Explores how issues of measure and value are emerging as central in current debates concerning the capacity of social science and cognate disciplines to engage contemporary social and cultural life
Archive for July 2012
An Empowerment Model on Reconstituting the Meanings of Divorce
Are there ways to help partners to give more effective support to people who are trying to quit smoking
A daily diary study: Working to change the relationship and relational uncertainty in understanding positive relationship quality
Arab/Jewish Intergroup Dialogue Courses: Building Communication Skills, Relationships, and Social Justice
The impact of spirituality on eating disorder symptomatology in ethnically diverse Canadian women
Prevalence and predictors of stress disorders following two earthquakes
Individual, household and administrative area levels of social capital and their associations with mental health: A multilevel analysis of cross-sectional evidence
Factors impacting marital satisfaction among urban Mainland Chinese women: a qualitative study
Mortality salience increases death-anxiety for individuals low in personal need for structure
The Olympics and harm reduction?
Building capacity for parent involvement through school-based preschool services
What helps children in a pupil referral unit (PRU)? An exploration into the potential protective factors of a PRU as identified by children and staff
Measuring Schwartz’s values in childhood: Multidimensional scaling across instruments and cultures
A longitudinal test of the Job Demands–Resources model using perceived stigma and social identity
Challenging tasks: The role of employees’ and supervisors’ goal orientations
Job insecurity and the benefits of work
Performance expectations, personal resources, and job resources: How do they predict work engagement?
Where does all the research go? Reflections on supporting trainee-applied psychologists to publish their research
The application of mindfulness
The ethics of social research with children and families in Young Lives, a longitudinal study in Ethiopia, Andhra Pradesh (India), Peru and Vietnam
Finding Female Fulfillment: Intersecting Role-Based and Morality-Based Identities of Motherhood, Feminism, and Generativity as Predictors of Women’s Self Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction
Identities in diaspora: social, national and political identities of the Irish and Northern Irish in England
Not All Nonlabelers Are Created Equal: Distinguishing Between Quasi-Feminists and Neoliberals
Now Being Social: The Barrier of Designing Outdoor Play Spaces for Disabled Children
A Practice Framework for Assessments at Tower Hamlets Children’s Social Care: Building on the Munro Review
Social Work and Social Control in the Third Sector: Re-Educating Parents in the Voluntary Sector
Taking a Seat at the Table: Sexual Assault Survivors’ Views of Sex Offender Registries
Examining Frank J. Goodnow’s Hegelian Heritage: A Contribution to Understanding Progressive Administrative Theory
The PHQ-9 versus the PHQ-8 — Is item 9 useful for assessing suicide risk in coronary artery disease patients? Data from the Heart and Soul Study
Applying the net-benefit framework for assessing cost-effectiveness of interventions towards universal health coverage
Putting Knowledge into Action to Prevent Violence
Increased risk of hypertension in patients with major depressive disorder: A population-based study
The importance of rating scales in measuringpatient-reported outcomes
Measure and Value
Back to Work: Recent SSA Employment Demonstrations for People with Disabilities
An investigation of parent-child interactions in anxious adolescents
“Hack, Pack, Sack”: Occupational Structure, Status, and Mobility of Jews in Amsterdam 1851–1941
Until the start of the twentieth century, the occupational structure of Jews in Amsterdam can be described as an ethnic-enclave economy, heavily concentrated in the trading and diamond industries. By 1941, however, Jews had taken advantage of other occupational opportunities, increasing their presence significantly within the new middle class that had begun to emerge during the Industrial Revolution.