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Unintended Consequences: The Potential Impact of Expectations on Members of the Armed Forces
Get PDFRoughly 70% of adults face a traumatic event once in their lives, and of these individuals, around 20% develop post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One of the challenging components of diagnosing and treating PTSD is that it does not affect everyone who faces a traumatic experience. This thesis argues that the determining factor between trauma and PTSD acquisition is moral injury, which is a violation of expectation. Current military training is inadequate in preparing members of the armed forces for the realities of military life due to a lack of simulations and transparency. As a result, combat, war, and even assimilating into a new base can act as chronic unpredictable stress, which ultimately leads to adverse health effects. The expectation that training properly lays the foundation for competency in military life is then violated. Additionally, military training encourages a culture of hypermasculinity. Consequently, personnel feel apprehensive and ashamed at admitting the need for help. Therefore, a cognitive dissonance and ultimately a violation of expectation occurs in which members of the armed forces are told how tough and invincible they are, but their emotional and mental health says otherwise. Combined, the military people are stressed but refusing to ask for help. Together, these factors contribute to moral injury and subsequently PTSD
Cushion Plant Revegetation and Recovery After Recreational Trampling on a Colorado Fourteener
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The Mountains Are Calling, but Who\u27s Picking Up? Exploring Diversity in Rocky Mountain National Park
Get PDFThe author explores racial diversity in Rocky Mountain National Park
Everyone Has A Dark Side: How Personality and Empathy Impact Men’s Sexual Aggressive Persistence on Dating Apps
Get PDFIn the world of online dating, there is a major issue of men not respecting clear no-signals from their matches. A no-signal is simply when a woman removes her consent to continue in the conversation. In terms of consent, there has been plenty of research into how men misinterpret ambiguous consent for approval to engage in a sexual act, but there has been very little research examining why men persist through non-ambiguous no-signals. There needs to be more research into this area because these behaviors of disregarding no-signals may lead to more serious behaviors such as rape and sexual assault. This current study examines how dark personality traits of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy and/or empathy can impact men’s likelihood to respect no-signals. In a controlled laboratory experiment, participants used a mock dating app to select and converse with one fictitious match. Eventually, this match presented a sign of no interest, what I refer to as a no-signal, and participants had the choice to disrespect this request of unambiguous lack of consent and continue or respectfully end the conversation. If participants persisted, another, more extreme no-signal was presented; participants stop level is the number of no-signals they ignored and disrespected. Results indicated that 71% of participants persisted through the fist no-signal. Furthermore, those who were the highest in psychopathy were also the most persistent. A perspective-taking intervention did not persistence significantly alter persistence to no-signals in general; however, the empathy intervention did interact with psychopathy to reduce persistence for those who are the highest in psychopathy. The results are discussed in terms of real-world implications, such as adding empathy interventions and personality measures to apps such as Tinder and Grinder
One Country, Two Systems, Three Faces: Creighton’s Travel Course to Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Macau
No full textJesuits have a long history in Southern China. In 1582 Matteo Ricci arrived in Macau as one of the first Jesuit missionaries to China, where he worked until his death in 1610, having gained a mastery of the Chinese language and the trust of the emperor. The Heider College of Business at Creighton University has offered a “Pearl River Delta” travel course to Southern China (where the Pearl River meets the ocean) since 2015. The class helps students understand cross cultural differences – especially in business practices – and to comprehend more clearly the role the cities of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Macau play in the world, particularly in international markets. China plans to increase the Guandong-Hong Kong and Macao regional GDP to $4.62 trillion by 2030, surpassing the Tokyo, New York and San Francisco to become the world’s #1 economic area
Bridging the Cultural and Linguistic Divide Through Virtual Exchange
No full textThe AUSJAL/AJCU Virtual Exchange Program maximizes the strengths of the Jesuit educational mission and its network to establish sustainable partnerships across borders, language and cultural divides. Initiated in 2006 as a grass roots project between two language instructors, the collaboration has grown to involve 22 universities, 29,561 students and 200 instructors in an innovative, high impact practice that leverages technologies to foster global engagement through virtual interaction. This study documents the perspectives of U.S. and Latin American students participating in virtual exchange experiences at five Jesuit universities. Specifically, research methodology included qualitative data collection to examine the impact of a strategically designed virtual exchange learning experience. Results of analysis of students’ written reflections indicate tendencies in the development of the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary for intercultural competence, and the role of virtual exchange in the development of empathy and compassion through encounter and dialogue that can lead to growth in global awareness and solidarity for and with others
Convening the World: True Access and Global, Synchronous Pedagogy in Regis University’s Master of Development Practice
No full textThis articles describes the characteristics of the global classroom in the Master of Development Practice (MDP) at Regis University and the many ways it expresses the Jesuit mission. The MDP program is grounded in the Jesuit ideals of inclusive access, cura personlis and social justice. Using Zoom videoconferencing, we synchronously connect with our students around the world. The second half of the article describes the research we are undertaking in our global classroom. Our pedagogy pushes the boundaries of what is possible in development education with a global student body in a synchronous classroom. In this environment we are investigating classroom power dynamics, sense of community, and how to engage the full student while expanding their global perspective
Religious Couples Re-Storying After Infidelity: Using Narrative Therapy Interventions with a Focus on Attachment
Get PDFAttachment-focused narrative interventions used with religious couples of the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) dealing with the effects of infidelity is discussed in this article. With religious couples, the couple attachment bond is commonly harmed after infidelity. The attachment bond with God can also be affected with one or both partners. Partners who once felt close and connected with God can feel angry and distant because of infidelity. Since the Abrahamic faiths are narrative-based religions, and an attachment bond with God is essential, attachment-focused narrative interventions can help couples re-story their relationship with each other and with God. Attachment-based narrative interventions are also illustrated using case-examples to help practitioners collaborate with religious couples to co-author new narratives and journey toward empowered futures
100 Days of Confidence: How To Be Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
No full textIn an effort to find where confidence comes from, I created a 100- day personal project in which I completed challenges and new experiences in the hopes of understanding what fuels confidence and how it interacts with motivation to achieve my goals in daily life. I decided to divide my challenges into 4 categories: I conquered 25 fears, subjected myself to 25 days of embarrassment, and tried 25 things I have never done before. Lastly, I completed 25 ideas submitted from my community from a submission box I created in order to find out what makes other people feel confident. Some of my experiences include: flying a helicopter, sliding down a tower, and even starring in a Netflix show. In the end, I found my confidence from doing things that are uncomfortable despite not knowing what the outcomes would be
Accio Empathy: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire through the Lens of Cognitive Literary Studies
Get PDFIn this thesis, I examined the literariness of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (GF), calling upon research from the field of cognitive literary studies. Cognitive literary studies is a field in academia that merges scholarship from literary studies and psychology, and one of the main goals of this field is to investigate the impact that literature has on the cognitive and emotional development of the reader. A large portion of my thesis project included a close-reading analysis of the chapter “Flesh, Blood, and Bone,” as my goal was to hypothesize whether GF can be classified as literary or popular fiction. Using criteria from recent research as a template, I analyzed many literary elements of this chapter including metaphors, rhymes, font style, and grammatical style. From my analysis, I hypothesized that GF can be classified as moderately literary fiction due to its style, form, and cognitive and emotional impact on the reader. The findings from this project suggest that GF increases the empathy of the reader due to its literary style. Additionally, works of literary fiction such as GF help readers develop empathy, so these works should be encouraged instead of banned in classroom and home settings