Francisco Olivos
Biographic Data
| ID | 126502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco Olivos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco |
| FAMILY NAME | Olivos |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVOS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lingnan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6395-6593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Person-country Fit and Subjective Well-Being: The Roles of Religious Beliefs
While previous studies have extensively examined the relationship between religion and subjective well-being (SWB), findings remain mixed, and ongoing debates persist regarding the nature and strength of this association. Moreover, less is known about specific dimensions of religiosity, such as the importance of God in individuals’ lives and its relationship with SWB. Building on the person-country fit literature, this study analyzes the implicat…
‘Like a Fish in the Water’: Subjective Well‐Being and the Alignment of Perceptions of Democracy With Political Structures
Happiness research has long highlighted the role of national culture, yet few studies distinguish between objective conditions and collective cultural environments in which citizens form political perceptions. Focusing on perceptions of democracy, this study examines how discrepancies between personal perceptions and two dimensions of political structures—democratic quality and collective societal representations—shape subjective well‐being (SWB)…
Assessing Instructor-AI Cooperation for Grading Essay-Type Questions in an Introductory Sociology Course
This study explores the use of artificial intelligence (AI) as a complementary tool for grading essay-type questions in higher education, focusing on its consistency with human grading and potential to reduce biases. Using 70 handwritten exams from an introductory sociology course, we evaluated generative pretrained transformer (GPT) models’ performance in transcribing and scoring students’ responses. GPT models were tested under various settings…
The structural fit of personal gender beliefs: A cross-national analysis of its implications for life satisfaction
Gender is essential for understanding the causes and consequences of life satisfaction in our societies. Although there is growing interest in the cultural analysis of the relationship between gender beliefs and subjective well-being (SWB), previous studies have not examined how this relationship depends on the predominant gender norms and gender equality at the country level. This study aims to explore the implications of the fit between (1) per…
Attitudes Toward Income Inequality in China: Revisiting the Concern About Inequality from a Comparative Perspective
Global research collaborations of the United Kingdom in the post-Brexit era
Gender inequality, well-being, and ill-being: A macro analysis of human and societal flourishing
AI-replicas as ethical practice: Introducing an Alternative to Traditional Anonymisation Techniques in Image-Based Research
This article introduces the use of AI-replicas as an alternative to traditional anonymisation methods in image-based qualitative research. It emphasises the ethical and practical dilemmas posed by current anonymisation methods, such as distortion or loss of emotional and contextual information in images, and proposes the use of AI-replicas to preserve the integrity and authenticity of visual data while ensuring participant anonymity. The article …
Tracing Three Decades of Sociological Research: A Computational Abstract Analysis to Identify Latent Topics of Sociological Research Online
Disciplinary boundaries and the trends within them are essential for research identities across the discipline and fields. To analyze the state of British sociology in general and Sociological Research Online in particular, we analyzed a corpus of abstracts of published articles from 2000 to 2022. By applying an unsupervised topic modeling approach, we identify 15 latent topics across all abstracts, representing a broad range of sociological topi…
Where do opportunity beliefs come from? Implications of intergenerational social mobility for beliefs about the distribution system in China
Low Income, Ill-being, and Gender Inequality: Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Gendered Risk of Suffering Among the Poor
Scholars have long investigated the positive link between income and well-being, including its gender difference. However, little is known about (1) how low income is linked to ill-being among women and men; and (2) how their association varies depending on societal-level gender (in)equality. Filling this knowledge gap is crucial not only for scholarship but for social policy to tackle income-based disparities of ill-being. In this study, using t…
Stratification of educational quality judgments: Insights from two factorial survey experiments on socioeconomic differences in student and parent evaluations
ChatGPTest: Opportunities and Cautionary Tales of Utilizing AI for Questionnaire Pretesting
The rapid advancements in generative artificial intelligence have opened new avenues for enhancing various aspects of research, including the design and evaluation of survey questionnaires. However, the recent pioneering applications have not considered questionnaire pretesting. This article explores the use of GPT models as a useful tool for pretesting survey questionnaires, particularly in the early stages of survey design. Illustrated with two…
Institutional context and life satisfaction: Does the rule of law moderate well-being inequalities
An emerging strand of research emphasizes the role of the macro institutional context in shaping the social distribution of well-being. This article examines the variations in the association between political power and subjective well-being by how the rule of law is instituted across societies. Two hypotheses of the rule of law role are tested: (a) power-tempering and (b) power-enhancement hypotheses. We use a unique dataset of 30,491 individual…
Teachers’ beliefs about educational quality: Examining the power of school settings through survey experiments
Pride and Protest: Horizontal and Vertical Emotional Response in the Aftermath of the 2019 Chilean Spring
A large body of literature has shown that emotions can motivate collective action. Nevertheless, the effect that collective actions could have on emotion has been less researched. This study examined the effect of protests on bystanders’ pride, using the case of the 2019 “Chilean Spring.” Our findings indicate that a set of indicators of pride, representing the country, the status quo, and the social structures, were negatively affected by the cr…
Cultural capital and perception of teacher‐student relationships: Uncovering inequalities at schools in China
A long tradition in stratification research argues students with higher cultural capital are likely to be treated by their teachers as possessing the “right culture,” which positively affects their academic performance. Nevertheless, the literature has paid little attention to the role of students' perception in this process. Using two waves of the China Educational Panel Survey, we investigate how students' cultural capital affects their own und…
Causal Attributions of Happiness and Critical Events: How Beliefs About People's Happiness Are Affected by Moments of Crisis and Joy
This study extends the literature on people's understanding of happiness by asking whether positive and negative events could affect the causal attributions of what makes others happy. Using a factorial survey applied to a representative and probabilistic sample of Chileans, we examined three central causal attributions deeply rooted in Latin American folk culture. The results show that the positive family causal attribution of others' happiness …
Cultural Omnivorousness and Status Inconsistency in Chile: The Role of Objective and Subjective Social Status
Sociological research has long suggested that cultural participation is socially stratified. We build on this literature to discuss the role of the subjective and objective dimensions of stratification and how they are linked to practices of social distinction through cultural consumption. The aim of this study is to understand (1) the effect of subjective and objective social status on patterns of cultural participation and (2) the implications …
Conformity or contrast? Simultaneous effect of grademates and classmates on students' educational aspirations
Asymmetric Social Comparison and Life Satisfaction in Social Networks
Educational attainment and environmental concern in China: An instrumental variable approach
Formal education is theorised to be an essential vehicle to promote and trigger pro‐environmental attitudes and behavioural changes among citizens via the increase of public awareness and concern. However, robust estimations of its causal effect on individuals’ concern for the environment are scarce. This study aimed to estimate the effect of educational attainment on environmental concern in China, addressing the problem of endogeneity. China is…
Motivation, Legitimation, or Both? Reciprocal Effects of Parental Meritocratic Beliefs and Children’s Educational Performance in China
Different research traditions have long held that parental beliefs motivate children’s performance. However, regarding meritocratic beliefs, sociologists often argue that meritocratic narratives legitimize and make sense of societal inequalities as justly deserved. Using the case of China, I tested these competing hypotheses of the relationship between parental meritocratic beliefs and children’s educational achievement. Parental beliefs about sk…
Untangling causal beliefs: A lay theory of happiness determinants using a factorial survey
Co-ethnic exploitation among Chinese within an ethnic economy
Based on the situation of Chinese migrants in Santiago, Chile, this article shows that labor relationships between Chinese employers and Chinese workers could be exploitative. Thus, we aim to discuss the conditions under which co-ethnic exploitation among Chinese takes place in Chile. In addition, we ask why Chinese workers allow themselves to be exploited by their Chinese employers, and how employers explain the exploitation. We argue that such …
Motivation, Legitimation, or Both? Reciprocal Effects of Parental Meritocratic Beliefs and Children’s Educational Performance in China
Different research traditions have long held that parental beliefs motivate children’s performance. However, regarding meritocratic beliefs, sociologists often argue that meritocratic narratives legitimize and make sense of societal inequalities as justly deserved. Using the case of China, I tested these competing hypotheses of the relationship between parental meritocratic beliefs and children’s educational achievement. Parental beliefs about sk…
Deserving a Just Pension: A Factorial Survey Approach
Objective This study analyzes which characteristics of pension recipients are taken into account when evaluating the fairness of pensions. Furthermore, it identifies some respondents’ characteristics and preferences that could be related to the justice evaluation of different pension amounts. Methods A factorial survey was designed to simultaneously analyze the association of respondents’ and recipients’ characteristics with the pensions’ justice…
Untangling causal beliefs: A lay theory of happiness determinants using a factorial survey
Co-ethnic exploitation among Chinese within an ethnic economy
Based on the situation of Chinese migrants in Santiago, Chile, this article shows that labor relationships between Chinese employers and Chinese workers could be exploitative. Thus, we aim to discuss the conditions under which co-ethnic exploitation among Chinese takes place in Chile. In addition, we ask why Chinese workers allow themselves to be exploited by their Chinese employers, and how employers explain the exploitation. We argue that such …
Risk Exposure, Humanitarianism and Willingness to Pay for Universal Healthcare: A Cross-National Analysis of 28 Countries
Attitudes Toward Income Inequality in China: Revisiting the Concern About Inequality from a Comparative Perspective
Gender inequality, well-being, and ill-being: A macro analysis of human and societal flourishing
ChatGPTest: Opportunities and Cautionary Tales of Utilizing AI for Questionnaire Pretesting
The rapid advancements in generative artificial intelligence have opened new avenues for enhancing various aspects of research, including the design and evaluation of survey questionnaires. However, the recent pioneering applications have not considered questionnaire pretesting. This article explores the use of GPT models as a useful tool for pretesting survey questionnaires, particularly in the early stages of survey design. Illustrated with two…
Cultural capital and perception of teacher‐student relationships: Uncovering inequalities at schools in China
A long tradition in stratification research argues students with higher cultural capital are likely to be treated by their teachers as possessing the “right culture,” which positively affects their academic performance. Nevertheless, the literature has paid little attention to the role of students' perception in this process. Using two waves of the China Educational Panel Survey, we investigate how students' cultural capital affects their own und…
Cultural Omnivorousness and Status Inconsistency in Chile: The Role of Objective and Subjective Social Status
Sociological research has long suggested that cultural participation is socially stratified. We build on this literature to discuss the role of the subjective and objective dimensions of stratification and how they are linked to practices of social distinction through cultural consumption. The aim of this study is to understand (1) the effect of subjective and objective social status on patterns of cultural participation and (2) the implications …
Conformity or contrast? Simultaneous effect of grademates and classmates on students' educational aspirations
Impacto de la educación para el emprendimiento en la creatividad: Una experiencia en Chile con Propensity Score Matching
Recibido 10 de junio de 2013 • Corregido 11 de julio de 2013 • Aceptado 31 de julio de 2013Este artículo presenta la evaluación del programa Yo aprendo y emprendo ejecutado en la ciudad de Antofagasta, Chile. El programa tiene como objetivo contribuir al desarrollo de jóvenes estudiantes a través de la entrega de herramientas que les permitan incorporar el espíritu emprendedor como actitud de vida y formación. Se realizó una evaluación de impacto…
Where do opportunity beliefs come from? Implications of intergenerational social mobility for beliefs about the distribution system in China
Low Income, Ill-being, and Gender Inequality: Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Gendered Risk of Suffering Among the Poor
Scholars have long investigated the positive link between income and well-being, including its gender difference. However, little is known about (1) how low income is linked to ill-being among women and men; and (2) how their association varies depending on societal-level gender (in)equality. Filling this knowledge gap is crucial not only for scholarship but for social policy to tackle income-based disparities of ill-being. In this study, using t…
Institutional context and life satisfaction: Does the rule of law moderate well-being inequalities
An emerging strand of research emphasizes the role of the macro institutional context in shaping the social distribution of well-being. This article examines the variations in the association between political power and subjective well-being by how the rule of law is instituted across societies. Two hypotheses of the rule of law role are tested: (a) power-tempering and (b) power-enhancement hypotheses. We use a unique dataset of 30,491 individual…
Teachers’ beliefs about educational quality: Examining the power of school settings through survey experiments
Impacto de la educación para el emprendimiento en la creatividad: Una experiencia en Chile con Propensity Score Matching
Recibido 10 de junio de 2013 • Corregido 11 de julio de 2013 • Aceptado 31 de julio de 2013Este artículo presenta la evaluación del programa Yo aprendo y emprendo ejecutado en la ciudad de Antofagasta, Chile. El programa tiene como objetivo contribuir al desarrollo de jóvenes estudiantes a través de la entrega de herramientas que les permitan incorporar el espíritu emprendedor como actitud de vida y formación. Se realizó una evaluación de impacto…
Co-ethnic exploitation among Chinese within an ethnic economy
Based on the situation of Chinese migrants in Santiago, Chile, this article shows that labor relationships between Chinese employers and Chinese workers could be exploitative. Thus, we aim to discuss the conditions under which co-ethnic exploitation among Chinese takes place in Chile. In addition, we ask why Chinese workers allow themselves to be exploited by their Chinese employers, and how employers explain the exploitation. We argue that such …
Deserving a Just Pension: A Factorial Survey Approach
Objective This study analyzes which characteristics of pension recipients are taken into account when evaluating the fairness of pensions. Furthermore, it identifies some respondents’ characteristics and preferences that could be related to the justice evaluation of different pension amounts. Methods A factorial survey was designed to simultaneously analyze the association of respondents’ and recipients’ characteristics with the pensions’ justice…
Risk Exposure, Humanitarianism and Willingness to Pay for Universal Healthcare: A Cross-National Analysis of 28 Countries
Untangling causal beliefs: A lay theory of happiness determinants using a factorial survey
Asymmetric Social Comparison and Life Satisfaction in Social Networks
Educational attainment and environmental concern in China: An instrumental variable approach
Formal education is theorised to be an essential vehicle to promote and trigger pro‐environmental attitudes and behavioural changes among citizens via the increase of public awareness and concern. However, robust estimations of its causal effect on individuals’ concern for the environment are scarce. This study aimed to estimate the effect of educational attainment on environmental concern in China, addressing the problem of endogeneity. China is…
Motivation, Legitimation, or Both? Reciprocal Effects of Parental Meritocratic Beliefs and Children’s Educational Performance in China
Different research traditions have long held that parental beliefs motivate children’s performance. However, regarding meritocratic beliefs, sociologists often argue that meritocratic narratives legitimize and make sense of societal inequalities as justly deserved. Using the case of China, I tested these competing hypotheses of the relationship between parental meritocratic beliefs and children’s educational achievement. Parental beliefs about sk…
Institutional context and life satisfaction: Does the rule of law moderate well-being inequalities
An emerging strand of research emphasizes the role of the macro institutional context in shaping the social distribution of well-being. This article examines the variations in the association between political power and subjective well-being by how the rule of law is instituted across societies. Two hypotheses of the rule of law role are tested: (a) power-tempering and (b) power-enhancement hypotheses. We use a unique dataset of 30,491 individual…
Teachers’ beliefs about educational quality: Examining the power of school settings through survey experiments
Pride and Protest: Horizontal and Vertical Emotional Response in the Aftermath of the 2019 Chilean Spring
A large body of literature has shown that emotions can motivate collective action. Nevertheless, the effect that collective actions could have on emotion has been less researched. This study examined the effect of protests on bystanders’ pride, using the case of the 2019 “Chilean Spring.” Our findings indicate that a set of indicators of pride, representing the country, the status quo, and the social structures, were negatively affected by the cr…
Cultural capital and perception of teacher‐student relationships: Uncovering inequalities at schools in China
A long tradition in stratification research argues students with higher cultural capital are likely to be treated by their teachers as possessing the “right culture,” which positively affects their academic performance. Nevertheless, the literature has paid little attention to the role of students' perception in this process. Using two waves of the China Educational Panel Survey, we investigate how students' cultural capital affects their own und…
Causal Attributions of Happiness and Critical Events: How Beliefs About People's Happiness Are Affected by Moments of Crisis and Joy
This study extends the literature on people's understanding of happiness by asking whether positive and negative events could affect the causal attributions of what makes others happy. Using a factorial survey applied to a representative and probabilistic sample of Chileans, we examined three central causal attributions deeply rooted in Latin American folk culture. The results show that the positive family causal attribution of others' happiness …
Cultural Omnivorousness and Status Inconsistency in Chile: The Role of Objective and Subjective Social Status
Sociological research has long suggested that cultural participation is socially stratified. We build on this literature to discuss the role of the subjective and objective dimensions of stratification and how they are linked to practices of social distinction through cultural consumption. The aim of this study is to understand (1) the effect of subjective and objective social status on patterns of cultural participation and (2) the implications …
Conformity or contrast? Simultaneous effect of grademates and classmates on students' educational aspirations
Where do opportunity beliefs come from? Implications of intergenerational social mobility for beliefs about the distribution system in China
Low Income, Ill-being, and Gender Inequality: Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Gendered Risk of Suffering Among the Poor
Scholars have long investigated the positive link between income and well-being, including its gender difference. However, little is known about (1) how low income is linked to ill-being among women and men; and (2) how their association varies depending on societal-level gender (in)equality. Filling this knowledge gap is crucial not only for scholarship but for social policy to tackle income-based disparities of ill-being. In this study, using t…
Stratification of educational quality judgments: Insights from two factorial survey experiments on socioeconomic differences in student and parent evaluations
ChatGPTest: Opportunities and Cautionary Tales of Utilizing AI for Questionnaire Pretesting
The rapid advancements in generative artificial intelligence have opened new avenues for enhancing various aspects of research, including the design and evaluation of survey questionnaires. However, the recent pioneering applications have not considered questionnaire pretesting. This article explores the use of GPT models as a useful tool for pretesting survey questionnaires, particularly in the early stages of survey design. Illustrated with two…
Global research collaborations of the United Kingdom in the post-Brexit era
Gender inequality, well-being, and ill-being: A macro analysis of human and societal flourishing
AI-replicas as ethical practice: Introducing an Alternative to Traditional Anonymisation Techniques in Image-Based Research
This article introduces the use of AI-replicas as an alternative to traditional anonymisation methods in image-based qualitative research. It emphasises the ethical and practical dilemmas posed by current anonymisation methods, such as distortion or loss of emotional and contextual information in images, and proposes the use of AI-replicas to preserve the integrity and authenticity of visual data while ensuring participant anonymity. The article …
Tracing Three Decades of Sociological Research: A Computational Abstract Analysis to Identify Latent Topics of Sociological Research Online
Disciplinary boundaries and the trends within them are essential for research identities across the discipline and fields. To analyze the state of British sociology in general and Sociological Research Online in particular, we analyzed a corpus of abstracts of published articles from 2000 to 2022. By applying an unsupervised topic modeling approach, we identify 15 latent topics across all abstracts, representing a broad range of sociological topi…
Person-country Fit and Subjective Well-Being: The Roles of Religious Beliefs
While previous studies have extensively examined the relationship between religion and subjective well-being (SWB), findings remain mixed, and ongoing debates persist regarding the nature and strength of this association. Moreover, less is known about specific dimensions of religiosity, such as the importance of God in individuals’ lives and its relationship with SWB. Building on the person-country fit literature, this study analyzes the implicat…
‘Like a Fish in the Water’: Subjective Well‐Being and the Alignment of Perceptions of Democracy With Political Structures
Happiness research has long highlighted the role of national culture, yet few studies distinguish between objective conditions and collective cultural environments in which citizens form political perceptions. Focusing on perceptions of democracy, this study examines how discrepancies between personal perceptions and two dimensions of political structures—democratic quality and collective societal representations—shape subjective well‐being (SWB)…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (9 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · China (6 works) · Inequality (6 works)