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EXPLORING CULTURALLY-CENTERED ICTS FOR MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT : UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF ISLAMIC CULTURE AND RELIGIOSITY IN MENTAL HEALTH HELP-SEEKING AMONG MUSLIMS IN THE U.S.
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University. Information and Media - Doctor of Philosophy, 2025This dissertation examines mental health help-seeking practices among Muslims in the United States. Mental health disparities persist among racial, ethnic, and religious minorities in the United States, with Muslims living in the U.S. (MLUS) facing unique challenges shaped by intersecting factors such as Islamophobia, discrimination, and acculturation stress. Despite a high prevalence of mental health concerns, MLUS underutilize professional psychological services, a pattern influenced by cultural stigma, religious beliefs, and systemic barriers including lack of culturally competent care, financial constraints, and institutional mistrust.Guided by the Culture Centered Approach (CCA), this dissertation amplifies the voices of MLUS to explore how Islamic culture and religiosity shape perceptions of mental health, help-seeking behaviors, and engagement with information and communication technologies (ICTs) as potential support tools. Using a qualitative, hermeneutic phenomenological design, the study draws on semi structured interviews with 22 Muslim adults in Michigan from diverse backgrounds. Key findings reveal that participants distinguish between cultural stigma and Islamic teachings, with stigma primarily rooted in ethnic or national cultures rather than religion. Islamic beliefs and practices serve as both protective coping mechanisms and frameworks for meaning making yet can also create feelings of guilt or inadequacy when religious coping alone is insufficient. Structural barriers, such as affordability, language, lack of culturally or religiously matched providers, and concerns about confidentiality further complicate both help-seeking and care. Participants demonstrate agency by seeking faith-aligned mental health content, utilizing digital tools for privacy and validation, and proposing culturally resonant solutions. ICTs, including teletherapy, mental health apps, and social media, are valued for their privacy, accessibility, and ability to provide judgment-free support, but concerns about data security and the lack of human connection remain. Participants advocate for faith-integrated digital interventions, mosque based mental health services, culturally competent providers, and leveraging community resources like zakat for mental health support. As defined by Muslim aid, \u201cZakat is a mandatory charity required of all adult Muslims who meet the threshold. It is the third pillar of Islam and refers to the obligatory payment of Zakat in Islam, distinguishing it from voluntary acts of generosity like Sadaqah. The Zakat definition encompasses the act of purifying one\u2019s wealth by giving a portion of it to those in need, as prescribed by Islamic law\u201d. This study advances the CCA by foregrounding the intersection of Islamic culture, religiosity, and structural realities in shaping mental health help-seeking and care experiences among MLUS. It highlights the need for culturally grounded, community-informed mental health practices and digital solutions that are responsive to the diverse needs of Muslim communities in the U.S. The findings have practical implications for practitioners, policymakers, and technology developers seeking to improve mental health equity and access for religious minoritiesDescription based on online resource. Title from PDF t.p. (Michigan State University Fedora Repository, viewed ).Includes bibliographical references
Alienating: how the portrayal of Muslim women in US media affects Muslim women’s social identities
Get PDFMaster of ScienceDepartment of Journalism and Mass CommunicationsNancy W. MuturiAmong the portrayals of the minorities in general and Muslims, men and women, in particular in the U.S., Muslim women have been noted to be the most misrepresented and negatively framed. Although previous studies have highlighted the effects of media framing on minorites including their identities, little research exists which analyzes how Muslim women are portrayed in US women from the women’s perspectives and how these portraysls affect the women’s social identities. Accordingly, this phenomenological research sought to fill the gap in the literature through an examination of how Muslim women are portrayed in US media and the impact of such portrayals of their social identities. This study employed a qualititve approach through in-depth semi structured interviews and framing theory and social identities theory as the theoretical frameworks.
The study found that the negative framing and misrepresentations of Muslim women in the mainstream media are widespread and cut across themes such as victims of oppression, lack of agency, and underrepresentation. From the women’s perspective, these do not reflect their realities. Yet, such negative portrayals have adverse consequences on the women’s social identities such that they lead to identity threats. These identity threats compel the women to compare themselves to other majority/minority groups such as Christians and Jews. To cope with such identity threats, some of the women dissociate from their Muslim ingroup and its identity markers such as the wearing of the hijab; others associate with the ingroup and its identity markers; and almost all of them avoid mainstream media. The theoretical and practical implications of this phenomenon are highlighted
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Conversational Agents as an Aid for Cancer Survivors’ Information Search
Get PDFCancer survivors need high-quality information to self-manage their illness, as treatments often last over 20 years. Yet, digital health technologies are in their infancy to aid cancer survivors’ navigation through the wealth of information. Simultaneously, cancer misinformation has grown exponentially on digital platforms, veering survivors from conventional therapies to untested alternative treatments. Towards this end, this conceptual paper explores the potential of conversational agents (generative artificial intelligence aids) designed to select and present credible information to aid in survivors’ long-term journey of managing cancer. Specifically, mining cancer (mis)information from diverse sources and building knowledge graphs are suggested to structure trustworthy and relatable dialogues of conversational agents for cancer survivors
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