Social Bonds and the Migration Intentions of Elderly Urban Residents: The Mediating Effect of Residential Satisfaction

Under the incorporation of social bonds within the residential satisfaction model, this study has attempted to examine why the elderly living in neighborhoods consider moving. The main hypothesis proposed in this study is that the four social bonds (friendship, social cohesion and trust, informal social control, and neighborhood activities), combined with residential satisfaction, affect the mobility intentions of elderly urban residents. This hypothesis is tested by survey data collected in 1995 from 1123 Chicago residents age 65 and over. The results support the hypothesis that strong social bonds, combined with residential satisfaction, are working as important factors when the mobility intentions of elderly urban residents are deterred.     

Prevalence rate of DSM mental disorders among adolescents living in residential group homes of the French Child Welfare System

Purpose

To determine the prevalence of some major mental disorders among adolescents living in a residential group home and the distribution of these disorders by gender.

Method

The participants included 183 adolescents (13–17 years old) living in residential group homes of the Child Welfare System in the county of Bouches-du-Rhône (South of France). A structured psychiatric Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children was used to assess the existence of Anxiety Disorder (AD), Major Depression (MD), Conduct Disorder (CD), Eating Disorder (ED), Enuresia (En), Psychosis Screen (PS) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) among the study participants over the six-month period before the assessment was taken. The existence of Suicide Attempts (SA) during the lifetime of each child was also assessed.

Results

Of the youths qualified, 48.6% as having at least one psychiatric disorder during the last six months (AD: 28.4%; CD: 15.3%; MD: 14.8%; PS: 18.6%; ADHD: 3.8%), and SA have been reported in 23% of them. Females were more affected than boys (p < 0.001) with 64.9% having at least one disorder compared to 36.8% of boys; AD: 49.3% vs. 13.2%; and MD: 27.3% vs. 5.6%.

Conclusion

Adolescents living in residential group homes of the Child Welfare System in France have notably high rates of mental disorder (about three times more than those of the general population of the same age), similar to the patterns found in adolescents in North America and Europe. These data are the first of their kind in France and will guide necessary changes to the child welfare system.     

Assessment of the needs of youth in residential care: Development and validation of an instrument

This article presents the development of a Residential Care Youth Needs Assessment (RCYNA) instrument. In two studies, initial evidence regarding the RCYNA psychometric properties was obtained using a sample of youth in residential care. Results show adequate levels of content and face validity, reliability and concurrent validity.     

Dealing with the past in the transition from care. A post-structural analysis of young people's accounts

Young people experiencing the transition from care often are weighed down by their past, both through their early experiences, but also by the way their past is made relevant in encounters with others. The aim of this article is two-fold. Firstly, to present a critical discursive analysis of young people's accounts of themselves in the transition from care. Secondly, to shed light on three different ways of making the transition from care; transition through a break with the past after moving out, transition through continuing change and transition as a way of dealing with the risk of further problems in their lives. The study is qualitative and includes 27 young women and men recruited from three child welfare institutions in the Oslo region of Norway. A multi-method approach including interviews, observations and documents has been used. The analytical framework is inspired by poststructuralist theory.¹     

The quest for residential normalcy by older adults: Relocation but one pathway

This paper constructs a holistic emotion-based theoretical model identifying various pathways by which older adults can occupy residential environments that are congruent with their needs and goals. The model equates this individual-environment fittingness or “residential normalcy” with older persons having favorable or positive emotion-based residential experiences that have relevance to them. Older persons are theorized as being in their residential comfort zones when they experience overall pleasurable, hassle-free, and memorable feelings about where they live; and in their residential mastery zones when they occupy places in which they feel overall competent and in control. When older persons are out of either (or both) of these experiential zones, they are expected to initiate accommodative and/or assimilative forms of coping to achieve residential normalcy. The former are mind strategies by which they change their residential goals or assessments, mollify their negative emotional experiences, or engage in denial behaviors; the latter are action strategies, by which they change their activities or modify their residential settings. Moving to a new address is the most studied and prominent assimilative coping strategy, but also the one that requires the most strenuous adaptive efforts. The model theorizes that older persons move only under certain conditions.     

需求不确定下的第三方物流管理库存模式研究

大量文献研究了在供应链系统中由单一供应方向单个或多个零售商供应单个产品的供应模式,提出了供应商管理库存的优势。在传统的供应商管理库存的基础上,考虑需求不确定的情况下,由第三方物流主体管理库存,在相应的订货条件和佣金条件的约束下,供应链中各个主体的收益情况能获得改善的途径,达到了对供应链系统的Pareto改善的效果。     

华语电影中的地域转移与空间叙事——大陆、香港、台湾电影改编中的地域比较研究

尽管大陆电影空间在《黄土地》等一批先锋之作中经历了从具实到抽象的过程,形成了扩张的文化隐喻,但是空间的传统经验却陷入了影像表达的悖论;游弋出大陆的香港电影始终将地域空间限定在城市想象的自我比附,或隐或显地出现了一种"双城"现象。张爱玲作品在香港颇受导演青睐,个中原因在于其作品铭记着"双城"(上海/香港)的空间体验。如果说大陆电影的空间有一种外向性,那么身处后现代文化中的台湾电影逐渐排除了整体的空间感,缩小地域、社会空间,出现了一种内倾的迹象。从深层的文化心理上说,这恰恰是两岸三地在西方文化触发后,民族文化记忆的不同苏醒。     

如何进一步提高四川灾后重建住宅物业管理水平的探讨——都江堰灾后重建住宅物业管理

目前,灾后重建住宅的物业管理经过了三年多的发展,从前期的物业管理已经逐渐过渡到了常规的物业管理过程。如何使灾区的住宅在发展振兴时期进一步提高物业管理的专业化水平,让灾区居民住得更加舒心,通过对都江堰灾后重建住宅物业管理的调研,为进一步促进灾区这类特殊物业的管理健康、规范、有序的发展,提出了个人的建议。