This research details the development of a new instrument designed to measure attitudes toward same-sex marriage. Participants were 615 heterosexual women and men, drawn from both student and nonstudent adult populations. Four studies were conducted for the purpose of developing the scale and to establish its psychometric properties. The resulting Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage Scale (ATSM)...

Based on the survey data of 364 peasant households in Yibin, Sichuan, this paper analyzes the farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage loans. The result indicates a high willingness up to 74.2%, i.e. the farmers are willing to invest forest tenure mortgage loans into forestry and agricultural production. The influential factors on farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage...

pre-marriage couples` fertility attitude following recent childbearing persuasive policies in iran farrokh-eslamlou hr , vahabzadeh z *, moeini sr ,moghaddam tabrizi f received: 5 sep , 2013 accepted: 16 nov , 2013 abstract background & aims: following a phenomenal fertility decline during recent two decades in iran, the childbearing persuasive policy has been implemented. the goals of this stu...

In a transferable utility context, Choo and Siow (2006) introduced a competitive model of the marriage market, and derived its equilibrium output, a marriage matching function. The marriage matching function defines the gains generated by a marriage between agents of prescribed types in terms of the observed frequency of such marriages within the population, relative to the number of unmarried ...

The subject of this paper involves the attitudes student population in Republic Srpska about marriage, family and parenthood. Changes domain modern society directly affect not only everyday lives individuals, but also as a whole. Negative demographic trends, structural problems society, well spread acceptance value orientations from West changes marriage our society. This analyses data survey y...

We read the publication by Liu (2016) on authorship misconduct with a great interest. In fact, the authorship misconduct is no uncommon and has to be managed. Liu (2016) noted that “Proper authorship embodies honesty, integrity, fairness and transparency, which surely are the very essence of any scientific pursuit.” Due to the present requirement on academic publication to support academic rank...

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