Social Sciences Journal, Volume 5, Number 2 now available

The second issue of Volume 5 of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences has been published.

Volume 5, Number 2 includes:

• Differences in Self-monitoring between Effective and Ineffective Leaders in the Public Sector: A South African Study by Martina Kotzé and Ian Venter.
• Social and Economic Development of Regions: Problems of Interregional Differences and Regional Policy in Russia by Alsu Gazizova.
• Personality from the Standpoint of Social Psychology by Yilmaz Ozakpinar.
• Mathematics Teacher Educators’ Account of Preparing Pre-service Teachers for Teaching Mathematics in Multilingual Classroom: The Case of South Africa by Anthony A. Essien.
• Adolescent Emotional Expression and Regulation: A Case Study in Malaysia by Nor Shafrin Ahmad, Nor Hashimah Hashim and Rahimi Che Aman.
• The Use of Focus Groups in Information Systems Research by Stephen Burgess.
• Teaching About HIV/AIDS as a Standalone Subject by Moses Orwe-Onyango.
• Economic Globalization in India: The Role of Old and New Traditions in the Development of Socioeconomic Values for Positive Globalization by Santosh Saha.
• The Antecedents of Empowerment of the Line Managers in Human Resource Activities: An Empirical Study in Large Malaysian Firms by Yusliza Mohd.Yusoff and Hazman Shah Abdullah.
• Wives’ Positions and the Relationship between Coping and Insecurity Feeling by Hossein Behravan.
• National Housing Policy in Australia: Are New Initiatives in Affordable Housing Sustainable? by Lou Wilson, Michael Arman, George Zillante, Stephen Pullen, Jian Zuo and Nicholas Chileshe.

• Power and Control: Changing Structures of Battered Women’s Shelters by Michelle VanNatta.
• A Discourse Analysis of the “Be Confident in Thailand with Prime Minister Abhisit” Programme Scripts for their Meaning and Truth in Political Communication by Kesinee Pratumsuwan.
• Accommodating Migrants in the Post-reform Urban China: The Perspective of the Chinese Hukou System by Junhua Chen and Fei Guo
• A Study of Acculturation and Adaptation of South Asians in Hong Kong by Kareen NingLianChing Tonsing.
• Juvenile Courtroom Interactions: Verbal and Bodily Performances as an Object of Exchange with the Judges by Bengü Kurtege Sefer.
• Research into the Elements of Design Differentiation in the Findability of Beverage Packaging by Regina W.Y. Wang, Mu Chien Chou and Pei Wen Lan.
• The Macroeconomic Effects of Changes in Petrol Prices: The Case of EU and Turkey by Halil Ozekicioglu.
• Temporal Conjunctions in Medical Case Presentations: Examples from Case Presentations by Native and Taiwanese Physicians by Hsuan Hung, Jing-Jane Tsai and Pi-Ching Chen.
• The Fatal Attraction of Mentoring: Mentoring for Retention of Beginning Teachers by Janette Long.
• Issues in Managing Policy Driven Inter Organisational Networks: Perspectives from Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor Flagship Projects by Aliza Akmar Omar and Mohan V. Avvari.
• The Family-in-Environment: A New Perspective on Generalist Social Work Practice by Janice Gasker and John Vafeas.
• Psycho-Social Version of the Active-Audience Approach to Gender Identity Research by Greta Gober.
• Understanding and Nurturing Creativity in Design Education: A Case Study of Newspaper Perspective in Hong Kong by Yi Lin Wong and Kin Wai Michael Siu.
• Exploring the Use of Qualitative Research Methodology in Conducting Research in Cross Cultural Management by Andika Putra Pratama and Aries Feizal Firman.
• Brain Abnormalities in the Criminal Justice System: Uniting Public Policy and Scientific Knowledge by David Admire and Alissa Mitchell.
• Music as Pedagogy by Dianne McAdams Jones, Marlene Bacon and LaShawn Camille Williams-Schultz.
• Residential Satisfaction with Housing in the Malaysian Context by Zikri Muhammad, Katiman Rostam and Yusliza Mohd.Yusoff.
• Property Tenure and Local Economic Development by Ashley Gunter and Lukas Scheepers.
• The Reliability of Group Judgment: Some Remarks on the Measurement of Agreement among Experts by Pawel Cabala.
• A Sustainable Paddy Farming Practice in West Malaysia by Zakirah Othman, Amran Muhammad and Mohd Akib Abu Bakar.
• Lifestyles and Recycling: Living Environments, Social Changes and Facilities in a Densely Populated City by Chi Hang Lo and Kin Wai Michael Siu.
• Factors Influencing Career Choice Among Secondary School Students: Implications for Career Guidance by Bridget Oghenekome Ogowewo.
• MyLinE for English Language Learning by Jowati Juhary.
• Victims of Doubled-Edged Violence: A Socio-political Study of Tribal-rural Folks Living in the Forest Tract of Eastern India by Gouri Sankar Banerjee.
• The Impact of EU Post-Enlargement Labour Migration on Social Attitudes of Migrant Workers: An Example of Latvia by Inna Akopova and Aleksejs Ruža.
• The Digital Musician: An Analysis by Alfred Johnson.
• Moving Beyond Evaluation Utilization Theory to Embrace a Comprehensive Theory of Influence by Rumaisa Shaukat.
• A New Urban Poverty? The Financial Impact on the Consumption Standard in Brazilian Slums by Kaue Lopes dos Santos.
• How Homelessness Compromises the Exercise of the Rights of Citizenship in Australia by Emily Schindeler.
• Causal Attributions of Infidelity of Latvian Residents with Different Kinds of Infidelity Experience by Iveta Ruza and Aleksejs Ruza.
• Towards a Framework for University-wide Postgraduate Programmes in Sustainability by David Grierson and Claire Hyland.
• Feminisation of Agriculture as an Effect of Male Out-migration: Unexpected Outcomes from Jhapa District, Eastern Nepal by Hom Nath Gartaula, Anke Niehof and Leontine Visser.
• Prisoner Re-entry: An Assets-based, Capacity Building Community Practice Pilot Program by Jennifer Fritz, Barbara Walters and Elvia R. Krajewski.
• Sexual Life after HIV Infection: An Exploratory Study among HIV Positive Adult Males and Females in Dhaka, Bangladesh by Naznine Anwar and Sharful Islam Khan.