiscated Church property to make distributions of benefices and precaria to his vassals. This project was an investment in state capacity and secularizations of Church property were continued under Charles’ son Pippin III. Many scholars have characterized this development as the expansion of Carolingian (monarchical) authority at the expense of the Church and to the benefit of the lay nobility. I argue that a better characterization is one of constitutional bargains...
Source: The Social Science Journal - August 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
