Pub Date : 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1177/19367244241264753
Christine Lippard, Laura Wallace, Danxun Li, Heather Rouse
Using data from the 2021 Iowa Narrow Cost Analysis of child care, the current study examines business practices of family home child care providers. Family home child care providers make up a sizeable portion of the available child care in Iowa; however, their sustainability is threatened by providers making a low income and lacking access to benefits. The current study describes the enrollment of family home child care, cost drivers of providing care, and participation in business practices such as paying oneself a salary, providing for one’s health insurance, accepting state child care subsidy, and participating in the state quality rating system (QRS), as well as relationships among these business practices. Chi-square analyses indicate that providers who accept child care assistance (CCA) are more likely to contribute to their health insurance and provide themselves with paid time off; however, their participation rates in QRS are similar to those who do not accept CCA. Directions for future research and potential points of intervention to support family home childcare (FHCC) providers as small business owners are discussed.
本研究利用 2021 年爱荷华州儿童保育狭义成本分析的数据，对家庭托儿机构的经营方式进行了研究。家庭托儿机构在爱荷华州现有托儿机构中占有相当大的比例；然而，由于托儿机构收入低且无法获得福利，其可持续发展受到了威胁。本研究描述了家庭托儿所的注册情况、提供托儿所的成本驱动因素、参与商业行为的情况，如支付自己的工资、提供自己的医疗保险、接受州托儿所补贴和参与州质量评级系统（QRS），以及这些商业行为之间的关系。卡方分析表明，接受托儿补助（CCA）的托儿所更有可能为自己缴纳医疗保险，并为自己提供带薪休假；然而，他们参与 QRS 的比率与不接受 CCA 的托儿所相似。本文讨论了未来的研究方向和潜在的干预点，以支持作为小企业主的家庭托儿所（FHCC）提供者。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-14DOI: 10.1177/19367244241252096
Francesca Adler‐Baeder, Julianne McGill, Ami Landers, Alexander Chan, Jenna Lawlor, Raequon Pinkney
The current study assessed multiple changes over 1 year for fatherhood program participants and explored variations in challenges at program start, retention, and improvements in outcomes based on geographic setting, race, and sequencing of services. In a sample of 630 racially diverse fathers, we found enhanced economic vulnerability of urban fathers and Black/other minority fathers, and greater individual and work-related challenges for White fathers at program start. Results from growth modeling indicated fathers reported sustained growth over 1 year in nearly all measures assessed including relationship skills and functioning, hope for ensuring a positive future, father involvement and parent-child relationship quality, child academic adjustment, and commitments and ability to meet financial obligations. Evidence of enhanced benefit of programs in multiple areas over time for rural and White participants, compared with Black/other minority and urban fathers is presented. Results also indicate receiving case management first enhances fathers’ attendance and retention in program classes.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-07DOI: 10.1177/19367244241250283
Trenita B. Childers
Sometimes divisions make more noise than connections. In this Presidential Address for the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology, Dr. Childers invites sociologists to lean into our strengths when finding ways to cut through the noise of divisions to amplify connections. Intentionality, using our tools and resources, and leading with understanding are strategies that build bridges as we seek new ways to apply sociology in our worlds.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-24DOI: 10.1177/19367244241245953
J. Pascale, A. Fertig, K. Call
Measuring health insurance in surveys has always been challenging, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced considerable ambiguities. For example, the public/private line was blurred with the introduction of marketplace coverage, which is considered private coverage even though in some cases, it is partially or fully subsidized by the government. This study uses a rigorous design where administrative records are linked to survey data. We compare alternative algorithms that employ survey data points found in several major national surveys to categorize coverage type, focusing on the very difficult challenge of separating private marketplace coverage from public coverage. This is important, given researchers’ and policymakers’ need to produce estimates of public versus private coverage from survey data. Results indicate that integrating a data point on plan name reduces a more simplistic algorithm’s overestimation of marketplace coverage and results in significant improvements in accurate categorization across public and private coverage types.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-03DOI: 10.1177/19367244231220888
Darleen Patricia Dempster, Sarah Koon-Magnin, FeAunte Preyear, Shawna Mayo, Phillip M. Norrell
Participants ( n = 520) in a study of two on-campus peer-led sexual assault prevention programs focused on bystander intervention and risk reduction were assessed. This study focused on myth reduction, as well as self-defense self-efficacy. Demographics allowed for within-group comparisons along gender and race. Among men who attended Bro Code, Black men had significantly lower sexual assault myth adherence on many rape myths than the control group, not true of white men. Those women who attended Girls Night Out (GNO) had significantly lower sexual assault myth adherence than the control group. While greater reductions in myth adherence were seen in white women than among Black women, Black women had significantly lower overall sexual assault myth adherence (in both control and sample). As a side note, we found that women who attended GNO had lower general intimate partner violence myth acceptance in addition to lower sexual assault myth acceptance, with some variation on individual myths. Finally, those women who attended self-defense training were significantly more likely to endorse self-defense self-efficacy. Results were then explored through the lens of cultural, gender, intersectional, and community-based contexts. Future research needs and implications are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-31DOI: 10.1177/19367244231219940
Leslie B. Hill, M. Hefner
Research solidly documents the victim-offender overlap in various crimes, including human trafficking. Given the hidden nature of this exploitative crime, increasing the identification of victims is crucial. One way to do this is through the creation and implementation of screening tools. To date, most screening tools for human trafficking victims are created by and implemented in the field of health care or with youth or young adults, particularly those who have experienced housing instability. However, the use of these tools to identify victims of human trafficking in correctional settings—where victims are often misidentified as offenders—is limited. To address this deficiency, a victim-centered, trauma-informed screening tool was implemented in a local detention center to identify human trafficking victims, with the purpose of offering them resources to facilitate their exit from trafficking situations. This article outlines the creation and implementation of the tool and discusses its successes, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations for replication.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-31DOI: 10.1177/19367244231218696
Joseph W. Silcox, Evan Stewart
Research on stigma management techniques often emphasizes reducing and challenging negative associations with stigmatization. How do people manage stigma in social groups where negative associations may be socially or professionally advantageous? We answer this question with a case study of the emerging industry of “Recovery Coaching,” where firsthand experiences with drug use and recovery are part of a credentialing system that offers entry into a professional field. Drawing on interviews with 22 participants, 15 of whom were certified recovery coaches, we demonstrate the presence of a unique stigma management technique: the professionalization of stigma. Recovery coaches explicitly leverage revealing stigmatized associations to establish and justify their membership in a professional group. We distinguish the professionalization of stigma from conventional management techniques that reduce stigma and discuss the implications of this concept for the study of destigmatization under neoliberal social and economic conditions across different subfields of sociological research.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1177/19367244231218680
Kristin Runzheimer, Jennifer L. Martin, Michele L. McCarroll
In an effort to reduce food access issues for older adults, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) provides monthly food assistance specifically for low-income older adults through local food banks. The purpose of this study was to explore factors that influence an older adult’s performance in food-related activities. Older adults eligible to receive a monthly senior food box from community food distribution sites were recruited to complete a survey. The survey included home information, Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information Systems (PROMIS®) v1.1 Global Health measure, individualized supplemental food utilization profile (FP), and a kitchen inventory. Descriptive and statistical analyses were performed. From December 2021 until March 2023, n = 200 participants were recruited and n = 36 took the survey for an 18% completion rate with a mean age of 71 years old; 61% were female and 36% were male. Of the participants who took the survey, 64% ( n = 23) acknowledged having at least one chronic disease and 89% ( n = 32) indicated they prepared meals for themselves. The OPMF revealed grocery shopping, cooking, and eating as “extremely important” and directly related to their performance and satisfaction. The FP rate revealed that 61% ( n = 22) of participants always use 100% of their food box by the end of each month. While the participants in this study report having at least one chronic disease, most are functional and independent when it comes to food-related activities, and most report that they have the tools to manage and use their food resources.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1177/19367244231218709
Heidi M. Williams, Grace G. Stevens, Gina Vandivier
Maslow’s theoretical hierarchy of needs suggests need fulfillment is ordered, where basic needs are at least partially satiated before more advanced needs may be pursued. The implication, then, is that an individual is motivated to fulfill their physiological needs before they can seek higher-level needs. Using interview data from 32 single mothers, this paper examines whether mothers—who need to fulfill their children’s basic needs—follow or deviate from the ordered direction of Maslow’s hierarchy. Findings show mothers’ motivations are social, not individual, as they strategically pursue higher education as a way to provide housing, food, and safety to their children—which inverts Maslow’s hierarchy. Mothers participate in The House of Educational Attainment (THEA), an organization that provides unilateral support, including apartments, to single parents as they pursue baccalaureate degrees. Support for more programs like THEA is needed if our national goal is for single mothers to achieve self-sufficiency.
马斯洛的需求层次理论认为，需求的满足是有序的，在追求更高层次的需求之前，基本需求至少要得到部分满足。这就意味着，一个人在寻求更高层次的需求之前，其动机是先满足生理需求。本文利用 32 位单身母亲的访谈数据，研究了需要满足子女基本需求的母亲是否遵循或偏离了马斯洛层次理论的有序方向。研究结果表明，母亲们的动机是社会的，而不是个人的，因为她们有策略地追求高等教育，以此为子女提供住房、食物和安全--这就颠倒了马斯洛的层次结构。母亲们参加了 "教育成就之家"（The House of Educational Attainment，THEA），该组织为单亲家庭提供包括公寓在内的单方面支持，帮助她们攻读学士学位。如果我们的国家目标是让单身母亲实现自给自足，那么就需要支持更多类似于 "教育成就之家 "的计划。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1177/19367244231209249
Salma Naz Khattak, Amjad Sohail, Nimra Arooj
This study qualitatively explores the understanding and need for social touch in cognitive communication. The empirical data are collected from a sample of 17 young unmarried females of 18 to 24 years through in-depth interviews. Six main themes are identified: meaning, touch need, accessibility, factors shaping touch expression, social agents of touch, and impacts of touch deprivation. The result indicates that the cultural traditions and religious narratives have significantly affected the perceptions of females in such a way that they do not realize their touch needs. This arouses concerns and points toward a prediction that it will not take much longer to see its ill effects on the general population. The findings of the study are significant to healthcare professionals and educationists to carry out focused campaigns and timely interventions. The study has resulted in both theoretical contributions to prosocial behavior literature and is a valuable addition to social touch research.
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