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{"title":"Voting participation in grassroots elections and rural residents’ subjective well-being in China: The mediation roles of social class and fairness","authors":"Wendao Liu,&nbsp;Jack Jin Tai Li,&nbsp;Jie Chen","doi":"10.1111/asap.12411","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.12411","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Drawing upon three waves of micro-level data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) collected during the period of 2015 to 2018, the study empirically examines the relationship between voting participation in grassroots elections and individual-level SWB in rural China. The empirical results indicate that those rural residents who participated in villagers’ committee elections are associated with higher levels of SWB. Furthermore, the findings based on partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) also reveal that the positive relationship between rural residents’ voting participation and their SWB is mediated by a chain effect of subjective social class and perceived social fairness. Significant heterogeneity of such mediation roles across different demographic groups is detected. The findings of this research highlight the importance of promoting the engagement of residents in grassroots-level elections as a means of enhancing social harmony.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Public Significance</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study demonstrates that voting participation in rural elections in China is associated with individual subjective well-being, with this effect mediated by individual social status and sense of fairness. These findings underscore the importance of civic engagement in promoting personal well-being, highlighting the need for policies that encourage widespread participation in grassroots governance.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"24 3","pages":"1189-1207"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141671839","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}

{"title":"Community engagement, service learning, and underrepresented college student success: An examination of multiple cohorts","authors":"Tai Do,&nbsp;Ashley S. Hufnagle,&nbsp;Geoffrey Maruyama,&nbsp;Isabel Lopez-Hurtado,&nbsp;Wei Song,&nbsp;Andrew Furco","doi":"10.1111/asap.12408","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.12408","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous literature has demonstrated the positive benefits of Service Learning (SL) participation on college student outcomes. This study explored whether SL participation during the first year of college appeared to be a potentially useful community engagement and pedagogical lever for enhancing college students’ academic achievement, retention, and graduation outcomes. Particular attention focused on college students from groups under-represented in higher education. We used propensity score matching to create comparable treatment (SL participation) and control (non-SL participation) groups. We then examined the role of SL participation in the first-year on college student outcome using four matched samples of college students who were first-years in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Overall, we found that participation in SL during the first college year benefits college students' long-term academic outcomes (cumulative GPA, cumulative credits earned, year-to-year retention, and graduation within 4–6 years), particularly for college students from under-represented backgrounds.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"24 3","pages":"1226-1251"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.12408","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141368965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The identities of employed students: Striving to reduce distinctiveness from the typical student","authors":"Vladislav H. Grozev,&nbsp;Matthew J. Easterbrook","doi":"10.1111/asap.12403","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.12403","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Endorsement of the employed student identity can provide social support for employed students or protection from negative intergroup comparisons. However, not much is known about what identity aspects or characteristics comprise the employed student identity and how they become important and central to that identity. Using data from 215 employed university students in the UK, we investigated two research questions (RQ's) in this mixed-method study. RQ1. What are the identity aspects that participants ascribe to the employed student identity? RQ2. Are identity aspects that distinguish employed from non-employed students, and are considered more suitable for employed versus non-employed students, more central and more important to the employed students’ self-concept? A thematic analysis categorized the identity aspects that participants self-generated into 14 distinct categories, with the most important categories being hard-working, being organized, having motivation, and discipline. Multilevel analyses of identity aspects within individuals revealed that distinctiveness was negatively associated with the importance and centrality of aspects, whereas suitability for employed students was positively associated with the importance and centrality of aspects. We offer practical value through revealing important identity aspects which inoculate employed students against negative intergroup comparisons, and theoretical value through suggesting future avenues for employed students’ identity construction.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Public Significance Statement</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Being an employed student carries a social cost but defining as one can help in obtaining social support or protecting from negative comparisons with non-employed students. We identify fourteen categories of aspects that can define oneself as an employed student (e.g., motivation, hard work) with employed students experiencing those aspects which are more suitable to them as more identity-defining, and those aspects which differentiate them from non-employed students as less identity-defining.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"24 3","pages":"1252-1273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.12403","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140967571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The baggage and the benefits that travel with the F word: Transnational feminism and its discontents","authors":"Özge Savaş,&nbsp;Lauren E. Duncan,&nbsp;Hanna M. Smith,&nbsp;Abigail J. Stewart","doi":"10.1111/asap.12404","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.12404","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examined how locally situated and transnationally circulated meanings of feminism interact forming implicit cultural meanings, and how these meanings about feminism appear in women's accounts of their own work and identifications. Using twenty-four oral histories, we identified four implicit cultural meanings about feminism: (1) “Mainstream” feminism is/as white and middle-class; (2) Feminists are lesbians; (3) Feminism is/as hostile to men; and (4) Feminism is/as a “western” ideology. In addition, we identified three strategies activists used to respond to these meanings: (1) distancing themselves from the word “feminist/feminism”; (2) explicitly embracing the term and clarifying its meaning; and (3) shifting from an individual to a structural level of analysis. Examining these discourses in a multinational sample with women of various racial-ethnic and indigenous identities, we found that implicit cultural meanings often identified in the US or as western interact with locally found meanings affecting activists in the Majority World. Activists’ use of these implicit cultural meanings complicated prevalent, but often simplistic, narratives about feminists, feminism, and identity.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"24 3","pages":"925-955"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141128132","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}

{"title":"Stressors in the family-work system, family-friendly management practice assessment and dedication to work: A comparative analysis between fathers and mothers","authors":"Liat Kulik","doi":"10.1111/asap.12401","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.12401","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The study explored the correlations between stressors in the family-work system, the assessment of family-friendly management practices, and work dedication among parents in Israel, with a comparison between fathers and mothers. The research sample included 317 Jewish parents, each with at least one child under the age of 10 (158 mothers, 159 fathers). Quantitative methods were employed, and data were collected by the Israeli Panels Research Institute. Women tend to make more accommodation requests for childcare and experience greater discrimination at work than fathers. Accommodation requests and assessments of non-family-friendly management practices correlated with feelings of being discriminated against among both men and women. However, discrimination correlated negatively to work dedication only among women. Negative experiences at work contribute more to explaining the dedication of women to work than the dedication of men.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Public significance statement</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>The findings indicate that for both genders, perceptions of management as non-family-friendly and the frequency of accommodation requests are positively correlated with experiences of discrimination among working parents. However, the experience of discrimination is negatively correlated with work dedication only among mothers. These findings underscore the importance of organizations pursuing a family-friendly agenda. Advancing such an agenda is pivotal, as it could mitigate experiences of discrimination and thereby contribute indirectly to employee well-being.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"24 3","pages":"1309-1337"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.12401","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140934430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adaptation or transformation? A system-justification perspective on pro-environmental beliefs and behaviors","authors":"Johann Suchier,&nbsp;Christophe Demarque,&nbsp;Fabien Girandola","doi":"10.1111/asap.12402","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.12402","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the need for profound systemic change to deal with environmental issues, this is not happening. At a psycho-sociological level, System Justification Theory has mostly explained environmental inaction by greater environmental denial on the part of individuals motivated to justify the economic system. In this article, and in line with research in political science and sociology, we propose to also take into account the existence of different beliefs concerning the social change needed to deal with environmental problems. While some do advocate for profound transformations of current socio-economic systems, others propose to maintain and adapt them. Moreover, these beliefs have different implications in terms of the pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) to be adopted by individuals. We therefore hypothesized that, independently of environmental denial, individuals who justify the economic system would adhere more to adaptation beliefs (e.g., individualization of responsibility) and reject transformation beliefs (e.g., incompatibility between economic growth and environmental preservation); and that these beliefs would mediate the effects of system-justification on PEBs depending on whether or not they challenge the economic system. A correlational study (<i>N</i> = 277) corroborated our hypotheses. The importance of taking into account the system-challenging (or not) nature of some pro-environmental beliefs and behaviors is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"24 3","pages":"1112-1132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.12402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140886760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Attributing extreme weather to climate change: State Park employees as institutional actors","authors":"Trevor S. Lies,&nbsp;Syed Muhammad Omar,&nbsp;Alyssia Roennengart,&nbsp;Glenn Adams,&nbsp;Byron Santangelo","doi":"10.1111/asap.12400","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.12400","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Researchers in environmental psychology celebrate the potential for state and national parks to inspire civic engagement in the issue of climate change. Yet, prevailing conceptions of nature may reflect ongoing colonial concerns, such that parks may represent a space to avoid thinking about—rather than reckon with—escalating ecological crises. In this paper, we approach the topic of climate change in state parks from a perspective informed by decolonial theory. In particular, we report a mixed-methods study with (<i>N</i> = 51) employees at parks in Kansas and throughout the United States regarding the extra-individual factors that impact their tendency to subjectively attribute extreme weather to climate change. Findings indicate that park employees were less likely to attribute extreme weather to climate change in parks with (1) less institutional support for climate change mitigation, and (2) increased presence of white conservatives. Responses to a question about the purpose of parks and open-ended reflections reveal that employees conceive of parks as a space for recreation wherein their primary role in relation to visitors is to supply “fun” and “natural” experiences for consumption. We reflect on conceptions of parks and nature and discuss a conception of parks better suited to confront the escalating ecological crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"24 3","pages":"1089-1111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140668280","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}

{"title":"Pride and prejudice: What influences Australians’ attitudes toward changing the date of Australia Day?","authors":"Eliza Mortimer-Royle,&nbsp;Steph Webb,&nbsp;Sarven McLinton,&nbsp;Yvonne L. Clark,&nbsp;Michael Watkins","doi":"10.1111/asap.12399","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.12399","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Australia Day, celebrated on January 26, is rooted in Australia's colonial history and causes pain for many of Australia's First Peoples. This study was the first to investigate predictors of Australians’ attitudes toward the date, while exploring whether intervention may improve attitudes toward a date-change. An Australian community sample (<i>N</i> = 559) were recruited through social media for an anonymous survey. Participants indicated their support for date-change, and responded to a variety of demographic (e.g., Age) and sociodemographic (e.g., Racism) questions, then being randomly allocated to an intervention statement, indicating their final attitudes post-intervention. Findings suggest sociodemographic factors were more important predictors than demographics, with Racism (<i>b***</i> = .50), Traditionalism (<i>b**</i> = .18), Patriotism (<i>b*</i> = .13), and Age (<i>b*</i> = .10) significantly predicting participants’ date-change resistance. Racism demonstrated the most predictive strength, underscoring the importance of a date-change, with those open to change often identifying any alternative date should not offend First Peoples. In addition, intervention produced significant improvement in participants’ date-change attitudes, among those who were able to become more open to a date-change; however, differences were not present between intervention conditions. This illuminates the factors predicting Australians’ attitudes toward Australia Day, while demonstrating a potential path toward date-change through intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"24 3","pages":"777-802"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.12399","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140610017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pervasive and pernicious underestimation of Asian Americans' support for affirmative action","authors":"Nicholas P. Alt,&nbsp;Jin X. Goh","doi":"10.1111/asap.12398","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.12398","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Polling data show that 69% of Asian American voters favor affirmative action. However, Asian Americans were featured prominently by the organization Students for Fair Admissions, which played a central role in the Supreme Court's decision to overturn affirmative action. This may distort people's estimates of Asian Americans’ support for affirmative action. Two studies (<i>N</i> = 695) found that people, even Asian Americans, underestimated Asian Americans’ support for affirmative action. Three follow-up studies (<i>N</i> = 1,625), where we manipulated perceived Asian Americans’ support for affirmative action or the Supreme Court's decision, found no evidence that such information affected White people's support for affirmative action. In Study 6 (<i>N</i> = 365), however, we found that Asian Americans were more likely to agree with the Supreme Court's decision to overturn affirmative action when they saw that a majority of Asian Americans supported the court ruling (relative to a control condition in which no information was presented). This suggests that the widespread misperception of Asian Americans’ support for affirmative action and their central role in the Supreme Court cases may ultimately create a self-fulfilling prophecy that could shift individual Asian Americans’ own attitude about affirmative action.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"24 3","pages":"757-776"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.12398","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140322832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The unheard echoes of equality: perceptions of wealth inequality in the Czech Republic","authors":"Filip Červenka,&nbsp;Robin Maialeh","doi":"10.1111/asap.12397","DOIUrl":"10.1111/asap.12397","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines various attitudes to wealth inequality in Czechia and the broader CEE region and provides valuable insights into global research on inequality perceptions. By focusing on this, to date, underexplored region, our research contributes to the current understanding of wealth inequality at the global scale. The findings revealed remarkable similarities between Czech and US respondents in terms of their perceptions and preferences. On average, participants estimated that the top 20% of the population in the Czech Republic holds approximately 48% of total wealth, while expressing a preference for a lower wealth share of around 34% in the ideal scenario. These results are in alignment with previous research that highlighted a prevalent lack of awareness of actual levels of wealth inequality combined with a consistent preference for the reduction of inequality levels. By elucidating these patterns, this study contributes to the growing body of literature in the field.</p>","PeriodicalId":46799,"journal":{"name":"Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy","volume":"24 3","pages":"666-690"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/asap.12397","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140371330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}