Category: LISS panel
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Explaining global citizenship
With reaching global development goals being dependent on the actions of all sectors and actors in society, it is imperative to understand the engagement of ordinary citizens with international poverty and development. Understanding citizens’ engagement in turn requires a broad perspective on global citizenship behaviours and a less fragmented measurement of prosocial behaviour than is…
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Communicating personalized health information: What works best for whom?
Communicating probability information about risks and benefits of health interventions or treatment options to patients is becoming an essential part of modern-day health care. In light of the growing emphasis of personalized medicine and patient-centered shared decision-making, there has been rapid growth in the development of personalized health information tools for patients, with the aim…
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Poor benefits. The role of financial stress in the non-take-up of social welfare
Many poor households forego social welfare despite eligibility, which keeps them in a cycle of poverty. Traditional theories focusing on the economic costs and benefits of claiming social welfare do not provide a satisfactory explanation for high levels of non-take-up. The current study aims to unravel the psychological costs of non-take-up of social benefits. We…
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The Dutch Mental Health Continuum Short Form – Revised
After the World Health Organization called for a broader approach to mental health, well-being has become increasingly important in the field of mental health, both in research and in practice. Good measurement instruments are needed to routinely monitor the well-being of clients. The Mental Health Continuum – Short Form (MHC-SF) has been validated in population…
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Objective neighbourhood characteristics or perceptions? What is more important in affecting individual outcomes?
Perceptions of neighbourhood conditions – no matter how accurate or biased – can have real consequences for neighbourhoods and individuals, and might even be more important than the objective characteristics. This study investigates how important these neighbourhood perceptions are for understanding individual outcomes (i.a. trust, inter-ethnic attitudes, unsafety feelings), and will provide insight in how…
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Measuring identification with multiple political parties
The notion of party identification has been one of the most prominent concepts in political science, in particular in the field of mass political behaviour. Recently, the measurement of this concept was strongly improved via publications based on survey data with multi-item indices includes in the LISS Panel (2012) and surveys in Sweden (2013) and…
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Who is politically intolerant?
A strong democracy needs a vibrant public sphere, governed by normative values of democratic pluralism, freedom of expression and equality. Nowadays, political discussion does not always adhere to these norms, instead showing signs of political intolerance. This project looks at the presence and correlates of political intolerance in an effort to tease out who is…
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An algorithm a day keeps the doctor away? View of the general population to determine the future path of artificial intelligence in medicine
Artificial intelligence has begun to be incorporated into medicine to improve patient care. However, the view of the general population on this topic has been ignored. Though, it is crucial to study their view since this determines the purposes for which and the boundaries within which AI systems should be developed and operate in medical…
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‘Caught up in a trap, I can’t walk out’: Examining the relation between financial scarcity, financial decision-making, and social exclusion
Many Dutch households have to deal with substantial financial problems. This can be extremely stressful and lead to poor (mental) health and also impose huge costs for society as a whole. In the proposed research, we aim to investigate how the experience of financial scarcity affects financial decision-making and social exclusion over time. A previous…