Volume 10, Issue 4 (2014) | Journal of Social Sciences

A New Look at Our Old Attitude Problem

Rajvinder Samra — 2014-12-11

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 11 December 2014; doi:10.3844/jssp.2014.143.149

Across the disciplines, attitudes are commonly measured through the use of unidimensional scaling (e.g., Likert scaling). Given that the Likert measurement scale (multiple equivalent items regarding a...

Rural and Urban Attitudes toward Immigrants in the U.S. Midwest and Great Plains

Miguel Ceballos — 2015-01-07

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 7 January 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2014.150.161

Recent immigration has transformed much of the Midwest and Great Plains regions of the United States, affecting its rural and urban areas through dramatic increases in the foreign-born population and ...

Personality Traits and Exposure to Stressful Life Events Among Smokers and Nonsmokers

Nataša Šimić — 2015-01-07

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 7 January 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2014.162.171

Early studies supposed that personality traits and students’ life, which include brings many social and academic changes, may be relevant factors in initiation and maintenance of smoking. The aims o...

Perceived Social Support and Opinions on Poverty: Is it Chronic or Transient?

Maurizio Norcia — 2015-01-08

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 8 January 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2014.172.178

This article discusses the relation between perceptual component of social support and the beliefs about stability of poverty condition. To what extent individual’s perception about having back cove...

Factors Influencing Online Shopping in Mauritius: An Application of Principal Component Analysis and Binary Logistic Regression

P. Ramtohul — 2015-01-29

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 29 January 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2014.179.184

In our modern world, the intensive use of internet has imposed new lifestyles and encouraged new behaviour amongst many across the globe. With the development in Internet technologies, the emergence o...

The Role of Developmental Psychology to Understanding History, Culture and Social Change

Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff — 2015-01-29

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 29 January 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2014.185.195

Developmental psychology of the past generations has evidenced that the whole pre-modern humankind stood on pre-operational or concrete-operational stages. Only the modern humankind has also developed...