Elizabethtown College

About: Elizabethtown College is a education organization based out in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Social work & Spacetime. The organization has 329 authors who have published 636 publications receiving 10083 citations.

Exploring Women's Expectations of Recovery From Intimate Partner Violence: A Phenomenological Study

Abstract: Occupational therapy literature related to intimate partner violence primarily focuses on clients' pragmatic concerns. The purpose of this study was to explore women's recovery needs for the first six months after leaving the abusive relationship. Specifically, the focus explored how women experiencing intimate partner violence anticipate their recovery process to progress and explored their perceptions regarding the obstructions and challenges that influence that process. As part of an ongoing, multiyear study, in-depth interviews based on Kawa Model river drawings were conducted at a domestic violence center with eight women. Multiple themes were identified highlighting pragmatic and personal objectives.

Link homotopy invariant quandles

Abstract: We consider several approaches to defining a link homotopy version of the fundamental quandle Q(L) of a link L in S3. We first define the reduced fundamental quandle RQ(L) as a quotient of Q(L). We show that RQ(L) is a link homotopy invariant that carries at least as much information as the meridian-preserving isomorphism class of Milnor's reduced group RG(L). We then show that operator reduction, a plausible alternative approach to defining RQ(L), fails to yield a link homotopy invariant. Finally, we give a geometric characterization of RQ(L), and offer a caveat regarding a seemingly simpler approach.

Three-Dimensional Benchmark Problems for Design by Advanced Analysis: Impact of Twist

Abstract: Design codes for steel structures continue to provide additional opportunities for the use of more advanced methods of nonlinear analysis. As the complexity of the analysis increases, it be...

Why College Students Drift Left: The Stability of Political Identity and Relative Malleability of Issue Positions among College Students

Abstract: In considering the liberalizing effect of college on students’ political values, we argue that political identities—in the form of self-identified ideology or partisanship—are components of social identity and are resistant to change. Using data from the Higher Education Research Institute’s student surveys, we show that what movement in identity does occur is mostly a regression to the mean effect. On several issue positions, however, students move in a more uniform leftward direction. We find that liberal drift on issues is most common among students majoring in the arts and humanities. Self-reported ideology does drift left at liberal arts colleges, but this is explained by a peer effect: students at liberal arts colleges drift more to the left because they have more liberal peers. The results have implications for future research on college student political development, suggesting that attitudinal change can be more easily identified by examining shifts in policy preferences rather than changes in political identity.