{"id":36,"date":"2018-01-31T12:26:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2022-sbyarswa\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2022-05-08T23:19:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T03:19:48","slug":"log-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2022-sbyarswa\/data-collection-logs\/log-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress Notes: Week 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This week, I found a really interesting research article that inspired a lot of questions and conclusions in this investigation. The article, titled \u201cWhat Do We Know About the Health of First Generation College Students? A First Look at Compensatory Health Beliefs and Behavior\u201d and written by Kristel M. Gallagher, investigates the relationship between compensatory health beliefs (CHBs) and healthy behavior in first generation college students. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Compensatory health beliefs involve rationalizing an unhealthy behavior by emphasizing our healthy behavior. For example, saying \u201cI\u2019ll eat an extra slice of pizza and go on a run tomorrow morning\u201d constitutes a CHB. The author precludes this conversation by introducing the fact that first generation college students have a significant issue with retention rates, are more likely to make unhealthy decisions due to stressors, norms, and peer pressure, and they are less likely to utilize campus support resources (Gallagher 38). Additionally, Gallagher points out that first-generation students are more likely to have negative perceptions of their health, and they are more likely to drop out due to these perceptions (Gallagher 38). Then, returning the CHBs, Gallagher\u2019s research found that first-generation college students, in general, engaged in CHBs more frequently and engaged in less healthy eating habits. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This led Dani and I to wonder: could the same case be made for first generation students at Bowdoin? Bowdoin is widely considered to have a leading number of health and wellness resources on campus. With this in mind, Dani and I concluded that Bowdoin\u2019s wellness culture is more likely to discourage CHBs. What does this say about Bowdoin\u2019s wellness culture? Is that necessarily a good thing? And how does this relate to experiences shared by our interview respondents, many of whom expressed a sense of impermanence with the health and wellness practices they currently engage with at Bowdoin. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I found a really interesting research article that inspired a lot of questions and conclusions in this investigation. The article, titled \u201cWhat Do We Know About the Health of First Generation College Students? A First Look at Compensatory Health Beliefs and Behavior\u201d and written by Kristel M. Gallagher, investigates the relationship between compensatory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2022-sbyarswa\/data-collection-logs\/log-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Progress Notes: Week 12&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2022-sbyarswa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2022-sbyarswa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2022-sbyarswa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2022-sbyarswa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2022-sbyarswa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2022-sbyarswa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2022-sbyarswa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2022-sbyarswa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}