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The Roles of Personality, Internalized Stigma, and Shame Proneness as Barriers to Mental Health Treatment
No full textThe current study examined three key factors facilitating and/or inhibiting the use of mental health treatment among college students: personality traits, shame proneness, and internalized stigma. Participants were 101 students from a small New England college who completed questionnaires on internalized stigma, personality, shame proneness, negative attitudes towards treatment, anxiety, depression, and past and future treatment-seeking behaviors. Results revealed that among personality traits, lower Agreeableness and Conscientiousness were associated with greater negative attitudes surrounding treatment, while Extraversion and Neuroticism predicted greater willingness to seek future treatment if needed. As predicted, internalized stigma and negative attitudes towards treatment were inversely related to whether an individual had sought past treatment and one’s willingness to seek future treatment. Unexpectedly, shame proneness was only related to lower Extraversion, higher Neuroticism, and anxious and depressive symptoms. Among the mediational pathways analyzed, results demonstrated that negative attitudes partially mediated the relationship between internalized stigma and willingness to seek future treatment. Together, these findings help better inform researchers and practitioners on how to best encourage college student enrollment in mental health treatment according personal-level factors
Surface Soil Stocks: Peat Development and Soil Carbon Storage on South Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
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The Evangelical Ethic and the Spirit of Conspiracy
No full textThe Evangelical Ethic and the Spirit of Conspiracy engages with conspiratorial thought in the United States and its connection to evangelical discourses in both the past and in our contemporary period. I argue that evangelicalism, and more specifically American evangelicalism, have been foundational to the creation of a culture of paranoia in the United States that has led to the wide popularity of conspiracy movements throughout our history. I begin my argument with a case study of a leader within the contemporary QAnon movement, and discussions of how his personal evangelical faith have informed his conspiratorial outlook on the world. In the following two chapters, I discuss the specific beliefs and practices of three evangelical movements in American history (Methodism, Pentecostalism, and the Charismatic movement). These chapters also bring to light historic conspiracy movements in the United States that have found their origins in these churches, and how American religion has influenced the development of conspiratorial discourses. In the final chapter, I return to the contemporary period to argue that even Americans who do not identify themselves with evangelical churches have adopted these same mindsets that can be traced from American religion, and that our more “secular” culture in imbued with an evangelical penchant for paranoia. Throughout the project, I primarily trace the development of specific discourses derived from American evangelicalism, including individualism, a distrust of institutionalized authority, a strong desire for social and political participation, and strong belief in the supernatural
Design, Fabrication, and Evaluation of Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators on ST-X Quartz
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Invisible Ailments: A Collection
Full text linkInvisible Ailments is a collection of short stories that trace the depth, breath, and sweeping range of lived experiences of people struggling with mental illness. While it is a work of fiction, the people in these stories might feel eerily familiar — to your friends, your family members, your loved ones, or, if you\u27re brave enough to admit it, yourself
James Joyce’s Prose Pedagogy: Language in Freirean Dialogue
Full text linkMy project concerns the pedagogical nature of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Across the various styles and forms of Ulysses’ chapters, or “episodes,” I theorize the pedagogy of James Joyce’s prose by tracking the ways that the text demands readers participate in a Freirean dialogue. I will also discuss how Ulysses understands language as a practice of resistance: the novel’s characters have personal linguistic practices that help them open up the worlds that occupy them. I will appreciate the control these characters take of their world as I argue, through Paulo Freire’s work, that no true change occurs without the presence of a cooperative worldbuilding effort
I Remember! : Irish Postcolonial Memory in the Early Short Stories of Seán O\u27Faoláin
Full text linkSeán O’Faoláin (1900-1991) was an Irish writer, cultural critic, and editor of the literary magazine The Bell. He wrote prolifically throughout the twentieth century, and while his short stories are often anthologized, much of his work is now out of print. This project will examine O’Faoláin’s first two short story collections, Midsummer Night Madness (1932) and A Purse of Coppers (1937), within the context of the post-independence period in Ireland. The 1930s is a period often glossed over in both political and literary histories of Ireland, overshadowed by the Literary Revival and primarily characterized by deepening conservatism and political strife. However, the 1930s was also an era in which essential debates about Irish identity and the future of the Irish nation played out, in public discourse and in literature. Memory, in particular, served as an important site for these debates, as the newly independent Irish nation sought to define itself in relation to its turbulent past. O’Faoláin’s stories from this period reflect post-independence disillusionment and draw a desolate picture of a nation at a crossroads. At the same time, however, the stories draw upon revolutionary memories to construct a vision of a new Ireland, one no longer shaped by the legacies of colonialism. Situating O’Faoláin’s work within the context of postcolonial theory, my project argues for the postcolonial short story’s unique ability to represent identities in transition and shape the future of the Irish nation
Regresando a Casa
No full textTitled Regresando a casa or Coming Home , my honors thesis sheds light on an ongoing war against drug trafficking in Mexico, with a particular focus on the unique context of Zacatecas. Centered on returns to my hometown, I discuss the unsettling truth of normalized drug-trafficking violence and its deafening silence; a reality that took me ten years to uncover.
Constructed from memory and grounded in local journalism and oral testimonies, my honors project tells my story of growing up in a small town in Zacatecas, and the aftermath of cartels drowning our town in violence with kidnappings and extortions in April of 2008. Through evocative imagery and storytelling, my project traces the struggles, and the beauty, of uncovering the past, reconstructing the once-idealized image I had of my hometown, finding acceptance and a sense of belonging, and reconciling with a state whose negligence has allowed organized crime to seize economic, political, and cultural power
Bowdoin College Catalogue and Academic Handbook (2023-2024)
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