scholarly journals The agentic Self and uncontrollable body: Young people’s management of chronic illness at university

2019 ◽  
pp. 136345931988908
Author(s):  
Grace Spencer ◽  
Sophie Lewis ◽  
Megan Reid
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Young People ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Treatment Regimens ◽  
University Life

Young people’s experiences of living with a long-term health condition have been largely investigated from the perspective of developing autonomy and optimal self-management of treatment regimens. Little existing research explores how young people adjust to the experience of chronic illness within everyday social contexts. Drawing on sociocultural theories of healthism, in this article, we examine the everyday strategies students employed to manage their health condition at university. Data were drawn from a qualitative study with 16 undergraduate students in Australia. Findings from interviews highlight how participants took up discourses of the (hard-working, diligent) Self to discursively position themselves as ‘health conscious’ and ‘in control’. This positioning was maintained through separating the controlled Self from the (uncontrollable) body. The unpredictability of the body posed a threat to young people’s abilities to maintain control and denied them opportunities to exercise personal agency. Yet, participants also described a number of subversive strategies in order to take back control and resist the experience of ill health. These potential agentic practices often held unintended consequences, including loss of optimal medical control or (self) exclusion from university life – offering new insights into the differing ways young people concomitantly take-up, rework and resist the pursuit of healthism to ‘successfully’ manage their health conditions.

An exploratory study of how young people experience and perceive living with type 1 diabetes during late adolescence and emerging adulthood

2019 ◽  
pp. 174239531988648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Vie Ingersgaard ◽  
Didde Hoeeg ◽  
Ingrid Willaing ◽  
Dan Grabowski
Keyword(s):  
Type 1 Diabetes ◽  
Glycemic Control ◽  
Young People ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Treatment Regimens ◽  
Special Rules ◽  
Uncertain Future

Objective Suboptimal glycemic control and psychosocial challenges are significant concerns for adolescents and emerging adults (collectively young people) with type 1 diabetes. Knowledge about young peoples’ attitudes towards living with type 1 diabetes is inadequate, but the issue is important in the development of strategies to improve glycemic control and psychosocial well-being. This study explored young peoples’ perceptions of living with type 1 diabetes. Methods An exploratory, qualitative design was employed. Data were collected through five participatory workshops with 19 young people (age 15–25). Data were thematically analyzed. Results The overall depiction of living with type 1 diabetes was paradoxical; it affected everything and nothing. Living with type 1 diabetes was a balancing act between accommodating a “normal” way of living and self-management tasks of the treatment regimen. Participants’ perceptions reflected shifting accounts that could be divided into five themes: (1) special rules during youth, (2) striving for autonomy, (3) an uncertain future, (4) social support, and (5) stigma and disclosure. Discussion It is important to probe for the multiple and interrelated social contexts that underlie young peoples’ motives for adhering to and deviating from treatment regimens. Future studies should focus on relational aspects, including stigma mechanisms, the role of friends, and facilitation of balanced parental involvement.

Living with a chronic health condition: Students’ health narratives and negotiations of (ill) health at university

2017 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 631-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Spencer ◽  
Sophie Lewis ◽  
Megan Reid
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Chronic Health Condition ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Chronic Health ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
Health Narratives ◽  
The University

Objective: Increasing numbers of young people live with a chronic health condition. Much research to date has explored young people’s self-management of their illness and related symptomatology. Relatively less is known about how young people manage their long-term condition in everyday social contexts. This paper reports on findings from a qualitative study examining the perspectives of university students with a chronic health condition, including how they negotiate their health (and experiences of ill health) while at university. Design: A qualitative interview study was conducted with 16 students with a medically diagnosed chronic health condition. Setting: The study was conducted at a major university in Australia. Methods: Data were collected via in-depth semi-structured interviews and analysed thematically and inductively. Results: Findings illustrate how young people sought to position themselves as being ‘healthy’ while simultaneously distancing themselves from labels of ill health and disability. The relative invisibility of their health conditions enabled participants to align with and enact a preferred health identity. Yet, this invisibility presented particular challenges for students when navigating university systems and processes. Indeed, the fluctuating nature of their (ill) health status prompted a felt need continuously to prove their ill health to the university in order to receive academic support. Inevitably, this illness identity was at odds with participants’ own health narratives – triggering additional anxieties and (academic and social) exclusions for these young people. Conclusion: These contradictory (ill) health positions carry a number of implications for how best to support young people living with chronic health conditions while at university.

Blank Canvas

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Toscher
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Entrepreneurial Knowledge

The majority of learning in arts entrepreneurship education is experiential (Essig & Guevara, 2016). Experiential and entrepreneurial learning theories indicate that to facilitate entrepreneurial knowledge generation which “enables [entrepreneurs] to recognize and act on entrepreneurial opportunities and to organize and manage new ventures” (Politis, 2005, p. 400), individuals need to exercise personal agency and engage in explorative behavior (Kolb & Kolb, 2009; Politis, 2005). If arts entrepreneurship education is to help students generate such entrepreneurial knowledge, arts entrepreneurship educators should create learning environments in which their students can exercise personal agency and behave exploratively. Despite this, how students exercise personal agency and explore within arts entrepreneurship education has not been empirically studied. This empirical paper attempts to answer the following question: How do students explore and exercise personal agency in arts entrepreneurship education? Using rigor to systematically analyze qualitative data (Gioia et al., 2013) from a five-week course in entrepreneurship in higher music education to produce a data structure and model, I find that within a teacher-created learning environment, students balance personal factors (their values and beliefs, habitual modes of thought, prior experience and personal goals) against social factors (social interdependencies and conditions of approval) while taking actions to reduce uncertainty. The findings imply that teacher-created learning environments and engagement in social contexts influences how students exercise personal agency and explore.  

Biocompatible Polymers and their Potential Biomedical Applications: A Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (34) ◽  
pp. 3608-3619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uzma Arif ◽  
Sajjad Haider ◽  
Adnan Haider ◽  
Naeem Khan ◽  
Abdulaziz A. Alghyamah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Biomedical Applications ◽  
Living System ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
The Body ◽  
Biocompatible Polymers ◽  
Nano Technology ◽  
Artificial Grafts ◽  
Immunological Reactions

Background: Biocompatible polymers are gaining great interest in the field of biomedical applications. The term biocompatibility refers to the suitability of a polymer to body and body fluids exposure. Biocompatible polymers are both synthetic (man-made) and natural and aid in the close vicinity of a living system or work in intimacy with living cells. These are used to gauge, treat, boost, or substitute any tissue, organ or function of the body. A biocompatible polymer improves body functions without altering its normal functioning and triggering allergies or other side effects. It encompasses advances in tissue culture, tissue scaffolds, implantation, artificial grafts, wound fabrication, controlled drug delivery, bone filler material, etc. Objectives: This review provides an insight into the remarkable contribution made by some well-known biopolymers such as polylactic-co-glycolic acid, poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL), polyLactic Acid, poly(3- hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV), Chitosan and Cellulose in the therapeutic measure for many biomedical applications. Methods: : Various techniques and methods have made biopolymers more significant in the biomedical fields such as augmentation (replaced petroleum based polymers), film processing, injection modeling, blow molding techniques, controlled / implantable drug delivery devices, biological grafting, nano technology, tissue engineering etc. Results: The fore mentioned techniques and other advanced techniques have resulted in improved biocompatibility, nontoxicity, renewability, mild processing conditions, health condition, reduced immunological reactions and minimized side effects that would occur if synthetic polymers are used in a host cell. Conclusion: Biopolymers have brought effective and attainable targets in pharmaceutics and therapeutics. There are huge numbers of biopolymers reported in the literature that has been used effectively and extensively.

And I Became Male

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara K. Gold
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Early Christian

This chapter discusses the metaphor of the martyr as athlete found both in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis and in many early Christian writers such as Tertullian. It focuses on key images and elements in Perpetua’s fourth vision in which she “becomes male,” and the theological, philosophical, theoretical, and social contexts that reveal Perpetua’s role as a woman and the portrayal of her as an athlete. It discusses the traits of endurance [patientia in Cicero and hypomonê in Greek texts] and suffering that are manifested in martyr athletes such as Perpetua and Blandina and Augustine’s discussion of the body in connection with female martyrs.

Personhood and youth-making in contemporary Indigenous Amazonia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen ◽  
Alessandra Severino da Silva Manchinery
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
Brazilian Amazonia ◽  
University Studies ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
Indigenous Voices

This essay looks at the construction of personhood in Brazilian Amazonia from the perspective of Indigenous youth. In Amazonian sociocosmology, personhood is constructed relationally, a process in which the body is a distinctive factor. Consequently, during schooling and university studies, young people have responded to and resisted representations and policies that have often silenced Indigenous voices and limited their fabrication of bodies. The contemporary social responsibilities of Indigenous youth and the challenges faced in undertaking them shape how their subjectivity, agency, and recognized social belonging are being constantly increased, removed, or even denied. The essay draws from anthropological theories of relational personhood, as well as ideas of geo- and body-politics present in theorizing on the Global South.

Demonstration of the relationship between MSD and online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kochu Therisa Karingada ◽  
Michael Sony
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Right ◽  
Almost All

PurposeThe COVID-19 pandemic lockdown has caught many educational institutions by surprise and warranted an abrupt migration from offline to online learning. This has resulted in an education change, without any time for due consideration, as regards its impact on musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) on students. The purpose of this study is to investigate MSD related to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional study was conducted on undergraduate students in India. In total, 261 students participated in this online survey.FindingsThe study finds that around 80% of students have reported some symptom in the head, neck and eyes since they started online learning. In total, 58% have reported MSD symptom in the right shoulder and 56% in the right hand fingers. Besides, more than 40 % of students experienced some MSD symptoms, in almost all the body parts studied, due to online learning. Correlation analysis is conducted between time spent on online learning per day and MSD symptoms.Originality/valueThis is the first study conducted on MSD and online learning during COVID-19 pandemic.

INTERNET NEWS MEMES WITH POLITICAL OVERTONES IN THE PERCEPTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
D. S. Gorbatov ◽  
◽  
P. Yu. Gurushkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Focus Group Interview ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Internet News ◽  
The Social

The purpose of the empirical research described in the article was to study the range of judgments that characterize the social perception of the student youth of Internet news memes with political overtones. The research method was a focus group interview using the Microsoft Teams platform. The four groups included 28 undergraduate students of higher educational institutions of St. Petersburg. The results of the study characterize the attitude of students to attempts to impose political overtones on Internet news memes, reflect their opinions about the mistakes made by the authors, contain arguments about the reasons for the anonymity of the authors of memes, describe the range of views on the problem of the responsibility of the authors of memes for violations of laws. In addition, students ' perceptions about changes in Internet memes, in particular, news memes, in the future were revealed.

Trends in Reading Literary Fiction in Print and Cyber Media by Undergraduate Students of Hasanuddin University

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
Fathu Rahman ◽  
M Amir P ◽  
Tammasse
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Electronic Medium ◽  
Wide Cross ◽  
Ease Of Access ◽  
Book Format

This research investigated the trends in reading literary fiction by students of Hasanuddin University and their main reasons for reading works of fiction. Reading tendencies were grouped into types, reading of fiction in print and fiction in electronic (cyber) media. The purposes of this study were: 1) to quantify the literary fiction reading media preferred by students; 2) to identify specific reasons for their choice of media; 3) to identify perceived personal benefits obtained from reading literary fiction, and 4) to evaluate readers’ personal choices in terms of contents. The majority of students preferred to read using electronic media (62%), although a substantial majority preferred the classical printed book format (38%). The reasons given for preferring cyber literature (defined as works of fiction presented in an electronic medium) to printed literature were mainly practical, such as ease of access using electronic devices (tablets, computers, smartphones, etc.) as well as capacity and versatility, and that one multi-functional device can hold many books or other reading media. This research indicates that young people view reading fiction not only as entertainment, but also as a valuable and rewarding activity. The trend towards electronic media provides a growing and increasingly used opportunity for casual readers and enthusiasts to access and enjoy a wide cross-section of literary fiction.

Guided Mastery:The scaffolding you need to grow stronger

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Duckworth
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Phone Calls

When Al Bandura died in July, he was 95 years old and among the most eminent psychologists in history. In the year before his death, Al and I began a lively correspondence—by phone calls, email, and once via U.S. mail. So much of what Al spent his career studying—and his own life exemplifying—is what all young people need in order to fulfill their dreams and their potential: personal agency.

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