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STRESS AND COPING AMONG PARENTS WITH CHILDREN ENROLLED IN REMOTE SCHOOLING DURING COVID-19
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the closure of schools, prompting 93% of U.S. households with children to transition to remote schooling. This study investigates coping mechanisms used by parents and the emotional impact of remote schooling on their well-being. A cross-sectional online survey, grounded in the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping, was conducted among 133 U.S. parents with children engaged in remote schooling from May to October 2020. Pearson correlations and paired sample t-tests were calculated. Multiple regression was performed to determine how well stress, resilience, and gender predict depressive symptoms. The study participants had an average of 1.96 children. Most commonly used coping mechanisms included planful problem-solving, seeking social support, and escape/avoidance. A statistically significant positive association was found between stress and depressive symptoms. Stress and depressive symptoms increased during the pandemic, while resilience decreased. The resulting statistically significant regression model of stress, resilience, and gender accounted for 75.4% of the variability in depressive symptoms. These results underscore the importance of addressing parental well-being and mental health during times of crisis, particularly when children are engaged in remote schooling
QUALITY OF LIFE OF TYPICALLY DEVELOPING SIBLINGS OF PEOPLE WITH PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL AND MULTIPLE DISABILITIES IN POLAND
No full textFamily quality of life (FQOL) is a concept that is gaining increasing importance in family support programmes. However, for some countries, this concept has been insufficiently explored in relation to families with children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The aim of this study was to ascertain the perceived QOL of siblings of children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) living in Poland. The study relies on a qualitative research approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 siblings aged 6 to 15, followed by thematic analysis. The siblings identified the following nine domains as dimensions that impacted their QOL: joint activities, mutual understanding, private time, acceptance, forbearance, effect on well-being, exchanging experiences, social support, and dealing with the outside world. The children described both positive and negative experiences, indicating that having a sibling with intellectual and developmental disabilities affected their QOL in diverse ways
Push and Pull: The Call for Justice and the Failing (and Rescinded) Accountability from the Japanese Government for the “Comfort Women” Survivors
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Anything That Eats: Animal Symbolism Communicating Violence in Cormac McCarthy\u27s Blood Meridian
No full textFreedom of Conscience: A Communal-based Approach
No full textDespite the plethora of freedom of religion literature (under section 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms), the corresponding literature on the freedom of conscience is minimal. To further the discussion on the freedom of conscience, I rely heavily on the philosophical literature to make an important distinction; the difference between individual-based and communal-based conceptions of conscience. Whereas the former is plagued with subjectivity, making it difficult to conceptualize a working framework for the Charter right, the latter offers a promising foothold to rise above subjectivity and find a firm footing based on communal relations. In emphasizing the importance of the dialogical nature of human beings and the relational necessity undergirding moral judgements, I argue that the concept of conscience should be understood and practiced in community, rather than individually
Unveiling the Political Framing of Muslim Boys as Terrorists in the Making: A Review of Shenila Khoja-Moolji’s The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood
No full textThis book review discusses The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood by Shenila Khoja-Moolji, which provides valuable insights into how Muslim boys are constructed as potential “future terrorists” in both American and Indian contexts. Khoja-Moolji explores how this invented image denies Muslim boys innocence and is shaped by the collective trauma of past terrorist attacks and anxieties about imagined future threats. She also examines the intersectionality of this constructed image, highlighting how it is influenced by the dynamics of anti-Muslim racism, racial capitalism, public discourses, and institutional practices
One Hundred Years of US–Mexico Border Film
No full textThis essay examines the structure, content and evolution of an emerging Border Film Genre derived from an examination of over one hundred years of film concerned with the US–Mexico borderlands and originating from both sides of the border. The task of this particular essay is to demonstrate how film themes change and evolve over time, based on evidence from the film catalogue. The essay examines examples of transition pertaining to: the changing representations of women in film; the difference between Mexican and American filmmakers’ portrayals of undocumented migration; generational shifts in bordertown racisms; and the catastrophic consequences of law enforcement’s loss of the war against drug cartels, including the ‘domestication’ of violence and the decay of communities occupied by cartels
Galadzi (Bear)
No full textThe spirit of the ancestors are depicted in the painting of the bear, the great bear, and the salmon that returns to the river Gwani (Nimpkish River). This serigraph is reproduced for the Special Issue: Honoring Indigenous Land and Water Defenders (featured on cover). Copyright © Francis Dick 2003