Romantic Attachment Among Young Adults: The Effects of Parental Divorce and Residential Instability

Using an attachment theory perspective, variation in adult romantic attachment style outcomes were examined according to childhood experiences of parental divorce and residential instability. The sample was made up of 172 young adults who were recruited using snowball sampling via online social networking. A statistical difference on adult romantic attachment style was not found between individuals who experience parental divorce and those who did not, and parental conflict and stability of residence patterns did not have a statistical impact on attachment avoidance or anxiety. However, conflict, residential stability, and time with nonresidential parent statistically improved the predictive ability of attachment anxiety among those whose parents had divorced. Specifically, time with nonresidential parent moderated adult romantic attachment anxiety.     

What do Potential Residents Need to Know about Assisted Living Facility Type? The Trade-off between Autonomy and Help with More Complex Needs

The current study surveyed 74 assisted living facilities to examine the effect of facility type on resident autonomy and the willingness of providers to admit residents requiring complex services. Facility types included adult family homes, residential care facilities, and traditional assisted living facilities. Adult family homes were more willing to admit residents with higher care needs. By contrast, assisted living facilities’ policies did not support the provision of intensive services, but their policies promoted higher resident autonomy, suggesting that consumers may have to choose between autonomy and help with complex needs when exploring assisted living for long-term care.     

论传统建筑文化保护与区域建设发展的关系

如何处理好区域的建设发展和传统建筑文化保护的关系 ,继承和弘扬民族文化和传统是每一个建设者必须认真思考的重要课题。福州是国家第二批历史文化名城之一 ,但是福州的传统建筑文化近年来却由于旧城改造受到严重破坏。通过调研福建土楼民居以及广东汕头、福建泉州等地区的传统街区 ,分民居建筑和旧城保护两个方面论述在区域建设中保护传统建筑文化的意义。结合福州的传统建筑、街区建设性破坏的现状 ,以“三坊七巷”街区为例 ,提出几点保护的构想和研究方向     

转型时期居委会的社区权力及声望研究

在中国城市社会变迁的转型时期,社区居民委员会的权力与声望正在经受前所未有的挑战。对南京BX区61个社区居民的随机抽样调查及分析表明：居委会目前的社区权力结构中仍以政府赋予的行政权为主,而在社区居民对其期待颇多的自治权、协管与监督权、突发事件处理权等的运用方面,居委会并未拥有足够的资源存量;社区其他营利及非营利组织在直接参与社区服务和管理的过程中多少瓜分了居委会的权力,从而影响了居委会的声望,并且随着社区居民群体在经济、社会及文化层面的进一步分化,居委会在不同社区成员中的权力与声望呈现差异化的格局。     

中国个人抵押贷款风险防范机制分析——建立我国个人住房抵押贷款风险防范机制的探讨

作为个人抵押贷款主要形式的住房抵押贷款风险具有潜在性和累积性的特点,容易被忽视,但一旦发生可能是大规模灾难性的。文章分析了银行在个人住房抵押贷款业务中存在的风险,并对其防范机制提出建议。      

农村宅基地储备制度初探

农村宅基地闲置已成为一种较普遍的现象,而农村宅基地流转虽有利于土地利用效率的提高,却与现有的法律相抵触。针对农村宅基地流转所处的两难境地,在现有的土地制度和法律框架下,提出了建立农村宅基地储备制度的构想,对农村宅基地储备制度的目标、宗旨进行了定位,并对其组织机构、组织职能和运作机制进行了设计,尤其是对其资金运作机制做了深入的探讨。在实际中,农村宅基地储备制度应该根据地方特点,通过实践逐步改进和完善。     

关于促进社区物业管理科学发展的思考

对居民小区管理的发展现状和存在的问题进行了分析梳理,并从制度和资源整合等层面提出了物业管理企业、小区居民和政府力量共同努力下推动我国物业管理的有益探索。     

Turning 18 in specialised residential therapeutic care: Independence or a cliff edge?

This article describes research undertaken in 2018 in a therapeutic residential home for young women with multiple and complex needs in out-of-home care in England. Based on qualitative interviews with five young women, aged 16–18, and four professionals working with the home, the article analyses the under-researched leaving care needs and experiences of this group of young women. The findings highlight the tensions between notions of childhood and expectations of adulthood surrounding this group of young people. These converge around reaching the age of 18 and foreground vulnerability on the one side, and responsibility on the other.     

Trapped in Poor Places? An Assessment of the Residential Spatial Patterns of Housing Choice Voucher Holders in 2004 and 2008

ABSTRACT

This study examines the residential spatial patterns of Housing Choice Voucher holders in Western New York in 2004 and 2008 (n = 4,600 and n = 4,759, respectively). It seeks to answer two questions: Has the concentration of voucher holders in impoverished and same race neighborhoods diminished overtime; and are voucher holders, particularly African Americans, relocating in patterns that would lead to reghettoization or the reconcentration of race and poverty? This type of residential pattern puts voucher holders at risk for resettling in neighborhoods that limit economic and social mobility. Data from the public housing agency contracted to distribute Housing Choice Vouchers were examined. Exploratory spatial analysis techniques were used to identify spatial outliers and to form a hypothesis on spatial patterns of relocation. Spatial clustering analyses were conducted to test the hypothesis on the reghettoization of African American voucher holders in recently relocated neighborhoods. Analyses indicate that African American voucher holders are moving out of impoverished, hypersegregated areas into historically White neighborhoods. A limited number of voucher holders are moving in clustered patterns, which lead to reghettoization. Future research is needed that highlights the role that housing assistance providers play in the residential location choices of low-income clients.     

PERSPECTIVES: THE EDITORS' VIEW

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