Dynamics of Suffering of Female Brazilian Psychology Students: Interfaces with the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Eduarda Carvalho Sobral
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Psychosocial Risks ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Work Related Injury ◽  
The University

The asymmetric construction of gender roles in the Brazilian society contributes to the fact that, currently, women's experiences in the university environment are marked by gender bias. This situation was aggravated by the pandemic. The present research aimed to evaluate the dynamics of pleasure and suffering in the academic work of undergraduate psychology students at the University of Brasília, Brazil, as well as to identify the main strategies used by them to face it. The theoretical-methodological perspective adopted was the psychodynamics of work and female work. The research is characterized as descriptive, quantitative and qualitative. The Work-Related Injury Scale was applied to 196 female students and eight focus groups were held, with an average of 4 (four) participants each. As a result, in the quantitative stage, it was found that, in the three factors of the scale, a median result was obtained, which means a state of alert regarding the harm and psychosocial risks related to work. In the qualitative stage, six categories were identified: "Being a woman and being a student", "Intersections of suffering", "Impact of the pandemic at work", "Collective mediation strategies", "Individual mediation strategies" and "Socio-professional relationships". The results are discussed considering that women still have to deal with the triple workload overload, and that they do not feel safe to freely occupy the university environment, implying the need to promote more institutional listening and welcoming spaces, so that it is possible to build strategies to transform the organization of work. Shortterm actions are recommended so that the alert state in relation to risks at work is not aggravated.

scholarly journals Cannabis consumption by female psychology students: the influence of perceived stress, coping and consumption of drugs in their social environment

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Vargas ◽  
Humberto Manuel Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Cannabis Consumption ◽  
The University

The consumption of cannabis has increased in the female population. The risk and protection factors associated with an increase or decrease in its consumption may differ as a function of gender, age and substance consumed. The objectives of the present study were to examine the relevance to cannabis consumption by female students of legal drugs consumed by the university students and family members, the consumption of legal and illicit drugs by friends, sociodemographic factors and, psychological variables (perceived stress and different coping strategies). Three questionnaires were administered to 465 female students studying for Psychology degrees. The prevalence of cannabis consumption was 36.3%. The variables predicting its consumption were: a) consumption of illicit drugs and cocaine by friends; b) consumption of tobacco by the students; c) emotion-oriented coping.

scholarly journals Mujeres y universitarias: historia de un desencuentro en la universidad española contemporánea

2009 ◽  
pp. 357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Poy Castro
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Academic Status ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Level ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
The University

En las últimas décadas, las bajas tasas de mujeres que cursan estudios universitarios, así como el hecho de que esas tasas se han ido incrementando, han sido analizadas por investigadores en España así como en Europa y otros países. En nuestro análisis, hemos observado que las tasas femeninas de estudiantes están creciendo año tras año pero con significativas diferencias entre disciplinas académicas. Por esta razón, nuestro propósito ha sido recoger datos de las universidades españolas, de cara a observar tendencias y sus orígenes. Nuestro estudio incluye porcentajes de mujeres enroladas en las diversas áreas académicas de estudios en las universidades españolas, comparadas con los porcentajes en el conjunto de la Academia. También incluye algunos datos sobre los porcentajes de mujeres entre los estudiantes de doctorado, así como entre el personal docente de los<br />departamentos en las facultades, y los comparamos según el estatus académico. Finalmente, presentamos algunas conclusiones sobre las barreras en la carrera académica para las profesoras en las universidades españolas entre 1978 y 2008. Estos datos revelan los crecientes porcentajes de mujeres que durante los pasados años han<br />seguido estudios superiores. También muestran algunas diferencias entre áreas académicas, y asimismo que existe una significativa tendencia de género en el acceso de<br />las estudiantes graduadas a las categorías superiores del personal docente.<br /><br />In the last decades, the low rates of women that follow studies at the university level, as well as the fact that those rates are increasing, have been analyzed by researchers in<br />Spain, as well as in Europe and in some other countries. In our analysis, we have seen that female students’ rates are increasing year after year but with significant differences<br />between academic disciplines. For this reason, our purpose was to compile data from Spanish universities, in order to see the tendencies and their origins. Our study includes<br />percentages of women enrolled in the diverse academic areas of studies at the Spanish universities, compared to the percentages in the whole Academia. It also includes some data on the percentages of women among PhD students, as well as among the teaching staff of the departments in the faculties, and we compare them by academic status. Finally, we present some conclusions on the barriers in the academic career for female professors in the Spanish universities between 1978-2008. These data reveal the increasing percentages of women that for the past last years have followed higher studies. They also show some differences among academic areas, and also that there is a significant gender bias in the access of graduated female students to the upper categories of teaching staff.<br /><br />

scholarly journals Chinese International Students’ Experiences in a Canadian University

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 582-612
Author(s):  
Lin Ge ◽  
Douglas Brown ◽  
Douglas Durst
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Chinese International Students ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Gender Comparison ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Transformative Experiences ◽  
Cultural Stereotyping ◽  
The University

The study employed ethnographic inquiry to present the lived experiences of Chinese international students while attending the University of Regina, Canada. The findings displayed the transformative experiences of this group, including language acquisition, academic and social challenges, and the strategies by which the cultural group attempted to overcome the challenges with gender comparison. The study highlighted specific challenges affecting Chinese female students as they labor to overcome sexism and patriarchy on two continents. Cultural stereotyping and negative labeling were also evaluated in detail. Arguably, the findings might potentially impact education/social policies and university protocols as impinging vulnerable groups. Recommendations were made to alleviating difficulties for the group in facilitating a more supportive learning process within the university environment.

scholarly journals University Environment and Its Relationship to The Life Skills Among Female Students at The Faculty of Education in Taibah University: البيئة الجامعية وعلاقتها بالمهارات الحياتية لدى طالبات كلية التربية بجامعة طيبة

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manal Mubarak Helabi
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Arithmetic Means ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Specialization

This study aimed at identifying the physical and human Constituents for university environment as seen by female students, determining the relationship between the university environment and life skills, and identifying the differences between university environment and life skills according to the following variables: academic specialization and academic level. The sample of the study consisted of 181 female students, 146 were from special education department and 35 female students from art education department, the researcher applied the descriptive analytical approach. To achieve the goal of the study the researcher prepared a questionnaire for university environment consisted of 19 fields and a questionnaire for life skills included 5 skills Prepared Alrabani (2008). The following statistical treatments were applied: arithmetic means, standard deviation, T- test, one- way Anova, Scheffe test, the findings of the study indicated the following results: there is a highly significant correlation between mean of the grades of university environment questionnaire and life skills questionnaire, there is no significant differences attributed to the academic specialization between the mean of the grades of the university environment questionnaire except one field "the central library", there are significant differences attributed to the academic level on some fields of the university environment questionnaire, there are no significant differences between the grades of the life skills questionnaire. In light of these findings the researcher proposed some recommendations and suggestions.

scholarly journals Female Researchers in Neo-Victorian Fiction

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-86
Author(s):  
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Victorian Novels ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Victorian Fiction ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Abstract Neo-Victorian novelists sometimes use postgraduate students – trainee academics – who research nineteenth-century writers as protagonists. This article discusses four neo-Victorian novels, Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip (2006), Justine Picardie’s Daphne (2008), A.N. Wilson’s A Jealous Ghost (2005) and Scarlett Thomas’s The End of Mr Y (2006), in which female postgraduate students take the centre stage. In Victorian literature, which mirrors the gender bias in the academic world and in society at large at that time, most scholars are male. The contemporary writers’ choice of female trainee academics is worth investigating as it speaks to the visibly changed gender make-up of contemporary academia. However, this utopian situation is complicated by the fact that the writers have chosen to frustrate the characters’ entry into the world of scholarship by having them leave the university environment altogether before the end of the novel. The fact that these females all choose to depart the university forms a contrast with notions of the university found in Victorian novels, in which leaving or not attending university might have detrimental effects on the characters.

Impairment Tutorial: Rating Facial Disfigurement After an Injury

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-6
Author(s):  
Marc T. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Current Work ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Loss Of Function ◽  
Facial Disfigurement ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Work Related Injury ◽  
Compensation Claim ◽  
Impairment Ratings

Abstract This article discusses two important cases that involve the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides). First, in Vargas v Industrial Com’n of Arizona, a claimant had a pre-existing non–work-related injury to his right knee as well as a work-related injury, and the issue was apportionment of the pre-existing injury. The court held that, under Arizona's statute, the impairment from the pre-existing injury should be subtracted from the current work-related impairment. In the second case, Colorado courts addressed the issue of apportionment in a workers’ compensation claim in which the pre-existing injury was asymptomatic at the time of the work-related injury (Askey v Industrial Claim Appeals Office). In this case, the court held that the worker's benefits should not be reduced to account for an asymptomatic pre-existing condition that could not be rated accurately using the AMA Guides. The AMA Guides bases impairment ratings on anatomic or physiologic loss of function, and if an examinee presents with two or more sequential injuries and calculable impairments, the AMA Guides can be used to apportion between pre-existing and subsequent impairments. Courts often use the AMA Guides to decide statutorily determined benefits and are subject to interpretation by courts and administrative bodies whose interpretations may vary from state to state.

Doctoral Training of Psychology Students in France

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Roland-Lévy
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Doctoral Training ◽  
University System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Psychology Doctoral ◽  
Phd Programs ◽  
Phd Program

Abstract: The aim of doctoral programs in psychology is to help students become competent psychologists, capable of conducting research and of finding suitable employment. Starting with a brief description of the basic organization of the French university system, this paper presents an overview of how the psychology doctoral training is organized in France. Since October 2000, the requisites and the training of PhD students are the same in all French universities, but what now differs is the openness to other disciplines according to the size and location of the university. Three main groups of doctoral programs are distinguished in this paper. The first group refers to small universities in which the Doctoral Schools are constructed around multidisciplinary seminars that combine various themes, sometimes rather distant from psychology. The second group covers larger universities, with a PhD program that includes psychology as well as other social sciences. The third group contains a few major universities that have doctoral programs that are clearly centered on psychology (clinical, social, and/or cognitive psychology). These descriptions are followed by comments on how PhD programs are presently structured and organized. In the third section, I suggest some concrete ways of improving this doctoral training in order to give French psychologists a more European dimension.

Effect of a-Week Summer Camp on the Hopelessness and Self-Esteem of the University Students Attending Sport Sciences Faculty

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Korkmaz YİĞİTER ◽  
Hakan TOSUN
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Female Students ◽  
T Test ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The University

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of participation in a 1-week summer camp on thehopelessness and self-esteem of the university students attending Sport Sciences Faculty. Participants were 36university students assigned to experiment group using a random procedure. Coopersmith Self-esteem and Beck Hopelessness Scales were completed at the beginning and end of the summer camp by designed the university. The obtained data were analysed in the SPSS 18.0 program and the significance level was taken as 0.05. The descriptive statistics, independent simple t test, paired simple t test and Pearson correlation were used for analyse the data in the study. According to the results of the research, no significant difference was observed in the comparison of the hopelessness and self-esteem levels between pre and post-test. In addition, there was a significant difference in the hopelessness level of male and female students but any significant difference was not observed in terms of self-esteem. There was a significant relationship between hopelessness and self-esteem pre and post-test. These result shows that a 1-week summer camp cannot change the hopelessness or self-esteem level. However, as the self-esteem rises, the rate of despair decreases whereas as the despair rises, the selfesteem decreases.

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