http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629610000184
This journal talks about how debt is linked with mental stress and depression. It might allow me to narrow down my topic because it focuses on the medical aspect of debt.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0309877032000161814
This journal links specific student debt with mental health. It is very interesting to see how there might be actual concrete proof of mental issues connected with debt.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025619611610574
This journal is similar to the previous one, but it also talks about other effects that financial strain might have on students. For example, isolation, suicide, and relationship issues.
I will work on finding more sources for my topics. All of the journals were found using Google Scholar.
This is a useful angle on what might cause "the vampire effect," but I don't think it speaks to the particular mechanism of it. You should begin your proposal by looking more carefully at exactly what Armstrong and Hamilton imply is causing this effect. From what I recall, it is caused by unconscious comparisons of oneself to a more affluent person, or it is a response to microaggressions of class bias, such as the exercise of entitlement by more affluent peers or passive-aggressive behaviors that suggest shunning or disassociation by more affluent peers. There is something in the dynamic relationship between a more affluent vampire and less affluent "victim" that seems to cause this effect. It would be interesting to find some sort of psychological theory that explains the mechanism.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it can be related to what is called "emotional vampirism"? Or maybe the dynamic is more like "social comparison" and loss of "self-esteem"? Those might be useful search terms.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting article along these lines might be:
ReplyDelete"Do Our Facebook Friends Make Us FeelWorse? A Study of Social Comparisonand Emotion" by Jiangmeng Liu, Cong Li, Nick Carcioppolo, & Michael North. Human Communication Research 42 (October 2016): 619 - 640.
I am sorry, I just read these comments and will start to form my thesis accordingly. I accidentally took a more different approach in my literary review but will try to steer more towards these suggestion instead.
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