Showing papers on "Sustenance published in 1995"
TL;DR: A measure of family social support for workers was developed, and initial investigations of its psychometric characteristics were conducted as discussed by the authors, and empirical evidence was generated to assess the viability of the instrument relative to other existing measures of social support.
Abstract: A measure of family social support for workers was developed, and initial investigations of its psychometric characteristics were conducted. Data from several samples endorse the internal consistency of the support dimensions of emotional sustenance and instrumental assistance, and confirmatory factor analysis findings reinforce the bidimensional structure of the instrument. Lack of a relationship with social desirability, correlations with life and job satisfactions, and gender differences in perceived instrumental assistance afford preliminary validity evidence. Exploratory multiple regression analyses revealed significant three-way interactions suggesting that the level of emotional sustenance from family members may be important to job satisfaction for employed women. Furthermore, empirical evidence was generated to assess the viability of the instrument relative to other existing measures of social support. Results supported convergent, discriminant, and nomological validity.
259 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of physiology, psychology, and social surroundings on the aging process are examined, and the effect of technological change, restructuring, and changing work relations on older workers' careers is discussed.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the structure, substance, and institutional context of the mental models with which key policy makers in Finnish waste management rationalize their long-term decisions.
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TL;DR: This article argued that analyses of poverty cannot be separated from those of wealth and that land influences wealth and poverty in a variety of important ways, and expanded the definition of poverty to include land, having established ties between land and income, land and security, and finally land and the sustenance of a healthy environment.
Abstract: The paper departs from conventional treatments of poverty as a function of income and employment. It advances the view that analyses of poverty cannot be separated from those of wealth and that land influences wealth and poverty in a variety of important ways. This case is supported by revisiting the place of landed property in the distribution of wealth in America and three areas of land policy which redistribute wealth. The paper expands the definition of poverty to include land, having established ties between land and income, land and security, and finally land and the sustenance of a healthy environment.
26 citations
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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: In this article, a collection of essays deals with India's economic development in terms of its effects on environment, highlighting the failure of the planners in recognizing the necessity of environmental conservation and striking a note of warning to the policy-makers.
Abstract: This collection of essays deals with India's economic development in terms of its effects on environment. The contributors point out the various environmental issues which were overlooked in the process of industrialization in India, such as its impact on ecology and the sustenance of the rural communities. The volume highlights the failure of the planners in recognizing the necessity of environmental conservation and strikes a note of warning to the policy-makers, concluding that although the recent issue of environmental conservation has gained importance, its execution depends on the extent to which short-term gains can be reconciled with long-term benefits.
8 citations
TL;DR: The structural adjustment rate in all sectors of public services which would create a meaningful and realizable institutional change and economic benefit for both government and people has been seriously retarded in non-industrialized countries, especially the poor ones, in con... as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Demographic, social, epidemiologic and political changes occur simultaneously with macroeconomic changes. In the health sector, for instance, the progress evident in health status in several nations seems to correspond globally with the number of people living below sustenance level, health and nutritional requirements in the past three decades. Increasing demand for services beyond the coping competence of many non‐industrialized governments have rendered the poverty‐ridden population helpless in the face of adversity. In several of the poorest nations, the structural adjustment programme with its attendant myopic targets and constricted economic centralization has intensified demand for changes at the social and political strata. The structural adjustment rate in all sectors of public services which would create a meaningful and realizable institutional change and economic benefit for both government and people has been seriously retarded in non‐industrialized countries, especially the poor ones, in con...
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