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Cover Art: Dragon stained glass by Phillip Fitzsimmons, pattern from Steven Voss, Etsy GoldFox Studios www.etsy.com/shop/GoldFoxArtistry © 2025. First published on the cover of Mythprint 412

OMS 4 Early List of Papers

The June 10th list for OMS 4, compiled by Tim Lenz

10. Burnout and Quiet Quitting

This research examines the effects of quiet quitting and burnout on students\u27 ability to accomplish their academic goals. Students frequently deal with many pressures that might lead to withdrawal or exhaustion, as educational demands increase over time, which are increasingly being articulated as the ideas of quiet quitting (finite participation without absolute withdrawal) and burnout (Palad, 2023). Research has shown student distress is considered a public health issue because of the high levels of depression, anxiety and risky behaviors due to the daily workloads and hassles which lead to academic burnout (Shankland et al., 2018). The present study aims to better understand students’ opinions of these elements and their impact on academic motivation and overall attitudes about their educational experience. Methods General Psychology students (n=81) completed the survey. Due to integrity checks, a sample of 76 was used in analyses. From this, 2.6% identified as American Indian, 2.6% Asian, 13.2% African American, 54% White, and 16.8% reported multiple ethnicities. Also, 31.6% reported being male, 67.1% female, and 1.3% transgender. Furthermore, 36.8% were first-generation college students. Moreover, 50% marked freshman status, 31.6% sophomore, 11.8% junior, and 6.6% concurrent. Over 90%were enrolled full time in school and 75.5% reported employment less than 20 hours a week. Materials Scales: Using Qualtrics, multiple scales were used, including: An adapted version of the Quiet Quitting Scale using a scale from 1-5 (Galanis, et al., 2023).An adapted version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory using a scale from 1-7 (Maslach & Jackson, 1981). Results: There is evidence to suggest there is not a significant relationship between hours worked at a job (collected in 10 hour blocks) and Burnout (r = .12, p = .38) and Quiet Quitting (r = -.06, p=.65). Further, the number of enrolled credits does not significantly correlate with these variables either. As expected, evidence does show significant relationships between burnout and quiet quitting, including their subscales. When exploring potential differences related to employment status, hours worked, gender, ethnicity, and first generation, no significant group differences were found related to burnout scales or quiet quitting measures. The exception to this was a significant difference found with the Quiet Quit Detachment subscale mean scores between those who indicated they were White (M=2.54, SD=0.61) and those who indicated they were not (M=2.85, SD=.69; F(1, 62) = [4.521], p=.037). Conclusion Our findings suggest that the number of hours worked is not significant with overall student burnout and reported quiet-quit behaviors. This challenges the assumption of higher hours worked directly contributing to these issues. While the analyses indicate there is not a significant connection, some limitations should be considered. The sample is mainly freshman and sophomore status, which may not fully represent a full range of experiences. Another potential limitation would be job types, such that we assessed for current employment, whether the job was on or off campus, and hours worked, but we did not inquire regarding stress level or demands of the job. If students are working low-stress on-campus jobs, they may have different experiences, then students who work high-stress high-demand jobs. Also, distinctions might be present for various academic majors. It further appears that our sample, at large, is not reporting the experience of burnout or quiet quitting and even reporting some level of personal achievement.https://dc.swosu.edu/rf_2025/1011/thumbnail.jp

The Book That Wouldn\u27t Burn, by Mark Lawrence. Reviewed by Nancy Martsch

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups

“Oh, are you gay?”: An exploration of LGBTQ+ students’ lived experiences with microaggressions and finding safety on a university campus

Studies demonstrate that LGBTQ+ college students experience explicit and covert discrimination with research documenting various microaggressions reported by university students whose gender and/or sex identities are minoritized. Building off existing models of LGBTQ microaggressions, the current study adds to this literature by utilizing focus groups to explore campus safety perceptions among a sample of U.S. undergraduate students who identify as LGBTQ+. Findings highlight the diverse microaggressions experienced by students at the interpersonal and environmental level. Moreover, the results displayed the mechanisms students employed to avoid or disengage from situations where microaggressions may be encountered, as well as underscored ways in which students may combat or engage with persons or climates perceived to be hostile to members of the LGBTQ+ community. Implications for research, policy, and practice are presented

Cruising Faërie: Further Notes on Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature

In Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature (2022), I argue that fantasy affords sexually marginalized people the ability to re-vision Christian theology in queer ways, thanks to its fixation on strange bodies, its longing for other worlds, and the ways in which both of these may reflect back on theological narratives of incarnation and salvation. Yet this project raises further questions that remain unresolved: namely, how might the framework of Christian theology constrain, as well as illuminate, queer imaginaries? If fantasy allows us to envision livable lives for ourselves as unruly bodies, just what forms of relating may those lives entail? Fantasy may, as Jes Battis (2007) has argued, serve as a magical conduit for channeling melancholic desires into action in our world, but what drives the desire for religious belonging? What other desires – sexual, national, racial – might be bound up with it, and what sort of spell are we casting from it? In this talk, I build on José Esteban Muñoz’s (2009) notion of ‘cruising utopia’ to reaffirm that, rather than merely representing or validating existing LGBTQ+ identities, fantasy’s worldmaking impulse can help us map the conditions for queer ways of life yet to be realized. Yet, following precedents set by George MacDonald and J.R.R. Tolkien, I also deviate from Muñoz’s utopian vision to posit fantasy as an ambivalent third space where queer desires can be both celebrated and interrogated. In this analysis, both fantasy and queerness are profoundly formed by dominant, primary-world cultures even as they attempt to look beyond them. With reference to fantasy works by Chaz Brenchley and Laurie J. Marks, I suggest that fantasy can map relations between religious devotion, queer desire, and sexually dissident lives that complicate the liberatory frame presented in Queering Faith while continuing to affirm the act of imagining otherwise as the beginning – though crucially far from the end – of queer resistance to a hostile world