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Impact of Physical Intimate Partner Violence Victimization on Jamaican Women’s Mental Health: The Moderating Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Full text linkPurpose: Few studies have examined the relationship between IPV victimization and mental health outcomes and the moderating role of ACEs in this relationship among Jamaican women. Using trauma theory to undergird this study, we examined the relationship between physical IPV victimization and depressive symptoms and anxiety while accounting for the moderating effects of ACEs on these relationships among Jamaican women.
Methods: Univariate and ordinary least squares regression (OLS) analyses were performed using data from the 2016 National Women’s Health Survey, a nationally representative sample of Jamaican women aged 15 to 64.
Results: Experience of physical IPV victimization was found to be a significant predictor of depressive symptoms and anxiety. Similarly, ACEs significantly moderated the relationship between IPV victimization and depressive symptoms and anxiety.
Conclusion: The findings highlight the need for additional research related to the impact of IPV victimization, ACEs, and subsequent mental health outcomes using more diverse samples and methodological approaches. Trauma-informed prevention and treatment modalities should be developed and implemented to address the impact of IPV victimization and negative mental and behavioral outcomes among Jamaican women
Invisible Witnesses: Unpacking the Interactions of Student-Staff Partnerships through Reflective Interview Summary Notes
No full textReview of \u3ci\u3eCall the Mothers: Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared in the War on Drugs\u3c/i\u3e, by Shaylih Muehlmann
Full text linkMental Health and Resource Utilization among Underrepresented Students Transitioning to College in the United States
Full text linkCollege students from historically underrepresented backgrounds (i.e., first-generation, low-income, and/or ethnic/racial minorities) may be less likely to utilize professional mental health resources on campus despite experiencing increased psychological distress. This study examined how psychosocial distress, mental health resource utilization, and perceived barriers to mental health care may differ for underrepresented and non-underrepresented students during the first semester of college. Participants were administered surveys as they entered college and at the end of the fall of their first semester. Our sample consisted of 131 underrepresented students and 154 students from non-underrepresented backgrounds. Underrepresented students showed a sharper increase in depressive symptoms across the first semester of college, perceived more stigma around using mental health services compared to their peers upon entering college, and were less likely to report planning to utilize counseling center services by the end of the first semester. Mental health practitioners should consider the unique mental health needs and barriers experienced by students from historically underrepresented backgrounds
Lucian\u27s New Old Comedy
No full textThis study shows that Lucian is deeply engaged with Old Comedy as a literary model, and that the kind of comic dialogue he claims to invent (Bis Acc. 33, Prom. Es 6) is not an evenly balanced hybrid of Platonic Dialogue and Old Comedy as has been previously thought. Instead, Lucian prioritizes Old Comedy in his conception of the comic dialogue. Lucian solves the tension between the pedigree and prestige available to an imitator of Old Comedy and the risk of moral compromise for the same by enacting a satirist’s defense. He claims to be the morally righteous outsider, wins the audience to his side by appealing to their intellectual vanity, and vindicates his choice to style himself a writer of Comedy.
Lucian defends his position with the literary tools of Old Comedy: he employs parody, satire, parabasis, autobiography, personification, making the abstract concrete, metatheater, and fantasy, alongside comic language and tropes of mockery, to not only declare himself a skilled comic author, but to demonstrate it as well. One by one, he uses the mythology that has sprung up around the three lights of Old Comedy: Cratinus, Aristophanes, and Eupolis, to remedy their faults, rewrite their defeats, and undo their deaths, all while replacing them with himself in the center of their narratives.
In order to do this, Lucian engages polemically with these poets’ detractors using the same comic arsenal. He does what the comic poets cannot, he acknowledges the long biographical tradition, along with the doxography of his favored satirical targets, the hypocritical philosophers, heirs of Socrates, and wrests back the power to define the objects of his mockery and return them to the comic stage. Lucian recomposes the portrayals of Socrates and the philosophical schools as found in Plato, Lucian’s contemporaries, and the scholarship of his time into a new comic fantasy where mockery prevails, and Lucian’s stand-in emerges triumphant above all the rest
Of Race and Romance: A Qualitative Investigation of Queer Asian American Men’s Romantic Relationships with Queer Asian American Men
No full textPast research has identified that internalized racism affects Asian Americans’ dating preferences; however, fewer studies have sought to examine Asian Americans who choose to date one another. For queer Asian American men, dating fellow Asian American men may represent a rejection of idealizing White men in romantic relational contexts. The present study thus utilized a grounded theory qualitative methodology with a strengths-based approach to understand the lived experiences of queer Asian American men who are currently in romantic relationships with fellow queer Asian American men. Queer Asian American men who are in romantic relationships with other queer Asian American men from across the United States (N = 10) participated in a semi-structured interview. Analyses identified a four-category empirical framework capturing queer Asian American men’s experiences being in a romantic relationship with fellow queer Asian American men. The core theme, Race and Romance, emphasized factors that motivate queer Asian American men to initiate and sustain romantic relationships with fellow queer Asian American men. The remaining four themes were (i) Factors contributing to dating an Asian American man, (ii) Benefits of dating a fellow queer Asian American man, (iii) Challenges of dating a fellow queer Asian American man, and (iv) Attitudes toward Asian/White interracial relationships. Participants provided insights into how queer Asian American men\u27s romantic relationships with one another serve as a source of liberation from White supremacy within the broader LGBT+ community
Masculine Norms and Their Associations With Social Anxiety and Body Appreciation Among College Men in the United States
No full textPrevious research has identified the link between conformity to masculine norms and negative mental health outcomes. The present study thus examined how conformity to eight distinct masculine norms is associated with social anxiety and body appreciation among a sample of 271 college men living in the United States. College men living in the United States filled out an online questionnaire that assessed the variables of interest. Our main study variables—Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory, Social Phobia Inventory, and Body Appreciation Scale-2—were analyzed cross-sectionally using linear hierarchical regression models via SPSS. Regression analyses showed that self-reliance was positively associated with social anxiety, whereas violence and risk-taking were negatively associated with social anxiety. Furthermore, heterosexual self-presentation and risk-taking were positively associated with body appreciation, whereas self-reliance was negatively associated with body appreciation. Winning, playboy, emotional control, and power over women were neither significantly associated with social anxiety nor body appreciation. The results of our study highlight the importance of examining how different masculine norms are differentially associated with college men\u27s health outcomes, highlighting how conformity to masculine norms is multidimensional and not unilaterally positive or negative. Implications pertaining to addressing college men\u27s conformity to masculine norms in relation to their social anxiety and body appreciation are discussed
ReWritings ReWritten
No full textThis zine was created from contributions by exhibitions staff and student writers in connection with the exhibition ReWritings, curated by Marianne Hansen, Margaret Duhon, and Vivienne Schlemmer. The exhibition, which ran from February through June 2025 in the 1912 Gallery in Canaday Library, explored the many ways that classic and canonical novels are rewritten to explore their themes, update them for modern readers, or give flight to the fancies they inspire.https://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_books/1047/thumbnail.jp