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{"title":"Cultural value orientation and attitudes toward workplace gender equity across generations: Insights from Delhi and National Capital region, India","authors":"N. Siddiqi, Bhumika","doi":"10.36922/ijps.422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/ijps.422","url":null,"abstract":"The present research aims to explore the role of Hofstede’s cultural values and conformity in shaping people’s attitudes toward workplace gender equity (WGE). Furthermore, it explores the mediating role of conformity between cultural values and WGE using the Hayes Process Macro. Results reveal that both cultural values and conformity significantly predict employees’ preference for gender equity, and conformity significantly mediates the relationship between ones’ cultural orientation and their attitudes toward gender parity. Furthermore, gender, sector, and generation-based comparisons on the aforementioned variables indicate significant differences. The study has important implications as it proffers a theoretical model that explains the various contextual factors responsible for employees’ gender-related attitudes.","PeriodicalId":73473,"journal":{"name":"International journal of population studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139269111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Re-conceptualizing music education in the older adult life course: A qualitative meta-synthesis","authors":"Tuulikki Laes, Andrea Creech","doi":"10.36922/ijps.383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/ijps.383","url":null,"abstract":"The Seoul Agenda by UNESCO has set goals to develop arts education, ensuring that learners from all social backgrounds have lifelong access to arts education in a wide range of community and institutional settings. However, the purpose of lifelong learning for individuals beyond labor-market age has been largely overlooked, making it challenging to convince institutions, funders, and policymakers of its worth. The value accorded to the complex forms of lifelong learning in later life and the widely recognized health impacts of music on aging body and brain are the principal considerations to take into account when studying the effects of music education on older adults. In this study, we address the state-of-the-art research concerning older adults and music education in studies published in major peer-reviewed music education journals since the Seoul Agenda by UNESCO. We present the findings from a systematic literature review, followed by a qualitative meta-synthesis, focusing on the values, beliefs, and key concepts conveyed in the included studies. The findings of this study indicate that older adults are often portrayed narrowly and stereotypically, corroborating the issues in the sociology of aging. Our study highlights insights into the conceptualizations of music learning and participation in later life course and what these might mean for the policy and practice of later-life music education and the educational opportunities for older adults more broadly.","PeriodicalId":73473,"journal":{"name":"International journal of population studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135088514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Barriers to learning at a U3A in Lebanon: A structurationist perspective","authors":"Hany Hachem, Marvin Formosa","doi":"10.36922/ijps.375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/ijps.375","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the barriers older learners experience at a University for the Third Age (U3A) in Lebanon. Contemporary literature often categorizes these barriers into dispositional, situational, and institutional realms, arising as individual or structural phenomena. This article envisages barriers as the (un)intended consequences of (inter)actions among different institutional agents — namely, learners, teachers, and administrators — within the learning environment. Following Anthony Giddens’ dualistic understanding of agency and structure, the article aims to transcend the typical dichotomic approach in understanding barriers older persons face when engaging in lifelong learning. Shedding light on this new perspective on barriers as (un)intended consequences of agents’ (inter)actions at the U3A, this work raises two research questions: (i) what barriers confront older learners when engaging in non-formal learning? Moreover, (ii) taking older learners’ perspective, how are these barriers (re)produced in the (inter)actions of different institutional agents? Following a reflexive deductive thematic analysis of interview data with ten members at a U3A in Lebanon, this article generates two types of barriers. First, barriers as outcomes of interactions involving learners with teachers and administrators (curricula issues, teachers and teaching methods, language of instruction, class protocol, and accessibility). Second, barriers as outcomes of interactions involving learners (unwillingness and inability to socialize, as well as social bias and prejudice). This paper concludes that the actions of institutional agents at the U3A (re)produce its modus vivendi and modus operandi and calls for the promotion of continuous dialog and reflexivity as countermeasures against bias and exclusion to enhance the U3A’s age-friendliness.","PeriodicalId":73473,"journal":{"name":"International journal of population studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135590003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding relationships between socioeconomic, household crop diversification, and child malnutrition in rural Jhargram, West Bengal, India","authors":"Kanchan Paira, Moatula Ao","doi":"10.36922/ijps.0324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/ijps.0324","url":null,"abstract":"In India, child malnutrition remains a huge, persistent challenge to tackle with due to its complex and multidimensional nature. Malnutrition among children under 5 years old can lead to cognitive and physical impediments. Therefore, the objective of this study is to understand the determinants and the linkage of child malnutrition with socioeconomic characteristics and household crop diversification. In this study, the primary data collected from 200 households in the rural area of Jhargram district in West Bengal, India, during April to May 2017 were analyzed. For determining the child nutritional status, the World Health Organization (WHO) growth standard measurement was analyzed using the WHO-anthro software. The transformed Herfindahl index was calculated to illustrate the crop diversification. Statistical methods, such as bivariate analyses and logistic regression models, were used for data analysis. The study found that 36% of the children in the sample had stunted growth, 35.5% were underweight, and 22.5% were identified as wasted. It was found that cropping intensity was very high (183%) in the region, with low crop diversification. Results from logistic regression models found a significant relationship between child malnutrition and birth order, mother’s age, caste status, type of house, and farm size of the household. The study also found that low crop diversification of a household was significantly associated with higher malnourishment level among the children. Taken together, these findings indicate the importance of socioeconomic and demographic characteristics as well as crop diversification for improving the nutritional status of children.","PeriodicalId":73473,"journal":{"name":"International journal of population studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135873009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Human development, population, and environmental burden: Historical perspective and a peek into the future","authors":"Niels C. Lind","doi":"10.36922/ijps.474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/ijps.474","url":null,"abstract":"The human species has continuously progressed in health, wealth, education, and population worldwide since industrialization. A measure of this advance, the Development Progress Index (DPI), is applied here to the world from 1770 to the present and then projected to the year 2100 for three shared socioeconomic pathways. Concurrently, our total environmental impact continues to grow with population and consumption. However, progress has been uneven across regions. While China is projected to outdistance the United States, India is projected to surpass both this century. The population keeps growing, and the average individual DPI-value has now grown enormously - by a factor of 17 since 1770. The environmental burden to sustain the human lifestyle is reflected by the world’s gross domestic product that has meanwhile grown by a factor of 155. If such human progress is to continue apace, the gross world product will be more than 2000 times higher by 2100. Already now a concern, the environmental impact is projected to grow five times larger by 2100. Human environmental impact needs a measure and attention.","PeriodicalId":73473,"journal":{"name":"International journal of population studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136235399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An intentional random mathematical model for immigration: A case study of Spain","authors":"Rafael Company, Lucas Jódar, Sheila Torres","doi":"10.36922/ijps.478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/ijps.478","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a random discrete mathematical population model for immigration. This model incorporates not only rational factors, such as the economic gradient between destination and origin countries, geographical factors, and regulatory laws but also hidden intentional factors, such as the political interests of governments and the involvement of migrant smuggling by criminal organizations, which exploit immigration as a strategic tool. These non-rational factors are modeled as sudden, random arrival flow waves, represented by a Poisson distribution. The study’s time frame is short to ensure the reliability of economic forecasts for the coming years. Although the study focuses on Spain, the proposed approach is applicable to other geographic areas with appropriate data. The results obtained from this model can be applied to predict the national budget necessary for host countries to address this complex social phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":73473,"journal":{"name":"International journal of population studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136235420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining the effect of demographic and socioeconomic factors on household food insecurity in Lideta subcity, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia","authors":"Ephrem Tadesse Goda, Terefe Degefa Boshera, Mengistu Ketema Aredo","doi":"10.36922/ijps.1060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/ijps.1060","url":null,"abstract":"Food security and vulnerability assessments in Ethiopia have traditionally focused on rural regions. In contemporary policy discussions, urban food security has garnered significant attention. Notably, there is a lack of empirical substantiation of urban food security and its impact on the livelihoods of city dwellers as they grapple with escalating food prices. The present study aims to determine the extent of household food insecurity and identify correlated factors among 692 households in three randomly selected Woredas (districts) within Lideta sub-city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Six Ketenas (villages) were selected using a probability proportional-to-size technique from three Woredas between February and March of 2023. Data were collected through a validated survey administered by trained individuals, and household income and expenditure were used to measure food insecurity access. Chi-square (&amp;chi;2) and logistic regressions were used to identify factors associated with food insecurity in the region. The overall prevalence of household food insecurity in the study area was found to be 66.5%. Regression results indicate that seven of the hypothesized nine demographic and socioeconomic determinants of household food insecurity significantly influence the probability of experiencing food insecurity (p < 0.05). Household food expenditure, household dependency ratio, age, sex, educational status of the household head, access to savings and credit, and the urban productive safety net program were identified as significant determinants of urban household food insecurity. This study underscores that food insecurity in Ethiopia is not limited to rural areas but also affects urban regions, mainly due to high urban poverty rates. Strategies to reduce household size, improve the household dependency ratio, and enhance socioeconomic factors can empower households to build resilience against food insecurity. Policymakers should adopt measures to stabilize the food insecurity improve living standards, and enhance the economic capabilities of urban households.","PeriodicalId":73473,"journal":{"name":"International journal of population studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136317260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parent burnout in the COVID-19 pandemic: In the context of personality traits, perfectionism, and demographic variables","authors":"Elif Yöyen, Zeynep Betül Topçu, Tülay Barış, Ayşe Bahar Duyar","doi":"10.36922/ijps.387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/ijps.387","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to examine the burnout levels of parents during the COVID-19 pandemic within the framework of personality traits, perfectionism, and demographic variables. Data were derived from Personal Information Form, International Personality Inventory Short Version, the Big Three Perfectionism Scale&amp;ndash;Short Form, and Parent Burnout Assessment. In total, 584 parents (333 mothers, 251 fathers, Mage = 39.93; SD = 6.33) living in T&amp;uuml;rkiye during COVID-19 lockdown participated in the survey. Results showed that the level of parent burnout differs according to the parent&amp;rsquo;s gender, the child&amp;rsquo;s age, the time spent with the child, the perception of the emotional relationship with the spouse, and the work form during the pandemic. Personality differences in parent burnout were explored according to the Five Factor Theory of Personality. A high level of neuroticism, a high level of introversion, and a low level of conscientiousness were found to be risk factors for parent burnout. Results indicated that parent burnout is also positively related to perfectionism, in particular self-critical perfectionism, and does not differ according to parents&amp;rsquo; COVID-19 experiences. This study provides some useful information and guidelines for mental health professionals in preventive and therapeutic practices for parent burnout that may have negative effects on parents, children, and families. It is also a rare study that included the representation of fathers in the context of parent burnout.","PeriodicalId":73473,"journal":{"name":"International journal of population studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134909363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social contact with COVID-19 as a factor influencing corona anxiety in India","authors":"Debaraj Das, Suchitra Pal, Brian M. Hughes","doi":"10.36922/ijps.1211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/ijps.1211","url":null,"abstract":"Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is probably the worst in history, in terms of its impact on mental health. In this context, a number of possible moderators of mental health have been studied, but research on whether direct social contact with COVID-19 influences what has been referred to as &amp;ldquo;corona anxiety&amp;rdquo; is largely absent, especially in developing countries. This study attempted to examine the impact of demographics, risk perception, and social contact with COVID-19 on the levels of corona anxiety in India, based on a sample of 776 participants from both the general public (n = 550) and hospital nursing staff (n = 226), comprising 373 male (48.1%) and 403 female (51.9%) participants. Overall, nurses were found to exhibit higher level of corona anxiety than the general public. High-risk perception (&amp;beta; = 0.268, p < 0.001) was found to be positively associated with corona anxiety. Female participants (&amp;beta; = 0.31, p < 0.001) were found to exhibit higher level of corona anxiety compared to their male counterparts. Regression analyses indicated that social contact with COVID-19 significantly aggravated corona anxiety across the study sample. Older people showed higher level of corona anxiety compared to younger people. For men, the impact of social contact with COVID-19 on corona anxiety was mostly prevalent among the individuals in the oldest age group (41 years or older), whereas for women, the escalating impact of social contact with COVID-19 on corona anxiety was discernible throughout all age groups.","PeriodicalId":73473,"journal":{"name":"International journal of population studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135113547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE REFUGEES AND REFUGE APPLICANTS’ VOICE IN THE CITY","authors":"Laís Gonzales de Oliveira","doi":"10.36922/ijps.438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/ijps.438","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an analysis of the struggles faced by refugees and refugee applicants as they seek recognition and the effectiveness of their rights within Brazilian cities, particularly focusing on full political participation at the municipal level. Employing juridical-sociological research methods, including theoretical bibliographical research and critical analysis, it is concluded that the formal recognition of the right to the city holds significant relevance, serving both as a catalyst for the concrete realization of these rights and as a means to affirm the identity of individuals involved. Although the law may result in the maintenance of injustices, the institutionalized means of participation should not be abandoned but reconstructed.","PeriodicalId":73473,"journal":{"name":"International journal of population studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136131109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}