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“Queer Femme Sporty Jewess”: Hey Alma Classifieds and the Construction of Jewish Collective Identity
No full textHey Alma (@hey.alma), a Jewish cultural publication with an Instagram account with over 150,000 followers, began posting followers’ personal ads over a year ago. This article analyzes the ways in which Hey Alma classifieds carve out a space of and for not only subversive resistance of personal identity at the margins of mainstream, but also a specific construction of what it means to be Jewish. Using the framework of “collective identity” that theorizes about the process and tension in creating a shared and interactive sense of “us” (against an explicit or implicit “them”), including a moral, intellectual, and emotional connection to a larger group, this article explores how a progressive, even radical, youth-based Jewish collective identity is formed—and contested and transformed—through these personals, the captions, and the comments from followers. By defying gender and sexual binaries and norms, and fusing traditional Jewish cultural signifiers, Hey Alma classifieds work to contest a static and uniform Jewish collective identity. Moreover, social media as a space for this formation and contestation of collective identity is crucial to this process. As a noninstitutional space disconnected from the physical places connected to Judaism, Hey Alma offers social interaction where young Jewish users collectively negotiate meanings (of gender, sexuality, nationality, Jewish identity) more generally through the affordances of social media and Instagram more specifically: visibility, persistence, editability, and association. In this way, Hey Alma’s classifieds on Instagram work as an imagined community, and a space for the development of a contemporary youth-based Jewish collective identity
Chronic Illness Education 2025: Building Healthy Habits: Preventative Strategies for Childhood Obesity
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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Empowering Families with Resources to Combat Childhood Obesity
No full textChronic Illness Education 2025: Chronic Illness Strategies & Resources: Type 1 Diabetes in Adolescence
No full textChronic Illness Education 2025: Navigating Depression and Anxiety Amid Socioeconomic Strain
No full textChronic Illness Education 2025: Education and Resources to Improve Pediatric Type I Diabetes Mellitus Care within Schools and Child Care Services
No full textChronic Illness Education 2025: Barriers to Effective Diabetes Management in a Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Setting
Get PDFSocial and Cognitive Factors Associated With Preschoolers’ Different Persuasive Styles
No full textPersuasion skills consist of a complex concoction of specific mental, emotional, and social abilities. Interest in this topic continues to grow; however, there remains limited knowledge on social and cognitive correlates of persuasion in childhood. The present study explores the interrelations among specific cognitive abilities, social skills, and persuasive strategies in preschool age. A sample of 86 (42 boys) children (Mage = 4.85 years, SD = 0.51) was administered a persuasion task, a language test, and a battery of theory of mind and executive functioning tasks. Preschool teachers rated children’s social competence. Despite the low frequency of preschoolers’ persuasion strategies, results showed significant links among theory of mind, executive functioning, social skills, and persuasion strategies. Results also showed a diverse range of skills that predicted children’s persuasive styles. Findings will be discussed within the context of existing literature, considering implications for future research and educational practice
Predictors of Change in Mother-Child Language Style Matching in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence
No full textIntimate partner violence (IPV) can negatively influence the mother-child relationship, including frequent mismatched behavioral attunement. Language style matching (LSM) is a component of behavioral matching that measures the similarity between how individuals use various common function words. Research examining mother-child LSM is limited, and no research has examined whether exposure to IPV impacts dyadic changes in LSM over time. Using a community sample of 182 women recruited for a larger longitudinal study, we evaluated changes in LSM during a standardized mother-child interaction from age 4 to 7. We found that mothers’ reports of IPV in the household when children were 5–7 years of age predicted increases in mother-child LSM over time, but early IPV (ages 0 to 4) did not predict change in LSM. As children age and develop more sophisticated regulatory skills, they may attempt to attune more closely to their mothers as a result of recent IPV exposure