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Social Sciences, Volume 12, Issue 4

2023 April - 60 articles

Cover Story: This study examines multidimensional aspects of social network characteristics of mothers reported to and investigated by the child protection system (CPS). Specifically, this study assesses having a recurrent CPS investigation within one year of an index investigation as a function of positive social network ties, negative social network ties, and perceived neighborhood support. Cluster analysis is used to identify distinct combinations of network characteristics among mothers with recent investigations, and logistic regression analyses are applied to examine whether different cluster types are predictive of CPS re-investigations within one year. Study results suggest that a more multi-faceted view of social networks can be helpful for understanding the social contexts of mothers as they experience contact with CPS. View this paper
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Articles (60)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,795 Views
13 Pages

21 April 2023

The rate of unemployment for higher educated people has increased in Romania in the last few decades. The aim of this paper is to analyse survey data from master’s students in Economics from some private and public universities in Bucharest. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,057 Views
18 Pages

21 April 2023

This article studies the relationship between teleworking and job quality in 2021 for reference countries in Latin America, namely, Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia. Teleworking is an increasingly important alternative line of work; hence, it is relev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,185 Views
14 Pages

Work Ability, Work-Related Health, and Effort–Reward Imbalance: A Cross-Sectional Study among University Staff during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Thailand

  • Chamnong Thanapop,
  • Sasina Jit-akson,
  • Dusanee Suwankhong,
  • Irniza Rasdi,
  • Warangkana Chankong and
  • Sasithorn Thanapop

20 April 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, university policies and public health measures resulted in university staff facing hazardous work environments and psychological health problems. This cross-sectional study aimed to analyze the association between sociod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,748 Views
19 Pages

20 April 2023

What would it look like to honour differences in eating disorder recovery? Recoveries from eating disorders and eating distress are enacted in relation to discursive, material, and affective flows that open and constrain different possibilities for d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rethinking Artful Politics: Bodies of Difference Remaking Body Worlds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,062 Views
14 Pages

Lobbyists in Spain: Professional and Academic Profiles

  • Antonio Castillo Esparcia,
  • Andrea Moreno Cabanillas and
  • Ana Almansa Martinez

20 April 2023

Public relations are fundamental in organisations to establish an adequate relationship between the company and its public, and in the field of relations with public authorities, lobbying has become a very important activity. Two types of action can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,495 Views
14 Pages

Transforming Trauma through an Arts Festival: A Psychosocial Case Study

  • Jill Bennett,
  • Gail Kenning,
  • Lydia Gitau,
  • Rebecca Moran and
  • Marianne Wobcke

19 April 2023

Through a psychosocial lens, informed by relational psychoanalysis, this article discusses the design, delivery, and impact of The Big Anxiety’s 2022 festival in Warwick, Queensland—an arts-based program that engages with lived experience...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Psychosocial Research Methods to Understand Lived Experience through Art and Design Collaborations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,311 Views
13 Pages

Agency and the Limits of Responsibility: Co-Management of Technology-Enabled Care in Supported Housing

  • Regina C. Serpa,
  • Steve Rolfe,
  • Grant Gibson,
  • Julia Lawrence and
  • Vikki McCall

19 April 2023

Since at least 2012, UK housing providers (and policy makers) have introduced policies aimed at developing autonomy and independence among service users, through an agenda sometimes referred to as ‘responsibilisation’. This paper consider...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Policy and Welfare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,822 Views
16 Pages

19 April 2023

Centering the testimonios of two sets of transborder high school seniors living and learning in Mexico and the U.S., in this article, we draw upon decolonizing approaches to theorize critical consciousness formation for and with students from familie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rethinking the Mobilities of Migrant Children and Youth across the Americas)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,850 Views
16 Pages

19 April 2023

Narratives play a pivotal role in solving complex problems, as they provide an interpretive framework for facilitating the solution to a given challenge. We presume that if the basis of a narrative applied to a complex problem is incorrect, the inter...

(This article belongs to the Section Contemporary Politics and Society)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,485 Views
28 Pages

18 April 2023

Offering a suitable educational response to students with disabilities continues to be a challenge for higher education institutions, where the teaching attitude, the educational strategies to deal with diversity and the obstacles or difficulties con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges of Teaching in Today’s Society: Factors Involved in Educational Quality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,251 Views
13 Pages

Short- and Long-Term Effects of an Intervention to Act against Sexual Violence in Sports

  • Alina Schäfer-Pels,
  • Jeannine Ohlert,
  • Thea Rau and
  • Marc Allroggen

18 April 2023

In recent years, an increasing number of cases of sexual violence (SV) in organized sports have received worldwide attention. To counteract the emergence of SV, various preventive measures have been developed and implemented. However, the effectivene...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Sport: New Evidence, Perspectives, and Interpretations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,151 Views
18 Pages

Refugee Population and Environmental Quality in Sweden and Lebanon: Is Fertility Rate Changing the Dynamics?

  • Andrew Adewale Alola,
  • Anar Aliyev,
  • Hephzibah Onyeje Obekpa and
  • Ishaaqa Olagunju

18 April 2023

Arising from the arrays of man-made factors (including political- and socioeconomic-related factors) and natural disasters across the globe, population displacement, as one of the consequences of the above-mentioned factors, has continued to trigger...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,908 Views
10 Pages

Burnout Syndrome, Stress and Study Hours in the Selection Process for Educational Teaching Staff: The Role of Resilience—An Explanatory Model

  • Eduardo Melguizo-Ibáñez,
  • Gabriel González-Valero,
  • Félix Zurita-Ortega,
  • José Manuel Alonso-Vargas,
  • Maria Rosario Salazar-Ruiz and
  • Pilar Puertas-Molero

17 April 2023

Candidates for the public teaching profession are subjected to high levels of stress, which can lead to the development of burnout syndrome during the competitive examination process. The present research reflects the objective of analysing the effec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,541 Views
15 Pages

17 April 2023

The rising tensions in disputed waters in Southeast Asia have caused policymakers to diverge their maritime diplomatic strategy to include maritime constabulary forces. The use of coastguards and other non-military vessels are an emerging trend in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,910 Views
14 Pages

Secondary Traumatic Stress in Portuguese Social Workers

  • Maria Irene Carvalho,
  • Sofia Mendes Cunha,
  • Helena Teles and
  • Carla Ribeirinho

17 April 2023

This article analyses the level of secondary traumatic stress in Portuguese social workers. Social workers practice their profession in conditions that generate stress and trauma on a daily basis; this is triggered by clients’ anxiety, threats...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,632 Views
20 Pages

17 April 2023

Social work and allied professions can struggle to accurately assess child neglect. Our research project is developing a new child neglect measurement tool for use by multi-agencies to address this issue. Phase two of this project employed a Delphi s...

(This article belongs to the Section Childhood and Youth Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
13,536 Views
15 Pages

17 April 2023

The events of January 6th were a clear example of threats to American democracy. De-democratization is a process that preceded Trump’s election and that can still be seen in the United States and around the world. Social theorist Charles Tilly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Elections and Political Campaigns in Times of Uncertainty)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,875 Views
12 Pages

The Career Adaptability and Support Structures of Pilots Losing Medical Certification

  • Trevis Kurukulaadithya,
  • Rajeev Nair,
  • Waqas Tariq,
  • Jeremy Wall and
  • John Rodwell

16 April 2023

The regulation of occupations such as aviation pilots can result in their facing the shock of losing their medical certification and thus, their license to work. What are the issues that these former pilots face upon losing their medical certificatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3,240 Views
11 Pages

15 April 2023

In recent years; digital media has garnered widespread interest from various domains. Despite advancements in the technology of digital media for globalized communication; disparities persist in user interaction patterns across different regions. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
12,018 Views
15 Pages

Exploring the Role of Gamification in the Online Shopping Experience in Retail Stores: An Exploratory Study

  • João M. Lopes,
  • Sofia Gomes,
  • Pedro Lopes,
  • Adriana Silva,
  • Daniel Lourenço,
  • Duarte Esteves,
  • Mafalda Cardoso and
  • Valter Redondo

15 April 2023

Online retail shops increasingly implement gamified marketing strategies to enrich consumers’ online experience and increase engagement. This study aims to evaluate the ludic experience of consumers in online retail stores and the role of gamif...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,887 Views
20 Pages

Multidimensional Aspects of Social Networks: Implications for CPS Recurrence

  • Reiko Boyd,
  • Abigail Williams-Butler,
  • Katarina Ploch and
  • Kristen Slack

14 April 2023

This study examines the social network characteristics of 670 mothers reported to and investigated by the child protection system (CPS) in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin in 2016. Specifically, having a recurrent CPS investigation within one year of an i...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Policy and Welfare)
  • Essay
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,785 Views
19 Pages

14 April 2023

The study compared the differences among gifted students of different grades and genders concerning perfectionism, cognitive mindset, constructive thinking, and emotional intelligence. The study included 908 gifted primary-school students from third...

(This article belongs to the Section Childhood and Youth Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,007 Views
24 Pages

13 April 2023

Despite local instances of single arbitrators’ corruption not having proven completely absent from arbitration chronicles over the last decades, one may safely argue that until very recently, no scandal had ever been severe enough to shake the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,690 Views
18 Pages

Perceptions of and Attitudes toward COVID-19 Vaccination among Urban Slum Dwellers in Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Wafa Alam,
  • Nadia Farnaz,
  • Farzana Manzoor,
  • Sally Theobald and
  • Sabina Faiz Rashid

13 April 2023

Vaccine hesitancy or low uptake was identified as a major threat to global health by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019. Vaccine hesitancy is context-specific and varies across time, place, and socioeconomic groups. In this study, we aimed t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Science Perspectives in Global Health: Insights and Analysis of Issues at the Margins)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,238 Views
17 Pages

Struggles of Refugee-Receiving Schools in Turkey

  • Dilara Özel and
  • Özgür Erdur-Baker

13 April 2023

A total of 82.4 million persons had emigrated from their countries by the end of 2020 because of global conflicts. A total of 3.6 million settled in Turkey, which became the most refugee-receiving country. Among those resettled in Turkey, the majorit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 11th ISHHR Conference for Health and Human Rights—Collective Healing: Restoring the Relationship of Humanity and Nature)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,276 Views
11 Pages

12 April 2023

Finding meaning in life helps improve undergraduates’ well-being, hope, and adaptation to life. To investigate the relationship between future socioeconomic status (future SES) and undergraduates’ sense of meaning in life, 333 undergradua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
9,571 Views
20 Pages

Exploring the Interplay of Cultural Restraint: The Relationship between Social Media Motivation and Subjective Happiness

  • Islam Habis Mohammad Hatamleh,
  • Amjad Omar Safori,
  • Amer Khaled Ahmad and
  • Neibal Moh’d Ibrahim Al-Etoum

12 April 2023

This study aims to investigate the intricate relationship between social media motivations and subjective happiness, utilizing a novel framework based on the uses and gratifications theory and cultural restraint. Through a quantitative analysis using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,349 Views
11 Pages

The Perception of Security and Youth: A Practical Example

  • María Vílchez and
  • Francisco Trujillo

11 April 2023

This investigation presents the perspective that Spanish postgraduate students have on security. The data compiled here encompass the results of a research study involving Spanish Master’s students with backgrounds in international law and inte...

(This article belongs to the Section Contemporary Politics and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,883 Views
30 Pages

10 April 2023

The present study examines the social mobility trajectories of children of new immigrants (those who have at least one new immigrant parent) in early adulthood (between the ages of 18 and 40) in Taiwan. Data were collected through semi-structured int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,461 Views
19 Pages

Analyzing Sociodemographic Factors Influencing Citizen Participation: The Case of Infrastructure Planning in Khon Kaen, Thailand

  • Peeranun Panyavaranant,
  • Thi Phuoc Lai Nguyen,
  • Djoen San Santoso,
  • Vilas Nitivattananon and
  • Takuji W. Tsusaka

10 April 2023

While public participation (PP) is a legal requirement for mega projects in most countries, some PP processes are perceived as the ceremonial fulfilment of obligations without the adequate involvement of citizens. However, limited empirical studies h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,666 Views
15 Pages

8 April 2023

Despite the open policy of integration, refugees in South Africa have been experiencing increasing exclusion and discrimination in socio-economic development and from social services. State-sanctioned discrimination contributes to mistrust among marg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,109 Views
21 Pages

7 April 2023

Based on a cross-regional survey of 764 migrant organizations (MOs) in Germany, this study examines the relationship between the content-related orientation (activity areas) of a migrant organization, its human and financial resources, and its cooper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Migrant Organizations: Multifunctional and Flexible Providers of Social Protection and Welfare in Changing Societies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,332 Views
21 Pages

6 April 2023

The widespread development of hydropower dams has led to involuntary displacement, which has become a significant global issue. In Vietnam, around 70,000 households were displaced in 2020, causing uncertainty and social disruption. The aim of this st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,164 Views
15 Pages

Value of Critical Thinking in the Labour Market: Variations in Employers’ and Employees’ Views

  • Valdonė Indrašienė,
  • Violeta Jegelevičienė,
  • Odeta Merfeldaitė,
  • Daiva Penkauskienė,
  • Jolanta Pivorienė,
  • Asta Railienė and
  • Justinas Sadauskas

6 April 2023

The fragmentation and narrowness of research on critical thinking in the labour market and the lack of critical thinking analysis in the context of the interplay between lifelong learning, education and the labour market presuppose the relevance of t...

(This article belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,121 Views
8 Pages

6 April 2023

Influencers are the main source of disseminated health-related content, and this content is also more accepted by the population compared to content disseminated by health institutions. The objective of this study is to determine the communication st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,312 Views
17 Pages

Trans Women’s Body Self-Image and Health: Meanings and Impacts of Sex Work

  • Joana Topa,
  • Eduarda Moreira,
  • Sofia Neves and
  • Estefânia Silva

6 April 2023

This paper aims to present and discuss the results of a qualitative study conducted in the city of Porto, Portugal, aiming to understand the self-determination process and the meanings and impacts of sex work on trans women’s body self-image an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Directions in Gender Research—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,509 Views
24 Pages

5 April 2023

The prevailing understanding of work as paid work is reflected in political efforts to achieve gender equality, which include emphasising that women, like men, should increasingly pursue paid work. This exploratory research aims to question whether t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Directions in Gender Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,644 Views
25 Pages

The Affective Regulation of Uncertainty: The Semiotic Dimensionality Model (SDM)

  • Sergio Salvatore,
  • Terri Mannarini,
  • Alessandro Gennaro,
  • Giovanna Celia,
  • Serena De Dominicis,
  • Raffaele De Luca Picione,
  • Salvatore Iuso,
  • Skaiste Kerušauskaitė,
  • Johann Roland Kleinbub and
  • Giulia Rocchi
  • + 4 authors

5 April 2023

This paper presents a novel psychological model of the socio-cognitive management of uncertainty, the semiotic dimensional model (SDM). The SDM claims that uncertainty increases the momentum of affect-laden meanings in meaning-making. This is so beca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,336 Views
19 Pages

5 April 2023

The first desegregation efforts in the marginalised and segregated communities in the Pata-Rât area were carried out within the frames of two social housing projects (between 2014–2017 and 2020–2023). Although a housing first method...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Critical Perspectives on the Impacts of (Post) COVID-19 Pandemic on Roma)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,213 Views
18 Pages

5 April 2023

National innovation systems (NIS) are generally perceived as a set of interconnected organizations (or structures) that domestically produce and commercially implement scientific knowledge and technology. The development of any national innovation sy...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,119 Views
19 Pages

Social Determinants of Health and Vascular Diseases: A Systematic Review and Call for Action

  • Davide Costa,
  • Nicola Ielapi,
  • Egidio Bevacqua,
  • Salvatore Ciranni,
  • Lucia Cristodoro,
  • Giuseppina Torcia and
  • Raffaele Serra

4 April 2023

Several factors that underlie health inequality have been studied and defined as the social determinants of health (SDHs). The main SDHs are gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and ethnicity. In this study, disparity was analyzed in the context of va...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,176 Views
14 Pages

4 April 2023

This report provides an overview of the skilled migrant health workforce and their contribution to health systems in European countries, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Migrant workers at all skill levels have worked in key areas d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,056 Views
23 Pages

4 April 2023

The lack of access to basic services played a big part among the key effects of COVID-19 on migrants and refugees. This paper examines the governance dynamics behind public services for migrants and refugees to understand how COVID-19 has impacted th...

(This article belongs to the Section Contemporary Politics and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,921 Views
16 Pages

4 April 2023

The rise of social media use has been phenomenal, particularly during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, Facebook has also seen its share of users rise at a meteoric rate. At the same time, the academy is producing a growing body of literatur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender-Related Violence: Social Sciences’ Research & Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,160 Views
19 Pages

Agency of Migrant Youth in Hostile Sociopolitical Environments: Case Studies from Central Eastern Europe

  • Zsuzsanna Arendas,
  • Agnieszka Trąbka,
  • Vera Messing,
  • Marta Jadviga Pietrusińska and
  • Dominika Winogrodzka

4 April 2023

This paper compares the integration of third-country youth in Poland and Hungary in two Central Eastern European contexts characterized by a hostile sociopolitical environment for migrants, right-wing policies, illiberalism, and regression in various...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Lives of TCN Migrant Youth in Europe between Perceived Vulnerabilities and Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,687 Views
13 Pages

Dating Conflict-Resolution Tactics and Exposure to Family Violence: University Students’ Experiences

  • Alda Portugal,
  • Sónia Caridade,
  • Ana Sofia Santos,
  • Joana Spínola and
  • Ana Sani

4 April 2023

An increasing prevalence of abusive dynamics in intimate relationships among young people has been reported in recent data. The purposes of this study are to outline the conflict-resolution strategies used in dating relationships, to describe the exp...

(This article belongs to the Section Crime and Justice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,677 Views
18 Pages

3 April 2023

With the establishment of the state of emergency in Bulgaria on 8 March 2020 due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, several restrictive measures aimed at social distancing were being introduced, to which the public had a contractionary reaction....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Critical Perspectives on the Impacts of (Post) COVID-19 Pandemic on Roma)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
17,696 Views
41 Pages

3 April 2023

To fill the gap in empirical research on the relationship between sexist gender ideologies and sports participation, I examined how sports participation affects the endorsement of sexist gender ideologies by men and women and how country-level gender...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Regional Development Dynamics and Their Social, Economic and Political Consequences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,288 Views
19 Pages

31 March 2023

Increased disinformation has been able to flourish in the digital environment. Much of the fake news that circulate social networks is directed against vulnerable groups, such as the LGBTQI+ community. These contents often include hate speech, which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geopolitics, Public Communication and Social Cohesion Facing the Crisis of Democracy: Risks and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,185 Views
12 Pages

31 March 2023

Though research shows that diversity and equity in the workplace lead to more innovation and other positive outcomes for organizations, businesses often struggle to accomplish their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. Promoting employee voice is...

(This article belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)

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