Southern Illinois University Carbondale

About: Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a education organization based out in Carbondale, Illinois, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 13570 authors who have published 24819 publications receiving 667385 citations. The organization is also known as: SIU Carbondale & SIUC.

Support network characteristics associated with support satisfaction and perceived support

Abstract: Social support networks, supportive behaviors, and subjective appraisals of support (perceptions, satisfaction) have emerged as three approaches to social support conceptualization and measurement. We see these as three equally legitimate components of the social support meta-construct, and ask what support network characteristics are associated with perceptions of and satisfaction with support. Ninety-eight nontraditional women students (ages 30 to 61) provided data on characteristics of networks providing five modes of support, satisfaction with each mode of support, and perceptions of support from family, friends, and others. Bi- and multivariate analyses yielded complex findings but indicated that support perceptions and satisfaction are related to size of support mode-specific networks, closeness of network relationships, and composition of networks, particularly the presence of a spouse, and the proportion of close friends, social acquaintances, and immediate family. Since Cobb's (1976) enthusiastic review, a huge volume of empirical literature has emerged under the rubric of "social support"-recognition of the importance of social context in the development and maintenance of individual well-being and distress. Unfortunately, this research has often been conducted without the prerequisite theoretical and conceptual analysis of the social support construct, resulting in a plethora of idiosyncratic measures (often post hoc) exhibiting dubious relevance to unclear concepts (Barrera, 1981; Dean & Lin, 1977; Heller & Swindle, 1983; Thoits, 1982).

Culture and control: A field study

Abstract: This paper reports the results of an exploratory study comparing the perceptions of management control systems (MCS) which are held by U.S. and Japanese workers. It is argued that because of the shared values and norms present in the Japanese culture and the valuation of cooperation by that culture, the bureaucratic procedures will be fewer in Japanese firms. However, it is hypothesized that the Japanese workers will be as aware of the presence of the controls as their U.S. counterparts. Thus, the less bureaucratic MCS's will be perceived to be as explicit by Japanese workers as the more bureaucratic MCS is by U.S. workers. Subject to all the caveats for exploratory research, the findings are encouraging to those who argue that culture affects control.