How American college students understand social resilience and navigate towards the future during covid and the movement for racial justice

Sanchez, Mari; Lamont, Michèle; Zilberstein, Shira

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114890

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“…As "emerging adults," their futures may be more open-ended and unpredictable as they experience many transitions (Keniston 1965;Smith and Snell 2009). Recent experiences for youth produce multidimensional challenges related to long-term social ideals, such as inequality, as well as short-term routines and relationships, such as COVID-19 (Sanchez, Lamont, and Zilberstein 2022). We study unsettledness as a challenge in actors' abilities to rely on existing cultural structures to plan for and achieve desirable futures in the wake of growing inequality and financial precarity following the 2008 recession.…”

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“…Our college-aged sample experiences uncertainties caused by the breakdown of the conditions essential for realizing traditional scripts of success, especially after the 2008 recession, as well as structured messages about the possibilities for their future selves and societies. Although challenges and ideals vary based on social position (see Sanchez et al [2022] for class/race comparisons in the sample), the salience of youth culture, college experience, and unsettledness in scripts of success profoundly shape all interviewees' perspectives (Goldstein 1974;Keniston 1965). In the conclusion, we discuss slight modifications based on social class, but general patterns in how respondents related to the four prominent repertoires hold.…”

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“…Interviewees are between 18 and 23 years of age. The Northeastern sample includes more upper-middle-class and middle-class youth, whereas the Midwestern sample includes more youth from working-class backgrounds (see Sanchez et al [2022] for a class analysis). Younger cohorts in America are particularly ethnoracially diverse (Parker and Igielnik 2020).…”

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“…Younger cohorts in America are particularly ethnoracially diverse (Parker and Igielnik 2020). Slightly more than half of the sample belong to racialized groups (58 percent people of color) (see Sanchez et al [2022] for comparative analysis). Finally, the political distribution of our respondents broadly corresponds to the political leanings of this demographic.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Recreating a Plausible Future: Combining Cultural Repertoires in Unsettled Times

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Sanchez³

2023

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This article analyzes how young adults draw on cultural resources to understand their identities, aspirations, and goals when taken-for-granted scripts of success are perceived as less desirable or achievable. Drawing on pragmatism, we propose the concept of "plausible futures" to capture how people rearrange elements within cultural repertoires as a practical and moral project to define their identities, aspirations, and goals. We draw on interviews with 80 college students concerning how they understand their future aspirations, including how they define personal success and broader social goals, when they face unpredictability in, and dissatisfaction with, achieving dominant meritocratic and socioeconomic ideals. We find that respondents combine elements from four cultural repertoires to work toward and envision their future: the American dream and neoliberalism, the therapeutic culture, ordinary cosmopolitanisms, and a "Gen Z" cohort narrative. The combining of elements from each repertoire enables a hybrid set of cultural tools that hold to tenets of hard work and self-reliance while accommodating the quest for greater recognition and inclusion. We show that respondents combine cultural elements based on their ability to connect elements to futures perceived as viable and valuable.

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“…Numerous researchers have noted that there are still uncertainties concerning the rapid transmission and immune evasion of neo-coronaviruses [5,[11][12][13]. Current research indicates that the increase in the number of COVID-19 infections, the ongoing mutation of the virus, the global economic downturn [14], and the challenging employment situation for graduates [15] have left college students with a great deal of uncertainty regarding their physical wellbeing, learning ways, and future lifestyles [16][17][18]. Recent research has confirmed that the impact of COVID-19 uncertainty on adolescent psychological symptoms and mental disorders is substantial and persistent [18][19][20].…”

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Intolerance of uncertainty and mental health in China “Post-pandemic” age: The mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation

Gao,

2024

PLoS ONE

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The Chinese government adjusted its national epidemic prevention and control policy in December 2022 after the worldwide declaration of COVID-19 as a common influenza. After the policy adjustment, there has been widespread infection in China, which has brought a lot of uncertainty to the lives and studies of Chinese university students. This study focused on the impact of the intolerance of uncertainty for COVID-19 (IUC) on the emotional and mental health of college students in China “Post-pandemic” age. This study examined the mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation (DER) between IUC and mental health (MH). 1,281 university students in China were surveyed using the intolerance of uncertainty for COVID-19 scale, the difficulties in emotion regulation scale and the mental health scale. A structural equation model was used to test the hypothesis model, and it was shown that IUC had a significant negative effect on the MH of college students and a significant positive effect on the DER. DER had a significant negative effect on the MH, and DER had a complete mediation effect between IUC and MH. The findings of this study enrich our understanding of the influencing factors of mental health of university students under the background of post-epidemic in China, and provide practical reference for universities on how to prevent mental health problems under the current uncertain environment in China.

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The good gifts program: evaluation of a positive youth development intervention for opportunity youth

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The Journal of Positive Psychology

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How American college students understand social resilience and navigate towards the future during covid and the movement for racial justice

Cited by 8 publications

References 60 publications

Recreating a Plausible Future: Combining Cultural Repertoires in Unsettled Times

Recreating a Plausible Future: Combining Cultural Repertoires in Unsettled Times

Intolerance of uncertainty and mental health in China “Post-pandemic” age: The mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation

The good gifts program: evaluation of a positive youth development intervention for opportunity youth

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