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Looking back on childhood experiences of homelessness: Stories of ongoing residential instability and resilience

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Families' experience of homelessness is typically examined from the perspective of parents during or shortly after a shelter stay. Parents complain about rules, surveillance, crowding, and challenges to parenting in both homeless shelters and in doubling up with other households (sharing the others' homes), and relief when they attain their ...
Marybeth Shinn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender-fair Language Changes the Social Perception of Professional Groups: The Case of German and Italian.

open access: yes, 2013
Gender-fair language, including women and men, such as word pairs has a substantial impact on the mental representation, as a large body of studies have shown.
Merkel, Elisa   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Editorial: Language, Cognition and Gender

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Alan eGarnham   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Becoming resilient: Community‐driven change and the Civic Capacity Index

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the principal features of successful community governance is that it is collaborative and thus dependent on a community's ability to work together. However, there are no valid, comprehensive means to assess a community's capacity to respond to civic challenges in collaborative ways, and that are predictive of community resilience and ...
David MacPhee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is There a Woman in Los Candidatos? Gender Perception with Masculine “Generics” and Gender-Fair Language Strategies in Spanish

open access: yesLanguages
This study examines how several gender-encoding strategies in Spanish and social factors influence gender perception, reinforcing or mitigating a sexist male bias.
Laura Vela-Plo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Made‐in‐Africa Evaluation framework: A decolonial approach to program evaluation

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) framework is a decolonial approach to program evaluation developed by African evaluators over the past 14 years. MAE may be appropriate to community psychologists who practice program evaluation or conduct research in Africa, but little is known about its implementation.
Takatso Sibanda, Robin Lin Miller
wiley   +1 more source

Strategies That Affect Individuals’ Gender-Fair Language Use

open access: yes, 2021
Language reproduces and produces gender and reality, hence plays a significant role in pursuing an equitable society without discrimination based on gender categories. The promotion of gender-fair language through feminization and neutralization strategies has led to an increase in the use of gender-fair language in recent decades.
openaire   +1 more source

Gender-fair language use in online job advertisements - relations to job status and gender equality

open access: yes, 2013
Purpose Gender fair language use in job advertisements has been shown to impact the outcome of personnel selections. It is thus important to assess, to what extent gender fair language is used in job advertisements and with which factors it is ...
Formanowicz, Magdalena Maria   +4 more
core  

Exploring Inclusive Language: A Study of the Perceptions and Practices of Gender-Fair Language Among University Students

open access: yes, 2023
reservedGender inclusivity in language has become a central topic of debate and research. Many feminist language activists believe that changing the way we communicate can lead to a more equal representation of women and men.
SAONCELLA, NOEMI
core  

Transitioning to nonpunitive school policies for addressing student substance use: Qualitative interviews with key school administrators

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent policy change in Massachusetts encourages schools to limit their use of exclusionary discipline to “extraordinary circumstances,” but little work has explored the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to nonpunitive practices after student substance use infractions in schools.
Kristina Conroy   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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