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Victor, Christina, and Kimberley Smith. "INTEREST GROUP SESSION—LONELINESS AND SOCIAL ISOLATION: THE LANGUAGE(S) OF LONELINESS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (2019): S373. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1365.
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Abstract We offer a novel perspective on the burgeoning literature focused on loneliness later life by examining the language(s) used to describe, define and depict loneliness. We have an extensive body of work describing the prevalence of , ‘vulnerability factors’ and consequences of loneliness in later life. These activities start with pre-defined concepts of what loneliness is and often use scales and questions which may/may not use the term loneliness. How well does the contemporary language of loneliness used in research, policy, practice and the media really capture the depth and complexity of what people are experiencing? Do the terms and words use in our measurement scales and quantitative research resonate with this vocabulary? In qualitative research interviews how do older adults talk (or avoid talking) about loneliness? How does the media talk about loneliness and what images does this convey about later life? We will address these three issues in our seminar. Using data from qualitative interviews undertaken as part of a mixed methods study of temporal variations in loneliness, Thomas uncovers the strategies participants used to talk or avoid talking about loneliness. Victor uses qualitative data from 12,000 adults aged 60+ collected as part of the BBC loneliness experiment to examine the terms used to describe loneliness and to identify both the opposite of loneliness and the positive aspects of loneliness. Sullivan exposes how loneliness is constructed in print and digital media over a 10-year period in the UK and Canada and its role in framing the loneliness problem.
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KOSAKA, YASUMASA. "Development of a Scale of Social Interest." Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology 59, no. 1 (2011): 88–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5926/jjep.59.88.
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Kim, Young ah, and Jong yeun Lee. "Development and Validation of Social Interest Scale for Adolescents." Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction 19, no. 1 (2019): 1125–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.22251/jlcci.2019.19.1.1125.
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Alizadeh, Hamid, R. James Little, Mohammad Asgari, Ghorban Hemati Alamdarloo, Asgar Choobdary, and Fariba Soheili. "Development of the Social Interest Scale for Iranian Adolescents." Journal of Individual Psychology 77, no. 1 (2021): 40–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jip.2021.0003.
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Naraghi, Mohsen, and Mohammad Atari. "Interest in Aesthetic Rhinoplasty Scale." Facial Plastic Surgery 33, no. 02 (2017): 217–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1597999.
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AbstractInterest in cosmetic surgery is increasing, with rhinoplasty being one of the most popular surgical procedures. It is essential that surgeons identify patients with existing psychological conditions before any procedure. This study aimed to develop and validate the Interest in Aesthetic Rhinoplasty Scale (IARS). Four studies were conducted to develop the IARS and to evaluate different indices of validity (face, content, construct, criterion, and concurrent validities) and reliability (internal consistency, split-half coefficient, and temporal stability) of the scale. The four study samples included a total of 463 participants. Statistical analysis revealed satisfactory psychometric properties in all samples. Scores on the IARS were negatively correlated with self-esteem scores (r = –0.296; p < 0.01) and positively associated with scores for psychopathologic symptoms (r = 0.164; p < 0.05), social dysfunction (r = 0.268; p < 0.01), and depression (r = 0.308; p < 0.01). The internal and test–retest coefficients of consistency were found to be high (α = 0.93; intraclass coefficient = 0.94). Rhinoplasty patients were found to have significantly higher IARS scores than nonpatients (p < 0.001). Findings of the present studies provided evidence for face, content, construct, criterion, and concurrent validities and internal and test–retest reliability of the IARS. This evidence supports the use of the scale in clinical and research settings.
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Açıkgöz, Yalçın, and Yonca Toker. "Integrating Occupational Complexity Levels to Interest Assessments in Social and Enterprising Areas: Development of the Vertical Social Interest Scale." Journal of Career Assessment 27, no. 1 (2018): 61–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1069072717748633.
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With the goal of improving assessment of interests toward social and enterprising areas, we developed the Vertical Social Interest Scale (VSIS) by incorporating vertical differentiation between occupations in terms of authority and communication. Social and enterprising occupations, their complexity levels, and work activities were identified using the information in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and Occupational Information Network. Three studies ( N = 515 total), two of which utilized students and one a working adult sample, were conducted to assess the factor structure and validity of VSIS. Construct validity was demonstrated using factor analyses and based on associations with traditional interest assessments and extraversion. Criterion-related validity was demonstrated based on associations with satisfaction with academic domain for the student sample and affective occupational commitment for the adult sample. Results support the validity of VSIS in predicting relevant vocational outcomes.
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Shao, Wenjuan, Qingguo Shen, Xianli Jin, Liaoruo Huang, and Jingjing Chen. "Nonuniform Granularity-Based Classification in Social Interest Detection." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2017 (2017): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5054825.
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Social interest detection is a new computing paradigm which processes a great variety of large scale resources. Effective classification of these resources is necessary for the social interest detection. In this paper, we describe some concepts and principles about classification and present a novel classification algorithm based on nonuniform granularity. Clustering algorithm is used to generate a clustering pedigree chart. By using suitable classification cutting values to cut the chart, we can get different branches which are used as categories. The size of cutting value is vital to the performance and can be dynamically adapted in the proposed algorithm. Experiments results carried on the blog posts illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Furthermore, the results for comparing with Naive Bayes, k-nearest neighbor, and so forth validate the better classification performance of the proposed algorithm for large scale resources.
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Kosaka, Yasumasa. "Development of the Scale of Social Interest for Elementary School Children." Japanese journal of psychology 84, no. 6 (2014): 596–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.84.596.
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Andrade, João, Andreia Duarte, and Artur Arsénio. "Social Web for Large-Scale Biosensors." International Journal of Web Portals 4, no. 3 (2012): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jwp.2012070101.
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Recent technological developments on mobile technologies associated with the growing computational capabilities of sensing enabled devices have given rise to mobile sensing systems that can target community level problems. These systems are capable of inferring intelligence from acquired raw sensed data, through the use of data mining and machine learning techniques. However, due to their recent advent, associated issues remain to be solved in a systematized way. Various areas can benefit from these initiatives, with public health systems having a major application gain. There has been interest in the use of social networks as a mean of epidemic prediction. Still, the integration between large-scale sensor networks and these initiatives, required to achieve seamless epidemic detection and prediction, is yet to be achieved. In this context, it is essential to review systems applied to epidemic prediction. This paper presents an application scenario for such predictions, namely fetus health monitoring in pregnant woman, presenting a new non-invasive portable alternative system that allows long-term pregnancy surveillance.
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Apostal, Robert A. "Expressedinventoried interest agreement and type of Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory scale." Journal of Counseling Psychology 32, no. 4 (1985): 634–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-0167.32.4.634.
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Maltby, John, Ann Macaskill, Liza Day, and Iain Garner. "Social Interests and Eysenck's Personality Dimensions." Psychological Reports 85, no. 1 (1999): 197–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1999.85.1.197.
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The relationship between Adler's concept of social interest and Eysenck's personality dimensions was investigated among 224 English undergraduates (85 men and 139 women). The present study links Adlerian and Eysenckian theories by finding that scores on the Social Interest Scale are significantly negatively associated with scores on Psychoticism and Neuroticism.
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Nurfauziah, Salma Fitri, and Nizar Alam Hamdani. "The Influence of Social Media Against Interest in Buying Kopilogi Products." Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship Journal 3, no. 1 (2021): 75–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.35899/biej.v3i1.107.
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This study discusses the influence of social media on interest in buying copilogy products. The relationship used in this study is a causal relationship with 60 Garut domiciled consumer respondents who have already tried their products. The data analysis technique used is simple regression with the application of SPSS 20. The measurement scale used by researchers is the interval scale. This study uses primary data and secondary data obtained from books, journals, literature, scientific works from the internet with relevant sources. The primary data collection technique in this study is an online questionnaire that contains a number of structured statements given to respondents through Google forms and respondents provide answers based on a Likert scale of 1-5, starting from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). The conclusion of this research is the significant effect between the influence of Social Media on Kopilogi Buy Interest.
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Schermer, Julie Aitken. "The Jackson Career Explorer: Correlates With Self-Monitoring and Social Desirability." Psychological Reports 122, no. 4 (2018): 1516–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0033294118781321.
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The Jackson Career Explorer (JCE) is a short form and continuous version of the Jackson Vocational Interest Survey measuring 34 vocational interest dimensions which can be reduced to seven factors (six vocational interest factors and one work style factor). Both the scales and factors were examined for possible significant correlations with social desirability and self-monitoring. Volunteer participants ( N = 779) aged 14 to 92 years completed the JCE, a social desirability scale, and a self-monitoring scale. Social desirability did not correlate significantly with the JCE scales and factors. Self-monitoring was found to correlate significantly with only a few of the JCE dimensions, including the performing arts, dominant leadership, and law scales as well as the business factor. Interestingly, the accountability JCE work style scale, which assesses a preference to work in an environment requiring high levels of honesty, had a significant negative correlation with self-monitoring. These results add to the validity of the JCE and add information to the area of vocational interest assessment.
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Evans, William J. "Construct Validity of the Attitudes about Reality Scale." Psychological Reports 86, no. 3 (2000): 738–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2000.86.3.738.
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To explore the construct validity of the Attitudes About Reality Scale, a measure of personal epistemology grounded on a social constructionist to logical positivist continuum, 118 employees of a mental health center completed the Attitudes About Reality Scale, three subscales of the Interpersonal Reactivity Inventory as a measure of empathy, the Social Interest Inventory as a measure of the Adlerian social interest concept, the Multistimulus Types Ambiguity Tolerance–I as a measure of tolerance for ambiguity, the Right Wing Authoritarianism Scale, and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Significant correlations were found between scores on the Attitudes About Reality Scale and both The Right Wing Authoritarianism Scale and Multiple Stimulus Types Ambiguity Tolerance–I as hypothesized. Those individuals holding master's and doctoral degrees scored significantly lower on the Attitudes About Reality Scale in the social constructionist direction than those with technical or trade school education, but no other differences on demographic measures were noted.
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Rychkova, O. V., and A. B. Kholmogorova. "Adaptation of Revised Social Anhedonia Scale (RSAS) on Russian sample." Консультативная психология и психотерапия 24, no. 4 (2016): 62–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2016240404.
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Anhedonia (or hypohedonia) reflects a missing or reduced ability to experience pleasure. Interest in the concept of clinical psychology and psychopathology is due to the high significance of violations of ability to experience pleasure as a predictor of serious mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, depression, chemical dependency. For under- standing the psychological deficits of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders is of particular importance to social anhedonia, reflecting the reduced ability to experience interest and pleasure from interactions with socially relevant stimuli and partners, and is implicated in disorders of social cognition, to social exclusion of patients. Revised Social Anhedonia Scale (RSAS) was designed to assess the severity of social anhedonia, tested in many countries, widely used in studies of schizophrenia. The problem of estimating the psychometric characteristics of the test RSAS, including the validity of the technique has become part of the project for the study of social cognition in mental disorders (grant funds of the Russian Science Foundation, Project № 14-18-03461). This article presents the results of the evaluation of the psychometric characteristics of RSAS and the applicability of the methodology for the Russian sample. The study was performed by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (grant № 14- 18-03461) at the Federal Medical Research Centre of Psychiatry and Narcology under the Ministry of Public Health of the Russian Federation.
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Steele, Andrea R., and David V. Day. "Development and Preliminary Validation of the Interest in Leadership Scale." SAGE Open 10, no. 1 (2020): 215824401990018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244019900182.
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Interest pertains to an individual’s psychological arousal toward a topic, which is thought to motivate effort allocation and attention. Interest in leadership has been identified as a potential antecedent of leader development; however, supporting empirical evidence has been hindered by the lack of a relevant scale to measure the construct. Study 1 outlines the development of the Interest in Leadership Scale (ILS) using Rasch scale development principles. Study 2 establishes the predictive validity of the ILS with self-rated leadership emergence and transformational leadership behaviors. This measure is likely to prove useful in the future measurement of and research into the topic of interest in leadership.
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Rosfiani, Okta, Ma’ruf Akbar, and Amos Neolaka. "Assessing Student Social Studies Learning: Effects of Learning Environment, Inquiry, and Student Learning Interest." TARBIYA: Journal of Education in Muslim Society 6, no. 1 (2019): 46–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/tjems.v6i1.11593.
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AbstractThis study aims to examine the effect of the learning environment, inquiry, and learning interest on student social studies learning assessment. The participants involved in this study are 130 students from public primary schools in South Jakarta. Data collection consists of social studies learning score, learning environment scale, inquiry scale, and learning interest scale. The results of the study show that the learning environment, inquiry, and learning interest directly influenced student social studies learning assessment in which inquiry and learning interest have a significant effect on student social studies learning assessment.AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh lingkungan belajar, inkuiri, dan minat belajar terhadap penilaian belajar Ilmu Pendidikan Sosial (IPS) siswa. Peserta yang terlibat adalah 130 siswa dari sekolah dasar negeri di Jakarta Selatan. Pengumpulan data terdiri dari skor pembelajaran IPS, skala lingkungan belajar, skala inkuiri, dan skala minat belajar. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa lingkungan belajar, inkuiri, dan minat belajar secara langsung mempengaruhi penilaian belajar IPS siswa. Dimana inkuiri dan minat belajar memiliki pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap penilaian pembelajaran IPS.How to Cite : Rosfiani, O., Akbar, M., Neolaka, A. (2019). Assessing Student Social Studies Learning: Effects of Learning Environment, Inquiry, and Student Learning Interest. TARBIYA: Journal of Education in Muslim Society, 6(1), 46-57. doi:10.15408/tjems.v6i1.11593.
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Saunders, Shaun A., and Cherie Roy. "The relationship between depression, satisfaction with life, and social interest." South Pacific Journal of Psychology 11, no. 1 (1999): 9–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0257543400000717.
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AbstractDepression is occurring in almost epidemic proportions in modern society (Seligman, 1990). The current study aims to explore the relationship between depression, life satisfaction, and social interest. Eightyseven students from the University of Newcastle were administered the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), and the Social Interest Index (SII). As hypothesised, it was found that depression was negatively correlated with life satisfaction and social interest. It was also found that females displayed greater social interest than males, however no difference was observed in level of depression by gender. These findings support the concept that treatment for depression might be oriented away from introspection, and directed instead towards increasing social awareness and interaction.
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Joubert, Charles E. "The Famous Sayings Test: Sex Differences and Some Correlations with other Variables." Psychological Reports 64, no. 3 (1989): 763–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1989.64.3.763.
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31 men and 54 women responded to Bass' Famous Sayings test, the Social Interest Scale, and the Narcissism Personality Inventory. Women scored significantly higher on measures of Conventional Mores, Social Acquiescence, and Social Interest. Correlations of Bass' four scales were similar to those reported in earlier studies. Social interest correlated positively with Conventional Mores and negatively with Hostility for women, while Social Interest correlated negatively with Fear of Failure for men only.
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Joubert, Charles E. "Associations of Social Personality Factors with Personal Habits." Psychological Reports 76, no. 3_suppl (1995): 1315–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1995.76.3c.1315.
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125 university students indicated how frequently they performed 15 different personal habits that ordinarily are socially disapproved, e.g., nail-biting, nose-picking. They also responded to the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, the Social Desirability Scale, the Hong Psychological Reactance Scale, and the Social Interest Scale. The sexes differed in the frequencies with which they performed 6 of the 15 habits: men were more likely to pick their noses, to spit, to pick at scabs, or to repeat another's speech; while women were more apt to giggle or to pull hair. Persons who scored higher in Social Desirability tended to report less frequent performance of 12 of the 15 habits, while people who scored higher on Psychological Reactance tended to report more frequent performance of 8 of the 15 habits. A total habits score resulting from the sums of the frequency ratings of each of the 15 habits correlated positively with Psychological Reactance and negatively with Social Desirability. Scores on Narcissism and Social Interest did not significantly correlate with most habits. These results suggest that the approval motive and the disposition to resist limitation on one's freedoms may be factors affecting the rates of many of these personal habits.
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Kannampuzha, Merie, and Kai Hockerts. "Organizational social entrepreneurship: scale development and validation." Social Enterprise Journal 15, no. 3 (2019): 290–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sej-06-2018-0047.
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PurposeSocial entrepreneurship has become a growing field of research interest. Yet, past research has been held back by the lack of a rigorous measurement instrument. Rather than defining social entrepreneurship as an organizational form that a venture does or does not have, this paper agrees with Dees and Anderson (2006) that the construct is better thought of as a set of practices, processes and behaviors that organizations can engage in to a higher or a lesser degree. In other words, the construct is a set of behaviors that any organization can engage in. The purpose of the paper is to develop scale items to measure the construct of organizational social entrepreneurship (OSE).Design/methodology/approachDrawing on previous literature, this paper first develops and then validates scales for measuring OSE as a third-order formative construct. As its second order, the scale includes three components that capture the heterogeneity of the OSE concept: social change intention, commercial activity and inclusive governance.FindingsThe OSE scale is developed and tested through a sample of 182 nascent social enterprises from 55 different countries in the world and then revalidated using a second sample of 263 mature social enterprises from 6 European countries. Results suggest that the scale items exhibit internal consistency, reliability, construct validity and nomological validity.Research limitations/implicationsThe scale presented here offers an important new venue for social entrepreneurship theorizing. First, it allows scholars to take a broad approach toward a diverse field and to study OSE behavior in any empirical field in which it may occur. Second, the scales also allow for more focused theorizing. Scholars are encouraged to delve into the antecedents of all three components presented here and to study the different performance effects they have in terms of likelihood to survive, growth rate or potential to achieve financial sustainability.Originality/valueThe paper develops a multidimensional construct for OSE. In particular, the authors propose scale items for three central components of social entrepreneurship, namely, social change intentions, commercial activities and inclusive governance. The scales thus measure the three formative dimensions identified by Dees and Anderson (2006) and Defourny and Nyssens (2010).
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Bauwens, Thomas, Benjamin Huybrechts, and Frédéric Dufays. "Understanding the Diverse Scaling Strategies of Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Renewable Energy Cooperatives." Organization & Environment 33, no. 2 (2019): 195–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086026619837126.
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This article seeks to shed light on the diversity of scaling strategies of social enterprises, which can be considered as emblematic hybrid organizations. By comparing three Flemish renewable energy cooperatives with contrasted scaling strategies, the article shows how these strategies can be understood in relation to the organizational mission as imprinted at the founding. We extend the notion of hybridity beyond the combination of institutional logics to highlight the interest orientation (mutual vs. general interest). Unlike what is suggested in extant literature, we find that mutual interest orientation may be associated with “scale-up,” business growth strategies, while general interest orientation may lead to less growth-focused “scale-out” and “scale-deep” strategies. The findings illuminate aspects of the hybrid nature of social enterprises by explaining their diverse scaling strategies and extend the notion of imprinting to the interorganizational level by highlighting how social enterprises may collaborate to collectively achieve the pursuit of their multiple missions.
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Öner-Özkan, Bengi. "FUTURE TIME ORIENTATION AND RELIGION." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 35, no. 1 (2007): 51–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2007.35.1.51.
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The purposes of this study were to evaluate whether Future Time Orientation (FTO) was associated with interest in the future beyond death, and/or with level of belief in religion, and also to validate an instrument aimed at measuring belief in religion in Turkish society. Gjesme's (1979) FTO scale was administered to 244 undergraduate students from Middle East Technical University together with a scale developed to measure Belief Orientations and a single-item measure designed to assess a subject's level of interest in the future beyond death. Results indicated that those who scored high in FTO also tended to score high in level of interest about the future beyond death and level of belief in God (intrinsic religiosity), compared to those who scored low in FTO. Research implications and suggestions for future studies are discussed.
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Kraus, Sascha, Thomas Niemand, Jantje Halberstadt, Eleanor Shaw, and Pasi Syrjä. "Social entrepreneurship orientation: development of a measurement scale." International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 23, no. 6 (2017): 977–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-07-2016-0206.
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Purpose Despite growing scholarly interest in social entrepreneurs and the social enterprises (SE) they create, few studies have examined the hybridity of SE including, surprisingly, whether they adopt an entrepreneurial orientation (EO). One explanation for this may be the continuing lack of an appropriate scale measuring social entrepreneurship orientation (SEO). The purpose of this paper is to address this research gap by proposing an initial SEO scale based on input from scholars in the fields of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach This study employed mixed methods and a two stage design. In stage 1, a Delphi study with 18 researchers with expertise of investigating entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship was used to generate constructs combining aspects of both social and EOs. In stage 2, the authors assessed the face validity of the derived items from the Delphi study by conducting a survey with 82 such experts. Findings This paper provides fresh empirical insights into how SEO can be measured by proposing, for the first time, a 12 item scale with four dimensions for the first time. Research limitations/implications The authors recommend that future studies employ quantitative methods, particularly with firms exhibiting differing levels of the “socialness” dimension which the authors propose and that such studies involve a variety of research informants. Statistical analysis of data collected across large sample sizes will help evaluate the reliability and validity of the scale which the authors propose. Practical implications This paper includes implications for future research based on the proposed SEO measurement scale. Originality/value This paper develops the first SEO scale based on empirical data collected from experts in the fields of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship.
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Fan, Zong Chen, Wei Duan, Peng Zhang, and Xiao Gang Qiu. "Weighted social networks for a large scale artificial society." Modern Physics Letters B 30, no. 02 (2016): 1550276. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217984915502760.
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The method of artificial society has provided a powerful way to study and explain how individual behaviors at micro level give rise to the emergence of global social phenomenon. It also creates the need for an appropriate representation of social structure which usually has a significant influence on human behaviors. It has been widely acknowledged that social networks are the main paradigm to describe social structure and reflect social relationships within a population. To generate social networks for a population of interest, considering physical distance and social distance among people, we propose a generation model of social networks for a large-scale artificial society based on human choice behavior theory under the principle of random utility maximization. As a premise, we first build an artificial society through constructing a synthetic population with a series of attributes in line with the statistical (census) data for Beijing. Then the generation model is applied to assign social relationships to each individual in the synthetic population. Compared with previous empirical findings, the results show that our model can reproduce the general characteristics of social networks, such as high clustering coefficient, significant community structure and small-world property. Our model can also be extended to a larger social micro-simulation as an input initial. It will facilitate to research and predict some social phenomenon or issues, for example, epidemic transition and rumor spreading.
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Hu, Anne Wan-Ling, and Olwen Bedford. "Development and Validation of the Sports Fan Ethnocentrism Scale." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 40, no. 2 (2012): 215–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2012.40.2.215.
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Our main purpose in this study was to develop a sports fan ethnocentrism (SFE) scale and test whether or not SFE impacts sports viewing motivations and behaviors. First, 3 rounds of the Delphi technique (Gupta & Clarke, 1996) were applied to develop items for the scale. Then, using quota sampling by region, gender, and age we obtained 900 valid surveys from Major League Baseball (MLB) viewers in Taiwan. We then conducted structural equation modeling with viewing time and motivations to confirm construct validity. The characteristics of Taiwanese SFE were found to be as follows: a) SFE is a positive common value in spectator sports that support local athletes; b) Taiwanese MLB viewers generally possess SFE; and c) SFE had an indirect impact on viewing behavior via interest in sports. The results illustrated positive aspects of SFE and suggest that fans may support their own team without feeling hostility toward those from other countries.
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Raj, Nitesh. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Management of Environment." IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) 7, no. 1 (2017): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v7.n1.p2.
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<p><em>These days when the Central Government is interested in Make in India campaign the scale of management or evaluation of business is not as if used to be about fifty years ago. At that time only that business organization was considered good which was earning profit for its owner but today the situation is absolutely changed. Today business has to look to the interest of many other stakeholders along with the interest of the owner. The employees- line and top management, consumers, suppliers, competitors, government, community, environment and even the world happen to be the other stakeholders. This responsibility of business, which includes the satisfaction of these parties along with the owner, is called the social responsibility of business or corporate sectors.</em></p>
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Slote, Michael. "The Virtue in Self-Interest." Social Philosophy and Policy 14, no. 1 (1997): 264–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265052500001758.
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As a motive, self-interest is constituted by a certain kind of concern for oneself; but we also use the term “self-interest” to refer to the object of such a motive, to the well-being or good life sought by a self-interested agent. In this essay, I want to concentrate on self-interest in the latter sense and say something about how self-interest or well-being relates to virtue. One reason to be interested in this relationship stems from our concern to know whether virtue pays, i.e., is in the moral agent's self-interest, a question which Plato notably asks in the Republic and which has been of concern to moral philosophers ever since. But the importance for ethics of notions like virtue and self-interest is hardly exhausted by their role in the debate over whether virtue pays; indeed, any large-scale ethical theory will presumably have something to say about how these major notions relate, so we have reason to want to understand this relationship independent of the particular desire to show that morality or virtue is in the self-interest of the (virtuous) agent.It will be a background assumption of this essay that some ways of connecting virtue and well-being/self-interest redound to the advantage of the larger theories that incorporate them. If, in particular, we believe in the bona fides of ethical theory, then unifying power is a desideratum in ethics and it stands in favor of utilitarianism (and Epicureanism) that it offers us a way of unifying our understanding of virtue and well-being. To be sure, that advantage may to some extent or ultimately be undercut if unification leads to counterintuitive ethical consequences.
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Zhang, Yong. "Reliability and validity of the Social Curiosity Scale among Chinese university students." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 47, no. 9 (2019): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.8263.
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My aim in this study was to investigate the reliability and validity of the Social Curiosity Scale (SCS) among Chinese university students. Social curiosity has been conceptualized as an interest in how other people behave, think, and feel. Students (N = 916) at 3 general universities in Henan Province completed the Chinese version of the SCS. The results showed that the Chinese SCS has good internal consistency reliability. Exploratory factor analysis results indicated that the Chinese SCS presented a clear 2-factor structure, and confirmatory factor analysis results showed that the 2-factor model fitted the data better than the 1-factor model did. These results indicated that the Chinese version of the SCS has good construct validity. Therefore, the Chinese version of the SCS can be used as an effective tool for social curiosity measurement among Chinese university students.
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Barnby, J. M., Q. Deeley, O. Robinson, N. Raihani, V. Bell, and M. A. Mehta. "Paranoia, sensitization and social inference: findings from two large-scale, multi-round behavioural experiments." Royal Society Open Science 7, no. 3 (2020): 191525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191525.
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The sensitization model suggests that paranoia is explained by over-sensitivity to social threat. However, this has been difficult to test experimentally. We report two preregistered social interaction studies that tested (i) whether paranoia predicted overall attribution and peak attribution of harmful intent and (ii) whether anxiety, interpersonal sensitivity and worry predicted the attribution of harmful intent. In Study 1, we recruited a large general population sample ( N = 987) who serially interacted with other participants in multi-round dictator games and matched to fair, partially fair or unfair partners. Participants rated attributions of harmful intent and self-interest after each interaction. In Study 2 ( N = 1011), a new sample of participants completed the same procedure and additionally completed measures of anxiety, worry and interpersonal sensitivity. As predicted, prior paranoid ideation was associated with higher and faster overall harmful intent attributions, whereas attributions of self-interest were unaffected, supporting the sensitization model. Contrary to predictions, neither worry, interpersonal sensitivity nor anxiety was associated with harmful intent attributions. In a third exploratory internal meta-analysis, we combined datasets to examine the effect of paranoia on trial-by-trial attributional changes when playing fair and unfair dictators. Paranoia was associated with a greater reduction in harmful intent attributions when playing a fair but not unfair dictator, suggesting that paranoia may also exaggerate the volatility of beliefs about the harmful intent of others.
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Fernández-Castillo, Antonio. "Early Childhood Social Competence Scale (EC-SCS): Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties." Sustainability 12, no. 15 (2020): 6262. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12156262.
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The Early Childhood Social Competence Scale (EC-SCS) was elaborated to evaluate social behavior on behalf of others in infantile populations. Due to the emergence and development of these behaviors from very early ages, the interest in its assessment is high from a developmental, educational, and applied perspective. The aim of the present study is to develop a Spanish population version of the scale, considering a specific dimensional structure. It was tested with a sample of 504 children of ages between 3 and 5 years, enrolled in school centers of infantile education. The results show that the new version of the instrument is a suitable measure for the assessment of social competence behaviors in early infancy. The joint consideration of prosocial and unfriendly behavior is important as it allows for the promotion of social competence behaviors and optimizes the detection of and intervention in behavioral problems later in life.
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Wetzel, Eunike, and Benedikt Hell. "Gender-Related Differential Item Functioning in Vocational Interest Measurement." Journal of Individual Differences 34, no. 3 (2013): 170–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000112.
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Large mean differences are consistently found in the vocational interests of men and women. These differences may be attributable to real differences in the underlying traits. However, they may also depend on the properties of the instrument being used. It is conceivable that, in addition to the intended dimension, items assess a second dimension that differentially influences responses by men and women. This question is addressed in the present study by analyzing a widely used German interest inventory (Allgemeiner Interessen-Struktur-Test, AIST-R) regarding differential item functioning (DIF) using a DIF estimate in the framework of item response theory. Furthermore, the impact of DIF at the scale level is investigated using differential test functioning (DTF) analyses. Several items on the AIST-R’s scales showed significant DIF, especially on the Realistic, Social, and Enterprising scales. Removal of DIF items reduced gender differences on the Realistic scale, though gender differences on the Investigative, Artistic, and Social scales remained practically unchanged. Thus, responses to some AIST-R items appear to be influenced by a secondary dimension apart from the interest domain the items were intended to measure.
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Pandey, Shruti Kant, and Baljeet Singh. "Correlates of Academic Achievement: A Study of Social Science Students." JOURNAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH 14, no. 02 (2019): 31–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.36268/jter/1423.
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Aim: Present paper identifies the factors associated with the academic achievement of students in a social science subject. Factors studied in the present study associated with achievements were- Interest in studies, Reading ability, and critical thinking. Methods: A total of sixty students studying in class VII in Govt. Senior Secondary Schools of Delhi were selected randomly for the data collection. Interest Inventory by R P Singh (2010), Critical thinking scale prepared by C. G. Venkatesha Murthy (2014), Reading ability test, and achievement test prepared by researchers themselves were administered on the selected sample. Findings: This study reveals that academic achievement in social subjects, reading ability, and critical thinking are significantly and positively correlated with each other.
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Teo, A. R. "International research on social withdrawal." European Psychiatry 33, S1 (2016): S23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.836.
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IntroductionSince the 1990s the term “Hikikomori” has emerged as a way to describe a modern form of severe social withdrawal first described in Japan. Recently, there have been increasing reports of Hikikomori around the globe.ObjectivesTo describe operationalized research criteria for Hikikomori, as well as epidemiologic, diagnostic, and psychosocial features of the Hikikomori in international settings.MethodsParticipants were recruited from sites in India, Japan, Korea, and the US. Hikikomori was defined as a six-month or longer period of spending almost all time at home and avoiding social situations and social relationships, associated with significant distress/impairment. Lifetime history of psychiatric diagnosis was determined by the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM-IV Axis-I and Axis-II Disorders. Additional measures included the Internet Addiction Test, UCLA Loneliness Scale, Lubben Social Network Scale (LSNS-6), and Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS).ResultsThirty-six participants meeting diagnostic criteria for Hikikomori were identified, with cases detected in all four countries. Avoidant personality disorder (41%), major depressive disorder (32%), paranoid personality disorder (32%), social anxiety disorder (27%), posttraumatic stress disorder (27%), and depressive personality disorder (27%) were the most common diagnoses. Sixty-eight percent had at least two psychiatric diagnoses. Individuals with Hikikomori had high levels of loneliness (UCLA Loneliness Scale M = 55.4, SD = 10.5), limited social networks (LSNS-6 M = 9.7, SD = 5.5), and moderate functional impairment (SDS M = 16.5, SD = 7.9).ConclusionsHikikomori exists cross-nationally and can be assessed with a standardized assessment tool. Individuals with Hikikomori have substantial psychosocial impairment and disability, and a history of multiple psychiatric disorders is common.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.
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Sahibzada, Shamim A., and Mir Annice Mahmood. "Social Rates of Return in Pakistan's Large-scale Manufacturing Sector." Pakistan Development Review 25, no. 4 (1986): 891–906. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v25i4pp.891-906.
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The paper attempts to estimate social rates of return in Pakistan's large-scale manufacturing sector. As cut-off rates, they can help in the selection of public and private sector projects and can also be used as' estimates of the Accounting Rate of Interest (ARI) which can then be used as test discount rates in the economic analysis of projects. In the context of Pakistan, our study makes an important contribution in that whereas the discount rates hitherto used in the country for an economic appraisal of projects have all been determined arbitrarily,1 we, in this study provide first ever rates that have been arrived at empirically. For example, the discount rate used in both private and public sector investment projects for a considerable period of time was arbitrarily fixed at 12 percent. The reason given for choosing this estimate was that it was based on the rate used by lending institutions on the loans they advanced to various development-oriented agencies. The Fifth Five Year Plan (1978-83) raised this rate to 20 percent for the industrial projects which were to be undertaken in the public sector because it required this sector to generate more funds [9]. Also, during this period, it had been decided that a cut-off rate of 15 percent would be applicable to private-sector industrial projects because the private sector investors complained that if the higher figure of 20 percent was used as a discount rate, then the Bruno Ratio, which measures the domestic cost of saving one unit of foreign exchange and also serves as a criterion of profitability, would decrease to such an extent that the project would become unprofitable.
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Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela, Ricardo Simoes, João Varajão, and Isabel Miranda. "Information Technology Supporting Healthcare and Social Care Services." Journal of Information Technology Research 7, no. 1 (2014): 41–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jitr.2014010104.
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The authors are developing a pilot project for a Municipality in the North of Portugal, envisaging the definition and implementation of an e-marketplace for healthcare and social services, in order to facilitate the interaction between healthcare and social services professionals and people with special needs (or their relatives). Based on the results of a survey on user needs analysis and expectations conducted in 2011, the paper discusses the relevance and interest of such platforms and the main drivers and motivations of the population for using such services, as well as which services would motivate citizens to use the platform. The results of the study will be used to select the products and services perceived to be the most desired by the potential users. The paper thus makes three main contributions: (1) the results of the study confirm the interest and the perceived potential of such a service, from the end-users perspective; (2) the findings support the advantage of expanding this pilot project to a full scale implementation; and (3) the performed analysis improves our understanding of the relations between the characteristics of the inquired population and the perceived interest in such platforms.
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Al-Kfaween, Etaf. "Social Intelligence and Its Relation with the Pattern of Social Relationships (Cooperation, Competitive) of the Average Diploma Students in Jordan." Journal of Studies in Education 9, no. 3 (2019): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jse.v9i3.15094.
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The current study aimed to recognise the level of social intelligence and its relationship with the patterns of social interactions (cooperating and competition) and knowing the differences between the sample individuals according to the employment statues and residence (city or village). A random of sample of diploma students was selected in Tafila Technical University, it reached (189) student, and the scale of social intelligence, and the scale of social relationships (cooperation and competition).The results indicated that the level of social intelligence was average and there was a positive connection between social intelligence and the pattern of cooperation. The employed students have more interest to cooperate, and the differences between city and village students are statistically indicated. The study recommended to reconsider the strategies used with the students in teaching situations where cooperate encouraging strategies are used.
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Compton, William C. "Measures of Mental Health and a Five Factor Theory of Personality." Psychological Reports 83, no. 1 (1998): 371–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1998.83.1.371.
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Principal components analyses were calculated with intercorrelations of scores on scales measuring mental health and the five-factor model of personality on a sample of 296 university students. Mental health was measured with Affect Balance scale, Happiness Measure, Satisfaction with Life scale, Life Orientation test, Short Index of Self-actualization, Social Interest scale, and the Self-control Schedule, along with subscales from Scales of Psychological Well-being, Openness to Experience scale, and the Perceived Self Questionnaire. The five-factor model was measured with the Interpersonal Adjective Scale Revised–B5. Separate analyses for both the traditional five-factor model and the expanded interpersonal circumplex model of personality gave six-factor solutions. Scores on scales measuring subjective well-being, openness, and social interest loaded on the same factors as Neuroticism, Openness to Experience, and Agreeableness, respectively. Scales that measured autonomy and self-actualization formed a factor that was separate from the five-factor model.
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Inoguchi, Takashi. "Social Capital in Japan." Japanese Journal of Political Science 1, no. 1 (2000): 73–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1468109900000141.
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Japanese society is often said to be one with a high premium on social capital. Two major theses have been put forward with regard to social capital in the last few years. One, advanced by Putnam (1993), is that social capital enables democracy to work. In other words, the historically acquired and accumulated social capital in terms of the propensity of individuals to engage with others in community and associational life facilitates the task of democratically working out the resolution of conflicts of interest and collectively producing good public policy. The other, advanced by Fukuyama (1995), postulates that social capital allows the creation of prosperity. In other words, a high level of social capital enables business firms to take risks and stretch networks fully in the creation of wealth on a large scale for a prolonged period of time.
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Mazuz, Keren, and Elad Yom-Tov. "Analyzing Trends of Loneliness Through Large-Scale Analysis of Social Media Postings: Observational Study." JMIR Mental Health 7, no. 4 (2020): e17188. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/17188.
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Background Loneliness has become a public health problem described as an epidemic, and it has been argued that digital behavior such as social media posting affects loneliness. Objective The aim of this study is to expand knowledge of the determinants of loneliness by investigating online postings in a social media forum devoted to loneliness. Specifically, this study aims to analyze the temporal trends in loneliness and their associations with topics of interest, especially with those related to mental health determinants. Methods We collected a total of 19,668 postings from 11,054 users in the loneliness forum on Reddit. We asked seven crowdsourced workers to imagine themselves as writing 1 of 236 randomly chosen posts and to answer the short-form UCLA Loneliness Scale. After showing that these postings could provide an assessment of loneliness, we built a predictive model for loneliness scores based on the posts’ text and applied it to all collected postings. We then analyzed trends in loneliness postings over time and their correlations with other topics of interest related to mental health determinants. Results We found that crowdsourced workers can estimate loneliness (interclass correlation=0.19) and that predictive models are correlated with reported loneliness scores (Pearson r=0.38). Our results show that increases in loneliness are strongly associated with postings to a suicidality-related forum (hazard ratio 1.19) and to forums associated with other detrimental behaviors such as depression and illicit drug use. Clustering demonstrates that people who are lonely come from diverse demographics and from a variety of interests. Conclusions The results demonstrate that it is possible for unrelated individuals to assess people’s social media postings for loneliness. Moreover, our findings show the multidimensional nature of online loneliness and its correlated behaviors. Our study shows the advantages of studying a hard-to-reach population through social media and suggests new directions for future studies.
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Raleigh, Edith H., and Susan Boehm. "Development of the Multidimensional Hope Scale." Journal of Nursing Measurement 2, no. 2 (1994): 155–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1061-3749.2.2.155.
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In this psychometric study, a scale to measure hope in chronically ill patients was developed and evaluated. Four hundred fifty participants with a variety of chronic diagnoses completed two forms of the Multidimensional Hope Scale (MHS) (state and trait) and the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS). High levels of internal consistency (alpha = .95) and test-retest reliability (r = .82, p < .001) were estimated for the state form. Good concurrent validity was also indicated with a significant negative correlation between the MHS and the BHS (r = -.45, p < .001). Factor analysis using principal axis factoring and oblimin rotation identified six factors: Resource to Others, Civic Interest, Spirituality, Health, Social Support, and Self-Actualization. The psychometric data suggest a promising tool for measuring hopefulness in physically ill individuals.
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Wang, Donna S., Scott Smith, and Chris R. Locke. "Social Distancing of Depressive and Panic Disorders in an International Sample of Social Work Students." Advances in Social Work 15, no. 2 (2014): 480–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/16477.
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: Using an international sample, this study examined what variables were associated with social distancing among social work students. A total of 1,042 students from seven universities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia participated in a cross-sectional paper and pencil survey that applied the Social Distancing Scale to case vignettes describing an individual with panic disorder or major depressive disorder. The results show that levels of social distancing were related to age, knowing someone with a mental illness, type of disorder, level of conservatism, race, country, professional interest in mental health, level of student, and sex. Overall, 16.8% of the variance was accounted for with these significant variables. Implications for social work education and future research are discussed.
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Hamby, Sherry L. "The Dominance Scale: Preliminary Psychometric Properties." Violence and Victims 11, no. 3 (1996): 199–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.11.3.199.
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Dominance may be the most widely mentioned risk factor for physical assaults on an intimate partner, but empirical studies have found mixed results. A new measure, the Dominance Scale, operationalizes a reconceptualization that examines three different forms of dominance: Authority, Restrictiveness, and Disparagement. Preliminary psychometric characteristics demonstrated good distributions and internal consistency in a sample of 131 undergraduates. In a comparison of Dominance Scale scores with related constructs of interest, Authority was found to be most closely related to a measure of decision-making power and to social desirability. Of the three, Restrictiveness appears to be most closely associated with partner violence, including psychological aggression, physical assault, and injury. Differences among forms of dominance may partially explain the mixed results of past research. Further validation of the Dominance Scale is planned.
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McCray, Janet, Hazel Turner, Barbara Hall, Marie Price, and Gill Constable. "Social care mentorship and employee engagement in the transformation of the Social Care Workforce." Journal of Workplace Learning 26, no. 3/4 (2014): 267–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jwl-08-2013-0055.
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Purpose – This paper presents the findings of a small scale research project exploring mentorship programme participants experiences and learning about their managerial role in an adult social care service seeking to build management practice, resilience and well-being in the context of transformation. Design/methodology/approach – A case study of one public sector workforce development project is presented. The programme involved the use of an individual social care mentorship model and continuing professional development framework to support and engage 60 social care managers in the facilitation of workforce practice transformation. A small scale research study of 15 managers was undertaken. Participants provided a written reflective review and narrative of their individual experience and of learning. The narrative of a purposive sample of 15 managers was analysed using a work by Tamboukou and informed by a work byLabov and Waletzky as a guide. Findings – Thematic analysis of managers' reflective accounts, identified the adaption of coaching methods and the used of role modelling skills in the workplace. Emotional well being and resilience was maintained during the mentorship programme. Structural analysis emphasised sequences or messages in the narrative indicating manager's cooperation with the organisation in achieving its' transformational goals and gaining employee engagement. Research limitations/implications – This is a small scale study exploring one aspect of the project's goals. Practical implications – The project delivery and research findings will be of interest to other organisations considering the implementation of mentorship to support transformation and change. Originality/value – There are very few evaluations and research studies of social care mentorship in the literature and this paper and the case study presented provides interesting new insights into the process and its possible outcomes.
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Ismail, An Nur Nabila, Yuhanis Abdul Aziz, Norazlyn Kamal Basha, and Anuar Shah Bali Mahomed. "DESCONTMARKS: Scale Development and Validation." Asian Social Science 17, no. 7 (2021): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v17n7p13.
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In order to attract more tourists to visit a particular place, destination content marketing plays an important role. Tourism research has recently shown an interest in destination content marketing; especially when tourism destination is advertised. Currently, there is no scale available to measure content marketing for promoting tourism destination. The present study has two primary objectives. First, to investigate the dimension of destination content marketing in destination related context. Second, to develop and validate a multiple-item scale for measuring content marketing towards tourism destination. This study uses a rigorous scale development technique which involves three stages of scale development using 3 separate studies. The study confirms that destination content marketing scale (DESCONTMARKS) comprises of three dimensions, measured with 10 items. The implications of the destination content marketing scale for practitioners, as well as suggestions for future research are provided.
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Sachs, Aaron. "Civil Rights in the Field: Carey McWilliams as a Public-Interest Historian and Social Ecologist." Pacific Historical Review 73, no. 2 (2004): 215–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3641600.
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This article argues that Carey McWilliams's primary emphasis in Factories in the Field was not on the scale of California agriculture, but on the basic civil rights of farm workers, especially free speech, free assembly, and collective bargaining. Only these civil liberties, McWilliams felt, could help equalize social relations and also improve environmental conditions in California agriculture. Furthermore, by interpreting the 1930s agitation on California farms as having deep roots in the past rather than simply being spurred by white refugees from the Dust Bowl, McWilliams launched a radical critique now recognizable in the writings of both New Western Historians and social ecologists.
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Welsh, Rick, Stefan Grimberg, Gilbert W. Gillespie, and Megan Swindal. "Technoscience, anaerobic digester technology and the dairy industry: Factors influencing North Country New York dairy farmer views on alternative energy technology." Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 25, no. 2 (2010): 170–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s174217051000013x.
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AbstractStructural change in the US dairy industry toward fewer and very large farms has fueled interest and government funding of research into the feasibility of constructing anaerobic digesters (ADs) on large operations as a waste management strategy. Some groups opposed to increasing scale and concentration in the livestock sectors, including dairy, also oppose ADs because of the connection with larger scale operations and the potential for facilitating increased concentration in agricultural production. But the connection between AD technology and large scale is a social construction promoted by its incorporation into the debates over agricultural industrialization. The technology per se is essentially scale neutral and its scale-implications are artifacts of design choices, as is seen by its successful application to both very small farms around the world and large-scale agricultural enterprises in the USA. Using a survey of dairy farmers in New York, we find that interest in AD technology occurs at all farm sizes; and that factors other than farm size are important in determining interest in the technology. We conclude that the technoscientific question raised by these findings is: will applications to, and interest by, smaller dairy farmer operators result in shifts in policy and funding priorities toward more diverse agricultural research agendas regarding AD technology?
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KAWECKI, ANDRZEJ. "SUICIDES IN POLAND — ETIOLOGY AND SCALE OF THE PHENOMENON IN 2008–2018." PRZEGLĄD POLICYJNY 136, no. 4 (2020): 134–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.1137.
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For many years, suicides have been the most tragic manifestation of social and personality disintegration in Poland and abroad. Suicide is a subject of interest for psychologists, psychiatrists, pedagogues, sociologists, philosophers, theologians, doctors, and criminologists. The article presents a statistical analysis of suicide attempts based on data from the National Police Headquarters conducted in this fi eld in 2008-2018. In this context, it presents the causes and effects of suicidal behaviour. The analysis of social groups of high suicidal risk, reasons, methods and location of suicide attempts, marital status, and education of suicides are also presented.
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Breidahl, Karen N., Gunnar Gjelstrup, Hanne Foss Hansen, and Morten Balle Hansen. "Evaluation of Large-Scale Public-Sector Reforms." American Journal of Evaluation 38, no. 2 (2016): 226–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1098214016660612.
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Research on the evaluation of large-scale public-sector reforms is rare. This article sets out to fill that gap in the evaluation literature and argues that it is of vital importance since the impact of such reforms is considerable and they change the context in which evaluations of other and more delimited policy areas take place. In our analysis, we apply four governance perspectives (rational-instrumental perspective, rational interest–based perspective, institutional-cultural perspective, and chaos perspective) in a comparative analysis of the evaluations of two large-scale public-sector reforms in Denmark and Norway. We compare the evaluation process (focus and purpose), the evaluators, and the organization of the evaluation, as well as the utilization of the evaluation results. The analysis uncovers several significant findings including how the initial organization of the evaluation shows strong impact on the utilization of the evaluation and how evaluators can approach the challenges of evaluating large-scale reforms.
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Madan, Pankaj. "Social entrepreneurship with vedic wisdom." CASE Journal 13, no. 4 (2017): 528–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tcj-07-2016-0056.
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Synopsis The case illustrates the social entrepreneurial journey of Ramdev who developed Patanjali Yogpeeth as a successful enterprise that provides low-cost physical and mental treatment through the ancient science of yoga. The case provides a perspective on the reasons for the success of Patanjali as a social brand in such a small time scale and also addresses the controversies associated with it. Research methodology Using secondary sources, the study describes the philosophy, infrastructure, innovations, marketing and promotional practices of the organization. It also seeks answers to the challenges faced by the social entrepreneur to fulfill his social mission. Relevant courses and levels The case is best suited for courses on entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and marketing of non-profit organization in both MBA and executive programs. Students who have an interest in starting their own venture or social enterprise will find it more relevant and interesting.