Cynthia Rocha
Biographic Data
| ID | 4100165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Rocha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Rocha |
| SIGNATURE | ROCHA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Knoxville College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political Activities of Social Workers: Addressing Perceived Barriers to Political Participation
This article reviews the literature on political participation of social workers and the variables that promote or impede political advocacy. Early research in the 1980s and 1990s most often reported education, feelings of efficacy, having a macro-type job, and being a member of a national association as factors that determine greater political participation. Since the late 1990s, organizational and legal issues have surfaced more prominently as …
Promoting Economic Justice in a Global Context: International Comparisons of Policies That Support Economic Justice
This study compares economic justice, measured by income inequality and child poverty rates, across industrialized countries. Labor market training, social service expenditures, unions and taxes were significantly related to economic justice. The United States had the highest income inequality and the second-highest child poverty rate of the countries studied
The Effects of Prolonged Job Insecurity on the Psychological Well-Being of Workers
Job insecurity has been increasing since the 1980s. While researchers have found job insecurity to be negatively associated with multiple indicators of well-being for workers and their families in cross sectional studies, less is known about the long term effects of prolonged job insecurity. Specifically, there is a need to collect measures of both insecurity and its consequences at multiple time periods. The current study followed workers for 3 …
University-Community Partnership Centers: An Important Link for Social Work Education
In academic settings, community research, and the service that goes along with it, is often not valued as much as other methods of research. The more qualitative and labor intensive nature of applied research often raises concerns about whether pre-tenured faculty can publish the sufficient quantity and quality of work necessary to achieve tenure. This paper describes successful collaborations through a university-based Community Partnership Cent…
The Effects of Economic Policies and Employment Assistance Programs on the Well-Being of Displaced Female Apparel Workers
This article explores howlabor market trends and current employment assistance policies affect reemployment opportunities and emotional well-being in a sample of female dislocated apparelworkers. The study follows the displacedwomen from the time the plant closed for 6 months to assess their financial and emotional well-being as they reentered the job market or enrolled in training programs. Averagewages of the reemployedwomen were less than thei…
From Plant Closure to Reemployment in the New Economy: Risks to Workers Dislocated from the Declining Garment Manufacturing Industry
The current study investigates financial and emotional consequences to workers as the U.S. economy continues to shift from a manufacturing to a service economy. One hundred eighty-eight garment workers were surveyed before their plant closed in 1998 and six months later to assess reemployment opportunities, financial difficulty and emotional well-being. All workers experienced some financial difficulty after the plant closed, with single parents …
Factors That Contribute to Economic Well-Being in Female-Headed Households
This study assesses factors associated with female heads of households maintaining income levels above 100% of the federal poverty threshold. All women in the sample are single, divorced, separated or widowed, with children in the home, and none on public assistance. The data for the study are from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), with a sample size of 670. The dependent variable, a dichotomous measure of whether the female …
Demographic Differences Between Sheltered Homeless Families and Housed Poor Families: Implications for Policy and Practice
This study compares homeless families with a representative sample of low income family households in St. Louis city and county to determine how they differ on key demographic variables. The research addresses methodological problems in prior research by comparing the findings of this study's random sample to the findings of four previous comparison studies. Findings from this study's random comparison sample are presented. Homeless families are …
University-Community Partnership Centers: An Important Link for Social Work Education
In academic settings, community research, and the service that goes along with it, is often not valued as much as other methods of research. The more qualitative and labor intensive nature of applied research often raises concerns about whether pre-tenured faculty can publish the sufficient quantity and quality of work necessary to achieve tenure. This paper describes successful collaborations through a university-based Community Partnership Cent…
Factors That Contribute to Economic Well-Being in Female-Headed Households
This study assesses factors associated with female heads of households maintaining income levels above 100% of the federal poverty threshold. All women in the sample are single, divorced, separated or widowed, with children in the home, and none on public assistance. The data for the study are from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), with a sample size of 670. The dependent variable, a dichotomous measure of whether the female …
Political Activities of Social Workers: Addressing Perceived Barriers to Political Participation
This article reviews the literature on political participation of social workers and the variables that promote or impede political advocacy. Early research in the 1980s and 1990s most often reported education, feelings of efficacy, having a macro-type job, and being a member of a national association as factors that determine greater political participation. Since the late 1990s, organizational and legal issues have surfaced more prominently as …
The Effects of Prolonged Job Insecurity on the Psychological Well-Being of Workers
Job insecurity has been increasing since the 1980s. While researchers have found job insecurity to be negatively associated with multiple indicators of well-being for workers and their families in cross sectional studies, less is known about the long term effects of prolonged job insecurity. Specifically, there is a need to collect measures of both insecurity and its consequences at multiple time periods. The current study followed workers for 3 …
The Effects of Economic Policies and Employment Assistance Programs on the Well-Being of Displaced Female Apparel Workers
This article explores howlabor market trends and current employment assistance policies affect reemployment opportunities and emotional well-being in a sample of female dislocated apparelworkers. The study follows the displacedwomen from the time the plant closed for 6 months to assess their financial and emotional well-being as they reentered the job market or enrolled in training programs. Averagewages of the reemployedwomen were less than thei…
From Plant Closure to Reemployment in the New Economy: Risks to Workers Dislocated from the Declining Garment Manufacturing Industry
The current study investigates financial and emotional consequences to workers as the U.S. economy continues to shift from a manufacturing to a service economy. One hundred eighty-eight garment workers were surveyed before their plant closed in 1998 and six months later to assess reemployment opportunities, financial difficulty and emotional well-being. All workers experienced some financial difficulty after the plant closed, with single parents …
Demographic Differences Between Sheltered Homeless Families and Housed Poor Families: Implications for Policy and Practice
This study compares homeless families with a representative sample of low income family households in St. Louis city and county to determine how they differ on key demographic variables. The research addresses methodological problems in prior research by comparing the findings of this study's random sample to the findings of four previous comparison studies. Findings from this study's random comparison sample are presented. Homeless families are …
Factors That Contribute to Economic Well-Being in Female-Headed Households
This study assesses factors associated with female heads of households maintaining income levels above 100% of the federal poverty threshold. All women in the sample are single, divorced, separated or widowed, with children in the home, and none on public assistance. The data for the study are from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), with a sample size of 670. The dependent variable, a dichotomous measure of whether the female …
From Plant Closure to Reemployment in the New Economy: Risks to Workers Dislocated from the Declining Garment Manufacturing Industry
The current study investigates financial and emotional consequences to workers as the U.S. economy continues to shift from a manufacturing to a service economy. One hundred eighty-eight garment workers were surveyed before their plant closed in 1998 and six months later to assess reemployment opportunities, financial difficulty and emotional well-being. All workers experienced some financial difficulty after the plant closed, with single parents …
University-Community Partnership Centers: An Important Link for Social Work Education
In academic settings, community research, and the service that goes along with it, is often not valued as much as other methods of research. The more qualitative and labor intensive nature of applied research often raises concerns about whether pre-tenured faculty can publish the sufficient quantity and quality of work necessary to achieve tenure. This paper describes successful collaborations through a university-based Community Partnership Cent…
The Effects of Economic Policies and Employment Assistance Programs on the Well-Being of Displaced Female Apparel Workers
This article explores howlabor market trends and current employment assistance policies affect reemployment opportunities and emotional well-being in a sample of female dislocated apparelworkers. The study follows the displacedwomen from the time the plant closed for 6 months to assess their financial and emotional well-being as they reentered the job market or enrolled in training programs. Averagewages of the reemployedwomen were less than thei…
The Effects of Prolonged Job Insecurity on the Psychological Well-Being of Workers
Job insecurity has been increasing since the 1980s. While researchers have found job insecurity to be negatively associated with multiple indicators of well-being for workers and their families in cross sectional studies, less is known about the long term effects of prolonged job insecurity. Specifically, there is a need to collect measures of both insecurity and its consequences at multiple time periods. The current study followed workers for 3 …
Promoting Economic Justice in a Global Context: International Comparisons of Policies That Support Economic Justice
This study compares economic justice, measured by income inequality and child poverty rates, across industrialized countries. Labor market training, social service expenditures, unions and taxes were significantly related to economic justice. The United States had the highest income inequality and the second-highest child poverty rate of the countries studied
Political Activities of Social Workers: Addressing Perceived Barriers to Political Participation
This article reviews the literature on political participation of social workers and the variables that promote or impede political advocacy. Early research in the 1980s and 1990s most often reported education, feelings of efficacy, having a macro-type job, and being a member of a national association as factors that determine greater political participation. Since the late 1990s, organizational and legal issues have surfaced more prominently as …
Political science (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works)