作为阶级反话语的美国南方穷白人"粗悍文学"

20世纪80代以来,美国南方“粗悍文学”崛起,重塑穷白人在南方的社会、历史定位,置换其被旧南方主导话语规训的他者身份;诉说其冷峻灰暗的乡村生活及向城而生的人生抉择,拆穿留恋农业社会,忌惮工业文明的田园叙事;打造其多维、人性化形象,消解模式化形象对人们贬低、歧视穷白人的认知归导;形成了对抗、解构上层社会“南方神话”的劳动阶级反话语,助力穷白人摆脱边缘、弱势地位,推动南方文坛权力格局演变及文学视角的大众转向。     

Quiet ego,self-regulatory skills,and perceived stress in college students

Objective: Examine the unique contributions of self-control and grit subscales (perseverance, interest consistency) as potential mediators of the relationship between quiet ego characteristics and less perceived stress in college students. Participants: Data from 1117 college students were collected between October, 2015 and May, 2016. Methods: The sample was split randomly into exploratory and confirmatory samples. Multiple mediator models were tested with PROCESS module (SPSS v. 24) in both samples. Results: Hypotheses were largely confirmed with self-control fully mediating the link between quiet ego and perceived stress in both samples. Conclusions: Although many self-regulatory constructs may argue for their positive impact on college student outcomes, interventions that strengthen self-control, and not grit, may be most promising to reduce perceived stress. Further, interventions to strengthen quiet ego characteristics may be beneficial for strengthening self-control in college students.     

Because of you I did not give up – Peer effects in perseverance

It has been shown that both perseverance as well as peer effects affect performance. In our experiment, we investigate the interplay between these two factors. Participants work on a wordplay task where we quantify perseverance as the decision to continue working hard in the face of challenges. We find that persevering on the task is significantly correlated with the psychological questionnaire measure of grit (Duckworth et al., 2007). In an additional treatment, we provide participants with information about a peer’s contemporaneous perseverance on the task. This significantly increases participants’ perseverance on the task independently of their perseverance as measured in the questionnaire, suggesting that it does not only depend on individuals’ inherent traits, but can also be increased by peers.     

全球化背景下琪客文学在中国的接受

琪客文学出现在20世纪90年代的英美文坛,其热度一直经久不衰。但同期在中国出现的琪客文学却历遭口诛笔伐。进入21世纪以来,英美琪客文学登陆中国,并引发了本土琪客文学的创作。实际上,英美文化输出的全球化、消费主义的全球化及后女性主义的全球化,是琪客文学在中国被接受的深层次原因。