The Relationship Between the Seniors’ Appraisal of Cognitive-Training Games and Game-Related Stress Is Complex: A Mixed-Methods Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 586-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najmeh Khalili-Mahani ◽  
Bob de Schutter ◽  
Kim Sawchuk
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals How Effective Is Youth Volunteering as an Employment Strategy? A Mixed Methods Study of England

Sociology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-781
Author(s):  
Bryony Hoskins ◽  
Pauline Leonard ◽  
Rachel Wilde
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Support Policy ◽  
The Relationship

Volunteering is routinely advocated in British policy as a key mechanism for young people to gain employment, but with little evidence of its viability as a strategy. Indeed, the limited research in this area suggests the link is weak and that access to good quality volunteering is differentiated along class lines. This article draws on a mixed methods approach, using survey data from the Citizenship Education Longitudinal Survey and qualitative interviews, to analyse the relationship between youth volunteering and employment. It finds that volunteering is not unequivocally beneficial for employment, particularly if it does not offer career-related experience or is imposed rather than self-initiated. It can even have a negative effect on employment. Furthermore, social class mediates access to volunteering opportunities most likely to convert into employment. We conclude there is little evidence to support policy assumptions that, in the short term, volunteering has a positive relationship to paid employment.

The relationship between alliance ruptures and hope for change through counseling: A mixed methods study

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore T. Bartholomew ◽  
Brittany E. Gundel ◽  
Michael J. Scheel
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Alliance Ruptures ◽  
The Relationship

The Relationship of Religiosity and Sexuality in Non-heterosexual Mormon Women: A Mixed Methods Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debjani Chakravarty ◽  
Tim B. Heaton ◽  
William S. Bradshaw ◽  
Renee V. Galliher ◽  
John P. Dehlin
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Mormon Women ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Dexterity, Deliberateness, And Disposition: An Investigation of Instructional Strength for Early Literacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Philip Sirinides ◽  
Abigail Gray
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Teacher Dispositions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Three Components

This mixed-methods study examines the relationship between an emergent conceptualization of teachers’ instructional strength and their students’ progress in early literacy. The conceptualization includes three components: a teacher’s deliberateness, their instructional dexterity, and a set of teacher dispositions that catalyse and maximize these attributes. Based on the results of qualitative inquiry, the authors developed a measure of individual teachers’ instructional strength according to this conceptualization. Regression analysis reveals that all three components are significant predictors of students’ growth in early literacy. The study includes 318 teachers and 1,181 students from 227 schools across the country.

scholarly journals A mixed-methods study to understand the impact of practitioner and organizational factors on fidelity of a child maltreatment prevention intervention in community-based settings

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 263348952110508
Author(s):  
Leah Bartley ◽  
Diane DePanfilis ◽  
Charlotte L Bright
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Prevention Intervention ◽  
Child Maltreatment Prevention ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Qualitative Phase

It has been well-documented that the degree to which interventions are implemented with fidelity in typical service settings has varied. Frequently, interventions are developed and tested in highly controlled or early adopter settings. Less attention has been given to what implementation looks like in usual care, and which factors promote practitioners' ability to implement with fidelity. Individuals and organizations implementing interventions in the real world receive varying levels of external supports and may apply a new intervention unaided. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore factors that support implementation as intended in local community agencies. In the quantitative phase of this study, 32 case planners implementing Family Connections (FC), a child maltreatment preventive intervention, completed a survey about their perceptions of practitioner and organizational factors related to fidelity. The survey data were connected to case-level fidelity scores to understand the relationship between perceptions and fidelity. The qualitative phase of this study involved further exploration with nine case planner interviews and two separate focus groups with supervisors and agency leadership. The results of this study suggest that supervision is a key contributor to a practitioner's ability to implement an intervention in usual care. The quantitative and qualitative results suggest supervision, including supervisors’ perseverance, proactiveness, knowledge, availability, and skill reinforcement are important components of enhancing a practitioners' ability to learn and use FC. The quantitative results suggest that the level of education was positively associated with fidelity and perceptions of the intervention's limitations may be negatively related to implementation. Additional components that influence implementation for future research emerged from the qualitative phase related to system expectations and policies, individual practitioner attributes, and characteristics of the intervention. Plain Language Abstract This mixed-methods study sought to understand the impact of practitioner and organizational factors on fidelity of a child maltreatment prevention intervention in community-based settings. The study first asked case planners about their perceptions of practitioner and organizational factors related to fidelity through an online survey. This survey was connected to case-level fidelity scores to understand the relationship between perceptions and fidelity. The qualitative phase of this study involved further exploration with nine case planner interviews and two separate focus groups with supervisors and agency leadership. The results of this study suggest that supervision is a key contributor to a practitioner’s ability to implement a maltreatment prevention intervention. Both methods of the study suggest that various aspects of supervision, including supervisors’ perseverance, proactiveness, knowledge, availability, and skill reinforcement are important components of enhancing a practitioner's ability to learn and use the intervention. Additional components that influence the implementation for future research emerged from the qualitative phase related to system expectations and policies, individual practitioner attributes, and characteristics of the intervention.

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