{"title":"The impact of psychosocial determinants of HbA1c level: Implications for social work care management.","authors":"Yong-Mi Kim,Chie Noyori-Corbett","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2555294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2555294","url":null,"abstract":"Diabetes impacts approximately 37.3 million Americans. The majority of HbA1c studies focused on independent variables while there are possibilities of some variables serving as an antecedent to other variables. Furthermore, most of the research has been skewed toward either objective or subjective data, thus overlooking the possible importance of the use of both data sources in tandem. As such, the purpose of this study is to investigate factors impacting glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels both directly and indirectly with the use of both objective and subjective sources of information. The data are obtained from 2017 to 2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). IBM SPSS Amos 29 was used for the purpose of structural equation modeling to investigate paths related to HbA1c levels. The finding shows that diets impact HbA1c levels directly and diet and exercise impact HbA1c indirectly through BMI. Diets alone can directly reduce HbA1c levels, but exercise alone cannot reduce HbA1c levels. Unexpectedly, socioeconomic construct does not have a direct impact on diet or exercise. However, as expected, the depression construct has a significant effect on both exercise and diet.","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"35 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xi Qing , Youran Li , Wei Li , Zhonggui Lu , Rongwu Yue
{"title":"To refine differential land use strategies by developing landscape risk assessment for urban agglomerations in the Yellow River Basin of China","authors":"Xi Qing , Youran Li , Wei Li , Zhonggui Lu , Rongwu Yue","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the aspect of coordinating land use and ecological security in the urbanizing areas, conventional methods are not applicable because of the weakness in addressing landscape ecological risks resulted from drastic land use changes. Attempting to align land use management with landscape ecological risk control in the five state-level urban agglomerations in Yellow River Basin, we analyzed the spatiotemporal changes in land use, identified landscape ecological risks from 1995 to 2020, and investigated the spatiotemporal heterogeneity and interactions of the revealed risk drivers. The results showed, the highest-risk area in the Jiziwan Metropolitan Area increased by 6.1 % in the study period, representing an increase of ten times that in the other agglomerations. Construction land proportion exhibited a stronger positive impact on the ERI in certain local areas. GDP per capita exhibited a broader spatial influence in positively affecting the ERI. Population density indirectly affects ERI mainly through NDVI, construction land, and GDP. Regarding the spatial characteristics and driver interactions of ecological risks, tailored land use measures were proposed for each urban agglomeration by concentrating on the highest-risk areas, areas with rapid risk variation, and ecologically vulnerable areas. This study demonstrates that a clearly defined landscape ecological risk assessment can support improved land use planning and more targeted zoning strategies for ecological security. It offers a methodological reference for identifying ecological risk drivers in large-scale urbanized regions and provides a foundation for implementing differentiated land use and risk management strategies in major river basins.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108162"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144989129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Digitally Mediated ‘Homeland’ Mobilities of West African Diaspora Youth: Diversifying Grounded Engagements, Peer Networks and Leisure Practices","authors":"Sarah Anschütz, Ruth Cheung Judge","doi":"10.1111/glob.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Diaspora youth engage with their ‘homelands’ both through online interactions and in-person visits. Existing migration research predominantly analyses digital media as a means to maintain kinship from afar, construct diasporic identity online and support ‘crisis’ migratory journeys —and has mostly studied digital lives and mobilities separately. Drawing on two multi-sited projects with West African diaspora youth, we argue that changing media landscapes and youth's digital fluency are fostering novel digitally mediated grounded ‘homeland’ engagements. The digital functions as a mobilising infrastructure that drives movement to and shapes interactions in West Africa both due to increasing connectivity and the distinct social and moral norms in which the digital is embedded. Digital media also underpin youth-specific engagements with the ‘homeland’: youth use diverse platforms to invest in intra-generational relationships and pursue leisure. We outline an agenda for future research on digitally mediated diaspora-‘homeland’ relations and key stances for research on digital migration.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.70034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fabienne Kraemer, Peter Lugtig, Bella Struminskaya, Henning Silber, Bernd Weiß, Michael Bosnjak
{"title":"Monitoring Attitudes Over Time: Real Change or the Result of Repeated Interviewing?","authors":"Fabienne Kraemer, Peter Lugtig, Bella Struminskaya, Henning Silber, Bernd Weiß, Michael Bosnjak","doi":"10.1177/00491241251372503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241251372503","url":null,"abstract":"Panel data are often used to study change and stability in social patterns. However, repeated interviewing may affect respondents’ attitudes in a panel study by triggering reflection processes on the surveyed topics (cognitive stimulus hypothesis) <jats:italic>.</jats:italic> Using data from a survey experiment within a probability-based and a nonprobability panel in Germany, we investigate change—and the mechanisms underlying change—in respondents’ abortion attitudes over six panel waves. The experiment manipulated the frequency of receiving identical attitude questions. We estimate multiple-group and longitudinal structural equation models to differentiate change in the measurement of abortion attitudes from “real” attitude change. Results show that repeatedly administering the same abortion questions increases the reliability of respondents’ reported attitudes and the stability of their latent attitudes toward abortion. However, we find no evidence of an increase in attitude certainty and knowledgeability on abortion and only tentative evidence of improved response behavior (increased attitude reliability) due to general survey experience.","PeriodicalId":21849,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methods & Research","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144983398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meihan De , Xiahong Shi , Junting Shi , Jinping Cheng
{"title":"Assessing synergistic effects of GHGs and APs in typical resource-based urban areas:Co-abatement analysis, policy evaluation, and multi-scenario projections","authors":"Meihan De , Xiahong Shi , Junting Shi , Jinping Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108160","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Resource-based cities are widely distributed across China and account for over 40 % of all cities. The synergistic control of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants (APs) in these cities is thus critical for the high-quality green development of China, yet research in this area remains relatively limited. Accordingly, this study first developed a bottom-up integrated emission inventory of GHGs and APs for a representative Chinese mature resource-based city and conducted a detailed synergistic analysis covering the identification of emission correlations, compositional characteristics, spatial distribution, co-emission hotspots, evaluation of sectoral co-reduction, environmental policy effectiveness, and multi-scenario emission projections. Results showed strong correlations between CO<sub>2</sub> and SO<sub>2</sub>, NOx, CO, PM<sub>10</sub>, and PM<sub>2.5</sub>. The spatial distribution of individual emissions of GHGs and APs, as well as their co-emission hotspots, were mainly located in southeastern plains, densely populated areas, industrial parks, and major transport routes. The coke making and chemical fiber industries within the industrial sector exhibited a trend of co-emission reduction for both CO<sub>2</sub> and APs. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the “Three-year Action Plan to Fight Air Pollution” policy in improving the air quality of the study city was confirmed. In the future, the city should adopt more stringent and integrated strategies, including energy substitution, green technology upgrades, and resource recycling, to achieve co-benefits of pollution reduction and carbon mitigation. This study provides a scientific basis for co-control policy development in resource-based cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108160"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144933564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angela Carollo, Hein Putter, Paul H.C. Eilers, Jutta Gampe
{"title":"Analysis of Time-to-Event Data With Two Time Scales. An Application to Transitions out of Cohabitation","authors":"Angela Carollo, Hein Putter, Paul H.C. Eilers, Jutta Gampe","doi":"10.1177/00491241251374193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241251374193","url":null,"abstract":"Models for time-to-event data are based on transition rates between states, and to define such hazards of experiencing an event, the time scale over which the process evolves needs to be identified. In many applications, however, more than one time scale might be of importance. Here, we demonstrate how to model a hazard jointly over two time dimensions. The model assumes a smooth bivariate hazard function, and the function is estimated by two-dimensional <jats:inline-formula> <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\"> <mml:mi>P</mml:mi> </mml:math> </jats:inline-formula> -splines. We provide an R package for the analysis of event history data with two time scales. As an example, we model transitions from cohabitation to marriage or separation simultaneously over the age of the individual and the duration of the cohabitation. We use data from the German Family Panel (pairfam) and demonstrate that considering the two time scales as equally important provides additional insights about the transition from cohabitation to marriage or separation.","PeriodicalId":21849,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methods & Research","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144983288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social ForcesPub Date : 2025-09-03DOI: 10.1093/sf/soaf143
Carla Rowold
{"title":"Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps","authors":"Carla Rowold","doi":"10.1093/sf/soaf143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf143","url":null,"abstract":"Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have received less attention than other gender inequalities, such as gender wage gaps. More generally, research typically focuses on selected sets of life course summary measures, predominantly the employment duration, to explain gender inequalities across the life course. This oversimplifies gender-specific life courses in particular. Taking a life-course perspective and using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe for the Netherlands and West Germany, I propose an innovative combination of machine learning, sequence analysis, and decomposition techniques, allowing for a new perspective on gender inequalities over the life course. The study disentangles which specific life-course elements are most relevant for pension inequalities and quantifies the role of gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender disparities. I find that the duration, timing, order of life-course events, and overall life-course complexity matter for pension income inequalities in both pension systems. Specifically, the duration, timing, and order of care work experiences are more crucial pension predictors than the employment duration, which has been the primary focus of previous research. This holds for the GPGs: the largest shares are attributable to gender-exclusive life-course experiences because of the lack of a male counterpart for female engagement in care work, which is poorly rewarded in pension systems. Future research and policymakers will benefit from considering such gender-specific combinations of life-course experiences for the gender pension gap and other inequalities.","PeriodicalId":48400,"journal":{"name":"Social Forces","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144987387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social NetworksPub Date : 2025-09-03DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2025.07.004
Miguel A. González-Casado , Alejandro Cruzado Rey , Miroslav Pulgar Corrotea , Christopher McCarty , José Luis Molina , Angel Sánchez
{"title":"Collecting a large number of alters in egocentric network research: A comparative analysis of three approaches","authors":"Miguel A. González-Casado , Alejandro Cruzado Rey , Miroslav Pulgar Corrotea , Christopher McCarty , José Luis Molina , Angel Sánchez","doi":"10.1016/j.socnet.2025.07.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socnet.2025.07.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article presents an analysis of the impact of the number of alters elicited in an ego network on the structural properties of those networks. There continues to be debate about the pros and cons of eliciting a fixed number of alters for each respondent versus allowing the respondent to list as many or few alters as they would like. This article explores a random assignment of respondents to three treatment groups – (1) a fixed number of alters set at 30, (2) a variable number of alters up to 45, and (3) a variable number of alters up to 45 with a 20 alter minimum. The results indicate that, from a non-structural perspective, all levels of emotional proximity, interaction contexts, genders, and ages are consistently sampled across the three treatment groups. At the structural level, the behavior of individual metrics is also largely similar. However, the most significant differences arise in the collective behavior of structural metrics—specifically, in their correlation structure, the amount of redundant information each variable provides, and the diversity and interpretability of the observed structural variability. When a data collection strategy constrains network size, it reduces the sparsity of the correlation matrix, effectively decreasing the number of independent global variables needed to describe network structure and making these global variables less interpretable. In other words, networks constructed with a survey that limits size tend to be more similar to each other, exhibiting less structural diversity and yielding differences that are harder to interpret. However, we discuss how these differences may simply be mathematical artifacts, without necessarily implying a clear advantage in choosing one treatment over another. Finally, we argue that the field needs a targeted study to answer whether the differing numbers of alters listed is a function of network size.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48353,"journal":{"name":"Social Networks","volume":"84 ","pages":"Pages 78-86"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144932941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heat vulnerability and resilience-oriented solutions for diverse urban residential communities in Guangzhou, China","authors":"Tong Chen , Junyi Hua , Shifu Wang , Shi Yin","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108150","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108150","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global warming, which is increasing the frequency of extreme heat events, poses a significant threat to human health and the economy. To mitigate these effects, researchers have used heat vulnerability indices to identify high-risk areas and develop improvement strategies. However, the current research has focused predominantly on census tracts or grids, overlooking the community level, thus hindering the implementation of targeted policies to enhance resilience across diverse communities. To address this, we leveraged high-resolution data to assess heat vulnerability at the community level in central Guangzhou. We identified 1788 communities and classified them into four types: commercial housing communities, traditional neighbourhoods, work-unit compounds, and urban villages. The heat vulnerability index was calculated and analysed to highlight their key characteristics and differences, and improvement frameworks tailored to each community's management characteristics were developed. Urban villages exhibited the greatest heat vulnerability, with >50 % of these communities at vulnerability levels 4–5, characterised by high exposure and sensitivity and low adaptive capacity, necessitating improvements in green spaces and cooling facilities. In contrast, traditional neighbourhoods exhibited the lowest heat vulnerability, with only 11.8 % at levels 4–5, owing to better access to cooling facilities. Commercial housing communities and work-unit compounds exhibited similar vulnerabilities. Based on the management process of each community type, this study proposed distinct frameworks for enhancing resilience. These frameworks suggest substantial environmental upgrades for urban villages managed by local government, with tailored measures for other community types. The heat vulnerability maps and improvement frameworks presented here will provide scientific guidance for urban heat management and contribute to healthier urban environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108150"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144933562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Naushaan Ahmad,Sally F Kelty,Phillip S Kavanagh,Thomas Tran
{"title":"Crossing the Line: A Critical Systematic Review of Escalation Crossover Offending in Online Child Sexual Exploitation.","authors":"Naushaan Ahmad,Sally F Kelty,Phillip S Kavanagh,Thomas Tran","doi":"10.1177/15248380251361065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380251361065","url":null,"abstract":"In this systematic review, we provide a summary of the current knowledge and understanding of escalation crossover offenders who transition from online to subsequent contact child sexual offenses. A systematic search of 14 databases was conducted to identify literature relevant to escalation crossover offenders. Thirty-two studies met the inclusion criteria. Findings reveal different profiles of escalation crossover from child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) offending, online solicitation (OS) offending, and commercial offending. Risk factors and characteristics of CSEM escalation crossover offenders included age, prior criminal history, sexual inclination toward children, cognitive distortions, severity, extremity, and frequency of CSEM engagement, communicating or attempting to communicate with children, and networking with other CSEM offenders. Risk factors and characteristics of OS escalation crossover offenders included race, age, marital/relationship status, employment status, education level, sexual inclination toward children, cognitive distortions, psychiatric disorders, and prior criminal history. Risk factors and characteristics of commercial escalation crossover offenders included race, age, employment status, marital/relationship status, and denying a history of contact offending. Behavioral themes were also identified for OS and commercial escalation crossover offenders. Findings and future directions are discussed in relation to practical, policy, and research implications.","PeriodicalId":54211,"journal":{"name":"Trauma Violence & Abuse","volume":"36 1","pages":"15248380251361065"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144960151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}