College Student Loneliness and the Reopening of Campuses During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Vaterlaus, J. Mitchell

doi:10.1111/fcsr.12427

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“…Being mindful about our use of social media requires us also to consider the importance in our lives of real as well as digital spaces. We all know that student loneliness and disconnection is a huge problem at undergraduate and postgraduate level (Vaterlaus 2022;O'Brien 2022) but what we don't often face up to is the loneliness that seeps into our professional academic lives. This is a point made compellingly in Berg and Seeber's The Slow Professor which is in many ways a manifesto for a more considered academic life.…”

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confidence: 99%

‘Sharing’, Selfhood, and Community in an Age of Academic Twitter

Mahon,

Bergin

2024

Journal of Interactive Media in Education

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We explore in this paper the impulse to share our academic work via social media as well as the impact this sharing has on our senses of self as scholars and persons. We argue that this sharing raises a number of important philosophical questions: In what way does the branding or profiling encouraged by X/Twitter impact on our personal identity? How does the publicness of this particular platform disrupt the intimacy that lies at the heart of all edifying human relationship? And to invoke the terms of critical theorist, Axel Honneth, can we as teachers and researchers recognize ourselves in the social media sphere? Writing from the perspective of philosophy of education, Conroy and Smith (2017: 706) have argued that the contemporary university has been taken over by 'Professor Lookatme' and 'Dr Loudmouth' -but we are interested in the extent to which these caricatured figures are necessarily representative of today's academy. While our paper draws attention to the dark side of social media, then, it still explores the possibilities for authentic selfhood as well as meaningful community in our increasingly digitized academic worlds.

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‘Sharing’, Selfhood, and Community in an Age of Academic Twitter

Mahon,

Bergin

2024

Journal of Interactive Media in Education

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“…Local public health policies exist in the exosystem (Pfefferbaum et al, 2012). Prior to the current pandemic, it was proposed that public health policies related to social distancing would contribute to feelings of isolation and loneliness (Gostin, 2006) and some emerging research has supported this proposition (Vaterlaus, 2022). Mothers indicated they were deeply concerned about their children's lack of opportunities to socially interact outside of the home and how this would impact their children's long‐term social development.…”

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Mother–child relationships during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A longitudinal qualitative approach

Vaterlaus

Patten

Spruance

et al. 2023

Family & Consum Sci Res J

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Global crises have a disproportionate impact on women, and typical family life for mothers and children in the United States was disrupted by the COVID‐19 pandemic. This longitudinal qualitative study examined mothers' (n = 82) experiences in their mother–child relationships between March 2020 and April 2021 during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Participants completed open‐ended online survey items at both time points, while 22 participants also completed in‐depth interviews in April 2021. Three themes were identified through longitudinal qualitative analysis: (1) outside relationships and resources, (2) relational change and continuity, and (3) mother–child time. Results are discussed using Bronfenbrenner's Person, Process, Context, Time (PPCT) model.

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“…Each item (e.g., “How often do you feel isolated from others?”) is rated from 1 (“Hardly Ever”) to 3 (“Often”), with higher scores reflecting greater loneliness. This shortened version is unidimensional, possesses adequate internal consistency, convergent, and divergent validity, was developed specifically for large scale surveys ( Hughes et al, 2004 ), and has been widely used in clinical, community, and college student samples (e.g., Vaterlaus, 2022 ). Cronbach's α in the current sample was 0.82.…”

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