Browsing by Author "Morhun, Janelle"

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    Perceptions of Social Media Fitspiration Among Young Women: A Situational Analysis
    (2023-01-03) Morhun, Janelle; Russell-Mayhew, Shelly; Lacerda- Vandenborn, Elisa; Brown, Barbara
    Fitspiration (i.e., fitness inspiration) is a social media trend consisting of content intended to inspire and motivate individuals to pursue a healthy lifestyle via diet and exercise. However, fitspiration’s focus on a healthy lifestyle often conceals its promotion of the fit ideal body (i.e., thin and toned). I used situational analysis to explore the complexities and competing discourse within fitspiration. Multiple types of data including a pilot study, individual interviews, fitspiration images, fitspiration image creator’s social media biographies, and personal experiences and memos were integrated and developed into analytic maps. These maps portrayed the nuances of fitspiration, showing it to be much more complex than simply “good” or “bad.” The main tension existing in the data occurred between three competing constructions of fitspiration: dominant fitspiration, body positive fitspiration, and weight-neutral approaches to health. Findings from the study have important implications for counselling psychologists’ education and practice, such as the need for a social justice lens and weight-neutral approach when working with clients.
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    “Teacher Burnout Is One of My Greatest Fears”: Interrupting a Narrative on Fire
    (Canadian Society for the Study of Education, 2022-07-06) Williams, Emily P.; Tingle, Elizabeth; Morhun, Janelle; Vos, Sally; Murray, Kerri; Gereluk, Dianne; Russell-Mayhew, Shelly
    Teacher burnout is often positioned as a common result of the complex demands of the teaching profession (García-Carmona et al., 2019). While there is no denying the demanding nature of teaching, in this article we present an alternative perspective on the widespread burnout discussion that distinguishes between burnout and the complexities of teacher attrition, and offer a more hopeful and strengths-based approach to the teaching profession. In a qualitative study that analyzed the anticipatory beliefs that pre-service teachers expressed in a reflective assignment for a course focused on Comprehensive School Health (CSH), we found evidence to suggest that the burnout narrative may threaten teacher candidates’ self-efficacy before entering the teaching profession. We call for a disruption to the overemphasis of burnout narratives in teacher education programs as they may undermine the profession.