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Thompson MP, Hudson-Flege M, Hancock K. Long-term Impacts of Civic Engagement during Emerging Adulthood: A Nationally-representative Study. Am J Health Promot 2024; 38:641-647. [PMID: 38233344 DOI: 10.1177/08901171241227298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2024]
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PURPOSE We examined if civic engagement during emerging adulthood positively impacted a broad array of outcomes in middle adulthood, and if associations varied based on race, gender, age, and urban-rural status. DESIGN Prospective design used to determine if civic engagement during emerging adulthood (M age = 21.81) predicted outcomes 15 years later. SETTING Restricted data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. SUBJECTS Wave 1 participants who completed surveys 7 years (77% follow-up rate), 14 years (80% follow-up rate), and 22 years later (follow-up rate 72%) and who had valid sampling weight to ensure national representativeness (n = 9349). MEASURES Predictor - civic engagement; Outcomes-mental health, substance use, criminal behaviors, and healthy behavior. ANALYSIS Linear regression using MPLUS 7.2. RESULTS Civic engagement predicted lower levels of depressive symptoms (b = -1.05, SE = .28), criminal behaviors (b = -.47, SE = .12), and substance use (b = -.66, SE = .13), and higher levels of healthy behaviors (b = 1.26, SE = .19), after controlling for demographics, family, peer, neighborhood, and school-related background variables. Moderation analyses revealed that civic engagement benefited females and white participants more. CONCLUSION Civic engagement during emerging adulthood has a positive impact on a broad array of outcomes in middle adulthood. Implications and future research recommendations will be discussed.
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- Martie P Thompson
- Department of Public Health and Exercise Science, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA
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- Institute for Health and Human Services, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Exercise Science, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA
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Vega-Tinoco A, Sánchez-García J, Gil-Lacruz M, Sierra Berdejo MJ, Gil-Lacruz AI. Human values, civic participation, and wellbeing: analysis on their relationship among older Europeans. Front Psychol 2024; 15:1346730. [PMID: 38515977 PMCID: PMC10956691 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1346730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2023] [Accepted: 02/19/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024] Open
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Introduction So far, both for the general and older population, research on human values and wellbeing mainly shows correlational associations but does not inquire about the direction of this relationship. This is also true for values and civic participation. Therefore, our objective is to identify the directional association between civic participation and Schwartz values, and between values and wellbeing, among older Europeans. Methods A pseudo-panel was created from the cross-sectional data of the European Social Survey (ESS 2002-2018), controlling for gender, age-group, country and level of studies (n = 3926). The data analysis was performed using a cross-lagged model, applying both random-effects and fixed-effects models. Results On the one hand, the relationship between participation and values is bidirectional, but the effect of civic participation on values is more significant since participating stimulates the development of certain values. On the other hand, although the relationship between values and wellbeing is also bidirectional, the effect of wellbeing on values is stronger since a given level of wellbeing favors the development of particular values. Discussion We conclude that civic participation should be promoted within the older population since it directly increases wellbeing, and moreover reinforces those (Growth-oriented) values that positively influence the health, happiness and life satisfaction of older people.
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- Andrea Vega-Tinoco
- Department of Business Direction and Organization, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Business Direction and Organization, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and Sociology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Business Direction and Organization, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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Zhang X, Warner ME. Cross-Agency Collaboration to Address Rural Aging: The Role of County Government. J Aging Soc Policy 2024; 36:302-324. [PMID: 37437303 DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2023.2230088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 07/14/2023]
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Age-friendly community planning and design mainly focus on urban aging and may be less applicable in rural communities. We collaborated with the Tompkins County Age-Friendly Center for Excellence in New York State to assess strategies for rural aging. This commentary argues that density and mixed-use development, as age-friendly development strategies, leave rural communities underserved. County governments, by supporting cross-agency collaboration and encouraging civic engagement, can link the age-friendly domains regarding built environment, service delivery, and community together to help address age-friendly issues and support rural aging.
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- Xue Zhang
- Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health and Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, NY, USA
- Dept of City and Regional Planning and Dept of Global Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Dept of City and Regional Planning and Dept of Global Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Silke C, Brady B, Dolan P, Boylan C. Empathy rules, maps and paths: A qualitative exploration of the factors that facilitate or inhibit empathy and prosocial responding among youth. J Community Psychol 2024; 52:326-343. [PMID: 38235840 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.23106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2023] [Revised: 11/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2024]
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The aim of this study is to explore young people's perspectives on the factors that facilitate or inhibit empathy and prosocial responding among youth. Qualitative focus groups (n = 29) were undertaken with Irish young people aged 13-17 years relating to their views on the factors that facilitate or inhibit the expression of empathy. Parents, friends, and social media were found to be key influences, whereas barriers identified included societal norms, gender norms, lack of skill, or knowledge and target characteristics. This research provides important insights into adolescents' perceptions of the social correlates of empathy. Concepts from the sociology of empathy, such as empathy maps and paths, are helpful in drawing out the implications for future research and practice.
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- Charlotte Silke
- UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre, School of Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre, School of Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre, School of Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre, School of Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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Wray-Lake L, Dunn D, Freund V, Kloska DD. The contribution of community service during the transition to adulthood to health in adulthood. J Res Adolesc 2024. [PMID: 38378910 DOI: 10.1111/jora.12922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2023] [Revised: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024]
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Prior studies have linked young people's community service to indicators of health, yet little research takes the long view by connecting youth's community service to health in the next decade of life. Using a lifespan developmental lens, this study examined community service over the transition to adulthood and uses change over time in community service to predict indicators of behavioral, physical, and psychological health at ages 35 and 40. Data were taken from Monitoring the Future U.S. national multi-cohort data spanning ages 18-40 in high school cohorts from 1976 to 1995 for age 40 (N = 4300) and 1976 to 2000 for age 35 (N = 5879). Models estimated a growth curve model for community service from ages 18 to 30 and found that the slope for community service was associated with alcohol use, binge drinking, marijuana use, healthy behaviors, and life satisfaction at ages 35 and 40, with cigarette use at age 35 only, and with self-esteem and depressive symptoms at age 40 only. Less decline in community service over the transition to adulthood was associated with lower substance use, more healthy behaviors, and higher psychological well-being in adulthood. This study contributes evidence that community service and health are linked across the lifespan and suggests the value of examining the long-term implications of developmental change across adolescence and the transition to adulthood.
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- Laura Wray-Lake
- Department of Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Anneser E, Levine P, Lane KJ, Corlin L. Climate stress and anxiety, environmental context, and civic engagement: A nationally representative study. J Environ Psychol 2024; 93:102220. [PMID: 38222971 PMCID: PMC10785829 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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There is increasing recognition that people are experiencing stress and anxiety around climate change, and that this climate stress/anxiety may be associated with more pro-environmental behavior. However, less is known about whether people's own environmental exposures affect climate stress/anxiety or the relationship between climate stress/anxiety and civic engagement. Using three waves of survey data (2020-2022) from the nationally representative Tufts Equity in Health, Wealth, and Civic Engagement Study of US adults (n = 1071), we assessed relationships among environmental exposures (county-level air pollution, greenness, number of toxic release inventory sites, and heatwaves), self-reported climate stress/anxiety, and civic engagement measures (canvasing behavior, collaborating to solve community problems, personal efficacy to solve community problems, group efficacy to solve community problems, voting behavior). Most participants reported experiencing climate stress/anxiety (61%). In general, the environmental exposures we assessed were not significantly associated with climate stress/anxiety or civic engagement metrics, but climate stress/anxiety was positively associated with most of the civic engagement outcomes (canvassing, personal efficacy, group efficacy, voter preference). Our results support the growing literature that climate stress/anxiety may spur constructive civic action, though do not suggest a consistent relationship between adverse environmental exposures and either climate stress/anxiety or civic engagement. Future research and action addressing the climate crisis should promote climate justice by ensuring mental health support for those who experience climate stress anxiety and by promoting pro-environmental civic engagement efforts.
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- Elyssa Anneser
- Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02111, USA
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- Jonathan Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02111, USA
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University School of Engineering, Medford, MA, 02155, USA
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Ng HKS, Cheung SH. Too hot to help or too cold to care? On the links between ambient temperature, volunteerism, and civic engagement. Br J Psychol 2023; 114:945-968. [PMID: 37309918 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We investigated the relationship between ambient temperature and prosocial behaviour in real-life settings. It was guided by two mechanisms of opposite predictions, namely (1) higher temperatures decrease prosociality by harming well-being, and (2) higher temperatures increase prosociality by promoting the embodied cognition of social warmth. In Study 1, U.S. state-level time-series data (2002-2015) supported the first mechanism, with higher temperatures predicting lower volunteer rates through lower well-being. Study 2 furthered the investigation by probing the relationship between neighbourhood temperature and civic engagement of 2268 U.S. citizens. The data partially supported the well-being mechanism and reported findings contradictory to the social embodiment mechanism. Higher temperatures predicted lower interpersonal trust and subsequently lower civic engagement. The unexpected finding hinted at a cognitive effect of heat and a compensatory mechanism in social thermoregulation. We discussed the findings regarding their methodological strengths and weaknesses, with cautions made on ecological fallacies and alternative models.
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- Henry Kin Shing Ng
- Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Aranda D, Mohammadi L, Blasco MM, Estanyol E, Fernández-de-Castro P. A dataset about Spanish young people's digital skills, use of technology and online platforms. F1000Res 2023; 12:26. [PMID: 38434652 PMCID: PMC10905144 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.128899.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2024] Open
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Background: The datafication scenario of the current communicative ecosystem poses a challenge to media and digital literacy, especially in terms of participation and civic and democratic engagement of youth. Methods: For this purpose, through a survey with a representative sample of 600 young people in Spain, between 16 and 18 years old, we observed their level of digital literacy through three variables: technical competencies, informational competencies, and critical knowledge. This dataset also collects information on the reasons why young people use digital technology such as video games, consoles, computers or mobile phones. On the other hand, we also offer information on the types of social networks or applications and the time and types of uses by youngsters of different digital technologies and social media platforms. The survey includes socio-demographic factors such as gender including (male, female, and others). Conclusions: This survey offers researchers relevant data on the digital skills of Spanish youth and on the perceptions of the use of different digital technologies. This paper also reports the main descriptive data that can be expanded by researchers accessing the database.
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- Daniel Aranda
- Media Studies, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalunya, 08018, Spain
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- Media Studies, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalunya, 08018, Spain
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- Media Studies, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalunya, 08018, Spain
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Wiium N, Kristensen SM, Årdal E, Bøe T, Gaspar de Matos M, Karhina K, Larsen TMB, Urke HB, Wold B. Civic engagement and mental health trajectories in Norwegian youth. Front Public Health 2023; 11:1214141. [PMID: 37927862 PMCID: PMC10625422 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1214141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/28/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023] Open
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Introduction Applying variable-centered analytical approaches, several studies have found an association between civic engagement and youth mental health. In the present study, we used a person-centered approach to explore whether civic engagement was related to optimal trajectories of mental health compared to other trajectories. We also examined how sociodemographic factors, such as socioeconomic status (SES), gender and age were related to youth mental health trajectories. Methods Our sample comprised 675 students (aged 16-22) who had participated in three waves of data collection (Mage = 18.85, SD = 0.55; 43% males) in the COMPLETE project, a cluster-randomized controlled trial that involved Norwegian upper secondary schools. Results The results revealed three trajectories of mental health (reflecting a combination of mental distress and mental well-being): optimal, intermediate, and sub-optimal. Contrary to our expectations, higher levels of civic engagement were not related to the optimal trajectory of mental health vs. other trajectories. However, we found that students who reported higher levels of SES and males were more likely to follow the optimal trajectory compared to other trajectories. Discussion While the findings on civic engagement could be due to our measurement's inability to capture the concept of "dugnad," a well-established civic activity in the Norwegian society, the findings regarding the influence of SES and gender suggest that there is still more work to be done concerning the assessment and advancement of factors that can address mental health inequalities across SES and gender.
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- Nora Wiium
- Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Health Promotion and Development, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Health Promotion and Development, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Health Promotion and Development, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Turin TC, Kazi M, Rumana N, Lasker MAA, Chowdhury N. Conceptualising community engagement as an infinite game implemented through finite games of 'research', 'community organising' and 'knowledge mobilisation'. Health Expect 2023; 26:1799-1805. [PMID: 37350352 PMCID: PMC10485326 DOI: 10.1111/hex.13801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Revised: 06/05/2023] [Accepted: 06/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023] Open
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Meaningful community engagement process involves focusing on the community needs, building community capacity and employing culturally tailored and community-specific strategies. In the current practices of community-engaged health and wellness research, generally, community engagement activities commence with the beginning of a particular research project on a specific topic and end with the completion of the project. The outcomes of the community engagement, including the trust, partnership and contribution of the community to research, thus remain limited to that specific project and are not generally transferred and fostered further to the following project on a different topic. In this viewpoint article, we discussed a philosophical approach to community engagement that proposes to juxtapose community engagement for the specific short-term research project and the overarching long-term programme of research with the finite game and infinite game concepts, respectively. A finite game is a concept of a game where the players are known, rules are fixed and when the agreed-upon goal is achieved, the game ends. On the other hand, in infinite games, the players may be both known and unknown, have no externally fixed rules and have the objective of continuing the game beyond a particular research project. We believe community engagement needs to be conducted as an infinite game that is, at the programme of research level, where the goal of the respective activities is not to complete a research project but to successfully engage the community itself is the goal. While conducting various research projects, that is, finite games, the researchers need to keep an infinite game mindset throughout, which includes working with the community for a just cause, building trust and community capacity to maximise their contribution to research, prioritising community needs and having the courage to lead the community if need be. Patient or Public Contribution: While preparing this manuscript, we have partnered actively with community champions, activists, community scholars and citizen researchers at the community level from the very beginning. We had regular interactions with them to get their valuable and insightful inputs in shaping our reflections. Their involvement as coauthors in this paper also provided a learning opportunity for them and facilitated them to gain insight on knowledge engagement. All authors support greater community/citizen/public involvement in research in an equitable manner.
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- Tanvir C. Turin
- Department of Family Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Libin Cardiovascular InstituteUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryAlbertaCanada
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- Department of Family Medicine, Cumming School of MedicineUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryAlbertaCanada
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- Community Scholar and Citizen ResearcherCalgaryAlbertaCanada
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- Department of Family Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Libin Cardiovascular InstituteUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryAlbertaCanada
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HABIB DANIELRS, KLEIN LAURENM, PERRIN ELIANAM, PERRIN ANDREWJ, JOHNSON SARAB. The Role of Primary Care in Advancing Civic Engagement and Health Equity: A Conceptual Framework. Milbank Q 2023; 101:731-767. [PMID: 37347445 PMCID: PMC10509514 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Revised: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023] Open
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Policy Points Health and civic engagement are reciprocally and longitudinally linked: Poor health is associated with less civic engagement. Well-established social drivers of health and health inequality such as inadequate access to health care, poverty, racism, housing instability, and food insecurity are also drivers of lower civic engagement. A robust primary care system can play a key role in advancing civic engagement (e.g., voting, volunteerism, community service, and political involvement) at the population level but has received little attention. Policy and practice solutions at the individual and structural levels should support and leverage potential synergies among health equity, civic engagement, and primary care. CONTEXT Health and civic engagement are linked. Healthier people may be able to participate more fully in civic life, although those with poorer health may be motivated to address the roots of their health challenges using collective action. In turn, civically active people may experience better health, and societies with more equitable health and health care may experience healthier civic life. Importantly, a robust primary care system is linked to greater health equity. However, the role of primary care in advancing civic engagement has received little study. METHODS We synthesize current literature on the links among health, civic engagement, and primary care. We propose a conceptual framework to advance research and policy on the role of primary care in supporting civic engagement as a means for individuals to actualize their health and civic futures. FINDINGS Current literature supports relationships between health equity and civic engagement. However, this literature is primarily cross-sectional and confined to voting. Our integrative conceptual framework highlights the interconnectedness of primary care structures, health equity, and civic engagement and supports the crucial role of primary care in advancing both civic and health outcomes. Primary care is a potentially fruitful setting for cultivating community and individual health and power by supporting social connectedness, self-efficacy, and collective action. CONCLUSIONS Health and civic engagement are mutually reinforcing. Commonalities between social determinants of health and civic engagement constitute an important convergence for policy, practice, and research. Responsibility for promoting both health and civic engagement is shared by providers, community organizations, educators, and policymakers, as well as democratic and health systems, yet these entities rarely work in concert. Future work can inform policy and practice to bolster primary care as a means for promoting health and civic engagement.
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- DANIEL R. S. HABIB
- These authors contributed equally to this work
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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- These authors contributed equally to this work
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
- SNF Agora InstituteKrieger School of Arts and SciencesJohns Hopkins University
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- Krieger School of Arts and SciencesJohns Hopkins University
- SNF Agora InstituteKrieger School of Arts and SciencesJohns Hopkins University
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- SNF Agora InstituteKrieger School of Arts and SciencesJohns Hopkins University
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Fenn N, Yang M, Pearson-Merkowitz S, Robbins M. Civic engagement and well-being among noncollege young adults: Investigating a mediation model. J Community Psychol 2023; 51:2667-2685. [PMID: 36943410 PMCID: PMC10629573 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.23033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2022] [Revised: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Young adults may benefit from civic engagement as a health promotion tool, as civic engagement is generally associated with positive well-being. However, more information is needed to examine civic engagement among lesser-educated young adults who are least likely to civically engage, and more likely to demonstrate mental health needs. We surveyed noncollege young adults (N = 621) to measure their civic engagement, meaning, civic efficacy, well-being, and sociodemographic factors. Using an a priori model, direct, indirect, and full effects path analyses were conducted across men and women, and then the entire sample. The full effects model best fit the data with mediation by civic efficacy and meaning (χ2 (2) = 0.59, p = 0.74; comparative fit index = 1.0; root mean square error of approximation = 0.00, 90% confidence interval [0.00-0.06]; R2 = 0.42). Types of engagement (civic, electoral, activism, and online) demonstrated differing relationships with well-being. Stakeholders should resource young adults with civic skills and coping strategies to address the many challenges that civic experiences often elicit.
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- Natalie Fenn
- Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island
- Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
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- Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island
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- Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island
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Ng HKS, Chow SY. On the relationship between green space and civic engagement: The roles of well-being, outgroup trust, and activity level. Am J Community Psychol 2023; 72:170-186. [PMID: 37434440 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2022] [Revised: 05/18/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023]
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Much research has been devoted to the positive effect of green space on prosociality, but little is known about its impact on civic engagement. It is also unclear how the effect takes place. This research fills the voids by regressing 2440 US citizen's civic engagement on the vegetation density and park area in their neighborhoods. It further examines if the effect is due to changes in well-being, interpersonal trust, or activity level. Park area predicts higher civic engagement, which is mediated by higher trust in outgroups. However, the data is inconclusive about the effect of vegetation density and the well-being mechanism. In contrast to the activity hypothesis, the effect of parks on civic engagement is stronger in unsafe neighborhoods, suggesting that they are valuable resources to combat neighborhood problems. The results bring insights into how individuals and communities can benefit the most from green spaces in the neighborhood.
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- Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Mesa-Vieira C, Gonzalez-Jaramillo N, Díaz-Ríos C, Pano O, Meyer S, Menassa M, Minder B, Lin V, Franco OH, Frahsa A. Urban Governance, Multisectoral Action, and Civic Engagement for Population Health, Wellbeing, and Equity in Urban Settings: A Systematic Review. Int J Public Health 2023; 68:1605772. [PMID: 37719658 PMCID: PMC10500609 DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2023.1605772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 03/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/19/2023] Open
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Objectives: To identify the validated and reliable indicators and tools to assess good governance for population health, wellbeing, and equity in urban settings, and assess processes of multisectoral action and civic engagement as reported by peer-reviewed articles. Methods: We conducted a systematic review searching six databases for observational studies reporting strategies of either urban health, multisectoral action or civic engagement for wellbeing, health, or equity. Results: Out of 8,154 studies initially identified we included 17. From the included studies, 14 presented information about high-income countries. The general population was the main target in most studies. Multisectoral action was the most frequently reported strategy (14 studies). Three studies used Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART). Health indicators were the most frequently represented (6 studies). Barriers and facilitators for the implementation of participatory health governance strategies were reported in 12 studies. Conclusion: Data on the implementation of participatory health governance strategies has been mainly reported in high-income countries. Updated and reliable data, measured repeatedly, is needed to closely monitor these processes and further develop indicators to assess their impact on population health, wellbeing, and equity.
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- Cristina Mesa-Vieira
- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Graduate School for Health Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Graduate School for Health Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Graduate School for Health Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Public Health and Primary Care Library, University Library of Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Martini M, Rollero C, Rizzo M, Di Carlo S, De Piccoli N, Fedi A. Educating Youth to Civic Engagement for Social Justice: Evaluation of a Secondary School Project. Behav Sci (Basel) 2023; 13:650. [PMID: 37622790 PMCID: PMC10451326 DOI: 10.3390/bs13080650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Revised: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 08/01/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023] Open
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The positive effects of youth civic engagement can be felt both at the individual level (e.g., better emotional regulation, a greater sense of empowerment) and at the community level (e.g., a greater likelihood of participation in civic and political activities). They may also be a protective factor for at-risk youth in the short and long term and a valuable element for positive identity development in general. The purpose of this longitudinal study was to assess the impact of an educational intervention implemented in secondary schools to promote youth civic engagement (N = 508 at Time 1, N = 116 at Time 2). The study is divided into two parts: first, it examines the changes stimulated by the project, and second, it uses a path analysis model to explain the intention to participate. Results show that after participation, hostile and benevolent sexism, classic and modern ethnic prejudice, and social dominance orientation decreased, while trust in institutions increased. In addition, the path analysis showed that policy control, social trust, and civic engagement increased the intention of civic engagement at time T1. Despite some limitations, this study may provide useful guidance for those designing and implementing civic education interventions for young people.
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- Mara Martini
- Department of Psychology, University of Turin, 10124 Torino, Italy; (C.R.); (M.R.); (N.D.P.); (A.F.)
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- Department of Psychology, University of Turin, 10124 Torino, Italy; (C.R.); (M.R.); (N.D.P.); (A.F.)
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- Department of Psychology, University of Turin, 10124 Torino, Italy; (C.R.); (M.R.); (N.D.P.); (A.F.)
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- “Spostiamo mari e monti” (“Let’s Move Seas and Mountains”) Social Promotion Association, 10145 Torino, Italy;
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- Department of Psychology, University of Turin, 10124 Torino, Italy; (C.R.); (M.R.); (N.D.P.); (A.F.)
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- Department of Psychology, University of Turin, 10124 Torino, Italy; (C.R.); (M.R.); (N.D.P.); (A.F.)
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Liebenberg L, Reich J, Denny JF, Gould MR, Hutt-MacLeod D. Two-eyed Seeing for youth wellness: Promoting positive outcomes with interwoven resilience resources. Transcult Psychiatry 2023; 60:613-625. [PMID: 35818776 DOI: 10.1177/13634615221111025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Despite the challenges facing Indigenous youth and their communities due to historical and contemporary institutionalised racism in Canada, communities are drawing on the richness of their own histories to reassert their cultural heritage. Doing so supports mental health outcomes of young people in particular, as highlighted in a compelling body of research. The question facing many communities, however, is how they can facilitate such child and youth engagement in order to support related positive mental health outcomes. This article reports on findings from a Participatory Action Research (PAR) study conducted in a First Nations community in Unama'ki (Cape Breton), Atlantic Canada. The study, Spaces & Places, was a partnership between the community-based mental health service provider (Eskasoni Mental Health Services, EMHS), eight community youth (14-18 years old), and a team of academics. Situated within a resilience framework, the team explored the ways in which the community facilitated, or restricted, youth civic and cultural engagement. Foregrounded against a strong legacy of cultural reassertion within the community, findings highlight the core resilience-promoting resources that support positive youth development. Additionally, findings demonstrate how these resources provide meaningful support for youth because of the way in which they are intertwined with one another. Furthermore, cultural engagement is underpinned by the Two-eyed Seeing model, supporting youth to integrate their own culture with settler culture in ways that work best for them. Findings support community-based service structures, and underscore the importance of community resilience in the effective support of Indigenous children and youth.
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- Linda Liebenberg
- Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Valenti GD, Lo Coco A, Iannello NM, Inguglia C, Pluess M, Lionetti F, Ingoglia S. Individual Differences in Adolescents' Civic Engagement: The Role of Civic Discussions with Parents and Environmental Sensitivity. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2023; 20:6315. [PMID: 37444162 PMCID: PMC10341440 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20136315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2023] [Revised: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023]
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The main goal of the current study was to examine the direct and moderating effects of civic discussions with parents and environmental sensitivity using both the total score and its specific dimensions (i.e., Aesthetic Sensitivity, AES; Ease of Excitation, EOE; Low Sensitivity Threshold, LST) on youth civic engagement (attitudes and behaviours). The empirical analysis relied on a questionnaire-based survey conducted on a sample of 438 adolescents (30% males), aged between 14 and 18 years (M = 16.50, SD = 1.36). We used a structural equation model (SEM) with latent variables and the latent moderated structural equation (LMS) method to test our hypotheses. Our results showed that civic discussions with parents were positively and significantly associated with general environmental sensitivity and with AES and predicted both civic attitudes and civic behaviours; EOE was negatively and significantly related to civic behaviours; AES was positively and significantly related to civic attitudes; and LST was not significantly related to either civic attitudes or behaviours. Contrary to our expectations, environmental sensitivity did not moderate the relationship between civic discussions with parents and civic engagement. Our study further highlights the relevance that parents have in shaping their children's civic engagement and makes a novel contribution regarding how differences in perceiving and processing environmental stimuli can affect beliefs and behaviours toward community issues among young individuals.
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- Giusy Danila Valenti
- Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (G.D.V.); (A.L.C.); (S.I.)
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- Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (G.D.V.); (A.L.C.); (S.I.)
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- Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (G.D.V.); (A.L.C.); (S.I.)
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- Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK;
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- Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University G. D’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy;
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- Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (G.D.V.); (A.L.C.); (S.I.)
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Sriram U, Graham ML, Folta S, Paul L, Seguin-Fowler RA. Integrating Civic Engagement Into a Lifestyle Intervention for Rural Women - A Mixed Methods Process Evaluation. Am J Health Promot 2023; 37:807-820. [PMID: 37057901 PMCID: PMC10521917 DOI: 10.1177/08901171231168500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/15/2023]
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PURPOSE The present study aimed to evaluate the implementation of a civic engagement curriculum (HEART Club) designed to catalyze positive environmental change in rural communities. DESIGN The HEART Club curriculum was integrated into a six-month community-based health behavior intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk. SETTING Participants were recruited from eight rural towns in Montana and New York. SUBJECTS 101 midlife and older women. INTERVENTION Participants worked to address an issue related to their local food or physical activity environment and establish progress monitoring benchmarks. METHOD Evaluation components included after-class surveys, program leader interviews (n = 15), participant focus groups (n = 8), and post-intervention surveys. RESULTS Intervention sites reported high fidelity (78%) to the curriculum. Average attendance was 69% and program classes were rated as highly effective (4.1 out of 5). Despite positive participant feedback, low readiness for civic engagement and insufficient time were implementation challenges. The majority of HEART Club groups had accomplished two or more benchmarks post-intervention. Facilitators of progress included community support, effective leadership, and collective effort. Participants also indicated that trying to affect community change while simultaneously making personal health improvements likely stalled initial progress. CONCLUSION These findings highlight the potential and challenges associated with civic engagement within the context of rural lifestyle interventions. Future implementation efforts should focus on reframing civic engagement as an approach to support and maintain behavior change.
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- Urshila Sriram
- Department of Nutrition, Simmons University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
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- College of Education, Health, and Development, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
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- Texas A&M Institute for Advancing Health through Agriculture, 1500 Research Parkway, Centeq Building B, College Station 77845 TX, USA
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Shi C, Dutt A, Jacquez F, Wright B. Transformative impacts of a civic leadership program created by and for refugees and immigrants. J Community Psychol 2023; 51:2300-2318. [PMID: 36932981 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.23028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Revised: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Immigrants and refugees are severely underrepresented at all levels of political decision-making in the United States. These groups face significant barriers to civic and political participation and leadership, despite a frequent commitment to community care and engagement. There is an urgent need to address immigrant integration and underrepresentation through transformative means that go beyond voting to create a more inclusive and socially just society. We investigated outcomes associated with participation in an immigrant integration program designed to increase immigrants' access to civic engagement through a community-based participatory research and action process that centered the voices, experiences, and wisdom of refugees and immigrants. Thirty immigrants and refugees representing at least eight different communities participated in semi-structured interviews. Results illustrate how the program assisted in transforming participants' consciousness, skills, and relationships related to meaningful civic engagement and realizing their voice, power, and rights. These results emphasize the impact and potential of community based participatory research to transform individual and collective efficacy, consciousness, and capabilities-a vital first step in transformative justice.
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- Christine Shi
- Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- CARE: Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- CARE: Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- CARE: Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Cincinnati Compass, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Sewell MN, Napolitano CM, Roberts BW, Soto CJ, Yoon HJ. The social, emotional, and behavioral skill antecedents to college students' volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Res Adolesc 2023; 33:618-631. [PMID: 36717975 DOI: 10.1111/jora.12830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2022] [Revised: 11/20/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2022] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The disruptions to community functioning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic spurred individuals to action. This empirical study investigated the social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skill antecedents to college students' volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic (N = 248, Mage = 20.6). We assessed eight SEB skills at the onset of a volunteering program, and students' volunteer hours were assessed 10-weeks later. Approximately 41.5% of the sample did not complete any volunteer hours. Higher levels of perspective taking skill, abstract thinking skill, and stress regulation were associated with more time spent volunteering. These results suggest that strength in particular SEB skills can prospectively predict prosocial civic behaviors.
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- Madison N Sewell
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA
- Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA
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Boulianne S. Standby Ties that Mobilize: Social Media Platforms and Civic Engagement. Soc Sci Comput Rev 2023; 41:1001-1016. [PMID: 37284005 PMCID: PMC10240620 DOI: 10.1177/08944393211067687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Nonprofit organizations and groups depend on donations and volunteers for their survival. Digital media can help by offering a platform for making online donations and facilitating online volunteering, but also by identifying and connecting with people who are sympathetic to an organization's mission. This article employs four-country (USA, UK, France, and Canada) representative survey data (n = 6291) to examine the use of social media for establishing connections between citizens and organizations as well as the relationship of these connections to online and offline volunteering and donating. Across all social media platforms considered (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter), I find significant positive correlations of following nonprofits with online and offline volunteering and donating. However, Facebook has a slightly larger role, which may be attributed to its overall popularity, which can incentivize organizations' more intense use of this platform.
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Dai JD, Yellowtail JL, Munoz-Salgado A, Lopez JJ, Ward-Griffin E, Hawk CE, LeBlanc J, Santos N, Farero A, Eason AE, Fryberg SA. We Are Still Here: Omission and Perceived Discrimination Galvanized Civic Engagement Among Native Americans. Psychol Sci 2023:9567976231165271. [PMID: 37186808 DOI: 10.1177/09567976231165271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023] Open
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Leading up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Native American organizations and tribes launched get-out-the-vote campaigns that motivated Native peoples to vote in record numbers and helped flip battleground states. We conducted four studies (total N = 11,661 Native American adults) to examine the social and cultural factors explaining this historic Native civic engagement (e.g., campaigning). Results revealed that the more participants identified as being Native, the more they reported (a) engaging in civic activities, including get-out-the-vote behaviors during the 2020 election (Study 1); (b) civic engagement more broadly across a 5-year period (pilot study, Study 2); and (c) intentions to engage in civic activities in the future (Study 3). Moreover, participants who more strongly identified as Native were more likely to recognize the omission of their group from society and perceive greater group discrimination, which both independently and serially predicted greater civic engagement. These results suggest that leveraging the link between Native identification and group injustices can motivate action.
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- J Doris Dai
- Department of Psychology, University of Washington
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- Center for Native American Youth, The Aspen Institute, Washington, DC
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
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Phan V, Kloos B. Examining civic engagement in ethnic minority youth populations: A literature review and concept analysis. Am J Community Psychol 2023; 71:54-78. [PMID: 36609782 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2022] [Revised: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Racial reckoning is defined as the subjugation of Black, Indigenous, and people of Color (BIPOC) to racial hierarchies and subordinate groups that influence multiple well-being outcomes throughout the developmental lifespan and across generations. With the two pandemics of racial reckoning and COVID-19 amidst a growing controversial political landscape, topics around civic engagement have been brought to the forefront of community conversation. Discussions surrounding civic engagement must go beyond addressing issues of public concern and examine the vehicle in which civic engagement may be delivered. This is becoming increasingly important as civic engagement is one of the main avenues of social change through individual and collective action, particularly regarding racial reckoning and healthcare disparities highlighted by COVID-19. The paper focuses on civic engagement among ethnic minority youth and young adults. An integrated model of civic engagement was created based off what was learned through this review. This proposed model of civic engagement is meant to be the first step to addressing the gap in civic engagement literature for ethnic minority youth. Weaknesses and future considerations regarding the model will also be discussed, as well as any implications for ethnic minority youth and young adults.
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- Van Phan
- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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Francois S, Wu K, Doe E, Tucker A, Theall K. The influence of racial violence in neighborhoods and schools on the psycho-behavioral outcomes in adolescence. Res Hum Dev 2023; 20:48-64. [PMID: 37681203 PMCID: PMC10482067 DOI: 10.1080/15427609.2023.2171694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/09/2023]
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Racism in all its manifestations is violence. This study examines the effect of discrimination-based racial violence in neighborhoods and schools on adolescent psychological and behavioral outcomes, while also testing the moderating influence of civic engagement. Researchers used a cross-sectional survey design to measure neighborhood and school-based racial discrimination, civic engagement, racial identity development, racism-based stress, and aggressive behaviors in a sample of 167, 13 to 23 year old adolescents and emerging adults. Participants were recruited through a cluster randomized trial to test the impact of blight remediation in preventing youth violence. Study researchers hypothesized a direct effect of racial discrimination on adolescents' racism-based stress and aggressive behaviors and a buffering effect of civic engagement on these relationships. Researchers also examined these relationships in participants with higher-than-average racial identity development scores. Multivariate regression models revealed a significant direct effect of both neighborhood and school discrimination on adolescents' aggressive behaviors. Civic engagement had a positive buffering effect in the relationship between neighborhood discrimination and aggressive behaviors. Similar relationships were observed among adolescents with a high racial identity with stronger effect. Study findings have implications for understanding the behavioral impact of racial violence and investing in civic engagement to mitigate its impact in adolescence and emerging adulthood.
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- School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
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- School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
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- School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
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- School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Sekerdej M, Rupar M, Jamróz-Dolińska K, Kołeczek M. Greater expectations or less sugar-coating? Perceptual underpinnings of constructive patriotism. Br J Soc Psychol 2023. [PMID: 36810780 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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In order to clarify the perceptual underpinnings of critical national attachment, we examined the links between constructive (critical) and conventional patriotism, and evaluations of the actual and ideal representations of the country. Across four studies conducted on US and Polish samples (total N = 3457), perception of a discrepancy between the actual and the ideal representations of the country was positively linked to constructive but negatively to conventional patriotism. Moreover, constructive patriotism was linked positively and conventional patriotism negatively with being critical of the actual functioning of the country. However, both constructive and conventional patriotisms were positively linked with the height of expectations of how the country should function. Additionally, we showed that discrepancy may motivate constructive patriots to be civically engaged (Study 4). Overall, the findings suggest that the difference between constructive and conventional patriots lies principally in how they evaluate the actual state of the country rather than in the degree to which they set high expectations or standards for the country.
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- Maciej Sekerdej
- Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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- Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.,Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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Weber WG, Unterrainer C, Jønsson TF. Editorial: Organizational democracy, organizational participation, and employee ownership: Individual, organizational and societal outcomes. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1135138. [PMID: 36844280 PMCID: PMC9951588 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1135138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2023] Open
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- Wolfgang G. Weber
- Applied Psychology – Work and Organizational Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Applied Psychology – Work and Organizational Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria,*Correspondence: Christine Unterrainer ✉
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- Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Rico-Bordera P, Piqueras JA, Soto-Sanz V, Rodríguez-Jiménez T, Marzo JC, Galán M, Pineda D. Civic Engagement and Personality: Associations with the Big Five and the Dark Triad. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2023; 20:2126. [PMID: 36767493 PMCID: PMC9915084 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20032126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/21/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Several studies have analyzed the relationship between general personality traits and attitudes and behaviors, indicating that a person is more committed to the community. After raising the question of whether malevolent traits might also be related, the aim was to analyze the relationship between civic engagement and personality, delving into the contribution of the Dark Triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and controlling for the association with the Big Five. The Civic Engagement Questionnaire, the Short Dark Triad, and the Big Five Inventory-10 were administered to 1175 Spanish students (convenience sampling). After performing statistical analyses using SPSS statistical software, it was obtained that the three Dark Triad traits explained 11% of the total explained variance of civic engagement, while 19% was reached when the Big Five were included. Narcissism and openness were the factors most strongly associated with engagement. The positive relationship between narcissism and general personality traits could explain why narcissistic people have more favorable attitudes. Furthermore, people with narcissistic traits may display these attitudes for their own benefit. This study provides further evidence of how the narcissistic personality trait differs from the other two malevolent traits. Given that these traits are also associated with maladaptive behaviors, knowing all their characteristics could facilitate the design of prevention programs aimed at reducing such maladaptive behaviors.
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- Pilar Rico-Bordera
- Forensic Psychology Unit of the Centre for Applied Psychology, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, 03202 Alicante, Spain
- Department of Health Psychology, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, 03202 Alicante, Spain
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- Forensic Psychology Unit of the Centre for Applied Psychology, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, 03202 Alicante, Spain
- Department of Health Psychology, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, 03202 Alicante, Spain
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- Department of Health Psychology, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, 03202 Alicante, Spain
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- Department of Health Psychology, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, 03202 Alicante, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Murcia, Guadalupe de Maciascoque, 30107 Murcia, Spain
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- Forensic Psychology Unit of the Centre for Applied Psychology, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, 03202 Alicante, Spain
- Department of Health Psychology, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, 03202 Alicante, Spain
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Cappello G, Siino M. Media education and educational commons for youth civic engagement. A case study from the Horizon 2020 project SMOOTH. Front Sociol 2023; 7:1108229. [PMID: 36714363 PMCID: PMC9878675 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.1108229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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This study presents the preliminary findings of the first round of implementation of a case study included in the Horizon 2020 project SMOOTH. The project's main objective is to introduce and study the emergent paradigm of the educational commons as an alternative system of values and actions for promoting intercultural and intergenerational dialogue and establishing spaces of democratic citizenship that support the development of local communities. Our case study adopts this paradigm with insights derived from the field of media education. Hence, our research questions were as follows: (a) How do young people collectively experience and build the educational commons? (b) How do participants (youth and adults) in educational commons experience peer governance and how do they handle and resolve conflicts? (c) How does the co-creation of a photo-blog as a shared space of work help young people discover and develop a "civic intentionality" in the (digital) public sphere? (d) What are the effects of applying a commons' logic to address inequalities and achieve social inclusion of young people from vulnerable social groups? Fieldwork, framed in an ethnographic and action-research approach, was developed by examining the three dimensions of the notion of educational commons (commoners, commoning practices, and community). Although data collection and analysis are still in progress, our preliminary results allow us to draw some initial reflections on what worked well in the first round and what could hinder the achievement of the project's objectives. We also propose hypotheses for re-designing the second round to overcome the weaknesses that emerged during the first experimental phase and foster its strengths.
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- Gianna Cappello
- Department of Psychology, Educational Science, and Human Movement, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Cultures and Society, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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A healthy democracy requires civic engagement from citizens. In the current political climate that is hostile toward LGBTQIA2S+ youth, young adults, and individuals of all ages, it is imperative that public health promotion integrate civic education into health education programs to build civic engagement knowledge, skills, and efficacy among young people. In the United States, we are experiencing an alarming increase in state and federal policies designed to censor and erase LGBTQIA2S+ history and visibility, critical race theory, and civic education. Public health practitioners have an opportunity and a responsibility to integrate civic education as a crucial component of health promotion and education not just to advance LGBTQIA2S+ justice but justice and equity in all its forms.
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D’Eer L, Chambaere K, Van den Block L, Dury S, Deliens L, Cohen J, Smets T. Civic Engagement in Neighbourhoods regarding serious illness, death and loss (CEIN): a study protocol for a convergent-parallel mixed-methods process and outcome evaluation that balances control and flexibility. Palliat Care Soc Pract 2023; 17:26323524231168417. [PMID: 37138931 PMCID: PMC10150425 DOI: 10.1177/26323524231168417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023] Open
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Background New public health approaches in palliative care attribute an active role to civic society in providing care for those who are seriously ill, caring, or bereaved. Accordingly, Civic Engagement In Neighbourhoods regarding serious illness, dying and loss (CEIN) are emerging worldwide. However, study protocols that advise on how to evaluate the impact and complex social change processes underlying these civic engagement initiatives are lacking. Objectives The main objective of this study is to describe the study protocol for the evaluation of civic engagement initiatives in serious illness, dying, and loss in two neighbourhoods in Flanders, Belgium. Design A convergent-parallel mixed-method process and outcome evaluation for the CEIN study. Methods & analysis We look at the evaluation of CEIN through a critical realist lens, thereby including the social, political, and economic determinants of social change in CEIN, the mechanisms to achieve this social change, the outcomes, and the mutual connection between these three aspects. We will conduct a convergent-parallel mixed-method process and outcome evaluation in which qualitative (i.e. observations, interviews, group discussions, and ego network mapping) and quantitative data (i.e. a pre-post survey) are simultaneously but separately collected and analysed and in the last stage combined by narrative synthesis. Discussion This protocol illustrates the difficulty of operationalising the desired long-term impact of social changes regarding serious illness, dying, and loss into more manageable outcomes. We recommend a well-cogitated logic model that connects the outcomes of the study to its potential actions. Applying this protocol in practice is a constant exercise between providing sufficient flexibility to meet feasibility, desirability, and context-specific needs in the CEIN study and providing sufficient guidelines to structure and control the evaluation process.
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- End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium
- Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise
(COCO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
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- End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium
- Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise
(COCO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise
(COCO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
- Society and Ageing Research Lab, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
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- End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium
- Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise
(COCO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
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Bui CN, Kim K, Song Q, Jang Y. Political Participation Among Middle-Aged and Older Asian Americans. Res Aging 2023; 45:104-114. [PMID: 35792740 DOI: 10.1177/01640275221113036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Political civic participation is an important dimension of engagement in adulthood, but low rates are often reported among middle-aged and older Asian American immigrants. Acculturation to American culture has been associated with more civic participation, yet little is understood about how informal social contexts may play an additional role in these relationships. Using data from the 2015 Asian American Quality of Life survey, this study examined how political civic participation was associated with acculturation and social contexts in a diverse sample of Asian Americans aged 40 and above in Central Texas. Negative binomial regression results indicated that years lived in the U.S. familiarity with American culture, and friend network size were associated with more political participation. Furthermore, social contexts such as larger friend networks exhibited potential to shape how one's adjustment to life in the U.S. is related to their political participation.
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- Cindy N Bui
- Department of Gerontology, 14708University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Child Development and Family Studies, 26725Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Gerontology, 14708University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
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- Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, 5116University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Blanton M. Threat or Godsend? Evangelicals and Democracy in Latin America. J Relig Demogr 2022; 9:138-164. [PMID: 37593438 PMCID: PMC10434717 DOI: 10.1163/2589742x-bja10015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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While Protestant and Evangelical groups started as small minorities in Latin America, they have recently experienced explosive growth and now make up a large proportion of the region's religious faithful. This unexpected shift led to a spate of scholarship speculating as to how the new Evangelical communities would impact society. Given the perennial concern over the health of democracy in Latin America, much of this work focused on how Evangelicals might differ from Catholics in terms of support for democratic values and civic participation. Some predicted that Evangelicals would be eager supporters of democracy and an active, positive force in the community. Others warned that Evangelicals were too focused on spiritual matters, which would lead to apathy and a passive acceptance of authoritarianism. This paper uses recent survey data from sixteen nations in Latin America to test these theories with the goal of answering the question: are Evangelicals a threat or godsend for democracy in Latin America?
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- Matthew Blanton
- Department of Sociology, Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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Marciniak M, Jaskulska S, Gasparovic S, Janiūnaitė B, Horbačauskienė J, Glavak Tkalić R. The Psychological Well-Being and Civic Engagement of Polish, Croatian and Lithuanian Academic Students during COVID-19 Outbreak. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:11202. [PMID: 36141466 PMCID: PMC9517317 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191811202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2022] [Revised: 08/28/2022] [Accepted: 09/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The aim of this research was to recognize the relationship between well-being and civic engagement under the difficult circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic amongst students from Poland, Lithuania and Croatia. Overall, 1362 academic students (Poland, n = 596, Croatia, n = 386, and Lithuania, n = 379) participated in the study. Mean rank differences in civic engagement level (overall CE) were analysed by levels of psychological well-being (overall PWB and its subscales) using the Kruskal-Wallis test (one-way ANOVA on ranks). We conducted post hoc analysis with Bonferroni tests to measure the significance of differences in CE between the detailed levels of PWB. To avoid biases due to interaction effects between dependent variables, the analysis of mean ranks was followed by a binomial logistic regression analysis model and subgroups analysis (by gender and by country). Results obtained showed that students with higher levels of psychological well-being have higher levels of civic engagement. The differences in the CE level are most pronounced in relation to the dimension of a PWB, such as "positive relations with others", followed by "personal growth", "autonomy", and "self-acceptance". In a crisis, such as a pandemic, it is worth encouraging students to take targeted actions, as well as to create actions referring to personal development and relationships. There were no differences in the direction and shape of the associations between psychological well-being and civic engagement with respect to the country and the gender of the participants, which leads us to draw conclusions pointing to the globalised nature of student experience during the pandemic in this part of Europe.
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- Mateusz Marciniak
- School Pedagogy Research Unit, Faculty of Educational Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
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- School Pedagogy Research Unit, Faculty of Educational Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Research Group in Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, 44249 Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Research Group in Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, 44249 Kaunas, Lithuania
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Birger Sagiv I, Goldner L, Carmel Y. Civic Engagement in Socially Excluded Young Adults Promotes Well-Being: The Mediation of Self-Efficacy, Meaning in Life, and Identity Exploration. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:9862. [PMID: 36011496 PMCID: PMC9408301 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19169862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Civic engagement is thought to contribute to well-being among young adults. However, less is known about the ways in which civic engagement promotes well-being in general and in particular in socially excluded populations. This study investigated whether civic engagement contributes to life satisfaction and hope in a sample of 127 socially excluded young Israeli women who participated in social activism programs for a period of eight months. A mediation model incorporating self-efficacy, meaning in life, and identity exploration was used to examine the contribution of positive attitudes toward civic engagement, civic engagement skills, and political awareness to the participants' life satisfaction and hope. Indirect effects were found between positive attitudes toward civic engagement, civic engagement skills, and political awareness and the participants' life satisfaction and hope via self-efficacy. Positive attitudes toward civic engagement and political awareness also predicted the participants' life satisfaction via meaning in life. A positive direct effect was found between political awareness and hope. However, contrary to the hypothesis, a negative direct effect was found between positive attitudes toward civic engagement and life satisfaction. Civic engagement skills and political awareness also predicted identity exploration. These findings underscore the need for clinicians to be aware of the potential benefits of civic engagement for the well-being of socially excluded populations.
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- Irit Birger Sagiv
- School of Creative Arts Therapies, Faculty of Welfare and Health Sciences, The Emili Sagol CATs Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel
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- School of Creative Arts Therapies, Faculty of Welfare and Health Sciences, The Emili Sagol CATs Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel
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- School of Creative Arts Therapies, Faculty of Welfare and Health Sciences, The Emili Sagol CATs Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel
- Department of Educational Counseling, Faculty of Education, Beit Berl College, Kfar Saba 4490500, Israel
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Menjívar C, Agadjanian V, Oh B. The Contradictions of Liminal Legality: Economic Attainment and Civic Engagement of Central American Immigrants on Temporary Protected Status. Soc Probl 2022; 69:678-698. [PMID: 37649781 PMCID: PMC10468158 DOI: 10.1093/socpro/spaa052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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This study examines how Temporary Protected Status (TPS) may shape immigrants' integration trajectories. Building on core themes identified in the immigrant incorporation scholarship, it investigates whether associations of educational attainment with labor market outcomes and with civic participation, which are well established in the general population, hold for immigrants who live in the "liminal legality" of TPS. Conducted in 2016 in five U.S. metropolitan areas, the study is based on a unique survey of Salvadoran and Honduran TPS holders, the majority of immigrants on this status. The analyses find that TPS holders with higher levels of educational attainment do not derive commensurate significant occupational or earnings premiums from their education. In contrast, the analysis of the relationship between educational attainment and civic engagement detects a positive association: more educated TPS holders are more likely to be members of community organizations and to participate in voluntary community service, compared to their less educated counterparts. These findings illustrate the contradictions inherent to TPS as it may hinder certain aspects of immigrant integration but not others. This examination contributes to our understanding of the implications of immigrants' legal statuses and of immigration law and policy for key aspects of immigrant integration trajectories.
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Ingoglia S, Musso P, Inguglia C, Barrett M, Tenenbaum H, Cassibba R, Albiero P, Bartolo MG, Burns B, Canale R, Costabile A, Elia G, Liga F, Palermiti A, Pichardo MC, Servidio RC, Verrastro V, Wiium N, Lo Coco A. Aligning personal and collective interests in emerging adults during the COVID-19 emergency in Italy. J Community Psychol 2022; 50:2177-2197. [PMID: 34862798 PMCID: PMC9015453 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2021] [Revised: 10/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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This study investigated the relations of emerging adults' personal (civic competence and interdependent self-construal) and community-based (sense of community and civic engagement) resources as predictors of appraisal of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) and attitudes toward preventing contagion in Italy. Participants were 2873 Italian emerging adults (71% females) aged 19-30 years (M = 22.67, SD = 2.82). Structural equation modeling revealed both direct and indirect positive associations among study variables. Civic competence and interdependent self-construal were related to sense of community and civic engagement behavior which, in turn, predicted appraisal of PHEM. Appraisal of PHEM in turn predicted attitudes toward preventing contagion. Overall, findings highlight the importance of examining the alignment between personal and collective interests to understand emerging adults' evaluative and attitudinal experiences during a period of crisis, such as that created by COVID-19.
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- Sonia Ingoglia
- Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human MovementUniversity of PalermoPalermoItaly
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- Department of Scienze della Formazione, Psicologia, ComunicazioneUniversity of BariBariItaly
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- Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human MovementUniversity of PalermoPalermoItaly
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- Department of Scienze della Formazione, Psicologia, ComunicazioneUniversity of BariBariItaly
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- Department of Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della SocializzazioneUniversity of PaduaPadovaItaly
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- Department of Culture, Educazione e SocietàUniversity of Calabria, Arcavacata di RendeRendeItaly
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- Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human MovementUniversity of PalermoPalermoItaly
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- Department of Culture, Educazione e SocietàUniversity of Calabria, Arcavacata di RendeRendeItaly
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- Department of Scienze della Formazione, Psicologia, ComunicazioneUniversity of BariBariItaly
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- Department of Medicina Clinica e SperimentaleUniversity of MessinaMessinaItaly
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- Department of Culture, Educazione e SocietàUniversity of Calabria, Arcavacata di RendeRendeItaly
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- Department of Psicologia Evolutiva y de la EducacionUniversity of GranadaGranadaSpain
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- Department of Culture, Educazione e SocietàUniversity of Calabria, Arcavacata di RendeRendeItaly
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- Department of Scienze Mediche e ChirurgicheUniversity of CatanzaroCatanzaroItaly
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- Department of Psychosocial ScienceUniversity of BergenBergenNorway
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- Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human MovementUniversity of PalermoPalermoItaly
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Smith MA, Olimpo JT, Santillan KA, McLaughlin JS. Addressing Foodborne Illness in Côte d'Ivoire: Connecting the Classroom to the Community through a Nonmajors Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience. J Microbiol Biol Educ 2022; 23:jmbe00212-21. [PMID: 35340447 PMCID: PMC8943608 DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.00212-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The integration of course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) laboratory curricula has provided new avenues to engage students at all levels in discovery-based learning. Empirical research demonstrates that CUREs have the potential to foster students' development of scientific process and reasoning skills, attitudes, motivations, and persistence in STEM. Yet, these outcomes are largely reported for studies conducted in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. It therefore remains unclear to what extent CUREs are impactful for students enrolled in alternate international university contexts. To address this concern, we conducted a quasi-experimental mixed methods study to investigate the impact of a one-semester food microbiology and public health (FMPH) CURE on nonmajors students' development of science identity, science communication and process skills, science community values, and science-society perceptions at a private institution in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Content analysis of students' end-of-semester research poster products and thematic analysis of student responses to post-semester open-ended survey items revealed positive gains with respect to student learning and student perceptions of the relevancy of their research to diverse audiences. Paired t-test analyses of pre-/post-semester closed-ended survey responses likewise indicated significant gains in students' science identity and science community values development as well as their confidence in handling and treating foods to reduce the bacterial load on those foods. Collectively, these findings suggest that the FMPH CURE was a meaningful and relevant learning experience capable of promoting students' growth as scientists and scientifically-minded citizens.
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- Marie A. Smith
- Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, International University of Grand-Bassam, Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, Lehigh Valley, Center Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
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Dang L, Seemann A, Lindenmeier J, Saliterer I. Explaining civic engagement: The role of neighborhood ties, place attachment, and civic responsibility. J Community Psychol 2022; 50:1736-1755. [PMID: 34807467 PMCID: PMC9298745 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2021] [Revised: 10/31/2021] [Accepted: 11/03/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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This study examines whether neighborhood ties (comprising neighborhood trust and neighborhood friendship), place attachment, and civic responsibility influence a person's decision to engage in neighborly civic activities. Three personality traits were added to the model as potential moderators: egoism, altruism, and fear of negative evaluation. Using data from a survey of German citizens (n = 610), the structural equation model adopted revealed that place attachment and civic responsibility (partially) mediate the effect of neighborhood trust (neighborhood friendship) on local civic engagement intention. Furthermore, egoism negatively moderates the relationship between civic responsibility and engagement intention.
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- Lisa Dang
- Institute of Tourism and Mobility ITM—The Mobility Competence CentreLucerne University of Applied Sciences and ArtsLucerneSwitzerland
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- Institute of Tourism and Mobility ITM—The Mobility Competence CentreLucerne University of Applied Sciences and ArtsLucerneSwitzerland
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- Public and Non‐Profit Management—Corporate Governance and EthicsUniversity of FreiburgFreiburgGermany
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- Public and Non‐Profit Management—Local GovernmentUniversity of FreiburgFreiburgGermany
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Smiley KT, Clay LA, Ross AD, Chen YA. Multi-scalar and multi-dimensional conceptions of social capital and mental health impacts after disaster: the case of Hurricane Harvey. Disasters 2022; 46:473-498. [PMID: 33432691 DOI: 10.1111/disa.12474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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While much research investigates how social capital relates to mental health after disasters, less work employs a multi-scalar, multi-dimensional social capital framework. This study applies such a construct to an analysis of novel survey data of approximately 1,000 rural and urban Texans after Hurricane Harvey struck the United States in August 2017. On the individual level, it finds that greater social support is linked to fewer mental health impacts, but that greater civic and organisational engagement is connected to greater mental health impacts. At the community level, it finds that neither a density of bridging social capital organisations nor of bonding social capital organisations is associated with poorer mental health, although a greater number of bonding organisations is related to negative mental health impacts on rural residents. The paper concludes by focusing on how individual and community social capital relationships with mental health are contingent on measurement, scale, and rural or urban location.
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- Kevin T Smiley
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, United States
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- Associate Professor and Department Chair at University of Maryland-Baltimore County and Affiliated Faculty at New York University, United States
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- Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science, Texas A&M University at Galveston, United States
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- PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) candidate in the Department of Sociology, University at Buffalo, United States
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Lardier DT, Opara I, Roach E. A latent profile analysis of psychological sense of community and ethnic identity among racial-ethnic minority young adults from the southwestern United States. J Community Psychol 2022; 50:857-875. [PMID: 34402065 PMCID: PMC8831427 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Revised: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Among young adults fof color, both sense of community and ethnic identity, as developmental processes, have been associated with wellness, empowerment, and civic action. Additional research is needed that provides empirical support for the connection between psychological sense of community and ethnic identity on outcomes that relate to human development such as intrapersonal psychological empowerment, civic engagement, and depression symptoms. The current study of young adults of color (N = 243; 70% Hispanic/Chicano(a)/Spanish and 10% American Indian/Native American; 70% female) investigates heterogeneity according to dimensions of psychological sense of community and the ethnic identity construct. Latent profile analyses (LPA) were conducted. Using LPA, five profile groups emerged. Profile group differences were present on reported levels of intrapersonal psychological empowerment, civic engagement, and depression symptoms. Majority of sample participants were classified with moderate to high psychological sense of community and ethnic identity. Findings provide insights for efforts on developing community belongingness based on ethnic group identity and engaging young adults in civic life.
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- David T. Lardier
- Correspondence David T. Lardier Jr., PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM 87131.
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Xie Q, Sundararaj V, Mr R. Analyzing the factors affecting the attitude of public toward lockdown, institutional trust, and civic engagement activities. J Community Psychol 2022; 50:806-822. [PMID: 34368961 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2020] [Revised: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/11/2021] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The early 2020 witnessed Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic followed by a nationwide lockdown in the whole history for the first time. The entire world had to go for nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of such contagious and deadly disease. In short, the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent lockdown had created a storm in the world giving rise to change in public with respect to parameters like trust in the government institutions, civic engagement, and so on. In this raising dilemma, multiple countries have acknowledged the significance of trusting institutions, especially during lockdown. It is also widely accepted that lives of individuals had been undergoing change ever since the spread of COVID-19. Likewise, public's trust in the institutions is directly related to the civic engagement. Civic engagement is commonly understood as a phenomenon that develops a difference in an individual's civic life by combining values, skills, motivation, as well as knowledge. Different forms of civic engagement include national service, volunteering, societal services, and so forth. The main focus of this article is to examine the influence of COVID-19 outbreak on general attitude of the citizens of Malaysia and India, their trust on the governing institutions, and the civic engagement. In other words, this study tries to assess the impact of the pandemic on variables such as attitude toward the lockdown, trust in institutions, and civic engagement. For this, the study adopted cross-sectional community questionnaire survey in two countries-Malaysia and India. The respondents selected for the study was 1437. The respondent's demographics, attitude toward lockdown, trust in institutions, and civic engagement during the lockdown were collected by means of convenience sampling technique. Later the collected data were measured in terms of descriptive statistics and regression analysis. Findings of the study stated that public's trust in the institution can be increased by enhancing the civic activities and implementing policies that govern and build the society.
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- Qing Xie
- School of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
- School of Economics and Management, Anshun University, Anshun, China
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- Department of Electronics and Communication, Anna University, Chennai, India
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- Department of Electronics and Communication, Anna University, Chennai, India
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Grütter J, Buchmann M. Cohort differences in the development of civic engagement during adolescence. Child Dev 2022; 93:e427-e445. [PMID: 35218224 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Revised: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Investigating whether changing societal circumstances have altered the development of civic engagement, this study compared developmental changes from mid- to late adolescence (i.e., age 15-18) across two cohorts of representative Swiss samples (born in1991, N = 1258, Mage T1 = 15.30, 54% female, 33% migration background representing diverse ethnicities; born in 2000, N = 930, Mage T1 = 15.32, 51% female; 33% migration background). Findings from latent multigroup models revealed similar levels in attitudes about social justice in both cohorts, remaining stable over time. Adolescents reported lower levels of political efficacy and informal helping in the cohort born in 2000. Both aspects slightly increased during adolescence. Informal helping had a steeper increase in the 1991 compared to the 2000 cohort, suggesting developmental differences between cohorts.
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- Jeanine Grütter
- Empirical Educational Research, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Lee YJ. Social media capital and civic engagement: Does type of connection matter? Int Rev Public Nonprofit Mark 2022; 19:167-189. [PMCID: PMC8249427 DOI: 10.1007/s12208-021-00300-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2023]
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This study examines the relationship between a person’s social media capital and civic engagement, focusing on the networks formed via two social network sites (SNSs) of Facebook and Twitter. The analysis of the survey data on young people’s social media use and civic engagement in the U.S. shows that, although all three types of online social ties (Facebook Friends, Twitter followers, and people one follows on Twitter) are positively associated with civic engagement, there are differences across the different types of connections. The findings reveal that Twitter social capital is more strongly associated with participation in political organizations while Facebook social capital is more strongly associated with participation in non-political charitable organizations. Between Twitter followers and following, the number of people one follows is more strongly associated with participation in both types of organizations than the number of one’s followers. These findings suggest that nonprofit managers take a platform-specific approach when using social media for marketing and stakeholder involvement.
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- Young-joo Lee
- School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida, 528 W Livingston Street , Orlando, FL 32802 USA
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Speer PW, Christens BD, Peterson NA. Participation in community organizing: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of impacts on sociopolitical development. J Community Psychol 2021; 49:3194-3214. [PMID: 33844316 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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This article reports cross-sectional (Study 1) and longitudinal (Study 2) results from analyses of civic behaviors and attitudes among two groups: participants in grassroots community organizing in five US cities and a geographically balanced sample of their neighbors, many of whom were participating with other types of voluntary organizations (e.g., neighborhood-based or school-based groups). This analytic approach allowed for tests of differences between groups, differences within groups over time, and interactions between groups and time on indicators of sociopolitical development including civic behaviors, psychological sense of community, and the emotional and cognitive components of psychological empowerment. Results showed that community organizing, as a particular type of mediating institution, cultivates sociopolitical development by elevating psychological empowerment and civic engagement over time.
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- Paul W Speer
- Human & Organizational Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Human & Organizational Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- School of Social Work, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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Bakal M, Lahiff M, Deardorff J. Development of a psychological empowerment measure for youth in rural Guatemala. Health Promot Int 2021; 37:6380990. [PMID: 34606591 DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daab141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Psychological empowerment (PE) is conceptualized as a context-dependent construct, yet few have studied its applicability to youth in international settings. The current study used a participatory approach to design a measure of empowerment for youth from a rural, Indigenous community in Guatemala and aimed to compare this new measure to extant measures. Youth co-researchers (aged 19-22) collaborated in the development of four culturally relevant empowerment scales through a formative process involving classroom observations and focus groups. Newly developed scales and two widely used, extant scales were administered to a school-based sample of 273 youth (mean age = 14.7, SD = 1.6). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) showed that one of the newly developed PE scales called Self-Efficacy for Community Action (SECA), which was moderately correlated with the extant scales, appeared to more effectively capture empowerment in the local context than the extant measures. These results support the notion that PE is contextually dependent and suggest that youth participation may aid in instrument design.
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- Michael Bakal
- Maternal and Child Health Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 2121 Berkeley Way, #5302 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, USA
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- Maternal and Child Health Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 2121 Berkeley Way, #5302 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, USA
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- Maternal and Child Health Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 2121 Berkeley Way, #5302 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, USA
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Christophe NK, Stein GL, Martin Romero MY, Patel PP, Sircar JK. Culturally informed shift-&-persist: A higher-order factor model and prospective associations with discrimination and depressive symptoms. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol 2021; 27:638-648. [PMID: 34180696 PMCID: PMC8497392 DOI: 10.1037/cdp0000361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Based on the conceptual overlap between shift-&-persist (S&P) and culturally based strategies (critical civic engagement [CCE] and spiritually based coping), this study tests whether associations between these three previously disparate strategies are attributable to the existence of a higher-order coping construct: culturally informed S&P. METHODS Among 364 diverse minoritized youth (Mage = 18.79, 85.2% female), we tested for the existence of this higher-order factor through confirmatory factor analysis. RESULTS We found theoretical and empirical support for the existence of a higher-order factor structure and for our higher-order factor-culturally informed S&P. Culturally informed S&P promotes fewer depressive symptoms as a main effect in addition to completely protecting against the negative impact of discrimination on depressive symptoms when culturally informed S&P is high. CONCLUSIONS The current study illustrates relations between three previously distinct coping strategies through their association with culturally informed S&P. Results highlight culturally informed S&P's promotive and protective effects in the face of ethnic-racial discrimination. Implications for subsequent study of culturally based coping are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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Di Marco G, Hichy Z, Sciacca F. Attitudes towards lockdown, trust in institutions, and civic engagement: A study on Sicilians during the coronavirus lockdown. J Public Aff 2021; 22:e2739. [PMID: 34512191 PMCID: PMC8420251 DOI: 10.1002/pa.2739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Revised: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Italy was the first European country to be affected by the Covid-19. To limit the contagion, an emergency protocol was triggered on March 10, 2020, which imposed a lockdown for 69 days. Many Italians considered the restrictions imposed by the government excessive and unnecessary. We hypothesized that agreement with government restrictions and compliance with imposed rules was positively correlated with trust in institutions, civic engagement, and the sense of community. To this end, during the lockdown period, we administered an online questionnaire to 189 Sicilians. The results showed that trust in institutional organizations and the attitude component of civic engagement facilitate the approval of limitations imposed during the lockdown period and the acceptance of future restrictions. Unexpectedly, the behavioral component of civic engagement leads to the rejection of restrictions and behaviors that could contain a further spread of the virus. Indeed, participants who declared that they were engaged in beneficial actions for their community disapproved of the measures already adopted and were unwilling to adopt future behaviors to limit the spread of the virus.
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- Department of Educational SciencesUniversity of CataniaCataniaItaly
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- Department of Educational SciencesUniversity of CataniaCataniaItaly
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Kelly G, Pennington J, Segev Y, Brokamp C, Jones MN, Camara S, Henize AW, Kahn RS, Beck AF. Voter Participation is Associated with Child Health Outcomes at the Population Level. J Pediatr 2021; 235:277-280. [PMID: 33894260 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Revised: 04/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Civic engagement, including voting, has been linked to health outcomes for adults. Here, we found that census tract-level voter participation rates are significantly associated with pediatric inpatient bed-day rates even after adjustment for socioeconomic deprivation. Such links suggest that promotion of voting participation could be warranted in healthcare settings.
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- Grace Kelly
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
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Millican J, Kasumagić-Kafedžić L, Masabo F, Almanza M. Pedagogies for peacebuilding in higher education: How and why should higher education institutions get involved in teaching for peace? Int Rev Educ 2021; 67:569-590. [PMID: 34219800 PMCID: PMC8236220 DOI: 10.1007/s11159-021-09907-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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This article makes the case for why higher education institutions should take the teaching of peacebuilding seriously. It is co-authored by a team from four countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Colombia and the United Kingdom) who were involved in a small international research project looking at "Pedagogies for Peacebuilding". Together they are trying to answer questions about the legitimacy of bringing these discussions into higher education and lecturer/student relationships. The authors discuss the spaces in which peacebuilding can be usefully considered within higher education curricula; the significance of higher education in helping young people develop habits of peace; and how the citizens and leaders of the future might be helped to understand the meaning and importance of peacebuilding. In the course of their argument, the authors consider the intention and impact of different pedagogical approaches.
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- Juliet Millican
- Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Campus, Brighton, UK
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Existing theories struggle when political engagement is an end in itself. To explain intrinsically motivated engagement in politics, this study synthesizes psychological theories to deduce a need-based theory of political motivation. It posits that intrinsic political motivation has roots in seemingly apolitical processes of need satisfaction that are universal and deeply ingrained in the human psyche. However, in a high-powered survey experiment, 14 of 15 preregistered analytical tests did not yield the expected evidence for the basic tenet that previous need-related experiences with politics affect the quality and quantity of future activities in the political domain. Showcasing a stepwise approach to engage with null results in hypothesis-driven research, post hoc analyses solidify the null findings, which call into question the validity of the presented theory and the previous evidence on which it was built. This study thus enhances our understanding of what does and does not underlie intrinsic motivation for political engagement.
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