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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"World Values Survey"”.
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Nuorten aikuisten ikäluokkien individualisaatio Venäjällä
… siirtyi markkinatalouteen. Kuitenkin ensimmäinen World Values Survey –kyselytutkimus, mitä tässä tutkimuksessa on käytetty kvantitatiivisena aineistona, tehtiin Neuvostoliiton olemassaolon toiseksi viimeisenä vuotena 1990. Tuon ajankohdan tiedot kuvaavat neuvostoliittolaista arvomaailmaa, eikä …
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An analysis of the relationship between social capital and subjective well-being in four regions of Spain in the mid-1990s
… data analysis of five samples, all part of the World Values Survey 1995-1996. The WVS 1995-1996 offers vast data for Spain and for four autonomous regions - Basque Country, Andalusia, Galicia and Valencia. For the national sample N= 1211. Regional sampling is as follows: Basque Country (N=2205), …
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Religious Engagement and Social Capital in the Islamic Context
… is conducted on data from the fourth wave of the World Values Survey. Results suggest that religious engagement and social capital have both belief and behavioral elements that should be treated as separate entities in quantitative research.
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A comparative analysis of church and state issue attitudes in the United States and Norway
… States; Public opinion data is obtained from the World Values Survey and presented in terms of the current Accommodationist/Separationist debate. The most important variable in determining issue attitudes turns out to be whether or not a person attends church regularly, and not their …
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Cosmopolitanism as a measure of political tolerance : an inquiry into the acceptability of homosexuality
… toward homosexuality with 2005 data from the World Values Survey. I find that even after controlling for normal predictors of homosexual tolerance (i.e., gender, education, religion, partisanship, and political ideology), people with more cosmopolitan mind-sets have warmer attitudes toward …
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Women’s Rights And Public Confidence: The Connection Between International Human Rights Norms And Public Confidence In Women’s Organizations
… in women’s organizations featured in the World Values Survey. This paper hopes to find a strong correlation between CEDAW scales of human rights and levels of confidence in women’s organizations.
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Altruism and perception of a common humanity in the world value survey waves 2 and 4: A quantitative analysis
… at altruistic attitudes and behaviors around the world and determine whether individuals exhibiting these behaviors believe in a common humanity. It will consider what the individual says he believes and how or if he chooses to act on those beliefs. The statistics used for the analysis of the …
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Is Wealth Green? Examining the Relationship Between Wealth and Environmental Conservation
… groups," from both the General Social Survey and the World Values Survey. The results strongly refute Huber's national-level theory, with evidence that wealthy nations are actually less efficient at using land, but on an individual level the evidence suggests that the wealthy are indeed …
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Evaluating the Theory of Cultural Tightness -Looseness: Measurement and Construct Validity
… using cross-national data from the World Values Survey and Gallup World Poll. Consistent with the theory, religious conservatism was associated with narrow socialization values, and both measures moderated the effect of perceived control on global well-being in a country even after …
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Does support for democracy matter? : a cross-national study of regime preferences and system change
Using survey data from the third World Values Survey and democracy scores from Freedom House, I outline and test a supply and demand model of democratic change and stability. While "support for democracy" is a common concept in political science, the only empirical studies of the relationship …
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ESSAYS ON DOMESTIC FACTORS DRIVING ATTITUDES TOWARDS IMMIGRANTS AND EMIGRATION
… jobs in rich and poor countries using data from World Values Survey, wave 6 for the period 2010-2014. The main finding of this study is that per capita income affects an individual’s attitudes against immigrants in getting hired but religiosity does not matter in affecting attitudes of people …
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Postmaterialism and Democracy: What Does the Postmaterialist Value Shift Mean for Democracy?
… motivation for this research. Working with World Values Survey data, I examine individual and societal level relationships between postmaterial values and direct political participation and acceptance of participatory values. Empirical evidence supports the hypotheses that postmaterial …
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Cross-National Fear of Crime Among Women: An Examination of Structural and Individual-Level Causes
… the International Criminal Victimization Survey, the World Values Survey, the United Nations, and the World Bank (total N=20 nations and 17,384 individuals), I assessed the aforementioned research questions using multilevel modeling. Overall, findings indicate that individual-level …
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A study on the effect of fulfilling hegemonic masculine norms on men's health across regions
… health) across different regions of the world. Regions include Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and English speaking countries (United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Great Britain).The masculine constructs used are derived from …
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Local environmental attitudes, global environmental attitudes, and religion: An analysis in 47 nations
Religion as culture shapes the worldview of its subscribers and thence attitude formation and preferences of individuals towards many topics including the environment. Research interest in the impact of religion soared in the late 1960s, in response to White's (1967) article in Science claiming …
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Bienestar subjetivo y objetivo: una propuesta de medición integral para la comparación internacional
… datos del Public Data Explorer del PNUD y de la World Values Survey se realizaron dos tipos de análisis para un total de 58 países. Por un lado, se testea el grado de asociación entre cada uno de los indicadores objetivos y subjetivos a nivel agregado, así como también con la felicidad promedio y …
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Teacher accountability policy and sociocultural context: A cross-country study focusing on Finland and Singapore
… multilevel modelling to analyse cross-country survey data on education (e.g. PISA) and culture (e.g. the World Values Survey). I find that the relationship between teacher accountability instruments and student outcomes in these datasets varies with one aspect of sociocultural context, i.e. the …
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Cultural Determinants of Global Health
This PhD thesis examines the role of cultural values as a predictor of population health and wellbeing in a global context. Within the Social Determinants of Health (SDH) framework, several factors including social class, income and education have been studied extensively as drivers of …
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Exploring Association Between Subjective Well-Being And Ecological Footprint: Panel Data Analysis
… over the years from 2006 to 2016 from the World Values Survey, World Bank and the global footprint network etc. A series of statistical methods such as partial correlation, simple OLS, stepwise regression and fixed effects panel regression were carried out to examine the spatial-temporal …
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Contextualising Individual Diversity Perceptions: A Relational Study across Egypt, Germany, and the United Kingdom Technology Industries
… cultural tightness-looseness theory and the World Values Survey. At the meso level, industry diversity dynamics and organisational diversity management were considered. At the micro individual level, identity was theoretically conceptualised through social identity theory, professional role …
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