Values and happiness among Asian adolescents: a cross-national study

Despite policy efforts to increase adolescent happiness, their impact has been unsatisfactory. Their limited impact may be rooted from a discrepancy between values that adolescents pursued and those that the policies were based on. To provide policy implications, our study aims to identify prevailing values for South Korean, Japanese, and Chinese adolescents and to examine the relationship between the values and self-rated happiness (SRH). A cross-sectional study was conducted using survey data collected on approximately 2000 middle and high school students (7th to 12th school grade) from each country in 2008. Firstly, an explanatory factor analysis was conducted to identify salient adolescent values from each country. Subsequently, a multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted for each population group to examine the relationship between the identified values and adolescent SRH after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics. We found that benevolence and altruism were positively associated with adolescent SRH in all three population groups. Patriarchy was associated with SRH positively in Chinese yet inversely in Japanese. Success pursuit was inversely associated with SRH in Korean. Policy efforts based on values of communities or social harmony may benefit adolescents’ SRH in these three countries.     

Exploring gaps in the online economic inclusion of persons with disabilities in Korea

ABSTRACT

This paper explores the difference in the online economic activities of people with and without disabilities in Korea. We conducted a multiple regression analysis to investigate the impact of socioeconomic characteristics, internet access, and internet skills on online economic activities. Our sample, based on a 2016 dataset that included 1554 people with disabilities and 6004 people without disabilities, was developed using quota sampling based on gender, age, and residence. We determined that individuals with disabilities were more likely to engage in online economic activities if they had higher levels of education, lived in urban areas, were employed, or had greater internet skills. Individuals without disabilities were more likely to engage in online economic activities if they were women, had higher levels of education, were employed, lived in a two-generation or more household, or had greater internet skills. For both people with and without disabilities, the level of education, employment status, and internet skills positively contribute to online economic activites. We also determined that education level, participation in economic activity, living in a two-generation or more household, and internet skills had a statistically significant influence on online economic activity for people both with and without disabilities. These results highlight the importance of education and internet training for people with disabilities, as well as social support systems that help them learn to use the internet in diverse ways through both formal and informal networks. The study also underscores the importance of information and communications technology that adequately addresses people’s needs.     

How to be Resilient? Local Philanthropy as a Collective Response to Natural Disasters

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - When communities are struck by natural disasters, human service organizations play an important role in supplementing...     

A modified LGB method for detecting significant effects based on a half-normal probability plot

In analyzing data from unreplicated factorial designs, the half-normal probability plot is commonly used to screen for the ‘vital few’ effects. Recently, many formal methods have been proposed to overcome the subjectivity of this plot. Lawson (1998) (hereafter denoted as LGB) suggested a hybrid method based on the half-normal probability plot, which is a blend of Lenth (1989) and Loh (1992) method. The method consists of fitting a simple least squares line to the inliers, which are determined by the Lenth method. The effects exceeding the prediction limits based on the fitted line are candidates for the vital few effects. To improve the accuracy of partitioning the effects into inliers and outliers, we propose a modified LGB method (hereafter denoted as the Mod_LGB method), in which more outliers can be classified by using both the Carling’s modification of the box plot (Carling, 2000) and Lenth method. If no outlier exists or there is a wide range in the inliers as determined by the Lenth method, more outliers can be found by the Carling method. A simulation study is conducted in unreplicated $2^4$ designs with the number of active effects ranging from 1 to 6 to compare the efficiency of the Lenth method, original LGB methods, and the proposed modified version of the LGB method.     

新环保法视角下环保NGO公益诉讼分析

2014年新修订的环保法赋予了环保NGO公益诉讼的主体资格,可以说是环境公益诉讼史上的一座里程碑。本文通过对近年来环保NGO参与环境公益诉讼面临问题及原因的分析,提出:由于新环保法相关条款的限制性规定、公益诉讼原告诉求保障不足、我国环保NGO自身能力较弱等原因,环保NGO在新环保法颁布后参与环境公益诉讼仍可能面临一定的阻力。应该完善新环保法相关公益诉讼条款、出台激励环保NGO参与环境公益诉讼的具体措施、加强环保NGO的能力建设,以促进新环保法的有效施行。     

中国英语的本质、根源及发展——基于语言变异理论的解读

语言变异理论基于语言系统异质说,对英语变体的形成具有较强的解释力。如果将世界英语看做是一个有序异质的系统,不同区域所使用的英语都有本土化的异质因素(共核英语除外),当这些异质因素在本土社团中的影响越来越大并开始传播时区域变体就会产生。中国英语就是这样一个典型实例。作为一种英语变体,其语法规范以母语国家的英语语法为标准,擅长表达中国社会特有的经济、文化等概念和事物,在句式和语篇诸多层面受到汉语思维的影响。中国英语是英语全球化与本土化相结合的产物,是社会发展的必然结果。中国英语作为一种新的语言变体,受到学界越来越多的关注,其发展方向对语言学的研究和我国的英语教学都将产生重要的影响。     

领导权力分享对个体创意倡导的双刃剑效应研究

 创新对当代组织的生存和发展至关重要，它一般包括创意生成和创意推行两个阶段。已有研究更集中于探讨如何促进创意的产生，对创意推行的研究却相对匮乏。创意倡导是对新颖想法的积极推广，被认为是创新推行的关键。促进个体的创意倡导是推行创新的有效举措，然而理论和实践较少关注如何促进个体的创意倡导。        基于工作要求-资源模型，探讨领导权力分享对个体创意倡导的影响，提出领导权力分享对个体创意倡导同时存在增益效应和损耗效应，在二者之间构建非线性的理论模型，进一步考察个体创新效能感在其中的调节作用。收集一家IT教育科技企业的62个团队共291名个体的问卷数据，使用HLM 7.0进行跨层次的层级回归方法检验领导权力分享对个体创意倡导的影响以及个体创新效能感的调节作用。        研究结果表明，领导权力分享与个体创新倡导之间存在倒U形关系，即当领导权力分享处于适中水平时，个体有最多的创意倡导行为。个体创新效能感在领导权力分享与个体创新倡导的关系中起调节作用，即当个体创新效能感较低时，领导权力分享与个体创意倡导之间呈倒U形关系；而当个体创新效能感较高时，领导权力分享与个体创意倡导之间呈正向的线性关系。        从领导权力分享角度探讨创意倡导的前置因素，是对创新研究的一个有益补充。基于工作要求-资源模型分析领导权力分享的双刃剑效应，拓展了对领导力影响的认识。从实践意义上，研究结果启示管理者在促进个体创意倡导时，要警惕过度领导权力分享的消极作用，并且提高个体的创新效能感。     

攀西经济区康养旅游发展现状SWOT分析及策略选择

攀西地区作为典型跨区域经济区,应充分运用自身康养资源禀赋优势,完善区域协同发展机制,努力发展特色阳光康养旅游。采用SWOT分析法,对攀西经济区康养旅游的发展现状进行专题探讨,提出建立特色名片丰富康养宣传、完善区域协同发展机制、优化政府调控机制、搭建专业人才集聚平台、加快康养旅游硬环境建设五项发展策略。     

‘Miss mum’: mind and affective experience of Korean learners identified with autism spectrum and cognitive difficulties

Responding to the call for culturally informed research on autism spectrum (AS) to allow for the provision of appropriate services, this paper qualitatively explores the affective experience of five Korean learners identified with AS and cognitive difficulties by listening to their voices. The learners, supported by the use of visual aids and a choice of their preferred mode of communication, expressed the complexity of their inner experience that encompassed abilities as well as difficulties. The findings highlight the commonalities of experience between Korean and non-Korean individuals with AS, along with some aspects specific to the Korean cultural context.     

Estimation of structural mean breaks for long-memory data sets

In long-memory data sets such as the realized volatilities of financial assets, a sequential test is developed for the detection of structural mean breaks. The long memory, if any, is adjusted by fitting an HAR (heterogeneous autoregressive) model to the data sets and taking the residuals. Our test consists of applying the sequential test of Bai and Perron [Estimating and testing linear models with multiple structural changes. Econometrica. 1998;66:47–78] to the residuals. The large-sample validity of the proposed test is investigated in terms of the consistency of the estimated number of breaks and the asymptotic null distribution of the proposed test. A finite-sample Monte-Carlo experiment reveals that the proposed test tends to produce an unbiased break time estimate, while the usual sequential test of Bai and Perron tends to produce biased break times in the case of long memory. The experiment also reveals that the proposed test has a more stable size than the Bai and Perron test. The proposed test is applied to two realized volatility data sets of the S&P index and the Korea won-US dollar exchange rate for the past 7 years and finds 2 or 3 breaks, while the Bai and Perron test finds 8 or more breaks.