Monday, March 30, 2015
Research Blog 7 "Case"
My main example is "Paying For the Party" by Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton right now. I really like the idea of the social class breakdown and how even subtle differences in class status can still cause a major difference in outcome of the worth of going to college in the first place. Paying for the Party outlines why privatized universities are so harmful for working class students of average intelligence (for that particular university) who expect to experience a big change in their socioeconomic status after attaining a degree from one of these schools. This book tells us that these colleges accept the working class students into their schools but that they really stand to benefit wealthy students from which they can also benefit from in a reciprocal fashion. From here I take minor research from other articles to frame the big picture: Working Class students who wish to experience upward mobility on the "professional pathway" are likely to experience stressors which can lead to depression.
Research Blog #6 visual
Monday, March 23, 2015
Literature Review 4
1. Pamela Aselton, "Sources of Stress and Coping in American College Students who Have Been Diagnosed With Depression"
2.
3. This piece is a Psychology study on college aged students. The research method conducted here was to survey the students about their preferred way of coping with stress and the most common/influential causes of that stress. This study gets into what about the college environment it is that causes such high stress as well as the unhealthy ways students deal with such as drug use, binge drinking etcetera.
4. The author, Pamela Aselton has information provided on ResearchGate with many of her achievements and qualifications listed publicly as most of these researchers do. She has a PHD and is employed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in the School of Nursing. She has 21 publications on research gate and so I deem her to be a pretty good source on the topic of stress and its effects.
5. Sources of stress- issues/ factors that caused college students noticeable distress. These included: Roommate Problems, Academic Troubles, Financial and Career Concerns, and Family Pressures (121).
Coping Methods-things students did to better handle the stress caused by the above. These methods included: Journaling, Marijuana, Music, Talk Therapy, Physical Activities and many more (122).
6. Quotes:
1. "Depression has increasingly been diagnosed in the college age population, with the American College Health Association reporting that 16% of all college students suffer from depression at some point in their college years" (119).
2. "College students are functioning in increasingly competitive environments with fewer job opportunities at graduation, which may increase their stress level and lead to feelings of depression" (119).
3. "This survey found that one in four college students admitted to using marijuana within the last year" (122).
7. I think this study could contribute nicely to my topic as it gives me some evidence of the point I am trying to make especially that of my point that new cases of depression are being increasingly diagnosed. The stress factors could be an entire paragraph of my paper as I really want to get into what specifically about college is so stressful as to induce/ worsen depression. This study gives me a frame for that purpose.
2.
Aselton,
Pamela.
"Sources
Of Stress And Coping In American College Students Who Have Been Diagnosed With Depression." Journal
Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 25.3 (2012): 119-123. Academic
Search Premier. Web. 3 Mar. 2015.3. This piece is a Psychology study on college aged students. The research method conducted here was to survey the students about their preferred way of coping with stress and the most common/influential causes of that stress. This study gets into what about the college environment it is that causes such high stress as well as the unhealthy ways students deal with such as drug use, binge drinking etcetera.
4. The author, Pamela Aselton has information provided on ResearchGate with many of her achievements and qualifications listed publicly as most of these researchers do. She has a PHD and is employed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in the School of Nursing. She has 21 publications on research gate and so I deem her to be a pretty good source on the topic of stress and its effects.
5. Sources of stress- issues/ factors that caused college students noticeable distress. These included: Roommate Problems, Academic Troubles, Financial and Career Concerns, and Family Pressures (121).
Coping Methods-things students did to better handle the stress caused by the above. These methods included: Journaling, Marijuana, Music, Talk Therapy, Physical Activities and many more (122).
6. Quotes:
1. "Depression has increasingly been diagnosed in the college age population, with the American College Health Association reporting that 16% of all college students suffer from depression at some point in their college years" (119).
2. "College students are functioning in increasingly competitive environments with fewer job opportunities at graduation, which may increase their stress level and lead to feelings of depression" (119).
3. "This survey found that one in four college students admitted to using marijuana within the last year" (122).
7. I think this study could contribute nicely to my topic as it gives me some evidence of the point I am trying to make especially that of my point that new cases of depression are being increasingly diagnosed. The stress factors could be an entire paragraph of my paper as I really want to get into what specifically about college is so stressful as to induce/ worsen depression. This study gives me a frame for that purpose.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Blog Post 5: Bibliography
Working Bibliography
Armstrong,
Elizabeth and Laura Hamilton. Paying for the Party:
How
College Maintains Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2013. Print
Aselton,
Pamela.
"Sources
Of Stress And Coping In American College Students Who Have Been Diagnosed With Depression." Journal
Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 25.3 (2012): 119-123. Academic
Search Premier. Web. 3 Mar. 2015.
Becker,
Dana.
“Does
‘Stress’ Hide Deeper Social Problems?” One Nation under Stress: The Problem with
Stress as an Idea. Oxford UP, 2013.
Klibert,
Jeffrey, et al.
"Resilience
Mediates The Relations Between Perfectionism And College Student Distress." Journal Of Counseling
& Development 92.1 (2014): 75-82. Academic Search Premier. Web. 24 Feb.
2015.’
Geisner,
Irene, Markman, Kimberly Mallett, and Jason, R. Kilmer.
"An
Examination Of Depressive Symptoms And Drinking Patterns In First Year College
Students." Issues In Mental Health Nursing 33.5 (2012): 280-287. CINAHL
with Full Text. Web. 24 Feb. 2015.
Lamis,
Dorian, A., and Danielle, R. Jahn.
"Parent–Child
Conflict And Suicide Rumination In College Students: The Mediating Roles Of
Depressive Symptoms And Anxiety Sensitivity." Journal Of American College
Health 61.2 (2013): 106-113. CINAHL with Full Text. Web. 24 Feb. 2015.
Mounsey,
Rebecca, Michael A. Vandehey, and George M. Diekoff.
"Working
And Non-Working University Students: Anxiety, Depression, And Grade Point
Average." College Student Journal 47.2 (2013): 379-389. Academic Search
Premier. Web. 3 Mar. 2015.
Blog Post 4: Research Proposal
Depression in College Students
Topic:
In this paper I will discuss depression in
college students and some of the risk-factors for depression and some of its
effects in students, for example suicide and failing in school. I want to take
this idea of depression in college students and connect it to how privatization
affects students’ mindsets and instills in them an overachieving and
overcritical attitude that can be detrimental to their mental health.
Research Question:
Does the Privatization of Education
put students at risk for depression and other mental health issues or are most
of these students lack already fated to develop these disorders because of a
lack of resilience?
Theoretical Frame:
A really important idea that I will
include in this paper would be that of resilience. Jeffrey Klibert’s
“Resilience Mediates the Relations Between Perfectionism and College Student
Distress” focuses on the idea that resilience is the key to distress in college
students caused by an insistence on perfection drilled into them from various
angles. Klibert lists three different types of perfectionism: Self-oriented
Perfectionism, Other-oriented Perfectionism, and Socially Prescribed
Perfectionism. Klibert reports from the study on resilience found that
“Self-Oriented Perfection and socially Prescribed Perfectionism were associated
with greater self-reports of depression and anxiety…notably, Socially
Prescribed Perfectionism had stronger relations with both depression and
anxiety” (Klibert 79). Klibert then acknowledges that resilience has a role in
reducing risk of depression and anxiety but that there are obviously more
factors at play. The goal of this paper is to ascertain if the level of
depression in college students has raised since before the privatization of
education or if other factors are more to blame. Regardless, I want to explore
the connect between privatization and how it can potentially affect college
students and spark a rise in depression and anxiety if it already has not.
Case:
Elizabeth
Armstrong and Laura Hamilton’s, Paying for the Party brought up some
interesting risk factors for depression and overall decrease in wellbeing that
they did not really expand upon. In the first chapter, there are a few offhand
comments about some isolated students becoming depressed in direct opposition
to the flourishing social butterflies in what they termed as “The Vampire
Effect”. The book also mentions the high-stakes atmosphere college becomes when
students are not from an upper class family as they are literally counting on
college to survive later on or experience an “upward mobility”. I want to then
take this idea of highly stressful, really demanding environment and combine it
with an article, “An Examination of Depressive Symptoms and Drinking Patterns
in First Year College Students” which expands upon the aforementioned issues
Armstrong and Hamilton merely hint at. This article explores various symptoms
of depression, its many causes, and the faulty ways in which college students
cope with these symptoms. Branching from this idea, I would then connect
everything to Jeffrey Klibert’s article, “Resilience Mediates the Relations
Between Perfectionism and College Student Distress”. Finally, I want to include
a discussion of Dana Becker’s “Does ‘Stress’ Hide Deeper Problems?”. This
book/article takes an interesting look into how we have changed what stress
means and how we have essentially let it take over our lives. Our new
definition of stress demands, “Change yourself, change your lifestyle, or learn
to adapt to stress” (Becker 2013). This cannot possibly be good for one’s
mental health and furthermore it can connect to resilience and the question of
whether we have become over sensitive to everyday stressors. So far, these are
my main sources of ideas as far as the direction of this paper as they are
connected in a domino effect. I really want to get into how depression has
increased in recent years as a result of students’ inability to keep up with
the demands of college eventually but I lack the sources for now. I also want to have specific sources about
how college affects mental health, meaning its effect on those already
diagnosed with mental illness and how many are diagnosed in college. I want to
touch upon suicide as well and potential preventative methods to combat this
issue.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Literature Review 3
1. Dana Becker. "Does 'Stress' Hide Deeper Social Problems"
2. Becker, Dana. "Does 'Stress' Hide Deeper Social Problems?" TIME Magazine (March 13, 2013) Print and Web. 23 March 2015. Available online at http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/13/does-stress-hide-deeper-social-problems/
3. This book is about the current attitude of many people in the United States towards stress. It basically elaborates on the idea that we give "stress" too much of an influence, too much power. Also we take stress and individualize it rather than recognize that the stress is a universal problem with universal consequences.
4. Dana Becker has a PHD in social work and is a professor at Bryn Mawr College. She has written two other books dealing with mental health so she seems a brilliant authority on the subject.
5. Key Terms: Today's Stress-"now a protean concept whose shape-shifting properties give it tremendous versatility as a vehicle for explaining human dilemmas" (Becker 2013).
Original Stress- refers to "flight or fight" response, coined by Walter Cannon, founding father of stress research. (Becker 2013).
6. Quotes: "It's feeling stressed that causes our problems, not the situations and conditions that make us feel 'stressed out' in the first place" (Becker, 3). "As people who live a 'more stressful life' in a 'community that produces high stress hormones in people' then we're more likely to offer them psychotherapy or lifestyle advice and less likely to confront the societal problems of economic inequality and neighborhood violence" (Becker 4). "There's no amount of counseling, Kale, or yoga-even if these were available or affordable to everyone in the U.S.-that would alter the economic, political, and social forces that sustain poverty or war in the age of terrorism or...'work-family conflict'" (Becker).
7. This book should prove interesting as I believe it gives me the bigger picture I need to make my point about mental health. I think the idea of addressing the systems that cause the distress (which can lead to depression) instead of treating the resulting depression can easily be connected to Privatism and the aspects of it that are depression risk-factors. It is a neat idea Becker brings up by saying that the unfair, stressful situations are covered by depicting people as not strong enough or individually ill when it is the unfair systems that are "ill".
3. This book is about the current attitude of many people in the United States towards stress. It basically elaborates on the idea that we give "stress" too much of an influence, too much power. Also we take stress and individualize it rather than recognize that the stress is a universal problem with universal consequences.
4. Dana Becker has a PHD in social work and is a professor at Bryn Mawr College. She has written two other books dealing with mental health so she seems a brilliant authority on the subject.
5. Key Terms: Today's Stress-"now a protean concept whose shape-shifting properties give it tremendous versatility as a vehicle for explaining human dilemmas" (Becker 2013).
Original Stress- refers to "flight or fight" response, coined by Walter Cannon, founding father of stress research. (Becker 2013).
6. Quotes: "It's feeling stressed that causes our problems, not the situations and conditions that make us feel 'stressed out' in the first place" (Becker, 3). "As people who live a 'more stressful life' in a 'community that produces high stress hormones in people' then we're more likely to offer them psychotherapy or lifestyle advice and less likely to confront the societal problems of economic inequality and neighborhood violence" (Becker 4). "There's no amount of counseling, Kale, or yoga-even if these were available or affordable to everyone in the U.S.-that would alter the economic, political, and social forces that sustain poverty or war in the age of terrorism or...'work-family conflict'" (Becker).
7. This book should prove interesting as I believe it gives me the bigger picture I need to make my point about mental health. I think the idea of addressing the systems that cause the distress (which can lead to depression) instead of treating the resulting depression can easily be connected to Privatism and the aspects of it that are depression risk-factors. It is a neat idea Becker brings up by saying that the unfair, stressful situations are covered by depicting people as not strong enough or individually ill when it is the unfair systems that are "ill".
Monday, March 2, 2015
Literature Review # 2
1.
2. Klibert, Jeffrey, et al. "Resilience Mediates The Relations Between Perfectionism And College Student Distress." Journal Of Counseling & Development 92.1 (2014): 75-82. Academic Search Premier. Web. 24 Feb. 2015.
3. This article is reporting on a study on resilience and how the presence or lack of it contributes to a disrupt of college students mental health or the preservation of their mental health. Klibert discusses the unhealthy correlation between perfectionism and distress and how resilience can help to lessen the distress. 413 undergraduate college students from a variety of backgrounds were given a survey worded to determine perfectionism and the levels of distress presumably as a result. The results suggest that resilience eases the distress students under "Socially prescribed perfectionism" but not really the other two. After all of the data and evidence for his claims, this article ends with suggestions for psychologists to use in helping college students struggling with anxiety and depression.
4. Jeffrey Klibert is a professor at Georgia Southern University in the College of Liberal arts and Sciences. He has a profile on Research Gate which lists 8 of his works. His topics of Psychology are Suicide Prevention and Identity. One of his co-writers on this article is featured in my previous literature review so I'm confident of his competence in this area. http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeffrey_Klibert
5. Key Terms:
a. Self Oriented Perfectionism- Setting high standards for one's self (75)
b. Other Oriented Perfectionism- Setting others to strict high standards (76)
c. Socially Prescribed Perfectionism- The belief that other's expectations are unnaturally high for one's individual behavior (76)
d. Resilience-"flexible set of attitudes that helps individuals successfully navigate through acute or chronic adversities" (76)
6. Important/ Interesting Quotes
"The inability to achieve balance among these demands often precipitates long-term emotional and behavioral maladjustment" (Gall, Evans, & Bellerose, 2000 p 75)
"Promoting resilience skills that help students navigate challenging achievement-oriented and social tasks may be an important initial step in thwarting the development of perfectionistic, depressive, and anxious traits." (80)
"Enriching interpersonal resources through resilience-building exercises enables clients to engage in positive emotions even in response to stress-generating circumstances" (80)
7. Value of this article?
I expect that this article will have a small but significant role in my project. I really want to tie it together with some of the readings in class, particularly my favorite, "Paying for the Party" by Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth Armstrong. There are a lot of points about how stressful college can be and I think this study on perfectionism and resilience will fit in nicely with the points Armstrong and Hamilton make. Also I like some of the implications for how to maybe combat this "distress: caused by perfectionism which I believe to be worsened by privatization. I want to make a nice big domino effect stemming from Privatization and this article/study is a perfect starting point.
This is Jeffrey Klibert, main contributor to the article at hand.
2. Klibert, Jeffrey, et al. "Resilience Mediates The Relations Between Perfectionism And College Student Distress." Journal Of Counseling & Development 92.1 (2014): 75-82. Academic Search Premier. Web. 24 Feb. 2015.
3. This article is reporting on a study on resilience and how the presence or lack of it contributes to a disrupt of college students mental health or the preservation of their mental health. Klibert discusses the unhealthy correlation between perfectionism and distress and how resilience can help to lessen the distress. 413 undergraduate college students from a variety of backgrounds were given a survey worded to determine perfectionism and the levels of distress presumably as a result. The results suggest that resilience eases the distress students under "Socially prescribed perfectionism" but not really the other two. After all of the data and evidence for his claims, this article ends with suggestions for psychologists to use in helping college students struggling with anxiety and depression.
4. Jeffrey Klibert is a professor at Georgia Southern University in the College of Liberal arts and Sciences. He has a profile on Research Gate which lists 8 of his works. His topics of Psychology are Suicide Prevention and Identity. One of his co-writers on this article is featured in my previous literature review so I'm confident of his competence in this area. http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeffrey_Klibert
5. Key Terms:
a. Self Oriented Perfectionism- Setting high standards for one's self (75)
b. Other Oriented Perfectionism- Setting others to strict high standards (76)
c. Socially Prescribed Perfectionism- The belief that other's expectations are unnaturally high for one's individual behavior (76)
d. Resilience-"flexible set of attitudes that helps individuals successfully navigate through acute or chronic adversities" (76)
6. Important/ Interesting Quotes
"The inability to achieve balance among these demands often precipitates long-term emotional and behavioral maladjustment" (Gall, Evans, & Bellerose, 2000 p 75)
"Promoting resilience skills that help students navigate challenging achievement-oriented and social tasks may be an important initial step in thwarting the development of perfectionistic, depressive, and anxious traits." (80)
"Enriching interpersonal resources through resilience-building exercises enables clients to engage in positive emotions even in response to stress-generating circumstances" (80)
7. Value of this article?
I expect that this article will have a small but significant role in my project. I really want to tie it together with some of the readings in class, particularly my favorite, "Paying for the Party" by Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth Armstrong. There are a lot of points about how stressful college can be and I think this study on perfectionism and resilience will fit in nicely with the points Armstrong and Hamilton make. Also I like some of the implications for how to maybe combat this "distress: caused by perfectionism which I believe to be worsened by privatization. I want to make a nice big domino effect stemming from Privatization and this article/study is a perfect starting point.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Literature Review #1
1.
These are the authors of the article I wish to review titled, "Parent-Child Conflict and Suicide Rumination in College Students: The Mediating Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Anxiety Sensitivity". The authors are Danielle R. Jahn and Dorian A. Lamis respectively.
2. Lamis, Dorian, A., and Danielle, R. Jahn. "Parent–Child Conflict And Suicide Rumination In College Students: The Mediating Roles Of Depressive Symptoms And Anxiety Sensitivity." Journal Of American College Health 61.2 (2013): 106-113. CINAHL with Full Text. Web. 24 Feb. 2015.
3. Summary: this article focuses on the rise of suicide in college students and outlines some of the causes and effects of depression. It is essentially a report on a experiment to find possible correlations among several risk factors and symptoms of depression and to interpret the results of this procedure. This particular article's results focus mainly on parent-child conflict and the role this conflict plays in the presence of depressive/ anxiety symptoms.
4. Danielle R. Jahn has a Master's in Psychology and is a research assistant at Texas Tech University in the Suicide and Depression Research Clinic of the Psychology Department. She has contributed to numerous Psychology articles in scholar journals with a focus on suicide and depression. Here is her Research gate Page with more information: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danielle_Jahn
Dorian A. Lamis has a PHD in Psychology and extensive experience. He was employed at East Tennessee State University, The University of South Carolina, and currently is an assistant professor at Emory University in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dorian has written at least 69 articles on over 20 different subjects in Psychology. Here is his page on Research gate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dorian_Lamis/publications
5. Key terms:
Anxiety Sensitivity: defined as "sensitivity to the physical and emotional symptoms of anxiety and the belief that these symptoms may result in severe somatic, social, and/or psychological consequences" (107).
Suicide rumination- Lamis and Jahn define this as "thinking about suicide ideation, suicide attempts, suicide and death" (106).
6.
a. "Suicide ideation data indicate that some students may have such great difficulty in college that they begin to think about suicide" (107)
b. "broad familial difficulties (eg poor relationships with parents, conflict between parents) have been linked to suicide ideation in college students" (107).
c. "When college students present for mental health services , assessing for parent-child conflict in addition to standard psychological symptoms and distress can inform suicide risk assessments and reduce the incidence of suicide on college campuses" (111).
7. This article should be helpful to my topic as it takes what seems like common sense and makes it more scientifically factual and more true that way. This study presents readers with some risk factors and then gives them evidence to support the hypothesized factors. This should fit nicely into my argument of Privatization and its effect on Parent-child conflict in college students!
These are the authors of the article I wish to review titled, "Parent-Child Conflict and Suicide Rumination in College Students: The Mediating Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Anxiety Sensitivity". The authors are Danielle R. Jahn and Dorian A. Lamis respectively.
2. Lamis, Dorian, A., and Danielle, R. Jahn. "Parent–Child Conflict And Suicide Rumination In College Students: The Mediating Roles Of Depressive Symptoms And Anxiety Sensitivity." Journal Of American College Health 61.2 (2013): 106-113. CINAHL with Full Text. Web. 24 Feb. 2015.
3. Summary: this article focuses on the rise of suicide in college students and outlines some of the causes and effects of depression. It is essentially a report on a experiment to find possible correlations among several risk factors and symptoms of depression and to interpret the results of this procedure. This particular article's results focus mainly on parent-child conflict and the role this conflict plays in the presence of depressive/ anxiety symptoms.
4. Danielle R. Jahn has a Master's in Psychology and is a research assistant at Texas Tech University in the Suicide and Depression Research Clinic of the Psychology Department. She has contributed to numerous Psychology articles in scholar journals with a focus on suicide and depression. Here is her Research gate Page with more information: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danielle_Jahn
Dorian A. Lamis has a PHD in Psychology and extensive experience. He was employed at East Tennessee State University, The University of South Carolina, and currently is an assistant professor at Emory University in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dorian has written at least 69 articles on over 20 different subjects in Psychology. Here is his page on Research gate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dorian_Lamis/publications
5. Key terms:
Anxiety Sensitivity: defined as "sensitivity to the physical and emotional symptoms of anxiety and the belief that these symptoms may result in severe somatic, social, and/or psychological consequences" (107).
Suicide rumination- Lamis and Jahn define this as "thinking about suicide ideation, suicide attempts, suicide and death" (106).
6.
a. "Suicide ideation data indicate that some students may have such great difficulty in college that they begin to think about suicide" (107)
b. "broad familial difficulties (eg poor relationships with parents, conflict between parents) have been linked to suicide ideation in college students" (107).
c. "When college students present for mental health services , assessing for parent-child conflict in addition to standard psychological symptoms and distress can inform suicide risk assessments and reduce the incidence of suicide on college campuses" (111).
7. This article should be helpful to my topic as it takes what seems like common sense and makes it more scientifically factual and more true that way. This study presents readers with some risk factors and then gives them evidence to support the hypothesized factors. This should fit nicely into my argument of Privatization and its effect on Parent-child conflict in college students!
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