Vol 1, No 1 (2013)

International Journal of Social Science Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, April 2013

Table of Contents

Articles

Understanding Experiences of Sexuality with Cerebral Palsy through Sexual Script Theory
Tinashe M Dune
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p1-12
Gun Laws and Crime: An Empirical Assessment
Matti Viren
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p13-21
Chinese Megachurch Persecution: Application of an Indigenous Resource Framework
Sandra Lynn Barnes
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p22-36
Don’t Stay Out Late! Mom, I’m Twenty-eight: Emerging Adults and Their Parents under One Roof
Asnat Dor
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p37-46
The Impact of Self-reported Visual Disability on Quality of Life among Older Persons in a Rural Area of Northeast Thailand: A Follow-up Study
Phatcha Hirunwatthanakul, Steven La Grow, Barry Borman, Yogesan Kanagasingam
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p47-53
Construct Validity of Likert Scales through Confirmatory Factor Analysis: A Simulation Study Comparing Different Methods of Estimation Based on Pearson and Polychoric Correlations
María de los Ángeles Morata-Ramírez, Francisco Pablo Holgado-Tello
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p54-61
Party Government in Germany and Austria: A New Perspective from the Power Index Approach
Alexander Preker, Jan-Erik Lane
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p62-72
Destructive Behaviours and Leadership: The Source of the Shift from a Functional to Dysfunctional Workplace?
Anthony Geoffrey Sheard, Nada Kakabadse, Andrew Kakabadse
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p73-89
Validation and Reliability of PedsQL in Healthy Malaysian Pediatric Population
Shanthi Varatharajan
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p90-95
Non-institutionalised Lay Religious Communities in the Czech Republic and the Care for the Ill Strategy
Jan Váně
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p96-109
Regimes in Global Environmental Governance and the Internationalization of the State: The Case of Biodiversity Politics
Ulrich Brand, Christoph Görg
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p110-122
Foreign Film as a Gateway to Cultural Studies
Young Imm Kang Song
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p123-132
Support, Depressive Symptoms, and the Stigma towards Seeking Mental Health Help
Miki Talebi, Kimberly Matheson, Hymie Anisman
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p133-144
Facilitating War-Affected Young Mothers’ Reintegration: Lessons from a Participatory Action Research Study in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda
Miranda Worthen, Grace Onyango, Mike Wessells, Angela Veale, Susan McKay
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p145-149
Discourses of Masculinity and Femininity in The Hunger Games: "Scarred," "Bloody," and "Stunning"
Vera Woloshyn, Nancy Taber, Laura Lane
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p150-160
Love Has (NO) Boundaries: Researching a Sexual Taboo
Dafna Shir-Vertesh
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p161-172
Utopian Political Theory and Migration without Borders
Ricard Zapata-Barrero
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p173-183
The Smolensk Disaster and the Dynamics of Death-Related Thoughts Accessibility
Tomasz Grzyb, Dariusz Dolinski
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p184-191
Migration, Xenophobia and New Racism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Carol Adjai, Gabriella Lazaridis
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p192-205
Abolition of Commercial Motorbikes and Its Implication on Transportation and Criminality in Calabar Metropolis
Christopher Eraye Michael, Usman Adekunle Ojedoku, Eke Chijioke Chinwokwu
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p206-214
Alternative Assessment and Portfolios: Review, Reconsider, and Revitalize
Brian A Sandford, Chia-Chien Hsu
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p215-221
Grotesque Impressions Enhance the Gaze Cueing Effect
Matia Okubo, Yingda Jiang
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p222-229
Investigating the Scale of the Problem of Children in Residential Care in the UK Being Exploited by External Agents for Sexual Purposes
Richard Barker, Maurice Place
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p230-237
Reviewer Acknowledgements
James Young
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p238