The impact of negative life events (NLEs) on spirituality: a qualitative study on the perspectives of Nigerian Catholic women religious in the United States

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Angela U. Ekwonye ◽  
Ngozi G. Nwosisi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Women Religious ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
The United States ◽  
Catholic Women ◽  
The Impact

Examining Relations Between Negative Life Events, Time Spent in the United States, Language Use, and Mental Health Outcomes in Latino Adolescents

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 389-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia L. Rubens ◽  
Paula J. Fite ◽  
Joy Gabrielli ◽  
Spencer C. Evans ◽  
Michelle L. Hendrickson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Latino Adolescents

scholarly journals Preterm Birth in the United States: The Impact of Stressful Life Events Prior to Conception and Maternal Age

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (S1) ◽  
pp. S73-S80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Whitney P. Witt ◽  
Erika R. Cheng ◽  
Lauren E. Wisk ◽  
Kristin Litzelman ◽  
Debanjana Chatterjee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Preterm Birth ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Maternal Age ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
The United States ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Educators’ Perceptions of Uses, Constraints, and Successful Practices of Backchanneling

in education ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheri Toledo ◽  
Sharon Peters
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
The United States ◽  
Collaborative Activity ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Instant Message ◽  
Synchronous Learning ◽  
The Impact

This qualitative study sought to explore participants’ perceptions of the impact of web-based backchanneling conversations in a variety of learning environments. Backchannels, forms of instant message conversations, take place during synchronous learning sessions. Online interviews with educators from Canada and the United States revealed their perceptions of the uses, constraints, and successful practices of backchanneling. Educators in the study saw backchanneling as a non-disruptive, non-subversive, collaborative activity that expanded participation and interactions; an approach applied with intentionality to enhance learning. Six themes emerged from the data: backchanneling for professional development and networking; backchanneling for engagement; constraints of backchanneling; changes in teacher and/or learner perspectives; examples of backchanneling in educational settings; and suggestions for successful backchanneling.Keywords: web-based backchanneling; learning environments; professional development; networking

International Sister Students Today

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-168
Author(s):  
Mary Johnson ◽  
Mary L. Gautier ◽  
Patricia Wittberg ◽  
Thu T. Do
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Women Religious ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Catholic Colleges ◽  
Catholic Colleges And Universities ◽  
Religious Institutes ◽  
Support Resources ◽  
The Impact

This chapter provides demographic data on international sisters who are currently studying in the United States. It describes how U.S. Catholic colleges and universities and institutes of women religious collaborate in providing education for these sisters by using two types of qualitative data. The chapter includes interviews with administrators of Catholic universities and religious institutes. It also includes some data from the survey of international sisters who are students in the United States. The chapter describes pathways to the universities and the types of support resources that international sisters receive from universities and religious institutes. It describes the impact that international sisters have on fellow students and, upon their return, on their home countries.

A Pipeline of Unscrupulous Practices: Qualitative Study of Attitudes Toward the Social Security Disability Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-180
Author(s):  
Lila Rabinovich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Disability Benefits ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Security Disability ◽  
The Impact

In the United States more than 8 million adults currently are covered by the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, with enrollment projected to increase in the coming decades. This qualitative study explores views on work disability in the United States, and specifically on the SSDI program, among the general public. Six focus groups with a convenience sample of nonbeneficiary adults ( N = 41) were conducted in Los Angeles. We found that in spite of low levels of familiarity with the program, suspicion and prejudice against people claiming disability benefits and against the program itself were widespread among our participants. Specifically, participants argued that (a) there is a high prevalence of “scammer” disability applicants, and (b) the program fails to adequately safeguard against nondisabled claimants. Moreover, they viewed disability benefits as a symbolic admission of weakness, contrary to the U.S. ethos of hard work and against “government handouts,” and expressed a preference for claiming disability benefits as a last resort if they were ever to develop a disabling condition. Exploring public perceptions of disability and disability benefit programs helps us shed light on current cultural narratives around these topical issues. Future research could examine the impact of stigma of beneficiary status on beneficiaries’ wellbeing.

Elizabeth Seton, American Saint

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Women Religious ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Friendship ◽  
Intellectual Inquiry ◽  
Catholic Women ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Local Leaders

Elizabeth Bayley Seton is the first native-born US citizen to be made a Roman Catholic saint. Canonized in 1975, Seton founded the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph, the first vowed community of Catholic women religious created in the United States. Seton’s sainthood marked the culmination of a role she first served during her life: a respectable, benevolent face for a church whose local leaders were eager to demonstrate its compatibility with American culture. Seton’s founding of the American Sisters of Charity was a more practical achievement and one that shaped the Catholic Church in the United States in tangible ways. Starting in 1809, when Seton began a school and vowed community in Emmitsburg, Maryland, the Sisters of Charity expanded throughout the United States, eventually running hundreds of schools and orphanages and offering both a spiritual home and a career path for women who chose it. Seton’s life is expressive for what it reveals about her era as well as for her distinctive achievements. Her prominence led to the preservation of decades of correspondence and spiritual writings. Through them it is possible to see with unusual clarity the ways in which the Age of Revolutions and the rise of Napoleon variously disrupted, reinvigorated, and transformed Catholic traditions; to observe the possibilities and constraints Catholicism offered a spiritually ambitious woman; and to witness changes in the relationship between Protestants and Catholics in the United States. Finally, Seton’s rich archive also renders visible one woman’s experience of intellectual inquiry, marriage, widowhood, motherhood, spiritual ambition, and female friendship.

scholarly journals Maternal Stressful Life Events Prior to Conception and the Impact on Infant Birth Weight in the United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (S1) ◽  
pp. S81-S89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Whitney P. Witt ◽  
Erika R. Cheng ◽  
Lauren E. Wisk ◽  
Kristin Litzelman ◽  
Debanjana Chatterjee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
The United States ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Infant Birth ◽  
The Impact
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