Call for papers
Deadline: September 15, 2014 Special Issue on: “Children’s Subjective Well-being”
Special Issue on: “Children’s Subjective Well-being” Guest editors: Mònica González & Sara Malo (University of Girona, Spain) The Journal of Social Research & Policy invites original paper submissions for a special issue on “Children’s Subjective Well-Being”, to bring together papers exploring the results of the Children’s Worlds project, the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being (ISCIWeB) in different regions of the world and with children and adolescents of different ages. The ISCWeB is a worldwide research survey on children’s subjective well-being (http://www.isciweb.org/). The study aims to collect solid and representative data on children’s lives and daily activities, their time use and in particular on their own perceptions and evaluations of their well-being through a self-administered questionnaire which is filled by the children. The purpose is to improve children's well-being by creating awareness among children, their parents and their communities, but also among opinion leaders, decision makers, professionals and the general public. Due to considerable differences between children of different ages, the basic questionnaire was adapted for three age groups - 8 years old, 10 years old and 12 years old- and thus there are three versions of the questionnaire, one for each age group. The ISCWeB includes also an adaptation of different psychometric scales such as the Student Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS), the Brief Multidimensional Student Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS) and the Personal WellBeing Index- School version (PWI-SC). Additional items included on satisfaction with different life domains allow the calculation of a General Domain Satisfaction Index. The new quantitative measurement adopted will help to increase scientific knowledge on children’s subjective well-being through the identification of factors that contribute to their well-being worldwide and others that are country-specific. In this special issue we encourage researchers that have been involved with collecting and analyzing data under the Children’s Worlds project framework in different countries and regions of the world to report data and/or methodological analyses on issues such as (but not limited to): · validity, reliability and factorial structure of the SLSS, BMSLSS and the PWI-SC; · cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective wellbeing; · psychological and socio-demographical correlates of wellbeing; · children’s well-being in regional and national contexts; · inter-country comparisons of well-being ; · well-being in different age groups (children of different ages and adolescents); · public policy implication of well-being scores. They will allow our readers to know the results of the ISCWeB and to promote debates on innovate and participatory practices in research focused on children and policy-making aimed to improve their s well-being. All submissions will be peer reviewed. For guidelines on manuscript preparation and submission, please visit the journal website (www.jsrp.ro) Please address any inquiries to Mònica González: monica.gonzalez@udg.edu or Sara Malo: sara.malo@udg.edu SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15th September 2014 |
Deadline: 2013, June 30. Between wealth and well-being: consumption, psychology and quality of life
Guest editors: Anna Maria Zawadzka & Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, PolandJournal of Social Research & Policy invites original paper submissions for a special issue on “Between wealth and well-being: consumption, psychology and quality of life”, to bring together papers concerning mutual relations between growing standard of life, prosperity and well-being in modern societies. Academics, especially those doing research in psychology, sociology, anthropology and economics, have always been interested in the subject of the impact of cultural, social, and economic change on individuals and societies. Apparently, changes brought about by prevalent growing wealth and consumer culture may have both positive and negative consequences. On the one hand, the changes make life easier and increase the standard of living as well as lead to a rapid advancement of technology. However, focusing on wealth may decrease well-being, sense of affiliation and the quality of social relationships and it may also result in neglect of culture and art and mindless destruction of the natural environment. Therefore, it is really crucial to study and indicate the threats produced by the changes and look for precautions against them. There are a lot of import ant questions to be answered, i.e.:
We invite original and empirical papers, written in a good English language on the subjects of:
All submissions will be peer reviewed. For guidelines on manuscript preparation and submission, please visit the journal website. Please send any inquiries to Anna Maria Zawadzka psyamz@univ.gda.pl, or Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska psymzp@ug.edu.pl SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 June 2013 |
Deadline: 2012, August 31. “International Wellbeing Index”
Guest editor: Graciela Tonon, Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora, Universidad de Palermo, ArgentinaJournal of Social Research & Policy invites original paper submissions for a special issue on “International Wellbeing Index”, to bring together papers exploring the application of this instrument in different regions of the world and with different populations.The study of quality of life refers to the material (social welfare) and psychosocial (wellbeing) environments. Quality of life has been defined as a concept that implies objective and subjective dimension. The use of domains in the study of quality of life allows a more precise measurement than could have been reached through simple questions. WBI has two scales: the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) and the National Wellbeing Index (NWI), scaled from 0 to 10. PWI contains eight items of satisfaction, each one corresponding to a quality of life domain: standard of living, health, achievement in life, relationships, safety, community-connectedness, future safety, and spirituality/religion. These eight domains are theoretically embedded, as representing the first level deconstruction of the global question: ‘How satisfied are you with your life as a whole?’ The NWI reflects nearly the same domains in the national context. The International Wellbeing Group currently involves researchers from 49 countries who already had or intend to trial the Index in his/her own country. But the Index didn´t remain unchanged over time: this project will undergo controlled evolution as theory and empirical data are brought to bear on its composition. To this end there is an active e-forum that discusses the composition of the Index as data are progressively collected and analyzed (www.deakin.edu.au/research/acqol/iwbg/). In this special issue we encourage researchers that are using or had used the International Wellbeing Index in different countries and regions of the world to report data and/or methodological analyses their papers on issues such as (but not limited to):
This will allow our readers to know the results of the use of the WBI in particular contexts and situations. All submissions will be peer reviewed. For guidelines on manuscript preparation and submission, please visit the journal website. Please address any inquiries to Graciela Tonon: gracielatonon@hotmail.com SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31 August 2012 |
Deadline: 2011, August 31. "Migration and Happiness"
Guest editor: David Bartram, University of Leicester (UK)JSR&P invites original paper submissions for a special issue on Migration and Happiness, to bring together papers exploring the intersection of two topics that feature very prominently in public discourse and debates. Happiness – long a topic of interdisciplinary scholarly efforts among social scientists – has now become a matter of significant interest for public policy-makers as well. Senior figures in the British government, for example, convene regular meetings of a “Whitehall Well-Being Working Group” to consider happiness dimensions of public policy, and French president Nikolas Sarkozy in 2009 commissioned a report on happiness in France from two well-known economists. Research on happiness (and the closely related topic of life satisfaction) is particularly innovative in its rejection of a core premise of modern economics: “revealed preferences”. Instead of assuming that people are better off in “objective” ways e.g. for having higher incomes – and that we can know this via observation of choices and behaviour – happiness studies focuses on the subjective dimension of well-being. In place of economists’ axioms regarding utility, then, happiness researchers address an empirical question: what are the choices, actions and characteristics that bring happiness? There is significant scope for revisiting a number of core issues in research on migration via consideration rooted in a happiness studies perspective. Examples of questions might include:
This list is merely indicative and other ways of making the connection are welcome. All submissions will be peer reviewed. For guidelines on manuscript preparation and submission, please visit the journal website. Please address any inquiries to David Bartram at d.bartram@le.ac.uk. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31 August 2011 |
Deadline: 2011, April 20. Program evaluation in social policy: bridges between practice, theory and methodology
Program evaluation has become a standard practice in the design and implementation of public policy as an outcome of continuing pressures toward effectiveness, efficiency and accountability in public management. Besides the evident improvements entailed by these developments in the area of policy implementation the benefits of these concerns are manifolds: first, there are large and very valuable amounts of empirical evidence that can be used in assessing competing hypotheses regarding phenomena involved in the addressed programs; second, policies gain in quality through evidence based design; and last but not least, an entire area o methodological and disciplinary interrogation is flourishing. Our special JSR&P issue endeavors to take advantage of this increasing and largely unused body of knowledge by inviting theoretical, methodological and, evidently, empirical articles coming from the area of program evaluation especially from the field of social policy. Research or practice notes and book reviews are also welcome by the editors. This call for paper is open until April 20, 2011. All submissions will be double peer reviewed. For guidelines on manuscript preparation and submission, please visit the journal website. Please address any inquiries to the journal’s email address office@jsrp.ro or to Adrian Hatos at ahatos@gmail.com. |
Deadline: 2010, September 15. ’National, Regional and Global Identities: Trends and Intertwinings’.
The second issue of JSR&P will focus on ’National, Regional and Global Identities: Trends and Intertwinings’. In today’s societies, the national, regional and global identities are complexly entwined. Attitudes and attachments to nations, regions and world as a whole are often ambivalent and strong conceptual dichotomies such as nationalism-cosmopolitanism are not always supported by the existing data. Moreover, a clear theoretical model of supra-individual identities is not yet attained. As a result, the forecasts of the developments in national-global attachments are contradictory, ranging from the prediction that intergenerational change will bring an increase in support for regional and global entities to the opposite prophecy that nationalism will be perpetuated, given the active involvement of political actors from majorities and minorities. This special issue of Journal of Social Policy and Research will harbor theoretical and research-based inquiries focused on the development of all these supra-individual identities and on the relationships between them. We encourage the submission of multidisciplinary approaches and also of those articles that take into account local and regional peculiarities and draw policy recommendations . Articles that deal with the multiple facets of identities in the social, economical and political context are nonetheless welcomed. Deadline for submitting articles for this issue is September 15th 2010. Articles have to be sent to office@jsrp.ro |
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