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Exploring the Relationship Between Maladaptive Daydreaming and Adverse Childhood Experiences
Get PDFThis study explores the intricate relationship between maladaptive daydreaming (MD) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). MD, characterized by immersive daydreaming that may disrupt daily functioning, has garnered attention as a potential coping mechanism for trauma. ACEs encompass a range of traumatic experiences, such as abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction, which have been associated with various mental health challenges. Using the MD Scale (MDS-16) and the ACEs scale, data were collected from a sample of N = 386 individuals. Significant positive correlations were found between MD and specific ACEs, including verbal abuse, mental illness or suicide, sexual abuse, and physical neglect. Regression analyses revealed that individuals with higher levels of ACEs were more likely to engage in MD. The relationship between ACEs and MD may involve MD serving as a psychological escape or coping strategy for the emotional and psychological impacts of trauma. Conversely, separation or divorce was found to have a negative association with MD scores, suggesting that different types of ACEs may affect MD tendencies differently. These findings highlight the importance of addressing childhood trauma in interventions targeting MD behaviors. Future research should delve deeper into the specific types of ACEs and their differential impacts on MD to better inform targeted interventions. This study highlights the critical role of childhood experiences in shaping MD behaviors and emphasizes the need for trauma-informed approaches in clinical practice
Exploring the Relationship between Gendered Racism, Identity Centrality, and Binge-Eating Symptoms Among Black Women
Get PDFBlack women often must confront experiences of gendered racism, the intersection of racism and sexism. Subsequently, they adopt coping mechanisms in response, such as avoidance, spirituality, and disordered eating behaviors. The researchers focused on binge eating, defined as eating a large amount of food within a relatively short period; it is often accompanied by feelings of distress and a loss of control when eating. Given the high prevalence of binge eating among Black women, it is important to explore the psychosocial risk factors that may contribute to binge eating among Black women. To gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between gendered racism, identity centrality, and binge eating, the researchers employed intersectionality theory as their framework. In the current study, the researchers sought to understand how the relationship between gendered racism and binge eating was moderated by gendered racial identity centrality, the degree to which Black women view their race and gender as integral to their identity. Participants were 281 Black women from 18-35 who completed an online survey via Qualtrics. The moderation results indicated that for participants who had low or medium levels of identity centrality, more experiences with gendered racism were associated with higher levels of binge eating. Conversely, when participants’ identity centrality was high, there was a non-significant influence on the relationship between gendered racism and binge eating behaviors. Healthcare providers need to understand better the unique experiences of Black women and the factors influencing their disordered eating to implement effective interventions for this marginalized group.
 
Spring Issue 2024
No full textSJSHR Spring 2024 | Volume I
Table of Contents
Section I - Socio-Economic Rights
Care to work? Policy Considerations for Engaging Jordanian Women in the Workforce by Elizabeth Hudler
Dilemma between Economic Incentives and the Public Provision of Welfare:SER Trade-offs in China’s economic development and its healthcare reforms, 1979~2022 by Yutong Zheng
Providing Health Care but Receiving None in Return:An Expanded Right to Health Analysis of the Live-In Caregiver Program of Canada (1992-2014) by Claire Ellis
Revising the ICESCR’s individual complaint mechanism: the transformative potential of a right to a “dignified minimum existence” for the CESCR’s standards of review by Clémence Françoise Roy
Section II - Indigenous Peoples Rights
Lack of rights: Indigenous Peoples in French Guiana by Elliot Mur
The Intersectionality of Conflicts in Micronesia and Hawaii: Through My Eyes by Ed Yeich
Similar Foci, Different Lenses: Literacy Education Beliefs and Practices of Chinese and U.S. Teachers
No full textThe differences in literacy education practices between China and the United States are often attributed to their different educational, sociocultural, and historical contexts. However, this sweeping view offers little to help literacy educators in both countries understand the beliefs behind literacy instructional practices and how different or similar these beliefs are. This study examines key characteristics of how Chinese (n=40) and U.S. (n=44) literacy teachers (Pre-K-8th grade) articulate their beliefs about literacy education, delineating their differences and similarities. An inductive content analysis of teachers’ self-reported written narratives about their beliefs and practices in literacy education, along with double coding, reveal that the teachers’ espoused disciplinary beliefs focus on similar themes for the most part. However, their lenses were markedly different, tinted by both the substance and style of their literacy instruction contexts, as well as their cultural epistemological foundations. Inconsistencies between teachers’ beliefs and practices manifested differently in the two groups, but they reflected similar sources. Understanding these varying and nuanced beliefs in cross-cultural contexts can inform teacher education and education reform and counter the insularity of educational research
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Get PDFI saw them in an evening in 2021 when I passed by a clothes shop in Chaoyang’s famous hutong, or narrow alleys formed by traditional courtyard houses, during one of the many lockdown heights in Beijing that rarely paralyzed the entire city. To keep the economy running, individuals who momentarily shared a public space such as subways, shops, or schools with someone who tested positive, as indicated by the health codes we scanned everywhere we went, were put into 14-day quarantines without shutting down the neighborhood. The conversation I heard between the women went as follows:
Customer: “So, you’re on lockdown?”
Saleswomen: “Yes.”
Customer: “You’d be here for 14 days?”
Saleswomen: “Yes.”
Customer: “How do you shower or sleep?”
Saleswomen: “There’s a sink in the back to wash our face.”
To protect public health, the public was ironically locked into unhealthy environments. Considering the inflation, artificial shortages in necessities, recession-induced layoffs, forced overtime in closed factories where most workers were quarantined at, and continued work that increased the risk of exposure, all without any financial assistance, the working class always bears the blunt of the impact of government and capitalist growth policies.
This work is the third in my series called “Progress,” which contains snapshots of my personal life, a glimpse, or a momentary revelation that gives context and complexity to the well-acclaimed liberalization of Chinese economy
Contesting and Controlling Abortion in China's Courts
Get PDFThe decision of the United States Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has brought renewed global attention to how legal systems protect and restrict women’s reproductive autonomy. Central themes have included how the rollback of reproductive rights in the United States coincides with the judiciary’s embrace of a broader “jurisprudence of masculinity” and the relationship between abortion restrictions and authoritarianism, as multiple countries have enacted restrictive measures while undergoing democratic backsliding.
Yet, the scholarly conversation on abortion, democracy, and how courts reflect and entrench gender disparities entirely omits China—the largest authoritarian state and a country with a high incidence of abortion. This is largely unsurprising: the central challenge facing Chinese women has not been abortion access but state-mandated birth control and abortion. Almost no prior scholarship examines how Chinese courts adjudicate disputes over abortion. This lack of attention reflects the common understanding that courts play no role in regulating reproduction and that abortion remains unproblematic in China.
Yet Chinese courts do confront and decide claims involving abortion. Drawing on a dataset of more than 30,000 civil cases discussing abortion, this Article examines men’s claims that their wives obtained abortions without their “authorization.” Chinese courts rarely award damages explicitly on this basis. Yet, men’s claims to have legal rights to control women’s reproductive choices are common, despite having no legal basis in Chinese law. The persistence of such claims suggests that women’s access to abortion care is more regulated in China than academic and popular accounts have conveyed.
As China shifts toward encouraging rather than restricting births, traditional views of gender roles and the family increasingly align with the Party-state’s new pro-natalist policies. Courts may be an important venue for adjudicating reproductive rights andenforcing such policies. From a comparative perspective, China also presents an important example of how abortion and gender are contested in a legal system in which constitutional rights play little role and the legal status of abortion appears to be settled. This demonstrates that resolving the legal status of abortion may not eliminate legal conflict, but rather open up new areas of legal contestation regarding reproductive rights. Men’s claims to control women’s reproductive choices in China suggest the need for scholars to place more attention on the role of private law litigation in contesting and restricting reproduction across legal systems, and the ways in which rights advocacy can serve both regressive and progressive goals, in both democratic and authoritarian systems alike
Letter from the President
No full textDear Readers,I am proud to announce the publication of the 2021-22 edition of the Columbia Under-graduate Science Journal! The Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal is our original namesake publication, dedicated to sharing scientific knowledge of the highest quality of scholarship resulting from undergraduate scientific research.The need for accurate scientific research and reporting is ever-present, especially now more than ever before. A significant issue that plagues society today is misinformation. Opinions uninformed by science present a danger to society - we need not look any further than the still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic for an example of the consequences of unscientific misinformation. A society misinformed miscalculates. So, in a world of chaotic opinion, we must remain steadfast in our pursuit of scientific knowledge. Although scientific facts should inform our opinions, it is important to remember that science itself is not a list of facts, but rather a process of discovery. Students all over the world contribute to this collective process as scientific researchers. Through scientific research we explore nature, discover truths, and debate ideas in our relentless pursuit of knowledge. The Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal is a platform for student scientists to share their knowledge so that we may become a better informed society.It was an honor to read, edit, and review submissions made to our journal. I am grate-ful to our Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal team and editorial board for their significant contributions to our scientific review process. I am especially grateful to Kazi Rabbe, Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal, whose lead-ership made this publication a success. I would also like to thank the Columbia Un-dergraduate Science Journal Faculty Advisory Board, a group of esteemed Columbia University professors whose support ensures publication of the highest quality of schol-arship.Congratulations to our authors, and thank you to our readers!Arjun KudinoorPresident, Chief Editorial OfficerColumbia Undergraduate Science Journa
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
No full textDear Readers,I, along with the rest of the CUSJ board, are ecstatic to present you with the 16th volume of our publication. Since its inception in 2006, CUSJ has strived to promote scientific journalism among undergraduate students and help foster a deeper appreciation and enhanced engagement for everyone in the science community. In this regard, I hope this issue will do exactly that.This issue encompasses a wide range of topics in hopes that you as a reader will be able to resonate and immerse yourself with the research presented such that you, too, feel provoked to challenge, corroborate, and contribute to the deeply enriching discussions that these articles naturally invite.This publication is a culmination of a year of hard work from the CUSJ team. Specifically, I would like to thank the editorial board for their input in reviewing and selecting the articles pre-sented in this issue as well as the CUSJ committee who were always so dependable throughout the year and were responsible for editing the articles alongside the authors. Without them, this publication would not have been possible. In addition, I would like to thank our president, Arjun Kudinoor. Throughout the year, Arjun was always able to provide great feedback to improve our processes and was a guiding hand in ensuring that this specific publication lives up to, if not ex-ceeds, the quality that has come to be expected from those before it. I am truly excited for what is to come for the future of CUSJ given Arjun and the rest of the board's dedication to improving and setting up a foundation for CUSJ to suceed in the long-term, which is especially apparent with the inaugural publication of the Columbia Scientist this May led by Aaron Jackson. Lastly, I would like to thank the CUSJ Faculty Advisory Board, whose support has helped us greatly in allowing us to present you with research of the highest standard.And with that, it is my honor to present you with the 2021-2022 edition of CUSJ. It has been a privilege serving as CUSJ's Editor-in-Chief and I cannot wait to see what is to come!Thank you so much for reading and supporting CUSJ!Kazi RabbeEditor-in-Chief, CUSJColumbia Undergraduate Science Journa
Toward Understanding a Black Spiritual Left: the Spirituality of Howard Thurman and the Black Lives Matter Movement
No full textCareful readers of the theologian, mystic, and minister, Howard Thurman, have noted that his work grappled with the major social issues of his day—namely racism, sexism, economic inequality, and other forms of oppression. Indeed, in works such as Jesus and the Disinherited (1949), Luminous Darkness (1965), and Deep River and The Negro Speaks of Life and Death (1975), Thurman pushed readers to engage oppression—particularly racial oppression—as an issue that people of faith needed to engage. Though Thurman’s more popular book-length works have gained attention from religious scholars, his essays “Mysticism and Social Change” (1939)—found in Volume two of the Howard Thurman Papers—and “Mysticism and the Experience of Love” (1961) expose how Thurman’s mysticism could be used as a tool in the fight against oppression