British Social Attitudes the 11th Report

Report on the 11th EASD

On Social Attitudes: a Preliminary Report

This paper describes our preliminary investigations into identifying, and ultimately formalising, the wide range of social problem solving behaviour which can occur in multiagent systems. In particular, this work examines the different agent attitudes which may prevail in social problem solving, the different types of individual and social commitment which flow from these attitudes, how and why...

British women's attitudes to surrogacy.

BACKGROUND There has been little interest in the research literature on public opinions regarding assisted conception and surrogacy, particularly in European countries, despite the growing evidence showing that problems in adaptation and coping may be related to perceived normative values. This study investigated British women's attitudes to surrogacy using components of the theory of planned b...

British general practitioners' attitudes toward abortion.

CONTEXT Women in Great Britain may obtain abortions only if they meet certain criteria and the procedure is approved by two physicians. Since seeing a general practitioner is typically a woman's first step toward obtaining an abortion, these doctors' attitudes about the procedure are very important. METHODS In 1999, a random sample of 702 general practitioners participated in a mailed survey ...

Acculturation attitudes and social adjustment in British South Asian children: a longitudinal study.

A 1-year longitudinal study with three testing points was conducted with 215 British Asian children aged 5 to 11 years to test hypotheses from Berry's acculturation framework. Using age-appropriate measures of acculturation attitudes and psychosocial outcomes, it was found that (a) children generally favored an "integrationist" attitude, and this was more pronounced among older (8-10 years) tha...