Early Adolescents’ Social Goals in Peer Conflict Situations: A Mixed Methods Study

2022 ◽  
pp. 027243162110645
Author(s):  
Courtney B Dunn ◽  
Sarah K Pittman ◽  
Krista R Mehari ◽  
Denicia Titchner ◽  
Albert D Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Relationship Maintenance ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
Instrumental Control

Identification of goals is a key social-cognitive process that guides whether adolescents engage in aggressive or nonviolent behavior during social conflicts. This study investigated early adolescents’ goals in response to hypothetical social conflict situations involving close friends and peers. Participants ( n = 160; Mage = 12.7, 53% female) were 7th graders from two urban and one rural middle school. On average, participants identified 2.5 goals for each situation. Qualitative analysis using a grounded theory approach identified nine themes representing the goals generated by participants: instrumental-control, relationship maintenance, maintain image and reputation/self-defense, conflict avoidance, seek more information, revenge, tension reduction, moral, and stay out of trouble. Quantitative analysis indicated that female participants identified more goals than male participants, but there were few differences in their types of goals. There were few differences across school sites. The findings highlight the variety of social goals specific to the developmental period of early adolescence.

How Students’ Perceptions of the School Climate Influence Their Choice to Upstand, Bystand, or Join Perpetrators of Bullying

2014 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Diazgranados Ferráns ◽  
Robert Selman
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
School Climate ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Eighth Graders ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
School Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Peer Aggression ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

The authors of this article, Silvia Diazgranados Ferráns and Robert Selman, use an emergent framework to explore how the rules of the school culture at different perceived school climates affect early adolescents’ decisions to upstand, bystand, or join the perpetrators when they witness peer aggression and bullying. Through a grounded theory approach, they revisit interview data from twenty-three eighth graders in four middle schools, with the aim of building on previous research and refining their theoretical framework to guide future research on bullying. The authors identify four school-level indicators that are salient in students’ perceptions of their school climate—safety, order, care, and empowerment—and examine how these indicators combine to configure three types of perceived school climates—negligent, authoritarian, and cohesive. They explore how these perceived school climates influence adolescents’ choice of strategy when they witness bullying in school and document a set of student recommendations about what schools can do to prevent bullying.

The Analysis of Nurses’ Positive Deviance Behaviours as a Measure in Preventing the Transmission of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) at M. Djamil Hospital, Padang, West Sumatera

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Esthika Ariany Maisa ◽  
Yulastri Arif ◽  
Wawan Wahyudi
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Wound Care ◽  
Positive Deviance ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Nursing Managers ◽  
Theoretical Sampling ◽  
Develop Theory ◽  
Healthcare Associated ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Purpose: To explore the nurses’ positive deviance behaviors as an effort to provide solutions in preventing and controlling infections in the hospital. Method: This is a qualitative research using grounded theory approach. Thirteen nurses from Dr.M.Djamil hospital were selected based on theoretical sampling in order to develop theory as it appears. Nurses were interviewed from June to September 2014. Interviews were thematically analyzed using techniques of grounded theory to then generate a theory from themes formed. Findings: The modes of positive deviance behavior identified were practicing hand hygiene beyond the standards (bringing handsanitizer from home), applying nursing art in wound care practice, placing patients with MRSA infections at the corner side, giving a red mark on a MRSA patient’s bed for easy identification by nurses, changing clothes and shoes in hospital, reducing hooks on the wall, and cleaning the ward on scheduled days. Conclusion: The study shows that nurses have a number of positive deviance behaviors to prevent infection transmission in the wards. It is sugested that the hospital management and nursing managers adopt some of the uncommon solution highlighted by the nurses to solve the HAIs problems in the hospital.

Analysis of Entrepreneurship Education Model of Technology-Driven Agri-Food Industry Applying Line-by-line Coding Method of Grounded Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (8) ◽  
pp. 266-274
Author(s):  
Byung- MoonSeol ◽  
Young-Lag KIM
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Coding Method ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Background/Objectives: This paper investigated and analyzed the phenomena in implementing the curriculum and characteristics of an entrepreneurship education model existing technology-driven agri-food industry. Methods/Statistical analysis: The line-by-line coding method of grounded theory approach by Strauss & Corbin was applied for this study and the collected data was analyzed with the NVIVO 12 program from QSR which is a tool for analyzing quality comparative analysis for better efficiency in open coding.

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