An Urban Community-Based Intervention to Advance Social Interactions

The present pre-registration aims to investigate the role of language as a dimension of social categorization. Our critical aim is to investigate whether language can be used as a dimension of social categorization even when the languages coexist within the same sociolinguistic group, as is the case in bilingual communities where two languages are used in daily social interactions. We will use the memory confusion paradigm (also known as the Who said what? task). In the first part of the task, i.e. encoding, participants will be presented with a face (i.e. speaker) and will listen to an auditory sentence. Two languages will be used, with half of the faces always associated with one language and the other half with the other language. In the second phase, i.e. recognition, all the faces will be presented on the screen and participants will decide which face uttered which sentence in the encoding phase. Based on previous literature, we expect that participants will be more likely to confuse faces from within the same language category than from the other language category. Participants will be bilingual individuals of two bilingual communities, the Basque Country (Spain) and Veneto (Italy). The two languages of these communities will be used, Spanish and Basque (Study 1), and Italian and Venetian dialect (Study 2). Furthermore, we will explore whether the amount of daily exposure to the two languages modulates the effect of language as a social categorization cue. This research will allow us to test whether bilingual people use language to categorize individuals belonging to the same sociolinguistic community based on the language these individuals are speaking. Our findings may have relevant political and social implications for linguistic policies in bilingual communities.

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Bringing the Internet to the Rural Area

Digital Literacy ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-1852-7.ch023 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 438-460

Author(s):

Zulkefli bin Ibrahim ◽

Ainin Sulaiman ◽

Tengku M. Faziharudean

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Rural Area ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Rural Population ◽

Questionnaire Survey ◽

Urban Community ◽

The Internet ◽

Community Based ◽

The Government ◽

Urban And Rural Areas

Malaysia aims to be an information society by the year 2020 can only be achieved if the mass population, that include those who live in the rural area, has the access to use the ICT. This is due to the uneven distribution of the basic telecommunication infostructure between the urban and rural areas in Malaysia that left the rural area to be at the disadvantage to access the ICT. Meanwhile, there are many programs that have been implemented by the government to encourage the rural population to use the Internet, such as ‘Kedaikom’, a community based telecenter serving the rural population. A questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate how ‘Kedaikom’ as a community based telecenter could assist in diffusing the usage of the ICT to the rural population. The result from the survey has indicated that the community telecenter could be used to bridge the digital divide between the underserved rural community and the well-accessed urban community. More of the rural population, especially from the younger generation and those with higher education background (irrespective of age) are using the community telecenter to be connected to the Internet.

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Treatment integrity in urban, community-based prevention programs.

Treatment integrity: A foundation for evidence-based practice in applied psychology. ◽

10.1037/14275-013 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 279-301

Author(s):

Courtney N. Baker ◽

Stephen S. Leff ◽

Katherine Bevans ◽

Thomas J. Power

Keyword(s):

Treatment Integrity ◽

Urban Community ◽

Prevention Programs ◽

Community Based

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Locating disconnected minoritized youth within urban community-based educational programs in an Era of Neoliberalism

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education ◽

10.1080/09518398.2019.1680902 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 404-420 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

David T. Lardier ◽

Kathryn G. Herr ◽

Carrie Bergeson ◽

Pauline Garcia-Reid ◽

Robert J. Reid

Keyword(s):

Urban Community ◽

Educational Programs ◽

Community Based

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Psychometric Properties of Scales for the Measurement of Psychosocial Variables Associated with Depression in Adolescence1

Psychological Reports ◽

10.1177/00332941930733pt146 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 73 (3_part_1) ◽

pp. 1019-1046

Author(s):

Judy A. Andrews ◽

Peter M. Lewinsohn ◽

Hyman Hops ◽

Robert E. Roberts

Keyword(s):

Social Interactions ◽

Item Analysis ◽

Depression Scale ◽

Internal Consistency Reliability ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Epidemiological Studies ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Community Based ◽

Pilot Studies ◽

Family Social Support

In preparation for a community-based study of depression in adolescence, several pilot studies were conducted with samples of adolescents. The purpose of these studies was to evaluate the reliability and association with depression of several instruments when used with older (14- to 18-year-old) adolescents. These instruments included measures of cognitions, body image, self-esteem, self-awareness, social interactions with peers and family, social support, micro- and macrostressful life events, anxiety and tension, positive affect, antisocial or oppositional behavior, suicidal ideation, and vocabulary. The internal consistency reliability and stability of most of the instruments were satisfactory. In addition, most instruments were associated with a measure of depression, Radloff's Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale. Several of the scales were successfully abbreviated using techniques based on factor analysis and item analysis.

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