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The effect of ESG scores on bank stability: Islamic vs. conventional banks
No full textThis paper examines the impact of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) factors on the stability of banks across different continents, focusing on both conventional and Islamic banking institutions. The empirical analysis indicates a positive influence of ESG activities on the stability of these financial institutions. Notably, the study finds that ESG scores significantly enhance the stability of both conventional and Islamic banks. The environmental pillar score, especially within the conventional banking sector, shows highly positive and statistically significant results, highlighting the benefits of environmentally responsible practices. In contrast, the social pillar is positively correlated with stability in the Islamic banking sector, suggesting that active involvement in community service and social responsibility initiatives leads to improved stability. Overall, the study emphasizes the transformative potential of ESG activities in enhancing the stability and valuation of banks by positively influencing both their external perception and internal operations
Teaching Reasoning, Reflective Practice, and Evidence-Based Practice: Educator Consensus Strategies
Get PDFAlthough reasoning, reflective practice, and evidence-based practice are essential professional skills for occupational therapy students, there is not a clear understanding of how these skills are taught. We used Delphi methodology to explore how occupational therapy educators conceptualize best-practices for facilitating the development of clinical reasoning, professional reasoning, reflective practice, and evidence-based practice. Participants were required to be educators in a master’s-level or higher occupational therapy program for at least three years, based in the United States, and available across multiple survey rounds. The nine participants nominated a total of 94 teaching strategies, of which 90.4% (n = 85) reached consensus after Round 3. Consensus strategies were largely experiential, active, and explicit teaching approaches. Consideration of how these teaching strategies used by occupational therapy educators support students in integrating skills with each other and into practice can facilitate increased professional competence within occupational therapy
Turning the Page: How Reading Fiction Can Positively Impact College Students
No full textCollege students who create a habit of reading are subject to improvement in their verbal, written, and communication skills, increased empathy, as well as a potential low-cost solution to recovery from mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety. The habit of reading has been hindered by the introduction of technology and digitalization and their overshadowed presence draws students from picking up a book to immerse themselves in it. With college students’ growing numbers reporting being symptomatic of mental health disorders, the practice of bibliotherapy and utilizing recreational reading has proven to be beneficial offering a healthy solution.
This research utilized both qualitative and quantitative data. Qualitative methods were executed in the form of surveys and interviews. Questions were focused on participant response to how reading fiction made them feel and what kind of genres they mostly read. The surveys and interviews also held quantified data: the participants were asked to give how much time they spent reading school materials and fictional books. Overall, this study was conducted to see if the results would support the hypothesis that reading fiction has a positive impact on college students. Reading fiction positively impacts students based on expanding their critical thinking skills, finding new ways to cope with mental health, and not losing themselves in the digitization of social media and smartphones
To Read or Not to Read: How Book Censorship Affects Students and Undermines Different Worldviews
Get PDFThe past five years have seen an unprecedented growth in book challenges across the nation. The American Library Association announced in March 2024 that 2023 saw a ninety-two percent increase in challenged titles, making it a record year for book bans and challenges (American Library Association 2024). States are seeing increased government inference into these issues. Namely, Florida remains a leader in book challenges with over forty percent of all book bans in the 2022-2023 school year (Meehan 2023). This project examines the effect of book challenges and bans on adolescent readers, with an emphasis on how frequently challenged books, while containing sensitive subject matter, positively impact students and need to be protected in classrooms and libraries. There is a focus on how book challenges have looked historically, how perceptions of childhood and adolescence play a role, and the most common reasons as to why books are challenged, while also acknowledging qualifications to this issue. This project examines how students benefit from challenged books by understanding other worldviews and developing their own social and emotional learning (SEL). This project concludes with examples of frequently challenged book recommendations for educators and why each book has academic merit for classrooms
We Aren’t Laughing: Analysis of Male Stand-Up Comedy and Violence Against Women
Get PDFMisogyny is a prime example of a concept that humans cannot fully solve. In this thesis, I am examining comedy as an outlet for misogyny in today’s culture. This thesis collects data from the social media platform, TikTok, to gather social reactions to a prominent and controversial act in stand-up comedy. This act was performed by Matt Rife in November of 2023 on the popular streaming service, Netflix. In this particular act, Rife opened to his live audience with a joke about domestic violence and its victims. This study includes a qualitative content analysis of both the Netflix special and comments posted on TikTok. In accordance with existing literature, results indicated that individuals are still extremely sexist towards women. After witnessing sexist comedy, prior research states that women are at a higher risk of gender-based or sex-related abuse and that men were more likely to have their prior sexist beliefs reinforced. Women have been minimized and undermined through comedy for many years, and sadly this has not changed even though advocacy for women has been at an all-time high. The social reactions show that sexism still runs rampant in society, just now we are seeing the more harmful consequences of it more clearly through mainstream media
Combating Hair Related Barriers to Physical Activity Among African American Female Adolescents with Yoga
Get PDFBlack and African American adolescent girls have a disproportionate prevalence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease when compared to any other ethnic group. Data from previous studies have determined that hair harassment and hair care maintenance are explicit barriers to physical activity among Black and African American female adolescents. The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study is to examine the lived experiences and implications of hair harassment, hair bias, and hair maintenance among African American female adolescents and investigate their usage and perceptions of yoga/mind-body practice to overcome hair related barriers to physical activity. Nine African American females aged 14-17 years old, attending an urban school in Central Kentucky participated in focus groups and follow-up interviews during their advisory block of school. Major themes of hair harassment emerged during early childhood primarily from Black boys, peer hair touching, physical inactivity due to straight hair and isolation in physical education courses, and stress relief from yoga practice. Findings of this study suggest that physical education courses adopt curriculum changes to more inclusive and culturally relevant teaching that consider hair practices and yoga education. School leaders should revise policies that include hair harassment as a form of bullying and consider the impact of yoga/mind-body practices on students’ race-based trauma experiences. Yoga/mind-body practices, through a racial trauma informed lens should be integrated in the physical education curriculum to enhance social emotional learning
This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Two of Us: Western Genre Cinema Rhetoric of the Twentieth Century and the Modern Alt-Right Movement
Get PDFThis work uses Western genre cinema as a springboard for evaluating how alt-right political ideologies are absorbed by common, everyday people. Using the exploratory work of political journalist Andrew Marantz and employing his research of the alt-right movement as supporting material, it explores the dissemination of alt-right rhetoric in contemporary settings. Evaluating instances of hegemonic masculinity in John Farrow’s 1953 film Hondo and John Huston’s 1960 film The Unforgiven, alongside John Ford’s The Searchers, this work explores how filmic versions of masculinity have shaped characters to mimic and enforce social and societal systems that coincidentally adhere to alt-right ideologies. Hegemonic masculinities seek to limit and oppress individuals, based on their race and sex, according to a hierarchical (and tetrachotomic) means of organization. Investigating how those hegemonic masculinities continue to exist throughout various spaces in modern times, this work analyzes their manifestations in both physical reality and on the internet. Using Laura Mulvey’s concept of “the gaze,” Alison Landsberg’s idea of “prosthetic memory,” and Nana Verhoeff’s historical view of our modern understandings of the American frontier, this work aims to build on the tradition of understanding how certain mechanisms and historical moments have allowed for the survival and growth of hotbeds of hegemony on the modern online frontier, and the corporeal ramifications of the existence of such hegemonic structures
The Impact of Label Choice on the Perceptions of Stigmatized Populations
No full textLanguage is one of many mechanisms that reinforces social stigma. Prior research has found that the label used to describe a stigmatized population can have serious consequences for people’s perceptions of those populations. A person’s familiarity with stigmatized traits has also been shown to have a huge effect on their impressions of stigmatized populations. The goal of this study is to examine and compare the effects of noun labels (e.g., “addict”) versus postmodified noun labels (e.g., “person with addiction”) on the perceptions of people with mental illness, addiction, and incarceration history. We collected data from 168 participants in this study. We found that the use of noun labels did not elicit more stigmatized attitudes than the use of postmodified noun labels. We also found incarceration to be more stigmatized than addiction or mental illness regardless of label choice. Lastly, we found that familiarity did not modify the relationship between labels and stigmatized perceptions. The results of this experiment indicate that stigma may arise from broader sources, rather than choice of label or personal experience.https://encompass.eku.edu/swps_undergraduategallery/1366/thumbnail.jp
Life Balance, Stress, and Occupational Burnout in Occupational Therapy Assistant Students: An Exploratory Study
Get PDFResearch indicates that United States healthcare workers face significant burnout. College is a crucial period for preparing occupational therapy assistant (OTA) students to manage life balance, stress, and burnout as they transition into the workforce. However, there is limited understanding of these factors within this population. This study examined the relationship between OTA students\u27 life balance and their perceived stress and occupational burnout, considering variables such as employment status, residential status, years of study, and age. A cross-sectional Qualtrics e-survey was administered to OTA students aged 18 and older, comprising a demographic survey, Life Balance Inventory (LBI), Perceived Stress Scale-Short (PSS-4), Single-Item Measure of Burnout (SIMB), and open-ended questions regarding students\u27 perceptions of factors affecting their life balance. Results from 200 OTA students revealed an occupational imbalance with an overall LBI score of 1.99 (on a scale of 1-3, with 1.5 - 2.0 considered unbalanced). There were also significant differences among the LBI subscales. The study found moderate, inverse relationships between students’ life balance, perceived stress, and occupational burnout. No significant differences were observed across residential status, employment status, years of study, or age. Activities such as exercise and sleep were associated with positive life balance, while lack of sleep and insufficient relaxation time were perceived as detrimental. Findings suggest that addressing life balance and implementing strategies to mitigate stress and burnout are critical for their well-being and professional success. Further research is warranted to develop targeted support programs for OTA students
The Development of an Interactive Multimedia E-Learning Module for Functional Cognition
Get PDFThe rise in technology, social media, and video has led to the desire for short, interactive, and visually appealing instructional materials. Modern learners want flexibility, repeatability, accessibility, and low-stakes knowledge checks. A multimedia e-learning module may meet the learner’s desires. This article describes the conception, development, and implementation of a free, interactive, multimedia e-learning module designed to enhance understanding and application of occupational therapy (OT) theoretical approaches to address functional cognition. We discuss the considerations for choosing a multimedia e-learning module as an instructional tool, drawing from existing research demonstrating its effectiveness. Particularly, a multimedia e-learning module potentially benefits addressing complex topics such as functional cognition, and to our knowledge there appears to be no open-access e-learning modules on OT’s role in addressing functional cognition. As this multimedia e-learning module is publicly available and provides opportunities for repeated use by many learners, its applicability extends beyond the classroom to practitioners. This article may guide future OT educators considering creating this teaching modality by detailing the development processes, skills, and supports needed for module creation. We outline collaborative team roles and responsibilities, the development timeline, incorporation of multimedia elements, and integration of accessibility features. We report on how tools and resources influenced the creation and assessed the use of our multimedia e-learning module. We highlight the benefits, challenges, and barriers to creating a multimedia e-learning module for a development team. Overall, developing a multimedia e-learning module is one way to contribute to the profession and promote scholarship among OT faculty and students