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Flinders University
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Deakin University
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Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-10-2021
Publisher: IUPUI University Library
Date: 30-01-2017
DOI: 10.18060/21155
Abstract: Relationship maintenance behaviors contribute to the longevity of intimate relationships, yet existing scales are limited. Available measurement tools are primarily constrained to the Relationship Maintenance Strategy Measure (RMSM) and its further revisions. Covering a number of domains, conceptual overlap with other aspects of an intimate relationship (e.g., household ision of labor) may exist. Our cross-sectional exploratory study included participants from 60 countries (n=8,162) who completed an online survey. Participants were erse in their relationship status, age, sexual orientation, and race/ethnicity. From their responses, we developed a parsimonious and brief measure of relationship maintenance (8 items) through exploratory and then confirmatory factor analyses. Results indicated that the Relationship Maintenance Scale (RMS) shows initial evidence of reliability and validity. The RMS may have utility in working with couples and families. Future research should seek to re-test its use with varied s les, such as couples seeking relationship support.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2011
DOI: 10.5153/SRO.2540
Abstract: Risk narratives are of increasing importance in contemporary social life in that they help in understanding and anticipating the shifts that characterise our late modern landscape. Our qualitative research explores risk as it relates to violence toward street-based sex workers in a suburban Australian setting. Female street-based sex workers represent a highly stigmatised and marginalised group. International studies report that they experience high levels of sexual violence perpetrated by male clients and our empirical work with street-based sex workers in Adelaide, South Australia concurs with this finding. Despite many creative and specialized skills workers reported drawing upon to minimise the risk of violence to themselves, we argue that a socio-cultural lens is vital to viewing risk in this context. We argue that in order to effect change, risk must be disembedded from increasingly in idualized discourses, since it is through the personalisation of risk that violence becomes legitimised as an occupational hazard in street-based sex work.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-05-2022
DOI: 10.1111/CFS.12855
Abstract: This paper presents findings from a qualitative study that focused on factors that facilitate professional judgement and decision‐making that is child‐centred. Appreciative inquiry informed the methodology that enabled four focus groups ( n = 50) with child protection practitioners who worked with children and young people living out‐of‐home care. The study found that, firstly, child protection practitioners had clear conceptualizations of what child‐centred practice means and, secondly, articulated how functioning teams, effective organizational structures and relationships were crucial to child‐centred practice. The findings point to the importance of relationality in effective child‐centred professional judgement and decision‐making in child protection contexts.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-2016
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-01-2011
Abstract: In recent decades there have been various calls for a pedagogical revolution in universities to address a new technology-savvy generation of students. These developments have been met with concern about the postmodern relativizing of educational achievement and accusations of the ‘dumbing down’ of course content. Moving beyond such culture war isions between orthodox and progressive worldviews, this article outlines how reference to popular culture and utilization of its styles can result in student re-engagement with traditional learning materials and formats. Drawing on focus group interviews with students from an introductory sociology class that incorporated a specifically designed DVD, we outline the in idual and societal benefits of a de-differentiated pedagogy that combines traditional rationalist education with more playful forms of learning that directly link with students’ life-worlds.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-04-2023
DOI: 10.1111/CFS.13022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-10-2015
Abstract: Very little empirical work examines female sex workers’ experiences in sociological detail, particularly within an Australian context. Drawing from a small-scale s le of female sex workers in South Australia, our findings suggest that sex workers’ ongoing negotiations within private relationships represent ‘emotion work’, as described by Hochschild, which was understood as limiting the effect of stigma. Taking the lead from social scripts associated with women’s traditional roles and associated ‘feeling rules’, participants mediated their personal lives as distinct from their professional lives to navigate their way through the complex interplay between identities. This emotion work was manifest in the negotiation of intimacy. Other factors such as partner jealousy, which emerge from dual engagement in intimate and work-related sexual behaviours, were also mediated. These findings point to a broader appreciation of emotion work as dually agential and structured and undertaken by sex workers in both their home and work spheres.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 22-03-2016
DOI: 10.1093/BJSW/BCW015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-08-2016
Abstract: This study reports on the operationalization and testing of the newly developed Relationship Quality (RQ) scale, designed to assess an in idual’s perception of his or her RQ in their current partnership. Data were generated through extended s ling from an original U.K.-based research project, Enduring Love? Couple relationships in the 21st century. This mixed methods study was designed to investigate how couples experience, understand, and sustain their long-term relationships. This article utilizes the cross-sectional, community s le ( N = 8,132) from this combined data set, drawn primarily from the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia. A two-part approach to scale development was employed. An initial 15-item pool was subjected to exploratory factor analysis leading into confirmatory factor analysis using structural equation modeling. The final 9-item scale evidenced convergent construct validity and known-groups validity along with strong reliability. Implications for future research and professional practice are discussed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-02-2020
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 28-03-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-04-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-02-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-03-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2009
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2013
Start Date: 2021
End Date: 2022
Funder: Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation
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