The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted elderly people as a vulnerable and excluded community, and connecting to the younger social media generation requires a shift in intergenerational storytelling performance. Recent research on multimodality has emphasized its benefits for the interactional process in storytelling. This study examines three…

Objective: Physical education (PE) courses may provide young adults with opportunities to become active, however, enrollment in college PE courses remains low. Participants: This study examined psychosocial factors related to PE enrollment in a sample of 177 college students (29.4% completed a PE course). Methods: Participants completed an online…

Objective: This study explored how COVID-related mental health and well-being varied between undergraduate and graduate students. Relationships with physical health behaviors were also examined. Participants: Undergraduate (n = 897) and graduate (n = 314) students were recruited from three US universities between mid-April and late-May 2020.…

Trauma-informed teaching and learning has gained a great deal of prominence in higher education over the past three years. Typical approaches to trauma-informed work often start with a generalized set of ideas and principles that are then applied to very individualized and contexts. In this article, written as a dialogue between two educational…

The primary purpose of this paper is to outline the conceptual means by which it is possible to be optimistic about education. To provide this outline I turn to Ian Hunter and David Blacker, after a brief introduction to Nietzsche's conceptions of optimism and pessimism, to show why certain forms of optimism in education are either intellectually…

Academic advising--formal and informal--is an emotional undertaking on the part of college faculty.

Recent movies have used the familiar conventions of classic revenge movies, but the former have avoided the latter's grim resolutions in favor of a wiser, more forgiving attitude toward those who have offended the wronged. This unconventional change in a familiar story line points to the contrast between the pleasure of vicarious vindictiveness…

The aim of this study was to differentiate professional dancers from two different Spanish dance companies with regard to the effects of emotional intelligence, mood and coping strategies, by analysing the existing interrelationship between them. The sample was composed of 36 dancers: 16 women and 20 men aged 19 to 40. Twenty of them came from the…

In the contemporary society, depression, anxiety, and stress are much more common than it was in history. The recent studies have outlined that the young adults are experiencing depression and anxiety disorders that are affecting their emotional and mental well-being. Aim of this co-relational survey model study is to investigate the impact of…

Political discourses and practices surrounding the current presidential administration are propagating familiar stereotypes of immigrants as "diseases," "criminals," and questionably "American." Emergent research and the news media are also reporting stories of hostility toward immigrants in schools and broader…

The aim of the present study was to examine whether intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, and life satisfaction levels of pre-service teachers are significant predictors of their psychological well-being. The sample of the study was consisted of 230 pre-service teachers. Data were collected via Motivation to Teach Scale, Psychological Well-Being…

This research aims to investigate the problematic levels of internet usage and smartphone addiction as predictors of university students' happiness levels. The research was carried out using the relational screening method, which is among the quantitative research methods. The research study group consisted of 340 university students, in which 229…

Most anger management group programmes utilise Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness Based Treatments (MBTs) in their interventions. This study uses Transactional Analysis (TA) and mindfulness to help promote behavioural change. We explored participants' phenomenological change throughout a 10-week anger management programme. The…

This article considers ontological conceptualizations of shame-interest as experienced in educational research. Shame has frequently been reported in research as a property of the autonomous individual: the shame of the participant to share with the researcher, and the shame of the researcher to reflexively eliminate. "Shame-interest" is…

Internationally, the research on the education of boys has sought to understand how social practices, behaviours and rituals contribute to identity construction. We are interested in approaches to the emotional labor of doing 'boy work'. As educators grapple with the gendered performances and subjectivities of young men, there is an imperative to…