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The Impact of Supportive Housing Policy Scenarios on Marriage and Fertility Intentions: A Vignette Survey Experimental Study in Shanghai, China
It has been extensively discussed that negative marriage/fertility intentions in developed societies are caused by structural constraints especially soaring housing price. However, as marriage/fertility intent...
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Open AccessRevisiting the ‘flexibility paradox’: degree of work schedule flexibility and time use patterns across gender and occupational groups
Whether flexible work schedules facilitate the balance between work and non-work time or instead lead to longer working hours (known as ‘flexibility paradox’) has been extensively debated. Using representative...
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Open AccessWho Gains Mental Health Benefits from Work Autonomy? The Roles of Gender and Occupational Class
In recent years, improving work autonomy as an important priority in the UK labour market has been shown to enhance employee mental health and well-being. However, previous theories and empirical studies have ...
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Open AccessUsing machine learning to estimate the incidence rate of intimate partner violence
It is difficult to accurately estimate the incidence rate of intimate partner violence (IPV) using traditional social survey methods because IPV victims are often reluctant to disclose their experiences, leadi...
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Open AccessIs Paid Inflexible Work Better than Unpaid Housework for Women’s Mental Health? The Moderating Role of Parenthood
Despite women’s increased participation in the labor market over the last several decades, many women still perform a disproportionate share of housework, and lack the support of flexible working arrangements....
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Double Jeopardy: The Roles of Job Autonomy and Spousal Gender Ideology in Employed Women’s Mental Health
Employed women persistently suffer in mental health despite more family-friendly workplaces. The job demand-control theory argues that employed women’s mental health depends on their job autonomy, while sociol...
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Work Schedule Control and Allostatic Load Biomarkers: Disparities Between and Within Gender
Work schedule control has been linked to self-reported mental health, a measure that may suffer recall, social desirability, and common-method variance biases. The study proposes an alternative outcome measure...
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Moving beyond family: unequal burden across mental health patients’ social networks
Although the family burden of mental health problems on patients’ close relatives was widely acknowledged, little was known about how mental health problems affected the quality of life of other types of socia...
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Open AccessHistory matters: the long-term impact of historical immigrant size on current xenophobia in Japan
Many studies have addressed how current immigrant size affects the strength of xenophobia from the perspectives of intergroup contact and ethnic competition theories. Can native residents’ current xenophobia b...
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Open AccessThe association between PM2.5 exposure and suicidal ideation: a prefectural panel study
Suicidal ideation is subject to serious underestimation among existing public health studies. While numerous factors have been recognized in affecting suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB), the associated envi...
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Open AccessArts, mental distress, mental health functioning & life satisfaction: fixed-effects analyses of a nationally-representative panel study
Arts engagement within communities is ubiquitous across cultures globally and previous research has suggested its benefits for mental health and wellbeing. However, it remains unclear whether these benefits ar...
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Open AccessThe Role of Gender Role Attitudes and Immigrant Generation in Ethnic Minority Women’s Labor Force Participation in Britain
Although substantial research shows that in Britain some ethnic minority women have significantly lower labor force participation (LFP) rates than White British women, even after controlling for demographic ch...
