The Children First Program: The Effectiveness of a Parent Education Program for Divorcing Parents

This study evaluated the effectiveness of the 2nd and 3rd editions of the Children First parent education programs for parents experiencing divorce or separation. Participants were 678 parents experiencing separation or divorce in 2 Midwestern counties. Changes from pretest to posttest on participants’ knowledge, attitudes, and likelihood of adaptive coparenting were assessed. Both editions of the program had a significant positive effect on all 3 measures of adaptive coparenting. The effect sizes from pretest to posttest for the 2nd edition were small, whereas the effect sizes for the 3rd edition of the program were nearly twice as large. Superiority of the 3rd edition might be due to an increased focus on explicit training on adaptive coparenting behaviors.     

Irish Women’s Ongoing Experiences of Domestic Abuse in Cases of Separation and Divorce

The issue of postseparation abuse is a significant problem for women. This qualitative research examines Irish women’s experiences of domestic abuse in cases of separation and divorce. Findings show that methods of abuse change after separation and perpetrators can use institutions of the state to continue their abusive behavior in a new forum and can continue long after marital dissolution is finalized. Such behavior is legitimized by the state’s nonaction and enabled through women’s previous experiences of institutional processes associated with separation and divorce, which resulted in feelings fear and distress.     

Parent–child gender matching and child psychological adjustment after divorce

The present study aimed to determine whether a parent–child gender match would influence child psychological adjustment after divorce. Participants included 69 parents (36 mothers) in active family law litigation to resolve issues related to postdissolution of marriage or time-sharing matters. Participants provided demographic information and completed the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL; Achenbach, 1991 Achenbach, T. M. (1991). Manual for the child behavior checklist/4–18 and 1991 profile. Burlington, VT: Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont. [Google Scholar]) to assess their perceptions of their child’s internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. Results demonstrated that internalizing and externalizing behaviors were not affected by whether children spent more time with the same gender parent, opposite gender parent, or split their time equally between both. Comparisons and contradictions between the results in this study and existing research are discussed, as well as practical implications.     

Separations: A Personal Account of Bowen Family Systems Theory

This paper is a personal account of my own family of origin research. It explores the impact of separations from parents, nuclear family, and extended family through a Bowen family systems theory perspective using concepts pertaining to Bowen theory such as chronic anxiety, differentiation of self, multigenerational family process, and the emotional system. An outline of the process of doing research in ‘vivo’ with my mother as well as conversations with my supervisor are included. Theoretical differences between individual and system models are discussed. A Bowen theoretical approach to the anxiety of separations is investigated. The efficacy of engaging in family of origin work and the effects of thinking systems is examined in light of how it assisted me to view family members, family system disturbances, and clients’ emotional systems more objectively.     

国家创新体系研究评介及启示

在探讨了国家创新体系的来源、定义及相关概念的基础上,总结了目前有关国家创新体系研究的4个主要方向:国家创新体系特征横向比较研究;绩效比较模型研究;创新体系纵向比较研究以及非工业发达国家创新体系研究。然后,结合我国实践,指出建设和完善我国国家创新体系的2个维度,即明确国家创新体系内部组成的职责定位,并提高政府、企业、高校和科研机构之间的系统合作性,以及在加大各层级创新体系构建力度的基础上与国家创新体系实现纵向一体化。     

基金分离下中国股市交易量模型的实证研究

交易量是市场投资者交易的直接产物 ,包含了市场和投资者投资行为的众多特性 ,因此逐渐成为金融实务界和理论界关注的热点 .本文从经典的基金分离假设出发 ,讨论了交易量的理论模型 .通过主成分分析的方法 ,检验了中国股市的交易量模型 ,并进一步分析了交易量变化的基本特性     

Bertrand竞争下融资策略与产品差异化策略的博弈分析

融资策略与产品差异化策略是企业两大重要的决策.本文通过构造一个纵向产品差异化的三阶段动态博弈模型,研究了不确定环境下,企业债务融资对产品差异化策略和定价策略的影响,并与不存在债务策略下的均衡结果进行了比较.研究表明,负债情形下,企业的均衡质量和均衡价格均高于无负债下的质量和价格,产品纵向差异度低于无负债下的差异度,且负债水平越高,企业的均衡质量、均衡价格和均衡利润越高,企业间的产品纵向差异度也越高.     

Quasi-complete separation in random effects of binary response mixed models

ABSTRACT

Clustered observations such as longitudinal data are often analysed with generalized linear mixed models (GLMM). Approximate Bayesian inference for GLMMs with normally distributed random effects can be done using integrated nested Laplace approximations (INLA), which is in general known to yield accurate results. However, INLA is known to be less accurate for GLMMs with binary response. For longitudinal binary response data it is common that patients do not change their health state during the study period. In this case the grouping covariate perfectly predicts a subset of the response, which implies a monotone likelihood with diverging maximum likelihood (ML) estimates for cluster-specific parameters. This is known as quasi-complete separation. In this paper we demonstrate, based on longitudinal data from a randomized clinical trial and two simulations, that the accuracy of INLA decreases with increasing degree of cluster-specific quasi-complete separation. Comparing parameter estimates by INLA, Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling and ML shows that INLA increasingly deviates from the other methods in such a scenario.     

垂直专业化的决定因素与国际贸易——基于中国工业行业数据的经验研究

垂直专业化分工是跨国公司选择非股权形式国际生产快速发展的结果,应融合跨国公司理论与价值链理论来解释。利用投入产出表数据进行了实证研究,结果表明,中国工业行业FDI和自由贸易对垂直专业化具有较强的互补性,重要驱动力量是行业规模经济因素与知识产权保护水平的提高,且在不同行业中各种影响因素的作用表现有所差异。     

地区垂直专业化发展——行业和省份差异的比较

随着国际分工格局的演化,尤其是近年来国际垂直专业化分工的发展,其对我国经济发展的影响作用也变得越来越突出。基于双边贸易发展数据,通过修正的引力模型,从我国省级层面重点关注了不同行业和地区在参与国际垂直专业化分工过程中,相关重要因素的影响特点和一般规律。主要结论表明：地区市场规模、要素禀赋和经济地理因素均有显著影响,且这种作用因行业和地区发展差异而表现出了显著的不同。