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Quality of Life in European Older Adults of SHARE Wave 7: Comparing the Old and the Oldest-Old
2021
CASP-12 (Control, Autonomy, Self-realization, and Pleasure scale) is one of the most common internationally used measures for quality of life in older adults, although its structure is not clearly established. Current research aims to test the factor structure of the CASP-12, so as to provide evidence on reliability and external validity, and to test for measurement invariance across age groups. Data from 61,355 Europeans (≥60 years old) from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe wave 7 were used. CASP-12, EURO-D (European depression scale), self-perceived health, and life satisfaction measurements were included. Reliability and validity coefficients, competing confirmatory …
Yearly quotas and country-reserved shares in Italian immigration policy
2008
Regular immigration to Italy is based on a quota system setting annual ceilings to legal entries. Reserved shares are granted to single countries or categories of countries. Reserved shares have been increased; they are used as an incentive to obtain the cooperation of countries of origin in stemming irregular migration flows. The total quota of regular immigration has gradually increased too. Still, it does not fully respond to the growing demand of foreign workers on the labour market, and quotas seem to be used as crypto-regularisations rather than as an instrument for regulating legal entries.
Home Literacy Activities and Children’s Reading Skills, Independent Reading, and Interest in Literacy Activities From Kindergarten to Grade 2
2020
According to the Home Literacy Model (Sénéchal and LeFevre, 2002, 2014), young children can be exposed to two distinct types of literacy activities at home. First, meaning-related literacy activities are those where print is present but is not the focus of the parent–child interaction, for example, when parents read storybooks to their children. In contrast, code-related literacy activities focus on the print, for example, activities such as when parents teach their children the names and sounds of letters or to read words. The present study was conducted to expand the Home Literacy Model by examining its relation with children’s engagement in literacy activities at home and at school as Fi…
Fathers’ narratives on support and agency : a case study of fathers in a Finnish child welfare NGO
2017
In Finland, one of the Nordic countries, shared parenting is widely supported through, e.g. family policies and legislation. This is also evident in daily parental practices, as fathers’ share in childcare has increased notably since the late 1980s. Unfortunately, this is not the whole picture of Finnish and Nordic fatherhood: practitioners in child welfare also encounter many fathers with various problems in parenting and life management. In this article, we examine the narratives of fathers who have sought and received support from a Finnish nationwide child welfare NGO. Our research question is: What types of narratives on seeking and receiving support and on their agency do fathers prod…
Projecting the spread of COVID-19 for Germany
2020
We model the evolution of the number of individuals that are reported to be sick with COVID-19 in Germany. Our theoretical framework builds on a continuous time Markov chain with four states: healthy without infection, sick, healthy after recovery or after infection but without symptoms and dead. Our quantitative solution matches the number of sick individuals up to the most recent observation and ends with a share of sick individuals following from infection rates and sickness probabilities. We employ this framework to study inter alia the expected peak of the number of sick individuals in a scenario without public regulation of social contacts. We also study the effects of public regulati…
Exploring the Interpersonal Level of Music Performance Anxiety : Online Listener’s Accuracy in Detecting Performer Anxiety
2022
Music performance anxiety (MPA) affects musicians at various stages of a performance, from its preparation until the aftermath of its delivery. Given the commonality and potentially grave consequences of MPA, it is understandable that much attention has been paid to the musician experiencing it. Consequently, we have learned a great deal about the intrapersonal level of MPA: how to measure it, treatments, experimental manipulations, and subjective experiences. However, MPA may also manifest at an interpersonal level by influencing how the performance is perceived. Yet, this has not yet been measured. This exploratory online study focuses on the listener’s perception of anxiety and compares …
A cross-cultural examination of fat women’s experiences: Stigma and gender in North American and Finnish culture
2019
In this manuscript, the voices of women of size in North America and Finland indicate that there is a shared experience of being fat. Based on cross-cultural analysis of our respective empirical findings, we argue that there is a shared Western fat lived experience that perpetuates a stigmatized gendered landscape of living with a fat body. The emergent themes tended to revolve around two similar contradictions—the phenomenon of hyper(in)visibility and a belief their fatness is a temporary or liminal state—both of which lead to an internalization of fat hatred. We argue that these findings stem from the tremendous stigma and mistreatment that both samples of women face in their daily lives.…
Neatņemamās daļas tiesīgo atstumšana no mantojuma
2022
Bakalaura darba mērķis ir analizēt neatņemamās daļas tiesīgo atstumšanas no mantojuma tiesisko regulējumu un vērtēt tā nepieciešamību mūsdienās Latvijas Republikas Civillikuma Mantojuma tiesību daļā. Attiecīgais tiesību institūts ir novecojis un neatbilstošs mūsdienu sabiedriskajai apziņai un valsts tiesiskajai iekārtai. Darbā tiek pētīta un analizēta neatņemamās daļas un neatņemamās daļas tiesīgo atstumšanas no mantojuma tiesību institūtu izcelsme un attīstība, kā arī sīkāk analizēti CL 427., 428., 429. un 431. pants. Darba gaitā tiek pamatota neatņemamās daļas un neatņemamās daļas tiesīgo atstumšanas no mantojuma tiesību institūtu izslēgšanas no CL nepieciešamība, paredzot jaunu tiesisko …
An observatory shared on the Web: OSER70
2008
The company IAD-Informatique and the research center ThéMA were mandated by the Regional Development Agency of Franche-Comte to design and develop a socio-economic observatory adapted to the local context. The tool relies is based on a regional data storage platform, shared between agencies wich are producers and / or users of information. The aim of the tool developed is to allow to : - Pool resources; - Enhance socio-economic information, both quantitatively and qualitatively, multiplying the generic and specialized sources;soul - Enhance de value of the socio-economic information by making it accessible to a wider circle of actors; - Promote the emergence of a regional network of territo…