Family Interactions and Disordered Eating Attitudes: The Mediating Roles of Social Competence and Psychological Distress

This research explored the role of family interactions on young adult females' disordered eating attitudes as mediated by both social competence and psychological distress. Assessment of the family interaction variables included the perspectives of multiple family members: a young adult female, a mother, and a sibling. Results generally supported the proposed model such that family interaction patterns, namely family-expressed emotion, were associated with low social competence, low social competence was associated with psychological distress, and psychological distress was associated with disordered eating attitudes. Practical applications of these results are discussed, as implications of this study draw attention to corrosive family communication patterns and inadequate social competence as key factors related to disordered eating attitudes.     

Communication Privacy Management: A Thematic Analysis of Revealing and Concealing Eating Disorders in an Online Community

This study analyzed the discourse of a pro-anorexia website, prettythin.com. Narratives and posts were thematically analyzed using communication privacy management as a framework to understand the tension between revealing and concealing an eating disorder. Two themes were constructed during data analysis: (a) personal ownership and control, with the subtheme strategies for maintaining control and (b) communication choices surrounding disclosure and two subthemes, (i) seeking to fulfill needs face-to-face and (ii) positive fulfillment of needs online. Theoretical and practical contributions are addressed in terms of how communication theory can help understand people living with eating disorders. Specifically, how these individuals manage their personal information online and face-to-face and how prettythin.com provides support to men and women with eating disorders.     

Holdings of Books Related to Russia and Eastern Europe Among Japanese Academic Libraries: An Analysis Based on the NII Union Catalog

ABSTRACT

Using numerical methods and list-checking on the national electronic union catalog, the author surveys the Russian, Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian book collections in Japanese academic libraries.     

社交媒体中新冠疫情科学信息传播效果与危机应对策略选择影响因素研究——基于科学家群体相关热门微博文本的实证分析

[目的/意义]从科学传播与危机传播的角度,分析影响新冠疫情期间科学信息传播效果相关因素,探索影响危机回应选择的策略机制。[方法/过程]利用Python进行数据挖掘和抓取,将具有代表性的十名医学专家作为科学传播信息来源对象,得到疫情期间科学信息的相关数据。进一步结合内容分析法,使用SPSS数据处理软件对新冠疫情期间科学信息传播与应对策略选择影响因素进行分析,得出传播效果与应对策略选择的影响因素模型。[结果/结论]以视频为主的富媒体文本形式对于疫情科学信息传播效果至关重要;内容主题、发布主体、文本形式、内容倾向与科学传播模式都与危机回应策略选择密切相关。基于此,建议在运用科学信息进行危机回应时,要善于运用视频等融媒体形式;在进行危机回应策略的选择时,需要考量文本特征选用不同科学传播模式,避免出现策略选择失当造成应对效果偏差。