{"title":"Allocating scarce resources to women candidates: turning context into strategy","authors":"Brian L. Werner","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80021-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80021-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The academic literature on women public officials has identified several political contexts which either hinder or advance the inclusion of women. This essay critically examines this literature and creates an empirically tested model of contextual influences on the election of women to state legislatures. The lessons from the literature and this model are used to devise strategies for political actors interested in increasing the presence of women in elective office.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 121-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80021-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459361","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}
Daniel J. Svyantek, Steven E. Ekeberg, Roberto F. Figueroa, Michael E. Marinis
{"title":"A comparison of methods for the evaluation of significance: Evidence from organizational change interventions","authors":"Daniel J. Svyantek, Steven E. Ekeberg, Roberto F. Figueroa, Michael E. Marinis","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80015-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80015-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Current statistical methods are complemented by Bayesian statistical methods when evaluating change in applied settings. Bayesian methods are a flexible tool for investigating the effects of change interventions. Bayesian statistics may be used to simultaneously test the statistical and practical significance of change in organizations. A description of the evaluation of a three-year study in six manufacturing plants of a large, United States corporation is provided. The results of traditional statistical methods are compared to Bayesian statistics for this field study. A discussion of (1) the results of this evaluation and (2) the applicability of the Bayesian approach for the evaluation of organizational change is presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 23-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80015-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459102","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":"Listening to their voices: understanding the “meaning” of parental coping with childhood cancer","authors":"Barbara K. Chesney, Mark A. Chesler","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80023-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80023-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We utilized parents' self-reports of coping adequacy in an effort to understand the meaning of parental coping with childhood cancer. In general, parents reported that they handled their child's illness and its aftermaths very well. The analysis further indicated that dealing with one's own emotions, managing family dynamics and routines, and playing an active role in the medical system were the pre-eminent coping tasks that parents had to accomplish and were the key dimensions of parents' positive assessments of the adequacy of their coping. This evidence in parents' own voices advances our understanding of what parents of children with cancer <em>mean</em> when they describe and evaluate their own coping tasks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 177-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80023-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459383","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":"Aggression and violence in households of crack sellers/abusers","authors":"Eloise Dunlap, Bruce D. Johnson, Julia W. Rath","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80024-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80024-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While the consequences of aggression and violence in family settings have been extensively documented, the intergenerational processes by which such behaviors are modeled, learned, and practiced have not been firmly established. This research was derived from a larger ethnographic study of crack sellers and their family systems and provides a case study of one kin network in Harlem where many adults were actively involved in alcohol and hard drug use and sales. “Illuminating episodes” suggest the various processes by which aggression and violence were directly modeled by adults and observed and learned by children.</p><p>Aggression and violent behavior were entrenched in the Jones and Smith family, as was drug consumption and sales. Adults often fought over drugs or money and feuded while under the influence of crack and alcohol. They used aggression and violence against family members as retribution or punishment for previous aggressive and violent acts. Aggressive language and excessive profanity were routine adult behaviors and a major means of communication; jokes and insults led to arguments, often followed by fights. Most adults who were abused physically or sexually as children did the same to their own as when one mother was knifed by her daughter. Children rarely obtained special attention and support and had almost no oppurtunity to learn nonaggressive patterns. Rather, youths learned to model adult behaviors, such that the intergeneration transmission of aggression and violence was well established in this kin network.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 191-217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80024-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28514541","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":"Defining exchange rate parity in terms of GDP per hour of work","authors":"Robert R. Blain","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80017-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80017-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Present methods of defining currency exchange rates are complex, obscure, and biased in favor of developed countries. The 1980 International Comparison Project revealed the bias and provided a criterion for an unbiased definition of exchange rate parity. The definition proposed here is Gross Domestic Product per hour of work estimated by GDP in billions of national currency units divided by total population in millions of persons. GDP per hour of work defines exchange rate parity the way standards of weight and measure are defined, namely, with an objective criterion. The validity of GDP per hour of work as a standard of exchange rate parity is supported by strong correlations with ICP commodity price levels in 1980 and with IMF exchange rates in 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1985 and 1993. GDP per hour of work makes the definition of exchange rate parity fair, objective and visible, simple, free, timely, and independent of any reference currency. The gradual movement of exchange rates toward GDP per hour of work would encourage fair trade, a precondition to free trade, to benefit all countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 55-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80017-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459137","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":"Individual, organizational and contextual antecedents of perceived conflict among administrators in mental health service delivery systems","authors":"William L. Dougan, Lynn M. Mulkey","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80014-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80014-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Prior exploratory investigation indicates a weak association between conflict and the effectiveness of mental health service delivery systems (MHSS) and suggests the need for a clearer articulation of the nature and causes of conflict in that context. As part of a wider investigation of MHSS effectiveness, this paper separates the effects of individual, organizational, and contextual variables on perceptions of conflict among directors of mental health service organizations. We employ ordinary least squares regression analysis on data collected from a survey of directors of mental health care service organizations in eight counties in the northwest United States to examine the relationship between the previously mentioned measures. Several independent variables seemed to account for some observed variation in perceived conflict: (1) individual attributes (ascriptive [sex, race, age] and achieved [level of education, tenure in job, board memberships]); (2) organizational and interorganizational characteristics (age and size of organization, centrality [in influence networks and patient referral networks], frequency of services provided, relevance of services provided, degree of inclusion, and amount of activity devoted to interorganizational cooperation, contact and client referral); and, (3) contextual factors (urban/rural location) Perceived conflict is observed as</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(96)80014-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459079","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":"Supplementary education for African American children at risk","authors":"William R. Morgan, Sandra Ezekiel","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(95)80004-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(95)80004-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>African-American preadolescent children attended Saturday programs on African heritage and history offered at an African-American heritage center located in their neighborhood. Assessments of participants and control groups of nonparticipants at the end of years one and two indicated that attending the program increased knowledge of Africa, positive attitudes about Africa, and preferences for African and African-American materials in the school curriculum. Attendance was unrelated to the children's self-evaluations of their performance of the student role identity after year one and only weakly related to their school achievement test scores after year two. These results provide mixed support for three hypotheses about how supplementary education programs can raise the educational outcomes for at-risk youth—developing ethnic identity, student role identity, and academic interest.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"3 2","pages":"Pages 147-163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(95)80004-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56458942","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}
Diane S. Kaplan, B. Mitchell Peck, Howard B. Kaplan
{"title":"A structural model of dropout behavior: a longitudinal analysis","authors":"Diane S. Kaplan, B. Mitchell Peck, Howard B. Kaplan","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(95)80006-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(95)80006-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using four wave panel data, a theoretically informed structural model of junior high school antecedents of high school dropout behavior is estimated, using LISREL VII. The model specifies a linkage between negative school experiences, both academic and disciplinary, and later dropout behavior that is mediated by self-derogation in a school context and contranormative behavior including both avoidant/withdrawal and deviant acting out behavior. Subjects (<em>n=</em> 1,714) were tested three times as junior high school students and were later interviewed as adults. Results provided strong support for the predicted relationship between students' feelings of self-rejection in a school setting, stimulated by negative academic experiences reported during junior high school, and their likelihood of dropping out of high school with truancy behavior during junior high school as a mediating variable. Implications for future research and dropout prevention programs are explored.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"3 2","pages":"Pages 177-193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(95)80006-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56458981","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":"Community development corporations as neighborhood advocates: a study of the political activism of nonprofit developers","authors":"Edward G. Goetz, Mara Sidney","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(95)80010-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(95)80010-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A number of arguments exist that suggest that community development corporations (CDCs) represent an apolitical, technocratic, and non-democratic arm of the neighborhood movement. This paper evaluates that,argument by examining national level studies, and using Minneapolis and St. Paul as case studies. The findings reveal that CDCs retain a high level of political activism primarily through the creation of new institutions, citywide coalition bodies, to carry out their political agenda. The findings also suggest that government influence over CDCs is greater in the area of program strategies than political activity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"3 1","pages":"Pages 1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(95)80010-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459011","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":"Explaining environmental concern and action in Canada","authors":"Neil Nevitte, Mebs Kanji","doi":"10.1016/S1068-8595(95)80014-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1068-8595(95)80014-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>OECD data indicate that there have been significant improvements in the environmental quality of advanced industrial states over the last decade or so. At the same time, other recent opinion data show that the Canadian public, like others, have become increasingly concerned about the environment. This paper uses Canadian national survey evidence to empirically evaluate four prominent and theoretically plausible explanations—<em>new politics, economics, health consciousness and cognitive mobilization</em>—for the apparent surge in environmental concern and activism. The results of LISREL analysis indicate that two of the four explanations—cognitive mobilization and health consciousness—consistently have significant total effects on both environmental concern and activism. When considering only the direct effects on environmental activism, environmental concern, along with three of the four candidate explanations—<em>cognitive mobilization, new politics and health consciousness respectively</em>—turn out to be significant. Only the economics argument remains insignificant in both instances.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84178,"journal":{"name":"Applied behavioral science review","volume":"3 1","pages":"Pages 85-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1068-8595(95)80014-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56459067","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}