Vijayan K Pillai
Biographic Data
| ID | 132836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vijayan K Pillai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vijayan K |
| FAMILY NAME | Pillai |
| SIGNATURE | PILLAI V K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3976-4564 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 74 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Perceptions of Gender Nonconformity, Internalized Stigma, and Embodiment in a Sample of Self-Identified Transgender Individuals
This study examines how societal heteronormative norms influence interactions involving transgender individuals, offering insights into identity formation and mental health. Understanding how societal heteronormative norms shape interactions involving transgender individuals is crucial to the attainment of public health goals related to addressing societal barriers, such as stigma, and promoting mental health. Interviews were conducted at a unive…
Influence of Socio-Ecological and Economic Correlates on Marijuana Legalization Policy Across the States of America
Marijuana legalization has been at the center of debate in the social and political realm of the United States. So far, thirty nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana either for recreational or medical purposes. States are taking a cautious approach to legalization in a policy context consisting of multi-layered sociopolitical systems. Strong arguments from advocacy groups supporting and opposing legalization highlight t…
Evolving Roles for International Social Work in Addressing Climate Change
Global warming and ozone layer depletion signal the onset of climate change, a “slow-onset” disaster exacerbating poverty and social inequality. Addressing this requires global cooperation, as exemplified by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 13, which focuses on climate action. Mitigation measures include reducing greenhouse gas emissions, transitioning to clean energy, and enhancing community resilience. …
Experienced Versus Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence and Psychological Maladjustment: The Role of Adaptive and Avoidant Coping
The present questionnaire study explores the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV), coping strategies, and psychological maladjustment for both female and male college students, as well as considering the effects of perpetrated IPV. College students are at risk for experiencing and perpetrating IPV, and coping skills may act as important risk and protective factors. In total, 333 (247 women, 86 men) undergraduate college students c…
Women’s reproductive health in the aftermath of natural disasters in Bangladesh: Prospects for empowerment
In this study, the authors examine the effect of Cyclone Sidr in 2007 on selected aspects of women's reproductive decision-making in Bangladesh. We used Person in Environment theories to model the effect of cyclone Sidr on the reasons for non-contraception among women who did not want a child. The difference-in-difference approach was used as a research design using Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys of 2004 and 2011 to test a model of rea…
For Straight Persons, Correlates of Biphobia Are Mostly the Same as for Homophobia
In a previous study, for a sample of 187 female and 107 male straight U.S. college undergraduates randomly assigned to complete measures of homophobia and transphobia with either born-female or born-male targets, the authors reported on the similarities and differences between the correlates for homophobia versus those for transphobia, dependent on participant and/or target gender. Participants in this study also completed a widely used measure o…
Becoming aware of your gender and sexual identity: Narrative experiences, intersecting identities, and healthcare implications
Eleven self-identified gay/lesbian individuals were interviewed about the age at which they became aware of their gender and sexual identity and whether they recalled specific life events associated with that awareness. Thematic analyses focused on individuals who recalled a specific age and event in early childhood in which they became aware of their gender and sexual identity versus individuals who did not recall a specific age tied to their aw…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 48, No. 3
The COVID-19 pandemic has sped up the pace of the digital transition process in which we have been immersed.In a context of generalized lockdown, our organizations have been forced to go digital and many of the activities social workers perform must now be done remotely.As a result, e-social work, or digital social work, has gone from being an emerging specialization to a critical specialty across organizations and activities.In this article, we …
Structural and Cohort Effects on Women's Attitudes toward Gender Egalitarianism in Mexico
Women's attitudes toward egalitarianism rest on a number of micro and macro conditions. Their education level and labor force participation significantly influence their attitudes toward gender equality. We apply a cohort change model to explain attitudes toward gender equality in Mexico using data from the 2011 National Survey on the Dynamics of Households Relationships (ENDIREH). Hierarchical linear modeling of data shows that younger women are…
Women's Education and Child Stunting Reduction in India
Aim: In spite of India's healthy economic growth during the last two decades, about 40 percent of all children in India today are stunted. Though the problem has received widespread attention in the public health literature on stunting in India, very few studies have attempted to explicitly account for the progressive stages of stunting among children. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects women’s education on various levels of stu…
Maximization vs. Inclusion as a Value Conflict in Development Work
This article builds on previous research studies strongly suggesting that high levels of social capital are positively associated with the economic and political progress of community residents. As previously proposed by the authors of this article, such findings may encourage policy makers of government and non-governmental development organizations to concentrate their efforts and resources in communities whose residents have been identified as…
Advancing support for gender equality among women in Mexico: Significance of labor force participation
Improvements in women’s support for gender equality have for long been a crucial component of social policies in developing countries such as Mexico. Women’s entry into the labor force is associated with higher levels of support for gender equality. It can be expected that working women are more supportive of gender equality than nonworking women. However, the gap in support for gender equality between employed women and full-time housewives coul…
The Impact of Autonomy on Women’s Agency
Kabeer’s simple and illustrative definition of empowerment is “the expansion in people’s ability to make strategic life choices in a context where this ability was previously denied to them” (Kabeer, 1999: 437). Women’s empowerment, then, is conceptualized as an increase in agency over time. Little is it known about the importance of the effect of ‘self directed motivations and desires’ and autonomy on women’s agency. The purpose of this paper is…
Stunting in India: An Empirical Approach to Human Rights-Based Solutions
Developing a Construct of Women’s Sexual Freedom in the Mexican Context
Reproductive Health and Social Development in Developing Countries: Changes and Interrelationships
The purpose of this study is to identify interrelationships between social development and reproductive health in developing countries. Growth in social development is expected to improve reproductive health over time. In addition, improvements in social development are anticipated from increases in reproductive health. Economic development is seen as a prime force influencing growth processes in both social development and reproductive health. W…
Antenatal Care in Nepal: A Socioecological Perspective
Globally, millions of women die during pregnancy and childbirth due to preventable causes. In Nepal, although significant improvements have been made in the availability of routine antenatal care (ANC), the need for effective initiatives still persists. Using the 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey data, we examine the relationship between ecological and socioeconomic variations on the effect of ANC services between three distinct ecological…
Exploring the Participation of Women in Financial Cooperatives and Credit Unions in Developing Countries
Participation of women in microfinance institutions (MFIs) is touted to advance development in developing economies. By applying the stakeholder theory, we examine the magnitude of women’s participation across MFIs based on their legal characteristics, that is, cooperatives and non-cooperatives across the following dimensions—organizational size, efficiency, loan size, and gender mix. We find that in the case of the cooperative types of MFIs, inc…
International Non-Governmental Organizations in Latin America and Social Capital: An Empirical Case Study
International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) in developing countries promote interests of the poor, provide social services, and stimulate community engagement. The exponential growth of INGOs during the last four decades was accompanied by major financial scandals and corruption charges leading to an increase in research on the impact of INGOs on community well-being in developing countries. Due to sparse empirical studies that evaluate …
Child fosterage among Zambian families
African continent is characterized by a high prevalence of child fostering than that in the rest of the world. Very few studies have focused on the issue of social services for child fostering families in Zambia. The purpose of this article is to examine the characteristics of Zambian families that foster children and to identify the social services needs of the fostering families based on the empirical findings of this study. The data were colle…
Assessing the Participation of Women in Microfinance Institutions: Evidence From a Multinational Study
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) typically offer small credit services with no collateral to low-income clients, particularly women microentrepreneurs. Evidence suggests that microcredit services are an effective tool for the social and financial empowerment of women and have a significant impact on maternal health, children's education, and sustainable economic growth. With multiple financial institutions offering various microfinance services, …
Tuberculosis and utilization of healthcare facilities by the Lepchas of Sikkim
All tuberculosis (TB) control programs in India since their inception have heavily depended on a medical model of diagnosis and cure. The socio-economic factors associated with TB control in India have not been adequately investigated. In spite of the heavy investments made on TB control, its prevalence rates remain high among a few sub-populations such as the Scheduled Tribes who live in isolation far away from urban areas. The state of Sikkim, …
Latent Class Analysis of Reproductive Decision Making in Zambia
Coale (1973) pointed out that a first step in the transition to modern contraceptive use involves making calculated choices with respect to fertility and use of contraception. As women become aware of the fertility choices, they are likely to actively seek information and become engaged in reproductive decision making. Research studies on the role of social network on contraceptive decision making in Zambia are few and far. The objective of this …
The Validation of the Checklist of Controlling Behaviors (CCB): Assessing Coercive Control in Abusive Relationships
The current study addresses the validation of the Checklist of Controlling Behaviors (CCB), an 84-item domestic violence assessment instrument that can be used to address multiple levels of violence and coercive control in violent relationships. Derived from clinical observation and current theories, the CCB makes use of intimate partner violence survivor reports to identify the intensity and frequency of relationship violence. The instrument is …
The Effects of Participation and Resources on Democratic Attitudes: Role of Social Capital in Four Latin and South American Countries
Social capital research in Latin and South American countries has been gravely limited by the absence of valid measures of social capital. This study seeks to create a scale for measuring social capital in the Latin and South American context using exploratory and confirmatory statistical procedures. It also seeks to test the effect of social capital on democratic attitudes in Latin America through structural equation modeling methods. Analysis o…
Patterns and determinants of infant mortality in developed nations, 1950–1975
Despite a level of per capita income among the highest in the world, the United States ranks 15th This ranking represents more than minor fluctuations or measurement error among nations that have already reached nearly identically low levels. Substantial variation in infant mortality exists among developed nations, and the position of the U.S. has been declining relative to other nations over the last several decades. Not surprisingly this has co…
The impact of a social work study abroad program in Australia on multicultural learning
English Internationalizing the US social work curriculum with programs of study abroad is an effective method to develop students’ awareness of the importance of global interdependence and increase multicultural knowledge. Results from the Multicultural Awareness/Knowledge/Skill Survey and pre-post focus groups indicate the merits of a US-Australian social work program of study abroad for master’s-level social work students. French Internationali…
The Validation of the Checklist of Controlling Behaviors (CCB): Assessing Coercive Control in Abusive Relationships
The current study addresses the validation of the Checklist of Controlling Behaviors (CCB), an 84-item domestic violence assessment instrument that can be used to address multiple levels of violence and coercive control in violent relationships. Derived from clinical observation and current theories, the CCB makes use of intimate partner violence survivor reports to identify the intensity and frequency of relationship violence. The instrument is …
Determinants of runaway episodes among adolescents using crisis shelter services
This study investigated youth and family factors associated with runaway episodes. Youth and family characteristics are described for adolescents utilising emergency shelter services in Texas and New York, and the study explored multivariate models to determine the individual and family effects on runaway recidivism. A convenience sample of 349 youth using runaway shelter services was recruited; 154 runaway youth from New York and 195 from Texas …
Women's Reproductive Health: A Gender-Sensitive Human Rights Approach
In general, two broad schemes of analysis have been used recently in the social sciences literature to examine reproductive health. The first type identifies a number of social-structural characteristics associated with reproductive health. The second, the reproductive rights explanation, is of recent origin and advocated by a number of scholars from the public health field. Using data from 125 developing countries, this study tests the two expla…
Perceived Caregiver Burden in India: Implications for Social Services
The study presented here explores the influences of selected social and social psychological factors that are associated with perceived caregiver burden in a sample of 263 primary caregivers of the elderly in Allahabad City in northern India. The results indicate that although male caregivers' perceived burden depends only on the size of the role overload, female caregivers' perceived burden depends on the interrelationship between the size of th…
Effectiveness of Secondary Pregnancy Prevention Programs: A Meta-Analysis
Because subsequent pregnancy in teen parents often worsens the impact of adolescent parenting; therefore, a common goal of teenage parent programs has been to reduce repeat pregnancy. To examine the impact of this goal, a meta-analysis was conducted on 16 control-comparison group studies that evaluated the effect of teenage pregnancy and parenting programs on pregnancy rates. At the first follow-up period at which programs assessed outcome (avera…
Cross-national analysis of a model of reproductive health in developing countries
Exploring the Participation of Women in Financial Cooperatives and Credit Unions in Developing Countries
Participation of women in microfinance institutions (MFIs) is touted to advance development in developing economies. By applying the stakeholder theory, we examine the magnitude of women’s participation across MFIs based on their legal characteristics, that is, cooperatives and non-cooperatives across the following dimensions—organizational size, efficiency, loan size, and gender mix. We find that in the case of the cooperative types of MFIs, inc…
Elder Care Giving in South Asian Families: Implications for Social Service
The objective of this study is to examine the effect of cultural beliefs about elder care giving on the amount of burden experienced by those who provide primary care to an elderly person within a family setting. These care givers belong to first generation South Asian immigrant households in the Dallas - Fort Worth Metropolitan area. The sample consists of 118 respondents who are primary care givers. The independent effects of cultural beliefs w…
Aids Prevention in Zambia: Implications for Social Services
Measurement of Women's Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights: An Analysis of Developing Countries
For Straight Persons, Correlates of Biphobia Are Mostly the Same as for Homophobia
In a previous study, for a sample of 187 female and 107 male straight U.S. college undergraduates randomly assigned to complete measures of homophobia and transphobia with either born-female or born-male targets, the authors reported on the similarities and differences between the correlates for homophobia versus those for transphobia, dependent on participant and/or target gender. Participants in this study also completed a widely used measure o…
Advancing support for gender equality among women in Mexico: Significance of labor force participation
Improvements in women’s support for gender equality have for long been a crucial component of social policies in developing countries such as Mexico. Women’s entry into the labor force is associated with higher levels of support for gender equality. It can be expected that working women are more supportive of gender equality than nonworking women. However, the gap in support for gender equality between employed women and full-time housewives coul…
Assessing the Participation of Women in Microfinance Institutions: Evidence From a Multinational Study
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) typically offer small credit services with no collateral to low-income clients, particularly women microentrepreneurs. Evidence suggests that microcredit services are an effective tool for the social and financial empowerment of women and have a significant impact on maternal health, children's education, and sustainable economic growth. With multiple financial institutions offering various microfinance services, …
Democratic attitudes and social capital in Latin America
This article examines the effect of democratic attitudes on social capital in four Latin American countries. It relies on a secondary analysis of data from a multi-national study conducted in 2005—2006. Findings indicate that democratic attitudes had a significant positive effect on social capital even in rural settings, and that social capital increased as democratic attitudes improved
A Meta-Analysis of Parent-Involved Treatment for Child Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse in children not only occurs with alarming frequency, it also potentially leads to deleterious consequences for victims. Previous narrative reviews have touted the benefits of including the nonoffending caregiver in child sexual treatment. Objective: A meta-analysis is conducted to determine the effects of parent-involved treatment in four major child symptom areas: internalizing, externalizing, sexualized behaviors, and posttraumatic…
The Reproductive Effects of Family Planning Programs in Rural Ghana: Analysis by Gender
This article examines the effect of family planning programs on reproductive attitudes and contraceptive use behaviors. It aims to investigate the degree to which family planning programs enable Africans to shift to western contraceptive use from traditional and null contraceptive practices. It also examines the impact of the programs for both men and women. Data from the 1988 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, the 1988-99 Ghana Living Standard…
Women’s reproductive rights and social equality in developing countries
The paper presents a cross-national analysis of the relationship between levels of reproductive rights and social equality in developing countries. One hundred and one developing countries identified by the World Bank are used. We find that high levels of social equality are associated with high levels of marital rights. However, the relationship between levels of social equality and legal abortion right is weak and insignificant. The interrelati…
Modernization and Teenage Sexual Activity in Zambia: A Multinomial Logit Model
One of the major social problems in sub-Saharan Africa today is teenage pregnancy. In this article, the authors test a model based on modernization theories that attempt to explain the widespread prevalence of teenage sexual activity in African countries such as Zambia. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Students were randomly selected from seven secondary schools in two Zambian cities, Lusaka and Kitwe. There were 527 ad…
Evolving Roles for International Social Work in Addressing Climate Change
Global warming and ozone layer depletion signal the onset of climate change, a “slow-onset” disaster exacerbating poverty and social inequality. Addressing this requires global cooperation, as exemplified by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 13, which focuses on climate action. Mitigation measures include reducing greenhouse gas emissions, transitioning to clean energy, and enhancing community resilience. …
Structural and Cohort Effects on Women's Attitudes toward Gender Egalitarianism in Mexico
Women's attitudes toward egalitarianism rest on a number of micro and macro conditions. Their education level and labor force participation significantly influence their attitudes toward gender equality. We apply a cohort change model to explain attitudes toward gender equality in Mexico using data from the 2011 National Survey on the Dynamics of Households Relationships (ENDIREH). Hierarchical linear modeling of data shows that younger women are…
Reproductive Health and Social Development in Developing Countries: Changes and Interrelationships
The purpose of this study is to identify interrelationships between social development and reproductive health in developing countries. Growth in social development is expected to improve reproductive health over time. In addition, improvements in social development are anticipated from increases in reproductive health. Economic development is seen as a prime force influencing growth processes in both social development and reproductive health. W…
Child fosterage among Zambian families
African continent is characterized by a high prevalence of child fostering than that in the rest of the world. Very few studies have focused on the issue of social services for child fostering families in Zambia. The purpose of this article is to examine the characteristics of Zambian families that foster children and to identify the social services needs of the fostering families based on the empirical findings of this study. The data were colle…
Latent Class Analysis of Reproductive Decision Making in Zambia
Coale (1973) pointed out that a first step in the transition to modern contraceptive use involves making calculated choices with respect to fertility and use of contraception. As women become aware of the fertility choices, they are likely to actively seek information and become engaged in reproductive decision making. Research studies on the role of social network on contraceptive decision making in Zambia are few and far. The objective of this …
Perceptions of Development
Surplus Labour and the City: A Study of Bombay
Wife's Education and Urban Family Size in India: The Form of the Relationship
The paper examines the net relationship between wife's education and completed family size based on data on 48,5 women, ages 40–49, from one city in India. The results indicate that wife's education has a curvilinear (inverted U) relationship with completed family size. Up to a threshold level of 4.4 years, an increase in wife's education results in larger completed family size; beyond this point it has a depressing effect on family size
Age-at-Family Formation and Family Size: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
Demographers suggest that as the less developed societies become modernized, the direction and effect of the determinants of fertility in these societies will become similar to that of the developed societies. This study explores the net influence of age-at-family formation on family size among two high fertility populations in two different social contexts : one a developed setting (Racine in Wisconsin) and the other a developing setting (city o…
Patterns and determinants of infant mortality in developed nations, 1950–1975
Despite a level of per capita income among the highest in the world, the United States ranks 15th This ranking represents more than minor fluctuations or measurement error among nations that have already reached nearly identically low levels. Substantial variation in infant mortality exists among developed nations, and the position of the U.S. has been declining relative to other nations over the last several decades. Not surprisingly this has co…
Correlates of "decision to move or stay" in Ahmedabad, India
The Postwar Rise and Decline of American Fertility: The Pace of Transition to Motherhood Among 1950–1969 Marital Cohorts of White Women
This study supports the theoretical argument that historical experiences of the marital cohorts, and the changes in the social and demographic composition of the cohorts, determine the pace of childbearing among white American women married during 1950–1969. During the period 1965–1969 environmental factors supported a delay in the birth of the first child among working women. This may be the result of socioenvironmental responses to the threshol…
The Postwar Rise and Decline of American Fertility: The Pace of Transition To Motherhood Among 1950-1969 Marital Cohorts of White Women
This study supports the theoretical argument that historical experiences of the marital cohorts, and the changes in the social and demographic composition of the cohorts, determine the pace of childbearing among white American women married during 1950-1969. During the period 1965-1969 environmental factors supported a delay in the birth of the first child among working women. This may be the result of socioenvironmental responses to the threshol…
Teenage fertility and infant mortality: Reply
Geronimus and Korenman challenge the finding that teenage fertility raises infant mortality yet they fail to present the cross-national data necessary to support their arguments. The figures they present differ vastly from the sample and type of data used by Pampel and Pillai yet are in some ways consistent with the conclusion. Pampel and Pillai attempted to test the applicability of broad demographic transition theories of mortality change to ad…
Teenage fertility in developing countries
Other books in review
Immunisation coverage in Lusaka, Zambia; implications of the social setting
This paper develops a conceptual framework for examining the process of immunisation and explores the sociodemographic determinants of vaccination in Zambia. About 300 mothers with children under 3 years of age were interviewed in urban Lusaka. The analyses suggest that sociostructural, as well as cultural, processes influence the attrition process and immunisation programmes should focus on the uniqueness of each stage. In addition, programmes t…
Teenage sexual activity in Zambia: The need for a sex education policy
Data from a study of teenage sexual activity among secondary school girls show the need for a sex education policy as a first step in controlling teenage fertility in Zambia. A large proportion of teenage females enter into close relationships with males at young ages and a high proportion of young females have engaged in sexual intercourse. Most of these sexually active females do not use family planning methods even though a large proportion of…
Men and family planning in Zambia
This paper examines the sociodemographic factors which influence familiarity with methods of family planning among 85 males holding low paying jobs in the University of Zambia, Lusaka. The results showed that wife's education had a significant and positive effect on husband's familiarity with family planning methods. In the longer term, female education is likely to emerge as an important factor in the onset of fertility decline in Zambia.
Differences in Spell Lengths Between the AFDC-Basic and AFDC-Unemployed Parents Programs
This article reports the findings of a study that compares the length of time people receive benefits from the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Basic and -Unemployed Parents programs. The sample includes all first observed AFDC spells in Kenosha and Racine Counties, Wisconsin between 1987 and 1989. Findings indicate that AFDC-UP spells are significantly shorter than AFDC-Basic spells. The median spell length of AFDC-UP cases is 6.4 months …
Using an Event History Analysis to Evaluate Social Welfare Programs
This article presents an overview of how an event history analysis can be used to evaluate social welfare programs' impacts on events and the timing of events. An overview of event history analysis is presented, including a discussion of events and spells, hazards, censoring, duration intervals, longitudinal databases, design issues, and life table and multivariate analysis techniques. The article concludes with an example of how an event history…
Sexual Activity Among Junior Secondary School Girls in Zambia
This paper proposes a causal model of sexual activity among a randomly selected sample of 305 Junior secondary school girls in Zambia. The results indicate that liberal sexual attitudes influence romantic involvement with boys. Emotional involvement is likely to result in sexual activity. Traditional courtship forms are slowly being replaced by modern patterns of courtship behaviour. Policy and programme implications are discussed.
Committing to the new police‐community partnerships in the united states and england
A primary handicap of current community policing scholarship has been the failure of community policing research to incorporate comprehensive and broad dimensions of community policing. Such a lack of a rigorous assessment for the community policing concept has handicapped our ability to reliably assess community policing's benefits, as well as what constitute's its potential obstacles. This study adopts a broad dimension of community policing in…
The Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power and Gender in Rural Zambia
This study examines the lives of the women and men living in two small rural communities in Zambia on the eve of the collapse of the one-party state in the 1980s. It traces the often complex ways in which local, day-to-day realities are linked to wider economic, political, imaginative structures of power beyond northwestern Zambia. Drawing on fieldwork, the text examines economics and gender, politics and kin relations, state and local relations,…
Modernization and Teenage Sexual Activity in Zambia: A Multinomial Logit Model
One of the major social problems in sub-Saharan Africa today is teenage pregnancy. In this article, the authors test a model based on modernization theories that attempt to explain the widespread prevalence of teenage sexual activity in African countries such as Zambia. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Students were randomly selected from seven secondary schools in two Zambian cities, Lusaka and Kitwe. There were 527 ad…
Women’s reproductive rights and social equality in developing countries
The paper presents a cross-national analysis of the relationship between levels of reproductive rights and social equality in developing countries. One hundred and one developing countries identified by the World Bank are used. We find that high levels of social equality are associated with high levels of marital rights. However, the relationship between levels of social equality and legal abortion right is weak and insignificant. The interrelati…
Do incentives matter? – Evaluation of a family planning program in India
Social Structural Model of Women's Reproductive Rights: A Cross-National Study of Developing Countries
Vijayan K. Pillai, Guang-zhen Wang, Social Structural Model of Women's Reproductive Rights: A Cross-National Study of Developing Countries, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring, 1999), pp. 255-281
Caregiver Burden in South Asian Families: A Systems Theory Perspective
Systems theory has been extensively used by social work practitioners to conceptualize an array of social and psychological problems at the level of clinical practice. Systems theory is complex and this complexity is believed to be advantageous for investigating the roots of social and familial problems. This paper presents results from a study of caregiver burden among a sample of 118 Indian/Pakistani caregivers in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropol…
Modeling Sexual Activity Among Schoolgirls in Zambia
This article proposes a model of sexual activity among secondary school-going Zambian girls. The model is tested for two age categories of adolescents using Covariance Structure Analysis. A sample of teenage girls was selected randomly from seven secondary schools that were selected randomly from schools located in the urban provinces of Copperbelt and Lusaka-Central in Zambia. The article identifies the role of dating as an intervening variable …
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