1,137 research outputs found
Appreciation (including gratitude) and affective well-being: appreciation predicts positive and negative affect above the Big Five personality factors and demographics
No full textThis study investigated the relation between appreciation and positive and negative affect, controlling for gender, age, ethnicity, and Big Five personality factors. Appreciation consists of several aspects, including a focus on what one has (“have” focus), awe, gratitude, and interpersonal appreciation. Undergraduates (N = 236) completed an online survey containing the Appreciation Scale, Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS), and Big Five Inventory (BFI). The Big Five traits accounted for 38% and 43% of the variance in positive and negative affect, respectively, beyond demographics. Appreciation accounted for 9% (p < .001) and 4.6% (p < .05) of the variance in positive and negative affect, respectively, beyond demographics and the Big Five. The “have” focus aspect of appreciation, which represents noticing, focusing on, and valuing what one has, accounted for significant unique variance in both positive and negative affect. Gratitude did not. Future research is needed to determine how broadly these results generalize.Peer reviewe
Academic libraries as civic agents
No full textOne practice ground for democracy often overlooked is the academic library. In fact, until recently, academic libraries were “conspicuous by their absence in the engaged university” (Westley, 2006, p. 200). Although academic libraries are well recognized for their role informing scholarship, promoting access to a diversity of ideas, and serving as depositories for government, community and other useful information, many are just now beginning to move up the IAP2 Public Participation Spectrum (2014)--a widely recognized descriptor of levels and resources of public participation processes--from informing toward involving, collaborating and empowering future citizens in the issues of the day. Academic librarians are natural allies in the quest to create a more engaged citizenry given their liaison responsibilities across the curriculum with such campus “hubs” of democracy (Carcasson, 2008) as political science and education, journalism and social work, and communication and Cooperative Extension
Touching Freud's dog: H.D.'s tactile poetics
No full text"Do not touch me", Frau Emmy warns Freud in 1889. "Do not touch", Freud echoes in 1933. This time, he is referring to his pet chow, Yofi, warning H.D. that "she snaps - she is very difficult with strangers". Examining the prohibition in light of work by Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, this article charts the withdrawal that always interrupts touch. Despite Freud's taboo, however, H.D.'s writing seeks to make contact in strange and unnerving ways. Developing Julia Kristeva's account of the semiotic, this paper proposes a literature of touch. Reading H.D.'s poems, alongside Tribute to Freud, and her letters, the author demonstrates that H.D.'s poetics are always haunted by the very (im)possibility of contact
Nancy Spero : L'image parlée = Nancy Spero : The Spoken Image
No full textIn her analysis of Spero’s work from the 1950s to the beginning of the 21st century, Déry suggests the artist is a representative of the first generation of feminist artists. The author also outlines the exhibition theme of the “spoken image,” and draws attention to how Spero’s socially engaged practice has transformed contemporary art. Emphasis is placed on the following aspects of the artist’s work: compositional structure, figurative vocabulary, and relationships between text/image. Includes a brief text by N. Jolicœur on Spero’s installation “The First Language.” Brief artist’s statements (in English only). Other texts in French and English. Bio-bibliography 9 p
The Case of the Contradiction: Proving the Paradoxes of Nancy Drew
No full textabstract: Since her debut in 1930, Nancy Drew has been an extremely popular character and icon for adolescent girls. Created by Edward Stratemeyer and developed by Mildred Wirt Benson and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, Nancy Drew continues to influence and inspire generations of readers. Readers are drawn to Nancy Drew's character and her ability to escape into the world of River Heights, away from the tumultuous climate of the Great Depression and ensuing wars. Significantly, Nancy Drew's enduring power and influence stems from five cultural and social paradoxes: child v. adult, masculine v. feminine, independent v. dependent, single v. couple, and classic v. modern. This thesis explores how throughout the series, Nancy embodies each extreme of these dualities, which gives her the power to be everything to everyone. Nancy derives power from these five paradoxes, which by definition are contradictory, but afford her special privileges in her fictional world. In embodying these binaries, Nancy Drew provides adolescent readers with an escape from and a role model for adolescence and future adulthood
Enriching or Depleting? The Dynamics of Engagement in Work and Family Roles
No full textThis study develops a model of engagement in the multiple roles of work and family. I examine two competing arguments about the effects of engaging in multiple roles, depletion and enrichment, and integrate them by identifying the type of emotional response to a role, negative or positive, as a critical contrasting assumption held by these two perspectives. Moreover, I represent depletion and enrichment as complex multistep processes that include multiple constructs, such as engagement and emotion. This study jointly examines both the depleting and enriching processes that link engagement in one role to engagement in another, using structural equation modeling. Findings from a survey of 790 employees reveal evidence for both depletion and enrichment as well as gender differences. Specifically, depletion existed only for women and only in the work-to-family direction. Men experienced enrichment from work to family, while women experienced enrichment from family to work. Overall, more linkages were found between work and family for women than for men
Mechanisms linking work and family: Clarifying the relationship between work and family constructs.
No full textWork-family research emphasizes the importance of mechanisms that link work and family. However, these mechanisms typically are described in metaphoric terms poorly suited to rigorous research. In this article we translate work-family linking mechanisms into causal relationships between work and family constructs. For each relationship we explain its sign and causal structure and how it is influenced by personal intent. We show how these respecified linking mechanisms constitute theoretical building blocks for developing comprehensive models of the work-family interface
The Encyclopedia of Catholicism
No full textNancy Dallavalle is a contributing author, Agnosticism, Deposit of Faith, Fundamental Theology, Mystery, and sixteen other entries.
Book description: The faculty at Notre Dame University presents the most comprehensive, easy-to-use reference on the world\u27s largest religious tradition--a must for all Catholics and anyone seeking to explore and understand the rich and fascinating world of Catholicism.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/religiousstudies-books/1022/thumbnail.jp
An exploratory study of donor stewardship on the Web framed within a cocreational public relations paradigm
No full textAmerican’s commitment to philanthropy reached new heights in the wake of the twenty-first century as reports of unspeakable tragedies and unforeseen disasters filled our collective consciousness. Simultaneously, the World Wide Web began to emerge as the medium through which Americans were expressing their support. With little known outside of the popular and trade press about online giving, this study examines how and in what ways nonprofit organizations are using the Web to establish and maintain relationships with online donor publics. Drawing on the excellence and dialogic paradigms found in the cocreational public relations literature, the concept of stewardship is advanced as an overarching theoretical framework for the study. A content analysis methodology was employed to examine the Web sites of 50 American nonprofit organizations that raise money online to describe stewardship, operationalized as relationship building features, found on each of the sites. The study explores found a relationship between the number of features and amount of money raised online, and the number and types of features and the organizational mission. As a result of the research, a model for studying stewardship is advanced.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Nancy A. Wience
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