Different Effects of Acculturative Stress and Family Life Stress on Depressive Symptoms among Married Vietnamese Immigrant Women in South Korea

Married Vietnamese immigrant women often face multiple stressors related to sociocultural adaptation and new family lives in South Korea. The purpose of this paper is to identify the different influences of acculturative and family life stress on depressive symptoms among Vietnamese immigrant wives. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey of 301 married Vietnamese immigrant women residing in South Korea. The study utilized linear regression analysis to test the relationships between the variables. The findings show that both acculturative and family life stress are positively related to depressive symptoms. Family life stress influences depressive symptoms to a greater extent than acculturative stress. The study emphasizes the significance of family‐related stress on mental health among married Vietnamese immigrant women in Korea and provides some implications for research, clinical practice, and policy.     

“It Depends on How You Define Integrated”: Neighborhood Boundaries and Racial Integration in a Baltimore Neighborhood1

There are a significant number of racially integrated neighborhoods in the United States, many of which have been stable over time. However, very little is known about the characteristics of these neighborhoods and of the residents who live in them. With data taken from a larger study of an integrated neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, this article discusses homeowners’ perceptions of their community and racial integration. Fifty semi‐structured interviews were completed with 67 homeowners to investigate their perceptions and experiences of race, class, and change in their community. This study shows that statistical racial integration and perceptions of racial integration are two different factors. Residents define true racial integration as both residential and social. As a result, homeowners reported that their neighborhood is both segregated and integrated—a type of “qualified” integration. Perceptions of racial integration are also affected by inconsistently defined neighborhood boundaries and racial clustering, block by block.     

教师教育一体化的现状、问题与对策

教师教育一体化是我国教师教育今后发展的必然趋势。当前我国教师教育一体化主要存在着体制机制创新不足、教学内容结合不紧、教育资源整合不够等三方面的缺失。推动教师教育一体化，建设一体化的教师教育师资队伍是前提保障，建构一体化的课程体系是重点，建立一体化教师个性发展模式是关键。     

Alcohol and the Elderly:

This paper provides an overview of what is currently known about elderly alcohol use and abuse. It identifies areas of social work practice that need to be improved to meet the needs of elderly problem drinkers, and makes recommendations regarding identification, treatment, and coordination of services for this population.     

外语学习过程的概念思维特征

本文以英语为例,简述了不同语言间概念结构差异及其在词汇和句法上的表达特点、外语学习过程的概念隐喻思维的认知特点,并在概念合成理论的基础上,提出外语学习过程的概念合成输入空间主要有单一目的语输入、母语与目的语合成输入和母语补缺输入三种基本的概念合成模式.     

Depression and Mental-Health Service Utilization Among Women in WIC

Abstract

This exploratory 2003 study of 261 women in WIC addresses depression and mental-health service utilization in six race/ethnic-immigrant/migrant groups and factors amenable to change. Using the PrimeMD-PHQ, island-born Puerto Rican women had the highest prevalence of subthreshold depressive syndrome (27.8%); African American women had the highest prevalence of major depressive syndrome (21.3%); proportionately more White women used mental-health services (41.9%). The odds for major depressive syndrome among those with no one to help with childcare were almost four times greater than those with help. The odds of mental-health service use among those with indirect exposure to mental-health care were four times greater than those without such exposure. Implications for intervention and further research are discussed.     

Local Rites and Body Politics

The growing awareness of violence against women has resulted in endorsement of various international codes and conventions relating to physical, psychological and sexual violence. Female genital mutilation is one form of violence against women that has polarized people within and across national borders. Here, I explore its popular representation, consider how activism against genital mutilation has been confounded by sex and race and how activism to eradicate the practice is understood by immigrant women in Australia. In doing this, I draw on research conducted with women immigrants to Australia from north Africa (the Sahel areas) and the Middle East, from countries where female genital mutilation is most common. These women are often frustrated by what they see as contradictions in hospital policy and practice that arise in response to their requests to be reinfibulated after childbirth. I tease out the dilemmas that emerge when refusal is contrasted with other permissible practices of the body, such as hymen reconstruction, and given the commodification of bodies and related issues of age and agency, the individual and the community. The perceived discrepancies suggest to these African women that rights discourse is discriminatory, racist and informed by sensational portrayals of traditional practices. I question the ethics, values and rights that inform public discourse about sexual and reproductive rights, when women’s rights and values are so discrepant from our own ideals.     

高校新建图书馆“藏、借、咨、阅、习一体化”服务模式初探——以湖南人文科技学院图书馆为例

高校新建图书馆“藏、借、咨、阅、习一体化”服务模式是一种多功能开放式服务模式，它具有不同于传统服务模式的特征和优点，但也面临着一些新问题，必须采取相应的措施加以解决。     

社会观与人性论:涂尔干社会整合范式的前提预设

18、19世纪的法国社会呈现出一盘散沙的原子化状态,为此,保守主义与激进的马克思主义都主张对当前的资本主义制度及其意识形态进行根本性的批判与改革;与之相反,涂尔干从自己的社会观与人性论出发提出以理性化的世俗道德重建法国社会的道德体系。     

地方政府文化管理职能与机构改革模式比较

我国以职能和机构整合为核心的地方政府文化管理体制改革已经由试点改革进入到全面推行阶段。本文主要通过结合典型调查法与比较研究法，对典型地方政府改革方案进行分析研究，探求在文化领域进行政府管理职能定位与组织设置改革的相关影响因素。调研结果表明，这些地方政府的改革实施方案存在较大差异，大致可以归纳为六种模式。根据各自职能与机构整合方式的不同，这些改革方案共同构成改革模式类型连续体，不同地方政府改革方案在这一连续体所占的具体位置由许多重要因素所决定。