Mobile phones are popular devices that may generate problems for a section of the community. A previous study using Eysenck Personality Questionnaire found extraverts with low self-esteem reported more their mobile phone use. The present used NEO FI and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory to predict self use 112 participants. Multiple regression people on agreeableness were likely play games. findings imply an interplay between personality traits excessive or problematic is relevant proposed...

Accounts of general election outcomes increasingly talk about voters comparing parties in terms their perceived competence to manage the economy and public services. This raises question how form evaluations party competence. While it is assumed that incumbent based on signals provided by its current performance office less clear how, absence such a record, might evaluate potential opposition. Using data from British Election Panel Studies this article models process which parties' compares...

Improving children's living standards is a top priority for government policy makers. Whilst the presence of link between bad housing and child outcomes has been acknowledged in number studies, there little evidence on how long children live whether duration associated with other poor children. This research uses five waves data from Families Children Study, representative longitudinal study families Britain, to show that longer more vulnerable they are range included Government's Every...

ABSTRACT The present and future security of employee-pension funding remains at the forefront public debate across Europe beyond. In United Kingdom, to finance pension entitlements it has been suggested that state age be increased. This paper presents results analyses four major national social surveys have explored working living conditions workers in paid employment after age. Comparing circumstances these with just below illustrates extent which constitutes a break domestic lives older...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has generated increasingly dynamic impacts around the world due to its high tech mechanisms in scientific discipline. IoT is an intelligent infrastructure numerous technologies which connects small large-scale devices for purpose communication. Alternatively, with appreciation such advancement, there have also been environmental issues raised from operations IoT. Green IT a notion that envisioned reduce, and possibly eliminate caused by through sustainable...

In survey interviews, "Don't know" (DK) responses are commonly treated as missing data. One way to reduce the rate of such is probe initial DK answers with a follow-up question designed encourage respondents give substantive, non-DK responses. However, probing can also data quality by introducing additional or differential measurement error. We propose latent variable model for analyzing effects on questions. The makes it possible separate from true differences between who do and not require...

Large-scale cross-national studies such as the European Social Survey (ESS), Values Study (EVS), International Programme (ISSP), Generations and Gender (GGP), World (WVS) are valuable sources of information about country-level attitudes toward homosexuality (Fitzgerald, Winstone, & Prestage, 2014;Kuyper, Iedema, Keuzenkamp, 2013;Taka ´cs Szalma, 2013).These surveys provide data on population can be used to compare across time countries.Despite widespread use these items, most have, however,...

A person’s ethnic or socio-cultural background has been shown to be an important predictor of a range social attitudes and behaviours. Ideally, therefore, we want capture such information alongside other demographic variables in surveys. However, gathering about people’s origins as part cross-national survey is complicated, not least because the need complex variation national, cultural groupings prevalent across countries: The composition populations vastly differs countries. European...

This report analyzes the ethical issues practiced in advertisements to attract target market and presents recommendations for reducing intensity of these issues. As you know business ethics is application values world it gaining importance day by day. However during our research we found that advertisement companies are using many unethical practices advertise their products or services, which really becoming a big problem consumers. In today’s promoting negative behavior while targeting...

Cross-national surveys face the particular challenge of trying to balance optimal survey quality within a country with comparability across countries in terms data quality. Addressing this during fieldwork requires effective management data, task made more difficult by inherent differences between countries. This article argues that changes comprehensiveness, timeliness, consistency, and accessibility facilitate monitoring represent necessary step forward towards achieving cross-national...