This study investigates the influence of chief executive officers' (CEO) demographic characteristics on the likelihood of CEO duality on boards of Philippine publicly listed corporations (PLCs). It draws on the competing perspectives of agency and stewardship, as well as human capital and upper echelon theories. It uses logistic regression on a sample of 252 active PLCs as of the end of 2021…
The purpose of this research is to identify the overall internal and external property industry determinants of profitabilty of listed real estate companies in the Philippines. In particular, this research uses reported annual data from 2013 to 2022. Using a robust random effects (RE) panel regression model with Return on Asset (ROA) as dependent variable, the the results show that firm size…
Annual audit reports from the Commission on Audit (COA) provide information on a government agency's compliance with financial reporting standards that may be valuable to government budget legislators and decision makers. Using Chi-square test of independence, the correlation between COA audit opinions and year-on-year movements of the budget appropriations were found to be weak. Insigths from…
Many psychological interventions are designed to address specific characteristics of socioemotional functioning. This randomized controlled trial innovatively examined to what extent effects of such an intervention generalize to broader domains. The new socioemotional competence training (SECT), designed to improve social and emotional functioning and well-being in healthy adults, consists of e…
Racial discrimination is a pervasive public health issue among racial/ethnic minorities, especially given its associations with psychological outcomes (Carter et al, 2019, Shi et al., 2022). However, according to Lazarus and Folkman's (1984) stress and coping theory, not all individuals develop mental health issues depending on the ways in which people cope with stressors. Thus, the present stu…
A theoretically grounded, psychometrically sound new scale-the Work Support Scale (WSS)-was developed to address limitations of existing social support measures used in vocational research. Work support was conceptualized and defined using a psychology of working lens. In Study 1, an initial pool of items was developed and reviewed by experts and a small group of participants in the target popu…
David Leblang and Benjamin Helm's 2023 book. The Ties that Bind. Immigration and the Global Political Economy, provides evidence that state governance affects the levels of emigration as well as international migrants' choice destination. States that provide higher levels of public goods generate fewer emigrants while states that provide access to citizenship and non-discrimination attract m…