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Faculty Perception of Inclusion in the University: Concept, Policies and Educational Practices
2021
European universities must face the challenge of diversity and design inclusive practices to address it as part of their social responsibility. However, not all universities are doing the same in terms of diversity practices, so it is important to gather the perceptions of the protagonists. To this end, we have analysed university faculty’s perceptions using a mixed model with a concurrent methodological strategy, including an ad hoc questionnaire validated with 880 educators, as well as 17 semi‐structured interviews. The triangulation of these two instruments allowed us to analyse three key dimensions associated with the idea of attention to diversity in the university: diversity concept o…
Bērnu vadības funkcijas vecāku novērtējumā
2022
Pētījuma mērķis ietver atbildes rašanu uz pētījumā izvirzīto jautājumu: Vai pastāv atšķirības starp mammas novērtējumu un tēta novērtējumu par bērna vadības funkcijām, kā arī uz pētījumā izvirzīto hipotēzi: Pastāv saistība starp vecāku izglītības līmeni un vadības funkciju novērtējumu. Pētījuma izlasi sastādīja vecāki, ar priekšnoteikumu, ka viņiem ir bērns 2-6 gadu vecumā. Kopā pētījumā piedalījās 36 respondenti. Vidējais izglītības līmenis izlasē bija bakalaura grāds. Pētījumā tika izmantota CHEXI (Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory for parents and teachers) (Thorell & Nyberg, 2008) - bērnu vadības funkciju novērtējuma aptauja, kuru latviski šobrīd adaptē Mag. Psych. Edmunds Vanags…
Beyond GDP: an analysis of the socio-economic diversity of European regions
2019
International audience; This paper aims to analyze the socioeconomic diversity of the European Union (EU-28) regions from a dynamic perspective. For that purpose, we combine a series of exploratory space-time analysis approaches to multiple Factor Analysis (MFA) applied to a large range of indicators collected at the NUTS-2 level for the period 2000–2015 for the EU-28. First, we find that the first factor of MFA, interpreted as economic development (ECO-DEV), is spatially clustered and that a moderate convergence process is at work between European regions from 2000 to 2015. Second, when comparing these results with those obtained for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, we show that th…
Access to Higher Education: An Instrument for Fair Societies?
2019
Access to higher education (HE) has a long history. To offer a view on the current debates and worldwide issues regarding access to HE, this editorial depicts how the control of educational access has historically been used as an instrument of governance at the interface of two processes: social stratification and the territorialisation of politics. Access to HE has remained embedded in these large structural processes even though HE has expanded from a highly elitist institution into mass education systems with equity of educational opportunities having become a desirable goal across societies. Analysing these processes helps understand the complex mechanisms producing inequalities in HE t…
Participation rates by educational levels have diverged during 25 years in Finnish health examination surveys
2018
Background Declining participation rates in health examination surveys may impair the representativeness of surveys and introduce bias into the comparison of results between population groups if participation rates differ between them. Changes in the characteristics of non-participants over time may also limit comparability with earlier surveys. Methods We studied the association of socio-economic position with participation, and its changes over the past 25 years. Occupational class and educational level are used as indicators of socio-economic position. Data from six cross-sectional FINRISK surveys conducted between 1987 and 2012 in Finland were linked to national administrative registers…
Equal access to the top? Measuring selection into finnish academia
2019
In this article, we draw a parallel between equality of opportunity in educational transitions and equality of opportunity in academic careers. In both cases, many methodological problems can be ameliorated by the use of longitudinal rather than cross-sectional data. We illustrate this point by using Finnish full-population register data to follow the educational and academic careers of the 1964–1966 birth cohorts from birth to the present day. We show how the Finnish professoriate is highly selected both in terms of parental background and in terms of gender. Individuals of different backgrounds differ greatly in the likelihood of completing different educational and academic transitions, …
Use of Internet in an italian clinical sample
2012
This study is aimed at evaluating Internet use in a psychiatric population. We used the UADI questionnaire to investigate the degree of addictive Internet use in our sample of patients affected by various psychiatric disorders. Several psychological and psychopathological variables related to internet use, have been assessed through the five dimensions of the UADI: dissociation (DIS), Impact on real life (IMP), Experimentation (EXP), Dependence (DEP), Escape (ESC).
Returns To Education During And After The Economic Crisis: Evidence From Latvia 2006–2012
2017
We employ EU-SILC micro data for Latvia to study how returns to education changed during the economic crisis of 2008–2009 and afterwards. We found that returns to education increased significantly during the crisis and decreased slightly during the subsequent economic recovery. The counter-cyclical effect was evident in nearly all population groups. After the crisis, education became more associated than before with a longer working week and a higher employment probability. Furthermore, we show that returns to education in Latvia are generally higher in the capital city and its suburbs than outside the capital city region, as well as for citizens of Latvia than for resident non-citizens and…
COVID-19 Related Conspiracy Beliefs and Their Relationship with Perceived Stress and Trust in Government
2021
Sazvērestības ticīgo vilnis ir izcēlies COVID-19 krīzes vidū. Šī pētījuma mērķis bija pārbaudīt individuālās atšķirības, kas saistītas ar COVID-19 konspirācijas teoriju uzskatu attīstību pandēmijas laikā. Kopumā 100 pieaugušie aizpildīja aptauju, kas aptvēra ar COVID-19 saistītus sazvērestības teorijas uzskatus, uztverto stresu un ticību valdībai , kā arī respondentu izglītības līmeni. Dati tika savākti kā tiešsaistes aptauja randomizētā izlasē. Tika izmantota tulkotā un adaptēta aptauja par COVID-19 konspirācijas teorijām, kas bija cirkulējuši medijos un sociālajos tīklos 2020. gada beigās un 2021. gada sākumā un ir zināmas Latvijas vispārējai populācijai. Tika izmantoti parametriski testi…
A cross-country study of skills and unemployment flows
2021
AbstractUsing an international survey that directly assesses the cognitive skills of the adult population, I study the relation between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65–0.68 across the advanced and skill-abundant countries in the sample. The relation is remarkably robust and it is unlikely to be due to reverse causality. I do not find evidence that this positive relation extends to the seven relatively less advanced and less skill-abundant countries in the sample: Peru, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, Chile,…