scholarly journals Parents' perceived vulnerability and perceived control in preventing Meningococcal C infection: a large-scale interview study about vaccination

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle RM Timmermans ◽  
Lidewij Henneman ◽  
Remy A Hirasing ◽  
Gerrit van der Wal
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Control ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Perceived Vulnerability

scholarly journals Searching for General Model of Conspiracy Theories and Its Implication for Public Health Policy: Analysis of the Impacts of Political, Psychological, Structural Factors on Conspiracy Beliefs about the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seoyong Kim ◽  
Sunhee Kim
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Perceived Control ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Conspiracy Beliefs ◽  
The Government

Along with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, beliefs in conspiracy theories are spreading within and across countries. This study aims to analyze predictors of beliefs in conspiracy theories. Because previous studies have emphasized only specific political, psychological, or structural factors or variables, this study constructs an integrated analytical model that includes all three factors. We analyze data from a large-scale survey of Koreans (N = 1525) and find several results. First, political, psychological, and structural factors influence beliefs in conspiracy theories. Second, when we examine the specific influences of the variables, we find that authoritarianism, support for minority parties, religiosity, trust in SNS (social networking services), perceived risk, anxiety, negative emotions, blame attribution, the quantity of information, health status, and health after COVID-19, all positively influence beliefs in conspiracy theories. Conversely, support for President Moon Jae-In’s government, Christianity, trust in the government, perceived control, analytic thinking, knowledge, the quality of information, and gender, all negatively impact these beliefs. Among the predictors, the quality of information, health status, support for President Moon Jae-In’s government, perceived risk, and anxiety have the most decisive impacts on beliefs in conspiracy theories.

scholarly journals Remote Learning, COVID-19, and Children With Disabilities

AERA Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 233285842110584
Author(s):  
Kate Henley Averett
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
School Closures ◽  
Learning At Home ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Remote Learning ◽  
At Home

While the COVID-19 pandemic affected the education of nearly all schoolchildren worldwide, pandemic-related school closures did not affect all children in equal ways. Between March and August, 2020, I interviewed 31 parents of children with disabilities as part of a larger interview study of U.S. parents of children in grades K–12. In this article, I analyze these parents’ narratives about their families’ experiences of pandemic-related remote learning to identify the particular challenges children with disabilities and their families faced with remote learning. I find that most, but not all, families struggled with remote learning, both when children’s specific needs while learning at home differed from their needs at school, and when schools failed to provide adequate accommodations and services remotely. These narratives demonstrate how children with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to the type of large-scale systemic shock to U.S. public education that the pandemic has presented.

scholarly journals Secondary School Students’ Reasoning About Science and Personhood

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berry Billingsley ◽  
Mehdi Nassaji
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Scientific Facts ◽  
Scientific Worldview

AbstractScientific advances, particularly in evolutionary biology, genetics, neuroscience and artificial intelligence, present many challenges to religious and popular notions of personhood. This paper reports the first large-scale study on students’ beliefs about the interactions between science and widely held beliefs about personhood. The paper presents findings from a questionnaire survey (n = 530) administered to English secondary school students (age 15–16) in which their beliefs and concepts regarding personhood and the position of science were investigated. The survey was motivated in part by an interview study and a previous, smaller survey which revealed that many students struggle to reconcile their beliefs with what they suppose science to say and also that some have reluctantly dismissed the soul as a ‘nice story’ which is incompatible with scientific facts. The results from this larger-scale survey indicate that a majority of the students believe in some form of soul. Even so, and regardless of whether or not they identified themselves as religious, most students expressed a belief that human persons cannot be fully explained scientifically, a position that some students perceived as a partial rejection of what it means to hold a scientific worldview.

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