Sentences with phrase «formal social participation»

The model of formal social participation also accounts for more variance with the addition of prior participation, with the adjusted R2 changing from.09 to.63 (p <.001).

The only findings from Utz and colleagues that were reproduced in terms of formal participation included negative relationships between levels of formal social participation and depression.

This stands in contrast to the findings of Utz and colleagues, in which they found that formal social participation had a significant relationship to gender, education, and race.

Specifically, our analyses revealed a significant relationship between widowhood status and higher levels of formal social participation.

In addition to informal social participation, analyses of formal social participation and the identified variables revealed a number of differences from the Utz and colleagues» findings.

Not exact matches

Youth as a social phenomenon and young people as the primary target population of formal education and training fade from view behind an avalanche of indicators that describe participation in institutional processes for learning but reveal little about those who take part.

While a formal civics course is not offered until high school, kindergarten students learn to «identify personal traits, such as courage, honesty, and responsibility» and third - graders learn to «explain how local government officials are chosen, e.g., election, appointment,» according to the Idaho State Department of Education's social studies standards.22 By the time students reach 12th grade, they are more prepared to learn civics - related topics, such as the electoral process and role of political parties; the methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, than students with no prior exposure to a civics curriculum.

We are guided by Utz and colleagues (2002), who examined the impact that widowhood had on both formal and informal social participation by using data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) study.

It would appear that controlling for prior participation increases the variance accounted for in the models of both formal and informal social participation.

In addition, it must be noted that although many demographic variables lose their significant relationship to both formal and informal social participation, widowhood retains a strongly significant relationship to both types of social participation.

This indicates an increase in both formal and informal social participation regardless of the level of social participation prior to the widowhood event.

Controlling for previous levels of social participation also significantly increased the explanatory power of the model; more than 50 % of the overall variance was explained for both formal and informal social participation.

The final goal of this study was to test the robustness of the relationships between widowhood and formal and informal social participation as well as formal and informal volunteerism.