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Mobbs, Timothy Robert Donald Hardingham. "Public opinion, social stability and local democracy." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293336.
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Prinzessin, zu Erbach-Schoenberg Elisabeth. "Dynamics and stability of small social networks." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/365890/.
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The choices and behaviours of individuals in social systems combine in unpredictable ways to create complex, often surprising, social outcomes. The structure of these behaviours, or interactions between individuals, can be represented as a social network. These networks are not static but vary over time as connections are made and broken or change in intensity. Generally these changes are gradual, but in some cases individuals disagree and as a result \fall out" with each other, i.e. , actively end their relationship by ceasing all contact. These \fallouts" have been shown to be capable of fragmenting the social network into disconnected parts. Fragmentation can impair the functioning of social networks and it is thus important to better understand the social processes that have such consequences. In this thesis we investigate the question of how networks fragment: what mechanism drives the changes that ultimately result in fragmentation? To do so, we also aim to understand the necessary conditions for fragmentation to be possible and identify the connections that are most important for the cohesion of the network. To answer these questions, we need a model of social network dynamics that is stable enough such that fragmentation does not occur spontaneously, but is simultaneously dynamic enough to allow the system to react to perturbations (i.e. , disagreements). We present such a model and show that it is able to grow and maintain networks exhibiting the characteristic properties of social networks, and does so using local behavioural rules inspired by sociological theory. We then provide a detailed investigation of fragmentation and confirm basic intuitions on the importance of bridges for network cohesion. Furthermore, we show that this topological feature alone does not explain which points of the network are most vulnerable to fragmentation. Rather, we find that dependencies between edges are crucial for understanding subtle differences between stable and vulnerable bridges. This understandingof the vulnerability of different network components is likely to be valuable for preventing fragmentation and limiting the impact of social fallout.
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Godínez, Olivares Humberto. "Dynamic modelling and stability in social security schemes." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2016. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3003829/.
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Since social security involves several individual parameters, in recent years considerable attention has been focused on the impact these parameters on pension and social security systems. The literature on pensions has long been highlighting concerns that public Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) pension systems will turn out to be unsustainable in the long run and are a concern for most countries around the world, from the industrialised nations to the developing countries. The common trend in responses to what is a pensions crisis is a wave of parametric pension adjustments during the last years. These parametric reforms include, among others, changes in the contribution ceilings, increases in the retirement age, reductions in the indexation of pensions or even carrying out a structural reform from a Defined Benefit pension system to a Notional Defined Contribution (NDC). Following this process of reforming the pension system, this thesis is focused on the most important innovation in public pension schemes over the past years, first on Actuarial Balancing Mechanism (ABM) in PAYGO and second in some aspects of the Notional Defined Contributions, both in a deterministic framework. The ABM mechanism, that uses non-linear optimization models, identifies and applies an optimal path of these variables into a PAYGO system and absorbs fluctuations in longevity, fertility rates, life expectancy or any other events in a pension system. For the NDC, the Survivor Dividend (SD), also called inheritance gains, kept by most NDCs is analysed under different assumptions to calculate the maximum mortality decrease a scheme can cover if the SD is not distributed and whether the SD is a potential solution to cover the longevity. The research has considerable potential impact. It addresses a clear need in political, business, economic and societal contexts. This project also bridges the gap between academics and policy makers for better pension's public policies under alternative financial and economic scenarios. As a result, it will allow to design and assess the path of reforms in a more efficient manner. Further development will include a stochastic framework, considering stochastic dynamic programming, robustness, sensitivity analysis and error bounds.
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Shannon, Davine B. "Psychosocial adjustment of male Vietnam veteran based on their family stability, employment stability, and educational attainment." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1988. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2020.
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This study explores the psychosocial adjustment of male Vietnam veterans based on their family stability, employment stability, and educational attainment. It attempts to determine if there is a significant relationship between the dependent variable, psychosocial adjustment, and the three independent variables, family stability, employment stability and educational attainment. A convenience sampling of 30 male Vietnam veterans was conducted in studying the relationship. The major findings in the study conclude that there is a significant relationship between psychosocial adjustment and family stability and psychosocial adjustment and educational attainment. The study, however, finds no significant relationship between psychosocial adjustment and employment stability.
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Johnson, Cathleen A. "Social Capital and Conventions: A Social Networks Perspective." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27230.
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We introduce a spatial cost topology in the network formation model analyzed by Jackson and Wolinsky, Journal of Economic Theory 71 (1996), 44--74. This cost topology might represent geographical, social, or individual differences. It describes variable costs of establishing social network connections. Participants form links based on a cost-benefit analysis. We examine the pairwise stable networks within this spatial environment. Incentives vary enough to show a rich pattern of emerging behavior. We also investigate the subgame perfect implementation of pairwise stable and efficient networks. We construct a multistage extensive form game that describes the formation of links in our spatial environment. Finally, we identify the conditions under which the subgame perfect Nash equilibria of these network formation games are stable.
We analyze the dynamic implications of learning in a large population coordination game where both the actions of the players and the communication network evolve over time. Cost considerations of social interaction are incorporated by considering a circular model with endogenous neighborhoods, meaning that the locations of the players are fixed but players can create their own communication network.The dynamic process describing medium-run behavior is shown to converge to an absorbing state, which may be characterized by coexistence of conventions. In the long run, when mistake probabilities are small but nonvanishing, coexistence of conventions is no longer sustainable as the risk-dominant convention becomes the unique stochastically stable state.
We create and investigate a system that is capable of observing the accumulation of social capital and the effect of social capital accumulation on behavior of individually rational players. In the first model, we develop a restricted system to show that social capital forms and is maintained at a steady state level. The resulting network is the chain. The second model uses a congestion function in conjunction with social capital to show a network emerge that contains links that costlier than those in the chain network.Ph. D.
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Harman, Amy Lynn Andersen. "Correlates of Marital Stability in Utah." DigitalCommons@USU, 2005. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2650.
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This study investigated the relationship between marital stability and social support and negative interactions in Utah. Past research indicates that negative behavioral interactions have a negative correlation with marital stability. Past research also indicates that support of one's marriage positively correlates with marital stability. The data were taken from the Utah Marriage Movement Statewide Baseline survey. The total sample for this study included 886 married men and women over the age of 18. Spearman's rho correlation and multiple regression were used to analyze the data. Results of the study show that negative interactions had a negative correlation with marital stability. Social support was shown to positively correlate with marital stability to a small degree. Demographic variables of gender and educations were also analyzed. The correlation between negative interactions and marital stability was the strongest of the variables.
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Hasic, Anida. "La tensione tra interiore ed esteriore. Studio attorno all'idea di securitas in Seneca." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040079.
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Ce travail de recherche reconstruit la valeur de la notion de securitas d'un point de vue conceptuel et du point de vue de l'histoire de la philosophie dans le but de montrer la centralité du concept et la cohérence de son développement dans la réflexion philosophique de Sénèque. À cette fin les dimensions intérieure et extérieure sont examinées dans leur relation d'implication mutuelle : premièrement la securitas est étudiée par rapport à la dimension psychologique du sujet dans le contexte du progrès moral, deuxièmement, elle est étudiée par rapport à la relation à autrui dans le contexte sociale de l'Empire. La securitas est également analysée en référence au statut épistémologique des Naturales Quaestiones pour étudier la relation que l'homme entretient avec le monde des phénomènes naturels grâce à la science. En outre le concept a été examiné à l’intérieur de la relation entre oeuvre philosophique et oeuvre tragique (Oedipus). Le postulat éthique de la securitas trouve une résonance et un sens complémentaires dans la poétique de l’oeuvre tragique, ce qui détermine donc une poétique de l'incertain. La recherche montre que la présence du focus sur la dimension intérieure vise des objectifs éthiques concernant la sphère extérieure. Ce qui ressort en outre de l’étude de la notion de securitas est une relation tendue avec le monde. Ce caractère tendu de la relation au monde nous a conduit à clarifier la position de Sénèque vis-à-vis de la tradition stoïcienne à laquelle il appartient, ainsi que son attitude par rapport aux autres influences philosophiques (Lucrèce, Cicéron, Celse) et idéologiques (Velleius Paterculus) auxquelles il est perméableThis research reconstructs the value of the concept of securitas in Seneca's thought with the aim to show its centrality and the organic nature of its development both from a conceptual point of view and from the point of view of the history of ideas. Therefore the interior and the exterior dimensions of the notion and their mutual implications are analyzed: securitas is examined in its interior psychological dimension in the context of moral progress, subsequently the importance of the concept is taken into account in connection with social relations in the imperial context. The epistemological questions of the notion in Naturales Quaestiones are also studied in order to investigate the relationship that man entertains with the world of natural phenomena through science. Securitas was also examined within the relationship between philosophical and dramatic works (Oedipus), suggesting the presence of ethical assumptions of securitas in their inverted sense on a poetic level and allowing us to describe Seneca's poetic as a poetic of uncertainty. The research shows that the ethical aspects which focus on the interior dimension become part of relating to the outside world as well. The tense relationship with the world, which emerges from the study of the concept of securitas, can also be linked to the way Seneca deals with previous philosophical tradition and have contributed to clarify his position with respect to the Stoic tradition to which he belongs, as well as with respect to other philosophical (Lucretius, Cicero, Celsus) and ideological (Velleius Paterculus) influences which are present in his works
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Dohmen, David [Verfasser]. "Heterogeneity, Stability, and Cognitive Foundations of Social Preferences / David Dohmen." Konstanz : KOPS Universität Konstanz, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1229837779/34.
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Lazarus, Sophie A. "Social network stability in borderline personality disorder: A longitudinal analysis." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1433783752.
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Mirić, Siniša. "Social Stability and Promotion in the Communist Party of China." DigitalCommons@USU, 2018. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7117.
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The Communist Party of China CCP) controls all political, economic, and military issues in China. In the absence of elections, the only route of recruitment at higher levels of the political hierarchy in the Party is an official promotion. The scholarship on promotions offers two main explanations for advancement inside the Communist Party of China: (i) informal connections between high officials and candidates, and (ii) merit of candidates. This scholarship disregards, however, the importance of achievement of political targets by the candidates, specifically, their ability to deliver social stability.
Like every authoritarian regime, the CCP faces threats from the masses over which the elites rule. Reducing social mobilization is a key component of the CCP’s rule. In the past decade, labor strikes have become offensive in nature with workers demanding better conditions and espousing democratic values, thus challenging the Party’s dominant position in Chinese society. In order to minimize collective activities of Chinese citizens, provincial officials use censorship of the media, including posts on the social media websites, threats of job termination, as well as threats of deportation from urban areas. For that reason, those provincial officials who minimize the number of labor protests increase their chance of promotion to the Politburo. Furthermore, avoiding unrest should matter more for the promotion of party secretaries than governors, whose domain is economic growth.
To evaluate my argument, I analyze promotions of provincial leaders to the Politburo in 2003-2017. The data yield that—consistent with my argument—provincial leaders’ ability to minimize labor strikes increases their chances of promotion. In addition, positive economic performance matters more for the promotion of governors than of party secretaries.
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Joffe, Risha D. "The temporal stability of social responses to depressed and nondepressed individuals." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26543.
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The purpose of this study was to replicate and extend the findings of previous research addressing Coyne's (1976a) interactional model of depression. The nature and temporal stability of the social responses elicited by mildly depressed and nondepressed individuals were examined. One hundred and thirty-five female undergraduate volunteers were assigned, on the basis of Beck Depression Inventory scores to groups of depressed and nondepressed targets and nondepressed subjects. At Time 1, mildly depressed targets and nondepressed targets were randomly paired with individuals from the subject group. Measures of pre-interaction mood were taken, and each target-subject dyad carried out a 5-minute videotaped "getting acquainted" conversation. Following the conversation, the subject in each dyad completed questionnaires assessing self-reported reactions to her target partner. Approximately 3 weeks later, targets returned for a second (i.e., Time 2) interaction. Depression levels were reassessed at this time and targets were divided into three groups: those who were depressed at Time 1 and remained depressed at Time 2 (n = 15), those who were nondepressed at Time 1 and remained nondepressed at Time 2 (n = 15), and those who were depressed at one time and nondepressed at the other time (n = 15). On this second occasion, targets were paired with new randomly assigned subjects; the procedures followed were identical to those at Time 1. Within- and between-times analyses were carried out on subjects' verbal and nonverbal conversational responses, as well as on their post-interaction self-reports of emotional and cognitive responses to their partners. Results were not supportive of Coyne's interactional model of depression and did not replicate the results of previous investigations. There were only minor differences in subjects' responses to groups of depressed and nondepressed targets at Time 1 and across the two testing occasions. Depressed individuals were not responded to in a more negative fashion than were nondepressed individuals in terms of observed verbal and nonverbal behaviors or self-reported reactions. Results of this investigation lead to the conclusion that social responses to mildly depressed and nondepressed target groups are essentially the same, and that these responses do not change over a 3-week interval, even though the moods of target individuals may change. The validity of laboratory investigations as tests of Coyne's interactional model is questioned, and a "developing relationships" approach to assessing interactional patterns of depressed and nondepressed individuals is proposed.Arts, Faculty of
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Larson, Jeff A. "Why Change? Organizational Adaptation and Stability in a Social Movement Field." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193766.
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Why do social movement organizations change? This study attempts to answer this question by observing forty diverse social movement organizations (from both random and convenience samples) active across a wide spectrum of social movements in Seattle, Washington between 1999 and 2005. It focuses on changing organizational strategies—measured as combinations of issues, tactics, and targets—during a dramatic period of expanding and contracting political opportunities (e.g., anti-WTO protests, election of G. W. Bush, September 11
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DeVolld, Renae L., and Myra Alicia Louise Rickman. "Attachment, Fostering Parenting and Placement Stability." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/41.
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A significant number of children remain in foster care for long periods of time. Among this vulnerable population there is a high rate of placement disruption. Multiple placement changes are more likely to have a negative effect on children in out‑of‑home care than those who remain in the same foster home until they can return to their parents, be adopted or leave foster care between 18 and 21 years of age. This study examined the effect of the foster parent’s attachment style on the parenting values for touch, praise, encouragement, hope and commitment regarding foster children. Adults with a secure attachment style have been shown to be more effective in interpersonal relationships and are more likely to weather the storm through a child whose behavior is affected by trauma. The study found that caregivers with a secure attachment style would use touch, praise, encouragement, have hope for the child’s future and be committed to the long term placement of the child or youth more often.
The study measured attachment styles of foster parents using the State Adult Attachment Measure (Gillath, Hart, Noftle & Stockdale, 2009); and an instrument developed by the researchers to measure parenting values. Foster parents also were invited to provide their contact information for participation in an interview. The qualitative interviews added depth to the study by helping shed light on how foster parents use touch, praise, encouragement, hope and commitment with foster children.
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Caluori, Ladina. "Is social capital a prerequisite for democratic stability? India and Nigeria compared /." St. Gallen, 2004. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/99626160001/$FILE/99626160001.pdf.
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Vokey, Sherri L. "Networks, stability, and technology, on the social construction of failure and success." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ53033.pdf.
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Fernandez, Puentes Isabel C. "Stability of Degree Distributions and Analysis of Community Structures in Social Networks." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1545317072963346.
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Beesdo-Baum, Katja, Susanne Knappe, Lydia Fehm, Michael Höfler, Roselind Lieb, Stefan G. Hofmann, and Hans-Ulrich Wittchen. "The Natural Course of Social Anxiety Disorder among Adolescents and Young Adults." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-117728.
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Objective. To examine the natural course of social anxiety disorder (SAD) in the community and to explore predictors for adverse long-term outcomes.
Method. A community sample of N=3,021 subjects aged 14-24 was followed-up over 10 years using the DSM-IV/M-CIDI. Persistence of SAD is based on a composite score reflecting the proportion of years affected since onset. Diagnostic stability is the proportion of SAD subjects still affected at follow-up.
Results. SAD reveals considerable persistence with more than half of the years observed since onset spent with symptoms. 56.7% of SAD cases revealed stability with at least symptomatic expressions at follow-up; 15.5% met SAD threshold criteria again. 15.1% were completely remitted (no SAD symptoms and no other mental disorders during follow-up). Several clinical features (early onset, generalized subtype, more anxiety cognitions, severe avoidance and impairment, co-occurring panic) and vulnerability characteristics (parental SAD and depression, behavioural inhibition, harm avoidance) predicted higher SAD persistence and -less impressively- diagnostic stability.
Conclusion. A persistent course with a considerable degree of fluctuations in symptom severity is characteristic for SAD. Both, consistently meeting full threshold diagnostic criteria and complete remissions are rare. Vulnerability and clinical severity indicators predict poor prognosis and might be helpful markers for intervention needs.
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Hoyle, Sally G. "Stability and change in social relations of children with and without learning disabilities : social status, social networks, perceived social competence, social cognition, behavior problems, and ecological factors /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487322984315161.
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Rodríguez, Álvarez Carmelo. "Strategic incentives in multivalued social choice processes." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/4031.
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Cuando los miembros de una sociedad tienen que tomar una decisión sobre un conjunto de alternativas suelen usar ciertas reglas que tratan de alcanzar un acuerdo entre sus diferentes intereses. Estas reglas se suelen denominar mecanismos de votación, procedimientos de elección social o, simplemente, elecciones. Las reglas de votación definen escenarios en los que los miembros de la sociedad interaccionan y tratan de obtener el mejor resultado de acuerdo con sus preferencias. Esta tesis doctoral está dedicada al estudio de los incentivos estratégicos de los participantes (votantes y candidatos) en procesos de elección social.Nuestro análisis se centra en modelos generales en los que se admite que el resultado de la elección consista en un conjunto de alternativas. Aunque resulta natural suponer que sólo una alternativa será finalmente elegida, existen múltiples situaciones en las que este supuesto es sumamente restrictivo. Por ejemplo, podríamos considerar la elección como una etapa intermedia en el proceso de decisión. El objeto del proceso electoral sería reducir el número de alternativas entre las que la sociedad tendría que escoger. Con esta interpretación, nos centraríamos en situaciones en los que existe cierto grado de incertidumbre sobre la resolución final de la elección social.
En esta tesis seguimos dos importantes ramas de la literatura de la teoría de la elección social, el estudio de reglas decisión social no manipulables y el análisis de los problemas de candidatura estratégica.
En primer lugar, siguiendo el trabajo seminal de Dutta, Jackson y Le Breton (Econometrica, 2001) estudiamos los incentivos de los candidatos para entrar o abandonar la lucha electoral con la intención de afectar al resultado de la elección. Si los candidatos comparan conjuntos de candidatos de forma consistente con los postulados de la teoría de la utilidad esperada, cualquier regla de decisión unánime y no dictatorial provee a algún candidato con incentivos a abandonar su candidatura. Sin embargo, si los candidatos comparan los resultados de la elección de acuerdo con métodos menos sofisticados, sí que se pueden obtener resultados positivos.
Seguidamente, pasamos a analizar los incentivos estratégicos de los candidatos en un entorno complementario: en el que el resultado de la elección es explícitamente probabilístico. En esta situación podemos caracterizar la familia de reglas de votación que nunca incentivan la salida de ningún candidato. Sorprendentemente, aunque la familia de dictadores aleatorios juega un papel central dentro de la caracterización, podemos probar que reglas de decisión más flexibles también satisfacen los requerimientos de estabilidad en las candidaturas.
Finalmente, nos centramos en la posibilidad de construir reglas de decisión no manipulables cuando los votantes comparan conjuntos de alternativas de acuerdo con actitudes extremas ante el riesgo. En este contexto, analizamos la compatibilidad entre la condición de no manipulabilidad y otras condiciones de regularidad que han sido propuestas en la literatura como por ejemplo, Resolución Residual. Además, también presentamos los requerimientos en las preferencias de los votantes sobre conjuntos de alternativas que reducen la posibilidad de reglas de decisión no manipulables a reglas dictatoriales.
When a society has to make a choice from an array of alternatives, it usually relies on certain rules that try to reconcile the opposite interest of the members of the society. These rules define environments in which the agents interact and try to obtain the best outcome according to their preferences. This work is devoted to the study of the strategic incentives of the participants in the social decision processes.
We analyse general frameworks in which the outcome of the social choice process can be multivalued. Even when it seems natural to assume that the result of an election as a singleton, there are many situation in which our assumption should not be precluded. For instance, we can consider the social decision process as an interim stage that narrows the social agenda. Another possibility is to consider the set of the possible equilibria that could eventually arise in the voting procedure as the outcome of the election.
Our study focuses on two important branches of the literature, the study of strategy-proof social choice correspondences and the analysis of strategic candidacy in multivalued voting procedures.
First, we study the possibility of constructing non-manipulable social choice correspondences when the voters have strict attitudes towards risk. We analyse the trade-off between strategy-proofness and some regularity conditions proposed in the literature like Residual Resoluteness. Moreover, we introduce necessary conditions for strategy-proof and onto social choice correspondences. We also present the requirements in voters' preferences over sets of alternatives that reduce the possibility of strategy-proof correspondences to dictatorial ones.
Second, we study the incentives of candidates to enter or to exit elections in order to affect strategically the outcome of a voting correspondence. We show that, if candidates form their preferences over sets according to Expected Utility Theory and Bayesian Updating, every unanimous and non dictatorial voting correspondence violates candidate stability, at least a candidate has incentives to leave the ballot at one profile of preferences. We also analyse the implications of using other extension criteria to define candidate stability that open the door to positive results.
Finally, we analyse the strategic incentives of the candidates to withdraw the election in probabilistic environments. We characterise the family of unanimous and candidate stable probabilistic voting procedures when the candidates are expected utility maximisers. Surprisingly, we show that there are rules that are not probabilistic combinations of single-valued candidate stable voting procedures (random dictatorships) that do not provide incentives to the candidates to withdraw the election.
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Lee, Shuk-ping. "Social stability and public policy the role of special interest groups in Macao /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3642433X.
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Black, Alistair Matthew. "The English public library as an agency for social stability, c.1850-1919." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327775.
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Inaugurated by legislation in 1850 the municipal public library had by the end of the First World War become a common feature of urban life. The research and writing of public library history has been myopic; the subject has received little attention from historians working in broader fields. Inadequate methodological and theoretical assistance has been sought from those non-library historical investigations relevant to public library development. Public library history has been characterized by a tendency to chronicle. Recent work has acknowledged the importance of context; but the latter explains only 'how' and not 'why' public libraries emerged. Theories of public library history are lacking. This study presents a theory of development based on the symbiotic relationship between cultural and material pursuits. It is suggested that the Victorian, Edwardian and First World War public library aimed to help deliver social stability by diffusing humanistic culture and by assisting individual and national economic prosperity. These ostensibly divergent preoccupations achieved a high degree of compatibility within the context of the local municipal library. It was an institution which at once emphasized the importance of community and spiritual refreshment; yet sought to promote self-help individualism and tangible gain. Via the medium of the public library humanistic culture was seen to possess material externalities; the intention being to advance industrial capitalism whilst ameliorating its dehumanizing effects. The method employed to support this theory is to identify points of intersection between public library growth and recent debates in wider history. Attention is paid to discussions of emergent class consciousness; economic decline; middle class 'failure'; technical education; social control; the social origins of architecture; and the emergence of the professions. Underpinning the thesis is an exploration of the philosophical origins of the public library in terms of the tension between utilitarian and idealist thinking.
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Kornsey, Erin Bernadette. "The comparative stability of personality traits and attachment styles across two social contexts." Click here for download, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1372037301&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Lee, Shuk-ping, and 李淑冰. "Social stability and public policy: the role of special interest groups in Macao." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3642433X.
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Armstrong, Bradley J. "Rebuilding Afghanistan : counterinsurgency and reconstruction in Operation Enduring Freedom." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Dec%5FArmstrong.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003.Thesis advisor(s): Hy S. Rothstein, Kalev K. Sepp. Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-175). Also available online.
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Gaddis, Anne Kristine Pihl. "Hostility Toward Dominant Culture Individuals and the Perceived Stability of Power." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3029.
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Racism in the United States is persistent and its negative effects are widespread. The social hierarchy in the United States positions White people as the dominant culture and Black people, among other races, as a minority culture. Current literature provides insight into explicit and implicit individual expressions of racism; however, very little research clarifies the effects racism has on the continuance and structure of the social race hierarchy. This study utilizes social gender hierarchy research to investigate how racism-induced hostility toward the dominant culture relates to an individual's perception of the stability of the race hierarchy. This quantitative survey study compared a prime versus a non-prime condition. In the prime condition, Black participants (n = 129) were presented with racist statements to elicit a "hostility toward White individuals" response. A 6-point Likert-type scale quantified participants' perceptions of the stability of the race hierarchy. A one-way between subjects ANOVA was conducted by comparing the perceived stability means as measured by the Race Hierarchy Scale. Contrary to expectation, the prime did not produce a statistically significant change in the perceived stability of the race hierarchy. The data did reveal a chronic individual perception of the race hierarchy as unchanging. This study contributes to positive social change by illuminating social structure aspects and how individual perception functions to maintain the race hierarchy in America. This knowledge will help direct future research, policy makers, the legal system, and the private sector. Attempting to understand the effects of racism from the perspective used in this study, may encourage other researchers to generate novel approaches and methods to combat discrimination.
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Talukdar, Shahidur Rashid. "Social, political, and institutional determinants of investment and economic growth : a cross-country study /." Connect to resource online, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1251877560.
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Garren, Rikki A. "How Does a Baseline Measure of Coping Predict Post-Intervention Behavioral Outcomes for Homeless Youth in Substance Use, Housing, Education, and Employment?" The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211389082.
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Beesdo-Baum, Katja, Susanne Knappe, Lydia Fehm, Michael Höfler, Roselind Lieb, Stefan G. Hofmann, and Hans-Ulrich Wittchen. "The Natural Course of Social Anxiety Disorder among Adolescents and Young Adults." Technische Universität Dresden, 2012. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A27045.
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Objective. To examine the natural course of social anxiety disorder (SAD) in the community and to explore predictors for adverse long-term outcomes.
Method. A community sample of N=3,021 subjects aged 14-24 was followed-up over 10 years using the DSM-IV/M-CIDI. Persistence of SAD is based on a composite score reflecting the proportion of years affected since onset. Diagnostic stability is the proportion of SAD subjects still affected at follow-up.
Results. SAD reveals considerable persistence with more than half of the years observed since onset spent with symptoms. 56.7% of SAD cases revealed stability with at least symptomatic expressions at follow-up; 15.5% met SAD threshold criteria again. 15.1% were completely remitted (no SAD symptoms and no other mental disorders during follow-up). Several clinical features (early onset, generalized subtype, more anxiety cognitions, severe avoidance and impairment, co-occurring panic) and vulnerability characteristics (parental SAD and depression, behavioural inhibition, harm avoidance) predicted higher SAD persistence and -less impressively- diagnostic stability.
Conclusion. A persistent course with a considerable degree of fluctuations in symptom severity is characteristic for SAD. Both, consistently meeting full threshold diagnostic criteria and complete remissions are rare. Vulnerability and clinical severity indicators predict poor prognosis and might be helpful markers for intervention needs.
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Canlas, Jerevie Malig. "Relational and Social Contexts as Predictors of Satisfaction and Stability Among Asian-White Couples." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3232.
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Research suggests that interracial couples are more distressed and have lower stability compared to their endogamous counterparts. Interracial relationships involving Whites and Asians, however, seem to be an exception. To explore this exception, the pathways to relationship stability among endogamous and exogamous Asian-White couples were compared. Using Analysis of Covariance, partner empathy, social approval, relationship satisfaction, and relationship stability for endogamous and exogamous Asian-White couples were compared, while holding length of relationship constant. Actor and partner effects of partner empathy and social approval on relationship satisfaction and relationship stability, as well as that of relationship satisfaction on relationship stability, were compared between the racial pair groups using structural equation modeling. Endogamous Asian couples consistently scored lowest in relational and social factors, as well as in relationship outcomes. Relational factors more strongly predict relationship satisfaction and stability among White men regardless of partner's race than among Asian men. Empathy predicts relationship satisfaction and stability among exogamous women no differently than among endogamous women. Social contexts, however, influence relationship outcomes differently between endogamous and exogamous couples. Lastly, both actor and partner effects of relationship satisfaction on relationship stability did not differ across groups.
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Kegley, Michele Dawn. "Socio-Economic Stability and Independence of Appalachian Women." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1327600618.
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Schliffke, Philipp [Verfasser], and Anke [Akademischer Betreuer] Gerber. "Essays on the Evolution, Stability, and Heterogeneity of Social Preferences / Philipp Schliffke. Betreuer: Anke Gerber." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1030365318/34.
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Seif, El-Nasr Sherif Abdel Rahman. "Strategies of stability : U.S. interventions in the Middle East (1953-2008) : a social complexity approach." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569439.
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Middle East stability has been a key element of United States foreign policy since the end of World War II. The American national interest has generally been held to be at stake in three areas: securing the continuous flow of oil and gas to the West, facilitating the movement of U.S. naval and commercial traffic from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean via the Suez Canal, and (until 1991) containing Soviet influence in the region. All these interests necessitated a concern with overall stability in the region. However, US stability-driven policies towards the region (1953:2008) have achieved little success. American decision-makers irreversibly affected their immediate target (regional stability) in ways that that are inconsistent with their interests in the region. The Middle East system remains one of the most volatile regions of the world in spite of the repeated American intervention in its affairs. On the other hand, the problems that the United States faces in the region have not lessened as a result of its recurring intervention; indeed, they may well have grown worse. In this thesis I seek reasonable explanations for this phenomenon. Using a qualitative variant of complexity theory this dissertation introduces the concept of 'dynamic stability' as an alternative to the traditional version of the term which I referred to as 'simple stability'. A detailed historical account is employed to explore different strategies pursued by U.S. administrations to achieve stability in the Middle East. These strategies include: (1) the status quo strategy, (2) the hegemony strategy, and (3) the surrogate strategy. Different model(s) of intervention grew out of each strategy. Pre-emptive/post-hoc models of intervention grew out of status quo strategy. The regime change model of intervention grew out of hegemony strategy, and the pro-Israel model of intervention grew out of the surrogate strategy. The unifying factor among these strategies, I argue, is their lack of complexity; all these strategies include a simplistic perception of stability based on imposing some fixed arrangements on Middle East system through despotic allies; military invasion or regional surrogate, respectively, while ignoring or at best under-estimating the ability of sub-state actors to dynamically self-stabilize through bottom-up/emergent free local interactions
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Schliffke, Philipp Verfasser], and Anke [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gerber. "Essays on the Evolution, Stability, and Heterogeneity of Social Preferences / Philipp Schliffke. Betreuer: Anke Gerber." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-59009.
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Esliker, Rebecca. "An Examination of Social Support, Contentment with Life and Time Spent in an Assisted Living Setting." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/882.
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Policies at assisted living facilities should be designed to develop high quality social relationships among older persons that could increase the contentment of the residents. Despite the broad consensus on this mission, the role of social support in the perceived contentment of assisted living facility residents has not been adequately explored. Using social network theory as the framework for this study, the purpose of this quantitative study was to determine whether (a) perceived level of social support was related to perceived level of contentment with life among assisted living facility residents, (b) the length of time spent in the facility was related to perceived levels of contentment, and (c) perceived social support moderated the relationship between the length of time in the facility and perceived levels of contentment with life. The sample included 100 residents from 2 assisted living facilities in North Carolina. The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support and the Generalized Contentment Scale were used in this study. Linear regression analyses were employed to answer the research questions. Participants with higher levels of perceived social support tended to have higher levels of perceived contentment with life, and the length of time residents had spent in the facility was not related to their perceived contentment with life. In addition, levels of social support did not moderate the relationship between the length of time respondents had been in the facility and contentment; age, gender, ethnicity, and marital status were not related to perceived contentment with life. This study leads to positive social change by providing long-term care providers with information on social support systems and how staff can create conditions for them to enjoy better social relationships and experience greater support, thereby facilitating their contentment with life.
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Vermeer, Lotus Arrieta. "The stability of matrilineal dominance hierarchies in vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus) /." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69715.
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Factors influencing the stability of matrilineal dominance hierarchies were investigated in a feral troop of vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus) in Barbados. Changes in the matrilineal dominance hierarchy were investigated over a 12-year period (1979-1991). Matrilineal ranks remained unchanged for the first 7 years (stable period), reversed on several occasions over the next 3.5 years (unstable period), and have re-stabilised for a further 3.5 years to present date. The frequency distribution of non-matrilineal supports in different social contexts, the lower support frequency in unstable than stable periods, and in particular the high reciprocity evident in non-matrilineal support exchanges, suggest that non-matrilineal support is better explained by reciprocal altruism than by mutualism in vervet monkeys. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Talukdar, Shahidur R. "Social, Political, and Institutional Determinants of Investment and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Study." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1251877560.
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Eubanks, Janie P. "The effects of stability, group norm, and social dominance orientation on ingroup bias in high power groups /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9946254.
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Hewitt, Martin. "Structures of accommodation : the intellectual roots of social stability in mid-nineteenth century Manchester, 1832-67." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315838.
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Вороненко, Вячеслав Ігорович, Вячеслав Игоревич Вороненко, and Viacheslav Ihorovych Voronenko. "The study of economic development of countries with the modeling of social, economic and ecological stability." Thesis, Baltija Publishing, 2018. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/87388.
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На сьогодні у розвитку національних економік найважливішим є забезпечення сталого розвитку та досягнення стабільності функціонування соціально-екологічної та економічної систем. Відповідно до цієї потреби необхідно не тільки розробити ефективну систему управління стабільністю економіки країни, а й формалізувати систему моделей розвитку, які забезпечуватимуть ефективність управлінських рішень. У цьому випадку необхідно виконати порівняння результатів моделювання елементів системи управління розвитком.На сегодняшний день в развитии национальных экономик наиболее важным является обеспечение устойчивого развития и достижение устойчивости функционирования социально-экологических и экономических систем. В соответствии с этой потребностью необходимо не только разработать эффективную систему управления устойчивостью экономики страны, но и формализовать систему моделей развития, обеспечивающих эффективность управленческих решений. В этом случае необходимо выполнить сравнение результатов моделирования элементов системы управления разработкой.
For today in the development of national economies the most important is ensuring sustainable development and achieving the stability of the functioning of socio-ecological and economic systems. According to this need it is necessary not only to design effective system for managing the stability of the country’s economy, but also to formalize a system of development models that will ensure the effectiveness of management decisions. In this case, it is necessary to perform a comparison of the results of simulation of elements of the control system of development.
This research was funded by the grants from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (№ g/r 0117U003932)
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Blakeslee, Jennifer E. "Exploring Support Network Structure, Content, and Stability as Youth Transition from Foster Care." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/620.
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Many older youth in foster care lack adequate resources and ongoing support in their social networks as they transition into young adulthood, while other youth in these circumstances experience stable social networks providing comprehensive support. Systematically measuring the supportive personal and service-oriented relationships in youth networks expands the scope of inquiry in this area by identifying patterns of social network structure, member composition, and relational qualities that are associated with more or less support provision through formal and informal relationships. These can also be measured over time to observe changes in network form and content and assess network stability. This exploratory study (1) describes the support networks for a small sample of youth with foster care experience who are enrolled in post-secondary education and training programs, (2) assesses changes in these networks over time, and (3) demonstrates the reliability and validity of this methodology for broader use with populations of transition-age foster youth. Findings show that family (biological and foster) and friends are the most prevalent informal supports, relationship ties to parent figures are strongest and provide the most stable and multi-dimensional support, and ties with formal service providers are not as strong, but provide more informational support. The stability of a network ties over time is associated with the breadth of support provided, and network-based social support is associated with post-secondary enrollment at follow-up. Support network profiles are described and interpreted in terms of bonding and bridging social capital. Discussion includes implications for future support network research and guidelines for pre-transition assessment of youth networks in practice.
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Waid, Jeffrey David. "Investigating the Impact of Sibling Foster Care on Placement Stability." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2483.
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Sibling relationships are an important, yet under investigated aspect of foster care research. Despite the fact that between 65-85% of children in care have brothers and sisters, only recently have child welfare researchers begun to explore the complex and dynamic nature of sibling relationships in substitute care settings. Although cross-sectional and longitudinal studies suggest differences in placement stability and permanency outcomes for siblings placed together versus those placed separately, the conditions under which sibling relationships influence placement stability, permanency, and well-being in foster care settings remain unknown.
This dissertation investigated how family dynamics and home setting characteristics influenced the likelihood of a foster care placement change for a sample of children who participated in a sibling relationship enhancement intervention (SIBS-FC) study. A conceptual model was proposed to help explain the circumstances which lead to foster care placement change, and the moderating effects of family living composition on the odds of placement change over an 18-month period were examined.
Two multivariate statistical approaches were used in this investigation. The first approach involved examining the effects of a child's report of positive home integration, sibling relationship quality, caregiver's reported impact of child behavior, sibling living situation, kinship caregiver status, number of placements prior to study entry, and receipt of the SIBS-FC intervention on the odds of placement change. Results suggest that children in kinship care were 58% less likely to experience placement change than those who lived in non-relative care, and youth who lived apart from their siblings were 70% more likely to experience placement change than those who lived together.
In the second statistical approach, living composition categories were constructed to understand the moderating effects of different living situations on the odds of placement change. Living composition categories included youth who lived in kinship care with their siblings, youth who lived in kinship care without their siblings, and youth who lived in non-relative care with their siblings, with youth in non-relative care who lived apart from their siblings serving as the referent category. Findings support a moderation effect for different categories of living composition, as well as a trend level effect for sibling relationship quality and odds of placement change. Living with one's sibling in kinship care decreased the odds of placement change by 75%, as compared to living apart from one's sibling in a non-relative foster home. A post-hoc analysis determined that all living composition categories were statistically different from one another in relative odds of a placement change.
This dissertation provides additional evidence concerning the protective nature of kinship care and sibling co-placement on reducing the odds of experiencing a foster care placement change, and provides support for practices and policies prioritizing kinship care and the co-placement of siblings when making substitute care placement decisions. Future studies of siblings in foster care should explore the experiences of youth across the different forms of foster care living composition, examine the relationship between placement stability and permanency outcomes, and examine the relationship between placement stability, permanency, and child well-being.
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Hellfeldt, Karin. "The Hurt Self : Bullied Children´s Experiences of Social Support, Recognition and Trust at School." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-49818.
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The aim of this dissertation is to add to the development the knowledge base of bullying research with particular focus on processes of victimization within a Swedish context. The goal is to a contribute to understanding the consequences of being bullied by examining patterns of change in bullying victimization over time and how potential positive social interactions and relationships might promote the well-being of bullied children. A mix-methods research design was used, including quantitative data from a one-year longitudinal study, using individual data, from 3,347 pupils (grades 4 to 9, in 44 schools) and five in-depth qualitative interviews with former victims of bullying. From an overview of the research field it was concluded that there is a general shortage of theoretical perspectives within the field of bullying research. Correlation studies have linked negative health consequences with bullying. However, this kind of research design provides few insights into how and why bullied children experience the kinds of problems that they do. By adopting a theoretical understanding of how ‘self’ is realized through interactions with others, this dissertation moves beyond correlation- based explanations of the mechanisms behind the link between bullying and its consequences in order to be able to offer more targeted support for those schoolchildren who are, or have been subjected to bullying. An argument is made for the importance of understanding the social processes behind bullying It is argued that being subjected to bullying victimization is a transient life experience for about three quarters of the small cohort (about 7%) of Swedish schoolchildren who are victims of bullying at any one time. The trajectories of bullying experiences these children are unstable. However, the negative consequences are likely to remain even after the bullying has ceased. For others, the persistent victims (1.6%). the state of being bullied may become stable and continue over periods of years. Nevertheless, peers and teachers may serve as important resources in supporting transitory and continuing victims of bullying.
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Long, Jacob Andrew. "Time Dynamics and Stability of Political Identity and Political Communication." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595519865595447.
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Dejan, Austin J. "Credit Supply, Price and Financial Stability in Markets and Institutions." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2453.
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In Chapter 1, the staggered nature of the adoption of interstate bank branching deregulation in the United States is utilized as an exogeneous shock to investigate the managerial incentives involved in corporate socially responsible (CSR) activities. Using Kinder, Lydenberg, and Domini Research & Analytics, Inc. for our CSR measures, we find a significant negative relation between the extent of deregulation and CSR practices, which implies that deregulation-led rising competition in product market makes the non-financial firms more concerned about protecting interests of shareholders than other stakeholders. Specifically, firms with low pricing power tend to significantly reduce their CSR activities. Our results are robust using alternative empirical specifications and CSR measures.
Chapter 2 investigates the interaction between price stability and financial stability for “Fragile Five” countries. In the first step, we investigate the causation linkage between price stability and financial stability indicators. In the second step, we analyze the effect of financial stability instruments, lending rate and required reserve ratio, on price stability. We then test the price stability instrument policy rate on financial stability. Empirical findings, in the first step, indicate that there is no meaningful relationship between policy objectives in the short run, while the relation between financial stability and price stability occurs in the longer time frequencies. However, the situation is not valid for all economies. In the second step, we measure the effects of monetary policy tools employed by the central bank of each of the Fragile Five countries. The findings from the analysis that investigates the effects of each policy instrument imply that the policy rate instrument implemented to achieve the inflation target does not affect the financial stability goal. Similarly, the reserve requirement ratio instrument to achieve the financial stability goal does not affect the price stability goal. On the other hand, results give some implication about the negative effects of the lending rate instrument on the inflation targeting objective.
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Spath, Antonia. "Stability of fertility preferences and intentions : A new angle on studying fertility behavior in Germany." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-162189.
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Prevailing low fertility rates in several European states, such as Germany, have been studied widely in recent years. Findings include discrepancies between fertility preference and actual family size as well as between fertility intentions and fertility behavior; an ‘unmet need’ for children found on the individual and the societal level. Fertility preference is specified as the individual ideal number of children, and fertility intentions as the long- or short-term plans to have a child. Apart from investigating the rates of realization, these measures have been understudied. The objective of this study is to illuminate a new angle of low fertility rates in Germany by reviewing fertility measures previously considered to be stable predictors of fertility behavior. The aim is to investigate the stability of fertility preferences and of positive short-term fertility intentions of Germans in their reproductive age. According to the Theory of Planned Behavior and the life-course perspective, attitudes and experiences can influence fertility preferences and short-term fertility intentions. In this study, the suspected connection between unstable preferences and intentions and certain attitudes towards and experiences with the career, working life, and childcare situation is examined. These processes are expected to differ between men and women, and between childless individuals, parents with one child and parents with more than one child. Using data from seven survey waves of the German family panel pairfam, fixed-effects and random-effects regression models are run separately for women and men and for those of different parities. The results suggest that those with high career importance and those who expect or perceive a negative effect of children on the career are more likely to have unstable positive intentions. Although fertility preferences are shown to be somewhat unstable, no relevant relationships can be found. The differences between the findings on men and women regarding relevant determinants and direction of the relationships are unexpectedly small. Childless individuals are as likely to hold unstable preferences and intentions as parents.
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Diallo, Penda Nene. "Regime stability, social insecurity and mining in Guinea : a case study of bauxite and diamond mining (1958-2008)." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30984.
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This thesis explores how the mining of bauxite and diamonds enabled the coexistence of regime stability and social insecurity in Guinea under the regimes of Presidents Sékou Touré (1958- 1984) and Lansana Conté (1984-2008). Expanding on Soares de Oliviera’s (2007) analytical framework of the ‘successful failed state’ and the ‘social contract’ as developed by Nugent (2010), this thesis examines how the Republic of Guinea, despite decades of political repression and the mismanagement of its mineral resources, has so far not fallen victim to the extreme consequences of the so-called ‘resource curse’. The thesis shows that Touré and Conté avoided large-scale armed conflict by using mineral resources to strengthen their regimes, which in turn facilitated the emergence of different forms of ‘social contracts’. Despite the coercive nature of both regimes, the presence of mineral resources also opened up a space for bargaining amongst actors involved in the sector including the state, local communities and private mining companies. As a result, a variety of ‘social contracts’ emerged in Guinea. Whilst artisanal mining became a key source of income for the rural population, industrial mining catered to the revenue needs of the regime in power. The thesis focuses specifically on bauxite and diamond mining in Guinea and how they contributed to the coexistence of regime stability and social insecurity in Guinea. While some studies have been undertaken on bauxite, there have not been detailed studies of the role of diamond mining in Guinea’s post independence political history. The thesis makes an original contribution in comparing and contrasting the contribution of bauxite and diamond mining to larger political dynamics. The thesis offers a clearer understanding of issues that contribute to regime stability and how the presence of mineral resources facilitates the emergence of different ‘social contracts’.
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Wan, Yee-nui Regina. "A study of marital satisfaction and stability of China wives and Hong Kong husbands." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19470733.
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Munk, Adam C. "Relationship Satisfaction and Stability Among Latinos With Respect to Communication Styles and Conflict Resolution." DigitalCommons@USU, 2004. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2571.
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This secondary analysis employed data trom portions of the Spanish and Engli sh versions of the RELATionship Evaluation inventory, a self-report questionnaire (RELATE) The present research analyzed conflict resolution types, communication styles, and relationship satisfaction and stability among Latino men and women compared to Caucasian men and women. Multiple linear regression analysis was used for analyzing the data.
Communication styles and conflict resolution types were more different than similar among Latino males and females in predicting relationship satisfaction and relationship stability; however, they were more similar than di fferent among Caucasian males and females. The communication style of love was the only statistically significant predictor of relationship satisfaction that was common across gender and ethnicity in this study. Implications for the practice of marriage and family therapy and for research are discussed.
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Etoundi, Jean-Claude. "Gestion des risques au Cameroun : représentations sociales et croyance en un monde juste." Thesis, Angers, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018ANGE0002/document.
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Ce travail de recherche explique comment à travers la mobilisation de certains mécanismes socio-cognitifs, les populations camerounaises parviennent à préserver la stabilité dans leur pays. L’hypothèse de départ de cette recherche était que le savoir partagé à propos du risque et l'illusion de la permanence de la justice dans la société camerounaise sont un paravent à l'éclatement d'une crise sociale majeure. Cette hypothèse de départ a été testée par le biais de 3 enquêtes visant à ressortir l'influence des représentations sociales de la paix et du risque, et de la croyance en un monde juste sur la stabilité qui prévaut au Cameroun. Grâce aux données recueillies (N=156) par le biais des questionnaires d'associations libres et de caractérisation, nous avons mis en évidence le fait que l'évocation de la paix renvoie principalement à la sécurité et au brassage des populations. Pour nos participants, la sécurité et le brassage des populations sont considérés comme ce sur quoi la permanence de la concorde sociale repose. L'évocation du risque a quant à elle révélé que les carences de gouvernance, illustrées par l'allusion à la mauvaise gouvernance, la corruption ou le chômage, sont considérées comme les principales menaces qui pèsent sur la pérennité de la stabilitéThis research explains how through the mobilization of some socio-cognitive mechanisms, the cameroonian people manage to maintain stability in their country. The hypothesis of this research was that the knowledge shared about risk and the illusion of permanence of justice in Cameroon are a screen to the breakup of a major social crisis. This assumption was tested through 3 investigations to highlight the influence of the social representations of peace and risk, and the belief in a world just on the stability prevailing in Cameroon. Data collected (N=156) using the questionnaires of free associations and characterization highlighted the fact that the evocation of peace refers primilary to security and the mixing of populations. Security and the intermingling of populations are thus considered to be the pillars of the permanence of social harmony. The evocation of risk revealed that the shortcomings of governance, illustrated by the allusion to poor governance, corruption or unemployment, are considered to be the main threats weighing on the sustainability of the stability. These social representations of peace and the risk do not show a questioning of cohabitation between individuals and communities living in Cameroon. This state of affairs reflects the effectiveness of the existence of a common language and a specific identity ot the population about the prevention of social crises. These results highlight the existence of a form of consensus about other countries in serious social crises. The study of the influence of the belief in a just world on the attachment of Cameroonian to maintain peace (N=213) did not established links between these two factors. If the results of studies in relation with social representations corroborate with other works, the finding of the research on the belief in a just world did not highlight none of the correlations contained in the literature
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Schmitz, Cathryne L. "Children at risk : ex post facto research examining relationships among poverty, housing stability, anxiety, attitudes, locus of control, academic performance, and behavior /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487842372894248.
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