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Self-Compassion and Health: Stress, Anxiety and Burnout
No full textThis study aimed to examine the relationship between self-compassion and health measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic such as overall perceived health, anxiety, stress and burnout. A total of 126 young adults between ages 18 and 35 were recruited through a university in New York and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and completed an online survey. The results suggest that higher self-compassion predicts better mental health and less stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mediation analyses found that mental health partially mediates the relationship between self-compassion and stress, indicating that self-compassion also indirectly affects stress through mental health. Data from this study didn’t support any significant relationships between self-compassion and physical health, anxiety or burnout. The findings of this study highlight the importance of self-compassion as a protective factor in mental health and its potential benefits in preventing and addressing increasingly challenging mental health issues faced by the young adult population
COVID-19, Discriminatory, and Mental Health Experiences Among Asian Individuals in the U.S.
No full textThe present online survey study sought to examine the experiences and understandings of, as well as associations among, discrimination, mental health symptoms, hypervigilance, internalized racism, and attitudes toward other BIPOC groups, for Asian adults in the U.S. both prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and during the pandemic. A total of 85 participants were included in data analyses exploring quantitative and qualitative responses about experiences both prior to and since/during the pandemic. Higher levels of everyday discrimination, hypervigilance, and internalized racism self-negativity were associated with higher levels of symptoms of anxiety, depression, and somatization. Higher levels of everyday discrimination were also associated with greater BIPOC solidarity and lower feelings of connectedness with other racial/ethnic marginalized groups. Hypervigilance and internalized racism were tested as, but not found to be, mediators of associations between everyday discrimination and mental health symptoms, though change in hypervigilance mediated the relationships of change in everyday discrimination with change in anxiety and depression symptoms from prior to during the initial months of the pandemic. Various types of discriminatory experiences were reported both before and during the pandemic, with common types of discriminatory experiences including verbal discrimination and social avoidance. Factors that influenced decisions of seeking specific mental health providers included race/ethnic and cultural background of the provider and affordability. Results highlight the importance of addressing the impact of discrimination for clients through clinical care, as well as ensuring availability of mental health services. Greater understanding of perceptions and attitudes towards solidarity, discrimination, and mental health care would benefit movements for advocacy and culturally responsive care
The Interpretation of Multiple Scale Elevations on the MMPI-A-RF: Findings from an Inpatient Psychiatric Sample
No full textThis study aimed to explore the distribution of RC scales combinations and their external correlates on the MMPI-A-RF (Archer, Handel, Ben-Porath, & Tellegen, 2016). The MMPI-A-RF is a new and independent measure for which there has been limited research on. The test developers have recommended using a serial approach when interpreting scale elevations on MMPI-A-RF protocols, which differs from previously supported configural approaches to interpreting elevated scales on the MMPI-A. The present study intended to investigate this further, as the distribution of multiple elevation combinations on RC scales in clinical samples are not well researched. This study explored the commonly occurring combinations on the RC scales, and if these combination groups provided an alternate way of interpreting the data. The initial sample included 3,203 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18 years who were referred for psychological testing in an inpatient hospital setting and had completed the MMPI-A. The findings indicated that there were six RCS combination types that were identified as occurring in ≥ 1% of population: RCSD2 (2.6%), RCSD12 (1.3%), RCSD4 (1.5%), RCS34 (1.0%); RCS46 (1.3%), and RCSD27 (1.1%). In carrying out additional correlate analyses, there were fewer participants who had completed both the MMPI-A-RF and the PAI-A, with a sample of 768 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18. When these groups were analyzed with regard to external correlates, two overarching combination group types emerged from the findings. One of the groups reflected RCS elevations of internalizing presentations, while the other reflected externalizing presentations. The significant differences of external clinical variables between and within these groups are discussed
An Intervention Targeting Academic and Behavioral Skill Deficits in Early Childhood: A Case-Study
Get PDFEarly literacy skills are considered prerequisites for early learners to eventually become effective readers (Storch & Whitehurst, 2002). Increasing early literacy skills is often the goal of teachers and schools, but skill acquisition can be hindered due to the bidirectional relationship between behavior difficulties and academic skill deficits. To compound this struggle, there is limited research available on the use of behavioral interventions that exist in conjunction with early academic interventions (Volpe et al., 2012). The goal of the current study was to pilot three emerging early literacy interventions: Fluency Letter Wheel; Letter Flash; and I Do, We Do, You Do. All three interventions were pulled from the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR), and target letter sound fluency (LSF). The second objective of this study was to examine an early academic intervention in conjunction with behavior management techniques (i.e., reinforcement and differential attention). One 7-year-old student with a history of academic and behavioral difficulties was examined across 13 individual academic sessions. A brief experimental analysis (BEA) was utilized within an alternating treatments design to identify the most effective academic intervention. A changing criterion design was then used after the I do, We do, You do intervention emerged as the most effective academic intervention. Results indicated that this intervention had moderate effects for increasing skill acquisition. In addition, skill acquisition of LSF was noted to increase from a frustrational range to a grade level instructional range during intervention implementation. Limitations, implications, and future directions of this research are discussed
Understanding Factors Related to the Development of Obesity Among Preschoolers and the Importance of Promoting Physical Activity Early in Life
Get PDFIt is known that most children do not engage in the recommended amount of physical activity on a daily basis and that physical activity is inversely related to overweight status. Various physical and mental health concerns have been associated with overweight status. Conversely, various physical, mental, and cognitive health benefits have been associated with increased physical activity. While there is some evidence to suggest that the trend in overweight status may be leveling off, the rate of occurrence is still high (Hales et al., 2017). In addition, young children continue to fail to meet the recommendations for daily physical activity as well as for sedentary behavior (Colley et al., 2013). It is known that overweight status and physical activity habits both tend to persist from childhood and adolescence into adulthood. Therefore, the importance of intervening to increase physical activity among young children remains of great importance to overall well-being
Pattern Analysis of Anomalous Behavior of a Heterogeneous Software Defined Wireline Public Telecommunications Network Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textThis dissertation analyzed the traffic data from a real-world wireline public telecommunications network to identify patterns of anomalous network and user behavior with a focus on developing a customizable and scalable methodology to analyze telecommunications traffic data using open-source machine learning tools that can be customized for specific big data analytical needs. The focus of my research is a wireline public telecommunications carrier network that is a software-defined Internet Protocol based network, which supports a wide variety of customer types. My research led me to identify data patterns (fingerprints) in the operations of a real-world operating wireline public telecommunications network. The patterns found can be used as the basis for new machine learning and AI-based pattern recognition algorithms, predictive algorithms, or design methodologies to improve network designs and operations. The data I had collected before the pandemic served as my baseline for customers’ and the network’s normal pre-COVID-19 pandemic behaviors. The data was not scrubbed by the telecommunications carrier. My collection of data before and during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic was purely coincidental. However, as tragic as the Pandemic was, I saw the opportunity to record data during an extraordinary period of time.In my 40 Plus Years of experience as a telecommunications network engineer, network signaling subject matter expert, and network manager, I have had the opportunity to design, manage, and operate telecommunications carrier networks during a time when using a slide rule was the norm, the electronic portable calculator was a new device and the desktop computer did not exist. Early in my career, automated pattern visualization was not used by network managers or network engineers, rather we had to read tables and lists that were manually created. The customizable and scalable methodology I developed and the software tools I identified, enabled me to demonstrate that a data scientist could analyze big data using a laptop and cloud-based computing resources and proved my hypotheses
“Coming-of-Age” in South Pacific, The Sound of Music, and Kimberly Akimbo
Get PDFThis paper discusses the ways in which the theme of “coming-of-age” is explored in South Pacific, The Sound of Music, and Kimberly Akimbo. I use the term “coming-of-age” because that is the colloquial phrase for stories about maturation, however this term can include any transition from an innocent mindset to an enlightened one. This change often results from encountering harsh realities of the real world and learning to accept them. Although the transformation often happens in tandem with growing older, it is the process of experiencing the world which catalyzes it. Growing older can mean challenging your beliefs, exploring where they came from, and learning that the world is different than you thought. Sometimes, it can even mean that you hide parts of yourself because society makes you believe they aren\u27t acceptable
Stop Asian Hate zine
Get PDFThis zine is a way to advocate for the Asian community. The graphic nature is purposeful as the hate crimes committed against Asians are atrocious themselves and should not be censored. This zine is supposed to make people feel uncomfortable because it needs to be seen and remembered. A bit of discomfort is nothing compared to the anxiety and fear Asians have in the U.S., especially since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2. If enough people are horrified enough to advocate for change, then this zine has fulfilled its purpose.https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/student_zines/1000/thumbnail.jp
Pre-Merits Vacatur: An Efficient, Equitable, and Environmentally Sound Remedy
Get PDFFederal agencies are increasingly requesting voluntary remands of challenged rules, thereby circumventing judicial review, and avoiding ever having to defend the merits of those rules. Courts routinely grant these extraordinary requests, often under the guise of saving judicial resources and giving agencies a second chance to reconsider. But voluntary remands come at a steep cost, particularly in the arena of environmental litigation. There, voluntary remands not only deprive litigants of their day in court, but can also subject them (and the broader public) to unlawful and inadequate rules that are causing serious environmental harm.
Courts have long guarded against the inequitable consequences of voluntary remands by simultaneously vacating the challenged rules, even prior to a conclusive determination on the merits. That remedy—also known as pre-merits vacatur—falls well within the court’s broad equitable authority. It has, however, come under assault in recent years, particularly from industry groups who rarely profit from the court’s equitable discretion. So too, the Biden Administration has questioned the court’s ability to vacate Trump-era environmental regulations on voluntary remand, thereby prolonging those rules’ adverse environmental impacts. Some legal commentators have assumed, with little or no analysis, that court’s lack the authority to order pre-merits vacatur.
This article sets the record straight and provides a complete defense of the court’s authority to order pre-merits vacatur as a condition of voluntary remand. The article also refutes misplaced attempts to strip courts of that remedial power, which provides a crucial backstop against agencies’ increasing use of voluntary remands. Finally, the article provides a compelling policy justification for remanding and vacating insufficiently protective environmental rules, as demonstrated by two recent cases that vacated and remanded Trump-era rules that eliminated long-standing Clean Water Act protections. In both cases, pre-merits vacatur provided an efficient, equitable, and environmentally sound remed
How can Black-Dalit feminist solidarity create social justice and transformation?
Get PDFHi friends! My name is G and I\u27m a college freshman earning my B.S.in Behavioral Neuroscience and a minor in Psychology. The topic ofmy zine is about the solidarity of Black-Dalit feminists and the impact they have on the social justice movement. We are going to explore the similarities in oppression and activism between the Dalit liberation and the Black Lives Matter Movement. I hope my zine is either educational and/or informational. Thanks for reading! :)https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/student_zines/1007/thumbnail.jp