Commentary: ‘An Ethnographic Study of Deinstitutionalized Adults: Their Community Settings and Daily Life Experiences’

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-146
Author(s):  
Reba L. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Community Settings

An Ethnographic Study of Deinstitutionalized Adults: Their Community Settings and Daily Life Experiences

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Kielhofner
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Analytic Model ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Field Notes

In the past two decades deinstitutionalization policy has relocated thousands of mentally ill and mentally retarded persons and reshaped a major sector of the health care system. This paper reports a 3-year ethnographic study of 69 deinstitutionalized retarded persons in which occupational therapy and social science participant observers followed subjects in their everyday environments. Field notes, interviews, and videotape data were collected. The aim of the study was to examine the daily lives, living settings, and social circumstances of retarded adults. This paper describes findings on the community residential system and its impact on the lives and adaptation of retarded persons. The discussion of the study methods details the historical development of the research process. The findings presented are an analytic model of the community residential system and a description of adaptive problems of retarded persons living in the community.

P.2.a.004 Study of the effect of personality in daily life experiences

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. S310
Author(s):  
E. Komulainen ◽  
K. Meskanen ◽  
P. Jylhä ◽  
J. Lahti ◽  
E. Isometsä ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Daily Life

scholarly journals The Everyday lives and coping Strategies of women in Delhi; Discerning roots of Psychological Empowerment: An Ethnographic Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Swati Sharma ◽  
Dr. Anita Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Positive Coping ◽  
Task Oriented

This is an ethnographic study based on inductive reasoning inspired by everyday life coping of slum women in Delhi. Evidences from field work were found to be congruent with the underlying assumptions of Humanistic and analytical psychology, perspectives which ascertain positive human values and life orientation such as growth, and fulfillment, making it difficult to completely neglect strategies for adaptability, positive coping, and adjustment, which are having a positive influence in everyday lives of slum women in their day-day life. The focus of this study is not to explore the daily life concerns, but to highlight how these concerns are addressed by slum women, with regard to their coping strategies.  The objective of this study was to bring into light the phenomenon of positive adaptability towards daily life concerns, in context with slum women by exploring three coping strategies given by Endler and Parker. Task-oriented strategy, Emotion-oriented strategy, and, Avoidance-oriented strategy three categories which were used to categorize the responses towards daily life stressors.  Finally this study attempts to fill in the prevailing literature gap in the context of the conceptualization of psychological empowerment for slum women based on the findings of this study and trace the roots of psychological empowerment using the perspectives of psychology. This study illustrates analysis of ethnographic records of 50 informants from various slums in Delhi.

Life-Long Collections

2018 ◽  
pp. 1153-1176
Author(s):  
Niamh Caprani ◽  
Paulina Piasek ◽  
Cathal Gurrin ◽  
Noel E. O'Connor ◽  
Kate Irving ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Core ◽  
Wearable Cameras

In this paper the authors investigate the motivations for life-long collections and how these motivations can inform the design of future lifelog systems. Lifelogging is the practice of automatically capturing data from daily life experiences with mobile devices, such as smartphones and wearable cameras. Lifelog archives can benefit both older and younger people; therefore lifelog systems should be designed for people of all ages. The authors believe that people would be more likely to adopt lifelog practices that support their current motivations for collecting items. To identify these motivations, ten older and ten younger participants were interviewed. It was found that motivations for and against life-long collections evolve as people age and enter different stages, and that family is at the core of life-long collections. These findings will be used to guide the design of an intergenerational lifelog browser.

Engaging use of social media as a research tool to capture the daily life experiences of young people with chronic pain

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Line Caes ◽  
Abigail Jones ◽  
Abbie Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Young People ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Use Of Social Media

EBN engages readers through a range of online social media activities to debate issues important to nurses and nursing. EBN Opinion papers highlight and expand on these debates.

scholarly journals Health as Experience: Exploring Health in Daily Life Drawing From the Work of Aaron Antonovsky and John Dewey

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1004-1018
Author(s):  
Ninitha Maivorsdotter ◽  
Joacim Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Good Living ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Aaron Antonovsky

Research has pursued salutogenic and narrative approaches to deal with questions about how everyday settings are constitutive for different health practices. Healthy behavior is not a distinguishable action, but a chain of activities, often embedded in other social practices. In this article, we have endeavored to describe such a chain of activities guided by the salutogenic claim of exploring the good living argued by McCuaig and Quennerstedt. We use biographical material written by Karl Ove Knausgaard who has created a life story entitled My Struggle. The novel is selected upon an approach influenced by Brinkmann who stresses that literature can be seen as a qualitative social inquiry in which the novelist is an expert in transforming personal life experiences into common human expressions of life. The study illustrates how research with a broader notion of health can convey experiences of health, thereby complementing (and sometimes challenging) public health evidence.

Daily life experiences of Brazilian university students in the knowledge society

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamilton Viana Chaves ◽  
Letícia Ferreira de Melo Maia ◽  
Ana Lídia de Araújo Bezerra ◽  
Jefferson Castro de Oliveira ◽  
Thiago Colares Patriota ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Knowledge Society

Social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities: the impact of place of residence

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy McConkey ◽  
Marlene Sinclair ◽  
Dympna Walsh-Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
The Impact

AbstractObjectives: People with intellectual disabilities are increasingly living in more domestic style accommodation, either in housing provided within a specialised campus setting or in ordinary houses in community settings. The main objective of the study was to determine if the extent of residents' involvement with their families and with the local community varied when they resided in campus settings (n = 55) or community housing (n = 51) and to investigate the main predictors of this involvement.Method: With the resident's permission, their key-workers – mainly nurses – completed standard questionnaires that covered resident characteristics, contact with families and a range of life experiences.Results: Although the type of accommodation did have a significant effect on residents' social inclusion in families and communities, the best predictor of this was the individual's level of dependency in personal self-care. Those who were more dependent tended to be more excluded.Conclusions: Staff working with more dependent residents need to proactively promote their social inclusion although this could be harder to achieve for those living in campus style settings.

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