Enacting resilience at multiple levels during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring communication theory of resilience for U.S. undocumented college students

IF 1.6 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Journal of Applied Communication Research Pub Date : 2023-02-23 DOI:10.1080/00909882.2023.2178855

Jesse King, Jennifer A. Kam, M. Cornejo, Roselia Mendez Murillo

引用次数: 0

Abstract

ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic, college students faced a number of stressors that threatened their health and well-being. Undocumented college students faced similar stressors and additional ones that were unique to their immigration status. Drawing from communication theory of resilience, we conducted 30 semi-structured interviews with Mexican-origin undocumented college students in California. Our findings extended past research on the communication theory of resilience by identifying triggers that motivated undocumented students to enact resilience at multiple levels. Undocumented students reported (a) individual, interpersonal, institutional, and policy-level constraints that constantly threatened their health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic; (b) how they enacted resilience at those multiple levels; and (c) how their undocumented status was a source of stress but also a source of empowerment.

查看原文本刊更多论文

在COVID-19大流行期间，多层次制定弹性:探索美国无证大学生弹性的沟通理论

在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，大学生面临着许多威胁他们健康和福祉的压力源。无证大学生面临着类似的压力源，以及他们移民身份特有的额外压力源。根据沟通弹性理论，我们对加州的墨西哥裔无证大学生进行了30次半结构化访谈。我们的研究结果通过确定激励无证学生在多个层面制定弹性的触发因素，扩展了过去对弹性沟通理论的研究。无证学生报告(a)在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，个人、人际、机构和政策层面的限制不断威胁到他们的健康和福祉;(b)他们如何在这些多个层面制定复原力;(c)他们的无证身份既是压力之源，也是赋权之源。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of Applied Communication Research COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

4.00

自引率

8.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： The Journal of Applied Communication Research publishes original scholarship that addresses or challenges the relation between theory and practice in understanding communication in applied contexts. All theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome, as are all contextual areas. Original research studies should apply existing theory and research to practical solutions, problems, and practices should illuminate how embodied activities inform and reform existing theory or should contribute to theory development. Research articles should offer critical summaries of theory or research and demonstrate ways in which the critique can be used to explain, improve or understand communication practices or process in a specific context.