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Mapping Life Satisfaction Over the First Years of Cohabitation Among Former Singles Living Alone in UK and Germany

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective As social norms and relationship dynamics evolve, it is important to examine how transitions from singlehood to partnership, cohabitation, and marriage relate to well‐being. Method Using data from two large panel studies in the UK and Germany (1984–2019), we identified N = 27,459 individuals who reported being single and living alone
Usama EL‐Awad   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Reputational Configuration and Dynamics of Christian Churches in Switzerland

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the reputation of Christian churches is configured, and which sociodemographic variables and experiences (personal or mediated) relate to it. It provides in‐depth insights into how the Swiss population evaluates Roman Catholic, Reformed Protestant, and Evangelical churches on the basis of various theories, such as ...
Rebekka Rieser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the Changes in Problem Behaviours and Communication of Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities after Transitioning from an Institutional Setting to the Community

open access: yesDisabilities
Worldwide, the community transition process away from institutions has increased in the past 30–50 years among persons with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities. This process, also known as “deinstitutionalization”, could potentially impact
Kayla Kostal   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home sweet harm: Confinement and tranquilidad in post‐asylum Peru

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how Peru's Community Mental Health (CMH) model contributes to the exclusion and home confinement of mentally ill individuals. Based on the experience of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia and her mother, I show how CMH's emphasis on community‐based care often fails in practice, as neighbors respond to people with mental
Julio Villa‐Palomino
wiley   +1 more source

Outpatient Civil Commitment in North Carolina: Constitutional and Policy Concerns [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Outpatient commitment of the mentally ill is court-ordered treatment in the community and is usually characterized by short, recurring visits to a mental health clinic that provides treatment such as medication, individual or group therapy, day or part ...
Karimi, Saadat, Zamanov, Asaf
core   +2 more sources

“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
wiley   +1 more source

The Partial Deinstitutionalization of Affirmative Action in U.S. Higher Education, 1988 to 2014

open access: yes, 2017
Since the 1990s, affirmative action opponents have targeted colleges' and universities' race-conscious admissions policies and secured bans on the practice in eight states. Although scholarly and media attention has focused on these dynamics at a handful
Daniel Hirschman, E. Berrey
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Letting Go: Conceptualizing intervention de-implementation in public health and social service settings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The discontinuation of interventions that should be stopped, or de-implementation, has emerged as a novel line of inquiry within dissemination and implementation science.
Brownson, Ross C   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Agency, Interrupted: Does Organizational Restructuring Improve Managerial Gender Parity? Testing a Disruption Hypothesis

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Administrative restructuring is an organizational phenomenon suggested to improve under‐represented groups' managerial representation by disrupting networks and institutions. However, extant tests of a ‘disruption hypothesis’ are collectively inconclusive. We elaborate and test it with a qualitative‐to‐quantitative study of local health agency
Rebecca A. E. Kirley, Carlotta Varriale
wiley   +1 more source

Experiences of Young People Leaving Children's Homes as a Form of Institutional Care: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 247-260, February 2026.
ABSTRACT In Türkiye, there are very few studies examining the outcomes of children's homes, which are institutional care services where children/young people in need of protection are cared for, in terms of independent living. This study was designed in line with the question of how young people who have left these homes experience independent living ...
Özge Kelebek, Fatih Kucur
wiley   +1 more source

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