scholarly journals Emotional Reactions to Human Reproductive Cloning

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua May
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Reproductive Cloning ◽  
Human Reproductive ◽  
Leon Kass ◽  
People’S Attitudes

Background: Extant surveys of people’s attitudes toward human reproductive cloning focus on moral judgments alone, not emotional reactions or sentiments. This is especially important given that some (esp. Leon Kass) have argued against such cloning on the grounds that it engenders widespread negative emotions, like disgust, that provide a moral guide. Objective: To provide some data on emotional reactions to human cloning, with a focus on repugnance, given its prominence in the literature. Methods: This brief mixed-method study measures the self-reported attitudes and emotions (positive or negative) toward cloning from a sample of participants in the United States. Results: Most participants condemned cloning as immoral and said it should be illegal. The most commonly reported positive sentiment was by far interest/curiosity. Negative emotions were much more varied, but anxiety was the most common. Only about a third of participants selected disgust or repugnance as something they felt and an even smaller portion had this emotion come to mind prior to seeing a list of options. Conclusions: Participants felt primarily interested and anxious about human reproductive cloning. They did not primarily feel disgust or repugnance. This provides initial empirical evidence that such a reaction is not appropriately widespread.

scholarly journals Educator Responses to Migrant Children in Mexican Schools

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Sánchez García ◽  
Edmund T. Hamann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Mexican Schools ◽  
Teacher Sensemaking ◽  
Elementary And Middle School ◽  
Insight Into

A decade-long, five-state, mixed-method study of students encountered in Mexican schools with previous experience in the United States suggests there may be 400,000 such students in educación básica alone (elementary and middle school). The focus here, however, are data from 68 educators asked how they have responded to such students and their families. We offer an emergent taxonomy of teacher sensemaking about these students and teachers’ responsibilities to respond. We then assert that because they are at the interface between a national institution (school) and transnational phenomena (migration), educators can provide key insight into how migration is shaped and negotiated. Un estudio de una década, en cinco estados, y que utiliza métodos mixtos con estudiantes que se encuentran en escuelas mexicanas con experiencias previas en los Estados Unidos sugiere que se pueden encontrar 400,000 estudiantes de este tipo tan sólo cursando la educación básica (primaria y secundaria). Sin embargo, el enfoque aquí son los datos de 68 educadores a quienes se les preguntó cómo responden a esta clase de estudiantes y a sus familias. Ofrecemos una taxonomía emergente sobre cómo es que los maestros dan sentido a las responsabilidades de tener que responder a este tipo de circunstancias, enfrentadas por estos estudiantes y sus maestros. Procedemos a afirmar que, a causa de que se encuentran en el punto de contacto entre una institución nacional (la escuela) y un fenómeno transnacional (la migración), los educadores pueden proveer información clave sobre cómo es que la migración se define y se negocia.

The Marriage Paradox

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J. Willoughby ◽  
Spencer L. James
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
National Data ◽  
The Media ◽  
National Trends

This book explores one of the more puzzling findings in modern young adulthood. Most emerging adults report they value marriage highly, yet more and more of them are delaying and appear to be avoiding marriage. Using a mixture of national data and a mixed-method study of middle-class emerging adults from the Midwest, the book explores why this paradox might exist. Using interview data, the authors weave stories of real emerging adults into their narrative to provide illustrative examples of the concepts and themes being discussed. National data are provided to connect themes to national trends in the United States. Within the book, the authors explore how the context of emerging adulthood influences this paradox as well as the specific paradoxes being created around emerging adults’ beliefs regarding the timing of marriage, its importance, and how emerging adults seek potential spouses. Finally, the authors explore how factors such as parents, religion, and the media have all helped create many of these paradoxes before giving suggestions for how some of these paradoxes might be resolved.

Disaster Impact on Impoverished Area of US: An Inter-Professional Mixed Method Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 583-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda H. Banks ◽  
Lisa A. Davenport ◽  
Meghan H. Hayes ◽  
Moriah A. McArthur ◽  
Stacey N. Toro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Risk And Protective Factors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Disaster Impact ◽  
The Us

AbstractIntroductionIn the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains, in central Appalachia (a region that spans 13 states in the US), sits an economically distressed and rural community of the United States. Once a thriving coal-mining area, this region now is reported as one of the hardest places to live in the US. Southeastern Kentucky, located in a remote, rocky, mountainous area surrounded by rivers and valleys and prone to flooding, experienced a major flood in Spring 2013 causing significant damage to homes and critical infrastructure.PurposeAims of the study were to: (1) identify and better understand the contextual variables compounding the impact of a disaster event that occurred in Spring 2013; (2) identify ways participants managed antecedent circumstances, risk, and protective factors to cope with disaster up to 12 months post-event; and (3) further determine implications for community-focused interventions that may enhance recovery for vulnerable populations to promote greater outcomes of adaptation, wellness, and readiness.MethodsUsing an ethnographic mixed-methods approach, an inter-collaborative team conducted face-to-face interviews with (N=12) Appalachian residents about their disaster experience, documented observations and visual assessment of need on an observation tool, and used photography depicting structural and environmental conditions. A Health and Emergency Preparedness Assessment Survey Tool was used to collect demographic, health, housing, environment, and disaster readiness assessment data. Community stakeholders facilitated purposeful sampling through coordination of scheduled home visits.ResultsTriangulation of all data sources provided evidence that the community had unique coping strategies related to faith and spirituality, cultural values and heritage, and social support to manage antecedent circumstances, risk, and protective factors during times of adversity that, in turn, enhanced resilience up to 12 months post-disaster. The community was found to have an innate capacity to persevere and utilize resources to manage and transcend adversity and restore equilibrium, which reflected components of resilience that deserve greater recognition and appreciation.ConclusionResilience is a foundational concept for disaster science. A model of resilience for the rural Appalachia community was developed to visually depict the encompassing element of community-based interventions that may enhance coping strategies, mitigate risk factors, integrate protective factors, and strengthen access. Community-based interventions are recommended to strengthen resilience, yielding improved outcomes of adaptation, health and wellness, and disaster readiness.BanksLH, DavenportLA, HayesMH, McArthurMA, ToroSN, KingCE, VaziraniHM. Disaster impact on impoverished area of US: an inter-professional mixed method study. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2016;31(6):583–592.

Law Enforcement Perspectives on Sex Offender Registration and Notification: Effectiveness, Challenges, and Policy Priorities

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Harris ◽  
Jill S. Levenson ◽  
Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky ◽  
Scott M. Walfield
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Public Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Sex Offender Registration ◽  
Face To Face

Since the 1990s, sex offender registration and notification (SORN) has assumed a prominent place on state and federal crime control agendas in the United States. Although researchers have examined many aspects of SORN policies and systems, relatively little is known about how SORN is used, perceived, and experienced by law enforcement professionals in the context of their work. This article presents findings from a mixed-method study, consisting of face-to-face interviews and a national online survey of police and sheriff agencies. We examined law enforcement views on SORN’s general functions and efficacy, barriers to SORN effectiveness, and recommendations for SORN-related policy. Results highlight the challenges associated with SORN’s various functions as a law enforcement information tool, as an offender monitoring mechanism, and as a conduit of public information. They also indicate differences between the perspectives of agency leadership and those on the front lines of registry enforcement and management, as well as a range of concerns associated with the reliability and utility of registry information, inter-system communication, registrant homelessness and transience, and the public’s capacity to understand registry information. Implications for policy reform and for SORN-related research are discussed.

Mixed Emotions, But Not Positive or Negative Emotions, Facilitate Legitimate Virus-Prevention Behaviors and Eudaimonic Outcomes in the Emergence of the COVID-19 Crisis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oh Yong Sheng Vincent ◽  
Eddie M W Tong
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Mixed Emotions ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions

We report four studies (N = 1419) which examined people’s emotional reactions from March to April 2020 when the COVID-19 crisis was unfolding rapidly with exponentially increasing rates of infections and fatalities. Specifically, we examined how emotions influenced the endorsement of virus-prevention behaviors that may contribute to slowing the spread of COVID-19, as well as eudaimonic functioning during the crisis. Study 1A and 1B provided naturalistic evidence that mixed emotions predicted endorsements of legitimate virus-prevention behaviors and eudaimonic functioning in both the United States and Singapore. Study 2 replicated Study 1 and provided evidence for receptivity as a mediator between mixed emotions and these outcomes. Finally, Study 3 provided experimental evidence that mixed emotions causally increased endorsements of legitimate virus-prevention behaviors and eudaimonic functioning. Across all studies, positive and negative emotions were unrelated to legitimate virus-prevention behaviors, while relationships with eudaimonic functioning were inconsistent. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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