Ageing, Leisure, and Social Connectedness: How could Leisure Help Reduce Social Isolation of Older People? [0.03%]
老龄化、闲暇与社会联系：闲暇如何帮助减少老年人的社会孤立感？
Vera Toepoel
Vera Toepoel
This study investigates the relation between leisure activities and the social status of the elderly based on a heterogeneous sample of the Dutch population. Close relationships are also analyzed to identify which people could serve as succ...
The Multidimensionality of Welfare State Attitudes: A European Cross-National Study [0.03%]
福利国家态度的多维性：一项欧洲跨国研究
Femke Roosma,John Gelissen,Wim van Oorschot
Femke Roosma
When evaluating the various aspects of the welfare state, people assess some aspects more positively than others. Following a multidimensional approach, this study systematically argues for a framework composed of seven dimensions of the we...
Impact of Competing Values and Choices on Democratic Support in Hong Kong [0.03%]
竞争的价值观和选择对香港民主支持的影响
Wai-Man Lam
Wai-Man Lam
This paper examines the reasons for the relatively low democratic support (DS) in Hong Kong in the context of competing values and choices based on the previous Asian Barometer Surveys. In so doing, it establishes a three-factor theoretical...
Conceptualizing and Validating Marital Quality in Beijing: A Pilot Study [0.03%]
北京婚姻质量的构念及效度研究——一项探索性研究
Huiping Zhang,Xiaohe Xu,Sandra K M Tsang
Huiping Zhang
Since the inception of the economic reform, marital relationship in urban China has undergone dramatic transformations. Though the burgeoning body of scholarly research has demonstrated that marital quality has increasingly become an import...
Anna Huysse-Gaytandjieva,Wim Groot,Milena Pavlova
Anna Huysse-Gaytandjieva
This paper analyses the situation when employees fail to adapt to overall job dissatisfaction. By combining the existing knowledge in economics on job lock and in psychology on employees' feeling of being 'stuck' at work, the paper explains...
Sociality in Diverse Societies: A Regional Analysis Across European Countries [0.03%]
多元社会里的亲社会性——欧洲多国的地区分析
Ferry Koster
Ferry Koster
For a long time, researchers investigate the impact of diversity on society. To measure diversity, either archival data at the national level of census data at the neighborhood level, within a single country are used. Both approaches are li...
Lars E Olsson,Tommy Gärling,Dick Ettema et al.
Lars E Olsson et al.
Research suggests that for many people happiness is being able to make the routines of everyday life work, such that positive feelings dominate over negative feelings resulting from daily hassles. In line with this, a survey of work commute...
The Diffusion of IT in the Historical Context of Innovations from Developed Countries [0.03%]
发达国家创新历史视角下的信息技术扩散理论研究
Jeffrey James
Jeffrey James
The well-known s-shaped diffusion of technology curve generally works well in developed countries. But how does it perform in the very different context of developing countries? Across a wide range of new technologies imported from the deve...
Jeroen Klomp,Jakob de Haan
Jeroen Klomp
We examine the relationship between different dimensions of the political regime in place and human capital using a two-step structural equation model. In the first step, we employ factor analysis on 16 human capital indicators to construct...
Capabilities and Choices: Do They Make Sen'se for Understanding Objective and Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Test of Sen's Capability Framework on German and British Panel Data [0.03%]
能力与选择：它们能帮助我们理解森的能力理论在客观和主观幸福感中所起的作用吗？基于德国和英国的纵向数据分析框架进行实证检验
Ruud Muffels,Bruce Headey
Ruud Muffels
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real free...