Browsing by Author "Canetto, Silvia Sara, committee member"

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Nature's impact on tomorrow's youth: cognitive and non-cognitive factors affecting youth connection to nature and environmental stewardship
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Neubert, Salme M., author; Teel, Tara, advisor; Bright, Alan, committee member; Knight, David, committee member; Canetto, Silvia Sara, committee member
This dissertation investigates the developmental trajectory of nature connection and its implications for environmental stewardship. While previous research has examined these relationships, few studies have analyzed both the cognitive and non-cognitive dimensions of connection to nature among youth. This study explores the capacity to develop this connection, identifying cognitive and non-cognitive components and their association with environmental stewardship. The findings support existing literature linking higher levels of nature connection to increased engagement in environmental stewardship. Path analysis examined direct and indirect effects of connection to nature, revealing how cognitive and non-cognitive factors significantly contribute to environmental stewardship. These findings contribute to an understanding of the mechanisms underlying connection to nature. Addressing disparities in access to nature experiences among youth populations is crucial for promoting lifelong environmental stewardship and ensuring environmental justice. Overall, this dissertation advances knowledge on nature connection in childhood and its implications for environmental sustainability.
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Re-extracción de la piedra de locura: análisis de los dibujos de Alejandra Pizarnik
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012) Ruiz García, María A., author; Leal, Francisco, advisor; Pedrós-Gascón, Antonio Francisco, advisor; Canetto, Silvia Sara, committee member
The literary critiques on the work of Argentinean writer Alejandra Pizarnik have focused exclusively on her literature without restricting themselves to the texts published in her life --poetry in verse and prose--, but rather all of her writing: letters, diaries, literary critics, and posthumous texts. In general, the image that is commonly adjudicated to her is that of the poet who writes brief and obscure verses, whose fragility ends in suicide, which is seen as the ultimate act of her accursedness, since her work is mostly read within the literary tradition of the poètes maudits. The literary critiques of her work have recognized a certain influence of the fine arts in her writing --specifically when designing the spatial arrangement where the poem is created, due to the ekphrastic features of certain poems, and the manner of working with the poem as if it were a painting. However, her visual production has not received attention as an art object in itself. It has been unattended to due to the ossification of the tautological figure of the poet identical to her poetry (Pizarnik = poems). Different from this perspective, in this current work I present a first reading of Pizarnik's drawings, arguing that it is necessary to understand them within the continuum of Pizarnik's poetic work given that the drawings amplify and open the fixed image held of the poet.
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Stalled labor: homebirth parents, gender, and ritual in the US
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011) Biasiolli, April, author; Kwiatkowski, Lynn M., advisor; Snodgrass, Jeffrey G., committee member; Canetto, Silvia Sara, committee member
Pregnancy and birth are not purely biological, but fraught in every human culture with a great deal of meaning. Home birth, though unusual in the US, offers an opportunity to examine the cultural beliefs of those that choose it. Through a series of semi-structured ethnographic interviews with homebirth mothers, partners, and midwives, I find that these parents hope to transform the culture of birth to empower women, include men more fully, and give babies a gentler welcome into the world. This thesis draws on feminist and symbolic anthropological theories to examine midwife-attended pregnancy and birth at home as a rite of passage in which the parents both enact and are socialized into their new roles as parents. The mothers learn that a healthy birth is a commodity to be earned or purchased, that society has few obligations to the individual, and that the body gives birth. Fathers receive the related, though not identical, messages that the family is (or should be) self-sufficient, that they are responsible, and that birth care is a business. Both mothers and fathers move in and out of conventionally-gendered activities and roles as they negotiate pregnancy and birth. In the context of ritual, this has the possibility of subverting or reinforcing gender norms. The parents must grapple with this as they raise their new children, and find themselves torn between the desire to foster individuality and coping with the consequences of their children's non-conformity. They resolve this through denying their own role in socialization and attributing their children's gendered activities to individual choice. Though they challenge many ideas about gender as they attempt to change the culture of birth, I find that this labor is stalled: much work remains to be done to empower women and make men more central in birth.
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The impact of front-of-pack nutrition claims on urban Nepali consumers' food choice processes
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Ogle, Andrew D., author; Graham, Dan, advisor; Kaufman, Michelle, committee member; Canetto, Silvia Sara, committee member; Mohr, Gina, committee member
Background. Obesity is a growing health problem worldwide among children and adults, including in many low and middle income countries which are undergoing a nutrition transition. One such country is Nepal, with the highest prevalence of obesity occurring in urban regions and among people of higher socio-economic status (SES). Past research on nutrition transition suggests that an obesogenic food environment contributes to this problem. One aspect of food choice is the influence of marketing on food packaging, including front-of-package nutrition claims (FOP NCs). FOP NCs on food can be both beneficial and confusing for consumers. In one sense, FOP NCs can help consumers more easily identify healthful foods. However, heuristic processing may lead consumers to unduly attribute overall healthfulness to unhealthful food products bearing a FOP NC. Measuring the effects of FOP NCs is challenging because people are poor at judging the impact of environmental cues (e.g., product packaging) on their attitudes and behavior, and consumer factors specific to urban Nepalis may moderate the influence of FOP NCs. Objective. This study specifically addressed the following research questions: What effects do FOP NCs have on consumers’ purchase intentions and attitudes towards food products, specifically healthfulness, appeal, tastiness, quality of manufacturing, and naturalness of ingredients? How might consumer factors moderate these effects? How do Nepali consumers perceive the trustworthiness and influence of FOP NCs, and what do they report to be their top shopping priorities? Design. This study utilized a convergent parallel mixed-methods design. An experimental field survey was conducted in two phases. The first phase of this survey measured the impacts of FOP NCs on Nepali consumers’ purchase intentions and attitudes towards food products without overtly drawing their attention to the FOP NCs. The second phase measured participants’ receptivity by asking them to describe their attitudes towards one FOP NC, and their shopping priorities, broadly speaking. Participants/setting. Participants were 239 adult shoppers in the Nepali capital Kathmandu (Mage = 32.89; SD = 11.07). Fifty nine percent were women, 43% reported having one child or more age 12 or younger. Participants were recruited as they exited one of three locations of a high-income country-style grocery store (i.e., Bhat Bhateni). Main outcome measures. Participants responded to food product images by rating their purchase intention and seven product attitudes on a 7-point Likert scale. They were also asked to rate one FOP NC on trustworthiness and influence, and then were asked to explain their rating. Finally, they were asked to report their two most important shopping priorities. Results. Regression analyses showed that FOP NCs had inconsistent influence on product attitudes and purchase intention. Consumer factors did not moderate this relationship. Thematic analysis of open-ended questions found various reasons for trust and skepticism in FOP NCs. FOP NCs were largely described as useful, in spite of their lack of influence on decision-making processes in an externally valid test. Nearly 90% of reported shopping priorities did not appear to motivate the use of FOP NCs. Conclusions. FOP NC labels did not show a strong or consistent influence on urban Nepali consumers. Therefore, FOP NCs are not likely to be a strong contributor to the nutrition transition that has been occurring in Nepal during recent years. Other influences on dietary decision-making across the life-course should be investigated.
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Three essays on connections between personal life and economic outcomes
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018) Curley, Christina, author; Bernasek, Alexandra, advisor; Zahran, Sammy, committee member; Mushinski, David, committee member; Canetto, Silvia Sara, committee member
The theme of this collection is the intersection of individuals' personal lives and economic lives. Personal traits may be influenced by gender, life events, and socioeconomic class. Personal traits can affect productivity and therefore are important in determining what happens in the labor market. In other words, what happens at work and what happens at home are not entirely separate. The first essay explores how sexual orientation and sexual experiences are related to individual income. Previous literature indicates that gay, lesbian, and bisexual (LGB) individuals experience an income differential when compared with heterosexuals. Recent data indicate that self-identification as an LGB individual and/or same-sex sexual behavior are still correlated with a lower income, however, not all of the results are statistically significant. In addition, there is a statistically significant negative income differential of 32% for men who report having had a same sex partner at some point, but identify as straight/heterosexual. The second essay analyzes parental divorce and how this may affect children later in life. Previous literature indicates that a multitude of issues exist for children whose parents divorced. The impact of parental divorce on children's income later in life is tested. Results from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that negative income effects from parental divorce persist for young men, however, young women and older age groups do not experience negative impacts on income. The third essay investigates a relationship between student loan debt and probability of marriage. Using the Baccalaureate and Beyond Survey 2008-2012, and with gender differences in mind, the impact of student loan repayment burden on the probability of marriage occurring in the four years following graduation is tested. Results indicate that increased payment-to-income ratio on student loan debt is negatively related to the probability of getting married for women who indicate a delay in marriage due to education debt.