scholarly journals Measuring Social Norms Related to Child Marriage Among Adult Decision-Makers of Young Girls in Phalombe and Thyolo, Malawi

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. S37-S44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Steinhaus ◽  
Laura Hinson ◽  
A. Theodore Rizzo ◽  
Amy Gregowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Young Girls

Child bride, a story that never ends: A look at experiences of Iranian women

2022 ◽  
pp. 002087282110668
Author(s):  
Shima Bozorgi-Saran ◽  
Anahita Khodabakhshi-Koolaee
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Exposure To Violence ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Iranian Women ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
Iranian Child ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
Child Brides

Child marriage is one of the issues that deprive many young girls of their basic rights and lives. The present study aimed to explore Iranian child brides’ experiences of the consequences of early marriage. The participants were women living in Tehran who had married at the age of 14–18 years. The analysis of the participants’ experiences revealed four main themes, including ‘underlying causes of early marriages’, ‘concerns and negative feelings’, ‘exposure to violence’, and ‘consequences of early marriages’. Awareness of these challenges can provide useful insights to be used by social workers and policymakers to further support these women.

scholarly journals Organizational and Individual Innovation Decisions in an Interorganizational System: Social Influence and Decision-Making Authority

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-521
Author(s):  
Jiawei Sophia Fu ◽  
Michelle Shumate ◽  
Noshir Contractor
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Innovation Adoption ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Interorganizational System

Abstract This study examines the processes of complex innovation adoption in an interorganizational system. It distinguishes the innovation adoption mechanisms of organizational-decision-makers (ODMs), who make authority adoption decisions on behalf of an organization, from individual-decision-makers (IDMs), who make optional innovation decisions in their own work practice. Drawing on the Theory of Reasoned Action and Social Information Processing Theory, we propose and test a theoretical model of interorganizational social influence. We surveyed government health-care workers, whose advice networks mostly span organizational boundaries, across 1,849 state health agencies in Bihar, India. The collective attitudes of coworkers and advice network members influence health-care workers’ attitudes and perceptions of social norms toward four types of innovations. However, individuals’ decision-making authority moderates these relationships; advisors’ attitudes have a greater influence on ODMs, while perceptions of social norms only influence IDMs. Notably, heterogeneity of advisors’ and coworkers’ attitudes negatively influence IDMs’ evaluations of innovations but not ODMs’.

scholarly journals Social norms and child marriage in Cameroon: An application of the theory of normative spectrum

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 1479-1494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beniamino Cislaghi ◽  
Gerry Mackie ◽  
Paul Nkwi ◽  
Holly Shakya
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Child Marriage

scholarly journals RATIONALISM, RISK AND RIDICULE – EXPERTS, SCEPTICS AND THE MARK OF THE ‘BLOB’

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Richard Davies
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Health It ◽  
The Uk

This article offers a perspective on the debate about experts and their value. It considers why expert claims for attention are often regarded as suspect. It does so by reflecting on the work of Arendt, Oakeshott, and Scruton. It notes that decision makers can easily find themselves in a bind - sometimes railing against experts, like those presumed to inhabit an education ‘Blob’ in the UK - and at other times seemingly becoming dependent upon them, as in ‘the Science’ and public health. It draws attention to the character of the distaste for scepticism about experts within education, and to the intellectual origin of that scepticism itself. It highlights the alleged contradictions in the minds of sceptics especially where they want to conserve or draw strength from inherited social norms, and yet at the same time regard them as a dehumanising trap. It suggests that the contradiction can be overcome by distinguishing between their concerns about the dangers of rationalism, and their rooted attachment to reason and reasonableness. It invites practitioners to take a principled interest in risk and in its resistance to elimination. It suggests that ridicule can be healthy in so far as it deftly challenges complacency amongst experts and practitioners alike.

scholarly journals Nikah Dini: Pelembagaan Praktik Kekerasan Terhadap Perempuan

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 283
Author(s):  
Budi Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Young Girls

This article addresses the issues of child marriages from the perspective of an activist in women's empowerment. The practice of child marriage has become a medium for institutionalizingviolence against women. This is because the practice has violated some basic human's rights of young girls; such as their rights to education, to have opinion and to express their thoughts, to have their thoughts be heard, to rest and play, and to grow fully and be prgtected.

Assessing how we decide: Psychometric development of a decision modes scale

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hale A Forster ◽  
Julia G. Bottesini ◽  
Crystal Reeck ◽  
Elke U. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Convergent And Discriminant Validity ◽  
Decision Mode

We present the development of the Domain-general Decision Mode Scale (DDMS), a 24-item scale to measure decision modes. Decision modes are the qualitatively different approaches through which individuals report making decisions. Researchers have consistently acknowledged that existing two-systems models of decision-making processes that distinguish between an intuitive and a rational mode do not account for the range of rule-based processes that decision makers employ in evaluating and making choices. Our studies identified six different decision modes, driven respectively by calculation, affect, habit, social norms, identity, and morality. Making a decision using the calculation mode involves a deliberate process of assessing costs and benefits. Using the affective mode involves an emotion- or gut-driven process. Using the social norms mode involves consideration of what others are doing or what others condone as appropriate. Using the habitual mode involves following a previously determined rule or habit. Using the identity mode involves identifying what is consistent with one’s sense of self or own values. Finally, using the moral decision mode involves consideration of what does the most good. We conceptually group the final four decision modes under the umbrella of rule-based decision-making: making a decision based on previously-learned and/or socially-derived conventions. The DDMS exhibits good reliability, as well as convergent and discriminant validity. By providing a scale that assesses the degree to which decision makers report using these decision modes, we integrate past research on decision modes and create a framework for additional research into the effects of different decision processes.

scholarly journals Why context matters for social norms interventions: The case of child marriage in Cameroon

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 532-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beniamino Cislaghi ◽  
Paul Nkwi ◽  
Gerry Mackie ◽  
Holly Shakya
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Child Marriage

Voice Without Choice? Investigating Adolescent Girls’ Agency in Marital Decision-making in Niger

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 270-281
Author(s):  
Grace Saul ◽  
Aïssa Diarra ◽  
Andrea J. Melnikas ◽  
Sajeda Amin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Parental Consent ◽  
Community Norms ◽  
Factors Influencing

This article uses qualitative data from Niger to examine adolescent girls’ perceptions of their own agency in marriage decisions and contextual factors influencing these perceptions. We find that girls make marital decisions within a context that stresses parental consent and community approval, places a high value on obedience, and is constrained by limited opportunities, gendered distribution of labor, and dominant social norms promoting an early and narrow ‘window of opportunity’ for marriage. Findings demonstrate that interventions aiming to delay marriage in Niger must work to influence both community norms supporting child marriage and girls’ own motivations in martial decision-making.

scholarly journals Conceptual framework of the drivers of child marriage: A tool to guide programs and policies

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Entry Points

This brief presents a simplified framework to provide key entry points for understanding which drivers of child marriage may be most important in particular contexts. Decision-makers such as researchers, donors, and program practitioners can use the framework to help design programs and policies tailored to these contexts.

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