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<p>  </p> <p>Interpersonal relationships play a central role in well-being in adulthood. Built upon the life course and within-family perspectives, this dissertation investigates the generational origin of interpersonal relationships via socialization (i.e., intergenerational transmission of interpersonal relationship quality) and its consequences on well-being across generations in later-life families. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Despite a large body of literature on parents’ socialization of children leading to similar social development generationally, this literature has been criticized for lacking attention to socialization effects after childhood and issues of heterogeneity and selectivity. To advance knowledge in these aspects, drawing from theories of socialization and the life course, I examined the transmission of older mothers’ relationship quality with their mothers and fathers to their relationship quality with their own adult children in midlife in Chapter 2. I further studied how intergenerational transmission varies by relational dimension (closeness, tension) and adult children’s gender (sons, daughters). The evidence for intergenerational transmission of parent-child relationship quality found in this study complements family socialization literature by revealing the cumulative socialization influences in later-life families. The differential patterns of intergenerational transmission highlight social learning as a selective process based on the positivity or negativity of the relational dimension and the moderating role of social structural position (i.e., gender) in shaping the patterns of intergenerational transmission.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Built upon the core idea of intergenerational transmission, the aim of Chapter 3 is to broaden the study of social relationships and well-being from the family network lens by examining how intergenerational transmission of mother-child and friendship quality facilitates older generation’s interpersonal relationship quality to affect offspring’s psychological well-being. Although the implication of interpersonal relationship quality for well-being has been well-documented, prior literature has largely focused on the effect of one’s own relationship quality on psychological well-being. To advance knowledge on this issue, I examined the effects of older mothers transmitting the quality of their relationships with their own mothers and friends to adult children’s relationships with their friends and with the mothers themselves on adult children’s depressive symptoms. I further investigated how adult children’s gender shaped the ways in which mothers’ relationship quality affected adult children’s well-being. My findings support intergenerational transmission of interpersonal relationship quality as a mechanism by which mothers’ interpersonal relationship quality affects adult children’s well-being. The differential effect by adult children’s gender highlights the critical role gender plays in shaping the consequences of intergenerational transmission of interpersonal relationship quality on offspring’s well-being. </p> <p><br></p> <p>In summary, this dissertation applies the life course and within-family perspectives to studying intergenerational transmission of interpersonal relationship quality as a way by which the lives of family members are linked in aging families and the consequences of this interconnectedness for well-being across generations. Furthermore, it highlights the important role social structural position (i.e., gender) plays in shaping patterns and consequences of intergenerational transmission. </p>

This study is a qualitative inquiry of eight mid-career second language (L2) teachers’ identity evolution. These teachers have or had full-time or tenured teaching experience in secondary schools in Japan. Since they were mid- and later career teachers, they have explored their development, what they are now, and why they keep growing. They have all made meaningful voluntary changes in their professional lives. To make meaningful voluntary changes at moments of transitions, the teachers have made choices and negotiated, or juggled, their identities. They are successful teachers who have tenaciously pursued what matters to themselves professionally throughout their lives. One unfilled niche in the L2 teacher development and education is research on redefining L2 teachers who began their careers in secondary education in Japan, make meaningful voluntary changes in mid-career, and make apparently difficult work situations negotiable. The three purposes of this study are to (a) explore why and how L2 teachers’ identity evolution and their professional growth at mid-career happen; (b) learn more about the complexity of teacher change mechanisms at mid-career, and; (c) highlight ways that teachers whose professional development has stalled can grow out of their stagnation by examining the lives of successful mid-career and later career teachers. Eight L2 teachers participated in this study, recruited between 2005 and 2010. Interviews are the main source of data collection. I triangulated the data with email exchanges, class visits, and public documents such as Curriculum Vitae, syllabi, and curriculum descriptions given to students in a current or former class, handouts used in class, and published research articles. The data analysis was grounded in Riessman’s (2008) thematic and structural narrative analysis for identity evolution. Using these frameworks, I analyzed the data by(a) looking for stories and events in the telling as well as searching for identity negotiation and evolution with the participants with thematic analysis, which applied to all the participants, and (b) seeking contextual, discursive, and interpersonal cohesion and meanings with structural narrative analysis, which was applied to one participant. What each participant deemed important determined what kind of L2 teacher they wanted to become. With their efforts to keep evolving as L2 teachers through reflection, action, and negotiation they became consciously aware of what mattered to them. Their conscious awareness prompted them to exercise agency to plan meaningful changes. / Teaching & Learning

No / Excavations in the 1920s and 1970s at the Sculptor’s Cave, North-East Scotland, revealed that the site was used for mortuary rituals during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1100–800 BC) and Roman Iron Age (late first to fourth centuries AD), whilst a series of Pictish symbols carved into its entrance walls suggest that the cave’s importance continued into the Early Medieval Period. A new programme of analysis has utilised advanced 3D digital documentation and 3D metrology (specifically, 3D laser scanning) to enable this inaccessible site to be appreciated by wider audiences and analysed remotely. Detailed in situ recording of the Pictish symbols was undertaken using macro-level structured light scanning and the high-fidelity digital models blended with terrestrial laser scan data of the cave interior to show the location and detail of the carvings. This chapter examines the value of emerging digital approaches in the analysis, presentation and management of the Sculptor’s Cave, from the elucidation of additional carved details and the monitoring of surface degradation, to the dissemination of this difficult-to-access site to the wider public via online platforms. / Historic Environment Scotland provided funding for scanning work. Collaborators Visualising Heritage and Fragmented Heritage at the University of Bradford, funded by HEIF (via the University of Bradford) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/L00688X/1), respectively.

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With the advent of Law no. 9249/95, and consequently with the possibility of extinguishing punishment of authors of crimes against the tax order, after the effective payment of the helpless taxes, some controversies arose regarding the coercive effectiveness of Criminal Law. However, it is observed a differentiated treatment of non-taxable offenders, hence the importance of analyzing the instituting of punishment and acquittals in another perspective. Given that the Brazilian prison population is large, mainly due to practices of crimes against the patrimony, it is searched with the present work, to analyze the fact of the equal application of the benefit given to the authors of the crimes against the tax order, also to the authors of other crimes, who may repent of the criminal practice, restoring the injured object or, in its impossibility, repairing, in a certain way, the damage caused. Equal treatment is proposed between offenders, observing the possibility of extinguishing punishment, with an eye towards reducing new criminal practices, as well as reducing the prison population, generating a possibility of saving for the state, since it will not be obliged to costing the maintenance of the prisoners, a benefit for the victim, since they will be compensated for the damage caused by the practice of the crime, and a possibility of a second chance for the perpetrator, who will not be incarcerated. The analysis was based on bibliographical research, having as sources the doctrine, technical productions and jurisprudences. At first, the importance of taxes was analyzed for the maintenance of state activities, conceptualizing and extracting the purpose of the taxes, in order to understand the need to classify crimes against the tax order, and consequent application of a penalty to the offender. In a second moment, it is sought to understand the beneficent institutes of the Later Regret (Later Repentance) and the Acquittal Excuse (Excusive Absence). And then, the possibility of equal treatment and possible benefits, with the application of the abovementioned institutes, against the State, the victim and the aggressor was evaluated. / O Princípio da Igualdade deverá ser utilizado em todas as situações que envolvam relações jurídicas. Com o advento da Lei nº9.249/95, e, consequentemente, com a possibilidade da extinção de punibilidade aos autores de crimes contra a ordem tributária, após o efetivo pagamento dos tributos sonegados, surgiram algumas controvérsias no tocante à eficácia coercitiva do Direito Penal. Contudo, observa-se um tratamento diferenciado para com os autores de infrações que não tenham cunho tributário, daí a importância da análise dos institutos da extinção de punibilidade e das escusas absolutórias, numa outra ótica. Dado que a população carcerária brasileira encontra-se vultuosa, principalmente devido a práticas de crimes contra o patrimônio, busca-se com o presente trabalho, analisar o fato da aplicação equiparada do benefício dado aos autores dos crimes contra a ordem tributária, também aos autores de outros crimes, que porventura venham a se arrepender da prática delituosa, restituindo o objeto lesado, ou, na sua impossibilidade, reparando, de certa forma, o dano causado. Propõem-se um tratamento igualitário entre os infratores, observando a possibilidade da extinção da punibilidade, com olhos voltados à redução de novas práticas delituosas, bem como na diminuição da população carcerária, gerando uma possibilidade de economia para o estado, pois não será obrigado a custear a manutenção dos presos, um benefício para a vítima, vez que será ressarcida do prejuízo causado pela prática do crime, e uma possibilidade de segunda chance para o autor, que não será encarcerado. A análise se fundamentou em pesquisas bibliográficas, tendo como fontes a doutrina, produções técnicas e jurisprudências. Num primeiro momento foi analisado a importância dos tributos para a manutenção das atividades estatais, conceituando e extraindo a finalidade dos tributos, para se entender a necessidade da tipificação de crimes contra a ordem tributária, e consequente aplicação de uma pena ao infrator. Num segundo momento busca-se entender os institutos benéficos do Arrependimento Posterior e da Escusa Absolutória. E em seguida foi avaliado a possibilidade do tratamento igualitário e eventuais benefícios, com a aplicação dos institutos acima mencionados, frente o Estado, a vítima e o agressor.

Denna studie utforskar den komplexa interaktionen och förhållandet mellan unga kvinnor och Klarnas plattform för "köp nu, betala senare". Genom en analys av plattformens värden och effekter samt identifiering av relevanta aktörer och utvärdering av etiska handlingsalternativ, strävar arbetet efter att kasta ljus över fenomenet “köp nu, betala senare”. Fokusgrupper med unga kvinnor som har olika relationer till användningen av Klarna har använts som metod, kompletterat med intervjuer med relevanta informanter. Resultatet ger en djupare inblick i hur Klarnas plattform har blivit en integrerad del av många unga kvinnors köpprocess. Det betonas att detta inte bara beror på dess uppenbara fördelar som bekvämlighet, säkerhet och flexibilitet, utan även på dess förmåga att anpassa sig till och tillgodose de specifika behoven hos denna demografiska grupp. Samtidigt lyfts dock även potentiella risker fram, såsom risken för överkonsumtion och överskuldsättning, vilket understryker vikten av att vara medveten om och hantera sådana aspekter vid användning av Klarnas tjänster. Denna undersökning bidrar till den bredare diskussionen om ansvarsfull konsumtion och ekonomiskt välbefinnande bland unga kvinnor, och ger vägledning för att utveckla strategier och riktlinjer för en hållbar användning av Klarnas plattform och liknande digitala betaltjänster i framtiden. / This study explores the complex interaction and relationship between young women and Klarna's platform for "buy now, pay later". Through an analysis of the platform’s values and effects, as well as the identification of relevant actors and evaluation of ethical options for action, the research aims to shed light on the phenomenon of “buy now, pay later”. Focus groups with young women who have varying relationships with the use of Klarna have been employed as a methodology, supplemented with interviews with relevant informants. The findings provide a deeper insight into how Klarna's platform has become an integrated part of many young women's shopping process. It is emphasized that this is not only due to its obvious benefits such as convenience, security, and flexibility, but also its ability to adapt to and meet the specific needs of this demographic group. Although, potential risks are also highlighted, such as the risk of overconsumption and overspending, underscoring the importance of being aware of and addressing such aspects when using Klarna's services. This research contributes to the broader discussion on responsible consumption and financial well-being among young women, providing guidance for developing strategies and guidelines for sustainable use of Klarna's platform and similar digital payment services in the future.

The demographic time bomb means that older people will become a major part of tomorrow's society. This has become an increasingly pressing issue for older people and government policy alike. ONS (2009) statistics suggest that past retirement age, the sense of quality of life (QoL) experienced by older people begins to decrease, with the fastest decline occurring after the age of 70. This research therefore began by investigating how ICT could be implicated in the social life of the older person and thus improve their QoL. Literature reviews of the field of older people's involvement with ICT indicated that there was very little research between the more general studies of ICT involvement (which include far more than the purely social aspects) and the very specific (which involve examining the social impact of just one piece of technology). This study therefore aimed to fill the gap between the two extremes. It also aimed to generate theory in an under-theorised area. The study began with a focus group and interviews asking questions around how people thought social life had changed with the advent of new technologies, how they experienced the technology, and how things could be improved in the future. The study was qualitative in nature and adopted a grounded theory approach in order to inductively generate theory. The study of the lived experience of ICT also contributed to a phenomenological approach. Comparative analysis of transcripts obtained in Phase One (Year One) enabled a set of Grounded Theory Categories to be created which accounted for what was happening in the data. A core category of identity was identified which influenced subsequent data collection in Phase Two (Year Two). Phase Two participants were then involved in more focused interviews around identity concepts. Further analysis in Year Two enabled a Schema of Subject Positions to be created concerning (digital) identities which accounted for all of the participants in the study and the ways in which they viewed and interacted with technology. The Categories were also subsumed within a Grounded Theory Model involving a tripartite identity schema aligned with Giddens theory of the reflexive project of the self. Findings suggest that participants are implicated in methods of identity involvement which can be playful or pragmatic; can be viewed in moral, immoral and amoral ways (leading to ideas of the authentic and the inauthentic); and can represent the individual or explore new identities. Identity construction can ultimately be implicated positively with the use of ICT, and may lead to a virtuous cycle of ICT usage which can improve quality of life by affirming better self-views or enabling the testing of new views of selfhood. Positive technology identities can be offered as identity role models for other older people to follow.

En continuité avec les ouvrages récents (Veyne 1981, MacMullen 1988 et Kelly 2004) qui tentent de relativiser les effets néfastes de la corruption lors du Bas-Empire, ce travail étudie le suffragium, le processus de nomination des fonctionnaires de bureaux, afin d'évaluer comment les acteurs sociaux du IVe siècle considéraient ce phénomène. Ce système, organisé d'une telle façon que les hauts fonctionnaires devaient fournir des lettres de recommandation aux candidats postulant à des postes au sein de la fonction publique, serait devenu complètement corrompu durant le IVe siècle et les lettres de recommandation auraient commencé à être systématiquement vendues. Pourtant, les lois de Constantin, Constance et Julien ne fournissent aucune preuve tangible que le suffragium était dans tous le cas vénal à cette époque. Bien au contraire, les empereurs ajoutaient la plupart de temps des épithètes au terme suffragium pour spécifier qu'il parle du suffragium vénal. Généralement, les empereurs sont présentés comme farouchement opposés au suffragium et à toutes les tractations qui y sont attachées. Loin d'être aussi hostiles envers les « pratiques corrompues », les empereurs de la dynastie constantinienne firent preuve d'un certain pragmatisme en voyant qu'ils ne pouvaient contrôler toutes les nominations de ceux qui voulaient entrer dans la fonction publique et que ce n'était pas nécessairement à leur avantage de le faire. Les empereurs se concentrèrent plutôt sur les restrictions entourant les promotions afin de faire en sorte que les personnes qui avaient de réels pouvoirs soient celles qui avaient démontré leurs qualités tout au long de leurs années de service. Bien qu'ils n'aient pas concrètement légiféré sur les critères d'embauche des candidats, cela ne veut pas dire que n'importe qui pouvait obtenir un poste. À travers l'étude des lettres de Libanios et de Symmaque, ce travail démontre que les hauts fonctionnaires ne fournissaient pas de lettres à quiconque le demandait, puisque leur réputation pouvait être entachée par le fait d'avoir recommandé un mauvais candidat à un de leurs amis. Les hauts fonctionnaires qui recevaient les recommandations pouvaient également soumettre les candidats à des examens afin d'être certains de la qualité de l'individu. Ce système officieux de contrôle des candidats vint pallier, en partie, les déficits de la législation impériale. Conjointement, la loi et les usages permirent à l'administration de fonctionner en lui fournissant des candidats qui répondaient aux critères de l'époque. / In line with recent literature (Veyne 1981, MacMullen 1988 and Kelly 2004) that attempts to relativize the negative effects of corruption during the later Roman Empire, this paper examines suffragium, the process of appointing officials, in order to demonstrate that this phenomenon is not as bad as the historiography of the twentieth century makes it out to be. This system, which was organized in such a way that the high officials had to provide letters of recommendation to candidates to positions in the public service, became completely corrupted during the fourth century and the letters were eventually systematically sold. Yet the law of Constantine, Constantius and Julian provides no tangible evidence that suffragium was bought in all instances during that period. On the contrary, the emperors often added an adjective after the noun suffragium to specify that it was bought. Typically, emperors are portrayed as fiercely opposed to suffragium and all negotiations pertaining thereto. The emperors of the Constantinian dynasty were not nearly as fierce against those "corrupt practices and they even showed some pragmatism, having understood that they could not control all appointments of those who wanted to enter the public service and that it was not necessarily in their best interest. The emperors focused mainly on legislation surrounding promotions to ensure that people who had real power were those who have shown their qualities throughout all their years of service. Although they did not specifically stated the criteria for hiring candidates, it does not mean that anyone could enter. Through the study of Libanios' and Symmachus' letters, this paper demonstrates that high officials did not provide letters to anyone who asked for them, as their reputation might have been tainted by having recommended a poor candidate to their friends. High officials who received the recommendations could also ascribe certain tests to the candidates to be certain of the individual's quality. This informal system of control of the candidates compensated, in part, for the deficits in the imperial legislation. Together, these two systems enabled the administration to function by providing candidates who met the criteria of the time.

A fundamental question in language research is the extent to which linguistic and cognitive systems interact. The aim of this thesis is to explore that relationship across new contexts and over the entire adult lifespan. This work centers on two branches of empirical research: the first is an investigation into the impact of later-life language learning on cognitive ageing (chapters 2-4), and the second examines the cognitive mechanisms underlying communicative perspective-taking from young adulthood into old age (chapter 5). The results of these chapters demonstrate that changes to one's linguistic environment can affect cognitive functions at any age, and similarly age-related changes to cognition can affect linguistic abilities, shedding light on the extent to which language and the brain are intricately connected over the lifespan. In the discussion (chapter 6), I consider how this work contributes new insights to the field, opening the door for future research to explore methods of improving cognitive abilities and linguistic behavior in old age.

Background: Links between later life depression (LLD) and adverse health outcomes are well-documented, with mental ill-health in rural older adults highlighted as a priority area for health care policy. In working age adults, models of depression show that specific psychological factors (e.g. hopelessness, neuroticism, extraversion and insecure attachment) interact with life stress to increase risk of depression. In older adults, however, the direct relationship between depression and hopelessness is inconsistently replicated. In addition, there is little evidence regarding how psychological factors interact with vulnerability to depression in older adults; and whether these factors act in the same manner as they do in working age adults. Objectives: A systematic review was carried out in order to determine the strength of the depression-hopelessness relationship, and the influence of personality traits (neuroticism/ extraversion) and insecure attachment (anxious/ avoidant) on this relationship. Next, an exploratory study was carried out to determine whether there was a direct relationship between depression and hopelessness in rural older adults living in the community and, secondly, whether this relationship was indirectly influenced by specific psychological factors (e.g. neuroticism, extraversion, and attachment styles). Methods: The systematic review was carried out using several databases (Psychinfo, Science Direct, EBCOS, Cohrane Library, PROSPERO, WEBCAT and Google Scholar). Studies relating to the variables of interest, meeting inclusion and exclusion criteria, were reviewed and evaluated for methodological biases. The pilot study asked older adults (N = 58) living in a remote and rural region to complete and return a packet of self-report questionnaires (Big Factor Inventory-10, Experiences in Close Relationships, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale, and the Beck Hopelessness Scale). Results: The systematic review identified twenty-one studies; four examining the depression-hopelessness relationship and seventeen investigating the effects of neuroticism, extraversion and insecure attachment styles on wellbeing, depression and/ or hopelessness. Findings from the pilot showed a direct relationship between depression and hopelessness in rural community dwelling older adults, with only neuroticism indirectly influencing this relationship. Conclusions: The systematic review suggests that it is not possible, as yet, to draw robust conclusions from the existing evidence base regarding the influence of psychological variables on depression and hopelessness in older adults. The findings were particularly sensitive to methodological limitations (e.g. variability between sampling methods and small effect sizes). Despite this, studies suggest some evidence for attachment and personality influencing on the depression-hopelessness relationship. Likewise, findings from the pilot study are limited by the small sample size and cross-sectional nature of the data. Preliminary findings, however, suggest that neuroticism, and not beliefs about insecure attachment, strengthens the relationship between depression and hopelessness in non-clinical, rural older adults. These findings are consistent with research on working age adults and could, potentially, represent an emerging relationship in non-clinical older adults. Further research, however, is required as to whether the same patterns are observed in clinical populations.