Semester Interrupted: First-Year Students' Perspectives on the Impact of Hurricane Harvey at the University of Houston-Downtown

Autor/in	Allaire, Franklin S.
Titel	Semester Interrupted: First-Year Students' Perspectives on the Impact of Hurricane Harvey at the University of Houston-Downtown
Quelle	In: Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 15 (2020) 2, S.83-98 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1935-3308
Schlagwörter	College Freshmen; Student Attitudes; Weather; Natural Disasters; Student Experience; Anxiety; Altruism; Psychological Patterns; Academic Achievement; Texas (Houston) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienanfänger; Schülerverhalten; Wetter; Natural disaster; Naturkatastrophe; Studienerfahrung; Angst; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Schulleistung
Abstract	On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey's landfall brought the first-year students' first semester at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) to a standstill after only a week of classes. This natural disaster provided an opportunity to explore Hurricane Harvey's impacts phenomenologically with the 11 undergraduate participants. The present phenomenological study used narrative analysis in order to explore the participants' Harvey-related experiences and themes that emerged through interviews about Hurricane Harvey. Participants experienced both the corrosive and therapeutic impacts of Hurricane Harvey. Corrosive impacts were stress and anxiety above and beyond normal academic stressors and "survivor's guilt." Conversely, the therapeutic impacts included increased altruism, appreciation of returning to normalcy, and improved academic support immediately before, during, and after the disaster. The present study's findings add to the body of higher education research on the impacts of natural disasters, guide future discussions regarding emergency preparedness and disaster management, and support departmental, college, and institutional efforts to support students during crises. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01