scholarly journals Embodied metaphor in communication about lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0261968
Author(s):  
Yu Deng ◽  
Jixue Yang ◽  
Wan Wan
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Repetitive Behaviors ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Metaphorical Thinking ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Embodied Metaphor

The study investigated how a group of 27 Wuhan citizens employed metaphors to communicate about their lived experiences of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic through in-depth individual interviews. The analysis of metaphors reflected the different kinds of emotional states and psychological conditions of the research participants, focusing on their mental imagery of COVID-19, extreme emotional experiences, and symbolic behaviors under the pandemic. The results show that multiple metaphors were used to construe emotionally-complex, isolating experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most metaphorical narratives were grounded in embodied sensorimotor experiences such as body parts, battling, hitting, weight, temperature, spatialization, motion, violence, light, and journeys. Embodied metaphors were manifested in both verbal expressions and nonlinguistic behaviors (e.g., patients’ repetitive behaviors). These results suggest that the bodily experiences of the pandemic, the environment, and the psychological factors combine to shape people’s metaphorical thinking processes.

Znaczenie czynników behawioralnych w podejmowaniu decyzji inwestycyjnych na rynku kapitałowym

2016 ◽  
pp. 173-183
Author(s):  
Mirosław Wasilewski ◽  
Marta Juszczyk
Keyword(s):  
Capital Market ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research Show

The aim of the study was to investigate the investors’ opinions concerning the usefulness of behavioral factors for investment decisions. The research was carried out in the group of 100 investors, using the services of five brokerages with a long history of operation. The results of the research show that people’s psychological conditions and sentiment in the stock market play an important role in the decision-making process of investors in the capital market. The importance of this factor increased with the length of the investment period. The emotional states of people and their psychological conditions affect the stock price volatility. However, the complexity of the determinants of stock prices makes the market value of stocks can be affected by many factors at the same time and investors seem aware of this.

Disability and Social Exclusion

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina I. Tobias ◽  
Sourav Mukhopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Individual Interviews

This article explores the experiences of social exclusion of individuals with visual impairment (IWVI) as they negotiate their daily lives in their homes and societal settings in the Oshana and Oshikoto regions of Namibia. Employing qualitative research approach, this research tried to better understand the lived experiences of IWVI. Nine IWVI with ages ranging from 30 to 90 years were initially engaged in focus group discussions, followed by semi-structured in-depth individual interviews. The findings of this research indicated that IWVI experience exclusion from education, employment and social and community participation as well as relationships. Based on these findings, we suggest more inclusive policies to address social exclusion of IWVI. At the same time, this group of individuals should be empowered to participate in community activities to promote interaction with people without visual impairments.

Body Talk

2019 ◽  
pp. 64-88
Author(s):  
William G. Pooley
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Body Talk

This chapter uses Félix Arnaudin’s notes towards a dictionary of the Gascon dialect of the Landes de Gascogne to explore everyday speech about the body. The dialect notes that Arnaudin carefully recorded in quotidian situations draw attention to a body focused on the legs and buttocks, discussed in terms of constant concern about stooping and bending. The language of the body was often violent and obscene, but could also be delicate and specific. Rich metaphors for body parts drew parallels between human exploitation and forestation. This was not a static folk language of the body, swept away by ‘modern’ ideas of the body, but an evolving way of talking about bodily experiences.

scholarly journals Testing the exteroceptive function of nociception: the role of visual experience in shaping the spatial representations of nociceptive inputs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Vanderclausen ◽  
Marion Bourgois ◽  
Anne De Volder ◽  
Valéry Legrain
Keyword(s):  
Visual Experience ◽  
Temporal Order Judgment ◽  
Skin Surface ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Physical Damage ◽  
External Space ◽  
Crossmodal Interactions ◽  
Bodily Experiences

AbstractAdequately localizing pain is crucial to protect the body against physical damage and react to the stimulus in external space having caused such damage. Accordingly, it is hypothesized that nociceptive inputs are remapped from a somatotopic reference frame, representing the skin surface, towards a spatiotopic frame, representing the body parts in external space. This ability is thought to be developed and shaped by early visual experience. To test this hypothesis, normally sighted and early blind participants performed temporal order judgment tasks during which they judged which of two nociceptive stimuli applied on each hand’s dorsum was perceived as first delivered. Crucially, tasks were performed with the hands either in an uncrossed posture or crossed over body midline. While early blinds were not affected by the posture, performances of the normally sighted participants decreased in the crossed condition relative to the uncrossed condition. This indicates that nociceptive stimuli were automatically remapped into a spatiotopic representation that interfered with somatotopy in normally sighted individuals, whereas early blinds seemed to mostly rely on a somatotopic representation to localize nociceptive inputs. Accordingly, the plasticity of the nociceptive system would not purely depend on bodily experiences but also on crossmodal interactions between nociception and vision during early sensory experience.

scholarly journals “Every in the morning when I wake up it’s the first thing that comes to my mind’’ Sexual Assault Survivor women’s experience in Hosanna, Ethiopia.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beliyou Abebe Agidew ◽  
Abebe Mamo ◽  
Zewdie Birhanu ◽  
Shifera Asfaw Yedenekal
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Social Reaction ◽  
Sexual Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Sexual Assault Survivor

Abstract Background: sexual assault is physically forced or otherwise coerced penetration even if slight of the vulva or anus, using a penis, other body parts or an object. Global prevalence figure indicates that 1 in 3 (35 %) of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. There are limited researches conducted on the area of lived experiences of women with sexual violence. This study aimed to explore the lived experiences of sexual assault survivor women in Hosanna, Ethiopia. Method: Phenomenological study design was carried out among purposively selected six sexual assault survivor women’s and three key informants. In-depth interviews were conducted using local language, Amharic by using a semi structured interview guide. The interviews were transcribed and translated into English, and the data were analyzed thematically by qualitative data management software (Atlas ti version 7.0.15). Result: Not only the community who victimizes the survivors; the survivors themselves isolate from the community. All the survivors’ quest for revenge besides seeking justice. Coping of the survivors affected with a feeling of justice is done or not done, social reaction. They have also strong intention to disclose the issue for their close family and community member. The participants live with fear and distrust; afraid of being raped again, they don’t dare daring to trust people easily. Conclusion: The current study showed that sexual assault was a lifetime journey to recover. Some community members also blamed by the survivors for failing to help during their bad times. Therefore, community based awareness campaign should be implemented. In parallel, health policy makers and health professionals should give due emphasis on build post-rape care units or integrated service with other units.

scholarly journals Assessment of presentation patterns of repetitive behaviors in Autism: a cross-sectional video-recording study. Preliminary report

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enzo Grossi ◽  
Elisa Caminada ◽  
Beatrice Vescovo ◽  
Tristana Castrignano ◽  
Daniele Piscitelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Expression Patterns ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Repetitive Behaviors ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Autism Severity ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Pattern Complexity ◽  
Data Driven Approach

AbstractTwenty expert caregivers wearing a body cam recorded 1868 videoclips in 67 autistic subjects along a 3 months close follow-up. A team consisting of a senior child neuro-psychiatrist and a senior psychologist selected 780 of them as expressing repetitive behaviors (RB) and made an empirical classification according to components, complexity, body parts and sensory channels involved, with the aim to understand better the pattern complexity and correlate with autism severity. The RB spectrum for each subject ranged from 1 to 33 different patterns (average= 11.6; S.D.= 6.82). Forty subjects expressed prevalent simple pattern and 27 prevalent complex patterns. No significant differences are found between the two groups according to ADOS score severity. This study represents a first attempt to systematically document expression patterns of RB with a data driven approach. This may provide a better understanding of the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of RB.

scholarly journals Development of Self-Regulation in Adolescents in the Context of Educational Process

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
S.I. Popova
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
State Education ◽  
Regulation Development ◽  
Role Based

The paper reviews the issue of self-regulation development in adolescents as the process of supporting favourable and transforming unfavourable emotional states appropriate to the performed joint activity. Experiencing intense emotions makes personal growth more difficult for the adolescent, and therefore the task of promoting self-regulation becomes extremely important. Our hypothesis was that the development of self-regulation contributes to the adolescent’s ability to recognize and interpret emotional states and extends the range of practices available to him/ her. Creating operative images of an object in concrete situations has a mediated effect on the transformation of the emotional states experienced by the adolescent. The revealed social psychological conditions were implemented through role-based forms of group activities, methods and means of self-regulation development. We evaluate the effectiveness of the development of self-regulation in adolescents based on certain criteria and analyse the outcomes of an experimental study. The ideas proposed in this paper can be used in the formation of regulative universal learning actions in adolescents at school to develop their ability to consciously regulate emotional states in the context of implementing the federal state education standards.

A Multimodal Account of Bodily Experience

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédérique de Vignemont
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
External World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Veridical Perception ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Bodily Awareness ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Multisensory Interactions ◽  
The Way

What are the implications of pervasive presence of multisensory interactions for bodily awareness? It has been assumed that bodily experiences exclusively result from bodily senses, with no influence from external senses, but vision is actually required to maximize the veridical perception of the body. Consequently, bodily experiences in those who have never seen are of a different kind to the way one normally experiences one’s body. Whether or not one is currently seeing one’s body, vision plays an essential role in delineating the boundaries of the body, in locating our body parts in space and in bridging the gap between what happens on the skin and what happens in the external world. In this sense, the bodily experiences of the sighted (or those who were once sighted) can be said to be constitutively multimodal.

Female spouses lived experiences of living with a husband with dementia: a qualitative study on changes in everyday life

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Egilstrød ◽  
Kirsten Schultz Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The People ◽  
Female Spouses

Purpose The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of female spouses’ lived experiences of changes in everyday life while living with a husband with dementia. Design/methodology/approach Nine individual interviews of female spouses were conducted in 2017. A phenomenological narrative approach was applied during data collection, and the analysis was inspired by Amedeo Giorgi’s analytic steps. Findings Female spouses experienced changes in their marital relationships, and found ways of managing these changes, although they realized life was marked by loneliness and distress. The identified themes reveal how female spouses experienced changes in everyday life as the disease progressed. Everyday routines gradually changed and they actively sought ways to uphold everyday life and a marital relationship. Research limitations/implications Research should focus on developing supportive interventions, where the people with the lived experiences in relation to dementia are involved in the research process, to better target the needs for support, when developing interventions. Practical implications Insight into everyday life can help health-care service providers to better the support to female spouses and contribute with more individualized support, which may contribute to the quality of care. Originality/value In this study, the authors disclose the envisible and silent work that takes place in an everyday life, when living with a husband with dementia during the time span of caregiving. Spouses’ experiences are important to include, when developing intervention to support spouses to better tailor the interventions.

scholarly journals Nonnative English-Speaking Students’ Lived Learning Experiences With MOOCs in a Regular College Classroom

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moon-Heum Cho ◽  
Moon-Kyoung Byun
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
College Classroom ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Phenomenological Methodology ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Korean College Students

<p class="3">The goal of this study was to gain in-depth understanding about nonnative English-speaking students’ lived experiences with massive open online courses (MOOCs) in a regular college classroom. Phenomenological methodology was used to examine those experiences in 24 Korean college students. Individual interviews, an open-ended online survey, observation notes, online weekly journal entries, and social media constituted the data sources. Findings show that students’ lived experiences included (a) wonder and interest, (b) novel learning and teaching practices, (c) preference for video style, (d) learning strategies, (e) motivation to learn, and (f) need for face-to-face interaction. Implications for integrating a MOOC into a regular college course are also presented.</p>

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