Bowling Green State University

About: Bowling Green State University is a education organization based out in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 8315 authors who have published 16042 publications receiving 482564 citations. The organization is also known as: BGSU.

“Swapping” Families: Serial Parenting and Economic Support for Children

Abstract: The claim that fathers ‘‘swap’’ families when they form new ones—that is, they shift allegiances from nonresident children to new residential children (e.g., Furstenberg, 1995)—has not been directly evaluated empirically. Drawing on data from the two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households, we test Furstenberg’s argument in terms of child-support transfers to nonresidential children, and we also test an elaboration of his approach that distinguishes between resident biological children and stepchildren. Using staticscore models, our findings indicate that fathers do swap families but only when the trade-off is between new biological children living inside fathers’ households and existing biological children living outside fathers’ households. Even though our analytic sample is small, our findings have important implications for child well-being, childsupport policy, and the meaning of fatherhood. From the perspective of children, families are increasingly likely to be spread across more than one household, with one biological parent, typically the father, living in a separate household. In

Corporate social responsibility and firm financial performance: the mediating role of productivity

Abstract: This study treats firm productivity as an accumulation of productive intangibles and posits that stakeholder engagement associated with better corporate social performance helps develop such intangibles. We hypothesize that because shareholders factor improved productive efficiency into stock price, productivity mediates the relationship between corporate social and financial performance. Furthermore, we argue that key stakeholders’ social considerations are more valuable for firms with higher levels of discretionary cash and income stream uncertainty. Therefore, we hypothesize that those two contingencies moderate the mediated process of corporate social performance with financial performance. Our analysis, based on a comprehensive longitudinal dataset of the U.S. manufacturing firms from 1992 to 2009, lends strong support for these hypotheses. In short, this paper uncovers a productivity-based, context-dependent mechanism underlying the relationship between corporate social performance and financial performance.

Noah revisited: Religious coping by church members and the impact of the 1993 midwest flood

Abstract: This study examined the relationship between religious coping by church members and psychological and religious outcomes following the 1993 Midwest flood. Questionnaires were distributed through churches in flood-affected communities in Missouri and Illinois. The first questionnaire was completed by 209 adults 6 weeks after the flood and a follow-up was completed by 131 respondents 6 months after the flood. Correlational analyses revealed that religious dispositions, attributions, and coping activities were related to psychological and religious outcomes. Hierarchical multiple regressions showed that religious attributions and coping activities predicted psychological and religious outcomes at both 6 weeks and 6 months after controlling for flood exposure and demographics. The results also suggest that positive religious coping may mediate the relationship between religious dispositions and psychological and religious outcomes. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Group changing in free-ranging male rhesus monkeys

Abstract: Group changing behavior of maleMacaca mulatta was studied over a six-year period at the rhesus monkey colony on two coastal islands at La Parguera, Puerto Rico. Males first left their natal group at a mean age of 47 months and became solitary for the first time at a mean age of 64 months; all had left their natal groups by seven years of age. Age, mating season, sex ratios of adult males and females in the social bands, and geographical barriers all had significant effects on the group shifting. Population size, rank of mother or being an orphan did not significantly affect the changing process. Two factors, age (size) and seniority in the group, were important in determining a male's rank in his new group.

Content Validity—The Source of My Discontent:

Abstract: The concept of content validity takes on special importance where invoked to justify use of a test. The term 1) refers to psychological measurement, 2) using samples of behavior, sampling both stim...