TERTIARY EDUCATION, GENDER AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

1994 ◽  
Vol 01 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 473-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
AZLAN GHAZALI ◽  
SOON BENG CHEW ◽  
B C GHOSH ◽  
RICHARD S T TAY
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Employment Decision ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Binary Probit

This study empirically analyses the determinants of Singapore’s university graduates’ employment decision between self-employment and salaried-employment. The binary probit model is used to estimate the effect of three main groups of variables on the employment decision. The thee main groups of variables are the personal characteristics, experience and education, and family background of the graduate. A mailed questionaire survey was carried out on 7300 university graduates in Singapore. A final number of 2486 (34.1%) usable questionaire was obtained. The findings of this study suggest that the personal characteristics and the education and experience of the graduates are significant determinants of the employment decision. However, the family background of the individual was found to be insignificant.

Young Musicians' Accounts of Significant Influences in their Early Lives. 1. The Family and the Musical Background

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. A. Howe ◽  
John A. Sloboda
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
Music School ◽  
Descriptive Information ◽  
Musical Background ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Musical Excellence

This article reports qualitative findings of an interview study in which 42 students (aged 10–18) from a specialist music school were encouraged to talk about various experiences in their lives which the individual children perceived as having been potentially significant influences on their progress in learning musical instruments. The parents of half the children were also interviewed. Observations concerning the following sources of influence are reported: the family background; sibling influences; listening to music. The insights of children and their parents, which complement and add depth to quantitative findings concerning the biographical precursors of musical excellence, help to provide a rich source of descriptive information about the circumstances in which children become competent young musicians.

scholarly journals The Structural and Cultural Role to the Family House Hold of Self-employment Woman in Malang Regency, Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Darsono Wisadirana
Keyword(s):  
Family Member ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Common Activity ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Function ◽  
Cultural Role

Family is also the first pillar to meet the social, economic, psychological and culture aspect to the individual. In prostitution aspect, someone who decides to be self-employment woman can be known from the socialization style in the family. Because of that, it is important to know about family role and function in solving prostitution problem. Therefore, the problem is how the structural and cultural role is occupied by each family member in the daily life of house hold.This research aims to analyze the process of someone to be self-employment woman from the aspect of instilling the moral and norm by each family member, analyze the social relation in the family, one of whose member is a self-employment woman, and analyze the function which is acted by each member to the self-employment woman. This research used Functional Imperatives Talcott Parson theory to analyze the structural and cultural role of self-employment woman’s family. The methodology used in this case was qualitative research design.The result of the research shows the economic factor. Besides the factor of young marriage culture which causes the divorce. After divorce, the women start to work as self-employment woman. Lacking of the education awareness can be one of the causes in increasing the number of self-employment woman.Lacking of communication among the family can cause the parents are not able to keep the children from social deviation. Social deviation which has been occupied for long time can be human habit and common activity in society.

The Context of Childhood Depression

1991 ◽  
Vol 159 (S11) ◽  
pp. 28-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. P. Berney ◽  
S. R. Bhate ◽  
I. Kolvin ◽  
O. O. Famuyiwa ◽  
M. L. Barrett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Childhood Depression ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Adverse Life Events ◽  
Premorbid Personality ◽  
Depressed Group ◽  
The Family ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual

This paper examines the family background, premorbid personality traits and adverse life events preceding childhood depression. The non-depressed group proved more likely to have experienced pre-school bereavement and familial disturbance, and to come from the more deprived background; there was also an excess of premorbid anxiety and hysterical personality traits in this group. School phobia and premorbid obsessional traits were associated with the depressed group. Although there was an association between depression and the total number of adverse life events, this was more substantial when the perceived impact of the events was taken into account. Of the individual classes of life event, only illness and a change in social relationships were associated specifically with depression.

scholarly journals John Franklin Enders, 10 February 1897 - 8 September 1985

1987 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 211-233 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
The Family ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
National Bank ◽  
The Individual

John Franklin Enders came from a family background marked by strong characters and remarkable achievements. His maternal grandfather was a close associate and financial adviser of Mark Twain, and his paternal grandfather walked from town to town selling insurance, later becoming President of the Aetna Insurance Company. His parents were active and of strong character and lived to a ripe old age. His father was President of the principal bank of Hartford and at his death he left a fortune of $19 million. The family is said to have been one with close ties and mutual respect and to have appreciated the needs of the individual. John had one brother, also President of the Hartford National Bank, and two sisters— all charming and accomplished people.

scholarly journals Dependence of the Family Conflict Structure on the Personal Characteristics of Parents, Participants in Disputes About the Upbringing and Residence of the Child

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 100-116
Author(s):  
F.S. Safuanov ◽  
S.S. Kulakov
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Parent Child Relationships

A retrospective psychological analysis of materials of 102 civil matters (comprehensive judicial psychological-psychiatric examination, CJPPE) on judicial dispute about raising a child in case of separation of parents (53 fathers and 49 mothers) made it possible to identify the relationship between the individual psychological characteristics of parents and the structure of family conflict, as well as features of child-parent relationships. Revealed that the features of personal maturity in both sexes were positive and prognostically favorable both in terms of overcoming the negative effects of a divorce and in terms of preserving harmonious parent-child relationships. Negative and prognostically unfavorable predispositions can be attributed to demonstrative traits in parents of both sexes and a tendency toward affective rigidity in men. Parents with traits of personal immaturity constituted a separate group that did not intersect with carriers of other personality traits, and in general reflected the problem of unpreparedness for marriage and family relations.

Family Background to and Personal Characteristics Underlying Teenage Smoking

1983 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Rantakallio
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Body Height ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Total Variance ◽  
Excessive Drinking ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Poor School Performance ◽  
The Family

Smoking habits at the age of 14 were studied in a series of about 11000 children in Northern Finland. This cohort study was started before the birth of the child as a family inquiry. 6.4% of the children smoked every day and 59.5% were non-smokers. Of the family background variables, parents' smoking, a one-parent family, and number of children in the family had the strongest association with juvenile smoking. Family background variables explained only 6.5% of the total variance in smoking among the girls and 3.5% among the boys, but when characteristics of the children themselves were also introduced into the analyses, 55.7% and 42.7% of the variance respectively could be explained. Juvenile smoking had the strongest association with drinking and excessive drinking of alcohol, poor school performance, less frequent participation in sports and greater body height.

scholarly journals PREFERENSI PEMILIHAN CALON PASANGAN HIDUP DITINJAU DARI KETERLIBATAN AYAH PADA ANAK PEREMPUAN

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
ANNA ARMEINI RANGKUTI ◽  
DEVI OKTAVIANI FAJRIN
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Father Involvement ◽  
Mate Selection ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Adult Daughters ◽  
The Family

This study aims to determine the effect of father involvement on mate selection preferences in his young adult daughters. Researcher used scale quantitative methods psychology. Researcher used adapted instrument, namely Nurturant Fathering Scales and Father Involvement Scale subscale Reported Father Involvement Scale for variable of father involvement and used instrument created by researcher for variable mate selection preferences. There are 96 samples which is a father who has daughters ages 18-25 and is unmarried with accidental sampling. The data processing used in the testing of hypotheses analytics logistic regression. The result of this research is there is no influence of father involvement on mate selection preferences in his young adult daughters. But when viewed from the value of Odds Ratio of 2,571 indicates that the father has opportunity to choose the family background preferences of the prospecive life partner of his daughters of 2,571 times compared of the personal characteristics preference of the prospecive life partner of his daughters. That is the father has opportunity to choose the family background preference of their prospecive life partner of his daughters compared of their personal characteristics preference even though the value is only 2,571.

scholarly journals Overthrowing the First Mountain: Chinese Student-Migrants and the Geography of Power

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anni Kajanus
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
International Education ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Chinese Student ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Family ◽  
Education Market ◽  
The Individual

This article uses Mahler and Pessar's (2001, 2006) model of “geography of power” to interrogate how the general dynamic of Chinese student migration generates a variety of experiences at the individual level. Each Chinese student-migrant embarks on their journey from a different position vis-à-vis the flows and interconnections of the international education market. Some of them set out to achieve concrete goals, while others are motivated by a more intangible mission to become cosmopolitan subjects. As they move around, their shifting position in the hierarchies of nationality, class, gender, and generation influences their decision-making and their experiences. These power systems function simultaneously on multiple geographical scales, exemplified by the contradictory ways gender operates in the family, education, work, and marriage. To further develop the connection this model makes between personal characteristics, cognitive processes, and various power systems, I draw attention to the politics of ordinary affects.

The Impact of Personal Characteristics and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany / Zur Bedeutung von individuellen Charakteristika und regionalem Milieu für Existenzgründungen aus der Arbeitslosigkeit: Empirische Ergebnisse für Deutschland

2003 ◽  
Vol 223 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Linear Models ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneurs ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
The Impact

SummaryThe focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating the impact of personal characteristics and attitudes, and of the regional “entrepreneurial milieu”, on the individual decision to start a new business out of unemployment. The econometric study is based on data from a recent representative survey of the population in ten German planning regions. We use a version of the logit model that takes care of both the rare events nature of the transition from unemployment to self-employment, and of the regional stratification of the data, and the results of the non linear models are carefully interpreted and illustrated. We show that lack of personal contact with a young entrepreneur reduces the probability of starting one’s own business. A favourable ‘regional entrepreneurial milieu’ (proxied by higher levels of current start-up activity and larger shares of unemployed among the starters in a region) has a positive effect on the individual propensity to step into self-employment. All these impacts are not only statistically significant, but economically important, too. A comparison of unemployed with employed and not employed nascent entrepreneurs reveals remarkable differences regarding the impact of sex, age, and higher education, while the positive impact of personal contacts with a young entrepreneur and of a comparable high share of nascent entrepreneurs in the region holds across all groups.

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