The JOBS Program: Impact on Job Seeker Motivation, Reemployment, and Mental Health

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Price ◽  
Amiram D. Vinokur
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Social Research ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Jobs Program ◽  
New Applications ◽  
The University

JOBS is a research-based program delivered in a group format and designed to aid unemployed job seekers in their search for employment. The program has demonstrated positive impacts on job-search skills, motivation, reemployment rates, and mental health. The JOBS program was designed and tested in large-scale randomized trials at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The positive effect of JOBS has been replicated in a number of national and international settings. Research, theory, and principles for best practice in the implementation of JOBS are discussed, as well as future directions for research and new applications.

Patterns of alcohol consumption and psychiatric disorders among Ontario adults

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Ross ◽  
Jürgen Rehm ◽  
Gordon Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Composite International Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Diagnostic Interview ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between patterns of alcohol consumption, including problem drinking, and psychiatric disorders in the general population. The paper utilizes data on 8,116 adults age 15–64 living in households who were interviewed for the Ontario Health Survey and the Mental Health Supplement. The University of Michigan Composite International Diagnostic Interview (UM-CIDI) was administered by trained lay interviewers to generate lifetime DSM-III-R diagnoses. Unlike previous studies, the results of this study provided no evidence of a U-shaped or J-shaped curve or relationship between alcohol use and mental health. Lifetime abstainers had the lowest risks for all mental disorders examined, while former at-risk drinkers (those who had not had a drink in the previous year but at one time regularly drank more than 12 drinks a week) had the highest risks, even after adjustment for age and gender.

Women's personal and political identities in selected Middle East countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S692-S692
Author(s):  
S.F. Lu
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Social Research ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Middle East Countries ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

IntroductionWomen's personal and political identities are significant in defining their roles and eventual contribution to society in contemporary society both in the private and public spheres.ObjectivesThis research study focuses on the effect of Islam on women's personal and political identities.AimsThis research aims to highlight the existing ideology relating to women's treatment in regards their identities and public roles, and hence to contribute to women's emancipation.MethodsThis study utilizes quantitative and qualitative methods in analysing women in eight Muslim-majority countries, namely, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen, Cyprus and Kuwait, in the Middle East. For the quantitative data, statistical dataset was culled from Inter-university consortium for political and social research of the university of Michigan.ResultsThe overall results show that historical constructions of gender spheres are still palpable in the Islamic landscape. Woman's question is identified as a complex personal and social problem, and cannot be rejected as a valid search for gender sameness or equality. This study also shows the interpolation of Islam with other factors such as patriarchy, modernization, and state formations. Some Muslim scholars argue that Quran's fundamental mooring is geared towards equality between men and women, and women's enhanced status, and it is patriarchy that has confined women to the domestic sphere.ConclusionGender is embedded within culture, and structures of power in families, communities, and states, which have gender in itself, as an organizing principle.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Economies of Scale: Research-Driven Social Impact in the Housing Studio

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Haar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Neighborhood Development ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Design Build ◽  
The University

"How do we engage and envision “bottom-up” social change in the context of the academic design studio? What does it look like, and how is it taught? This paper shares a novel research-based studio engaged with large-scale projects in the city of Detroit that diverges from the small-scale, often design-build projects most often undertaken in community- based practice in the academy. Framed by the context of a research-intensive academic institution—the University of Michigan—the pedagogy asks how can we educate students in the potential for social impact and capacity-building at scale? In parallel, how can we leverage the research capacities of a large student body to advance the study of affordable housing and neighborhood development in the context of a city such as Detroit?"

Formation and decay of a transpolar arc during a major magnetic storm onset

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuija Pulkkinen ◽  
Shannon Hill ◽  
Qusai Al Shidi ◽  
Austin Brenner ◽  
Shasha Zou
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Complex Mixture ◽  
Precipitation Pattern ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Cell Potential ◽  
Inner Magnetosphere ◽  
Image Satellite ◽  
Weather Modeling ◽  
The University

<p>We examine a transpolar arc that formed at the onset of a geomagnetic storm on 15 May 2005 just prior to the arrival of a magnetic cloud. The theta aurora was recorded over the southern hemisphere by the FUV-WIC camera onboard IMAGE satellite. While in most cases transpolar arcs decay as the IMF turns southward, this arc persisted for almost an hour into the cloud, with peak AL-activity below -1500 nT and Dst at the level of -100 nT.  We use the University of Michigan Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) global geospace simulation to study the magnetotail, inner magnetosphere, and ionospheric conditions during the theta aurora to resolve the origin of the polar cap precipitation. At the time of formation of the theta aurora, the SWMF simulation results indicate a single-cell potential pattern, very low Region 2 currents, and slow inner magnetotail convection. A substorm onset took place as a result of IMF turning, re-creating and enhancing the two-cell convection pattern while the theta aurora persisted. The tail flows were a complex mixture of Earthward flows along the plasma sheet boundary layer and tailward flows at the tail center created by the substorm-associated near-tail reconnection. We analyze the ionospheric mapping of the Earthward flows and the effects of the global current systems on the large-scale auroral precipitation pattern.</p>

Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the 20th Century. By Christine E. Bose. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 257. $22.95, paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1146-1147
Author(s):  
Ann Harper Fender
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The Public ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Feminist Scholar ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

Economic historians have to respond favorably when sociologist–feminist scholar Christine Bose early in her text writes, “This book is intended to provide a historical perspective on contemporary issues that all too often are analyzed only in terms of the present” (p. 3). She returns frequently to this theme, stressing that female participation in the labor force began long before the late 1960s. Of course, numerous economic historians have noted that such participation began long before 1900 and their work, unsurprisingly, exhibits stronger understanding of historical economic conditions than does Women in 1900. Bose's intent, however, is not to study women throughout U.S. history; rather, she analyzes data on 29,673 women included in the Public Use Sample of the 1900 census to re-estimate female labor-force participation, and determine the effect of gender, race, ethnicity, and class on that participation. Her most valuable contribution comes through matching her sample observations with county economic data obtained through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. She uses these data to generate what she calls contextual variables, basically regional and urban or rural location of the sample respondent, and average female manufacturing wage and population characteristics of the respondent's county.

scholarly journals Human Behaviour Measured !!!

1976 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
T.K. Moulik
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Sensitivity Training ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The University

This article reviews the following books: Dale G. Lake, Matthew B. Miles, & Ralph B. Earle Jr., Measuring Human Behaviour (New York: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1973). John P. Robinson & Phillip R. Shaver, Measures of Social Psychological Attitudes (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, 1969). Udai Pareek & T. Venkateswara Rao, Handbook of Psychological and Social Instruments (Baroda: Samashti, 1974). Henry Clay Smith, Sensitivity Training (New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1973).

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