Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset)

This large, international dataset contains survey responses from N = 12,570 students from 100 universities in 35 countries, collected in 21 languages. We measured anxieties (statistics, mathematics, test, trait, social interaction, performance, creativity, intolerance of uncertainty, and fear of negative evaluation), self-efficacy, persistence, and the cognitive reflection test, and collected demographics, previous mathematics grades, self-reported and official statistics grades, and statistics module details. Data reuse potential is broad, including testing links between anxieties and statistics/mathematics education factors, and examining instruments’ psychometric properties across different languages and contexts. Data and metadata are stored on the Open Science Framework website [https://osf.io/mhg94/]

Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset)

This large, international dataset contains survey responses from N = 12,570 students from 100 universities in 35 countries, collected in 21 languages. We measured anxieties (statistics, mathematics, test, trait, social interaction, performance, creativity, intolerance of uncertainty, and fear of negative evaluation), self-efficacy, persistence, and the cognitive reflection test, and collected demographics, previous mathematics grades, self-reported and official statistics grades, and statistics module details. Data reuse potential is broad, including testing links between anxieties and statistics/mathematics education factors, and examining instruments’ psychometric properties across different languages and contexts

Out of Sync?: The determinants and consequences of nonstandard schedules for family cohesion: The Netherlands within a comparative perspective

Ganzeboom, H.B.G. [Promotor]Mills, M.M. [Copromotor

Out of time: the consequences of non-standard employment schedules for family cohesion

This pioneering work aims at understanding the impact of non-standard (evening, night, weekend) working time on family cohesion, meaning parent-child interaction, partnership quality and divorce or partnership dissolution. ‘Out of time - the Consequences of Non-standard Employment Schedules for Family Cohesion’ is the first work to treat this important topic in a cross-national, comparative way by using data from two large comparable surveys. The impact of work in non-standard schedules on workers can be divided into individual and social consequences. Research so far has shown the clear individual effects of these schedules, such as increased stress levels and sleeping and physical disorders. There is less clarity about social consequences. Either no or positive effects of these types of schedules on workers and their families are found, or a significant negative impact on the relations between the workers and others, especially other members of the family is shown in research results. This Brief compares the Netherlands and the United States of America, countries that both show a high prevalence of non-standard schedule work, whereas both operate in very different institutional and welfare regime settings of working time regulation. By combining both quantitative and qualitative data, the authors are able to provide generalized views of comparative surveys and challenging those generalizations at the same time, thus enabling the reader to get a better understanding and more balanced view of the actual relationship between non-standard employment schedules and family cohesion

Out of time: the consequences of non-standard employment schedules for family cohesion

This pioneering work aims at understanding the impact of non-standard (evening, night, weekend) working time on family cohesion, meaning parent-child interaction, partnership quality and divorce or partnership dissolution. ‘Out of time - the Consequences of Non-standard Employment Schedules for Family Cohesion’ is the first work to treat this important topic in a cross-national, comparative way by using data from two large comparable surveys. The impact of work in non-standard schedules on workers can be divided into individual and social consequences. Research so far has shown the clear individual effects of these schedules, such as increased stress levels and sleeping and physical disorders. There is less clarity about social consequences. Either no or positive effects of these types of schedules on workers and their families are found, or a significant negative impact on the relations between the workers and others, especially other members of the family is shown in research results. This Brief compares the Netherlands and the United States of America, countries that both show a high prevalence of non-standard schedule work, whereas both operate in very different institutional and welfare regime settings of working time regulation. By combining both quantitative and qualitative data, the authors are able to provide generalized views of comparative surveys and challenging those generalizations at the same time, thus enabling the reader to get a better understanding and more balanced view of the actual relationship between non-standard employment schedules and family cohesion

Nonstandard work schedules and partnership quality: quantitative and qualitative findings.

This article questions existing findings and provides new evidence about the consequences of nonstandard work schedules on partnership quality. Using quantitative couple data from The Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS) (N = 3,016) and semistructured qualitative interviews (N = 34), we found that, for women, schedules with varying hours resulted in greater relationship dissatisfaction than for men. Men with young children who worked varying hours had less relationship conflict and spent more time with children. Parents used nonstandard schedules for tag-team parenting or to maintain perceptions of full-time motherhood. The lack of negative effects, particularly for night shifts, suggests that previous findings—largely U.S. ones—are not universal and may be attributed to wider cultural, industrial relations, and economic contexts.

Kõrgharidusele juurdepääs avaliku arvamuse peeglis

Access to higher rducation reflected in public opinion. The article characterizes the opinions prevailing in the society on equality of possibilities for acquiring education. From the studies, it has become clear that the Estonian society does not have a single shared opinion on the existence of equal possibilities for acquiring higher education. Perception of the possibilities is in direct correlation with the social-economic status of the respondent, first of all his/her level of education: people with a lower level of education feel the inequality of access to higher education more acutely. In this way, we are very similar to many Central and East European countries. This situation has not developed purely because of the „socialist past", but also due to the decisions made by the Republic of Estonia. Together with several other Central and East European states we are the opposites of the Nordic countries, where the general feeling of inequality in access to education is perceived much less, and so is the opinion that access to higher education depends on the size of the family’s income. In other words, akin to many Central and East European states (excluding Slovenia) we have not become a „learning society" like the Nordic countries. The critical evaluation is being supported by the lack of balance between scholarships and tuition fees. The feeling of inequality in access to education in Estonia has a very rational basis that is closely related to real-life experience. In accordance with the results of the Estonian labour-market studies, there is a belief that higher education provides significant advantages on the Estonian labour-market. More precisely, half of our adult population is of the opinion that „it is definitely worth it to strive for higher education even if the conditions are not favourable". In other words, the pressure of real life for acquiring higher education is perceived so acutely that „it is definitely worth it to strive for higher education" only remotely relates to realistically perceiving the possibilities. Due to this real-life basis, the phrase „it is definitely worth it to strive for higher education" is turning into an actual belief, a self-evident goal. There is a growing tendency to justify not deciding in favour of acquiring higher education but against it. However, since the actual possibilities and how they are perceived are based on belonging to a certain social-economic group, it is the young people from families with limited income that are at greater risk of not being able to achieve the desired goals. Thus the globally acknowledged need to supplement the selection based on deserving by certain affirmative action is even more appropriate. Therefore the institutions offering higher education are obliged to actively search for talents in all society groups and the society, in its turn, has to be active in finding effective means to ensure equality in access to education