Same-Sex Attracted,Not LGBQ: The Associations of Sexual Identity Labeling on Religiousness,Sexuality, and Health Among Mormons

ABSTRACT

In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS church), beliefs about same-sex sexual attraction are carefully differentiated from beliefs about same-sex sexual behavior and identity, leading some to reject a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer (LGBQ) identity label in favor of declining a sexual identity or describing themselves as experiencing same-sex attraction (SSA). Using data from 1,128 sexual minority Mormons recruited from both politically conservative and liberal circles, we examined the relationship between rejecting an LGBQ identity and religiousness, attitudes toward sexuality, and health outcomes. We found that Mormons who reject an LGBQ identity were significantly more religious and less content with their sexuality but had similar health outcomes relative to LGBQ Mormons. We posit that these differences are best understood by differences in group affiliation and support, intersectional experiences with minority stressors, and the lack of generalizability of LGBQ constructs to those who reject an LGBQ identity.     

扬州市旅游景区空间结构优化整合策略研究

旅游空间结构对区域旅游的发展具有重要意义。应用最邻近距离指数、基尼系数、通达度指数3种分析方法,使用Mapinfo软件对扬州市3A级以上景区的空间结构进行分析,结果表明扬州市3A级以上景区在空间上呈集聚分布状态,均匀程度较低;景点间移动的难度较小,可进入性较高。在探讨影响扬州旅游景区空间结构的主要因素前提下,提出了扬州市旅游景区空间结构优化整合的若干策略。     

低碳出行下轨道交通对景点可达性的影响——基于社会网络分析法

旅游景点的可达性是城市提升“交通+旅游”融合发展中的关键问题,在交通可达时间测算基础上引入社会网络分析法,基于ArcGIS和ucinet 6软件构建景点可达网络,并测算景点网络密度、度中心性、居中中心性、核心-边缘结构等网络技术指标,探讨散客化背景下低碳出行中轨道交通对西安市A级及以上景点网络中各节点的交通可达性及其在景点网络中的地位、角色的影响,通过不同指标的计算,分析景点直接和间接可达性及其变化情况。研究表明:西安市轨道交通重点提升了主城区及周边偏远地区地铁沿线局部网络及单个景点的可达性,“地铁+公交+骑行”使景点网络的核心-边缘分区结构呈现逐渐弱化的趋势,地铁沿线逐渐形成新的景点网络“旅游走廊”; 西安市轨道交通有效衔接了中西部、中北部偏远景点间的联动,对于局部景点网络中的景点资源有效分配及组合发展具有有效调整作用。未来的公共交通网络、枢纽站建设应重点考虑度中心性高的景点及核心区景点,受地铁优化较小的景点应转向探索发展景点旅游直通车; 应重点针对居中中心性高、同个凝聚子群的景点规划建设特色旅游线路; 公共交通与景点应互为宣传,突出并强调景点公共交通可达的便捷性。     

旅游资源非优型省会城市的旅游吸引力提升——以合肥市为例

省会城市有旅游资源优越区与非优区之别,旅游资源非优型省会必然表现出城市旅游"贫血症",它们突破资源瓶颈的途径是以综合实力全面提升城市旅游吸引力。全面提升省会城市旅游吸引力的策略是:充分发挥政府主导作用,调动全市各行各业之力,首先要巧用财政力量;通过营造省会旅游圈等办法,尽快实现从旅游集散中心向旅游中心城市的跨越;走观光、休闲、度假、文体、会展、节事、科教等多种旅游综合配套发展之路;借新城区建设之良机,强化城市旅游功能。     

构建和谐教育方式,增强社会主义意识形态的吸引力和凝聚力

通过解析调控教育场中诸多教育要素及相互关系,提出了坚持适应社会与引导潮流的和谐统一、社会教育目标与个人成才目标的和谐统一、尊重价值取向多样化和价值导向一元化的和谐统一、教育继承与创新的和谐统一、教育者"言教"与"行教"的和谐统一等5个方面要求,探索符合教育发展规律的和谐教育方式,以达到增强社会主义意识形态的吸引力和凝聚力的目的。     

Characteristics of Activities That Affect the Development of Women’s Same-Sex Relationships

The author utilized semistructured interviews with 56 women to explore how a wide range of activities affected the development of the participants’ same-sex attractions and relationships. The researcher was able to identify and describe some aspects of the process by which eight characteristics of activities that are more or less present in various social contexts have the potential to impact whether these contexts are more or less conducive or hindering to the development of women’s same-sex attractions and relationships. Activities were more apt to nurture the development of the participants’ same-sex attractions and relationships when the activity (a) included lesbians, (b) was composed primarily of women, (c) affirmed women, (d) facilitated bonding, (e) featured a climate of acceptance of lesbians/gays/bisexuals, (f) did not feature a climate that emphasized heteronormativity, (g) was perceived as gender neutral, and (h) generated or drew participants who were similar to each other.     

The National Social Distance Study: Ten Years Later

The Bogardus social distance scale, which measures the level of acceptance that Americans feel toward members of the most common ethnic and racial groups in the United States, was administered six times nationally between 1920 and 2001. Replicating the most recent study with its revised list of ethnic and racial groups, the authors of this study analyzed a stratified random sample of 3,166 college students, making it the largest national social distance study ever conducted. The findings indicate an increase since 2001 in the mean level of social distance toward all ethnic groups, as well as in the spread between the groups with the highest and lowest levels of social distance. Further, a consistency between studies in group preferences reaffirms the relevance of the similarity‐attraction bond in accepting those who are racially and culturally different. Mean comparisons and analysis of variance tests also showed that gender, birthplace of respondents and/or their parents, race, and year in college are all significant indicators of the level of social distance toward groups.     

Work–life Balance: Is it Now a Problem for Management?

In Western Australia (WA) there is substantial interest by public sector management in work–life balance (WLB) as a strategy to address labour supply problems. This article considers whether the positioning of WLB as a problem for management provides the opportunity for change resulting in an improved quality of working life in the public sector. We report on the implementation of WLB policies in four WA public sector agencies and conclude that managers are ‘managing’ WLB in a limited way, and largely in an individualized manner, at a level that does not disrupt the usual way of organizing work and employment. For many managers, employees' requests to access WLB policies are perceived as being in conflict with operational goals. The findings highlight the inadequacy of much of the WLB discourse that obscures the tension between, on the one hand, the imperative for managers to implement WLB more effectively and, on the other, organizational practices and the broader social, political and economic context in which management and the organization are located.     

CONDITIONING VS. STANDARDIZATION FOR CONTRASTS ON ERRORS ATTRACTED TO STABLE LAWS

In multiple regression and other settings one encounters the problem of estimating sampling distributions for contrast operations applied to i.i.d. errors. Permutation bootstrap applied to least squares residuals has been proven to consistently estimate conditionalsampling distributions of contrasts, conditional upon order statistics of errors, even for long-tailed error distributions. How does this compare with the unconditional sampling distribution of the contrast when standardizing by the sample s.d. of the errors (or the residuals)? For errors belonging to the domain of attraction of a normal we present a limit theorem proving that these distributions are far closer to one another than they are to the limiting standard normal distribution. For errors attracted to α-stable laws with α ≤ 2 we construct random variables possessing these conditional and unconditional sampling distributions and develop a Poisson representation for their a.s. limit correlation ρ_α. We prove that ρ₂= 1, ρ_α→ 1 for α → 0 + or 2 ?, and ρ_α< 1 a.s. for α < 2.     

Domains of attraction of asymptotic distributions of extreme generalized order statistics

Abstract

In extreme value theory for ordinary order statistics, there are many results that characterize the domains of attraction of the three extreme value distributions. In this article, we consider a subclass of generalized order statistics for which also three types of limit distributions occur. We characterize the domains of attraction of these limit distributions by means of necessary and/or sufficient conditions for an underlying distribution function to belong to the respective domain of attraction. Moreover, we compare the domains of attraction of the limit distributions for extreme generalized order statistics with the domains of attraction of the extreme value distributions.