OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between job stress, social support, and organizational citizenship behaviors, by using job satisfaction and organizational commitment as intervening variables among public health nurses (PHNs) in rural areas of Taiwan. DESIGN A cross-sectional design was used to sample all 265 PHNs in two rural counties of Taiwan. Of those, 231 (87.2%) PHNs responded. M...

At one point in human history somebody had the idea that the handling of the affairs of his community was not necessarily incumbent upon the big landowners, the wealthy, the military leaders or the heads of the most powerful tribes, clans, and families, in other words: upon the ‘natural’ masters of the community; rather, the survival and the well-being of the community might be better served if...

This paper presents the results of 27 case study visits to public libraries, Citizens Advice Bureaux and other advice agencies throughout the UK. The main aim of the visits was to examine existing levels of citizenship information provision within these organisations. The visits consisted of interviews with staff and examination of the organisations’ collections of citizenship/community informa...

Each of these terms, ‘secularisation’, ‘religion’ and ‘multicultural citizenship’, would require a separate and more systematic elaboration than the one I can offer in a single lecture. My aim in this chapter is simply to explore some interrelations between contemporary debates about secularisation, religion, and multicultural citizenship by adopting a global comparative perspective which may h...

Social Network Service (SNS) has secured lots of users, and its scale and social influence are getting bigger and more powerful. At the same time, however, phenomena that cause social disruption also have increased with spreading false rumors on SNS and posting abusive comments. In order to resolve these negative phenomena, the research inquires into the citizenship behavior of SNS users and ex...

PURPOSE Prisoners are at a particularly high risk of suicide. In contrast to other psychosocial risk factors it remains unclear to what degree the risk of suicide differs between prisoners with local citizenship and foreigners. In order to provide more detailed information for suicide prevention in prisons, this study aims to compare suicide rates (SR) between these populations in German crimin...

1 Contents Introduction 2 1. Changing patterns of political engagement and new citizenship perceptions: conceptual overview 4 2. Young people and political participation 6 2.1. Effective ways of influencing decision-making: perceptions of young people 6 2.2. Young people's political participation: traditional and new ways of expressing opinions 10 3. Young people and their perception of EU citi...

1 Contents Introduction 2 1. Changing patterns of political engagement and new citizenship perceptions: conceptual overview 4 2. Young people and political participation 6 2.1. Effective ways of influencing decision-making: perceptions of young people 6 2.2. Young people's political participation: traditional and new ways of expressing opinions 10 3. Young people and their perception of EU citi...