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Empathy and the Novel
This book presents an account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism. Though readers' and authors' empathy certainly contribute to the emotional resonance of fiction and its success in the marketplace, this book finds the case for altruistic consequences of novel reading inconclusive. It offers instead a detailed theory of narrative empathy, with proposals about its deployment by novelists and its results in readers. The book engages with neuroscience and contemporary psychological research on empathy, bringing affect to the center of cognitive literary studies' scrutiny of narrative fiction. Drawing on narrative theory, literary history, philosophy, and contemporary scholarship in discourse processing, the book brings together resources and challenges for the literary study of empathy and the psychological study of fiction reading. Empathy robustly enters into affective responses to fiction, but its proper role in shaping the behavior of emotional readers has been debated for three centuries. The book surveys these debates and offers a series of hypotheses about literary empathy, including narrative techniques inviting empathetic response. It argues that above all readers' perception of a text's fictiveness increases the likelihood of readers' empathy, by releasing readers from their guarded responses to the demands of real others. The book confirms the centrality of narrative empathy as a strategy, as well as a subject, of contemporary novelists. Despite the disrepute of putative human universals, novelists from around the world endorse the notion of shared human emotions when they overtly call upon their readers' empathy. Consequently, the book suggests, if narrative empathy is to be better understood, women's reading and popular fiction must be accorded the respect of experimental inquiry.
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Economics Teachers’ Emotional Intelligence and Self‐Efficacy: A Moderated Mediation Model Using PLS‐SEM
Purpose Emotional intelligence (EI) plays a crucial role in shaping teachers' confidence in the classroom. As educators face increasing challenges in today's dynamic educational environment, understanding how EI influences teaching self‐efficacy is essential for enhancing instructional quality. This study investigates the influence of EI on the teachers' self‐efficacy (TSE) of Senior High School (SHS) Economics teachers in Ghana. It further examines the mediating role of creativity‐nurturing behavior (CNB) and the moderating role of metacognitive awareness (MA) in this relationship. Method A descriptive cross‐sectional survey design was employed, involving a census of 180 SHS Economics teachers from the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana. Data were collected using adapted scales for EI, CNB, MA, and TSE. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS‐SEM) was used to analyze the data and test the moderated mediation model. Finding The findings revealed that EI significantly influenced CNB and TSE. Additionally, the study identified that CNB had a significant positive effect on TSE. CNB partially mediated the positive relationship between EI and TSE. MA negatively moderated the relationship between EI and CNB. Again, MA influenced the indirect effect of EI on TSE through CNB. Conclusion EI is vital for enhancing Economics teachers' confidence in their instructional abilities. The study underscores the importance of fostering EI, CNB, and MA through professional development programs to improve educational outcomes. Emotional intelligence significantly enhances Economics teachers’ self‐efficacy through creativity‐nurturing behavior. This indirect effect is partially mediated by creativity‐nurturing behavior and is stronger at lower levels of metacognitive awareness, which negatively moderates the link between emotional intelligence and creativity‐nurturing behavior.
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The Dance of Nurture
Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. Anthropology offers a powerful biocultural approach that examines how custom and culture interact to support nurturing practices. Our framework shows how the unique constitutions of mothers and infants regulate each other. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding into a holistic framework guided by the metaphor of dance. It includes a critique of efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.
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Parental Sensitivity and Nurturance
Parental sensitivity and nurturance are important mechanisms for establishing biological, emotional, and social functioning in childhood. Sensitive, nurturing care is most critical during the first three years of life, when attachment relationships form and parental care shapes foundational neural and physiological systems, with lifelong consequences. Sensitive, nurturing care also buffers children from the negative effects of growing up in difficult circumstances such as poverty.
In this article, Carrie DePasquale and Megan Gunnar examine several interventions that directly or indirectly target parental sensitivity and nurturance, and demonstrate the causal role that this type of care plays in children's development, especially during the first three years of life. They note that even though sensitive, nurturing care is still helpful after infancy and early childhood, it doesn't completely mitigate the effects of not receiving this type of care early in life. And because sensitive care involves knowing when to respond and when to let the child manage more independently, excessive responsiveness, overinvolvement, and intrusiveness are also forms of insensitive care.
Sensitive and nurturing parent behaviors vary across cultures, and numerous other factors influence parental sensitivity as well. For example, children's temperament and emotional reactivity may affect parents' behavior and/or alter the effects of parenting behavior on children's development. Physiological, cognitive, and emotional self-regulatory capabilities, as well as socioeconomic and environmental factors, can also affect a parent's ability to provide sensitive, nurturing care. Based on the expansive research related to parental sensitivity and nurturance, the authors recommend that policy makers should aim to increase family and community access to programs that enhance sensitive, nurturing care and support parents so they can provide high-quality care to their children.
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Maternal prolactin during late pregnancy is important in generating nurturing behavior in the offspring
Although maternal nurturing behavior is extremely important for the preservation of a species, our knowledge of the biological underpinnings of these behaviors is insufficient. Here we show that the degree of a mother’s nurturing behavior is regulated by factors present during her own fetal development. We found that Cin85-deficient (Cin85
−/−) mother mice had reduced pituitary hormone prolactin (PRL) secretion as a result of excessive dopamine signaling in the brain. Their offspring matured normally and produced their own pups; however, nurturing behaviors such as pup retrieval and nursing were strongly inhibited. Surprisingly, when WT embryos were transplanted into the fallopian tubes of Cin85
−/− mice, they also exhibited inhibited nurturing behavior as adults. Conversely, when Cin85
−/− embryos were transplanted into the fallopian tubes of WT mice, the resultant pups exhibited normal nurturing behaviors as adults. When PRL was administered to Cin85
−/− mice during late pregnancy, a higher proportion of the resultant pups exhibited nurturing behaviors as adults. This correlates with our findings that neural circuitry associated with nurturing behaviors was less active in pups born to Cin85
−/− mothers, but PRL administration to mothers restored neural activity to normal levels. These results suggest that the prenatal period is extremely important in determining the expression of nurturing behaviors in the subsequent generation, and that maternal PRL is one of the critical factors for expression. In conclusion, perinatally secreted maternal PRL affects the expression of nurturing behaviors not only in a mother, but also in her pups when they have reached adulthood.
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Nurturing families around the world : building a culture of peace
Nurturing Families around the World: Building a Culture of Peace aims to offer insight and tools to initiate the healing approach so that the family finds a creative rebirth. Families these days are overwhelmed by the speed, nature, diversity and complexity involved in the process of globalization, in which a great majority of the world are becoming emotionally restricted. Families at many a times are unable to provide for the physical and emotional needs of their members, especially children, and this too at times when the need is greatest to help them cope with the demands of change. With contributions from experienced professionals and renowned specialists, this book uncovers the many illusions that hide the reality of the complex and rapid changes taking place in the world and its potential to wreck havoc on the families. It offers material for the creation of a new paradigm and rebirth of the family and of society. This change in the structure of the family can initiate change within a larger community, a creative rebirth of the entire social community, leading to a new kind of connectedness and mutual caring.
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Nurturing care practices for children with developmental disabilities in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review protocol
The majority of children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) reside in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). NDDs are a public health concern in countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Nurturing care has been recommended as a pathway for addressing the developmental needs and unlocking the full potential of children, including those with NDDs. However, little information exists on the strategies to support children with NDDs using the Nurturing Care Framework in many countries in SSA. This review aims to synthesize information on nurturing care practices for children with NDDs in SSA. The review will also determine gaps in the provision of nurturing care for children with NDDs. Further, the review will highlight the drivers of care as well as the experiences of the caregivers.
The review will be implemented in six steps: specification of the research question, identification of relevant studies, selection of studies to be included, extracting, mapping, and charting the data, collating, summarizing, and reporting the results, and stakeholder consultation. We propose a database search followed by a manual search for the literature synthesis. We will search the following electronic databases: PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Open Grey and African Journals Online (AJOL). All studies published after May 2018 to May 2023 that include relevant terms will be identified and included. The research team will develop a data extraction form for use in capturing relevant information from each of the included studies. A patterning chart that will summarize and analyze the key findings of each article will be created.
We anticipate that the study will provide evidence on the existing nurturing care practices and unearth gaps in the provision of nurturing care for children with NDDs. Key determinants of care and the experiences of the parents/caregivers of children will also be identified. The study will provide key recommendations on interventions to improve the quality of care for children with NDDs. Through this study, awareness of the unmet nurturing care needs of these children will be increased. The evidence generated may assist policymakers and stakeholders in addressing the needs of children with NDDs.
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