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Lars Tummers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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policy Alienation of public professionals the construct and its measurement
Public Administration Review, 2012Co-Authors: Lars TummersAbstract:Currently, there is an intense debate on the pressures facing public professionals during policy implementation. Frequently professionals have difficulty identifying with new policies, resulting in among else diminished policy performance. We examine this problem using the concept of ‘policy Alienation’, for which we have developed and tested a scale for its measurement. Policy Alienation is conceptually associated with five sub-dimensions: strategic powerlessness, tactical powerlessness, operational powerlessness, societal meaninglessness and client meaninglessness. Likert-type items have been developed for these sub-dimensions which together create a policy Alienation scale. The initial scale was reviewed by interviewing 21 experts. These items were then administered in a survey of 478 Dutch healthcare professionals implementing a new financial policy: Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG, or DBC). The resulting 23-item policy Alienation scale demonstrated good psychometric qualities. A reliable and valid policy Alienation scale can ultimately help in understanding and enhancing policy performance.
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policy Alienation of public professionals application in a new public management context
Social Science Research Network, 2009Co-Authors: Lars Tummers, Victor Bekkers, Bram SteijnAbstract:Today, many public professionals feel estranged from the policy programmes they implement; that is, they experience ‘policy Alienation’. This is of concern as, for satisfactory implementation, some identification with the policy is required. We conceptualize policy Alienation based on the sociological concept of work Alienation, and show how this can be used in policy implementation research. Studying a Dutch case of professionals implementing a new work disability decree, we observe how NPM practices increase policy Alienation because of a perceived dysfunctional focus on efficiency and results. A large number of policy changes and stricter implementation rules further increased policy Alienation.
Micah A Tilley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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an adapted measure of sibling attachment factor structure and internal consistency of the sibling attachment inventory in youth
Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 2018Co-Authors: Valerie A Noel, Sarah E Francis, Micah A TilleyAbstract:Parent-youth and peer relationship inventories based on attachment theory measure communication, trust, and Alienation, yet sibling relationships have been overlooked. We developed the Sibling Attachment Inventory and evaluated its psychometric properties in a sample of 172 youth ages 10–14 years. We adapted the 25-item Sibling Attachment Inventory from the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment-Revised peer measure. Items loaded onto three factors, identified as communication, trust, and Alienation, α = 0.93, 0.90, and 0.76, respectively. Sibling trust and Alienation correlated with depression (r s = −0.33, r s = 0.48) and self-worth (r s = 0.23; r s = −0.32); sibling trust and Alienation correlated with depression after controlling for parent trust and parent Alienation (r s = −0.23, r s = 0.22). Preliminary analyses showed good internal consistency, construct validity, and incremental predictive validity. Following replication of these properties, this measure can facilitate large cohort assessments of sibling attachment.
Suniya S Luthar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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mapping developmental changes in perceived parent adolescent relationship quality throughout middle school and high school
Development and Psychopathology, 2019Co-Authors: Ashley M Ebbert, Frank J Infurna, Suniya S LutharAbstract:This study examined changes in adolescents' perceived relationship quality with mothers and fathers from middle school to high school, gender differences, and associated mental health consequences using longitudinal data from the New England Study of Suburban Youth cohort (n = 262, 48% female) with annual assessments (Grades 6-12). For both parents, Alienation increased, and trust and communication decreased from middle school to high school, with greater changes among girls. Overall, closeness to mothers was higher than with fathers. Girls, compared to boys, perceived more trust and communication and similar levels of Alienation with mothers at Grade 6. Girls perceived stronger increases in Alienation from both parents and stronger declines in trust with mothers during middle school. Increasing Alienation from both parents and less trust with mothers at Grade 6 was associated with higher levels of anxiety at Grade 12. Less trust with both parents at Grade 6 and increasing Alienation and decreasing trust with mothers in high school were associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms at Grade 12. Overall, girls reported having higher levels of anxiety at Grade 12 compared to boys. Findings on the course of the quality of parent-adolescent relationships over time are discussed in terms of implications for more targeted research and interventions.
Bram Steijn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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policy Alienation of public professionals application in a new public management context
Social Science Research Network, 2009Co-Authors: Lars Tummers, Victor Bekkers, Bram SteijnAbstract:Today, many public professionals feel estranged from the policy programmes they implement; that is, they experience ‘policy Alienation’. This is of concern as, for satisfactory implementation, some identification with the policy is required. We conceptualize policy Alienation based on the sociological concept of work Alienation, and show how this can be used in policy implementation research. Studying a Dutch case of professionals implementing a new work disability decree, we observe how NPM practices increase policy Alienation because of a perceived dysfunctional focus on efficiency and results. A large number of policy changes and stricter implementation rules further increased policy Alienation.
Joan S Meier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Mapping Gender: Shedding Empirical Light on Family Courts’ Treatment of Cases Involving Abuse and Alienation
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017Co-Authors: Joan S Meier, Sean DicksonAbstract:This article provides an empirical view of family courts' treatment of custody cases involving abuse and/or Alienation claims. After a brief literature survey, the article describes the co-authors’ pilot study, which begins empirically mapping family courts’ uses of parental Alienation theory in abuse cases. The pilot results provide powerful preliminary empirical validation of the growing number of strong critiques of family court practice in abuse cases.
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a historical perspective on parental Alienation syndrome and parental Alienation
Journal of Child Custody, 2009Co-Authors: Joan S MeierAbstract:Claims of parental Alienation syndrome (PAS) and parental Alienation (PA) have come to dominate custody litigation, especially where abuse is alleged. Although much psychological and legal literature has critiqued PAS, and leading researchers as well as most professional institutions have renounced the syndrome concept, Alienation as a parental behavior or child’s condition continues to be extensively investigated and credited in research and forensic contexts. This article reviews the history of PAS, both as posited by its inventor, Richard Gardner, and as used and applied in courts, suggesting that it not only lacks empirical basis or objective merit, but that it derives from its author’s troubling beliefs about adult and child sexual interaction. It then examines the more recent explorations of non-syndrome ‘‘Alienation’’ as proffered by Janet Johnston and others, noting both its more balanced and grounded nature and its more modest remedial implications. However, the article concludes that PA is too closely tied to PAS to be an adequate improvement. It, too, is used crudely in courts to defeat abuse allegations, it continues to rely on speculations about mothers’ purported unconscious desires and their effects on children, and, more subtly than PAS, it minimizes abuse and its effects on mothers and children. At root, although even PA researchers have found it to be a real issue in only a small minority of contested custody cases, courts’ and evaluators’ extensive focus on it in response to mothers’ abuse allegations continues to privilege false or exaggerated Alienation concerns over valid concerns about abuse.
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a historical perspective on parental Alienation syndrome and parental Alienation
Social Science Research Network, 2009Co-Authors: Joan S MeierAbstract:Claims of parental Alienation syndrome (PAS) and parental Alienation have come to dominate custody litigation, especially where abuse is alleged. While much psychological and legal literature has critiqued PAS, and leading researchers as well as most professional institutions have renounced the syndrome concept, Alienation as a parental behavior or child’s condition continues to be extensively investigated and credited in research and forensic contexts. This article reviews the history of PAS, both as posited by its inventor, Richard Gardner, and as used and applied in courts, suggesting that it not only lacks empirical basis or objective merit, but that it derives from its author’s troubling beliefs about adult and child sexual interaction. It then examines the more recent explorations of non-syndrome "Alienation" as proffered by Janet Johnston and others, noting both its more balanced and grounded nature and its more modest remedial implications. However, the article concludes that PA is too closely tied to PAS to be an adequate improvement, because it too is used crudely in courts to defeat abuse allegations, it continues to rely on speculations about mothers’ purported unconscious desires and their effects on children, and, more subtly than PAS, minimizes abuse and its effects on mothers and children. At root, while even PA researchers have found it to be a real issue in only a small minority of contested custody cases, courts’ and evaluators’ extensive focus on it in response to mothers’ abuse allegations continues to privilege false or exaggerated Alienation concerns over valid concerns about abuse.
