scholarly journals Other- versus Self-Referenced Social Impacts of Events: Validating a New Scale

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10281
Author(s):  
Marijke Taks ◽  
Daichi Oshimi ◽  
Nola Agha
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Impact Scale ◽  
Projection Bias ◽  
Sport Events ◽  
Paralympic Games

Publicly funded sport events are partially justified based on positive social impacts. Past research generally measured social impact for a generic and global “other” with claims such as “Events create new friendships in the community”. These other-referenced (OR) social impacts are generally higher pre-event than post-event and are inflated for both methodological and theoretical reasons. In the pre-event period of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we empirically tested OR items compared to self-referenced (SR) items, such as “Because of the event, I create new friends in the community” and allowed projection bias to vary between scales. Results of the experiment between an OR-Social Impact Scale (OR-SIS) and a similar SR-SIS confirmed OR-measures to be significantly higher than SR-measures. While artificially inflated OR scores may be useful for event organizers and politicians to gain support for hosting, estimates based on circumscribed self (SR) are a methodologically appropriate measurement of social impact.

Effects of Women’s Football Broadcastings on Viewers’ Moods and Judgments

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Schramm ◽  
Johannes Knoll
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Team Identification ◽  
Disposition Theory ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Football Team ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Sport Events

The objective of this article is to improve the understanding of mood and judgment effects evoked by major televised sport events like national football matches. According to disposition theory of sport spectatorship, viewers’ affective experiences, specifically their moods, are assumed to be affected by the outcomes of the matches they watch. This study tests whether these mood effects depend on viewers’ team identification as well as viewers’ sex. Moreover, past research has indicated that mood changes as effects of sport viewing could influence viewers’ subsequent judgments in line with feeling-as-information theory. Based on this line of arguments, a quasi-experimental pre-post-test study with 180 participants was conducted to assess the moods and judgments (self-confidence, evaluation of the economic situation, government satisfaction) of viewers before and after a win and a defeat of the German national football team during the 2011 women’s FIFA World Cup. The results support disposition theory of sport spectatorship as well as feeling-as-information theory and give new insights into the moderating role of team identification and sex.

A Simple Starting Point for Designing for and/or Assessing the Social Impact of Products

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Ottosson ◽  
Emma Hirschi ◽  
Christopher A. Mattson ◽  
Eric Dahlin
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Impact Categories ◽  
Functional Characteristics ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

In this paper we present a starting point for designing for and/or assessing the social impact of engineered products. The starting point is a set of tables comprising products, their general functional characteristics, and the accompanying social impacts. We have constructed these tables by first extracting a set of social impact categories from the literature, then 65 products were qualitatively reviewed to find their social impact. The resulting product impact tables can be used at either the beginning of the product development process to decide what social impact to design for and discover product functions that lead to it, or later to qualitatively assess the social impact of a product being designed and/or to assess the impact of an existing product.

Towards a Universal Social Impact Metric for Engineered Products That Alleviate Poverty

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip D. Stevenson ◽  
Christopher A. Mattson ◽  
Kenneth M. Bryden ◽  
Nordica A. MacCarty
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty Index ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

More than ever before, engineers are creating products for developing countries. One of the purposes of these products is to improve the consumer’s quality of life. Currently, there is no established method of measuring the social impact of these types of products. As a result, engineers have used their own metrics to assess their product’s impact, if at all. Some of the common metrics used include products sold and revenue, which measure the financial success of a product without recognizing the social successes or failures it might have. In this paper we introduce a potential metric, the Product Impact Metric (PIM), which quantifies the impact a product has on impoverished individuals — especially those living in developing countries. It measures social impact broadly in five dimensions: health, education, standard of living, employment quality, and security. The PIM is inspired by the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) created by the United Nations Development Programme. The MPI measures how the depth of poverty within a nation changes year after year, and the PIM measures how an individual’s quality of life changes after being affected by an engineered product. The Product Impact Metric can be used to predict social impacts (using personas that represent real individuals) or measure social impacts (using specific data from products introduced into the market).

scholarly journals Modelo descritivo de atuação sustentável para o desenvolvimento de inovações sociais

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-262
Author(s):  
Priscila Rezende Da Costa ◽  
Lucimar da Silva Itelvino ◽  
Sonia Francisca Monken
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
Social Innovations

Purpose: The concept of social innovation as open, collaborative and social transformation process opens room to reinforce the need of legitimizing social impact businesses and of expanding partnerships for social change, as well as the urgency of establishing professional and more sustainable social innovation environments. Accordingly, we tried to answer the following research question: How can social business performance boost the development of social innovations?Design/methodology/approach: Therefore, we adopted the inductive approach of qualitative paradigm, based on the Grounded Theory, to investigate 24 social businesses. In addition, we adopted the Atlas.ti software for data organization and recovery.Aggregate results allowed us to  propose a descriptive model of sustainable performance for the development of social innovations in social business, based on the following propositions: sustainable performance in processes and social innovation, the prevalence of a cooperative environment to solve social issues, professional governance as causal factor to social innovation development, the development of actions focused on public interests as influencing conditions for social innovation development, technical and scientific evaluation of social impacts as strategy to measure the outcomes of developed innovations and the expansion of social impacts as the consequence of the self-negotiation of social affairs.Originality/value: A descriptive model of sustainable acting was proposed for the development of social innovations in social businesses.

Economic and Social Impacts of Sovereign Sukuk

2020 ◽  
pp. 732-751
Author(s):  
Magda Ismail Abdel Mohsin ◽  
Ishraga Khattab ◽  
Mhd Osama Alchaar
Keyword(s):  
Capital Markets ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Retail Investors ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

This chapter explores the economic and social impacts of sovereign Sukuk in Sudan and its unique challenges. The first of its kind, this research collected primary data from different groups of investors of Sudanese governmental Sukuk. Adopting a qualitative approach (interview questions and open and closed-ended surveys), four sets of questions were distributed to four groups (individual investors, institutional investors, government officials, and academics). The survey found that despite Sukuk's influence in activating the economy and financial markets, and encouraging savings awareness, the market in Sudan is facing many challenges. Accordingly, it is recommended that Sukuk issuances should appeal to a wider audience including retail investors. The ensuing system, which could likewise be adopted by other countries, would generate more liquidity for development projects and may prove helpful for developed Sukuk markets. Additionally, evolving capital markets would enhance the economic and social impact of governmental Sukuk.

A Method for Creating Product Social Impact Models of Engineered Products

2019 ◽  
Vol 142 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip D. Stevenson ◽  
Christopher A. Mattson ◽  
Eric C. Dahlin
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Impact Categories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Impact Indicators ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Impact Models

AbstractAll products impact the lives of their users, this is called social impact. Some social impacts are commonly recognized by the engineering community, such as impacts to a user’s health and safety, while other social impacts can be more difficult to recognize, such as impacts on families and gender roles. When engineers make design decisions, without considering social impacts, they can unknowingly cause negative social impacts. Even harming the user and/or society. Despite its challenges, measuring a program’s or policy’s social impact is a common practice in the field of social sciences. These measurements are made using social impact indicators, which are simply the things observed to verify that true progress is being made. While there are clear benefits to predicting the social impact of an engineered product, it is unclear how engineers should select indicators and build predictive social impact models that are functions of engineering parameters and decisions. This paper introduces a method for selecting social impact indicators and creating predictive social impact models that can help engineers predict and improve the social impact of their products. As a first step in the method, an engineer identifies the product’s users, objectives, and requirements. Then, the social impact categories that are related to the product are determined. From each of these categories, the engineer selects several social impact indicators. Finally, models are created for each indicator to predict how a product’s parameters will change these indicators. The impact categories and indicators can be translated into product requirements and performance measures that can be used in product development processes. This method is used to predict the social impact of the proposed, expanded U.S. Mexico border wall.

Stigmatisierung von erwerbstätigen Patienten mit Brust-, Darm-, Prostata- und Lungenkrebs

2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (07) ◽  
pp. 304-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jochen Ernst ◽  
Anja Mehnert ◽  
Sabine Taubenheim ◽  
Anke Rentsch ◽  
Beate Hornemann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Impact Scale

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Die Stigmatisierung von Patienten mit Krebs kann weitreichende Folgen haben, sowohl für den einzelnen Betroffenen als auch für die Gesellschaft. Quantitative Untersuchungen zur Stigmatisierung von erwerbstätigen Patienten mit Krebs liegen bisher kaum vor. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist die Untersuchung der wahrgenommenen Stigmatisierung von Patienten mit Krebs in Abhängigkeit vom Erwerbsstatus sowie die Beeinflussung wahrgenommener Stigmatisierung durch soziodemografische, krankheits- und berufsbezogene Prädiktoren. Methoden Im Rahmen einer bizentrischen Studie wurden 858 Patienten mit Brust-, Darm-, Lungen oder Prostatakrebs quantitativ befragt, von denen n=305 erwerbstätig waren und in die Auswertung eingingen (Altersdurchschnitt 55 Jahre, 43% weiblich, 47% Brustkrebs). Als Vergleichsgruppe wird aus unserem Datensatz ein gematchtes Sample nicht-Erwerbstätiger (n=213) herangezogen. Neben Fragen zu arbeits- und gesundheitsbezogenen Aspekten wurde Stigmatisierung mit dem SIS-D erfasst (Social Impact Scale). Die Daten werden uni- und multivariat ausgewertet. Ergebnisse Erwerbstätige, v. a. Patienten mit Prostatakrebs und Brustkrebs, sind in nahezu allen Dimensionen weniger stigmatisiert (p<0,01) als nicht-Erwerbstätige, mit Effektstärken zwischen d=0,35–0,97. Den stärksten Einfluss auf die wahrgenommene Stigmatisierung hat das Merkmal geringe Unterstützung durch den Arbeitgeber, weitere Prädiktoren sind ein schlechter Gesundheitszustand, geringe psychische Arbeitsfähigkeit und Diagnose Brustkrebs (R2 des finalen Modells=0,35). Schlussfolgerung Die Erwerbstätigkeit von Patienten mit Krebs steht im Zusammenhang mit geringerer wahrgenommener Stigmatisierung. Berufsbezogene Stigmatisierung ist v. a. vom Arbeitsumfeld bzw. der unterstützenden Einstellung des Arbeitgebers abhängig.

Leveraging Events to Develop Collaborative Partnerships: Examining the Formation and Collaborative Dynamics of the Ontario Parasport Legacy Group

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 447-461
Author(s):  
Laura Misener ◽  
Landy Di Lu ◽  
Robert Carlisi
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Sport Event ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Sport Events ◽  
Resource Conditions

The strategic formation of partnerships for leveraging sport events to achieve social impact is becoming a critical component of large-scale sport events. The authors know less about the process dimensions related to the formation and collaborative dynamics of a sport event–leveraging partnership. To address this gap, the authors focus on examining the formation and collaborative dynamics alongside the challenges of the cross-sector partnership, the Ontario Parasport Legacy Group (OPLG), which emerged as an important leveraging strategy for the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games. The authors found that the formation of the OPLG was shaped through broader environmental elements—including resource conditions, window of collaborative opportunity, and cultural influence—and essential drivers of strategic leadership and consequential incentives. Furthermore, the authors’ analysis shows that the development of the OPLG and its effectiveness in partnership delivery were determined through key domains of collaborative dynamics (i.e., engagement, motivation, and joint capacity).

The social impact of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games: comparison of residents' pre- and post-event perceptions

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Ribeiro ◽  
Abel Correia ◽  
Rui Biscaia
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
City Image ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Sport Events

PurposeDespite the recognition that citizens' perceptions of mega sport events' social impact is critical for the sustainable development of these events and host cities, most previous studies have not taken into consideration how these perceptions may change over time. This study examines citizens' social impact perceptions of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games before and after the event.Design/methodology/approachData were collected amongst local residents of Rio de Janeiro pre- and post-event (n = 256). A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) analysed the psychometric properties of the proposed social impact constructs. Subsequently, a multigroup analysis and latent mean comparisons were conducted to test social impact perceptions pre- and post-event.FindingsThe multigroup CFA showed factorial stability of the social impact model in both periods, while the latent mean comparisons revealed significant differences in the dimensions of social experiences, city image and community pride enhancement, public infrastructures and social conflicts. Results indicated that the perception of positive impacts tends to increase, while perceived negative impacts decrease from pre- to post-event.Social implicationsThe social effects of hosting sport mega events result in a short-term change in attitudes towards the local community, leading to a better comprehension on how communities perceive the event's impact on their lives.Originality/valueIn a highly complex mega event such as the Olympic Games, any change may influence residents' perceptions. The findings of this study demonstrate the importance of residents for determining support or opposition in hosting the event, allowing a better understanding of the exchange effects.

Listeners’ Perceptions of Language Use in Children

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 142-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Segebart DeThorne ◽  
Ruth V. Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Social Success ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language Characteristics

Past research suggests that when children’s communication skills do not match others’ expectations, children are likely to be perceived negatively and may consequently experience less academic and social success. This project focused on listeners’ perceptions of three children, one with specific language impairment (SLI) and two typically developing peers. The listeners consisted of teachers, speech-language pathologists, undergraduate students, and sixth-grade students. All four listener groups consistently perceived the child with SLI more negatively than the typically developing youngsters, thereby illuminating the need for clinicians to (a) increase their awareness of personal biases, (b) educate parents and teachers regarding the nature of SLI, (c) collaborate with teachers and other professionals to promote the social integration of children with language impairment in the classroom, and (d) consider the social impact of particular speech-language characteristics when prioritizing intervention targets.

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