Dual Perspective to Child’s Wholeness

child s wholeness is argued to be essential to the child becoming a productive citizen However when measured by the spiritual academic moral and emotional wholeness appear to have maintained a steady decline Therefore the paper investigated the role of parental presence and parenting practices on child s wholeness The cross-sectional survey research design was adopted through a validated structured questionnaire A purposive random sampling technique was applied to select 87 married people at Babcock University Ogun State Nigeria The data gathered were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics Multiple regression results revealed that parental presence and parenting practices had a positive significant effect on child s wholeness Adj R2 0 396 F 2 84 27 549 p 0 05 and the artificial neural network analysis showed parenting practices as the best predicto

Flexible work design and employee commitment : when socio-demographic characteristics are introduced?

Purpose: In this study, we contribute to the existing literature by examining the relationship between military spending changes and economic growth in China over the period 1995 to 2018 using Granger causality test. We would also explore short and long run relationship between GDP growth and military expenditure of China. Approach/Methodology/Design: Data used in this study are yearly data covering the period of 1995 to 2018 and the variables are Gross Domestic product (GDP) and Military Expenditure (ME). Data were collected from World Bank. GDP is at 2010 constant US prices and ME is expressed as a percentage of economic growth. All variables are transformed into the natural logarithmics to obtain growth effects. Findings: Using causality test, the causal relationship between the variables revealed that the alternative hypothesis should be accepted which is lagged GDP variable (proxy of economic growth) does not cause ME in our first VAR Granger causslity Wald test model. However, we discover and verified that there is one-way causality from economic growth to military spending, but no causality from military spending to economic growth is observed in this study. China’s positive economic growth can finance its military expenditure. Practical Implications: The study will contribute positively to the understanding of influence of GDP on military expenditure for emerging and developed ecconomies. Originality/value: This study innovates by using Cointegration, E-granger and Granger causality test to find out economic growth causing military expenditure in developing economies like China.peer-reviewe