Confucian Heritage Culture, parental differential treatment of siblings and music learning: A hermeneutic analysis of a musical family

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabella S. K. Fung
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Differential Treatment ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Music Learning ◽  
Parental Differential Treatment ◽  
Role Modelling ◽  
Heritage Culture ◽  
Confucian Heritage Culture

This phenomenological study focuses on the effect of parenting rooted in Confucian Heritage Culture (CHC) on music learning of four American-born Chinese siblings from the same family. It investigates parental differential treatment (PDT) and sibling interactions on the musical development of the participants raised by musician parents. Participants’ music practice habits and their learning and performing opportunities can further account for their music identity formation. Hermeneutic inquiries explore how individuals make sense of their experiences. Data consisted of six semi-structured interviews conducted among this family and their email correspondences, and was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Four overarching themes emerged from the family narratives: parenting rooted in CHC-inspired music learning in this family; parental musicianship and continuous support, combined with kin role modelling and siblings’ sound practice habit positively facilitated their successful music learning; optimal learning and performing opportunities were highly beneficial in the siblings’ music learning process; and sibling relationships affected by PDT did not have long-term aversive effects on their learning or wellbeing. The findings show that PDT occurs among CHC families and children need to have a safe environment to thrive. Scholars and health practitioners should acquire intercultural knowledge to effectively work with families of diverse cultures.

Music enables the holistic development and discovery of self: A phenomenological study of two Christian musicians

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabella S. K. Fung
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Holistic Development ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Self Discovery

Music draws on body, space, time and relationships to offer a sacred experience. Musicking makes personal, social, emotional and spiritual connections with people. Cultural identity is formed through the arts, and the spirituality in music is a medium through which people explore their identities. This study examines how music facilitates the holistic development of two Melbourne-born Chinese-Australian Christian musicians. The Confucian Evolving Self Model, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs, and music education aims offer conceptualising scaffolds to illuminate their self-discovery. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to report on multiple semi-structured interviews undertaken over three years. This study considered the interaction of various value systems – the fusion of Confucianism, Christian and psychological cultures in the process of musical development and identity formation. It fills a research gap and complements existing approaches to understanding the social contexts influencing the acquisition of musical skills and musicians’ occupational choices. The permissive parenting that both participants experienced might account for them being able to follow a career in music without familial resistance. The current findings can advocate for music education because the spiritual aspects of musical experiences were perceived as a mirror in fostering the holistic development of both participants.

scholarly journals Understanding the childbirth experiences of childhood sexual abuse survivors: a phenomenological study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Mathewson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Abuse Survivors ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Childbearing Women ◽  
Childbirth Experiences

This study describes the childbirth experiences of survivors of childhood sexual abuse using an interpretative phenomenological approach. Data collection involved in-depth, semi-structured interviews of four women who gave birth to a baby within the last five years. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, three superordinate themes emerged: control, anxiety, and detachment. This contributes to the current body of research by extending knowledge on what it means to experience childbirth for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, told by the woman herself. These findings are especially important in understanding what is required in providing safe, sensitive care for all childbearing women, and has important implications for practice, education, and further research.

scholarly journals Exploring Relational Ethics and Care: A Longitudinal Study of a Hong Kong Cellist's Marriage Disintegration and Identity Change

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabella Fung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Marital Conflict ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Relational Ethics ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Music Learning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Choice Making

I am a survivor of divorce. When I visited Hong Kong, a mutual friend introduced me to a cellist going through a divorce as a participant for my research which investigates music learning and identity of Chinese musicians. My research took a different path because I decided to explore how she constructed meaning through divorce, leading to her identity change. I referred her to counselling and supported her through regular messaging. Research is more than just data collection; the wounded-healer standing by the wounded is therapeutic for both of us. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), this study reports our conversations, including two face-to-face semi-structured interviews and messaging over eighteen months. Four themes emerged about the cellist’s understanding of her marital conflict: an urge for financial security and materialistic pursuit; faith abandonment; prioritizing children’s education and parenthood; and diverging lives. This longitudinal study explored relational ethics, researcher care and research as emancipation. It acknowledged the freedom and choice-making responsibility of the researcher who extended the project boundary to improve the wellbeing of the participant. This is the essence of qualitative research, with unanticipated life-changing consequences that transform the researcher, the participant, and global readers who share a similar experience.

scholarly journals The experience and perceived impact of group singing for men living with cancer: A phenomenological study

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 874-889
Author(s):  
Katey Warran ◽  
Daisy Fancourt ◽  
Rosie Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
The Face ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
Living With Cancer ◽  
Cancer Experience

The aim of this study was to explore the experience and perceived impact of group singing for men with cancer. Through the lens of phenomenology, semi-structured interviews were carried out with five patients with prostate cancer, focusing on their experience of cancer, singing, and the perceived impact of the choir. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Four superordinate themes emerged from the data: (a) meeting existential changes; (b) dynamic connection to others; (c) a holistic experience; (d) a positive experience. The experience of singing was viewed by participants as: something positive; a social experience; an ineffable experience; an activity that engages the whole person. The perceived impact of singing included: providing support in the face of the existential uncertainty brought about by having cancer; a dynamic connection to others; fulfilment; enhanced wellbeing; finding some form of benefit from the cancer experience. These results indicate that group singing has potential as an appropriate intervention for men living with cancer. This study, though small-scale, sheds some light on how to deliver holistic healthcare and how to optimise current choirs in health settings.

scholarly journals More Than Meets the Eye: How Black and Minority Ethnic Care-Leavers Construct and Make Sense of Their Identity

Adolescents ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
Isabelle Lensvelt ◽  
Alexander Hassett ◽  
Alicia Colbridge
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Looked After Children ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Care Leaver ◽  
Development Discourses ◽  
Minority Ethnic

Looked-after children are exposed to significant developmental trauma which may impact their identity development. Discourses of vulnerability and maladaptation often surround this group, while care-leavers often self-identify as survivors. The role of culture in identity formation is also well documented, and cultural socialisation is linked to psychological adjustment and wellbeing. Despite this, little research has explored identity development in black and minority ethnic (BAME) care-leavers. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis is used to analyse eight semi-structured interviews with BAME care-leavers about their experience of identity development. Three superordinate themes were developed: My journey—how I became me; Identity as a process—the processes that support identity development; and who am I—how I see myself now. Participants’ identity development was adaptive in the context of surviving significant disruption and trauma. Findings are discussed with reference to previous research and limitations are considered. Clinical implications include the need to address additional barriers to positive self-identity faced by BAME care leavers, the importance of acknowledging care-leaver identity as adaptive and embodying a trauma-informed approach to working with this group. Further research into how care-leavers experience their cultural identity is needed.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Medical Resident’s Journey through Wonderland of Clinical Practice: From transitional shock to role adaptation to independent practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marium Sohail ◽  
Rahila Yasmeen
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Independent Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Electron Model ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological

Objectives: To explore experiences of medical residents about stages and nature of transitional journey from induction into residency program to achievement of consultant title. Methods: Qualitative phenomenological study was conducted at Sir Gangaram hospital and Fatima Memorial Hospital, Lahore for six months from Feb 2019-July 2019 after IRB/ERC approval from Islamic International Medical College (Ref# Riphah/IIMC/ERC/19/0320). Using purposive criterion sampling, 16 semi-structured interviews in four departments, four strata of junior residents, senior residents, newly-qualified consultants, and supervising consultants with four participants each were conducted till theoretical saturation of data was achieved. After informed consent, audio recorded data was transcribed verbatim & analyzed through Atlas.ti 7 using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. After Bracketing and horizontalization, data was coded line by line. Codes (324) were merged to categories (19) for structural and textural description. Composite description of phenomenon was done by abstraction of themes (eight for stages and two for nature of journey). Results: Eight themes for stages as merriment, anguish, melancholy, acceptance and efforts, intensive learning, burnishing to shine, identity formation and intra-stage oscillations were identified. Two themes for journey’s nature were exponential learning & oscillating journey. Conclusion: The transitional journey is a multi-stage complex, oscillating journey. An oscillating electron model is presented upon the findings of this study to explain resident transition doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.4.3853 How to cite this:Sohail M, Yasmeen R. Conceptualizing Medical Resident’s Journey through Wonderland of Clinical Practice: From transitional shock to role adaptation to independent practice. Pak J Med Sci. 2021;37(4):---------.  doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.4.3853 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

scholarly journals Understanding the childbirth experiences of childhood sexual abuse survivors: a phenomenological study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Mathewson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Abuse Survivors ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Childbearing Women ◽  
Childbirth Experiences

This study describes the childbirth experiences of survivors of childhood sexual abuse using an interpretative phenomenological approach. Data collection involved in-depth, semi-structured interviews of four women who gave birth to a baby within the last five years. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, three superordinate themes emerged: control, anxiety, and detachment. This contributes to the current body of research by extending knowledge on what it means to experience childbirth for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, told by the woman herself. These findings are especially important in understanding what is required in providing safe, sensitive care for all childbearing women, and has important implications for practice, education, and further research.

Phenomenological study about enhancing university student's psychosocial wellbeing through YouTube videos

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ko Wai Chan
Keyword(s):  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Differential Susceptibility ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Altruistic Behavior ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Psychosocial Wellbeing

The present qualitative study aimed to explore how the attitudes, experiences, and feelings of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos could be used to enhance psychosocial wellbeing similar to mindfulness-based treatment programs. ASMR is an atypical and multisensory phenomenon in which a tingling sensation is often elicited following specific audio-visual stimulations. Although ASMR experiences have been announced to enhance wellbeing and phenomenologically superimposed with mindfulness, there is a lack of research exploring how ASMR experiences relate to wellbeing. In this study, the theoretical underpinnings of the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model (DSMM) by Patti M. Valkenburg and Jochen Peter (2013) are merged with Positive psychology's wellbeing theory (PERMA) by Seligman (2011) for the first time with the objective to explore and link the distinguishing characteristics of ASMR video with wellbeing outcomes.The study entailed two in-depth semi-structured interviews, which were conducted with three university students (one female and two males) in Finland. Interpretative phenomenological analysis with coding schemes was employed and guided by DSMM and Seligman's five domains of well-being. Three main themes and fourteen subthemes emerged from the analyses of the interview transcripts corresponding to the research question. The main themes include ASMR intentional use, ASMR media contents, and ASMR multisensory integration. The subthemes encompass prior ASMR-like experiences, social pressure from family members and curiosity, different types of sound, voices, and movement; nostalgic thoughts, pro-change bias, and positive responses. Exploration of interviewees' narratives further brought to light issues concerning ASMR's emotional effects on wellbeing. Analyses reveal different subthemes clustered into five main themes: Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships (Connectedness), Meaning and Making a Connection, and Accomplishment.The findings showed how ASMR videos enhance wellbeing through mindfulness-like experiences. These research findings are significant due to the ASMR videos' potential to increase wellbeing and happiness. Furthermore, their influence can extend to elevating the ability to concentrate on tasks at hand, improving the quality of sleep by stopping rumination, increasing self-confidence, and motivating altruistic behavior. The beneficial potential of ASMR videos to promote psychosocial wellbeing is remarkable

scholarly journals An interpretative phenomenological study of midwives supporting home birth for women with complex needs

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 625-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Marie Madeley ◽  
Veronika Williams ◽  
Abigail McNiven
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Home Birth ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Current Guidelines

Background As the landscape of women presenting for maternity care changes, so do the challenges associated with providing quality, informed and compassionate care, particularly for women with complex needs. Aim To explore the lived experience of midwives in facilitating care for women with complex needs who choose to birth at home. Method A qualitative design is employed, using an interpretative phenomenological analysis informed by hermeneutic principles. Purposive sampling is used to recruit midwives through social media and JiscMail. Data are collected via semi-structured interviews. Findings Two interpretative themes arose. A ‘radical midwife’ embraces the phrase ‘radical’ by positioning midwives between traditional beliefs and practices, physiological processes, midwife knowledge and skill set by applying current evidence and professional context. A ‘conflicted midwife’ arises out of this dichotomy and exposes the realities of striving for radicality while the negotiating ‘the system’. Conclusions It is no longer acceptable to assume that home birth for women with complex needs is exceptional. This must be the catalyst to move towards a constructive discourse with midwives, women and the wider team to address and expand the evidence base and pathways to support those who are already facilitating this care and those who will inevitably continue to provide care ‘outside of current guidelines’.

Dementia families: Relinquishing home care to aged care services: Guilt, traumatic loss and growth

Dementia ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 147130122097078
Author(s):  
Bruce D Walmsley ◽  
Lynne McCormack
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Care Home ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Impact

Background and Objectives Few studies explore both negative and positive perspectives of family members who relinquish home care of a family member with dementia for systemic aged care. Research Design and Methods This phenomenological study sought the ‘lived’ experience of relinquishing the role of home carer for a family member with mild to severe dementia to others within care home settings, by seeking to understand the impact of aged care on family members’ psychological well-being. Using semi-structured interviews, positive and negative subjective interpretations from 17 families (27 individuals) provided data for analysis, following the protocols of interpretative phenomenological analysis. Results One superordinate theme, mistrust/integrity, overarched oscillation between mistrust of the aged care system and a struggle for personal integrity in caring for these participants. Two sub-themes emerged: intrinsic trauma and extrinsic trauma. Intrinsic trauma explained feelings of helplessness and guilt, and internally directed responses that triggered a retreat into submission ultimately reducing the participant’s role in advocacy. Extrinsic trauma represented externally directed responses such as anger and frustration, where family members became more engaged and watchful and recognised a need for vigilance and advocacy. Paradoxically oscillating between these personal struggles, participants exhibited growth, a third theme that defined assertive/advocacy utilised to nurture hope, gratitude, courage and change. Discussion and Implications Family members experienced complex distress as they relinquished home care to others within systemic aged care for a member with dementia. By developing adaptive responses as appropriate, for example, advocating for their family member or accepting compliance with treatment, collaborative care between family and staff created better outcomes for the family member with dementia.

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