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<td><a href="https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/monographs-edited-collections/the-regulation-of-desire-queer-histories-queer-struggles-revised-third-edition/" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles [Revised Third Edition]</a>
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<p><p>Originally published in 1987 during the panic around HIV/AIDS, The Regulation of Desire was the first book-length study of sexual regulation in Canada. Drawing on his long experience in anti-capitalist groups, the gay liberation movement, anti-racist and anti-police organizing, and AIDS activism, Gary Kinsman’s investigation of the social forces that produce both sexual regulations and resistance and enforce queer, trans, and Two-Spirit oppression laid the groundwork for subsequent studies of queer sexuality in Canada and beyond. </p>
<p>The post <a href="https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/monographs-edited-collections/the-regulation-of-desire-queer-histories-queer-struggles-revised-third-edition/">The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles [Revised Third Edition]</a> was curated by <a href="https://ifp.nyu.edu">information for practice</a>.</p></p>
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<td><a href="https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s11135-024-01914-w/" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Efficient and alternative approaches for imputing missing data to estimate population mean</a>
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<p class="a-plus-plus">Missing data is a routine occurrence in surveys for collecting data. The manuscript presents two novel classes of imputation techniques based on the logarithmic function. Each imputation technique leads to a novel class of point estimator which can be utilized to provide estimates of population mean. Expressions for their bias and mean square errors have been derived. Data has been collected from literature, as well as simulated from three probability distributions to illustrate the performance of the proposed class of estimators when compared with other well-known estimators. Finally, the findings are showcased, and suggestions are put forth for potential real-world implementations.</p>
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<td><a href="https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s11135-024-01911-z/" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Financial dollarization and its effects on inflation and output in Turkey: a machine learning approach</a>
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<p class="a-plus-plus">This study aims to examine the consequences of dollarization on the effectiveness of monetary policy in Türkiye, a nation with a long history of high and sustained dollarization. Türkiye has seen considerable levels of dollarization for almost 40 years. The study uses data from the third quarters of 1998 through 2022. This study investigates the intricate and nonlinear connections between dollarization, monetary policy, and other economic variables. It does so by using machine learning (ML) models. The findings show that dollarization has a modest impact on economic expansion and that there may be a favorable relationship between dollarization and financial deepening. The study also reveals how dollarization interacts with other control variables to affect inflation rates. Despite the fact that the ML technique cannot prove causation, this research offers insightful information on the intricate dynamics of dollarization and its implications for the success of monetary policy. For policymakers attempting to comprehend and manage dollarization’s possible influence on economic stability in Türkiye and other nations, these findings have major significance.</p>
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<p class="a-plus-plus">In the context of claims problems, we formulate an axiom of invariance of a rule with respect to its “partial implementation”: having applied the rule to a problem in its domain of definition, we imagine some claimants picking up their awards and we consider the problem of distributing what remains of the endowment among the other claimants: in this problem, the claims of the first group of claimants are set equal to zero and the endowment is adjusted down by the sum of their awards; we require of a rule that it assign to each remaining claimant the same amount as it did initially. We formulate several variants of this requirement of “partial-implementation invariance” and a “converse” of it. We investigate how the two requirements relate to known axioms and ask whether they are preserved by certain operators that have been defined on the space of rules. Our main result is a characterization in our fixed-population framework of a family of rules introduced and characterized by Young (Math Oper Res 12(3):398–414, 1987) in a variable-population framework. These rules are known under the name of “parametric rules”.</p>
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<p class="a-plus-plus">Universal self-selectivity of a social choice function (SCF) <em class="a-plus-plus">F</em> defined in Koray (Econometrica 68:981–995, 2000) implies that <em class="a-plus-plus">F</em> is either dictatorial or anti-dictatorial. In an attempt to escape this impossibility, here we weaken self-selectivity of an SCF by introducing the notion of selection-closedness pertaining to families of SCFs. As in the self-selectivity setting, a society, which is to make a choice from a set <em class="a-plus-plus">A</em> of alternatives, is also to choose the choice rule that will be employed in making that choice. Self-selectivity of an SCF <em class="a-plus-plus">F</em> requires that <em class="a-plus-plus">F</em> outrivals all available SCFs by selecting itself from among them if it is also used in choosing the choice rule, where the societal preferences on the available SCFs are induced from those on the set <em class="a-plus-plus">A</em> of alternatives in a consequentialist way. Given a collection <span class="a-plus-plus inline-equation id-i-eq1"></span></p>
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<p> <span class="a-plus-plus equation-source format-t-e-x">({mathscr {F}} cap {mathcal {A}})</span></p>
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<p> <span class="a-plus-plus equation-source format-t-e-x">({mathcal {A}},)</span></p>
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<p class="a-plus-plus">The ongoing illegal and inhumane Russian invasion and continued military aggression in Ukraine, along with the Russian occupation of Ukrainian territory, severely undermines the health and well-being of all Ukrainian citizens. This war creates acute challenges for those engaged in providing social welfare and mental health services, particularly for Ukranian social workers—members of a relatively new profession in Ukraine. This war creates an acute need for the provision of trauma-based services, a need that is especially challenging for health and mental health providers because they also share the stress of this war. No one, client or helper, is exempt from the pain and suffering caused by this war. Responding to ethical and practical needs for social work solidarity across global contexts of war and ongoing suffering, social work scholar-educators from Ukraine and the USA collaboratively created and launched a seven-session virtual professional development seminar series for Ukrainian social workers (30 participants in the first and 41 participants in the second). This article critically reflects on lessons learned from these seminars, with data gathered from 11 volunteers from the two cohorts. These volunteers were subsequently interviewed by one of the authors (in the Ukrainian language). Our findings point to how the seminars addressed the consequences of war, focusing on the following: (1) safety and those basic needs typically occurring in traumatized environments, (2) applying social-ecological and life course theory to suffering, (3) promoting natural care networks to build resilience among families, peer providers, and community leaders, and (4) addressing burnout and compassion fatigue among these social workers. According to participant data, the focus on self- and community care helped address burnout and compassion fatigue among these participants. Results point to ways these seminars helped establish cross-border, collaborative professional education as a form of health solidarity that serves to confront the realities of war and uphold social work’s ethical commitment to the promotion of peace.</p>
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<p class="a-plus-plus">The present study explored whether cues trained to specify relational (C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel</sub>) or relational and functional (C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel+func</sub>) control are differentially evaluated. If valences vary across C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel+func</sub> but not C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel</sub> cues, the two cue types would be deemed functionally distinct, as posited by relational frame theory (RFT; McLoughlin et al., 2019). One hundred sixty-six participants, split into six groups, underwent matching-to-sample (MTS) training and testing to establish cues exerting C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel</sub> (analogous to the phrases <em class="a-plus-plus">more than</em> or <em class="a-plus-plus">brighter than</em>) or C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel+func</sub> (analogous to the phrases <em class="a-plus-plus">happier than</em> or <em class="a-plus-plus">calmer than</em>) control. Besides MTS, cues were evaluated using visual analog scales, which revealed that valence magnitudes varied significantly across C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel+func</sub><em class="a-plus-plus">and</em> C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel</sub> cues. In particular, cues specifying opposing C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel</sub> poles (e.g., <em class="a-plus-plus">more</em> vs. <em class="a-plus-plus">less</em>), like cues specifying opposing C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel+func</sub> poles (<em class="a-plus-plus">happier</em> vs. <em class="a-plus-plus">unhappier</em>), evoked differential evaluations. This suggests C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel+func</sub> and C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel</sub> control are functionally reducible to a single C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel+func</sub> category, implying the latter anticipates C<sub class="a-plus-plus">rel</sub> and C<sub class="a-plus-plus">func</sub> control, contra RFT. After highlighting the limitations inherent to “a-ontological” conceptualizations of contextual cues, we present an alternate take of cue properties derived from Amd’s (2022) realist approach, which accounts for the present findings and suggests novel avenues for future research.</p>
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<p class="a-plus-plus">Sucrose reinforcement increases operant wheel running, but it is not certain that the increase is due to a reinforcement rather than a schedule-induction effect. To address this issue, eight female Long Evans rats were exposed to a fixed-interval (FI) 60-s schedule with wheel running as the operant. Across three conditions, water, sucrose, and water were delivered as outcomes. In addition, rats also ran freely for 20 min prior to, and subsequent to, exposure to the FI 60-s schedule. Results showed that operant wheel running on the FI 60-s schedule increased when sucrose was delivered. At the level of revolutions, over the reinforcement interval more rats showed increased revolutions in the sucrose condition in the latter half of the interval, consistent with a reinforcement effect, than an inverted U-shaped pattern in the initial half of the interval. Running during the pre- and postoperant running period was not substantially affected by the removal of sucrose reinforcement on the FI 60-s schedule. Sucrose reinforcement, but not water, increased running relative to the pre/post running periods. Results suggest that although both schedule-induction and reinforcement effects occur, the effect that dominates appears to be a function of the duration of the reinforcement interval with a reinforcement effect more prevalent with shorter intervals.</p>
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<p class="a-plus-plus">This exploratory and descriptive study used a digital game to investigate the effects of audiences on the accuracy of self-reports of 10 undergraduate students. The participants assumed the role of a prince who, being accused of murdering the king, had to navigate a labyrinthine castle to find proof of his innocence. To wander through the castle players needed to collect objects that maintained the prince’s energy, keeping him alive. Some objects provided a small amount of energy and others provided 20 times more energy but their collection was prohibited by the kingdom’s laws. At specific moments the player was questioned by different characters (audiences) about whether they had transgressed the law. There were four audiences (mother, brother, soldier, and computer) that varied in how they indicated the probability of either punishment or support. All participants completed the game and eight transgressed, collecting forbidden objects. A larger number of distorted reports, denying transgressions, were made to the audiences who signaled a higher probability of punishment, but a significant proportion of distorted reports were made even to the audiences who presented themselves as supportive and nonpunitive. Because no actual punishment for transgressions occurred in the game, reporting behavior was likely influenced by participants’ histories with audiences functionally similar to those simulated in the game.</p>
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<p><h3 class="a-plus-plus">Abstract</h3>
<p> <span class="a-plus-plus abstract-section id-a-sec1"></span></p>
<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Purpose</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Depression and suicidal thoughts are associated with intimate partner violence, a major public health problem. Yet little is known about this association among young men in sub-Saharan Africa. This study aims to investigate the relationship between depression, suicidal thoughts and intimate partner violence perpetration, among young men in Tanzania from a representative community-based sample.</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Methods</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">We conducted a cross sectional survey among 1002 young men aged between 18 and 24 years residing in Mwanza city, Tanzania. Participants were randomly selected from 6 wards that included 3 densely and 3 sparsely populated wards from the Ilemela and Nyamagana districts that were selected using a probability-based multi-stage cluster sampling approach. We collected data on participant’s socio-demographics, depression symptoms using the PHQ9, suicidal thoughts, other psychosocial factors, and perpetration of different forms of intimate partner violence. Analysis was done using Stata version 17.0 and restricted to 828 participants who self-reported being in intimate relationships in the past twelve months. Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression models were employed to determine the association between the outcome variables with intimate partner violence perpetration and other psychosocial factors.</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Results</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Out of 828 young men, 333(40.2%) reported depressive symptoms and 93(11.9%) suicidal thoughts, with 725(87.6%) reporting ever perpetrating any form of intimate partner violence and 653(78.9%) reporting it in the past 12 months. After adjusting for other factors in multivariable models, depressive symptoms were significantly associated with sexual intimate partner violence perpetration (aOR = 2.19, 95%CI = 1.57, 3.04), economic intimate partner violence perpetration (aOR = 1.32 95%CI = 1.01, 1.74), emotional intimate partner violence perpetration (aOR = 1.76, 95%CI = 1.26, 2.46) and controlling behaviours (aOR = 1.46 95%CI = 1.10, 1.93).</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Conclusions</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Depression is a common health problem strongly associated with intimate partner violence perpetration in this study population. Effective interventions to address depression and other mental health problems may help to reduce intimate partner violence perpetration in this population.</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Implications</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Researchers and practitioners should develop theory-based research and intervention programmes to address mental health problems such as depression and suicidal thoughts and the perpetration of intimate partner violence. The socio-ecological framework provides an insightful model for multiple level analysis and intervention.</p>
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<p><h3 class="a-plus-plus">Abstract</h3>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Purpose</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">This study reveals various patterns of IPV polyvictimization experiences among female survivors and examines interconnected relationships between IPV polyvictimization experiences and help seeking from various help sources, moderated by survivors’ race/ethnicity.</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Methods</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">The study sample included 4,764 female survivor selected from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey in 2010. We first conducted a latent class analysis (LCA) to classify IPV polyvictimization based on seven IPV types. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the associations between IPV polyvictimization and help-seeking (police, doctor, and psychologist). Interaction terms between race/ethnicity and polyvictimization were tested for moderating effects of race/ethnicity.</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Results</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">LCA revealed three polyvictimization patterns: (1) Multiple Violence (MV), (2) Physical and Psychological Violence (PPV), (3) Psychological Violence (PV). Compared to survivors of PV, survivors of MV and PPV were more likely to seek all types of help. Black survivors were more likely to contact police than White survivors. Compared to White survivors, Black and Hispanic survivors were less likely to see psychologists. Black survivors of MV were less likely to talk to police than White survivors of MV.</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Conclusions</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">A severe form of polyvictimization was associated with a greater need for professional help than other types of polyvictimization. Racial/ethnic minority survivors’ complicated relationship with police and less use of mental health services need to be further examined. Access to legal and mental health services by racial and ethnic minority survivors could be improved by enhanced cultural sensitivity and increased awareness of different cultures within these areas.</p>
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<p><h3 class="a-plus-plus">Abstract</h3>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Purpose</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Children bereaved by domestic homicide face unique challenges that are likely to require professional interventions. In this study, the theoretical lens of candidacy, which considers the dynamic factors that affect service eligibility and access, is employed to evaluate current service provision in the United Kingdom.</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Method</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">We conducted a mixed methods survey (<em class="a-plus-plus">n</em> = 90) and semi-structured interviews (<em class="a-plus-plus">n</em> = 7) of professionals working in the children and families sector. Thematic analysis was used to interpret qualitative data, while descriptive and parametric statistics were used for the analysis of quantitative data.</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Results</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Quantitative results showed that a majority of professionals reported that the current service provision is not meeting the specific needs of children bereaved by domestic homicide, and that professionals reported low levels of confidence in working with the topic, regardless of professional background. This article reports on two key themes identified in the qualitative data: unmet needs and the barriers to candidacy, and developing a more effective provision.</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Conclusions</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Using the theoretical lens of candidacy, this study identified factors which were found to limit children’s access to appropriate services, indicating the need for a specialist service which provides long-term input, support for caregivers, and access to peer-support.</p>
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<p class="a-plus-plus">I will in this article use Fircks as a point of departure for trying to understand the complexities involved in the use of the concept of mindfulness. As will be seen, mindfulness can be traced to a decoupling from a religious background and subsequent appropriation within several Western contexts. This will then be used for a discussion of how to deal with the historicity of the phenomena studied within cultural psychology. Here two reminders will be suggested, namely understanding phenomena through a context-sensibility and at the same time being aware of any disciplinary parochialism.</p>
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<p><p>American Journal of Men’s Health, Volume 18, Issue 3, May-June 2024. <br>The Supreme Court ruling Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (June 2022) overturned federal protection of abortion rights, resulting in significant impact on both male and female reproductive rights and health care delivery. We conducted a retrospective review of all patients who underwent vasectomy at a single academic institution between June 2021 and June 2023. Our objective was to compare the rates of childless and partnerless vasectomies 1 year before and after this ruling, as these men may be more susceptible to postprocedural regret. Of total, 631 men (median age = 39 years, range = 20–70) underwent vasectomy consultation. Total vasectomies pre- and post-Dobbs were 304 (48%) versus 327 (52%). Total childless and partnerless vasectomies pre- and post-Dobbs were 44 (42%) versus 61 (58%) and 43 (46%) versus 50 (54%). Vasectomy completion rate was slightly increased post-Dobbs (90% vs. 88%; p = .240). The post-Dobbs cohort had significantly less children (1.8 vs. 2.0; p = .031). Men in the post-Dobbs era were significantly more likely to be commercially insured (72% vs. 64%) and less likely to be uninsured (1% vs. 6%; p = .002). Men who underwent childless vasectomy were significantly more likely to be younger (36.4 vs. 39.8 years; p < .001). There was a significantly greater proportion of Hispanic and Black men in the partnerless cohort compared to the cohort with partners (24% vs. 19% and 9% vs. 2%; p = .002). In conclusion, patients should be counseled on the permanent nature of this procedure, underscoring need for effective and reversible male contraception.</p>
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<p><p>American Journal of Men’s Health, Volume 18, Issue 3, May-June 2024. <br>This study assesses the morphological effectiveness of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) surgery using multislice spiral computed tomography three-dimensional imaging (CT3D) with urethral contrast. Twenty-five male patients with BPH and bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) who underwent bipolar transurethral resection of the prostate were selected. Preoperative and postoperative CT3D indicators of retrograde and voiding cystourethrography, including bladder neck diameter, length of the posterior urethra, and degree of prostate protrusion into the bladder and upper and lower diameter of the prostate were used to assess bladder neck and posterior urethra morphology and BOO severity. In addition, preoperative and postoperative International Prostate Symptom Scores and maximum urine flow rates were compared. Postoperative CT3D was used to evaluate changes following obstruction relief postsurgery. Preoperative CT3D indicated significant BOO, whereas postoperative imaging showed improved patency but with irregular posterior urethral lumens and varying degrees of residual glandular tissue. Comparative analysis of preoperative and postoperative bladder outlet metrics revealed significant changes (p < .05). Urethral contrast CT3D effectively visualizes the prostate, bladder neck, and prostatic urethra. It quantifies changes in the urethral lumen postsurgery, correlating the extent of posterior urethral lumen spaciousness with urinary flow rates.</p>
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<p class="a-plus-plus">Adolescents in military families may be at elevated risk for poor mental health outcomes given their developmental stage and exposure to military life stressors. Using Structural Family Theory and a family resilience lens, we examine how the family affective environment created by the roles and rules of families manifests as <em class="a-plus-plus">balanced family cohesion</em> and <em class="a-plus-plus">balanced family flexibility</em>, and how this family environment is related to <em class="a-plus-plus">mental health</em> outcomes for adolescents. Furthermore, the frequency with which adolescents disclose negative emotions to their family members (including fathers, mothers, and siblings) was posited to link family environment elements and adolescent mental health. We used structural equation modeling with 201 military families that featured a Service member father, civilian mother, and adolescent age 11–18 who had at least one sibling. Across models, balanced family cohesion was directly related to adolescent mental health. Emotional disclosure to fathers and siblings was associated with better adolescent mental health. The role of emotional disclosure as a link between family affective environment and adolescent mental health depended on the family member being disclosed to and primarily emerged among fathers. Specifically, balanced family flexibility was indirectly linked to adolescent mental health via emotional disclosure to fathers. These models fit similarly among adolescent boys and girls. Potential points of intervention to support the mental health of adolescents in military families are discussed, including bolstering balanced family cohesion within the family system and addressing barriers and needed skills to encourage adolescent emotional disclosure.</p>
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<p><p>Chronic Stress, Volume 8, Issue , January-December 2024. <br>BackgroundEvaluation stress can impair inhibitory control, limiting the ability of children to perform cognitively. However, evidence on protective factors is lacking as stress-induced cognitive impairments are poorly understood. High physical activity has been related to better inhibitory control and has the potential to buffer the response to a stressor. We investigated the association of physical activity and stress-induced changes in inhibitory control as well as its underlying cognitive control processes (i.e., conflict monitoring and resolution).MethodParticipants (10 to 13 y) with either low (N = 55) or high moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (N = 55) completed the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C) and a control task in a randomized order. During both conditions, salivary cortisol was collected. Additionally, a computerized Stroop task was administered before and after the experimental conditions. The N200 and positive slow wave (PSW) components of event-related potentials elicited by the Stroop task were recorded using electroencephalography.ResultsIn comparison to the control task, the TSST-C elicited a pre-to post-test decrease of accuracy on incompatible trials. Path-analyses further revealed that this decrease was related to low physical activity and a reduced PSW amplitude. However, both the N200 and PSW amplitudes did not mediate the relation between physical activity groups and performance on the Stroop task.ConclusionIn children, evaluation stress decreases inhibitory control partly due to a reduced effectiveness of conflict resolution processes. Only children with high physical activity maintain inhibitory control after facing the stressor. However, this protective effect cannot be attributed to changes in conflict monitoring and resolution.</p>
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<p><p>Chronic Stress, Volume 8, Issue , January-December 2024. <br>Purpose: Currently, 1 in 5 college students struggle with suicidal ideation while 7% to 44% engage in nonsuicidal self-injury. Illinois has one of the highest teenage and college student suicide rates in the United States. This pilot study assessed suicide ideation and self-harm behaviors at a public Illinois university. This is the first study to use 5 standardized psychological instruments to investigate these 2 crises in freshmen college students who are all required to reside in dormitories. The main hypothesis was to determine if the independent effects of freshmen students’ depression, Five-Factor Model, and Reasons for Living affected the dependent variables, self-harm behaviors and suicide ideation. Methods: Forty first-year college dormitory students completed the Beck Depression Inventory-II, Scale of Suicidal Ideation, Five-Factor Model, Inventory of Statements About Self-Injury, and Reasons for Living Scale in person. Results: Participants were 18 to 19 years old, predominantly female (65%), and non-White (62%). Forty percent reported self-harm behaviors and 19% reported suicidal ideation. The top reasons for contemplated suicide attempts included the inability to solve problems (33%) and attention/revenge (28%). Students experienced high levels of anxiety (55%), self-consciousness (43%), and depression (18%). Depression was associated with suicide ideation (β = 0.05, P = .006), while neuroticism and openness were associated with self-harm behaviors (aOR = 3.36, P = .02, aOR = 0.48, P = .047, respectively). Ninety-five percent reported “responsibility to family” as a Reason for Living. Conclusions: Preliminary evidence necessitates an examination of self-harm and suicide ideation among all freshmen, investigating both risk and protective factors. In the future, a prevention intervention should be implemented campus-wide (and eventually nationwide) for all first-year dormitory students to enhance their mental well-being.</p>
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<p class="a-plus-plus">Dating violence is highly prevalent among teenagers and victims are likely to suffer from health consequences. Despite growing research on dating violence determinants, neighbourhood-level factors have been overlooked. This study aimed at (1) estimating associations between neighbourhood sociodemographic characteristics (i.e., socioeconomic status, single parenthood, residential instability, and ethnocultural diversity) and dating violence, and (2) exploring the scale sensitivity of these estimations. Data from the Québec Health Survey of High School Students (2016–2017) were used to measure psychological and physical/sexual dating violence (perpetration and victimization). For each participant, egocentric neighbourhoods were operationalized using network buffers of different radii. Neighbourhoods’ sociodemographic characteristics were measured using data from the Canada Census 2016. Findings suggest that neighbourhood sociodemographic characteristics are associated with dating violence and that such associations are sensitive to scale. Further, these associations vary by gender and the form of dating violence considered. Our results suggest that implementing neighbourhood-level interventions could contribute to reducing dating violence.</p>
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<p><p>Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Ahead of Print. <br>Background: The aim of this study was to explore how stakeholders perceive illicit drugs at licensed premises, existing and potential prevention interventions, and to identify facilitators and barriers to reduce illicit drugs at these locations. Methods: Semi-structured interviews with police officers, licensed premises owners, security staff and municipality officials (n = 28) in seven counties in middle Sweden were conducted and analysed using qualitative content analysis. Results: The informants reported frequent illicit drug use and dealing at licensed premises, causing a negative influence on the restaurant environment. Efforts to prevent illicit drugs varied with respect to type and intensity but included environmental and situational changes as well as education and training, policy implementation and law enforcement. Facilitators for the reduction of illicit drugs are confidence that sufficient resources are allocated, motivated and skilled stakeholders who see benefits of prevention and collaborate closely, along with visible results. General societal prevention was also seen as important. Identified barriers were perceived drug-positive norms and high availability and use in the society, perceived lack of prioritisation and resources, difficulties to collaborate due to e.g., secrecy between organisations, lack of action among stakeholders due to financial considerations, perceived confusion about roles and mandate, and owner’s and staff’s fear of threats and violence from criminals or own involvement in crime. Conclusion: To maximise the potential of successful prevention, authorities should support owners of licensed premises to act firmly against illicit drugs by providing training, ensure that they apply a strict policy, work for increased stakeholder collaboration and provide appropriate police resources. Authorities should also investigate criminal activities among owners and staff as well as combat organised crime and availability of illicit drugs in the society.</p>
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<p class="a-plus-plus">Allowing children the opportunity to take risks in their play may provide learning experiences that benefit children’s health and well-being. Parents’ perception of risk in children’s play may affect their behaviour and, in turn, their child’s risk-taking opportunities. This paper examines whether parent and child gender are associated with parents’ perceptions of risk in children’s play and whether any gender differences hold after controlling for parent anxiety. Data were collected from 88 parent dyads who were parents to preschool-aged children in England. Parent gender differences were found, with mothers perceiving greater risk in children’s risky play activities than fathers. Child gender was not significantly related to parents’ perception of risk. These findings are important for informing the development of programmes and advice designed to encourage parents to support their children’s outdoor, risky play. Specifically, they indicate that, for mothers in particular, support around perceiving risk and risk-reframing might help parents to give their child the opportunity to play in this way.</p>
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<p><p>Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Ahead of Print. <br>Background: In 2018, the UK Government published its Serious Violence Strategy setting out the Government’s commitment to adopting a public health approach to ‘serious violence’ in England and Wales and encouraging a multi-agency, whole system public health approach to violence prevention. There has been very little research attention and commentary on the roles of alcohol and illegal drugs in the construction of “serious violence” within the Strategy. Method: Drawing on thematic analysis of key policy documents, the ways in which drugs and alcohol have been conceptualised in recent violence policy in the English and Welsh context are explored through the analytical framework of “framing”. Results: The overwhelming emphasis on violence associated with the drugs market has skewed attention towards exceptional and sensationalist forms of “serious” violence and diverted it from more common and widespread forms of “everyday” violence, including domestic and alcohol-related violence. Omitting these from the policy purview has implications for those affected and how resources are allocated. Conclusion: To advance inclusive and holistic violence prevention, a wider framing of violence is required and both illegal drugs and alcohol need to be embedded for meaningful working across populations and organisational boundaries.</p>
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<p><p>Methodological Innovations, Ahead of Print. <br>Qualitative research methods have treated Western knowledge systems and Indigenous studies as polar opposites with asymmetrical power relations. Studies have documented the hegemonic dominance of Western science over Indigenous knowledge systems. Despite this tension, there is an opportunity to integrate Western science with Indigenous knowledges to bridge these discordant systems. This paper argues that Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT), a Western-based version of grounded theory can be weaved with Indigenous research. CGT’s emphasis on co-construction, relationality, value-free inquiry, and social justice align with Indigenous research principles. Using examples from both CGT and Indigenous scholarship, the paper argues that CGT with its pragmatist and constructivist orientation can exist alongside an Indigenous research agenda. Furthermore, the flexible, emergent, and relativist nature of CGT aligns with some aspects of Indigenous research. The paper demonstrates that both knowledge systems can be treated on an equal par, engender methodological reciprocity and provide mutual benefits to each other. Weaving CGT and Indigenous research might provide new avenues of thinking about doing research with Indigenous communities and other marginalized communities.</p>
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<p class="a-plus-plus">Prior studies have shown that adolescents’ positive relationships with family, teachers, and peers are separately related to higher life satisfaction. However, the underlying mechanisms linking social relationships to life satisfaction and the potential interactive effects of these social relationships on life satisfaction have received less attention. The current study investigated how positive family function, teacher acceptance, and peer acceptance jointly relate to adolescent life satisfaction, and examined two potential mediators linking these social relationships to life satisfaction: self-compassion and psychological resilience. Participants were 803 Chinese adolescents (43.8% female; <em class="a-plus-plus">Mage</em> at Time 1 = 13.15 years) from a two-wave longitudinal study with data spanning 1 year. Adolescents reported on their social relationships (i.e., family function, teacher acceptance, and peer acceptance), self-compassion, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction. The results demonstrate that Time 1 positive family function, teacher acceptance, and peer acceptance were positively related to Time 2 psychological resilience through Time 1 self-compassion. Greater Time 2 psychological resilience, in turn, was positively linked to Time 2 adolescent life satisfaction. The indirect link from peer acceptance to self-compassion to psychological resilience to life satisfaction was stronger when teacher acceptance was higher (vs. lower), as teacher acceptance strengthened the link between peer acceptance and self-compassion. Results suggest that promoting social relationships, self-compassion, and psychological resilience is important in facilitating life satisfaction.</p>
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<p><p>Methodological Innovations, Ahead of Print. <br>Dynamic Pattern Synthesis (DPS) provides a new longitudinal method for evaluating the impacts of macroeconomic and public policy interventions. Situated within complexity theory and critical realism, it has evolved from the established methods of Cluster Analysis and Configurational Modelling approaches. Dynamic Pattern Synthesis identifies case convergence and divergence (using quantitative techniques), while remaining close to the qualitative uniqueness of each case. In this paper, the DPS approach is used to consider macroeconomic convergence across Sub-Saharan Africa during the Millennium Development Goals, and the possible impacts of IMF interventions in stimulating long-term macroeconomic outcomes. The findings reveal a high degree of economic instability experienced across the region and varying responses to an external shock. The importance of ‘outliers’ and inconsistency in country convergence are also observed. The DPS method highlights the importance of individual country experiences in relation to external shocks. When factoring in IMF interventions, the findings highlight multiple paths to a given policy outcome, rather than a single optimal economic strategy. This opens up the debate on policy issues associated with economic complexity, including how best to create an overall environment of stability that might promote convergence and reduce the instability that undermines planning and investment.</p>
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<p><p>Implementation Research and Practice, Volume 5, Issue , January-December 2024. <br>BackgroundEffective interventions need to be implemented successfully to achieve impact. Two theory-based measures exist for measuring the effectiveness of implementation strategies and monitor implementation progress. The Normalization MeAsure Development questionnaire (NoMAD) explores the four core concepts (Coherence, Cognitive Participation, Collective Action, Reflexive Monitoring) of the Normalization Process Theory. The Organizational Readiness for Implementing Change (ORIC) is based on the theory of Organizational Readiness for Change, measuring organization members’ psychological and behavioral preparedness for implementing a change. We examined the measurement properties of the NoMAD and ORIC in a multi-national implementation effectiveness study.MethodTwelve mental health organizations in nine countries implemented Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for common mental disorders. Staff involved in iCBT service delivery (n = 318) participated in the study. Both measures were translated into eight languages using a standardized forward–backward translation procedure. Correlations between measures and subscales were estimated to examine convergent validity. The theoretical factor structures of the scales were tested using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Test–retest reliability was based on the correlation between scores at two time points 3 months apart. Internal consistency was assessed using Cronbach’s alpha. Floor and ceiling effects were quantified using the proportion of zero and maximum scores.ResultsNoMAD and ORIC measure related but distinct latent constructs. The CFA showed that the use of a total score for each measure is appropriate. The theoretical subscales of the NoMAD had adequate internal consistency. The total scale had high internal consistency. The total ORIC scale and subscales demonstrated high internal consistency. Test–retest reliability was suboptimal for both measures and floor and ceiling effects were absent.ConclusionsThis study confirmed the psychometric properties of the NoMAD and ORIC in multi-national mental health care settings. While measuring on different but related aspects of implementation processes, the NoMAD and ORIC prove to be valid and reliable across different language settings.Plain Language SummaryWhy was the study done?Effective interventions need to be implemented successfully to achieve impact. Reliable measurement instruments are needed to determine if an implementation was successful or not. Two theory-based instruments exist for measuring the effectiveness of implementation strategies and monitor progress. The NoMAD measures aspects of normalization related to sense-making, willingness to implement, the work people do, and reflection. The Organizational Readiness for Implementing Change (ORIC) measures organization members’ preparedness for implementing a change.What did we do?This study examined whether the NoMAD and ORIC measure what they are supposed to measure. We translated the instruments from English to eight languages (Albanian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish/Catalan) We applied various statistical methods to confirm the measurement properties, including correlations of scales, factor structures, test–retest reliability, consistency and floor and ceiling effects. 318 mental health professionals from nine countries participated in the study.What did we find?For both instruments, total scores can be used as well as the subscale scores. Internal consistency for ORIC was high and for NoMAD adequate. Test–retest reliability was demonstrated, and floor and ceiling effects were rare.What does this mean?NoMAD and ORIC are reliable instruments for measuring implementation processes and outcomes across mental health care settings in different countries and languages. They measure related but different aspects of implementation processes and outcomes. The measures are brief, and theory supported. However, more work is to be done on interpreting scores in relation to implementation success and regarding changes over time.</p>
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<p>The post <a href="https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/26334895241245448/">Psychometric properties of two implementation measures: Normalization MeAsure Development questionnaire (NoMAD) and organizational readiness for implementing change (ORIC)</a> was curated by <a href="https://ifp.nyu.edu">information for practice</a>.</p></p>
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<p><p>The post <a href="https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/podcasts/how-to-make-a-killing-blood-death-and-dollars-in-american-medicine/">How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine</a> was curated by <a href="https://ifp.nyu.edu">information for practice</a>.</p></p>
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<td><a href="https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s10566-023-09768-3/" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing:-1px;margin:0;padding:0 0 2px;font-weight: bold;font-size: 19px;line-height: 20px;color:#222;">Crianza Positiva: Combining Group Workshops and E-Messages to Strengthen Parenting Competences</a>
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<p><h3 class="a-plus-plus">Abstract</h3>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Background</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Despite evidence on their short-term effectiveness, the long-term effects of group-based parenting interventions are unclear, programs are hard to scale up, and effects on parents of infants and toddlers are mixed.</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Objective</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">We evaluate the impact of a parenting intervention, <em class="a-plus-plus">Crianza Positiva</em>, that combines 8 group sessions with a 6 months e-messaging component. The program targets parents of infants and toddlers, is designed to be scalable by using low-cost delivery formats and a structured framework, and relies on a “top up” module to sustain the effects.</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Methods</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">We analyze video-recordings of a free play activity to rate the quality of child-caregiver interaction. We compare outcomes across three arms: (a) workshop + messages, (b) workshop only, and (c) a weekly unstructured playgroup. Because assignment to treatment is not random, we use inverse probability weighting to address initial unbalances and differential attrition. Our sample includes 442 disadvantaged families with infants/toddlers enrolled in early childhood centers in Uruguay.</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Results</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Results show significant and sustained benefits of the program on child-caregiver interaction quality, with medium effect sizes in the affective (<em class="a-plus-plus">d</em> = 0.44) and teaching dimensions (<em class="a-plus-plus">d</em> = 0.59).</p>
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<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Conclusions</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">The data suggest that group parenting interventions may help improve the childrearing environment among parents of children aged 0–2. Due to its protocolized design and the low cost of integrating it into early-childhood centers, the program has a potential for widespread implementation. Still, definitive conclusions are precluded by the evaluation design. Future randomized designs are needed.</p>
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<p><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10566-023-09768-3?error=cookies_not_supported&code=47b4ede2-9bf2-4ade-8413-21a55d3c14eb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read the full article ›</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/s10566-023-09768-3/">Crianza Positiva: Combining Group Workshops and E-Messages to Strengthen Parenting Competences</a> was curated by <a href="https://ifp.nyu.edu">information for practice</a>.</p></p>
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<p><strong>Forwarded by:<br />
Michael Reeder LCPC<br />
Baltimore, MD</strong></p>
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