Quality of College Life (QCL) of Students: Further Validation of a Measure of Well-being

This paper reports a study designed to further validate a measure of quality of college life (QCL) of university students (Sirgy, Grzeskowiak, Rahtz, Soc Indic Res 80(2), 343–360, 2007). Two studies were conducted: a replication study and an extension study. The replication study involved surveys of 10 different college campuses in different countries. The results of the replication study provided additional nomological (predictive) validation support of the measure based on a theoretical model mapping out the antecedents and consequences of satisfaction with college life. With respect to the extension study, the focus was to further test the nomological validity of the QCL measure by arguing and empirically demonstrating that the consequence of QCL is life satisfaction. The extension study involved a survey of three college campuses in different countries. The results were also supportive of the nomological validity of the QCL measure.     

我国人口迁移研究的回顾、总结与讨论

本文从人口学的角度简单总结了我国人口迁移研究的主要内容 ,进而讨论了人口迁移研究的基本步骤 ,最后提出了我国人口迁移研究过程中存在的问题。     

贫困残疾人的识别及扶贫政策评价

文章利用中国残联第二次全国抽样调查数据,采用probit、工具变量与分位回归等方法研究了残疾人收入水平的影响因素,得出结论认为具有残疾程度高、家庭规模大、受教育程度低和不经常参加公共活动等特征的残疾人更容易陷入贫困。此外,在控制一系列个体、家庭变量后,文章还对中国现有的残疾人扶贫政策进行评价,并提出相关政策建议。     

对纵贯数据统计分析的认识

在介绍了纵贯数据的设计思想及优缺点基础上,从统计方法的角度讨论了纵贯数据在社会科学中所能发挥的作用。纵贯数据的优点在于其可以帮助我们进行对总体异质性的识别、对因果机制干预的研究、对因果效应的研究和对状态变换的研究。以一些基于纵贯数据的研究设计为实例,文章阐述了在研究中假设与数据紧密衔接的重要性,以及利用统计方法分析纵贯数据时需要考虑的要点。但由于存在着由人类和人类行为内在变异性导致的这一无法避免的根本性缺陷,纵贯数据并不能解决所有问题。因而在纵贯数据的辅助下,研究者需要对社会现象有更深入的理解,将其进行更合理的概念化,并加以更精准的数据分析。     

加强研究中国Internet用户人口学特征

本文分析了中国Internet用户人口学特征研究的相对薄弱性、时代紧迫性、学科发展必要性和现实可行性,提出了该课题研究的基本思路和主要内容。     

The place of odds ratios in the study of place,race and differential occupational opportunities

Demography - During the last few decades the study of racial differences in occupational and economic attainment has progressed rapidly, both in terms of theory and research. The ecological study...     

Geography of European Life Satisfaction

The vast majority of studies analyze life satisfaction at individual and/or country level. This study contributes with analysis of life satisfaction at the (sub-national) province level across multiple countries. The purpose of this study is to call attention to spatial aspects of life satisfaction. Literature does not discuss the fact that life satisfaction in one province may be related to life satisfaction in other provinces. This study shows that there are well-defined happiness clusters in Europe, but also some outliers.     

中国非自愿移民研究的回顾与分析——基于CSSCI（1998—2008）的研究

运用CSSCI数据库检索,得到1998至2008年间在中国非自愿移民研究领域111篇研究论文。通过对111篇文章从社会调查方法的使用情况、学科分类、基金论文数量、作者及作者机构、高频被引论文情况、研究热点主题六个方面进行分析．了解中国非自愿移民研究现状。     

基于中国人口实践的制度人口学研究内容探析

制度人口学主要是从制度变革视角探讨人口行为方式．研究制度对人口行为的制约、调整扫引导作用。本文通过对制度人口学已有研究的综述．结合中国人口实践探讨了制度人口学的研究内容。笔者认为。制度人口学的研究内容包含基础理论研究和应用理论研究两个主要方面：从两种生产理论推演出“削度决定人口”的命题。由此得出两种生产理论是制度人口学研究的理论源泉和指导思想：两种生产理论和制度创新理论是制度人口学的基本理论：具体人口制度研究除了人口生育制度之外,笔者还将人口死亡制度、人口流迁制度、人口教育制度、人口就业制度、人口保障制度及人口文化制度等纳入了人口制度研究的范畴。     

The Assessment of Quality of Life in Transitional Neighborhoods

Quality of life (QoL) is being considered as one of the fundamental concepts in contemporary era. It tries to assess the level of general welfare of the communities. Urban transitional neighborhoods possess specific situation and as a result present distinctive QoL. The major objective of this study is to identify and measure the QoL dimensions in urban transitional neighborhoods using both objective and subjective indices pertaining to Darvazeshemiran neighborhood of Tehran. In order to accomplish this and gather needed data, 244 questionnaires were distributed among Darvazeshemiran’s residents. This study suggests that there exists low level of QoL in the study area. That is 64.3 % of the residents were dissatisfied with the prevailing level of QoL. This in turn is associated with the transitional nature of this neighborhood. The residents were strongly dissatisfied with regard to the environmental qualification as opposed to accessibility status. Furthermore, this study identified five objective factors respectively regarding QoL. There exists low correlation between subjective and objective dimensions. That demands simultaneous consideration of both objective and subjective dimensions. It is argued that individual treatments of each could not accurately represent the QoL of residents.     

Economic Growth and Social Cohesion: Evidence from the Organization of Islamic Conference Countries

This study contributes in the literature by investigating the impact of social cohesion on economic growth using a panel data of 44 OIC countries over the period 1986–2010. The study has employed a comprehensive measure of social cohesion that covers a large number of social indicators such as inequality, trust, terrorism, and social conflicts. Our study finds out that the growth effect of social cohesion is positive and significant in the Muslim world. Finding of the study are shown to be robust to different control variables, different specifications, econometric techniques and outliers.     

The social structure of social problems in New York state

A comparative study of the 52 upstate New York counties replicated a previous state level study that did a principal components analysis of social problems and attempted to predict them by aspects of social structure. In the New York counties the percent Democrat predicted various welfare measures. Population density predicted health and crime problems, and affluence. When population density was controlled, affluence related only to crimes of property. Contrasting with the state study, political competitiveness (per cent voting) was related to few variables.     

Investigating Adolescent Health-Related Quality of Life: From a Self-Identity Perspective

The aim of the study was to investigate the relation between self-identity and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in adolescence. This study assumed that four aspects (i.e. personal, social, ability, and academic identity) of identity firmness could predict adolescent’s HRQOL more than four aspects of identity importance. Meanwhile, this study also hypothesized that psychological and social relationships domains of HRQOL could be largely explained by the concept of identity firmness. One hundred and ninety-eight female adolescents participated in this study. Each participant completed a booklet containing the measures of the Questionnaire of revised edition of identity importance (QII-R), the Questionnaire of revised edition of identity firmness (QIF-R), the WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan version, and Visual-analogue HRQOL items. This study administered multiple regression analyses to test our hypotheses. The results demonstrated the concept of identity firmness could predict adolescent’s HRQOL more than the concept of identity importance. The results also supported our hypotheses that psychological and social relationships domains of HRQOL could be largely explained by the concept of identity firmness. In general, this study supported our hypotheses that the concept of identity firmness is a crucial predictor to adolescent’s HRQOL.     

Choice of study discipline and the postponement of motherhood in Europe: The impact of expected earnings,gender composition,and family attitudes

Theory suggests that the field of study may be at least as consequential for fertility behavior as the duration and level of education. Yet, this qualitative dimension of educational achievement has been largely neglected in demographic studies. This article analyzes the mechanisms relating the field of study with the postponement of motherhood by European college-graduate women aged 20–40. The second round of the European Social Survey is used to assess the impact of four features of study disciplines that are identified as key to reproductive decision making: the expected starting wage, the steepness of the earning profile, attitudes toward gendered family roles, and gender composition. The results indicate that the postponement of motherhood is relatively limited among graduates from study disciplines in which stereotypical attitudes about family roles prevail and in which a large share of the graduates are female. Both the level of the starting wage and the steepness of the earning profile are found to be associated with greater postponement. These results are robust to controlling for the partnership situation and the age at entry into the labor market.     

人口容量是一个历史范畴——对人口容量范畴的再认识

研究人口容量的范畴归属是研究人口理论的重要基础。站在不同的研究角度上,学者们已对人口容量这个范畴研究出了许多成熟的结论,在此基础上,我们从历史唯物辨证观出发,从人口容量本身和人类发展情况等方面对其作出了论述,提出人口容量是历史范畴的观点。     

Determinants of quality of rural life in Nigeria: The women's view

This study investigated rural women's perception of quality of life. The study attempted to determine (a) the extent to which rural women in Nigeria actually understand the term “quality of life’, (b) the components of a good quality of rural life in Nigeria and (c) to compare the present quality of life with that enjoyed by the last generation. Based on a sample survey of 308 rural women in eleven villages in Oyo State; the study found that the ability to have plenty of children, good health, wealth and good personality were highly perceived as measures of essential components of quality of life in rural areas. Overall, the women indicated that their present living conditions in rural areas were better than the conditions in which the last generation lived.     

Regional variation in acceptance of Indonesia's family planning program

Indonesia's family planning program is regarded as a major success.Survey data from 1997 reveal that rates of contraceptive use vary dramatically amongIndonesia's 27 provinces, from a high of 67 percent of ever married women currently using contraceptives in the province of North Sulawesi, to a low of 19 percent current users in East Timor and28 percent in Aceh. This study uses both a quantitative analysis of the 1997 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey, and a qualitative study carried out in July of 2000 to understand regionalvariation. The study identified a small number of factors that show a clear relation with levels of contraceptive use. Media exposure and education are the strongest and most consistent predictors of levels of contraceptive use, and appear to be the surest strategies for promoting family change. But the study also showed that the process of social change is subjectto culturally and historically specific local factors whose presence and importance is difficult to predict. Our study of regional variation in contraceptive use illustrates the range and complexityof obstacles faced by Indonesia's leaders in attempting to forge a single nation fromsuch a diverse and far-flung population. Although the creation of Indonesia in the space of just half a century is a monumental achievement, the project is clearly not yet complete.     

Validity and Reliability of Subjective Social Indicators: The effect of different measures of association

In an international research project, a meta analysis of multitrait-multimethod matrices was used to evaluate the effects of characteristics of survey measurement instruments on the quality of survey data. The analyses in this project were done on the basis of polychoric/polyserial correlations. The result of such a study can be used to correct for measurement errors if the correlation in the substantive study is also a polychoric/polyserial correlation. It is, however, doubtful if these quality estimates of survey measurement instruments are appropriate for studies based on the most frequently used Pearson correlations. In this paper, the general approach will be discussed first. After that, the results with respect to validity and reliability estimates, obtained using two different measures of association, will be compared: the polychoric/polyserial correlations and the Pearson correlations. This study suggests that the differences between estimates of the reliability for scales with different numbers of categories are quite large, while all other effects remain approximately the same. The reasons for the differences will also be given. All the results are based on experiments containing questions with respect to satisfaction with life and aspects of life. Thus the study provides estimates of validity and reliability on measures of satisfaction with life and aspects of life which can be used in practice for the prediction and optimization of data quality and for correction of the data with regard to measurement error.     

安徽省城镇人口规模结构及其演变的分形研究

1990年代以来,安徽省城市发展速度明显加快。为了定量分析安徽省城镇人口规模结构的变化规律,运用分形方法,以1996年、2001年和2006年的安徽省城镇人口统计数据为样本,分别计算了城镇人口规模结构的分形维数。计算结果表明,近十年来安徽省城镇人口规模结构发生积极的变化,城镇人口规模结构已由低水平均衡分布向首位型分布转变,中间位序的城镇数量还比较多,并据此提出了城镇化发展的对策建议。