Is the South so Different? Italian and Spanish Families in Comparative Perspective

Guerrero, Teresa Jurado; Naldini, Manuela

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“…This scale comprises just three items, two of which (items 50 and 51) are very similar, and the potential for a certain degree of overlap may lead to redundancy. Cultural factors linked to family obligations and help within kinship relations in the Spanish context may also be contributing to these results [ 34 ].…”

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Assessing resilience in adolescence: The Spanish adaptation of the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire

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Paños

et al. 2015

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BackgroundThe concept and assessment of resilience have attracted considerable attention in recent years, but none of the instruments developed to measure resilience in adolescents have been adapted to the Spanish context. The Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire (ARQ) provides a comprehensive and multidimensional assessment of the resources associated with resilience in adolescents.MethodsThis study analyzes the psychometric properties of the ARQ. Participants included a community sample of 1101 Spanish adolescents (53.5 % boys) aged 12–17 years (M = 14.51; SD = 1.755).ResultsResults confirm the factor structure based on 12 scales. Internal consistency was generally adequate (between .60 and .84), although the unacceptable coefficient for the Empathy/Tolerance scale (α = .38) means that this scale needs to be revised for the Spanish context. Relationships between ARQ scales and psychopathology were in the expected direction and magnitude. Some gender differences were observed, with higher scores for boys on Confidence and Negative cognition.ConclusionsThe Spanish version of the ARQ can help to identify personal characteristics associated with resilience and signs of positive engagement with family, peers, school, and the community. It can identify those adolescents most likely to show resilience in response to adversity, as well as those who may be vulnerable under situations of stress.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12955-015-0259-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Assessing resilience in adolescence: The Spanish adaptation of the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire

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“…Contextual variety is reflected in welfare state typologies; following Esping‐Andersen's (1990) first classification, subsequent typologies incorporated the gender aspect and recognized southern European countries as a separate regime with a distinct welfare system (see Berthoud and Iacovou, 2004; Ferreira and Figueiredo, 2005). The southern system is characterized mainly by the late and fragmented development of social systems and the withdrawal of the state from care provision; therefore, family is the primary welfare provider (Martin, 1997; Trifiletti, 1999) and familial networks are extended (Jurado Guerrero and Naldini, 1997). In this context, women are treated more as wives, daughters and mothers, and less as employees (Martin, 1997).…”

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Flexible Work Arrangements and Intentions of Unemployed Women in Cyprus: A Planned Behaviour Model

Stavrou

Ierodiakonou

2011

British Journal of Management

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Drawing from the theory of planned behaviour, we use 18 focus groups with 113 unemployed women and 150 mail questionnaires to explore whether and how unemployed Cypriot women's subjective norms, attitudes, perceived behavioural control and job versus career aspirations influence their intentions to adopt employee-and employer-driven flexible work arrangements. To analyse the information gathered, we used a combination of content analysis, an external panel of practitioners and academics, principal components analysis, and regressions. Results show that women's positive attitudes towards child-caring and self-enhancement and their subjective norms of organizational inflexibility were positively related mainly with intentions to adopt employee-driven flexible work arrangements. Further, women who found childcare support and employer requirements limiting were more interested in telework; the latter were also more interested in temporary work. Finally, women's career aspirations were related with weekend work and telework, whilst their job aspirations were associated with temporary work. Results raise issues for employers and policy-makers in Cyprus, and possibly other southern European countries facing similar challenges, in supporting women to become fully integrated in the labour market.

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“…The female employment/fertility trade-off under the male breadwinner model becomes more acute the greater the precariousness of male employment, which explains why female employment and fertility tend to be lower in the southern versus northern European countries (Adsera, 2003). In Italy and Spain, for example, traditional gender roles and women's responsibility for the domestic sphere were institutionalised in authoritarian state structures prior to the late industrialisation that began in the 1960s in Italy (Bernardi and Nazio, 2005) and 1970s in Spain (Jurado Guerrero and Naldini, 1996). As detailed in the next section, macro-economic factors since that time have made male employment extremely precarious.…”

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Gender Equity and Fertility in Italy and Spain

Cooke

2009

J. Soc. Pol.

125

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Gender equity and its effects on fertility vary across socio-political contexts, particularly when comparing less with more developed economies. But do subtle differences in equity within more similar contexts matter as well? Here we compare Italy and Spain, two countries with low fertility levels and institutional reliance on kinship and family, but with employment equity among women during the 1990s slightly greater in Italy than Spain. The European Community Household Panel is used to explore the effect of this difference in gender equity on the likelihood of married couples having a second birth during this time period. Women's hours of employment reduce the birth likelihood in both countries, but non-maternal sources of care offset this effect to different degrees. In Spain, private childcare significantly increases birth likelihood, whereas in Italy, father's greater childcare share increases the likelihood, particularly among employed women. These results suggest that increases in women's employment equity increase not only the degree of equity within the home, but also the beneficial effects of equity on fertility. These equity effects help to offset the negative relationship historically found between female employment and fertility.

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Is the South so Different? Italian and Spanish Families in Comparative Perspective

Cited by 53 publications

References 5 publications

Assessing resilience in adolescence: The Spanish adaptation of the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire

Assessing resilience in adolescence: The Spanish adaptation of the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire

Flexible Work Arrangements and Intentions of Unemployed Women in Cyprus: A Planned Behaviour Model

Gender Equity and Fertility in Italy and Spain

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