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Newspaper comic strip artists in the "funny pages” have approached the subject of the COVID-19 pandemic in a number of ways. There was a delayed reaction to the pandemic because of the significant lead times preceding when the strip appeared in the paper. Some artists chose never to address the pandemic;other strips are "classic” in that they had appeared previously before the pandemic (e.g., Classic Peanuts, For Better or Worse) or were firmly grounded in a different time period (e.g., Prince Valiant) and would not be expected to broach the subject. A variety of aspects of the pandemic were fodder for the strips and panels such as: shortages and rationing, quarantine behavior, hand washing and mask wearing, escapism, family togetherness and its opposite, loneliness, social distancing, virtual meetings and telecommuting. Some of these subjects are exaggerated in an attempt to highlight their humorous, even ludicrous, aspects. Others are especially poignant and pay tribute to health care workers, delivery persons, grocery store employees, teachers, and other unsung heroes helping people get through the worst of the pandemic. Special attention is paid to the themes discussed in the following three comics: Dr. Rex Morgan, MD, Frank and Ernest, and Pearls Before Swine. Thirty-seven comic strips and panels appearing in the daily and Sunday editions of two different Kentucky newspapers to which the author subscribes;they form the basis for the study. These nationally syndicated strips were analyzed from the time of the first stay at home order in mid-March 2020 until the end of February 2021. This examination is exploratory in nature. Trends in the number of cartoons addressing aspects of COVID-19 are analyzed, but more importantly an attempt is made to interpret the themes of the comic strips or panels. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.
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Background: The world health organization has indicated that the problem of COVID-19 and confinement generated strong psychological impacts on the world population. Much of the research has focused on studying mental health in different population groups, leaving aside a positive mental health perspective. Objective(s): The present research intended to establish positive mental health profiles in confined women due to COVID-19 during 2020. Method(s): The factors of personal satisfaction, prosocial attitude, self-control, autonomy, problem-solving, self-actualization, and interpersonal relationships were assessed through the application of Lluch's positive mental health scale, in a sample of 202 confined women in the Department of Sucre, Colombia, selected by non-probabilistic convenience sampling. In addition, cluster analysis models were applied to identify psychological profiles of positive mental health and characterize sociodemographic variables, the selected model was evaluated and validated using the statistical technique of discriminant analysis using Minitab 18 software. Results and Discussion: A positive mental health differentiation in women is shown from which four psychological profiles of positive mental health could be identified, with scores of 14.10 in profile 1, 11.41 in profile 2, 9.15 in profile 3, and 7.56 in profile 4. The positive mental health factors used showed an ability to discriminate in 92.6% of the cases in the profiles. Conclusion(s): The identified profiles are significant and important to characterize psychometric profiles of positive mental health of confined women, which are important results for their diagnosis and the development of public policies for their treatment.Copyright © 2023 Bentham Science Publishers.
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Reporte parcial de resultados de una investigación en curso que aborda la evaluación diagnóstica de la autorrealización estudiantil durante pandemia, un acercamiento desde el saber ser entendido como resiliencia y bienestar. Es un estudio cuantitativo, de corte transversal, ex post facto, con análisis correlacional. Participó una muestra incidental de estudiantes del área de la educación de una universidad pública mexicana (N = 122) al contestar una encuesta en línea sobre algunos aspectos de su trayecto en la adversidad de la pandemia por SARS-CoV-2. El criterio de inclusión fue que los participantes tuviesen trayectorias escolares continuas durante la pandemia. Los resultados fueron analizados en función de los dos conceptos clave contrastando los niveles educativos de licenciatura y de posgrado. Los hallazgos principales muestran incremento significativo de cualidades resilientes con una dinámica paralela, siendo los más bajos los resultados de los estudiantes de Doctorado. En cuanto al bienestar, mostró tendencias de intensificación emocional, con la única excepción de las emociones eudaimónicas negativas en los estudiantes de Doctorado. Estos hallazgos señalan el interés en investigar la relación entre la autorrealización y la emotividad eudaimónica, especialmente el alcance de la emotividad negativa en la estimulación de crecimiento personal.Alternate :This research addresses a diagnostic evaluation of student self-realization amid pandemic, defining success as continuity despite adversity, and focusing specifically on resiliency and well-being as fundamental elements of the 'learning to be'. This is a quantitative cross-sectional study with an ex post facto design and correlational analyses. A sample of students from the Educational Sciences Department of a Mexican public university (N = 122) participated in an online survey to share details on their personal development in the adversity of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The inclusion criterion for the sampling was having maintained continuous school trajectories trough the pandemic. The results were analyzed by construct, resiliency and well-being, and by educational level (undergraduate, master's and doctoral students). Main findings show significant increase in resilient personal selfevaluation, with parallel dynamics across study levels, though the lowest for the doctorate. As to the well-being, it generally increased in both affects and all the subdimensions, except for the negative eudaimonic affect in doctoral students. These findings highlight the interest in delving into the relation between self-development and the eudaimonic emotions, and particularly the extent to which negative affect may promote personal growth.
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PurposeThe authors analyze the effects of political freedom and personal freedom on the spread of COVID-19 in a cross-country study. The authors also investigate how income inequality, urbanization and previous experience with a similar respiratory epidemic/pandemic, such as SARS and MERS, affect the spread of COVID-19.Design/methodology/approachThe authors employ data from 102 countries to examine the relationship of countries' economic and sociopolitical factors, such as political freedom and personal freedom and their COVID-19 infection cases per million population at 120 days, 150 days and 180 days after the reported 10th infection case. The authors also include the log term of real GDP per capita to control for counties' economic development and regional dummies to control for regional-specific effects.FindingsResults of this study show that personal freedom, rather than democracy, has a significant positive effect on countries' COVID-19 infection cases. On the contrary, democracy has a negative impact on the infection rate. The authors also find that socioeconomic factors such as higher income inequality and urbanization rate adversely affect the COVID-19 infection cases. A larger older population is associated with fewer infection cases, holding everything else equal. Previous experiences with the coronavirus crisis affect countries only at the 120 days mark. Real GDP per capita has no significant effect.Originality/valueThe main contribution of this paper is to jointly explore personal freedom, which implies a social framework with more emphasis on self-value and self-realization and political freedom, that is, democracy. The authors show that it is personal freedom, rather than democracy, that contributes to higher COVID-19 infection cases. Democracy, on the other hand, reduces the number of infection cases.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-12-2021-0769
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This essay applies Critical Race Theory and Critical Whiteness Studies towards affirming the collective existence, experience, and humanity of educational leaders of Color, who tend to experience systemic dismissing and invisibilizing within educational institutions. Like racial commentators such as James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates, this essay uses the genre of letter writing—specifically a love letter—as a way to cultivate intimacy and relationality with readers. The piece intentionally does so because whiteness, white supremacy, and racism enact violence in ways that require intentional healing rooted in humanizing, revolutionary, and decolonial love. Ultimately, this love letter urges scholars, particularly race and whiteness scholars, to "CREW UP," or Catalyze Resistance & Emancipation With United Power, in such a way that provides the healing, collective coalition-building, and consciousness needed to eradicate whiteness, white supremacy, and racism. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE) is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)