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Coping During Covid: A Pilot Study on Social Support, Mental Health, and the Internet
Get PDFThe devastating effects of COVID-19 has impacted many aspects of society. This damage will likely persist long after COVID has been eradicated. Understanding this impact with regards to psychological wellbeing is essential to helping people cope with and recover from the consequences of the pandemic. This pilot study examined people’s experiences with social support (SS), mental health (MH), the interplay of these factors, and whether experiences with these factors changed as the pandemic progressed. The researcher administered online surveys to young adults living in Ontario. Participants completed questionnaires consisting of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS), the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MPSS) and an independent series of nominal (yes/no), and qualitative questions. Key findings from this dataset reveal that (1) a significant positive relationship was observed between social support and mental health, (2) social support and mental health have both been negatively impacted by the pandemic, (3) while people’s social relationships improved as the pandemic progressed, mental health deteriorated due to sustained periods of stress and isolation, and (4) the internet is a key resource for maintaining people’s wellbeing especially as a means to remain connected with others during this time. While there is a need for more research to develop concrete knowledge bases on people’s experiences during the pandemic, this study demonstrates that social support and correct use of the internet have great potential as means for people to manage mental health during this unprecedented time
Stolen People on Stolen Land
Get PDFFollowing the global wave of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, the question of Blackness and its construction is one that deserves further reflection if the attendant issues confronting Black bodies are to ever be addressed. More pointedly, conceptions of a Black Canada and its unique nuances have yet to be adequately mapped out in academic scholarship. This paper aims to address this specific gap by employing an etymological study of Blackness especially in relation to other concepts from which it draws its salience. By Blackness, reference is being made to conceptions of a Black Canada that is diasporic and is in conversation with multiple Black geographies (K. McKittrick, 2006), invokes more fluid conceptions of indigeneity and cultural heritage roots (T. Adefarakan, 2011; G.J.S. Dei, 2017), and seeks to resist colonial, imperialist, and neoliberal logics. In exploring Blackness in a Canadian context, I am attentive as well to the nuances of Canadian multiculturalism discourse and how it creates a Eurocentric terrain on which the Black diaspora is an addendum and largely erased
Information Diffusion, Risk Communication, Environmental Degradation, and Neo-Liberalization: How the Covid-19 Global Pandemic Has Unfolded to Reveal Humanity’s Vulnerability to a Global Disaster in the Post-Industrial Age
No full textThis article, written in March 2020, explores the two dimensions of the Covid-19 pandemic: the infodemic which has raged online, and the evolution of the pandemic itself. I explore the social and technological dynamics that that have been at play including group polarization, the ambiguity of harm, and risk communication. I also contend that the Covid-19 pandemic is a technological disaster, and using the disaster cycle framework, I outline that the pandemic has been essentially a result of economic, ideological, and geopolitical decisions made starting in at least the mid twentieth century. This is a slow-moving disaster that is an indicator and a product of climate change, urbanization, and globalization. As this was a novel phenomenon at time of writing, the information sources primarily consisted of academic pre-papers, news articles, and foundational disaster-theory papers
What Does a Bully Think? Motives, Conceptions, and Managerial Strategies in TDSB’s Anti-Bullying Policy
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The Power of Education: Comparing Implicit Stigma Toward Mental Health Care in Psychology and Non-Psychology Students
Get PDFFewer than a third of people living with mental health problems reach out for professional help, which could be due, in part, to negative stigma toward mental health issues. Typically, stigmatization toward any issue decreases as individuals gain more familiarity and knowledge about them. In this study, we measured whether students studying psychology have less implicit negative bias toward seeking psychological care. We adapted the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to evaluate how psychology and non-psychology students react to stereotypes against seeking out psychological care. Specifically, we measured and compared how easily these students classify words related to personality traits and to activities within stereotyped categories (i.e., care-seeking activities coupled with negative traits such as counselling-antisocial) and within non-stereotyped categories (i.e., care-seeking activities coupled with positive traits such as counselling-sociable). As expected, all students were faster at classifying items within the stereotype-congruent category. However, psychology students were not as affected by the stereotype non-congruent category: pairing positive attributes to care-seeking activities did not slow psychology students as much. These results suggest that exposure to psychology courses contributes to reducing implicit biases against mental health care. It is hoped that the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic will promote awareness about mental health issues, which in turn will decrease negative stigma toward mental health care
How to Erase Shakespeare: The Troubling History of "Pericles"
Get PDFWhy do we know Shakespeare plays like Romeo and Juliet, but not Pericles? This article explores the reasons why the popular Shakespeare play Pericles was targeted and erased by editors throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. From marketing strategies to concern for Shakespeare’s reputation, I contend that the play was intentionally discarded by those who owned the copyright. This paper focuses on the tough and competitive printing market after Shakespeare’s death in 1616. I explore how Shakespeare’s business partners, Henry Condell and John Heminge, attempted to find literary success in 1623 by erasing what they thought was Shakespeare’s failure: Pericles