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Item Best Practices of Print Journalists Who Have Won Awards for Mental-Health Reporting: A Qualitative Interview Study(2012-02-14) Subramanian, RomaBoth in the United States and abroad, newspapers tend to portray people with mental illness negatively, making them vulnerable to social rejection, discrimination, and forced treatment. This portrayal also makes them hesitant to seek treatment for fear of being stigmatized. To help determine how reporting on mental illness can be improved, I interviewed in this study 11 U.S.-based print journalists who had won awards for stories on mental illness about how they covered their stories. The interviews, which were semi-structured, were conducted between October 2010 and February 2011 and were analyzed using a grounded-theory approach. Eight themes were identified in the interview transcripts: determining story idea, evaluating newsworthiness, identifying and obtaining information from interview sources, identifying and obtaining information from non-interview sources, ensuring accuracy, building rapport with sources, writing the story, and factors facilitating reporting. Overall, respondents prepared their stories in accordance with journalistic conventions. What helped them produce quality stories was a mixture of the following organizational and personal factors: editorial support, considerable journalism experience, personal exposure to mental illness, and empathy. Also noteworthy were respondents' opinions on suggestions in reporting guides about imitation or copy-cat suicides, sensitive language, and positive mental illness news. Whereas some agreed that reporting suicide details could lead to imitation suicides, others disagreed, explaining, for example, that the details were important to the story. Similarly, respondents expressed diverse views about the importance of using sensitive language to describe individuals with mental illness. Finally, respondents indicated that instead of calling for positive stories on mental illness, media guidelines should encourage thoughtful and balanced reporting on various aspects of mental illness. In conclusion, the results suggest that it would be valuable to investigate in more detail how journalists' personal attitudes toward mental illness influence their reporting. Also, guidelines for mental-health reporting should be created with the collaboration of journalists and mental-health professionals. Further, there is a need to make journalists aware of the copy-cat suicide phenomenon. Finally, lessons gleaned from respondents' experiences in reporting their award-winning stories can be used to inform mental-health media guides.Item Cultural Influence on Empathy: Cross-Cultural Comparison between Korean and Korean American Adolescents(2014-05-23) Yoon, Hyun HeeThis study investigated differing influence of cultural context on the components of empathy by examining matching ethnic groups of youths growing up immersed in two different cultures, collectivistic Korea and the individualistic United States. Data was collected in Korea (N=416) and in the United States (N=215) for both boys and girls ages 11-17. Participants in both groups completed a measure of empathy that is the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) and Triandis' cultural orientation scale. The Korean American group was asked to complete a bicultural identity scale, the Cortes, Rogler, and Malgady Bicultural Scale (CRM-BS), and a demographic questionnaire. As the preliminary process, factor analysis was conducted to validate the factor structure of IRI. The results did not yield an acceptable fit for the IRI for either the Korean or Korean American dataset. Only partial constructs pertaining to each group yielded an admissible internal consistency, and these were used for the next analysis. Empathic Concern and Fantasy factors were retained for the Korean American group. Perspective Taking, Fantasy, and Personal Distress factors were retained for the Korean group. Individuals? internal cultural orientations were used as the predictors of empathy constructs for each group. Individuals who scored high on collectivism also scored high on Empathic Concern, while individuals who scored high on individualism scored low on Empathic Concern in the Korean American group. Additionally, collectivism and horizontal orientation both significantly predicted Fantasy in the Korean American group. Collectivism and horizontal dimension significantly predicted Perspective Taking and Fantasy in the Korean group. Personal Distress was significantly predicted by the horizontal-vertical dimension, but not by the collectivism-individualism. Finally, the Korean American group?s acculturation status, language fluency, subjective identity, and duration of stay in the United States were used as the predictor for Empathic Concern and Fantasy in the Korean American group. Results were not significant for any of those predictors. Findings indicated different features of empathy constructs between the Korean and Korean American group, perhaps supporting a differing influence of cultural attributes. In addition, a notable finding of this study is that collectivism was significant in predicting cognitive and affective empathy positively.Item Radical Empathy at Work: Linked Data and Lifelong Learning(Texas Digital Library, 2019-09-11) Carbajal, Itza A.Item The effect of perceived and observed behaviors on feelings of intimacy: a comparison of "insider" versus "outsider" perspectives(2009-05-15) Mitchell, Alexandra ElizabethAccording to the interpersonal process model, interactions characterized by self-disclosure and empathic responding foster emotional intimacy between the two participating individuals (Reis & Shaver, 1988). This study provided ?insider? and ?outsider? perspectives of this model, examining the relation between perceived and observed behaviors in couple interactions and their relative contributions to the development of intimate feelings. The sample consisted of 102 community couples who completed measures of intimacy after engaging in videotaped discussions about relationship injuries that occurred both within and outside of the relationship. Both self-report and observational measures were used to assess disclosure and empathic responding during these discussions. There was significant agreement between self- and observer-report of men?s behavior, between self- and observer-report of women?s male partner?s behavior, and between partners? report of disclosure and empathic responding. There was mixed support for global distress and attachment style as predictors of differences between self- and observer-report. Whereas an earlier study using observational measures found gender differences in the effect of self-disclosure and empathic responding on intimacy (Mitchell et al., 2008), in this study self-report measures from the same sample indicated that perception of both an individual?s own and his or her partner?s disclosure and empathic responding predicted intimacy for both men and women. Observational measures provided incremental validity relative to self-report measures in predicting intimacy. These findings suggest that targeting certain personal and relational characteristics may be helpful in treating intimacy deficits and also indicate that self-report and observational measures provide unique information about the influence of behaviors on the development of intimate feelings in couple relationships.