Browsing by Subject "emerging adulthood"

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    Effect of Transracial Adoption on Racial Identity Development : A Phenomenological Arts-Based Self-Study
    (2024) O’Rear, Hannah; Misluk, Eileen; Neubaum, Brooke
    Current conceptualizations of the impacts of transracial adoption on racial identity development lack a centering of adoptees' perspectives and, furthermore, have yet to be explored through an arts-based approach. In this study, a phenomenological self-study approach was employed, utilizing art-based processes to explore the impacts of transracial adoption on racial development. The methodological structure included six weeks of self-study exploring relevant themes pulled from the literature review, including identity, adoption, cultural identity, and emerging adulthood. Weeks 1 to 4 explored each theme individually, while the last two weeks explored the intersection of all themes combined. Art making utilized 2D and 3D materials occurred twice a week for at least an hour and was analyzed to record sub-themes post-art making. This exploration found that this structure provided a place to artistically express complicated emotions surrounding the intersecting themes related to transracial adoption and facilitated the emergence of sub-themes to consider in further research. This designed self-study structure empowers the transracial adoptee's voice, providing an outlined method that other adoptees may utilize to deepen self-identity understanding. Moreover, this research informs the greater understanding of the impacts that transracial adoption has on adoptees.
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    Understanding the Social Science Effect: An Intervention in Life Course Generosity
    (Sage, 2019-12) Herzog, Patricia Snell; Harris, Casey T.; Morimoto, Shauna A.; Peifer, Jared L.; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
    Does interacting with social science data in early adulthood promote generosity? To investigate this question from a life course development perspective, two distinct samples were drawn for a survey with an embedded experimental design. The first sample is of emerging adult college students (n = 30, median age = 20 years). The second sample is of young adults who were selected to participate based on their prior participation in a nationally representative and longitudinal study (n = 170, median age = 31 years). Toward the end of the survey, participants were randomly selected into a website interaction with either: (a) data on charitable giving, (b) data on social inequality, or (c) data about weather (a control condition). The key outcome of interest is a behavioral measure of generosity: whether participants elected to keep their study incentive or donate their incentive to a charitable organization. The donation decision occurred after the randomly selected website interaction. Interacting with charitable giving data resulted in greater generosity than interacting with weather data, across both samples. Interacting with social inequality data had mixed results. Moreover, emerging adult college students gave at a considerably higher rate overall than the national sample of young adults, net of treatment type. Implications are discussed.
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    ZINES: A Survey to Explore Therapeutic Benefits
    (2024) Renk, Caitlin; Misluk, Eileen; Baldner, Karen
    This study explored existing literature on zines and zine culture as it relates to art therapy and mental health and aimed to investigate the benefits that members of this culture experience from participating. A mixed-method survey with qualitative and quantitative questions was conducted with adult participants who self-identified as makers and/or collectors of zines. The findings of the survey reinforced the prevalence of overlap between readers and makers in the zine community. They demonstrated a large representation of LGBTQ+ identities within zine culture and wider popularity for zines in emerging adults. Benefits participants reported experiencing included creative expression, connecting with others, and seeing representations of others like themselves. Personal narratives and visual arts were the most common themes for zines and were used in combination. The gap in the literature suggests that more research on the topic of zines in art therapy would be beneficial. The findings from the literature and survey suggest that zines may be well received by and beneficial for adolescents and emerging adults, especially those with marginalized gender and sexual identities.