scholarly journals Social Media Use and Monitoring for Adolescents With Depression and Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Study of Parent and Child Perspectives (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candice Biernesser ◽  
Gerald Montano ◽  
Elizabeth Miller ◽  
Ana Radovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Parental Knowledge ◽  
Dyadic Analysis ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Function

BACKGROUND Although youth report many positive experiences with social media (SM) use in their daily lives, adolescents with depression are more vulnerable to the risks of SM use than adolescents without depression. Parents protect adolescents with depression from the risks of SM use by monitoring their child’s SM activity; however, this comes into conflict with the adolescent’s need for autonomy in their web-based communication. The implications of SM use and monitoring for adolescents with depression and their parents are of particular relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic, as rates of SM use have increased in response to physical distancing measures. OBJECTIVE This study aims to explore parent and child perspectives regarding the use and function of SM in the daily lives of adolescents with depression and parents’ perceptions of and experience with monitoring their child’s SM use. METHODS We conducted qualitative interviews with adolescents with depression (n=23) and one parent of each adolescent (n=23) between July 2013 and September 2014. The adolescents were patients seeking treatment for depression in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Data analysis included dyadic analysis of the adolescents’ and parents’ perspectives and qualitative descriptions of individual parent interviews to explore their experiences with SM use and monitoring. The construct of parental knowledge and factors hypothesized to contribute to parental knowledge, including adolescent disclosure, parental solicitation, and parental control, were used to guide the codebook and dyadic data analysis. RESULTS Dyadic analyses showed that parents and their children disagreed on the use and function of SM in the daily lives of adolescents with depression, with adolescents viewing SM as a forum for honest expression of their emotions, whereas parents felt that their children’s posts were inconsequential and interfered with the adolescents’ lives. Furthermore, parents reported using a wide range of strategies to gain knowledge of their child’s SM use to monitor their safety on SM, including direct solicitation and indirect solicitation, such as keeping the child's passwords, asking friends or siblings about their child's SM use, and restricting SM behavior and access to devices. CONCLUSIONS Clinicians should support adolescents with depression and their parents in finding common ground for an effective and acceptable monitoring approach. Resources are provided for clinicians navigating conversations about SM use and monitoring with adolescents with depression and their parents during the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Social Media Use and Monitoring for Adolescents With Depression and Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Study of Parent and Child Perspectives

10.2196/21644 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. e21644
Author(s):  
Candice Biernesser ◽  
Gerald Montano ◽  
Elizabeth Miller ◽  
Ana Radovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Parental Knowledge ◽  
Dyadic Analysis ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Function

Background Although youth report many positive experiences with social media (SM) use in their daily lives, adolescents with depression are more vulnerable to the risks of SM use than adolescents without depression. Parents protect adolescents with depression from the risks of SM use by monitoring their child’s SM activity; however, this comes into conflict with the adolescent’s need for autonomy in their web-based communication. The implications of SM use and monitoring for adolescents with depression and their parents are of particular relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic, as rates of SM use have increased in response to physical distancing measures. Objective This study aims to explore parent and child perspectives regarding the use and function of SM in the daily lives of adolescents with depression and parents’ perceptions of and experience with monitoring their child’s SM use. Methods We conducted qualitative interviews with adolescents with depression (n=23) and one parent of each adolescent (n=23) between July 2013 and September 2014. The adolescents were patients seeking treatment for depression in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Data analysis included dyadic analysis of the adolescents’ and parents’ perspectives and qualitative descriptions of individual parent interviews to explore their experiences with SM use and monitoring. The construct of parental knowledge and factors hypothesized to contribute to parental knowledge, including adolescent disclosure, parental solicitation, and parental control, were used to guide the codebook and dyadic data analysis. Results Dyadic analyses showed that parents and their children disagreed on the use and function of SM in the daily lives of adolescents with depression, with adolescents viewing SM as a forum for honest expression of their emotions, whereas parents felt that their children’s posts were inconsequential and interfered with the adolescents’ lives. Furthermore, parents reported using a wide range of strategies to gain knowledge of their child’s SM use to monitor their safety on SM, including direct solicitation and indirect solicitation, such as keeping the child's passwords, asking friends or siblings about their child's SM use, and restricting SM behavior and access to devices. Conclusions Clinicians should support adolescents with depression and their parents in finding common ground for an effective and acceptable monitoring approach. Resources are provided for clinicians navigating conversations about SM use and monitoring with adolescents with depression and their parents during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Possession and Repetition

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 243-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yohan Yoo
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Lay Buddhists ◽  
Iconic Status ◽  
And Function ◽  
To Receive

This article demonstrates the need for the iconic status and function of Buddhist scripture to receive more attention by illuminating how lay Korean Buddhists try to appropriate the power of sutras. The oral and aural aspects of scripture, explained by Wilfred Cantwell Smith, provide only a limited understanding of the characteristics of scripture. It should be noted that, before modern times, most lay people, not only in Buddhist cultures but also in Christian and other traditions, neither had the chance to recite scriptures nor to listen to their recitations regularly. Several clear examples demonstrate contemporary Korean Buddhists’ acceptance of the iconic status of sutras and their attempt to appropriate the power and status of those sacred texts. In contemporary Korea, lay Buddhists try to claim the power of scriptures in their daily lives by repeating and possessing them. Twenty-first century lay believers who cannot read or recite in a traditional style have found new methods of repetition, such as internet programs for copying sacred texts and for playing recordings of their recitations. In addition, many Korean Buddhists consider the act of having sutras in one’s possession to be an effective way of accessing the sacred status and power of these texts. Hence, various ways of possessing them have been developed in a wide range of products, from fancy gilded sutras to sneakers embroidered with mantras.

scholarly journals Predictive modeling to study lifestyle politics with Facebook likes

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stiene Praet ◽  
Peter Van Aelst ◽  
Patrick van Erkel ◽  
Stephan Van der Veeken ◽  
David Martens
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Party System ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Political Preference ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Cultural Preferences ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Media Data

Abstract“Lifestyle politics” suggests that political and ideological opinions are strongly connected to our consumption choices, music and food taste, cultural preferences, and other aspects of our daily lives. With the growing political polarization this idea has become all the more relevant to a wide range of social scientists. Empirical research in this domain, however, is confronted with an impractical challenge; this type of detailed information on people’s lifestyle is very difficult to operationalize, and extremely time consuming and costly to query in a survey. A potential valuable alternative data source to capture these values and lifestyle choices is social media data. In this study, we explore the value of Facebook “like” data to complement traditional survey data to study lifestyle politics. We collect a unique dataset of Facebook likes and survey data of more than 6500 participants in Belgium, a fragmented multi-party system. Based on both types of data, we infer the political and ideological preference of our respondents. The results indicate that non-political Facebook likes are indicative of political preference and are useful to describe voters in terms of common interests, cultural preferences, and lifestyle features. This shows that social media data can be a valuable complement to traditional survey data to study lifestyle politics.

scholarly journals The Use of Tag Questions in Person-centered Communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 899-900
Author(s):  
Shalane Basque ◽  
Marie Savundranayagam ◽  
Maren Kimura ◽  
Kristine Williams
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Ground State ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Secondary Data Analysis ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Formal Caregivers ◽  
Tag Questions ◽  
And Function ◽  
Person With Dementia

Abstract Tag questions are imperative, declarative, exclamative or interrogative statements that have been modified to include a question (e.g.., It is hot out, isn’t it?). Tag questions have been characterized as elderspeak because it suggests an expected response from the person with dementia, thus limiting his/her ability to make a decision independently. However, tag questions serve multiple functions in conversation. There is limited research on the multidimensional nature of tag questions in conversations between formal caregivers and their clients with dementia. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to investigate the functions of tag questions used by formal caregivers in utterances coded as person-centered. Conversations (N= 87) between formal caregivers and a simulated person with dementia were video-recorded during a 5-minute care interaction involving morning care. Caregivers’ utterances were coded for the use of the following types of person-centered communication: recognition, negotiation, facilitation, and validation. During secondary data analysis, the person-centered utterances were analyzed for the use and function of tag questions. Conversational analyses revealed two broad functions of tag questions: gather information and facilitate a desired action. Tag questions used to gather information included the following specific functions: acknowledge response, establish common ground, state fact or opinion, initiate topic, conversational joking, state what is being done and questions. Tag questions that facilitated a desired reaction included the following specific functions: offers, advice and suggestions and requests and commands. Findings from the current study reveal that tag questions are not exclusively elderspeak and can be used to illicit conversation.

The Design and Implementation of Web-Based Application System

2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 2210-2213
Author(s):  
Han Yan Huang
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Application System ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Design Philosophy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Business ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Web

The web-based application system, which has so many advantages, such as wide range,no limit of area and time, fast and high efficiency, is more and more popular with the enterprises and job seekers. It provides the job seekers and the recruiters with an interactive platform, who has the function of remote service. Designing and developing the web-based application system by adopting the pattern of MVC, it not only can make the structure of the whole system clearer to partition modules easily and enhance the high cohesion and low coupling among all the layers and modules, but also can make it easier to add new business and function to adapt to all kinds of demand change. This paper will introduce the design philosophy and develop process of the web-based application system based on the pattern of MVC.

scholarly journals Analyzing the Similarity between Abagusii and Judean Conception of God as Reflected in the Book of Ruth

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 257-262
Author(s):  
Charles K. Moywaywa ◽  
Muhammad Ridwan
Keyword(s):  
Good Measure ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Divine Intervention ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship

The belief that God, or the Supreme Being, is the source of all that exists is common among a wide range of African communities that still retain a good measure of their traditional religio-cultural heritage. The Abagusii of Western Kenya is one of the communities that has been exposed to and actually embraced the western culture. This notwithstanding, the Abagusii are still proud of their traditional  customs and still maintain a good measure of these practices, either in their original form or with modifications. In this paper we examine the influence of belief in God on the day-to-day activities of the Abagusii and assess the similarity of their religiosity with that of the Judeans as reflected in the book of Ruth. The purpose of this work is to contribute to the on-going debate on inculturation by projecting a trajectory that appreciates the authenticity of all cultures. In comparing the similarity between Abagusii and Judean conception of and interaction with the divine, this paper covers the following key areas: the nature and function of God, human limitations, the relationship between God and humans, the notion of divine intervention, and the influence of religious consciousness on the daily life of the community and its members. The author is cognizant that the Book of Ruth may not provide a comprehensive picture of the Judean concept of God.  But it provides a basis for a comparative study on the way community members utilized their religious awareness and identity to govern their daily lives.

A Methodological Framework for Investigating Social Participation in Mobile Social Media Learning

2017 ◽  
pp. 96-113
Author(s):  
Ayse Kok
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Social Connectivity ◽  
Media Learning

Social media is increasingly becoming an essential platform for social connectivity in our daily lives. The availability of mobile technology has further fueled its importance – making it a ubiquitous tool for social interaction. However, limited studies have been conducted to investigate roles of social participation in this field. Thus, the study proposes a methodological framework to identify the roles of social participation in mobile social media learning using the “ladder of participation and mastering.” It suggests ways for data analysis using a social network analysis tool, such as NodeXL. The following framework of analysis for various roles of social participation in mobile social media is offered: (i) lurkers; (ii) gradually mastering members/passive members; (iii) recognized members; and (iv) coaches. This paper draws attention to the fact that learners can inter-change roles of social participation – becoming more central or less central in learning discussions.

scholarly journals Bentuk dan Fungsi Bahasa Slang pada Keterangan Foto Akun Lambe Turah di Media Sosial Instagram

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-123
Author(s):  
Baiq Dwi Intan Cahyani ◽  
Burhanuddin ◽  
Syamsinas Jafar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
Collection Method ◽  
Data Collection Method ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
And Function ◽  
Caption Text

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan bentuk dan fungsi bahasa slang pada teks keterangan foto akun Lambe Turah di media sosial instagram.. Metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode simak dengan teknik lanjutan, yaitu teknik catat. Metode analisis datanya menggunakan metode padan intralingual dan ekstralingual. Hasil analisis data disajikan dengan metode formal dan informal. Berdasarkan hasil analisis data, ditemukan bentuk dan fungsi bahasa slang dalam teks keterangan foto akun instagram Lambe Turah. Bentuk bahasa slang Lambe Turah meliputi bentuk kata, frase, klausa, dan kalimat. Fungsi bahasa slang Lambe Turah terdiri dari fungsi personal, fungsi direktif, fungsi fatik, fungsi referensial, dan fungsi imaginatif. Abstract: This study aims to describe the form and function of slang in the photo caption text of Lambe Turah's Instagram account on social media. The data collection method used in this study was the observation method with advanced techniques, namely the note taking technique. Methods of data analysis using intralingual and extralingual matching methods. The results of data analysis were presented using formal and informal methods. Based on the results of data analysis, it was found the form and function of slang in the caption text of Lambe Turah's Instagram account. The slang form of Lambe Turah includes the form of words, phrases, clauses and sentences. Lambe Turah slang functions consist of personal functions, directive functions, fatigue functions, referential functions, and imaginative functions.

Chaperonin as the normal controls and pathological anti-stress response in the human reproductive system

2016 ◽  
pp. 126-129
Author(s):  
M. Makarenko ◽  
◽  
D. Hovsyeyev ◽  
L. Sydoryk ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive System ◽  
Stress Proteins ◽  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Protein Complexes ◽  
Reproductive Function ◽  
Intercellular Signaling ◽  
Toll Like Receptors ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Protein Functions ◽  
And Function

Different kinds of physiological stress cause mass changes in the cells, including the changes in the structure and function of the protein complexes and in separate molecules. The protein functions is determined by its folding (the spatial conclusion), which depends on the functioning of proteins of thermal shock- molecular chaperons (HSPs) or depends on the stress proteins, that are high-conservative; specialized proteins that are responsible for the correct proteinaceous folding. The family of the molecular chaperones/ chaperonins/ Hsp60 has a special place due to the its unique properties of activating the signaling cascades through the system of Toll-like receptors; it also stimulates the cells to produce anti- inflammatory cytokines, defensins, molecules of cell adhesion and the molecules of MHC; it functions as the intercellular signaling molecule. The pathological role of Hsp60 is established in a wide range of illnesses, from diabetes to atherosclerosis, where Hsp60 takes part in the regulation of both apoptosis and the autoimmune processes. The presence of the HSPs was found in different tissues that are related to the reproductive system. Key words: molecular chaperons (HSPs), Toll-like receptors, reproductive function, natural auto antibody.

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