Community Views (Asynchronous Session)
A Cautionary Tale of a Community-based Prisoner Reentry Initiative: Lessons Learned View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Mioara Diaconu, Steven D. Eberth, Caitlin Koob
Numerous individuals released from incarceration tend to be rearrested within the first couple of years. Some of the documented reasons for recidivism are related to lack of or limited levels of education, access to mental health or substance abuse treatments, and the environment in which they are released. A community-based multidisciplinary post-incarceration re-entry program was piloted in Southwest Michigan to assist the returning ex-offenders overcome most of the reintegration barriers, thus ensuring a successful transition to community living. The program was developed base on the One Stop Shop Principle, providing selected ex-offenders with access to counseling, mentoring, tutoring, occupational therapy life skills training, and referrals. This study provides an insider view of what went well and what could be improved from a programmatic and organizational perspective. Additional lessons learned and recommendations for practice are also provided.
Spatial Justice: Empowering the Households Living in Hong Kong Unsuitable Housing by Rent Control View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Yuk Yee Lee
Spaces of Justice is controversial to understand the multifaceted inequalities character of contemporary cities. “Partitioned flats” and “sub-divided units (SDUs)" are commonly known as "unsuitable housing " in Hong Kong. Since 2004, the government abolished the tenancy control, the rent is unaffordable for low-income families. Therefore, this study aimed at understanding the tenants’ living experience and the factors causing the rent to be soaring. This research adopted hybrid methods, 418 online questionnaires are collected, 20 in-depth interviews and 8 focus groups were conducted with tenants of SDUs, 15 experts with multidisciplinary backgrounds were interviewed to collect their views on the unsuitable housing problem and to make recommendations on its legislation. The study reveals that 76% of the respondents spend 40% or more of their monthly household income on rent. The top-three issues most troubled the respondents are 1. Rent increases (80%), 2. Negative impacts on their children (39.8%), 3. Negative impacts on their mental health (39.6%). Through the in-depth interview, owners entrust the property management agencies to manage their rental units with service charges. These agents privately increased rent without informing the owners. Extra fees will be charged if the tenant wants to continue to rent this SDH. Embezzling these extra charges is a common illegal practice. Forced eviction and subletting are used to create new leases to defraud additional commissions. The research team urged the Government, 1. Legislation on rent control, 2. Crackdown the illegal practices of the property agents, and 3. Increasing the supply of transitional housing.
The Effect of Self-esteem on Young Single-person Households on the Will to be Independent: Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Social Support View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Hyun Su Kim
Young single-person households are attracting worldwide attention. They need economic and social independence, and in order to solve the difficulties facing them, they must organize budgets, introduce policies, and promote projects according to the current trend. The purpose of this study is to understand the effect of young single-person households' self-esteem on their self-reliance. This study was to investigate the moderating effect of social support on the relationship between self-esteem and self-reliance among young single-person households. For this study, a survey was conducted on single young households living in Seoul. A total of 340 people responded to the survey, and 326 people's data excluding the omission were analyzed. In addition, self-esteem was used as an independent variable, self-reliance will as a dependent variable, and social support as a modulating variable. The policy implications based on the analysis results of this study are as follows. First, since the situation of single youth households is different in each region across the country, a large and delicate survey should be preceded. Second, there is a need for a way to maximize one's capabilities along with an understanding of oneself. Third, it was suggested that information sharing measures are needed through the formation of governance for single young households. Fourth, it was suggested that there is a need for an emergency fund loan system for single young households and a plan to replace deposits through the national guarantee system for single young households.
Tracing Targeting of Machiavellianism among University Students View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Kyriaki Spanou, Maria Litsa, Alexandra Bekiari
The objective of this research is the tracking of targeting of Machiavellianism among students. Three educational departments from Physical Education and Sports Science, Veterinary and Business Administration in Greece consisting of 17 classes (783 students/nodes in total: 405 female and 378 male) have been studied with social network analysis (Visone) as far as Machiavellianism as structural phenomenon was concerned. Standardized questionnaires have been implemented. Spearman test (SPSS) was applied for revealing potential correlations among Machiavellian behavior and individual characteristics. Main results show the under scrutiny problematic behavior appears to demonstrate greater intensity to Business Administration students, average intensity to Physical Education students, whereas it is not evident to Veterinary students.
Featured Confidence to Speak English: A Necessary Ingredient for Students in Post-Colonial South Asia? View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Asantha U Attanayake
This study involves more than 4500 students from the post-colonial South Asian nations of Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and it reveals that students’ most desired English language skill is speaking, but that they refrain from speaking due to a lack of confidence that stems from a fear of being ridiculed by society. This large-scale study was instigated by studies that span from 2007 to 2017 involving about 2000 Sri Lankan undergraduates that produced similar findings. This leads us to believe that the language attitudes existing in society may influence students more than the numerous well-accepted teaching methodologies for teaching English that are currently used in post-colonial South Asia. The standards set by the elites in post-colonial South Asian societies works against English language learners in their efforts to speak English by causing Language Attitude Anxiety (LAA), which manifests in a lack of confidence to speak English. At the same time, societies that do not use English at all seem to negatively influence English language learners also causing LAA. This anxiety may then be projected onto learning English in general with a negative effect on learner identities and possible selves. Our work emphasizes the importance of a) dialogue on language attitudes as an academic discourse and b) building confidence to speak English as an essential rectifying measure to eliminate Language Attitude Anxiety.
