scholarly journals Measuring subjective alcohol effects in daily life using contemporary young adult language.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley N. Linden-Carmichael ◽  
Brian H. Calhoun
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Alcohol Effects

“I wouldn’t call them Muslims!”: Constructing a Respectable Islam

Numen ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 243-264
Author(s):  
Jonas Otterbeck
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
The Media ◽  
Mainstream Society

This article addresses the understanding of Islam of nine young adult Muslims living in the Malmö and Copenhagen region.1 Throughout the interviews with the young adults, they mark their distance from what they perceive as unacceptable forms of Islamic ideas and practices, labeling these ideas as extremist and inconsistent. They develop discursive techniques of distancing themselves from the mediated Islam of radicals and the often negative rendering of Islam that they encounter in daily life and in the media. By negotiating with the dominant discourse on what a “respectable religion” should look like, the young adults construct a religiosity that shares much of theformprescribed by mainstream society, but is different incontent. The theoretical framework is drawn from the study of sociology of religion and, in particular, from Beverley Skeggs’ theories on respectability (1997).

College Grieving: Normalizing the Pain of Leaving and of Staying Behind

2020 ◽  
pp. 106648072094382
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Gold ◽  
Elizabeth Beasley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Transition To College ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Home

The transition to college, however enacted, is viewed as a time of joyous discovery and self-exploration for the launched young adult. For the family, this transition may allow for pride in parental accomplishment and perhaps relief as the young adult departs the family home. However, in both circumstances, there is an undercurrent of loss and perhaps unexpressed grieving. If unacknowledged and unresolved, these feelings may cause the student to question readiness for college and personal maturity, perhaps spiraling into depression or substance abuse and culminating in withdrawal or dismissal. At home, the challenge of reimaging family daily life and parental connection may lead to either overinvolvement or distancing, deflecting but not resolving the accompanying family pain. This article will explain the normative process of “freshman grief,” integrate the concepts of this loss through the lens of narrative counseling, and offer suggestions for mental health workers in secondary schools and on college campuses to help students and families anticipate, process, and resolve this time of bereavement in the midst of the excitement of the first year ( n = 175).

scholarly journals Older adults show a more sustained pattern of effortful listening than young adults

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronan McGarrigle ◽  
Sarah Knight ◽  
Lyndon Rakusen ◽  
Jason Geller ◽  
Sven Mattys
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Sentence Processing ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Adult Group ◽  
Listening Effort ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Listening Task

Listening to speech in adverse conditions can be challenging and effortful, especially for older adults. This study examined age-related differences in effortful listening by recording changes in the task-evoked pupil response (TEPR; a physiological marker of listening effort) both at the level of sentence processing and over the entire course of a listening task. A total of 65 (32 young adults; 33 older adults) participants performed a speech recognition task in the presence of a competing talker, while moment-to-moment changes in pupil size were continuously monitored. Participants were also administered the Vanderbilt Fatigue Scale; a questionnaire assessing daily life listening fatigue within four domains (social, cognitive, emotional, physical). Normalized TEPRs were overall larger and more steeply rising and falling around the peak in the older versus the young adult group during sentence processing. Additionally, mean TEPRs over the course of the listening task were more stable in the older versus the young adult group, consistent with a more sustained recruitment of compensatory attentional resources to maintain task performance. No age-related differences were found in terms of total daily life listening fatigue; however, older adults reported higher scores than young adults within the social domain. Overall, this study provides evidence for qualitatively distinct patterns of physiological arousal between young and older adults consistent with age-related upregulation in resource allocation during listening. A more detailed understanding of age-related changes in the subjective and physiological mechanisms that underlie effortful listening will ultimately help to address complex communication needs in aging listeners.

scholarly journals ON GETTING CARRIED AWAY BY THE TIKTOK ALGORITHM

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Schellewald
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Short Video

In this paper I respond to debates on the addictive and distractive quality associated with algorithmic environments like the popular short-video app TikTok. TikTok has frequently been discussed for its addictive nature. Many commentators and critics rendering the app as emblematic for the ways in which digital media as such distract their users from more meaningful and profound experiences. Contrasting such commentary, I draw on a one and half year long ethnographic investigation of TikTok. Doing so, I outline how young adult users of the app appropriated the TikTok algorithm's addictive quality in their search for distraction and escape in everyday life and during the pandemic. Teasing out similarities with prior media forms, like soap operas or magazines, offering similar sites of escape in daily life, I discuss how the sense of getting carried away on TikTok was constructed by users in interaction with the app's algorithm. Finally, I will conclude by arguing that independence, in the context of algorithms and their emotional consequences, comes to matter not in absolute but relative terms. While for my participants ‘mindless scrolling’ through TikTok induced pleasure, the same practice, on other platforms, like Instagram, induced boredom. These subtle differences within the landscape of ‘addictive media’ are often overlooked within debates and the question how they come into being require more attention.

IBD in Young Adult Patients: Perceived Impact on Daily Life Activities

2014 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. S642-S643
Author(s):  
John Miller ◽  
Gina Gessner ◽  
Jamie Massarelli ◽  
Aline Charabaty
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Adult Patients ◽  
Daily Life Activities ◽  
Perceived Impact

scholarly journals Higher Body Iron Is Associated with Greater Depression Symptoms among Young Adult Men but not Women: Observational Data from the Daily Life Study

Nutrients ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 6055-6072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimee Richardson ◽  
Anne-Louise Heath ◽  
Jillian Haszard ◽  
Maria Polak ◽  
Lisa Houghton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Observational Data ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Body Iron ◽  
Life Study ◽  
Adult Men

scholarly journals A Psychosocial Support Program for Young Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors in Austria: a Qualitative Evaluation Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Pletschko ◽  
Kerstin Krottendorfer ◽  
Juliana Schlifelner ◽  
Agathe Schwarzinger ◽  
Verena Fohn-Erhold ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Childhood Cancer ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Childhood Cancer Survivors ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Personal Strengths

AbstractMany adolescents and young adult (AYAs) childhood cancer survivors face disease- or therapy-related late-effects, which limit their participation in various areas of daily life. AYAs are often left alone in our health care system, and many worry about their ability to cope with long-term sequelae, and some are even lost to follow-up. Therefore, in the present study, a targeted aftercare program was developed and evaluated with the goal of facilitating three important “life skills”: (1) self-perception, (2) social interaction and conflict management, and (3) self-conscious communication of support needs. A total of n = 13 participants (19.2–30.2 years, mean age 22.8 years) completed a 3-day aftercare seminar, at the end of which each participant wrote a reflection letter (“letter to my future self”), elaborating on observed effects of the seminar, applicability of the given information in daily life, and the direct impact of the seminar on their individual circumstances. The reflection letters were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. All target life skills were mentioned in the reflection letters. The participants reported individual benefits from the program especially with respect to self-perception and self-confidence, giving and taking feedback, and acceptance of personal strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, the feeling of “not being alone” was associated with the survivors’ experience of emotional and social support. This evaluation highlights the potential of a one weekend aftercare seminar to address important life skills that are known to positively influence health behavior in AYAs. The detailed description of the seminar can serve as a basis for making this kind of aftercare accessible for other people in similar circumstances.

Assessing Subjective Cannabis Effects in Daily Life with Contemporary Young Adult Language

2021 ◽  
pp. 109205
Author(s):  
Renee M. Cloutier ◽  
Brian H. Calhoun ◽  
Stephanie T. Lanza ◽  
Ashley N. Linden-Carmichael
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Daily Life

Fine Structure of Interdental Cells in the Mouse Cochlea

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 140-141
Author(s):  
Roberta M. Bruck
Keyword(s):  
Fine Structure ◽  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Uranyl Acetate ◽  
Ground Substance ◽  
Tectorial Membrane ◽  
Lead Citrate ◽  
Unusual Structure ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Collagenous Fibers

An unusual structure in the cochlea is the spiral limbus; this periosteal tissue consists of stellate fibroblasts and collagenous fibers embedded in a translucent ground substance. The collagenous fibers are arranged in vertical columns (the auditory teeth of Haschke). Between the auditory teeth are interdental furrows in which the interdental cells are situated. These epithelial cells supposedly secrete the tectorial membrane.The fine structure of interdental cells in the rat was reported by Iurato (1962). Since the mouse appears to be different, a description of the fine structure of mouse interdental cells' is presented. Young adult C57BL/6J mice were perfused intervascularly with 1% paraformaldehyde/ 1.25% glutaraldehyde in .1M phosphate buffer (pH7.2-7.4). Intact cochlea were decalcified in .1M EDTA by the method of Baird (1967), postosmicated, dehydrated, and embedded in Araldite. Thin sections stained with uranyl acetate and lead citrate were examined in a Phillips EM-200 electron microscope.

Counseling Adolescents With Hearing Loss Using a Narrative Therapy Approach

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. Nelson Crowell ◽  
Julie Hanenburg ◽  
Amy Gilbertson
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Process Evaluation ◽  
Narrative Therapy ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Therapy Approach ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Counseling Adolescents

Abstract Audiologists have a responsibility to counsel patients with auditory concerns on methods to manage the inherent challenges associated with hearing loss at every point in the process: evaluation, hearing aid fitting, and follow-up visits. Adolescents with hearing loss struggle with the typical developmental challenges along with communicative challenges that can erode one's self-esteem and self-worth. The feeling of “not being connected” to peers can result in feelings of isolation and depression. This article advocates the use of a Narrative Therapy approach to counseling adolescents with hearing loss. Adolescents with hearing loss often have problem-saturated narratives regarding various components of their daily life, friendships, amplification, academics, etc. Audiologists can work with adolescents with hearing loss to deconstruct the problem-saturated narratives and rebuild the narratives into a more empowering message. As the adolescent retells their positive narrative, they are likely to experience increased self-esteem and self-worth.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document