Examining Gender Differences for Gambling Engagement and Gambling Problems Among Emerging Adults

Gambling is fast becoming a public health problem in the United States, especially among emerging adults (18–25 year olds). Since 1995, rates have recently doubled with around 7–11 % of the emerging adult population having problems with gambling (Shaffer et al. in Am J Public Health 89(9):1369–1376, 1999; Cyders and Smith in Pers Individ Diff 45(6):503–508, 2008). Some states have lowered their gambling age to 18 years old; in turn, the gambling industry has recently oriented their market to target this younger population. However, little is known about the gender variation and the factors placing emerging adults at risk for getting engaged and developing problems with gambling. The purpose of the study was to determine the risk factors accounting for gender differences at the two levels of gambling involvement: engagement and problems. Mediation analyses revealed that impulsive coping and risk-taking were significant partial mediators for gender differences on engagement in gambling. Men took more risks and had lower levels of impulsive coping than women, and those who took more risks and had lower levels of impulsive coping were more likely to engage in gambling. Risk-taking and social anxiety were the significant mediators for gender differences in problems with gambling. Men took more risks and were more socially anxious than women, and greater risk-taking and more socially anxious individuals tended to have more problems with gambling. Implications for counseling preventions and intervention strategies are discussed.     

Bridging the gap between clinical practice and research: An integrated practice‐oriented model

Abstract

This paper addresses the gap between clinical practice and clinical research. Adopting a postmodern neopragmatic position, a practice‐oriented research model is proposed. This model cuts across the division between paradigmatic and narrative approaches to clinical practice research and integrates quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Four guiding principles are operationalized: (1) clinical research should focus on practice‐oriented questions, with the practitioner involved in agenda setting and research question formulation; (2) the division between empiricist and constructivist positions and that between quantitative and qualitative methods can be resolved through epistemological and methodological pluralism; (3) clinical research should be guided by a developmental perspective; and (4) collaboration between practitioners and researchers has to take place both on the program and the institutional levels.     

FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE SERVICES TRADE: DOES EXCHANGE RATE OR INCOME MATTER?

This paper aims to investigate the impacts of exchange rate and income changes on financial and insurance services trade by utilizing the quarterly bilateral trade data of the United States and its major trading partners from 2003 to 2017. No long‐run exchange rate effects on imports and exports of insurance services trade are found. The impact of exchange rates on insurance services may be weak since competition among service providers depends on product differentiation than on exchange rates. On the contrary, income demonstrates significant impacts on both financial and insurance services trade in the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan and Australia. (JEL C22, F14, G20)     

论驯鹿鄂温克人的桦树皮文化

该文从文化人类学的视角,对生活在大小兴安岭的驯鹿鄂温克人这一特殊的族群所特有的桦树皮文化的结构及其特征进行了全面分析。特别是对桦树皮制品的加工工具、加工程序、加工办法及原料、使用价值、审美价值等展开了深入浅出的讨论。     

Who do migrant associations represent? The role of ‘ethnic deservingness’ and legal capital in migrants’ rights claims in Turkey

Considering that established migrant associations often play an active role in migrants’ rights advocacy, the relationship between them and the growing numbers of irregular migrants needs careful scrutiny. Looking at the encounters between irregular Bulgarian Turkish migrants and associations established by their co-ethnics who hold Turkish citizenship in Turkey, our ethnographic evidence shows that co-ethnic migrant associations mobilise the legal frame of ‘ethnic deservingness’ with the intention of welcoming co-ethnics to the Turkish homeland. In the absence of other formal organisations for rights advocacy, associations’ appeals to this frame emerge as a civic resource for the irregular newcomers in their permanent residency claims. At the same time, the same frame hides unequal power relations within co-ethnic communities, that is, newcomers’ peripheral positions within associations and the economic costs of filing claims via associations. This situation creates a representational gap in the associational context between its active members with higher legal capital and irregular newcomers with lower legal capital. Tackling the problem of representation determined by the legal hierarchy, this study questions whether migrant associations should still be considered important political actors when undocumented/irregular migrants outnumber regulars—especially with regard to the immediate political/legal actions they require.     

Family policy and social order – comparing the dynamics of family policy-making in Scandinavia and Confucian Asia

This article compares family policies in two Scandinavian and three Confucian Asian countries. Through a general survey on schemes of child allowance and parental leave, it seeks explaining factors for cross-regime diversity of the welfare systems. In focus are the agents affecting the family policy-making process, including social classes, the state, women and families. In order to assess the roles these agents have played, this study retraces the preconditions of family policy development and its associated socio-cultural backgrounds. Results from such an examination will illustrate how the social order determines the patterns of family policy, which offers a new path to travel to these different cultural 'worlds'. Taking the Confucian Asian states into its frame of reference, the study will take a fresh look at Scandinavian welfare systems, which still have some general implications for the study of the dynamics, model and outcome of family policy in an international context.     

论“东亚福利模式”研究及其存在的问题

最近十余年来,有关东亚福利的研究已成为一个新的研究领域。这些研究对于认识东亚各国或地区的历史文化传统、经济发展水平以及在此基础上形成的社会政策的特点具有重要意义。在以往的研究中,学者们试图从多个角度归纳东亚福利体制的特点,提出了儒家文化圈中的福利国家、东亚福利模式、生产主义社会政策等概念,并力图从文化、经济、政治等方面揭示东亚福利模式的形成原因。然而,迄今为止人们对于东亚福利体制是否具有为东亚各国或地区所共享的“特质”仍众说纷纭。在东亚福利这一研究领域中,也存在着学理基础欠缺、研究方向模糊、缺乏共同资料平台等方面的问题。由此,应暂时搁置研究概念和研究先设方面的争议,开展诸多专题研究,按研究方向组建团队,按照一定标准采集数据,争取区域组织的合作,以推进东亚福利研究的进一步发展。     

The Restricted and Unrestricted Two-Parameter Estimators

In this article, we introduce a new two-parameter estimator by grafting the contraction estimator into the modified ridge estimator proposed by Swindel (1976 Swindel , B. F. ( 1976 ). Good ridge estimators based on prior information . Commun. Statist. Theor. Meth. A5 : 1065 – 1075 .[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). This new two-parameter estimator is a general estimator which includes the ordinary least squares, the ridge, the Liu, and the contraction estimators as special cases. Furthermore, by setting restrictions Rβ = r on the parameter values we introduce a new restricted two-parameter estimator which includes the well-known restricted least squares, the restricted ridge proposed by Groß (2003 Groß , J. ( 2003 ). Restricted ridge estimation . Statist. Probab. Lett. 65 : 57 – 64 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), the restricted contraction estimators, and a new restricted Liu estimator which we call the modified restricted Liu estimator different from the restricted Liu estimator proposed by Kaç?ranlar et al. (1999 Kaç?ranlar , S. , Sakall?o?lu , S. , Akdeniz , F. , Styan , G. P. H. , Werner , H. J. ( 1999 ). A new biased estimator in linear regression and a detailed analysis of the widely-analysed dataset on Portland cement . Sankhya Ser. B., Ind. J. Statist. 61 : 443 – 459 . [Google Scholar]). We also obtain necessary and sufficient condition for the superiority of the new two-parameter estimator over the ordinary least squares estimator and the comparison of the new restricted two-parameter estimator to the new two-parameter estimator is done by the criterion of matrix mean square error. The estimators of the biasing parameters are given and a simulation study is done for the comparison as well as the determination of the biasing parameters.     

On the Restricted Liu Estimator in the Logistic Regression Model

The logistic regression model is used when the response variables are dichotomous. In the presence of multicollinearity, the variance of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) becomes inflated. The Liu estimator for the linear regression model is proposed by Liu to remedy this problem. Urgan and Tez and Mansson et al. examined the Liu estimator (LE) for the logistic regression model. We introduced the restricted Liu estimator (RLE) for the logistic regression model. Moreover, a Monte Carlo simulation study is conducted for comparing the performances of the MLE, restricted maximum likelihood estimator (RMLE), LE, and RLE for the logistic regression model.     

社会质量理论与和谐社会建设

进入21世纪以来,中国政府提出了构建和谐社会的社会目标及改善民生为重点的社会建设路径.要实现这一目标,我们有必要对社会建设所面临的种种问题和障碍展开深入研究,并进行理论创新.社会质量理论作为国际社会政策领域的一个新的研究范式,可以为中国的社会政策分析提供理论依据.该理论倡导社会团结理念,也涉及社会经济保障与社会和谐的关系.这对于缓解改革开放以来中国以市场化为导向的快速经济增长所造成的各种社会问题,并设立相关的发展战略,具有一定的借鉴作用.