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ASDAL Through the Years: A History of the Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians
No full textA presentation on the history of the Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarian
Panorama Spring 2023
Get PDFThis print issue of Panorama includes information on the land dedication for the future School of Business building, BCU Cultural Night, and Meet the Firms.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/parent_newsletter/1086/thumbnail.jp
Expatriate children: Lessons learned from missionary kids (MKs)
No full textThis chapter looks at missionary children in history, reviews the development of the Third Culture Kids/Missionary Kids (TCK/MKs) concept, and provides an overview of research on MKs from major sending countries. Since the development of the term TCK in the 1960’s, research focused on English-speaking MKs has been extensive and ongoing. Less is known about MKs from other language groups even as their numbers increase. While much more research is needed to understand the similarities and differences in MKs from countries outside the English-speaking world, this chapter reviews the MK-related research done in the three major missionary sending countries – USA, Brazil, and South Korea—and offers suggestions for the wider expatriate community. Research findings show that healthy MKs are raised within a close, caring family where there is resilience and affection, a strong marital relationship, good communication skills, an ability to deal with stress, and a spiritual base. In addition, MK well-being is enhanced by an extensive support system that is multi-dimensional with involvement of a wider community that includes the family, school, mission agency, and church providing the role models and relationships essential for developing a healthy TCK adult identity. Age-appropriate pre-field training, on-field support, and reentry seminars specifically for MKs are offered by numerous organizations. A similar development of care structures for expatriate families and children in all types of organizations is needed. Very little research has, however, been devoted specifically to the impact of expatriation upon the children of business expatriates. Studies of expatriation in the international management domain would be enhanced by linking them with the literature relating to religious-based expatriation. A few research questions to help advance the conceptual and empirical development of such a research agenda are offered
Addressing the associate level nurse faculty shortage: Do job and mentoring satisfaction predict retention?
No full textIntroduction Administrators and faculty at associate-level nursing programs face challenges retaining qualified faculty members. Job satisfaction and effective mentoring programs may increase retention. The framework for this study was Herzberg\u27s motivation-hygiene theory. The aim was to determine if job satisfaction and mentoring satisfaction levels could predict retention. Method Full-time nursing faculty employed at state-approved associate-level nursing programs in the Mountain, Pacific, West North Central, and West South Central regions of the United States received an invitation to participate in this cross-sectional quantitative online survey. Multiple regression analysis was used to answer the research question. Results There was a weak relationship between mentoring satisfaction and retention. There was a moderate, significant relationship between job satisfaction and retention. Job satisfaction predicted retention. Discussion Administrators and faculty can improve job satisfaction among nursing faculty by addressing motivators (like recognition, advancement, and achievement) and hygiene factors (like salary and workload). Evidence-based mentoring programs may help improve nursing faculty job satisfaction and retention
Dream Recall Frequency, Sleep, and Mood in Young Adults
No full textThe purpose of the study is to determine the relationship between dream recall frequency, sleep quality, perceived stress, and mood among young adults
*The Impact of Ethnicity and Motivation on Anxiety Levels of College Students
No full textThe purpose of the study is to determine the influence of both ethnicity and motivation on anxiety levels among college students. Specifically, this study will aim to determine whether the combined effects of ethnicity and external and internal motivation result in greater levels of anxiety in this population. Students attending college experience a disproportionate amount of anxiety compared to other age groups within the U.S. population. Due to the prevalence of anxiety among college students, it is necessary to examine the sources of anxiety that contribute to this phenomenon in order to most effectively combat this issue
Masculinity, Empire, and the Boyhood Companion in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations
Get PDFIn 19th-century Britain, rigid social hierarchies and gender roles play a largely unseen role in the rise of the empire. In a society that relies upon the myths of heroic or self-sustaining masculinity to maintain the public sphere, how a “nontraditional” gentleman decides to affirm their masculinity can have a significant impact on the country’s cultural consciousness. As seen in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, young men tend to reassert their gender identities by pursuing careers that further British imperialist agendas. This paper examines the intersection between gender studies and postcolonial theory in 19th-century British literature
Visualizing literary narratives with a graph-centered approach.
Get PDFThe art of storytelling is multifaceted and nonlinear, involving multiple characters, themes, and symbols while often jumping between the present and past. While media forms such as novels can encapsulate these complexities, it is often difficult to visualize a narrative in an easy-to-understand format. Our contribution is a graph-based system to let users organize and visualize those narratives. Events and characters are represented as nodes and their relationships are represented as edges. Neo4J is used as a database management system to store the graph and to run queries on it, and Streamlit and Pyvis are used to represent the database in the user interface
Open Data Indicates that Collegedale could be a Bluezone
Get PDFA blue zone is an indicator of exceptional health in a community. Adventists have a blue zone community in Loma Linda, but there has been little research into other Adventist populated areas that could be blue zones. Therefore, our goal is to show that open data suggests that a blue zone may exist near Southern Adventist University, specifically in Collegedale. This data has been gathered from different federal sources, including, the CDC, the US Census Bureau, the Tennessee Department of Health, official state records, and federal documents that are available to the public