Household Assets,the Role of Government Assistance,and Depression Among Low-Income Families in Shanghai

As China’s economy is rapidly changing from a planned to a capitalist economy, many families find themselves financially struggling. In some cases, conflicting values and attitudes may contribute to mental health challenges such as depression that would lead to further feelings of helplessness and immobilization. Using a random sample of 1006 low-income households from Pudong District of Shanghai, China, this study aims to examine the relationships between household assets, beliefs about government as the primary way to improve economic circumstances and self-reported depressive symptoms. In addition, this study investigates the mediation effects of beliefs that government is the best change agent for improved life circumstances on the relationship between household assets and depression. We found those who indicated that government was the main means for attaining a better life had significantly higher depression levels whereas higher numbers of household assets were associated with lower depression levels. We also found that viewing government as the most important change agent only partially mediated the relationship between household assets and depression (p?<?.001). Findings from this study support anti-poverty policies and social work related practice initiatives aimed at assisting low income families in China, in particular the need to address psychological as well as economic needs.

     

储光羲研究三题

储光羲是唐代著名诗人,是江苏与常州的历史文化名人。文章根据史料与储氏宗谱的各种版本,对储光羲是贺知章的外甥、储光羲的官职品秩作了较为科学的考证,并对如何编修储氏宗谱以加强对这位重要人物的研究与评价,提出了切实可行的建议。     

论政治文明的文化选择

文化即人化,它是人类所创造的精神成果和物质成果的总和;文明是文化的结晶,是文化主体对人类文化中野蛮性、愚昧性不断扬弃的结果,是人类有目的、有选择地过滤人类文化、形成合理文化内核的过程。中国当前的政治文明建设,需要走出“精华”和“糟粕”的简单二分的误区,用外来文化中国化、传统文化现代化,来开辟中国文化发展之路。弱化暴力色彩,强化仁政效应,构建中国特色的政治文明。     

Robust inference for estimating equations with nonignorably missing data based on SIR algorithm

Nonresponse is a very common phenomenon in survey sampling. Nonignorable nonresponse – that is, a response mechanism that depends on the values of the variable having nonresponse – is the most difficult type of nonresponse to handle. This article develops a robust estimation approach to estimating equations (EEs) by incorporating the modelling of nonignorably missing data, the generalized method of moments (GMM) method and the imputation of EEs via the observed data rather than the imputed missing values when some responses are subject to nonignorably missingness. Based on a particular semiparametric logistic model for nonignorable missing response, this paper proposes the modified EEs to calculate the conditional expectation under nonignorably missing data. We can apply the GMM to infer the parameters. The advantage of our method is that it replaces the non-parametric kernel-smoothing with a parametric sampling importance resampling (SIR) procedure to avoid nonparametric kernel-smoothing problems with high dimensional covariates. The proposed method is shown to be more robust than some current approaches by the simulations.     

Hard thresholding regression

In this paper, we propose the hard thresholding regression (HTR) for estimating high‐dimensional sparse linear regression models. HTR uses a two‐stage convex algorithm to approximate the ?₀‐penalized regression: The first stage calculates a coarse initial estimator, and the second stage identifies the oracle estimator by borrowing information from the first one. Theoretically, the HTR estimator achieves the strong oracle property over a wide range of regularization parameters. Numerical examples and a real data example lend further support to our proposed methodology.     

The Importance of Racial Socialization: School‐Based Racial Discrimination and Racial Identity Among African American Adolescent Boys and Girls

This study examined various parental racial socialization messages as mediators between school‐based racial discrimination and racial identity formation over 4 years for African American boys (N = 639) and African American girls (N = 711). Findings indicated that school‐based racial discrimination was associated with racial identity beliefs. For African American boys, behavioral racial socialization messages mediated the relation between school‐based racial discrimination and racial centrality over time. Mediation also resulted for African American girls, but for a different set of race‐related messages (negative messages and racial barriers) and racial identity beliefs. The developmental significance of the findings and implications for future research are discussed.     

北京对外贸易积极应对国外TBT的措施探究

TBT(技术性贸易壁垒)目前严重影响我国产品出口,首都北京的外贸企业也遭遇TBT,形势严峻。为促进北京市对外贸易的可持续发展,探究北京对外贸易应对国外TBT的措施,可分别从企业、政府、行业协会等多角度提出相应的积极对策。     

试论隐喻的意识形态性

后现代社会中意识形态往往具有中性的含义.本文试图分析隐喻的社会建构性,即剥开其意识形态的内核,并结合博克的"戏剧观"和哈贝马斯的"交往行为理论"加以推动阐明.隐喻的意识形态性为语篇的批评性分析提供一个全新的视角,并可以推动批评语言学的跨学科研究.     

WTO体制下国际贸易法律救济制度刍议

WTO体制中建立了保障国际贸易自由权益的国际层面的法律救济制度,它要求成员按照WTO协议的要求,建立国际贸易自由权益的国内法律救济制度,用以废止和纠正妨碍国际贸易自由的违法规则和行为,补救受损方合法的国际贸易自由权益。我国通过法律、法规和司法解释,已经初步建立了WTO体制下的相应制度,但在救济范围和救济主体等一系列制度方面尚需进一步完善,并有必要对此制度进行多学科、多视角、多层面的理论研究。     

民族政策对主要少数民族地区人口发展的影响

中国是一个多民族的国家,共有56个民族,其中55个为少数民族。中华人民共和国成立后,国家十分重视少数民族地区的发展,先后制定和实施了许多民族政策,促进了少数民族人口的健康发展。建立了内蒙古、新疆、宁夏、广西和西藏5个民族自治地区,77个地级单位（包括31个地级市和30个民族自治州）,699个县级区划（包括66个县级市和120个民族自治县（旗））。民族自治地区的总面积为617万平方公里,占全国总面积的64．3％。2005年,少数民族地区人口为17507万人,占全国总人口的13．39％;其中少数民族人口为8239万人,占少数民族地区总人口的47．06％,占全国总人口的6．3％。