Ronan Van Rossem
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 248506 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ronan Van Rossem |
| PRENOMES | Ronan |
| SOBRENOME | Van Rossem |
| ASSINATURA | VAN ROSSEM R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3218-0128 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 217 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Interest through social involvement
Students' Perception of Anti-Academic Norms in Flanders
Anti-academic norms have proven to affect the educational strategies of adolescents. The determinants related to the experience of anti-academic norms and especially its link to ethnic inequality within the educational system have not received sufficient attention in European educational research. Hence, this study examines which students perceive anti-academic norms by investigating the role of students' ethnic group categorization, their experi…
The victims strike back
Right-wing populist (RWP) parties and attitudes are flourishing in many European countries. This is often linked to the emergence of a new cleavage that juxtaposes the victims and beneficiaries of globalisation. Using data from the 2008 European Values Study (EVS) this paper investigates how globalisation affects both (1) the overall level of RWP attitudes in 27 EU countries, and (2) the attitudinal gap between victims and beneficiaries of global…
Entangled identities and acculturation
The Verein fur Sozialpolitik and the Fabian Society
The Verein für Sozialpolitik and the Fabian Society
4. The Verein für Sozialpolitik and the Fabian Society: A Study in the Sociology of Policy-Relevant Knowledge was published in States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies on page 117.
Trends in attitudes towards female genital mutilation among ever-married Egyptian women, evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys, 1995–2014
Our results show that the observed increases in opposition to FGM are not caused by younger cohorts of married women who oppose FGM, nor by the expansion of the groups most likely to oppose FGM. Rather, the results imply that the belief that FGM should be stopped spread to all walks of life, although poorly educated rural women remain least likely to oppose FGM
Birth order and height development in early childhood
Height is generally accepted as an indicator of well-being and the development of children in early childhood. Historical research shows a negative association between the height of individuals and their birth order. This is frequently explained by the resource dilution hypothesis. However, we question the negative effect of birth order on growth patterns in contemporary Flanders, where the fertility decline has stabilized and policies supporting…
The Rising Powers and Globalization
This article sets out to critically assess the increasingly prevalent claims of rapidly changing global power relations under influence of the ‘rising powers’ and ‘globalization’. Our main contention is that current analyses of countries’ degree of global power (especially for the BRICS) has been dominated by the control over resources approach that, though gauging power potential, insufficiently takes into account how this potential is converted…
Feeling well while chronically ill or impaired
People with a chronic condition tend to report poorer subjective well-being than people without. This article examines the dependence of the relationship on doing paid and voluntary work, and on macro-level labour market exclusion of people with and without chronic conditions. Data from the European Quality of Life Survey (2011–2012) of people aged between 25 and 65 are analysed using multilevel regression techniques. A chronic condition has a st…
Women's position and attitudes towards female genital mutilation in Egypt
The improvement of women's social position has certainly contributed to the spread of anti-FGM attitudes in Egyptian society. Better educated and less traditional women were at the heart of this change, and formed the basis from where anti-FGM sentiment has spread over wider segments of Egyptian society
Homophily in Adolescence
This study asks to what extent similarity in status characteristics (gender and ethnicity) is linked with similarity in anti-school behaviour. We argue that the social forces responsible for homophily-based selection are also at work with regard to homophily-based influence. We use data from the Flemish Educational Assessment Study, which collected complete network data from a representative sample of Flemish secondary school adolescents (N = 11,…
Social capital in the classroom
Social capital is generally considered beneficial for students' school adjustment. This paper argues that social relationships among pupils generate social capital at both the individual and the class levels, and that each has its unique effect on pupils' performance and well-being. The sample in this study consists of 1036 children in 60 first-grade classes in 46 Dutch elementary schools. Multilevel regression results show that a substantial pro…
Breastfeeding or Bottled Milk? Poverty and Feeding Choices in the Native and Immigrant Population in Belgium
Characteristics of participants in an HIV prevention intervention for youth in Rwanda
Introduction. This paper studies determinants of participation in a peer-led school-based HIV prevention intervention in Rwanda. Methods. A baseline survey among 1071 students (mean age 17 years) assessed potential determinants of participation, while a follow-up six months in the intervention measured actual participation in the intervention. Statistical models were built using multivariate linear and multinomial regression analysis predicting o…
Characteristics of participants in an HIV prevention intervention for youth in Rwanda
Introduction. This paper studies determinants of participation in a peer-led school-based HIV prevention intervention in Rwanda. Methods. A baseline survey among 1071 students (mean age 17 years) assessed potential determinants of participation, while a follow-up six months in the intervention measured actual participation in the intervention. Statistical models were built using multivariate linear and multinomial regression analysis predicting o…
Depression in Europe
Objectives. Depression is a leading cause of ill health and disability. As migrants form an increasing group in Europe, already making up about 8.7% of the population in 2010, knowledge on migrant-related inequalities in depression is of main public health interest. In this study, we first assess whether migrants in Europe are at higher risk for depression compared to the native population. Second, we assess whether the association between migrat…
Do welfare regimes influence the association between disability and self-perceived health? A multilevel analysis of 57 countries
Affective team climate
In occupational health research, the demand-control-support (DCS) model has attracted a great deal of attention. Although this model emphasizes the interaction between workers and their work environment, the DCS framework has mainly been tested at the micro-level. The present study shows that combining the DCS model with insights from organizational climate studies offers a fruitful theoretical framework by which to address variation in psycholog…
Rwandan young people's perceptions on sexuality and relationships
This study aimed to gain more insight into young Rwandans' perceptions on sex and relationships, which is essential for formulating effective sexual and reproductive health (SRH) promotion interventions. Using a 'mailbox technique', this paper studies the spontaneous thoughts of Rwandan young people on sexuality. Mailboxes were installed in five secondary schools in the Bugesera district and students were invited to write about their ideas, secre…
Genderverschillen in professioneel zorggebruik in 25 Europese landen - Een onderzoek naar de impact van medicaliseringsattitudes en genderstratificatie
Gender differences in professional health service use in 25 European countries A study on the impact of medicalisation attitudes and gender stratification .In this paper we investigate the impact of gender stratification on the gender gap in both medicalisation attitudes and professional health care use. Furthermore, we examine to what extent medicalisation attitudes explain the gender gap in professional health care use. Using data from the seco…
Alcohol Use Among Young Adolescents in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria
The present study elucidates the association between students’ education type and alcohol use, controlling for other socio-economic background characteristics. A subsample of data from the second International Self-Reported Delinquency Study was used (N= 10,525), collected among adolescents in the seventh to ninth grades of secondary school in four Western European countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria). Data were analyzed with…
Effectiveness of a peer-led HIV prevention intervention in secondary schools in Rwanda
Analyzing this and other interventions, we identified several reasons for the observed limited effectiveness of peer education: 1) intervention activities (spreading information) are not tuned to objectives (changing behavior); 2) young people prefer receiving HIV information from other sources than peers; 3) outcome indicators are not adequate and the context of the relationship in which sex occurs and the context in which sex occurs is ignored.…
Differences in working conditions and employment arrangements among migrant and non-migrant workers in Europe
Migrant workers across Europe are more likely to be exposed to certain working and employment arrangements that may place them at higher risk of future health problems
Perceived social approval and condom use with casual partners among youth in urban Cameroon
Our analysis demonstrates that perceived social approval facilitates the adoption of condom use among urban Cameroonian youth. However, youths tend to value the opinions of family members much more than the opinions of their peers. These results suggest that interventions targeting youths should not focus exclusively on peers but should also include other groups, such as parents and community leaders
The World System Paradigm as General Theory of Development
L'A. affirme que la theorie du systeme mondial se presente comme une des approches les plus pertinentes en ce qui concerne l'analyse comparative du developpement. Il s'efforce d'evaluer le bien-fonde de cette perspective en ce domaine. Il analyse un certain nombre de donnees collectees en 1993 dans 163 pays. Il examine pour chacun d'eux la place qu'il occupe au sein du systeme mondial, son degre de dependance, son niveau de developpement et de pe…
Ethnic Boundaries in High School Students' Networks in Flanders and the Netherlands
Ethnic boundaries were tested in students' networks in 34 Flemish and 19 Dutch high schools. Each network consisted of a school cohort in an intermediate level of education (track). While students from the native majority predominantly had friendships within their own ethnic category, minority students often had more inter-ethnic than intra-ethnic friendships. However, a multilevel p2 model for analysing the networks showed that this was due main…
Prevalence, course, and predictors of multiple problem behaviors among gay and bisexual male adolescents
Multiple problem behaviors, stress, and personal resources were assessed over 2 years among 116 mainly Black and Hispanic gay and bisexual male adolescents age 14-19 years. Whereas sexual risk acts, substance abuse, conduct problems, and emotional distress were common, the risk acts did not form a multiple problem behavior cluster, compared with previous findings with heterosexual youths. Problem behaviors were stable over time: Only 20% to 30% o…
Depression in Europe
Objectives. Depression is a leading cause of ill health and disability. As migrants form an increasing group in Europe, already making up about 8.7% of the population in 2010, knowledge on migrant-related inequalities in depression is of main public health interest. In this study, we first assess whether migrants in Europe are at higher risk for depression compared to the native population. Second, we assess whether the association between migrat…
Economic Hardship and Depression across the Life Course
Previous research in the United States suggests that depression related to economic hardship decreases with age. We test whether this pattern can be generalized to other developed nations. Based on data from 23 countries in the European Social Survey (2006-2007), multilevel analyses show that the moderating role of age depends on the socio-political context. While the hardship-depression link is not significantly different across the life course …
Networks of Contention
This article analyzes peasant contention in 17th‐century Ottoman villages. The authors argue that peasant contention results from the position of the village in the regional structure, with village‐level organization providing the means for contention. The article uses court records to reconstruct the formal and informal networks within and across villages in western Anatolia. Under conditions of state and market expansion, those villages in inte…
Differences in working conditions and employment arrangements among migrant and non-migrant workers in Europe
Migrant workers across Europe are more likely to be exposed to certain working and employment arrangements that may place them at higher risk of future health problems
Social capital in the classroom
Social capital is generally considered beneficial for students' school adjustment. This paper argues that social relationships among pupils generate social capital at both the individual and the class levels, and that each has its unique effect on pupils' performance and well-being. The sample in this study consists of 1036 children in 60 first-grade classes in 46 Dutch elementary schools. Multilevel regression results show that a substantial pro…
Impact of Mass Media Campaigns on Intentions to Use the Female Condom in Tanzania
Effects of Acculturation and Psychopathology on Sexual Behavior and Substance Use of Suicidal Hispanic Adolescents
Two theoretical constructs of acculturation (high vs. low and biculturalism) were compared across adolescent risk behaviors among a seldom-studied group of Hispanic adolescents, 70% of whom were from the Dominican Republic. The sample consisted of 116 consecutively referred suicidal adolescentfemales who were assessed on diagnostic, acculturative, and risk behavior instruments. Hierarchical regressions were carried out separately for sexual behav…
Entangled identities and acculturation
The Rising Powers and Globalization
This article sets out to critically assess the increasingly prevalent claims of rapidly changing global power relations under influence of the ‘rising powers’ and ‘globalization’. Our main contention is that current analyses of countries’ degree of global power (especially for the BRICS) has been dominated by the control over resources approach that, though gauging power potential, insufficiently takes into account how this potential is converted…
Mechanisms of Peer Influence among Adolescents
Peer influence is regarded as one of the strongest determinants of adolescents' behavior. Yet the concept of peer influence has been studied almost exclusively in terms of dyadic friendship relations. Based on actors' similar positions in the friendship network, the authors test an alternative mechanism of influence in this article, drawing on insights from network-inspired theories. This study focuses on both sexual activity and school deviant b…
Classroom Roles and School Adjustment
The peer group is an important developmental context for children. In this paper we present a method to operationalize a child's integration into the classroom by their informal social classroom roles, which we obtained using a blockmodel analysis based on role equivalence. This method differs in several respects from the common socio-metric status approach. Analysis of multiplex social relationships of 1,241 first-grade children in 71 classrooms…
Birth order and height development in early childhood
Height is generally accepted as an indicator of well-being and the development of children in early childhood. Historical research shows a negative association between the height of individuals and their birth order. This is frequently explained by the resource dilution hypothesis. However, we question the negative effect of birth order on growth patterns in contemporary Flanders, where the fertility decline has stabilized and policies supporting…
Feeling well while chronically ill or impaired
People with a chronic condition tend to report poorer subjective well-being than people without. This article examines the dependence of the relationship on doing paid and voluntary work, and on macro-level labour market exclusion of people with and without chronic conditions. Data from the European Quality of Life Survey (2011–2012) of people aged between 25 and 65 are analysed using multilevel regression techniques. A chronic condition has a st…
Do welfare regimes influence the association between disability and self-perceived health? A multilevel analysis of 57 countries
The Effects of Female Genital Mutilation on the Onset of Sexual Activity and Marriage in Guinea
Affective team climate
In occupational health research, the demand-control-support (DCS) model has attracted a great deal of attention. Although this model emphasizes the interaction between workers and their work environment, the DCS framework has mainly been tested at the micro-level. The present study shows that combining the DCS model with insights from organizational climate studies offers a fruitful theoretical framework by which to address variation in psycholog…
Alcohol Use Among Young Adolescents in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria
The present study elucidates the association between students’ education type and alcohol use, controlling for other socio-economic background characteristics. A subsample of data from the second International Self-Reported Delinquency Study was used (N= 10,525), collected among adolescents in the seventh to ninth grades of secondary school in four Western European countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria). Data were analyzed with…
The Reach and Effect of Radio Communication Campaigns on Condom Use in Malawi
This study uses data from the 2004 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey to assess the reach of selected radio programs about family planning and health in Malawi and their effect on condom use and discussion of family planning. The results show that such radio programs in Malawi reach a broad audience: eight of the 12 programs were heard by at least half of the respondents, although women were less effectively reached than men. For both women and…
Prevalence, course, and predictors of multiple problem behaviors among gay and bisexual male adolescents
Multiple problem behaviors, stress, and personal resources were assessed over 2 years among 116 mainly Black and Hispanic gay and bisexual male adolescents age 14-19 years. Whereas sexual risk acts, substance abuse, conduct problems, and emotional distress were common, the risk acts did not form a multiple problem behavior cluster, compared with previous findings with heterosexual youths. Problem behaviors were stable over time: Only 20% to 30% o…
The World System Paradigm as General Theory of Development
L'A. affirme que la theorie du systeme mondial se presente comme une des approches les plus pertinentes en ce qui concerne l'analyse comparative du developpement. Il s'efforce d'evaluer le bien-fonde de cette perspective en ce domaine. Il analyse un certain nombre de donnees collectees en 1993 dans 163 pays. Il examine pour chacun d'eux la place qu'il occupe au sein du systeme mondial, son degre de dependance, son niveau de developpement et de pe…
Networks of Contention
This article analyzes peasant contention in 17th‐century Ottoman villages. The authors argue that peasant contention results from the position of the village in the regional structure, with village‐level organization providing the means for contention. The article uses court records to reconstruct the formal and informal networks within and across villages in western Anatolia. Under conditions of state and market expansion, those villages in inte…
Effects of Acculturation and Psychopathology on Sexual Behavior and Substance Use of Suicidal Hispanic Adolescents
Two theoretical constructs of acculturation (high vs. low and biculturalism) were compared across adolescent risk behaviors among a seldom-studied group of Hispanic adolescents, 70% of whom were from the Dominican Republic. The sample consisted of 116 consecutively referred suicidal adolescentfemales who were assessed on diagnostic, acculturative, and risk behavior instruments. Hierarchical regressions were carried out separately for sexual behav…
Impact of Mass Media Campaigns on Intentions to Use the Female Condom in Tanzania
Classroom Roles and School Adjustment
The peer group is an important developmental context for children. In this paper we present a method to operationalize a child's integration into the classroom by their informal social classroom roles, which we obtained using a blockmodel analysis based on role equivalence. This method differs in several respects from the common socio-metric status approach. Analysis of multiplex social relationships of 1,241 first-grade children in 71 classrooms…
The reach and impact of social marketing and reproductive health communication campaigns in Zambia
Findings suggest that the reproductive health and social marketing campaigns in Zambia reached a large portion of the population and had a significant impact on condom use. The results suggest that future reproductive health communication campaigns that invest in radio programming may be more effective than those investing in television programming, and that future campaigns should seek to increase their impact among women, perhaps by focusing on…
The Reach and Effect of Radio Communication Campaigns on Condom Use in Malawi
This study uses data from the 2004 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey to assess the reach of selected radio programs about family planning and health in Malawi and their effect on condom use and discussion of family planning. The results show that such radio programs in Malawi reach a broad audience: eight of the 12 programs were heard by at least half of the respondents, although women were less effectively reached than men. For both women and…
Ethnic Boundaries in High School Students' Networks in Flanders and the Netherlands
Ethnic boundaries were tested in students' networks in 34 Flemish and 19 Dutch high schools. Each network consisted of a school cohort in an intermediate level of education (track). While students from the native majority predominantly had friendships within their own ethnic category, minority students often had more inter-ethnic than intra-ethnic friendships. However, a multilevel p2 model for analysing the networks showed that this was due main…
The Effects of Female Genital Mutilation on the Onset of Sexual Activity and Marriage in Guinea
Aids knowledge and sexual activity among Flemish secondary school students
These findings are consistent with the literature on the role of the educational system in the reproduction of social inequalities. Students from lower status education types are at increased sexual risk compared to those from higher status types. There is also evidence of active information seeking by sexually active students, which leads to improved AIDS knowledge
Perceived social approval and condom use with casual partners among youth in urban Cameroon
Our analysis demonstrates that perceived social approval facilitates the adoption of condom use among urban Cameroonian youth. However, youths tend to value the opinions of family members much more than the opinions of their peers. These results suggest that interventions targeting youths should not focus exclusively on peers but should also include other groups, such as parents and community leaders
P1-216 Surviving experience or limited future? A comparative analysis of economic hardship and depression across the adult life span in different welfare state regimes in Europe
In a study of depression in the general population living in the USA, Mirowsky and Ross (2001) found that economic hardship related depression decreases with age, suggesting increasing surviving experience as one gets older. We test whether this pattern can be generalised to other developed nations. Based on data for 23 countries taking part in the European Social Survey (2006–2007), multilevel analyses shows that the moderating role of age is in…
P1-215 Depression in different welfare state regimes in Europe
Introduction Recent cross-national research by Levecque et al (Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, in press) has shown that the health effects of social experiences are attenuated, boosted or even reversed by the sociopolitical context. More specifically, it was found that the link between economic hardship and depression varies between different welfare state regimes in Europe. Objectives Currently, we assess whether this variation in depres…
Mechanisms of Peer Influence among Adolescents
Peer influence is regarded as one of the strongest determinants of adolescents' behavior. Yet the concept of peer influence has been studied almost exclusively in terms of dyadic friendship relations. Based on actors' similar positions in the friendship network, the authors test an alternative mechanism of influence in this article, drawing on insights from network-inspired theories. This study focuses on both sexual activity and school deviant b…
Economic Hardship and Depression across the Life Course
Previous research in the United States suggests that depression related to economic hardship decreases with age. We test whether this pattern can be generalized to other developed nations. Based on data from 23 countries in the European Social Survey (2006-2007), multilevel analyses show that the moderating role of age depends on the socio-political context. While the hardship-depression link is not significantly different across the life course …
Effectiveness of a peer-led HIV prevention intervention in secondary schools in Rwanda
Analyzing this and other interventions, we identified several reasons for the observed limited effectiveness of peer education: 1) intervention activities (spreading information) are not tuned to objectives (changing behavior); 2) young people prefer receiving HIV information from other sources than peers; 3) outcome indicators are not adequate and the context of the relationship in which sex occurs and the context in which sex occurs is ignored.…
Differences in working conditions and employment arrangements among migrant and non-migrant workers in Europe
Migrant workers across Europe are more likely to be exposed to certain working and employment arrangements that may place them at higher risk of future health problems
Genderverschillen in professioneel zorggebruik in 25 Europese landen - Een onderzoek naar de impact van medicaliseringsattitudes en genderstratificatie
Gender differences in professional health service use in 25 European countries A study on the impact of medicalisation attitudes and gender stratification .In this paper we investigate the impact of gender stratification on the gender gap in both medicalisation attitudes and professional health care use. Furthermore, we examine to what extent medicalisation attitudes explain the gender gap in professional health care use. Using data from the seco…
Alcohol Use Among Young Adolescents in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria
The present study elucidates the association between students’ education type and alcohol use, controlling for other socio-economic background characteristics. A subsample of data from the second International Self-Reported Delinquency Study was used (N= 10,525), collected among adolescents in the seventh to ninth grades of secondary school in four Western European countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria). Data were analyzed with…
Breastfeeding or Bottled Milk? Poverty and Feeding Choices in the Native and Immigrant Population in Belgium
Characteristics of participants in an HIV prevention intervention for youth in Rwanda
Introduction. This paper studies determinants of participation in a peer-led school-based HIV prevention intervention in Rwanda. Methods. A baseline survey among 1071 students (mean age 17 years) assessed potential determinants of participation, while a follow-up six months in the intervention measured actual participation in the intervention. Statistical models were built using multivariate linear and multinomial regression analysis predicting o…
Characteristics of participants in an HIV prevention intervention for youth in Rwanda
Introduction. This paper studies determinants of participation in a peer-led school-based HIV prevention intervention in Rwanda. Methods. A baseline survey among 1071 students (mean age 17 years) assessed potential determinants of participation, while a follow-up six months in the intervention measured actual participation in the intervention. Statistical models were built using multivariate linear and multinomial regression analysis predicting o…
Depression in Europe
Objectives. Depression is a leading cause of ill health and disability. As migrants form an increasing group in Europe, already making up about 8.7% of the population in 2010, knowledge on migrant-related inequalities in depression is of main public health interest. In this study, we first assess whether migrants in Europe are at higher risk for depression compared to the native population. Second, we assess whether the association between migrat…
Do welfare regimes influence the association between disability and self-perceived health? A multilevel analysis of 57 countries
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