Mental health literacy,stigma, and help-seeking behaviors among male college students

Objective: Mental health literacy (MHL) is low in college-aged men potentially resulting in impaired mental wellbeing. This study assessed MHL, psychosocial determinants, and help-seeking behaviors among male university students. Participants: Male undergraduate and graduate students were surveyed in Spring 2017 (n = 1,242) at a large southeastern university in the United States. Methods: Preexisting validated scales for MHL, psychosocial determinants, and help-seeking intention were used in measurement and demographic variables were collected. T-tests and one-way ANOVA were performed to measure differences between groups. Results: Participants showed low scores for all constructs with statistically significant differences between undergraduate and graduate students, as well as between races and major classifications. Undergraduate men had moderate MHL and low intentions to seek professional care. Conclusions: Interventions focusing on increasing mental health knowledge and improving beliefs can improve MHL among male college students. Further, interventions should be tailored for racial groups and major classifications.     

Toward an historically informed Asian model of public relations

This paper undertakes a meta-analysis of the 51 historiographies of public relations in Asia-Pacific countries to identify common themes, threads and theoretical insights. The authors propose a set of necessary components for the study of Asia-Pacific public relations drawn from a historical perspective that differs from the paradigmatic underpinnings of the major Western models. They draw conclusions about epistemological and practice differences between public relations in the West and in the Asia-Pacific region in a globalizing world.     

What Happens on Islands,doesn’t Stay on Islands: Patterns of Synchronicity in Mosquito Nuisance and Host-Seeking Activity between a Mangrove Island and Adjacent Coastal Development

Urban Ecosystems - Coastal development is expanding globally in response to mass human migration, yet urban planning guidelines often overlook the problems that human encroachment on or near...     

Older age and a higher EHRA score allow higher levels of frailty syndrome to be predicted in patients with atrial fibrillation

Background: There is no research that evaluates the relationship between the severity of the symptoms of atrial fibrillation (AF), the presence of frailty syndrome and acceptance of the illness.

Methods: The study included 132 patients aged 72.7?±?6.73 with diagnosed AF. The severity of the symptoms of AF was determined according to European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) guidelines, frailty syndrome was assessed using the Tilburg frailty indicator (TFI) and the acceptance of the illness was assessed using the acceptance of illness scale (AIS). A standard statistical comparison and multiple regression analysis using the stepwise method were performed.

Results: In patients with AF, frailty was 5.31?±?2.69 (TFI). Frailty syndrome was diagnosed in 59.8% of the AF patients who had a score of 7.17?±?1.72. A higher level of EHRA score was connected with a smaller degree of the acceptance of the illness p?=?0.0000. The multiple regression model indicated that age (p?=?0.0009) and the severity of the symptoms (p?=?0.0001) are important predictors of frailty syndrome.

Conclusions: There is a relationship between the presence of frailty syndrome and the intensity of the symptoms and the acceptance of AF. Age and the EHRA score permitted higher levels of frailty syndrome to be predicted.     

On a neglected aspect of portfolio choice: the role of the invested capital

In return-based portfolio choice models à la Markowitz, the amount of capital invested does not play a role, while in expected utility models it does. The aim of this paper is to bring out the connection between the amount of capital invested and the portfolio formation. In a general one-period framework, which also comprises illiquid assets held by the investor and the period income, we present results in finding the optimal portfolio weights and study the influence of the invested capital, the illiquid assets and the income on the portfolio formation. Special emphasis is put on HARA utility functions and the dependence of the amount invested risklessly on the invested capital. As a side result, we find that Markowitz portfolio choice is not fully compatible with expected utility reasoning.     

Chinese Transnationalism in Britain: A Longer History

This article looks at the early history of the British Chinese community in the light of transnational studies. It questions the belief that homeland and intradiasporic economic ties are predominantly new, save on the rare occasions that elites maintained them, and that early political transnationalism was less common still and even more sure to be elite based. In so doing, it draws attention to the role played by political elites in galvanising migrant communities. It also analyses the role played by class-based organisations in constructing transnational ties, a form of Chinese transnationalism that other studies fail to note. It finds that transnational practices and institutions pervaded the early community in its immigrant phases, both from below and from above. This immigration was overwhelmingly proletarian, but nonetheless transnational. Though basically economic, the transnational community was also political. Capturing a mass base among Chinese overseas was a central strategy of late-Qing dissidents. Crucially, China's early radicals shared a Cantonese origin with their compatriots in Britain, North America, Australia, and elsewhere. The article's findings challenge transnational theories, which stress contemporaneity, economics, and elites. The political cultivation of Chinese in Southeast Asia by Republicans and Communists has been the subject of numerous studies. Far less is known about analogous activities in Europe. By exploring early Republican and Communist influences on the Chinese in Britain, this article traces further paths along which diasporic nationalism spread.     

Activism and Willingness to Help in Union Organizing: Who Are the Activists?

Research on union renewal often cites a critical role for lay activism. This study examines determinants of activism and activism intentions among a broadly representative sample of U.S. union members. Hypotheses are developed from theory and previous research on union commitment and participation. Results for current activism are generally consistent with prior work. Extending the model to future intentions to help with organizing, an interesting contrast is that pro-union attitude influences appear much more important than do union instrumentality perceptions. This suggests that “covenant” rather than “exchange” concerns are more salient for this form of activism. Findings for ideological orientation support this interpretation.     

纳粹屠杀与南京暴行的研究:范式转变与比较启示

相对于第二次世界大战期间侵华日军南京暴行,纳粹屠杀的研究成果更为丰富、多样和体系化,研究范式经历了从"极权主义"到"结构主义",再到"魅力权威"的转变.这一转变将加害者从希特勒及纳粹领导层扩展到整个德国社会,进而产生了颠覆性的结果,即第三帝国的犯罪不仅是大规模受害者意义上的"大",而且还在于参与者的多;这一转变还揭示纳粹屠杀的受害者不仅仅是犹太人,还包括境内外大量的非犹太人.这一事实表明除了反犹主义外,第三帝国的系列意识形态信条,如民族主义、殖民主义等构造了众多德国人愿意参与纳粹犯罪的条件.民族主义的心态和认同导致了受害者和加害者之间共有的人性感的降低,进而导致后者的道德标准的丧失;殖民活动与种族上的"他者"的出现使优越感和轻蔑的态度盛行,这些心态提供了纳粹屠杀和南京暴行比较研究的重要起点,而殖民地经历及暴力制度文化则是比较研究的重要内容.     

波兰第三共和国新近历史的研究状况

20世纪80年代,波兰史学界围绕当代史展开了激烈的争论,并出现了两种新近历史形象的对立,即正式历史与未经过审查出版的对立性历史。新近历史焦点在于确认主体——历史学家——与他的研究客体相比较,在时间上靠近被讨论或者被记录下来的事件,在时间线上不可能有一个固定点,它随流逝的时间及可延伸的历史情景而行进。波兰对新近历史新形象的讨论无疑是更完整的波兰历史研究的一部分。这些讨论的参照点既有与我们有关过去知识的新形式相关的争论及其在美国和西欧学术中呈现的社会地位,也有在其他后共产党国家致力于历史形象的全国性争论。