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UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Cate Weeks, David Ashley, Mamie Peers, Lori Bachand, Shane Bevell, Regina Vaccari, Jennifer Vaughan

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Prolonged Job Insecurity On The Psychological Well-Being Of Workers, Cynthia Rocha, Jennifer Hause Crowell, Andrea K. Mccarter

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Job insecurity has been increasing since the 1980s. While researchers have found job insecurity to be negatively associated with multiple indicators of well-being for workers and their families in cross sectional studies, less is known about the long term effects of prolonged job insecurity. Specifically, there is a need to collect measures of both insecurity and its consequences at multiple time periods. The current study followed workers for 3 1/2 years to assess the effects of chronic job insecurity on psychological distress. Results indicate that while workers reported increased feelings of security over time, there were longer term negative effects …

The Poet/Practitioner: A Paradigm For The Profession, Rich Furman, Carol L. Langer, Debra K. Anderson

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This article explores a new paradigm or model for the professional social worker: The poet/practitioner. The training and practice of the poet are congruent with many aspects of social work practice. An examination of the practice of the poet, and the congruence of these practices to social work, reveals a paradigm with the capacity to focus social workers on the essential values of our profession. This paradigm, which highlights the humanistic, creative, and socially conscience role of the social work practitioner, may be particularly important today given the medicalization of social problems and the conservitization of society.

"Put Up" On Platforms: A History Of Twentieth Century Adoption Policy In The United States, Michelle Kahan

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Adoption is closely intertwined with many issues that are central to public policy in this country-welfare and poverty, race and class, and gender. An analysis of the history of adoption shows how it has been shaped by the nation's mores and demographics. In order to better understand this phenomenon, and its significance to larger societal issues, this analysis reviews its historyfocusing on four key periods in which this country's adoption policy was shaped: the late Nineteenth Century's 'orphan trains'; the family preservation and Mothers' Pensions of the Progressive Era; World War II through the 1950s, with secrecy and the beginnings …

Altruism Or Self-Interest? Social Spending And The Life Course, Debra Street, Jeralynn Sittig Cossman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The primacy of self-interested individuals is often regarded as the appropriate basis for US social spending decisions. One thread of this argument has advanced age-based self-interest and politically powerful elderly to explain why Social Security and Medicare have thrived in a policy environment that has seen retrenchment in other programs. We argue that crude self-interest and individual programs considered in isolation are insufficient to understand social spending preferences. We use General Social Survey data to contrast conventional and critical explanations for understanding the role of age in preferences for social spending. Factor analyses demonstrate that social spending preferences cluster into …

Job Satisfaction Among Tanf Leavers, Jeff Scott

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Using means tests, ANOVA, contingency methods and polytomous logistic regression techniques, I analyze job satisfaction survey data provided by former welfare recipients in Illinois. Mean job satisfaction in the sample is high. Wages, work hours, professional status, having employer sponsored health care and being in good health have sign ficant positive effects on job satisfaction. Contrary to popular assumptions regarding welfare dependency, time on welfare positively affects post- TANF job satisfaction. I discuss implications of these findings in the context of policy debates regarding TANF reauthorization.

The Practice Of Research In Social Work. Rafael J. Engel And Russell K. Schutt., Edward Cohen

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Rafael J. Engel and Russell K. Schutt, The Practice of Research in Social Work. Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, 2005. $74.95 papercover.

Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through 20th Century Europe. Victoria De Grazia.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through 20th-century Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. $ 29.95 hardcover.

White Backlash And The Politics Of Multiculturalism. Roger Hewitt.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Roger Hewitt, White Backlash and the Politics of Multiculturalism. New York: Cambridge University press, 2005. $ 75.00 hardcover, $ 29.99 papercover.

War On The Family: Mothers In Prison And The Families They Leave Behind. Renny Golden., Amy C. Conley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for

Charity, Philanthropy, Public Service Or Enterprise: What Are The Big Questions Of Nonprofit Management Today?, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This essay takes a birds-eye view of the topic of nonprofit management, looking at what I see as the big issues of nonprofit management.

The Eastern Echo, September 1, 2006, Welcome Back Edition, Section A, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

2006 September, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for September 2006.

Multicultural Competency Instrumentation: A Review And Analysis Of Reliability Generalization, Todd W. Dunn, Timothy B. Smith, Jared A. Montoya

Faculty Publications

This article reviews the internal consistency reliability of multicultural competency instrumentation. Additional psychometric properties are qualitatively reviewed for commonly used instruments and 5 other measures of multicultural competency that have not previously been reviewed in the literature. Results indicate that the most widely used instruments have generally acceptable internal consistency reliability across different populations and settings. Limitations of research conducted on multicultural counseling competencies are identified, and recommendations for future research are provided.

August 31, 2006, Council On Academic Affairs

Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Hilltop 8-31-2006, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

No abstract provided.

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2000s

No abstract provided.

Dimensions In Health: Defining And Understanding Vulnerable Populations In New Mexico, Anne Mattarella

Global, Rural, & Cultural Health Book Series

Contributors to volume 1: Keri Black, Carol Capitano, Marjorie Cypress, Maribeth Doren, Martha Faulkner, Gail Guiterrez, Dora Hernandez, Judy Liesvald, Ann Marie McCarthy, Rebecca Mayo, Yolanda Morales, Mary Mugavin, Mary Ann Osuchowski-Sanchex and Ruby Williams. Foreword by Jennifer B. Averill. Contributors to volume 2:Maribeth Doren, Keri Black, Mary Ann Osuchowski-Sanchez, Martha J. Faulkner, Yolanda Madrid Morales, Rebecca Mayo

Measuring Social Stressors In Organizations: The Development Of The Interpersonal Conflict In Organizations Scale (Icos), Valentina Bruk Lee

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Interpersonal conflict in organizations has been recognized as a leading social stressor across occupations with detrimental effects on employee well-being and organizational outcomes. However, reliable and valid measures of conflict are scarce and even the most widely used scales are limited by weaknesses in construct definition. In order to address the need for an improved measurement tool, the 63-item Interpersonal Conflict in Organizations Scale (ICOS) was developed. The ICOS was based on a comprehensive conceptualization of conflict that defines the construct on the basis of three definitional components: disagreement, interference, and negative emotion (Barki & Hartwick, 2004). In addition, the …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 031, Number 05, August 29, 2006, Grand Valley State University

2006-2007, Volume 31

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

August 29, 2006, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 04, August 28, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, August 28, 2006, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• University Business President Albrecht
• Athletic Council
• School of Graduate Studies
• Key Issues & Action Items
• Provost Ray Coward

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, August 27, 2006, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2006

No abstract provided.

Individual And Familial Stressors Among Rural Nebraskan, Bilingual, Paraprofessional Educators, Rochelle L. Dalla, William E. Lopez, Vicky O. Jones, Yan Ruth Xia

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Individual (e.g., depression, learning styles) and familial (e.g., social support) factors affecting the psychosocial well-being of bilingual, rural Nebraska, paraprofessional educators were examined. Of 26 participants, 15 were first and 5 were second generation Hispanic immigrants. All were currently (n = 20) or formerly (n = 6) involved in an online, distance education, bachelor’s degree program in elementary education, with English as a second language certification. Results from data analyses are presented, as are suggestions for working with unique populations.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, August 27, 2006, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2006

No abstract provided.

Impotence Of Being Earnest: Status Of The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules For The Treatment Of Prisoners In Europe And The United States, Sara A. Rodriguez

ExpressO

The Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners were approved with the most earnest of good intentions at the First United Nations Crime Congress in 1955, in an attempt to establish “what is generally accepted as being good principle and practice in the treatment of prisoners and the management of institutions.” In spite of their noble purpose, implementation of these rules has been somewhat of a disappointment. Europe has adopted the Standard Minimum Rules wholesale. The United States, by contrast, has declined to adopt a set of standards patterned after the Standard Minimum Rules, relying instead on pre-existing correctional …

Washington University Record, August 25, 2006

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

August 25, 2006 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

SWOSU Faculty Senate August 25, 2006 Approved Minutes