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Organizational support and its impact on mental health in humanitarian aid volunteers
Get PDFHumanitarian aid volunteers encounter a wide range of stressors, from witnessing horrific events and human suffering to facing organizational challenges and threats to their personal safety. These experiences can have significant and lasting impacts on their mental and emotional well-being. Despite increasing awareness of the psychological toll on aid volunteers, research on effective coping mechanisms and organizational support remains limited, while efforts by organizations that have begun implementing mental health training remain insufficient in providing the comprehensive, long-term support needed to mitigate these effects. This article aims to address the gap by reviewing existing literature on the psychological and emotional challenges faced by humanitarian aid volunteers, with a particular focus on how organizational support contributes to the volunteers\u27 mental health. To achieve this, I conducted a systematic literature review, analyzing studies published on stress, trauma, coping, and support among humanitarian aid volunteers. The findings reveal that while individual resilience plays a crucial role in volunteers\u27 ability to manage stress, organizational factors such as adequate training, mental health resources, and supportive leadership significantly enhance their capacity to navigate mental health challenges, consequently, necessitating the implementation of evidence-based support systems within aid organizations, to improve volunteers\u27 well-being and the effectiveness of humanitarian missions
Rhetorical (re)inscription practices among black intercollegiate football participants in the era of name, image and likeness
Get PDFWhen intercollegiate athletic participants were permitted the right to profit off of their name, image and likeness (NIL), the landscape of college sports was fundamentally changed. This qualitative explanatory case study investigated one consequence of that change: the discourse of amateurism. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has historically identified participants in the athletic programs it oversees with the word “student-athlete.” In the years since the word was first introduced, its meaning has generally been static. In short, the linguistic sign “student-athlete” has been signified in and by the discourse to reflect the amateur status of collegiate sport participants, emphasizing the participants’ student identities over their athletic identities (Byers, 1995; Smith, 2021; Southall et al., 2023). Such an emphasis has historically been wielded by the NCAA and its member institutions as justification for the revenue generated by the labor of sport participants, who are not paid a typical salary or wage (Bok, 2008; Hawkins, 2010).
Where the NCAA and its member institutions generate the most profit from this free labor centers in big-time college sports, namely in men’s Division I football bowl-eligible programs (Zimbalist, 2023). Most often, these program participants are Black and African American men (NCAA Demographics Database, 2024). However, now equipped with the ability to be paid as a direct result of their participation in collegiate sport, whether or discursive meaning of the word “student-athlete” truly reflects the experiences of the supposed amateurs is highly debatable. Thus, this study aimed to understand how Black males participating in big-time college football programs while engaged in NIL activities perceive of their identity as both students and athletes.
Semi-structured interviews with four Black men participating in Southeastern Conference (SEC) football programs while engaged in NIL activities were analyzed using an a priori coding strategy. That strategy allowed for the application of African American rhetorical theory to best understand the ways the participants signified the meaning of the word “student-athlete” alongside the words “student” and “athlete.” Drawing from the theoretical work offered by Gates (1989), the signifyin(g) processes of the four participants were analyzed by tracing their employment of various African American rhetorical codes. Upon identification and further analysis of the ways such codes were implemented in communicative events, a rhetorical analysis of their usage was performed. While the four study participants each self-identified as a student, an athlete, and a student-athlete, a rhetorical analysis of this self-identification revealed alternative meanings of these three words.
As signified by the participants, the meanings embedded in these three words starkly contrast the same three words signified within the discourse of amateurism. Specifically, the study participants signified the word “student” to mean a necessary engagement with academics; the word “athlete” to mean a physical and mental engagement in athletic activities; and the word “student-athlete” to mean a simultaneous, co-existence of both signified “student” and “athlete” activities. The findings of this study are thus offered to better contextualize the student-athlete experience, especially as it is constructed by Black men participating in big-time college football programs who financially benefit from their name, image and likeness
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