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College students’ loneliness, feelings about social media, and depressive symptoms during COVID-19: Between and within-person temporal associations
Get PDFDuring COVID-19, many institutions of higher education implemented health protocols that reduced college students’ in-person interactions and prompted an uptick in their social media use. Although social media has often been implicated in the development of psychosocial difficulties, we tested an alternate hypothesis – that, during the pandemic, students’ feelings about social media for interpersonal connection (i.e., FSMIC), would contribute to reductions in loneliness and depressive symptoms. To investigate temporal associations between loneliness, FSMIC, and depression, we estimated random-intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPM), permitting the disaggregation of between- and within-person effects. Participants (N = 517 undergraduates, Mage =19.52, SD = 1.26) recruited from two institutions completed measures in Fall 2020 (Time 1), Winter 2021 (Time 2), and Spring 2021 (Time 3). Results, which partially supported the hypothesis that positive FSMIC would diminish psychological difficulties, provided evidence for reciprocal within-person effects between loneliness (but not depression) and FSMIC. Students who reported more positive FSMIC than was usual for them at one time point experienced less loneliness than was usual for them at the subsequent time point; moreover, students who experienced less loneliness than was usual for them reported more positive subsequent FSMIC. Findings further showed that students who scored higher than expected on loneliness at one time point experienced higher than expected levels of depression at the next time point. Evidence indicates that positive feelings about social media may have been adaptive during COVID-19, which has implications for how educational leadership leverages social media to promote college students\u27 psychosocial adjustment
Sigma Hole Potentials as Tools: Quantifying and Partitioning Substituent Effects
Get PDFEmpirical substituent constants such as the Hammett parameters have found important utility in organic and other areas of chemistry. They are useful both in predicting the impact of substitutions on chemical processes and in rationalizing, after the fact, observations on chemical bonding and reactivity. We assess the impact of substitutions on mono-iodinated benzene rings and find that the modifications that substituents induce on the electrostatic potentials at the sigma hole on the terminal I center correlate strongly with established trends of common substituents. As an alternative to the experimental procedures involved in obtaining empirically based substituent constants, the computationally determined constants based on induced electrostatic potentials offer a model for quantifying the influence of mono- and polyatomic, neutral and ionic, substituents on their compounds. A partitioning scheme is proposed that allows us to discretely separate σ and π contributions to generate quantitative measures of substituent effects
[Foreward to] Public workers in service of America: a reader
Get PDFFrom white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American democracy. In Part Two, essayists examine race and gender discrimination while revealing the subtle contemporary forms of marginalization that keep Black men and Black and white women underpaid and overlooked for promotion. The historic labor actions detailed in Part Three illuminate how city employees organized not only for better pay and working conditions but to seek recognition from city officials, the public, and the national labor movement. Part Four focuses on nurses and teachers to address the thorny question of whether certain groups deserve premium pay for their irreplaceable work and sacrifices or if serving the greater good is a reward unto itself. Contributors: Eileen Boris, Cathleen D. Cahill, Frederick W. Gooding Jr., William P. Jones, Francis Ryan, Jon Shelton, Joseph E. Slater, Katherine Turk, Eric S. Yellin, and Amy Zanoni -- Provided by publisher.https://scholarship.richmond.edu/bookshelf/1401/thumbnail.jp
[Preview of] Linguistics and Psychoanalysis A New Perspective on Language Processing and Evolution
Get PDFThis groundbreaking, provocative book presents an overview of research at the disciplinary intersection of psychoanalysis and linguistics.
Understanding that linguistic activity, to a great extent, takes place in unconscious cognition, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio systematically demonstrates how fundamental psychoanalytic mechanisms—such as displacement, condensation, overdetermination, and repetition—have been absent in the history of linguistic inquiry, and explains how these mechanisms can illuminate the understanding of the grammatical structure, evolution, acquisition, and processing of language. Reexamining popular misunderstandings of psychoanalysis along the way, Bonfiglio further proposes a new theoretical configuration of language and expertly sets the future agenda on this subject with new conceptual paradigms for research and teaching.
This will be an invaluable, fascinating resource for advanced students and scholars of theoretical and applied linguistics, the cognitive-behavioral sciences, metaphor studies, humor studies and play theory, anthropology, and beyond.https://scholarship.richmond.edu/bookshelf/1403/thumbnail.jp
[Description of] Drabble harvest #10: Space station duty free
No full textWelcome to a collection of 100-word tales of how many different items pass or do not pass through Duty-Free Space Stations. Our writers’ imaginations workedovertime on this one. Find out how to sneak in—or out—of the customs offices.You’ll find humor and serious points in these stories. So take a load off and escape this world for a little while.https://scholarship.richmond.edu/bookshelf/1406/thumbnail.jp
The Risks of Prohibition during Pandemics
No full textThis chapter argues that public officials should usually refrain from imposing penalties on people who engage in risky behaviour during pandemics. It first makes the case that prohibitive public health policies, such as mandates and lockdowns, are often unfairly enforced, either because these policies interfere with people who are not liable to be interfered with or because they are excessively burdensome. Second, the chapter argues that these policies can also be counterproductive to the goal of promoting public health and wellbeing. Third, it claims that public officials also lack the standing to enforce prohibitive public health policies to the extent that they are also enforcing policies that prolong or exacerbate a pandemic. Fourth, it discusses circumstances where a prohibitive approach might be justified. To close, the chapter discusses the broader implications of these arguments for other ethical questions related to public health policy
[Description of] Light at the End of the Word
No full textCheryl Pallant’s exuberance for life is barely contained in her surging lines made of luxurious wordplay, bravura wit and lithe music. A happy bodhisattva, Pallant just can’t quit life for Nirvana. In Light at the End of the Word her gorgeous, death-defying acrobatics are simply irresistible. She notices, thinks about, everything—intuiting life’s spark. Her realization of being alive materializes like an invisible inscription held over a candle’s flame—readable in turning to ash. Her motto: “Don’t apologize for beauty.” In honoring life’s fleeting nature, she possesses the gravity of its mortal register. Her confession: “What I most want to say folds into the forget of dreams.” Shaped by the grace of existence, her poems become our self-reflections.
—Burt Kimmelman
Cheryl Pallant invites you inside a briskly moving environment with “no sitting down” where ordeal can’t help turning to dance. Passing through unforeseen lingualities—zones of possible languaging—you find it thinkable to think otherwise. Instead of new solutions to old problems or analyses of past events, speaking works new ways of being. Light at the End of the Word is singular language shedding skin, revealing beyond understanding, with ever finer intensities—and laughter over fearful edges. Something like continuous subclinical startle puts reading under pressure, feels text as body in mind-therapeutic mode. Everything’s at stake on the tip of the tongue; you lose your way to find it newer, line by line, barely recognizable. Mirroring alters the looker. Reading finds its further selves in steps along precarious ways.
—George Quasha
“Resisting the path is a path” writes Cheryl Pallant. What does that path sound, feel and look like? Light at the End of the World creates a charged (mostly) long lined, breathed, loping, dancerly language that resists easy syntax, old stories and absolutely anything poetically predictable. “Our mission requires the emergence of impromptu faculty” writes the poet who is “susceptible to double vision/ and seeing what isn’t seeable” that is, “as if orcas and manta rays surface, as if a bathyscaphe plunges/ to aphotic depths seeking fluorescence.” Pallant’s poetry seeks connection “transducing passed the tympanic membrane” whilst continually registering the energy emitting materiality of one’s own body, the wounded other, and the conditions that “quicken cosmic connect/ to feral superfluity in full throttled resonance.”
—Kimberly Lyons
Cheryl Pallant is the author of several poetry books, Her Body Listening and Continental Drifts (Blaze VOX Books), Into Stillness and Uncommon Grammar Cloth (Station Hill Press), and Morphs (Cracked Slab Books). Her nonfiction books include Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing (Inner Traditions), Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice and Contact Improvisation: an Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form (McFarland and Company), and Ginseng Tango (Big Table Publishing). She teaches dance and writing at University of Richmond and is a Reiki and Healing Touch practitioner.https://scholarship.richmond.edu/bookshelf/1414/thumbnail.jp
Understanding sex differences when majoring in economics: what little we know, reasons for knowledge gaps, and a research agenda of unanswered questions
No full textWe provide a comprehensive review of what research on U.S. students and institutions has revealed about women’s decisions to persist in the economics major, and we identify key avenues for future research. We first document gender differences in introductory economics course enrolments and persistence in the major. We then explore commonly cited reasons for this gender gap in economics, including issues within the profession (chilly climate), the major (role models, quantitative emphasis), and classroom environment (grade sensitivity, relevance). Throughout this review we identify gaps in the existing research, focusing on the lack of generalizability of existing findings. Lack of generalizability arises because of the use of convenience data, including single institution administrative retrospective data. Based on this background, we offer a research agenda that would greatly enhance our understanding of why female students attrite at higher rates at each step of the major
Public Health Officials Should Almost Always Tell the Truth
No full textOne of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is that the lay public relies immenselyon the knowledge of public health officials. At every phase of the pandemic, the testimony of public health officials has been crucial for guiding public policy and individual behavior. The reason is simple: public health officials know a lot more than you and I do about public health. As lay people, we rely on experts. This seems straightforward. But the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that public health officials seem undecided as to what, precisely, their role is; are they providing the public information as it presents itself, or are they informing the public in a way that produces a desired or optimal outcome? In this article, I answer the following question: what are public health officials morally obligated to tell the public? As I see it, these are the main options: (1) public health officials should tell the full truth, regardless of outcome; or (2) they should tell partial truths or lies that are aimed to promote a socially optimal outcome. My answer to this question is that public health officials are only allowed to lie under very narrow and rare conditions
