Exploring an autoethnographic stance with poetry in children’s nursing

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 465-476
Author(s):  
Marie Clancy

An autoethnographic stance has been taken in this paper as this methodology can be particularly useful when exploring complex feelings and unique lived experiences. The purpose of this paper is to use this stance to holistically explore a nursing journey writing poetry during times of personal and professional difficulty, with cathartic benefits. It is hoped this will provide an example and tool for other nurses to expand their learning, insight and understanding. Poems will be used as data in this paper, and data analysis and a reflective narrative and literature exploration described to help analyse their meaning. This may stimulate an empathetic understanding in the reader and give an in-depth insight into the challenging role of the children’s nurse. Poetry will be used to explore some of the typical features of autoethnography, namely self-portrayal, context, and culture with self-reflection, and by providing poetry that encourages reader exploration. Poetry has the potential to benefit nursing, including enhanced self-awareness and coping mechanisms as well as the development of empathy to support patients, families and colleagues. The use of personal poetry with reflective narrative provides an illuminating expansion of the experiences described, which may encourage readers to explore their own emotions and reflect in new and different ways.

2021 ◽  
pp. 003329412097663
Author(s):  
Cristina Trentini ◽  
Renata Tambelli ◽  
Silvia Maiorani ◽  
Marco Lauriola

Empathy refers to the capacity to experience emotions similar to those observed or imagined in another person, with the full knowledge that the other person is the source of these emotions. Awareness of one's own emotional states is a prerequisite for self-other differentiation to develop. This study investigated gender differences in empathy during adolescence and tested whether emotional self-awareness explained these differences. Two-hundred-eleven adolescents (108 girls and 103 boys) between 14 and 19 years completed the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) to assess empathy and emotional self-awareness, respectively. Overall, girls obtained higher scores than boys on IRI subscales like emotional concern, personal distress, and fantasy. Regarding emotional self-awareness, we found gender differences in TAS-20 scores, with girls reporting greater difficulty identifying feelings and less externally oriented thinking than boys. Difficulty identifying feelings explained the greatest personal distress experienced by girls. Lower externally oriented thinking accounted for girls’ greater emotional concern and fantasy. These findings offer an insight into the role of emotional self-awareness–which is essential for self-other differentiation–as an account for gender differences in empathic abilities during adolescence. In girls, difficulty identifying feelings can impair the ability to differentiate between ones’ and others’ emotions, leading them to experience self-focused and aversive responses when confronted with others’ suffering. Conversely, in boys, externally oriented thinking can mitigate personal distress when faced with others’ discomfort.


2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam James Miles ◽  
Rich Neil ◽  
Jamie Barker

The purpose of this study was to explore the stress, emotion, and coping (SEC) experiences of elite cricketers leading up to and on the day of their first competitive fixture of the season. Four elite male cricketers (M = 21.25, SD = 1.5) completed Stress and Emotion Diaries (SEDs) for the 7-day period leading up to and on the day of their first competitive fixture of the season. We then interviewed the cricketers to explore the content of the SEDs in more detail. We used semistructured interviews to glean insight into the stressors, cognitions, emotions, coping strategies, and behaviors. Inductive and deductive content data analysis provided a holistic and temporal exploration of the SEC process underpinned by the cognitive-motivational-relational theory of emotions (Lazarus, 1999). The results highlighted the ongoing and continuous nature of the SEC process while illustrating the coping strategies the cricketers used leading up to and on the day of competition.


Author(s):  
Pelin Kesebir ◽  
Tom Pyszczynski

The capacity for self-reflection, which plays an important role in human self-regulation, also leads people to become aware of the limitations of their existence. Awareness of the conflict between one's desires (e.g., to live) and the limitations of existence (e.g., the inevitability of death) creates the potential for existential anxiety. In this chapter, we review how this anxiety affects human motivation and behavior in a variety of life domains. Terror management theory and research suggest that transcending death and protecting oneself against existential anxiety are potent needs. This protection is provided by an anxiety-buffering system, which imbues people with a sense of meaning and value that function to shield them against these concerns. We review evidence of how the buffering system protects against existential anxiety in four dimensions of existence: the physical, personal, social, and spiritual domains. Because self-awareness is a prerequisite for existential anxiety, escaping self-awareness can also be an effective way to obviate the problem of existence. After elaborating on how existential anxiety can motivate escape from self-awareness, we conclude the chapter with a discussion of remaining issues and directions for future research and theory development.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Nengah Duija

ABSTRAKPengkajian sastra klasik sudah saatnya diperlukan sebagai sebuah pendekatan budaya dalam mengantisipasi tergerusnya tata nilai generasi muda sekarang ini. Asumsi mendasar yang patut menjadi urgensi pengkajian itu adalah, bahwa sastra Bali Klasik sesungguhnya sebuah cermin diri dari masyarakat Bali itu sendiri (masuluh ring sastra=bercermin pada sastra/pengetahuan). Oleh karena itu, tentu sastra mengandung tata nilai yang adhi luhung (nora na mitra mangluwihana waraguna maruhur=tidak ada sahabat yang melebihi keagungan ilmu pengetahuan yang tinggi). Penelitian ini bermaksud untuk mengungkapkan nilai-nilai didaktik yang terkandung dalam kesusastraan Bali klasik dan relevansi nilai-nilai itu dalam mengembangkan pendidikan moral generasi muda saat ini.Pengkajian ranah ini belum banyak diteliti oleh putra daerah maupun peneliti luar daerah, akan tetapi penelitian kearah itu telah dilakukan oleh para pakar sastra Bali. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode sosiologi sastra dengan menerapkan teori reseptif, dengan langkah kajian sebagai berikut :Teknik pengumpulan datanya diawali dengan pengumpulan teks yang dijadikan sumber kajian yaitu : Geguritan Putra Sasana, Geguritan Basur, Cerita Tantri, dan Cerita Bhagawan Dhomya. Analsis datanya secara deskriptif kualitatifdengan bertumpu pada teks sumber sebagai bahan analisis.Analisis data ini diawali dengan kajian nilai-nilai didaktik yang terkandung dalam cerita klasik Bali dan relevansinya bagi pendidikan moralgenerasi muda saat ini.Hasil analisis ternyata banyak sekali terkandung nilai-nilai didaktik dalam keempat sumber naskah di atas, yang dapat ditransformasikan untuk sistem pendidikan dewasa ini, antara lain:konsep pendidikan seumur hidup, pendidikan akal, tanggung jawab guru dan murid, ini diteruskan kepada anak didik, yang sesungguhnya dapat dijadikan materi pengayaan pengetahuan kearifan lokal yang mampu memberikan rambu-rambu moralitas yang baik di kalangan generasi muda saat ini, yang lebih cenderung hanya menggunakan paradigma pendidikan Barat dibandingkan membangun kepribadian berdasarkan tata nilai yang telah diwariskan oleh nenek moyang dalam bentuk sastra-sastra klasik. Untuk itu perlu diadakan pembinaan oleh intansi terkait untuk lebih mengarahkan diri pada peranan ilmu humaniora dalam rangka meningkatkan kualitas manusia dengan cara pendidikan budi pekerti dengan menggali kearifan local sebagai keunggulan budaya di mana masyarakat itu hidup dan berkembang.Kata kunci: teks dedaktik, sastra Bali klasik, kearifan localABSTRACTThe classical literary review is necessary as a cultural approach in anticipating  the  degradation  of  the  values  of  today‟s  young  generation.  The fundamental assumption that should be urgency of the study is that the classical Balinese literature is actually a self-reflection of the Balinese society itself (masuluh ring sastra = reflecting on the literature/knowledge). Therefore, of course the literature contains worthy value (nora na mitra mangluwihana waraguna maruhur = no friend exceed the greatness of science). The study intends to reveal the didactic values contained in classical Balinese literature and the relevance of those values in developing the moral education of the young generation today.The study of this domain has not been widely studied by the local researcher and researchers outside the region, but research in that direction has been done by experts of Balinese literature. The present study used sociology method of literature by applying receptive theory, with the following study steps: Data collection techniques began by collecting the texts that were used as the sources of the study, such as: Geguritan Putra Sasana, Geguritan Basur, Tantri story, and Bhagawan Dhomya story. Data analysis used descriptive qualitative relied on source texts as the material of analysis. Data analysis began with the study of didactic values contained in Balinese classical story and the relevance to the moral education of young generation today.Analysis result shows that many didactic values contained in the four text sources above, which can be transformed to the education system today, namely: the concept of education for life, the intellectual education, the responsibilities of teachers and students, is passed on to the students, which can actually be the material of enrichment of knowledge of local wisdom that is able to give a good sign of good morality among young people today, who are more likely to only use Western educational paradigm than building a personality based on the values that have been inherited by the ancestors in the form of classical literatures. Therefore, it needs to be guided by the relevant institution to be more directed to the role of the humanities sciences in order to improve the quality of human by way of moral education by exploring local wisdom as a cultural excellence in which the community lives and thrives.Key words: Didactic Text, Balinese Classical Literature, Local Wisdom


Author(s):  
Richard J. Aleong ◽  
David S. Strong

Within the engineering attribute of life-long learning is the ability for self-regulation, described as the process in which students plan, monitor, control, and adjust their behaviour to meet specific goals. To be self-regulating requires a degree of self-awareness and self-reflection to build knowledge about the self. This self-knowledge contributes to one’s values, personal identity, and motivational beliefs that may direct academic behaviour. In this paper, we present insight into the implementation of a workshop program designed to engage undergraduate engineering students in a facilitated self-reflective process. The workshop program challenged participants to think about how they see themselves in their engineering education and how they envision the person they wish to become in their future career. The research aims to offer educators with pedagogical insight into students’ sense of self, self-regulating processes, and new ways to promote the skills of life-long learning.


2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 419-448
Author(s):  
Joseph Maffly-Kipp ◽  
Patricia Flanagan ◽  
Jinhyung Kim ◽  
Rebecca J. Schlegel ◽  
Matthew Vess ◽  
...  

Introduction: Previous research demonstrates that perceived authenticity is positively associated with psychological health and security in the face of threats. The current research extends this work by testing whether perceived authenticity promotes recovery from the negative mental health consequences of collective trauma (e.g., a natural disaster). Methods: We recruited a sample of undergraduates (N = 570), many of whom reported direct or indirect exposure to Hurricane Harvey, to complete surveys at two time points. We assessed exposure to the disaster, acute stress, post-traumatic stress, coping, and authenticity twice, once approximately 1 month after Hurricane Harvey (Time 1) and again approximately 9 weeks after Hurricane Harvey (Time 2). Results: We employed multilevel modelling to explore whether authenticity would aid in recovery from collective trauma. Results showed that perceived authentic living at Time 1 predicted a variety of indicators of stress related to the hurricane at Time 2. Specifically, those participants who reported low authentic living at Time 1 reported greater levels of stress at Time 2, compared to individuals who reported higher levels of authentic living. Importantly, these effects remained even when controlling for known predictors of stress (e.g., levels of stress at Time 1 and coping strategies). Discussion: Findings provide preliminary insight into authenticity as a part of a likely larger network of interrelated psychosocial qualities that have the potential to help one navigate recovery from trauma.


2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122199879
Author(s):  
Kelly Emelianchik-Key ◽  
Rebekah Byrd ◽  
Carman S. Gill

Dating violence (DV) is pervasive on college campuses with far-reaching health implications. We examined 70 sorority members’ lived experiences with DV and explored the role of technology. Experience, perpetration, exposure, support systems, and conceptualization of DV were assessed, and sorority members engaged in small focus groups to examine their lived experiences. Emerging themes included (a) normalization of unhealthy behaviors, (b) technology and the experience of violence, and (c) sources of support and coping. Findings included significant correlations between the experience and perpetration of DV. Results highlight the need for peer intervention and prevention programming and infusing technology in constructive ways.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Nadine Frolic ◽  
Marilyn Swinton ◽  
Darla Biccum ◽  
Marybeth Leis Druery ◽  
Megan English ◽  
...  

In 2014-15 Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS), with supportive funding from the Ontario Arts Council, partnered with a local group of professional artists to develop a curriculum called Awakening Your Creative Power: a seminar series on creativity, compassion and play. In order to understand the feasibility and impact of this arts-based curriculum for healthcare personnel working within a hospital, HHS undertook a comprehensive program evaluation. Input from participants who attended the course was obtained in three ways: (1) weekly evaluation forms at the end of each session (2) a final evaluation that asked questions about the overall seminar series, and (3) a focus group discussion held 2 weeks after the seminar series ended. This paper reports on the outcomes of the evaluation and the evolution of the curriculum over the past 3 years, including its impacts on both participants and the arts partners. The evaluation data demonstrate that the course was successful in meeting its stated objectives which include: enhancing interpersonal skills, fostering self-reflection, deepening compassion, cultivating resilience, recognizing creative potential, applying intention and coping with daily stresses through the power of play. In addition, the course also: increased self-awareness, fostered a sense of community, emphasized the value of creativity for its own sake, empowered participants, provided participants with a sense of accomplishment and made participants feel valued by the institution. The paper concludes with some reflections on the potential of engaging arts professionals in health professional education. 


Author(s):  
Cirenia Quintana-Orts ◽  
Lourdes Rey ◽  
María Teresa Chamizo-Nieto ◽  
Everett L. Worthington

Cyberaggression is often triggered by cybervictimization. However, little attention has been given to the underlying mechanisms in this relationship. Specifically, this study examined the mediating roles of stress as well as unforgiveness (i.e., revenge and avoidance motivations) in the cybervictimization-cyberbullying aggression link. The main goal is to investigate the direct and indirect effects of cybervictimization on cyberbullying aggression while modeling a process in which cybervictimization causes stress, which in turn causes unforgiveness motivations concluding with cyberbullying aggression as the consequent. A total of 979 adolescents (Mage = 13.72, SD = 1.31) completed the relevant scales at two time points spaced four months apart. The results confirm that stress and revenge motivation at Time 1 act as serial mediators between cybervictimization at Time 1 and cyberbullying behaviors at Time 2. Additionally, the results reveal that avoidance at Time 1 was not a significant mediator in the links between cybervictimization at Time 1 and cyberbullying aggression at Time 2. Our findings provide support for the stress-and-coping model of forgiveness in adolescence and offer original insight into the developmental process of bully-victims in cyberbullying context. These results suggest the importance of efforts addressing motivations and emotion-focused coping strategies in adolescents who have been bullied to prevent and reduce those adolescents’ future stress and aggressive behaviors. The contributions and implications of the results are discussed.


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