Cross-National Comparison of Social Support Structures between Taiwan and the United States

2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joonmo Son ◽  
Nan Lin ◽  
Linda K. George
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
Functional Elements ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
And Function ◽  
Cross National

The study compares the effects of structural bases and functional elements of social support on mental health in Taiwan and the United States, using the study conducted in the United States by Lin, Ye, and Ensel (1999) as a reference. Based on a nationally representative sample of Taiwanese adults (n = 2,835), a fundamental similarity in social support structure and function between the two countries was observed. First, the structural bases of social support had a hierarchical order in their effects on depression: Binding (presence of an intimate relationship) was the strongest in reducing depression, whereas belonging (community participation) was the weakest, with bonding (social networks) in between. Regarding the functional elements, perceived social support was a better protector of mental health than actual social support, a finding in line with previous research. On the other hand, several notable differences in the structural bases and functional elements of social support between the two societies were observed, possibly due to the differential cultural and historical characteristics.

Cross-National Comparison of School Victimization Between Canada and the United States

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian J. Cohen ◽  
Christine Ateah ◽  
Joseph Ducette ◽  
Matthew Mahon ◽  
Alexander Tabori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
School Victimization ◽  
Cross National

A cross-national comparison of the relative influence of male and female age on the frequency of marital intercourse

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Richard Udry ◽  
Fred R. Deven ◽  
Samuel J. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Relative Influence ◽  
Female Age ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Probable Explanation ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
Most Probable Explanation ◽  
Androgen Levels ◽  
Cross National

SummaryParallel analyses of recent data from the United States, Thailand, Belgium, and Japan all confirm the finding that female age and not male age is the more important contributor to the decline in frequency of marital intercourse during the childbearing ages. The most probable explanation is the decline in female (but not male) androgen levels during the age span examined.

A Cross-National Comparison of Victims of Crime: Victim Surveys of Twelve Countries

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Block
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Crime Victim ◽  
Sampling Methodology ◽  
Lethal Violence ◽  
Victimization Surveys ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
Victims Of Crime ◽  
Survey Estimates ◽  
Cross National

Comparison of national crime surveys must be made very cautiously because of differences in sampling, methodology and content. In this report methodological differences between the United States' National Crime Survey and victimization surveys of other countries are examined and survey estimates of victimization are adjusted. It is found that U.S. rates of assault/threat, robbery, and burglary are not extraordinarily higher than those of other eleven other countries or regions. However, U.S. levels of gun use are much higher and U.S. levels of both gun and non-gun lethal violence (using Killias, 1990) far exceed those of other industrialized societies.

Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain. By Christian Joppke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 356p. $72.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 260-261
Author(s):  
Gary P. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
Elite Interviews ◽  
Primary Materials ◽  
Cross National

This book will enhance Christian Joppke's growing reputa- tion as one of the most thoughtful commentators on the politics of international migration and citizenship. Immigra- tion and the Nation-State is an impressive cross-national comparison that builds on elite interviews and reanalysis of primary materials, but its chief value is in its bold synthesis and critique of a rapidly growing and highly disjointed secondary literature. Although it assesses a variety of theo- retical concepts, the book is primarily a historically rooted, richly empirical work of analysis and interpretation. Joppke deals expertly with three liberal states with different nation- hood traditions and immigration histories. The United King- dom is distinctive in that it was at once a nation-state and an empire. The United States is the only case of the three in which governments deliberately sought to foster immigration for settlement. Germany was a divided nation whose com- mitment to reunification, embedded in the Basic Law, posed particularly troublesome issues for immigration and citizen- ship policy.

Youth alcohol and other drug use in the United States and Australia: a cross-national comparison of three state-wide samples

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 515-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. TOUMBOUROU ◽  
J. M. BEYERS ◽  
R. F. CATALANO ◽  
J. D. HAWKINS ◽  
M. W. ARTHUR ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
Cross National
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