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Early marriage and employment in Vietnam 越南的早婚和早就业

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International Journal of Social Welfare Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.70041

Kieu-Dung Nguyen, Diep Ngoc Nguyen, Nguyen The Kien, Hai-Anh Doan

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Paths to none-take-up: Why people in need are not included in public welfare systems 通往不接受的道路：为什么有需要的人不包括在公共福利体系中

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International Journal of Social Welfare Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.70040

Johan Vamstad

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Latin America's grassroots approach to social innovation: Expanding the international debate 拉丁美洲社会创新的基层方法：扩大国际辩论

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International Journal of Social Welfare Pub Date : 2025-08-26 DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.70038

Maurizio Busacca, Mario Coscarello

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Experiences of older adults and widows with the government allowance programmes in rural Bangladesh 孟加拉国农村老年人和寡妇参加政府津贴方案的经验

IF 1.4 3区社会学

International Journal of Social Welfare Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.70033

Sharmin Akter Shitol, Sara Nur, Mrittika Barua, Ving Fai Chan, Lynne Lohfeld, Abu Shonchoy, Nathan Congdon, Atonu Rabbani

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Populists dealing with experts and policy legacies: Social policies in Czechia and Slovakia during the Covid-19 pandemic 民粹主义者应对专家和政策遗产：新冠肺炎大流行期间捷克和斯洛伐克的社会政策

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International Journal of Social Welfare Pub Date : 2025-08-17 DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.70034

Steven Saxonberg, Tomáš Sirovátka, Eduard Csudai

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A multidimensional approach to attitudes toward the causes of poverty: A case study of South Korea 对贫困原因的态度的多维方法：以韩国为例

IF 1.2 3区社会学

International Journal of Social Welfare Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.70031

Jongmin Yang

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Is Job Guarantee a solution to work precarisation? A normative analysis and an empirical approach for the Uruguayan case 工作保障是工作不稳定的解决方案吗？乌拉圭案例的规范分析和实证方法

IF 1.2 3区社会学

International Journal of Social Welfare Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.70032

Andrés Dean, Fernanda Diab, Juan Olano, Ivone Perazzo, Agustín Reyes, Guillermo Sanchez-Laguardia, Juan Ignacio Urruty

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Social assistance policies and food insecurity among the elderly in India in 2017Cafiero–2018 2017年印度老年人的社会援助政策和粮食不安全

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International Journal of Social Welfare Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.70029

Vidhya Unnikrishnan

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What explains the smoking prevalence disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians? 如何解释澳大利亚土著居民和非土著居民之间的吸烟率差异？

IF 1.2 3区社会学

International Journal of Social Welfare Pub Date : 2025-07-13 DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.70030

Hien Nguyen, Tinh Doan

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Fertility anxiety among Chinese women in the context of fertility policy relaxation: A systematic literature review 生育政策放宽背景下中国女性生育焦虑：系统文献综述

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International Journal of Social Welfare Pub Date : 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.70028

Yiqing He, Noor Eshah Tom Abdul Wahab, Haslina Muhamad

{"title":"Fertility anxiety among Chinese women in the context of fertility policy relaxation: A systematic literature review","authors":"Yiqing He, Noor Eshah Tom Abdul Wahab, Haslina Muhamad","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.70028","url":null,"abstract":"Against the backdrop of China's comprehensive relaxation of fertility policies, the anxiety experienced by Chinese women during fertility decision-making is widely discussed. To outline the current state of research on Chinese women's fertility anxiety, we systematically reviewed and analyzed 50 relevant studies published between 2015 and 2024, focusing on the conceptualization of fertility anxiety, assessment methods, influencing factors, and theoretical frameworks. The findings indicated that fertility anxiety is a multidimensional psychological state encompassing cognitive anxiety (emerging from rational evaluation of potential consequences of fertility decisions) and emotional anxiety (shaped by sociocultural norms, gender role expectations, and available social support). Recently, research on fertility anxiety has begun to integrate both cognitive and emotional dimensions, which is crucial for designing effective intervention strategies and policy response mechanisms. However, unified and standardized multidimensional measurement tools are still lacking. Studies have often combined quantitative and qualitative methods to indirectly depict the characteristics of fertility anxiety. Regarding influencing factors, research has demonstrated the interconnections between individual attributes, family background, the sociocultural environment, and policy systems, which jointly shape women's fertility anxiety. Various theoretical frameworks have been employed to explain the complex these factors, highlighting the multifaceted and multilayered nature of fertility anxiety. Future research should further advance indigenous theory development and cross-cultural comparison, deepen the tracking of dynamic mechanisms of fertility anxiety, and develop context-sensitive and ecologically valid assessment tools to reveal the interactions among individual, social, and cultural factors, thereby providing a theoretical basis for optimizing policy design and constructing multi-level support systems.","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"34 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144536872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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