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NATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL
 
2009 VOLUME 33 #1

CONTENTS

 

Water Policy in the Hashemite Kingdom
Melodee M. Baines, Old Dominion University

1

Evaluation of Student Understanding of the First Amendment Through the
Use of Large-Scale Databases

David L. Buckner, Jeffrey Hawkins, Oklahoma State University

13

Female Inmate Psychological Adjustment to County Jail and Future Implications
William A. L. Clay, III, Texas Southern University

20

Simulating Life: Role Play, Games, Simulations
Harvey C. Foyle, Joanne C. Foyle, Emporia State University, Kansas

24

Text Messaging and Camera Phones in the Classroom: Resetting the Moral
Compass or Generational Differences?

Amy Gentry, Ohio University
Judith Gentry, Judy Roobian-Mohr, Columbus State Community College

29

A Many-Splendored Things: Intra-Ethnic Views of Romantic Love and its
Evil Twin, Jealousy

Genaro Gonzalez, Berenice Martinez, University of Texas-Pan American

38

Buying Gasoline for Hybrid Cars: Evidence from Daily Gasoline Prices
Jannett Highfill, Michael McAsey, Bradley University

44

A Multidimensionality of Economic Globalization and Its Controversial Effect
Hae S. Kim, Troy University

49

The Use of Community Assessment Data to Prioritize the Need for Mental Health
Services within a Community Health Center

Kristi L. Lewis, Ann Myers, Kathryn A. Janousek, James Madison University
M. Andrée Gitchell, Rockingham Memorial Hospital

60

Caspar Weinberger and the Iran-Contra Scandal: Saint or Sinner?
H.R. Mahood, Ramona Mahood, University of Memphis

70

Parenting Practices of Middle Class Lesbian Couples
Mel Moore, University of Northern Colorado

75

Two Experiments Examine Induced Anxiety, Depression, Anger and Assertiveness
that are Contrasted with the Conditions of Relaxed Music, Role Playing and Silence
and Indicate their Impacts on Cognitions and the Emotion of Anxiety

Edward J. Murray, Carol A. Puthoff Murray, Kent State University Ashtabula
Meghan P. Murray, Alliant International University

85

The Characterization of Reflection by Student Teachers Using the Critical
Incident Technique

Barbara R. Peterson, Austin Peay State University

93

The Role of Colleges and Universities in Building Community Resilience
to Disasters

Rose L. Pfefferbaum, Phoenix College

102

The Chilean Social Security System
Anand Shetty, Charles F. O’Donnell, Iona College

110

Minority Youth and Disproportionate Minority Contact
Okori Uneke, Winston-Salem State University

118

Alcohol Abuse Among College Students: The Failure of Prevention Programs
R. Wade Wheeler, Texas State University-San Marcos

135

No Child Left Behind: Hits and Myths
Michael J. Wiebe, Texas Woman’s University

141

The Virginia Tech Massacre from the British Press Perspective
Wayne S. Wooden, Hovsep K. Agop,
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

149

Gender Analysis on Perception of Quality of Life Regarding Urgent Needs
and Limited Resources

Baomei Zhao, Victor Wilburn, University of Akron

159

Book Review: “Innovation Policy and the Economy” (Volume 7)
Cynthia Z. Cohen, University of Houston

172

Book Review: “Innovation Policy and the Economy” (Volume 8)
Cynthia Z. Cohen, University of Houston

174


 
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