Abused Women in Taiwan Who Seek Religious Support

ABSTRACT

This research explores the types of religious healing that abused women use and surveys their experiences with these practices in Taiwan. Fifteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with a sample of abused women, who had been recruited from 12 agencies. The findings show that participants sought religious healing for a variety of reasons, and that they had both positive experiences (e.g., useful religious support) and negative experiences (e.g., encountering deceptive jitongs and spending a large amount of money on services) regardingr the support provided by different religions. This study also found that women who believed in traditional Eastern religions had more negative experiences than women who believed in Western religions.     

人口老龄化背景下机构养老国内外研究比较

当前学界对机构养老的讨论日趋热烈,但遍观国内现有文献,对国外机构养老研究进展普遍关注不足。本研究通过从机构养老的概念界定、养老机构、入住老年人群、机构养老服务质量这四个维度对国内外机构养老研究成果进行归类梳理,发现国内机构养老研究在功能界定、管理与运营、服务质量监管等方面差距较大,而对于入住老年人群的需求和入住意愿分析方面则与西方差距较小。同时,我国机构养老的理论对于实践的指导作用并不显著,我国理论界相对于养老实践有滞后之虞。基于以上分析,本文提出以下建议：探索机构养老发展的新模式,完善养老机构管理与运营结构以及发展第三方服务监管体系。     

Women with Disabilities and Experiences of Abuse

Abstract

A qualitative study of disabled and non-disabled professionals and survivors of abuse revealed a range of types of abuse endured by disabled women, some of which were unique to that population. Two major themes emerged from data analysis: vulnerable beginnings and complexity of abuse. Three sub-themes are encompassed within complexity of abuse: active abuse, abuse through image, and contextual abuse by social service/legislative systems. The authors present data essential to an informed assessment and analysis of abuse that considers the person-in-environment circumstances of women with disabilities. Implications for future research and the human behavior in the social environment curriculum are discussed.     

后新时期国内新闻舆论监督研究述评

从舆论监督的难点、隐性采访与新闻舆论监督、新闻舆论监督与反腐败、新闻舆论监督与新闻官司 ,以及加强新闻舆论监督的途径等五个方面 ,对后新时期新闻舆论监督研究的现状进行描述 ;从操作设计与理论探讨、内部分析与外部研究、取向多元与学科建构三个维面 ,对后新时期国内新闻舆论监督研究中的存在问题进行检讨 ;对新世纪的新闻舆论监督研究方向提出建设性思考     

Fatherhood regimes and father involvement in France and the UK

This paper contrasts and compares the institutional framework for fatherhood and father involvement and the survey evidence relating to fathers’ contribution to childcare and domestic work in the two countries. It shows that while men's contribution to such activities appears to be increasing in both France and the UK, change is slow and father involvement does not necessarily seem to correlate directly either with patterns of female labour force participation or with the support offered by the institutional framework. The authors explore the theoretical frameworks most appropriate for explaining their findings and situate them primarily in terms of Pfau-Effinger's theorization of the gender arrangement (1998, 2002, 2004). The authors conclude that while change in father involvement is slow, the introduction of statutory and organizational work–life balance measures which alter the gender order open up opportunities for negotiated change in the division of the labour in the home.     

Women’s Employment Status,Coercive Control,and Intimate Partner Violence in Mexico

Findings from previous studies examining the relation between women’s employment and the risk of intimate partner violence have been mixed. Some studies find greater violence toward women who are employed, whereas others find the opposite relation or no relation at all. I propose a new framework in which a woman’s employment status and her risk of violent victimization are both influenced by the level of control exercised by her partner. Controlling men will actively prevent women from working and are also more likely to physically harm their partners. Using a statistical model in which the effect of omitted characteristics on women’s employment and their risk of violence are allowed to be correlated reverses the estimated association between employment and violence. The final results show that employment reduces women’s risk of violence. Data for the study are drawn from a sample of over 30,000 Mexican women in intimate relationships. The findings have broad implications given the increase in female labor force participation in many parts of the world.     

Consumer-Phase Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis Risk Assessment for Egg-Containing Food Products

We describe a one-dimensional probabilistic model of the role of domestic food handling behaviors on salmonellosis risk associated with the consumption of eggs and egg-containing foods. Six categories of egg-containing foods were defined based on the amount of egg contained in the food, whether eggs are pooled, and the degree of cooking practiced by consumers. We used bootstrap simulation to quantify uncertainty in risk estimates due to sampling error, and sensitivity analysis to identify key sources of variability and uncertainty in the model. Because of typical model characteristics such as nonlinearity, interaction between inputs, thresholds, and saturation points, Sobol's method, a novel sensitivity analysis approach, was used to identify key sources of variability. Based on the mean probability of illness, examples of foods from the food categories ranked from most to least risk of illness were: (1) home-made salad dressings/ice cream; (2) fried eggs/boiled eggs; (3) omelettes; and (4) baked foods/breads. For food categories that may include uncooked eggs (e.g., home-made salad dressings/ice cream), consumer handling conditions such as storage time and temperature after food preparation were the key sources of variability. In contrast, for food categories associated with undercooked eggs (e.g., fried/soft-boiled eggs), the initial level of Salmonella contamination and the log10 reduction due to cooking were the key sources of variability. Important sources of uncertainty varied with both the risk percentile and the food category under consideration. This work adds to previous risk assessments focused on egg production and storage practices, and provides a science-based approach to inform consumer risk communications regarding safe egg handling practices.     

安养乡村、乐享田园: 养老型乡村旅游地新机遇—基于养老旅游、乡村旅游与生态旅游的融合发展

从优势性、可行性、影响因素、特征特点、存在问题与对策建议等方面对城市老人到农村休闲健康养老的国内外文献进行了梳理。研究结果表明,国内外现有文献存在着研究区域欠界定、研究主体不全面、研究内容不深入、研究方法需创新等问题。基于这些问题,对未来城市老人到农村休闲健康养老的相关研究领域进行了展望。     

利益相关者视角下罗马尼亚劳动关系发展研究

罗马尼亚是国际利益相关者对劳动者权利产生负面影响的典型例子。体制转型后的罗马尼亚劳动关系的发展可大致分为三个阶段：第一阶段是20世纪90年代至2003年,在此阶段工会拥有较强的战斗力,且由于政府与国际组织之间不稳定的关系使得工会影响力相对较大;第二阶段是2003年至金融危机初期（2009年）,2003年通过的《劳动法》（2003年）遭到国际组织和雇主协会的强烈反对,2005年政府与国际组织试图对《劳动法》（2003年）进行修订,工会却成功阻止改革;第三阶段是金融危机期间及之后（2009年之后）,工会力量大大削减,特别是《劳动法》（2011年）和《社会对话法》（2011年）出台之后,工会和工人遭受了前所未有的损失。

     

Reporting bad results: The ethical responsibility of presenting abused women's parenting practices in a negative light

The purpose of this paper is to present and analyse the ethical dilemmas involved in presenting research findings that describe abused women's parenting practices in a negative light. The study was based on data collected by in‐depth interviews for the purpose of examining the turning point among 20 Israeli abused women who refused to live with violence and took active steps to stop it while staying with the perpetrator. Overall the analysis indicated successful survival stories but the women's parenting practices became questionable. This raised dilemmas as to how to present such findings and what are the ethical implications related to interventions with abused women.