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Freedom and Incarceration
No full textThe prison system works in a manner that uses freedom as a punishment. When we think about reintegration, freedom plays a huge role in that. Once free people are taken into jail, they are stripped of all of their freedom. Then, they are returned into society, and expected to be ready to regain all freedoms with very little guidance. Our project works to bring these stories to the forefront and tries to spark change within current reintegration programs that seem to be very ineffective.https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/freedom-movement-spring-2022/1004/thumbnail.jp
Kicking the Way Through a Global Pandemic: How NCAA Division I Soccer Players and Institutions Have Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Related Protocols
Get PDFThe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic rapidly spread throughout the United States in 2020, affecting many lives in the process. As health communicators, dealing with this disease and sharing effective health messaging in a fluid and unknown situation was key to preventing greater spread of COVID-19 and keeping the public safe from harm. For athletics, like all other aspects of society, protocols needed to be put in place to ensure that athletes could safely participate and compete in their sport. The present study looks to examine NCAA COVID-19 protocols of mask wearing and social distancing and how NCAA Division 1 soccer players personally felt about the protocols and how these athletes viewed their institution’s take on these protocols. A cross-sectional (online) survey was distributed through a snowball sample to NCAA Division 1 soccer players (N = 110). Key findings include significant differences between male and female athletes’ perceptions of protocols, high optimism bias and comparative bias among athletes, high self-efficacy and response efficacy in relation to the protocols, and significant influences on the athletes’ beliefs about COVID-19 by their parents and teammates. Implications highlight the inequalities between male and female athletes and the risk of lack of credibility among the NCAA in future health messaging
How is Technology Being Used to Impact Those with Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Get PDFThis study sought to examine the use of technology to aid in social development of middle and high school students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, perceived impact by teachers, and potential future applications. This study reports on qualitative data gathered from surveys sent to teachers in Indiana and Ohio who worked with those students. Findings include a range of technology implementations in the classroom and an overall feeling of perceived positive impact of technology on developing social skills. The connection between adolescence and the need for focused social skill development and the future direction for research were also discussed
Using Improvisational Theater to Evaluate Reciprocal Communication in Neurodivergent Adolescents
Get PDFThis study aimed to determine the impact of improvisational theater on pragmatic language skills of verbal adolescents on the autism spectrum. Six participants from a five-day virtual improv theater program were evaluated for their abilities to engage in appropriate reciprocal communication. Caregivers of participants completed the Social Responsiveness Scale-2 prior to and after attending intervention to assess pragmatic language skills. During the improv games, participants were evaluated for appropriate reciprocal communication skills through video documentation. Participants did not demonstrate significant improvement in pragmatic language, but the study provides a novel scale to evaluate the quality of reciprocal communication in quantitative measures
Two Pandemics - Making Meaning of Illness through the Works of Thomas Mann and Thomas Glavinic
Get PDFBy March 2020, most of the world had gone into varying levels of lockdown to try to prevent further spread of what was proving to be a deceptively deadly disease: COVID-19, commonly referred to as “the Coronavirus.” One way to gauge the effect that a massive, traumatic event such as a global pandemic has on individuals is to analyze how those people write about their experiences. In this study, I examine what the German body of discourse contained and what it can teach regarding two major pandemics that fell one hundred years apart via Thomas Mann’s novella Der Tod in Venedig (Death in Venice) and Thomas Glavinic’s autofictional “Der Corona-Roman” (“The Corona Novel”). By finding common themes and subjecting them to various critiques and analyses, I discovered that the “German experience,” so to speak, was remarkably similar to those I was reading from my compatriots in English, if a bit blunter. I analyze these texts cross-linguistically to understand universal themes of experience during pandemic times, and how those views have changed across time and space, with four overarching topics: time, self-writing of illness, pandemic descriptions, and mortality. In this way, I show how readers are able to connect with the texts and use them to make meaning in their own lives
Painting a Pretty Picture: The Role of Social Desirability in the Memory Self-Efficacy of Young and Older Adults
Get PDFThe current study examined the relationships between social desirability, depression, memory self-efficacy, and objective memory in both young and older adult populations. I designed the study to replicate the previous findings of Lineweaver and Brolsma (2014) and to determine whether these findings would generalize to individuals in later adulthood. 45 young adults and 47 older adults (young adults: 88% female, 80% White; older adults: 42% female, 100% White) completed measures of depression, objective memory, memory self-efficacy, and social desirability. As predicted, older adults were higher in levels of social desirability than young adults, but the memory self-efficacy of young adults was more closely related to social desirability than that of the older age demographic. While social desirability did not mediate the relationship between depression and memory self-efficacy, significant support was found for its mediation of the relationship between objective memory and memory self-efficacy in both young and older adult populations. Together, these results indicate that social desirability exerts influence on the memory self-perceptions of both young and older adult populations and taking social desirability into account may improve the accuracy of memory self-reports in healthcare settings
Book Review: Songs as Locus for a Lay Theology: Moshe Walsalam Sastriyar and Sadhu Kochukunju Upadeshi. By Philip K. Mathai
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Food Apartheid in Indianapolis
Get PDFThis project examines food deserts and food apartheid in Indianapolis