scholarly journals Measuring The Factors Involved In The Time Spent In Educational Childcare

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1.5) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Maria-Angeles Medina ◽  
Gema Fernandez-Aviles
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
School Work ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
Parents Involvement ◽  
Higher Educational Attainment ◽  
Spanish Time Use Survey ◽  
Rate Of Success ◽  
Low Rate

Parents play an extremely important role in their childrens lives and a plethora of research indicates that parents involvement is significantly related to positive child outcomes: Boys who feel that their parents devote time, especially to talk to them about their worries, school work and social lives, almost all emerge as motivated and optimistic men. More specifically, parents involvement in childrens education at age 7 predicts higher educational attainment by age 20, in both boys and girls. Thus, parents involvement in children's education being considered a core factor for success in undergraduate education, in this paper we study the effect of parental socio-educational level on the time they spend in primary educational childcare (reading to children, teaching children, assistance with homework, attending meetings at a child's school, etc.). Given the low rate of success in the Spanish undergraduate education, we focus on the Spanish case. We focus on the Spanish case because we suspect that this factor can be one of the reasons for the low rate of success in the universities. Our study is based on the data provided by the Spanish Time Use Survey 2009-2010.

scholarly journals Simultaneous activities in the household and residential electricity demand in Spain

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacopo Torriti ◽  
Isabel Santiago
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Electricity Demand ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
Residential Electricity ◽  
Spanish Time Use Survey ◽  
Time Use Surveys ◽  
Research And Policy

Recent research and policy studies on the low-carbon future highlight the importance of flexible electricity demand. This might be problematic particularly for residential electricity demand, which is related to simultaneous consumers’ practices in the household. This paper analyses issues of simultaneity in residential electricity demand in Spain. It makes use of the 2011 Spanish Time Use Survey data with comparisons from the previous Spanish Time Use Survey and the Harmonised European Time Use Surveys. Findings show that media activities are associated with the highest levels of continuity and simultaneity, particularly in the early and late parts of the evening during weekdays.

Immigrant and Native-Born Mexican-American Parents' Involvement in a Public School: A Preliminary Study

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 521-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda C. LÓpez ◽  
Virginia V. SÁnchez ◽  
Minami Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Work ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Parents Involvement

Mexican-American parents of Texas elementary school students were surveyed to compare the types of school involvement in which immigrant and U.S.-born parents engage. Those completing the questionnaire included 246 mothers and 39 fathers born in Mexico as well as 95 mothers and 13 fathers born in the United States. More immigrant parents than U.S.-born parents indicated they helped their children with school work, attended school board meetings, volunteered at school, participated in parent-teacher conferences, went to school functions, served as room mother, engaged in school fundraising, and were present during parent advisory committee meetings.

scholarly journals Social Autonomy among Married Men and Women

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312110436
Author(s):  
Adam R. Roth
Keyword(s):  
Married Couples ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Married Women ◽  
American Time Use Survey ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Married Men ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
Married Individuals ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Autonomy

Numerous studies highlight the value of spouses spending quality time together. Although it is undoubtedly important to make sufficient time for each other, minimal research considers the degree to which married individuals socialize with others outside the presence of their spouses. These latter interactions provide an opportunity to practice social autonomy (i.e., time during which one’s actions are not directly influenced by their spouse). Drawing on data from the American Time Use Survey, the author finds that (1) the number of minutes married women engage in nonspousal interactions peaks in midlife and declines in later life, (2) married men spend more time engaging in nonspousal interactions at work than married women, and (3) the number of minutes married men engage in nonspousal interactions in nonwork settings steadily decreases as they age. These findings suggest that age and gender play central roles in the social lives of married couples.

scholarly journals Business rescue practices in South Africa: An explorative view

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Talira Naidoo ◽  
Adnan Patel ◽  
Nirupa Padia
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Definition Of Success ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Rate Of Success ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Low Rate

Business rescue proceedings attempt to rehabilitate businesses that are in financial distress. In spite of its importance, there is a seemingly low rate of success of the current business rescue regime (at just 15% as at June 2016). This article seeks to understand the issues that may be hindering the current rate of success of business rescue proceedings and provides practising accountants (in their capacity as business rescue practitioners) with a better understanding of the issues surrounding business rescue attempts. This will allow them to better perform their duties and give corporates in need of rescue a fighting chance. Through the use of qualitative interviews, the research findings show that there is a lack of clarity of the definition of success, which may be cause for concern. However, in the view of practitioners, the success rate is expected to improve with time. This study provides details on a few key insights into business rescue practices in South Africa, namely, the practitioners’ perceptions of success, their perceptions of the trust of stakeholders during the course of business rescue, their perceptions of the impact of the qualifications and experience of the business rescue practitioner, and their perceptions on the preparation of the business rescue plan.

Behavioral Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: Current Status

1982 ◽  
Vol 50 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1035-1044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan E. Brooker
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Therapy ◽  
Behavioral Treatment ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Total Personality ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorders ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Rate Of Success ◽  
Compulsive Disorders ◽  
Low Rate

Behavioral treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders ranks among the most widely used and widely studied approaches to these problems. Next to sociopathy these disorders have traditionally been regarded as constituting one of the most difficult classes of psychological problems to treat; certainly they present an exceptionally low rate of success. By contrast with the usual insight psychotherapy, behavior therapy usually focuses on the symptoms alone, with little attention to any underlying intrapsychic or environmental conditions that presumably maintain the symptom. Behavior therapy ignores, in short, the total personality or lifestyle. This symptom specificity of treatment has rendered behavioral approaches subject to criticism from practitioners of more traditional approaches. In more recent years, newer techniques and strategies of behavior therapy have rendered some of those criticisms obsolete. A trend toward consideration of other symptoms and the individual's environment has also been noted.

scholarly journals To succeed as youth athlete: Is it the dead end in track and field?

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Moreno M ◽  
Jiménez-Díaz J ◽  
Salazar W
Keyword(s):  
Young Athlete ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
World Championship ◽  
Biological Maturation ◽  
Dead End ◽  
The World ◽  
Youth Athlete ◽  
Early Specialization ◽  
Rate Of Success ◽  
Low Rate

It is reasonable to believe that a young athlete who succeeds in a World Youth Championship, will also be successful as a senior athlete. To determine the percentage of success of all World Youth Championship finalists who also became finalists in a subsequent senior World Championship, considering all athletes and events at World Athletics Championships. This study analyzed the eight male and eight female finalists of all the events conducted at the World Athletics World Youth Championship from 1999 to 2009, who also became finalists at the World Athletics World Championship from 2001 to 2011. Percentage of success was calculated for track and field events, for male, female, and both. For all the events, from 1759 finalists in a World Youth Championship only 83, representing 4.72%, were also finalists in a World Championship in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, or 2011. Of those 83 athletes, 45 were males and 38 were female. A low rate of success was found. These results were discussed including injuries, early specialization, biological maturation, and/or overtraining, as possible factors related to this low rate of success.

scholarly journals The multidimensionality of poverty: Time poverty in Spain

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Income Poverty ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Time Poverty ◽  
Multidimensional Measure ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
Spanish Time Use Survey ◽  
Analyse Time

In the last few years the concept of poverty has evolved from simply being a measure of income poverty to a multidimensional measure that takes into consideration essential aspects for the attainment of certain levels of wellbeing. This paper assesses how the incorporation of time can contribute to the measurement of poverty. To this end, we reviewed the time poverty literature and focused on the Spanish case. We use the Spanish Time-Use Survey 2009-2010 to analyse time poverty in Spain, and estimate a probit model to assess the probability of being time poor in Spain and identify key factors associated with time poverty in Spain.

scholarly journals Modelling predation and mortality rates from the fossil record of gastropods

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham E. Budd ◽  
Richard P. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Rate Of Success ◽  
Low Rate ◽  
Fossil Gastropods

AbstractGastropods often show signs of unsuccessful attacks by predators in the form of healed scars in their shells. As such, fossil gastropods can be taken as providing a record of predation through ge-ological time. However, interpreting the number of such scars has proved to be problematic - would a low number of scars mean a low rate of attack, or a high rate of success, for example? Here we develop a model of scar formation, and formally show that in general these two variables cannot be disambiguated without further information about population structure. Nevertheless, by making the probably reasonable assumptions that the non-predatory death rate is both constant and low, we show that it is possible to use relatively small assemblages of gastropods to produce accurate estimates of both attack and success rates, if the overall death rate can be estimated. We show in addition what sort of information would be required to solve this problem in more general cases. However, it is unlikely that it will be possible to extract the relevant information easily from the fossil record: a variety of important collection and taphonomic biases are likely to intervene to obscure the data that gastropod assemblages may yield.

Fathers as Solo Caregivers in Spain: A Choice or a Need?

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (13) ◽  
pp. 1755-1785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Fernandez-Lozano
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
College Education ◽  
Routine Care ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Equal Distribution ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
First Child ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
Spanish Time Use Survey

The increase in fathers’ involvement in childcare in Western societies has not translated into an equal distribution of childcare between mothers and fathers. While some couples actually succeed in “undoing gender” when the first child arrives, their characteristics that define them are not yet clear. This article provides four different explanations that contribute to understanding how parents share routine care in Spain, using a sample of dual-earner, heterosexual parents from the Spanish Time Use Survey 2010. The results show that fathers are more likely to be “equal sharers” when they earn less than their spouse; do not hold traditionally masculine jobs (e.g., managers or blue-collar workers); have time available and, more important, their spouses are not available from 5 p.m. onward. In line with previous research, this study provides evidence that dismantles the “myth” that higher status employees, and/or those with college education, are more egalitarian in practice.

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