Allison Zippay
Biographic Data
| ID | 167695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison Zippay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison |
| FAMILY NAME | Zippay |
| SIGNATURE | ZIPPAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Trajectory of Deconstruction Among Fundamentalist Exvangelical Women: Implications for Social Work
Leaving a strongly socialized identity can be particularly stressful. Using interviews with 32 women who left fundamentalist Christianity and now identify as atheist or agnostic, this study explores religious upbringings and how they shaped participants’ processes of leaving their faith communities. Results illustrate the toll of religious deconstruction, as well as resilience and agency in navigating identity outside previous religious framework…
Double child and elder care responsibilities and emotional exhaustion of an older sandwiched generation: The mediating effect of self-care
The number of informal caregivers over the age of 50 who care for multiple family members including children and elderly relatives – a practice termed ‘double care’ – has steadily increased in Asian countries. Despite the rise in depression and stress among such caregivers, few studies have examined factors that may mitigate their emotional exhaustion. This research examines relationships between care responsibilities and emotional exhaustion, an…
Social Networks in the Context of Microfinance and Intimate Partner Violence in Bangladesh: A Mixed-Methods Study
This mixed-methods study draws from social network theory to examine disclosure and help seeking for intimate partner violence among microfinance participants in Bangladesh. This study uses data on women from the nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2007 and from in-depth interviews with 30 microfinance participants in Dhaka. Propensity Score Matching analyses indicated that increase in social contacts due to microfi…
Technology and Opportunity: People with Serious Mental Illness and Social Connection
Objective: Little information exists regarding how individuals with serious mental illness use technology and whether this usage facilitates social connections. This study contributes to filling this knowledge gap by examining ways in which a sample of persons with serious mental illness use cell phones and the Internet. Methods: Interviews with 50 consumers living in supported housing were asked about their use of cell phones and computers and t…
Microfinance Participation and Marital Violence in Bangladesh: A Qualitative Inquiry
This study explores the experiences of marital violence within the context of microfinance participation among a sample of women living in poverty in Bangladesh. Status inconsistency theory suggests that the higher incomes and female independence that may occur with microfinance participation may threaten or destabilize marital norms in Bangladesh, and have implications in terms of increased violence. We use qualitative data from in-depth intervi…
Family leave for employed women: Interaction effects of gender discrimination and household responsibilities in South Korea
Family leave policies are among the approaches used by employers across the globe to ease work–family strains among employed women, and enhance employee engagement and productivity. Yet some research suggests a critical dilemma facing some women: taking advantage of family leave may improve their ability to maintain both job and family, while lessening their status as valued employees in the eyes of employers that discriminate. This study utilize…
Community Approaches to the Siting of Psychiatric Housing
This article examines community planning and communications approaches used by mental health housing organizations in the siting process for community-based psychiatric housing. Drawing on interviews with housing administrators in 7 states, it assesses variations in the approach, content, timing, and modes of agency communications with community leaders, neighbors, and local citizens, and the association of these communications methods with initi…
Social networks among lower income Korean elderly immigrants in the U.S
Family Roles as Moderators of the Relationship Between Schedule Flexibility and Stress
Employer initiatives that address the spillover of work strain onto family life include flexible work schedules. This study explored the mediating role of negative work-family spillover in the relationship between schedule flexibility and employee stress and the moderating roles of gender, family workload, and single-parent status. Data were drawn from the 2008 National Study of the Changing Workforce, a nationally representative sample of workin…
The interaction effects of scheduling control and work–life balance programs on job satisfaction and mental health
Jang SJ, Park R, Zippay A. The interaction effects of scheduling control and work–life balance programs on job satisfaction and mental health Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 135–143 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. The demands of balancing employment and family responsibilities strain the health and welfare of many employees worldwide, and social…
Neighbors’ Perceptions of Community‐Based Psychiatric Housing
Neighborhood opposition to the establishment of community‐based housing for individuals with serious mental illness, often called the not in my backyard (or NIMBY) phenomenon, has generated considerable public and professional notice. However, little is known about longer‐term attitudes among neighbors. Interviews with 1,425 neighbors of extant psychiatric housing sites were conducted to examine their perceptions of the effects of the residences …
Psychiatric housing: Locational patterns and choices
This study investigated locational patterns and choices in recently sited psychiatric housing. It examined the socioeconomic attributes of the neighborhoods of a sample of supervised houses and apartments for persons with severe mental illness in seven states, and the factors associated with the choice of those locations. Using data drawn from the U.S. Census and interviews with mental health administrators and residential staff, the study identi…
Dynamics of Income Packaging: A 10-Year Longitudinal Study
This article examines the methods and dynamics of packaging multiple sources of wage and nonwage income as a means of making ends meet over a 10-year period among a sample of displaced steelworkers who lost jobs as a result of plant closings in the 1980s and then experienced extensive downward mobility. The study tracked changes in the respondents' income and employment over a decade, the dynamics of their use of social services, their pooling of…
The Role of Social Capital in Reclaiming Human Capital: A Longitudinal Study of Occupational Mobility among Displaced Steelworkers
This paper examines the employment and income effects of job training, education, and social network contacts over a l0-year period among a random sample of steelworkers who lost jobs to plant closings in the early 1980s in a manufacturing community in Western Pennsylvania. First interviewed in 1987, a majority of the 102 respondents were unemployed or underemployed. A second round of interviews was conducted in 1997 with 87 of the original respo…
Trends in Siting Strategies
Tracing Behavioral Changes among Discouraged Workers: What Happens to the Work Ethic
Material from an ethnographic case study of 102 randomly selected blue-collar workers who experienced job loss in the 1980s was examined, with a focus on a subgroup of 11 who became “discouraged” and withdrew from the labor force. Changes in the job-search behavior and attitudes of the discouraged workers are traced, and theoretical explanations for their resignation and withdrawal are explored
The Role of Working-Class Women in a Changing Economy
This article examines shifts in the economic roles of working-class women in married-couple households during the 1980s. It reviews aggregate economic data from that decade and presents the results of a case study of 102 blue-collar families who experienced changes in employment and earnings because of a recession brought on by the loss of manufacturing jobs. The study found that as jobs in the goods- producing sector declined and the earnings of…
Trends in Siting Strategies
The interaction effects of scheduling control and work–life balance programs on job satisfaction and mental health
Jang SJ, Park R, Zippay A. The interaction effects of scheduling control and work–life balance programs on job satisfaction and mental health Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 135–143 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. The demands of balancing employment and family responsibilities strain the health and welfare of many employees worldwide, and social…
Family Roles as Moderators of the Relationship Between Schedule Flexibility and Stress
Employer initiatives that address the spillover of work strain onto family life include flexible work schedules. This study explored the mediating role of negative work-family spillover in the relationship between schedule flexibility and employee stress and the moderating roles of gender, family workload, and single-parent status. Data were drawn from the 2008 National Study of the Changing Workforce, a nationally representative sample of workin…
Neighbors’ Perceptions of Community‐Based Psychiatric Housing
Neighborhood opposition to the establishment of community‐based housing for individuals with serious mental illness, often called the not in my backyard (or NIMBY) phenomenon, has generated considerable public and professional notice. However, little is known about longer‐term attitudes among neighbors. Interviews with 1,425 neighbors of extant psychiatric housing sites were conducted to examine their perceptions of the effects of the residences …
Social Networks in the Context of Microfinance and Intimate Partner Violence in Bangladesh: A Mixed-Methods Study
This mixed-methods study draws from social network theory to examine disclosure and help seeking for intimate partner violence among microfinance participants in Bangladesh. This study uses data on women from the nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2007 and from in-depth interviews with 30 microfinance participants in Dhaka. Propensity Score Matching analyses indicated that increase in social contacts due to microfi…
Technology and Opportunity: People with Serious Mental Illness and Social Connection
Objective: Little information exists regarding how individuals with serious mental illness use technology and whether this usage facilitates social connections. This study contributes to filling this knowledge gap by examining ways in which a sample of persons with serious mental illness use cell phones and the Internet. Methods: Interviews with 50 consumers living in supported housing were asked about their use of cell phones and computers and t…
Family leave for employed women: Interaction effects of gender discrimination and household responsibilities in South Korea
Family leave policies are among the approaches used by employers across the globe to ease work–family strains among employed women, and enhance employee engagement and productivity. Yet some research suggests a critical dilemma facing some women: taking advantage of family leave may improve their ability to maintain both job and family, while lessening their status as valued employees in the eyes of employers that discriminate. This study utilize…
Social networks among lower income Korean elderly immigrants in the U.S
The Role of Social Capital in Reclaiming Human Capital: A Longitudinal Study of Occupational Mobility among Displaced Steelworkers
This paper examines the employment and income effects of job training, education, and social network contacts over a l0-year period among a random sample of steelworkers who lost jobs to plant closings in the early 1980s in a manufacturing community in Western Pennsylvania. First interviewed in 1987, a majority of the 102 respondents were unemployed or underemployed. A second round of interviews was conducted in 1997 with 87 of the original respo…
Double child and elder care responsibilities and emotional exhaustion of an older sandwiched generation: The mediating effect of self-care
The number of informal caregivers over the age of 50 who care for multiple family members including children and elderly relatives – a practice termed ‘double care’ – has steadily increased in Asian countries. Despite the rise in depression and stress among such caregivers, few studies have examined factors that may mitigate their emotional exhaustion. This research examines relationships between care responsibilities and emotional exhaustion, an…
Dynamics of Income Packaging: A 10-Year Longitudinal Study
This article examines the methods and dynamics of packaging multiple sources of wage and nonwage income as a means of making ends meet over a 10-year period among a sample of displaced steelworkers who lost jobs as a result of plant closings in the 1980s and then experienced extensive downward mobility. The study tracked changes in the respondents' income and employment over a decade, the dynamics of their use of social services, their pooling of…
Microfinance Participation and Marital Violence in Bangladesh: A Qualitative Inquiry
This study explores the experiences of marital violence within the context of microfinance participation among a sample of women living in poverty in Bangladesh. Status inconsistency theory suggests that the higher incomes and female independence that may occur with microfinance participation may threaten or destabilize marital norms in Bangladesh, and have implications in terms of increased violence. We use qualitative data from in-depth intervi…
Community Approaches to the Siting of Psychiatric Housing
This article examines community planning and communications approaches used by mental health housing organizations in the siting process for community-based psychiatric housing. Drawing on interviews with housing administrators in 7 states, it assesses variations in the approach, content, timing, and modes of agency communications with community leaders, neighbors, and local citizens, and the association of these communications methods with initi…
The Role of Working-Class Women in a Changing Economy
This article examines shifts in the economic roles of working-class women in married-couple households during the 1980s. It reviews aggregate economic data from that decade and presents the results of a case study of 102 blue-collar families who experienced changes in employment and earnings because of a recession brought on by the loss of manufacturing jobs. The study found that as jobs in the goods- producing sector declined and the earnings of…
Tracing Behavioral Changes among Discouraged Workers: What Happens to the Work Ethic
Material from an ethnographic case study of 102 randomly selected blue-collar workers who experienced job loss in the 1980s was examined, with a focus on a subgroup of 11 who became “discouraged” and withdrew from the labor force. Changes in the job-search behavior and attitudes of the discouraged workers are traced, and theoretical explanations for their resignation and withdrawal are explored
Trends in Siting Strategies
The Role of Social Capital in Reclaiming Human Capital: A Longitudinal Study of Occupational Mobility among Displaced Steelworkers
This paper examines the employment and income effects of job training, education, and social network contacts over a l0-year period among a random sample of steelworkers who lost jobs to plant closings in the early 1980s in a manufacturing community in Western Pennsylvania. First interviewed in 1987, a majority of the 102 respondents were unemployed or underemployed. A second round of interviews was conducted in 1997 with 87 of the original respo…
Dynamics of Income Packaging: A 10-Year Longitudinal Study
This article examines the methods and dynamics of packaging multiple sources of wage and nonwage income as a means of making ends meet over a 10-year period among a sample of displaced steelworkers who lost jobs as a result of plant closings in the 1980s and then experienced extensive downward mobility. The study tracked changes in the respondents' income and employment over a decade, the dynamics of their use of social services, their pooling of…
Psychiatric housing: Locational patterns and choices
This study investigated locational patterns and choices in recently sited psychiatric housing. It examined the socioeconomic attributes of the neighborhoods of a sample of supervised houses and apartments for persons with severe mental illness in seven states, and the factors associated with the choice of those locations. Using data drawn from the U.S. Census and interviews with mental health administrators and residential staff, the study identi…
Neighbors’ Perceptions of Community‐Based Psychiatric Housing
Neighborhood opposition to the establishment of community‐based housing for individuals with serious mental illness, often called the not in my backyard (or NIMBY) phenomenon, has generated considerable public and professional notice. However, little is known about longer‐term attitudes among neighbors. Interviews with 1,425 neighbors of extant psychiatric housing sites were conducted to examine their perceptions of the effects of the residences …
The interaction effects of scheduling control and work–life balance programs on job satisfaction and mental health
Jang SJ, Park R, Zippay A. The interaction effects of scheduling control and work–life balance programs on job satisfaction and mental health Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 135–143 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. The demands of balancing employment and family responsibilities strain the health and welfare of many employees worldwide, and social…
Social networks among lower income Korean elderly immigrants in the U.S
Family Roles as Moderators of the Relationship Between Schedule Flexibility and Stress
Employer initiatives that address the spillover of work strain onto family life include flexible work schedules. This study explored the mediating role of negative work-family spillover in the relationship between schedule flexibility and employee stress and the moderating roles of gender, family workload, and single-parent status. Data were drawn from the 2008 National Study of the Changing Workforce, a nationally representative sample of workin…
Community Approaches to the Siting of Psychiatric Housing
This article examines community planning and communications approaches used by mental health housing organizations in the siting process for community-based psychiatric housing. Drawing on interviews with housing administrators in 7 states, it assesses variations in the approach, content, timing, and modes of agency communications with community leaders, neighbors, and local citizens, and the association of these communications methods with initi…
Family leave for employed women: Interaction effects of gender discrimination and household responsibilities in South Korea
Family leave policies are among the approaches used by employers across the globe to ease work–family strains among employed women, and enhance employee engagement and productivity. Yet some research suggests a critical dilemma facing some women: taking advantage of family leave may improve their ability to maintain both job and family, while lessening their status as valued employees in the eyes of employers that discriminate. This study utilize…
Technology and Opportunity: People with Serious Mental Illness and Social Connection
Objective: Little information exists regarding how individuals with serious mental illness use technology and whether this usage facilitates social connections. This study contributes to filling this knowledge gap by examining ways in which a sample of persons with serious mental illness use cell phones and the Internet. Methods: Interviews with 50 consumers living in supported housing were asked about their use of cell phones and computers and t…
Microfinance Participation and Marital Violence in Bangladesh: A Qualitative Inquiry
This study explores the experiences of marital violence within the context of microfinance participation among a sample of women living in poverty in Bangladesh. Status inconsistency theory suggests that the higher incomes and female independence that may occur with microfinance participation may threaten or destabilize marital norms in Bangladesh, and have implications in terms of increased violence. We use qualitative data from in-depth intervi…
Social Networks in the Context of Microfinance and Intimate Partner Violence in Bangladesh: A Mixed-Methods Study
This mixed-methods study draws from social network theory to examine disclosure and help seeking for intimate partner violence among microfinance participants in Bangladesh. This study uses data on women from the nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2007 and from in-depth interviews with 30 microfinance participants in Dhaka. Propensity Score Matching analyses indicated that increase in social contacts due to microfi…
Double child and elder care responsibilities and emotional exhaustion of an older sandwiched generation: The mediating effect of self-care
The number of informal caregivers over the age of 50 who care for multiple family members including children and elderly relatives – a practice termed ‘double care’ – has steadily increased in Asian countries. Despite the rise in depression and stress among such caregivers, few studies have examined factors that may mitigate their emotional exhaustion. This research examines relationships between care responsibilities and emotional exhaustion, an…
Trajectory of Deconstruction Among Fundamentalist Exvangelical Women: Implications for Social Work
Leaving a strongly socialized identity can be particularly stressful. Using interviews with 32 women who left fundamentalist Christianity and now identify as atheist or agnostic, this study explores religious upbringings and how they shaped participants’ processes of leaving their faith communities. Results illustrate the toll of religious deconstruction, as well as resilience and agency in navigating identity outside previous religious framework…
Psychology (15 works) · Economics (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works)