scholarly journals Revisiting The Good And Bad Sides Of Organizational Politics

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kola Sonaike
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Computer Software ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Interview Format ◽  
Political Behaviors ◽  
Study Participants

This qualitative exploratory study re-examined the common types of political behaviors that typical organization members are prone to engage in and the results expected from such behaviors. The study utilized a purposive and convenience sample of 30 manager-level senior undergraduate students in a University that targets professional career-focused individuals. The study participants were asked eight questions in a semi-structured interview format. The main research question was What types of political behaviors have you experienced in an organization that you have worked for? Further, study participants were asked which of the behaviors, in their estimation could be termed as good or bad and why they categorized them as such. The data obtained from the study were analyzed for patterns and themes using the NVivo 8 computer software. Results showed that, in general, organization members view in positive light political behaviors that are used professionally and that thus foster co-operation among organizational members. On the other hand, organization members view in negative light political behaviors that are perceived as self-serving and destructive to co-operation and team spirit among the various units within the organization. There was a small group, however, that seem to believe that at times, the meanings read to some behaviors by organizational members may be wrong as some of these behaviors may not necessarily have political undertones.

Ministry Amidst the Refugee Crisis in Europe: Understanding Missionary-Refugee Relationships

2021 ◽  
pp. 026537882110483
Author(s):  
Jamie N. Sanchez ◽  
Leanne M. Dzubinski ◽  
Jacqueline Parke
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Main Research ◽  
International Consultation ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of an investigation into missionary-refugee relationships in Europe. The main research question guiding this study was: How do missionaries understand and describe their relationship with the refugees they serve? The data for this study were collected at an international consultation on ministry with refugees held in the fall of 2017 from 21 missionaries using semi-structured interview protocols. Findings demonstrate that missionaries shared a liminal identity with the refugees in their ministry, viewed hospitality as a Christian lifestyle, perceived Christianity to be an inclusive faith, and discussed the challenges and opportunities in their ministry with refugees. Based on the findings we offer implications for mission theorizing and practice in the 21st century church.

scholarly journals Multidimensional Models of Perfectionism and Procrastination: Seeking Determinants of Both

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (14) ◽  
pp. 5099
Author(s):  
Allison P. Sederlund ◽  
Lawrence R. Burns ◽  
William Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Temporal Orientation ◽  
Multidimensional Model ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Adaptive Perfectionism ◽  
Multidimensional Models

Background: Perfectionism is currently conceptualized using a multidimensional model, with extensive research establishing the presence of both maladaptive and adaptive forms. However, the potential adaptability of procrastination, largely considered as a maladaptive construct, and its possible developmental connection to perfectionism remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to examine the individual differences of the multidimensional models of both perfectionism and procrastination, as well as investigating potential links between the two constructs. Methods: A convenience sample of 206 undergraduate students participated in this study. Participants completed a questionnaire consisting of 236 questions regarding the variables under investigation. Results: The adaptive model of procrastination yielded largely insignificant results and demonstrated limited links with adaptive perfectionism, while maladaptive procrastination was consistently associated with maladaptive perfectionism, lending further evidence of a unidimensional model of procrastination. Conclusions: Many previous findings regarding the multidimensional model of perfectionism were replicated, along with new contributions focusing on the dual-process model and temporal orientation.

scholarly journals Counselor candidates' perceptions about therapeutic skills and conditionsPsikolojik danışman adaylarının terapötik beceri ve koşullara ilişkin algıları

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
İrem Şahin ◽  
Ahmet Togay ◽  
Meral Atıcı
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
English Summary ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Individual Counseling ◽  
Psychological Counseling ◽  
Therapeutic Environment ◽  
Emotional Context ◽  
Study Participants

In this study, therapeutic help features of psychological counselor, therapeutic environment, views of therapeutic skills and conditions, perceptions and beliefs about competence were examined in the light of individual psychological counseling practices performed by psychological counselor candidates. The research group of the study was undergraduate students who conducts individual counseling sessions under supervision in the fall semester of the 2016-2017 academic year. The data were collected through the interview method using a semi-structured interview form. According to the results of the study; participants' perceptions of therapeutic help consist of three dimensions, namely affective, relational and product. The therapeutic environment; including physical and emotional context was addressed in two dimensions. In addition, the participants emphasised the importance of therapeutic skills, which are effective in the process of psychological counseling; such as reflection of content and emotion, minimal encouragement and binding skills. Psychological counselor candidates participating the study expressed that they generally perceive themselves insufficient in terms of therapeutic skills but they try to put on effort and get experience in using therapeutic skills. Although they mentioned they are anxious and incapacitated to use these skills, they are willing to improve their capacity and skills. The findings are discussed in the context of the literature.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetBu araştırmada psikolojik danışman adaylarının terapötik yardım, psikolojik danışman özellikleri, terapötik ortam, beceri ve koşullara ilişkin yeterlik algıları yürütmüş olduğu bireysel psikolojik danışma uygulamaları ışığında incelenmiştir. Çalışma grubu, 2016-2017 eğitim öğretim yılı güz yarıyılında süpervizyonlu bireysel psikolojik danışma süreci yürüten PDR son sınıf öğrencilerinden oluşmaktadır. Araştırma fenomenolojik yaklaşım kapsamında yürütülmüş nitel bir araştırmadır. Veriler, görüşme yöntemi yoluyla yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu kullanılarak toplanmıştır. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre; katılımcıların terapötik yardıma ilişkin algıları duyuşsal, ilişkisel ve ürün olmak üzere üç kategoriden oluşmaktadır. Terapötik ortam; fiziksel ve duygusal ortam olmak üzere iki kategoride ele alınmaktadır. Ayrıca katılımcılar psikolojik danışma sürecinde etkili olan terapötik beceriler olarak; yapılama, duygu ve içerik yansıtma, asgari düzeyde teşvik ve bağlama becerileri üzerinde durmuşlardır. Araştırmaya katılan psikolojik danışman adayları terapötik becerileri kullanmak konusunda kendilerini yetersiz ama çabalayan ve tecrübe kazanan bireyler olarak algıladıkları ve bu becerileri kullanmak konusunda kendilerini kaygılı ve eksik hissettiklerini ancak kendilerini geliştirmeye istekli olduklarını dile getirmişlerdir. Elde edilen bulgular ilgili alan yazın bağlamında tartışılmıştır

Sexuality Content in the BSW Curriculum: A Pilot Study of Student Perceptions

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
Clementine Laverman ◽  
David Skiba
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Northeastern United States ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Study Participants

As attitudes about sexuality change, social workers may confront client issues and/or problems related to human sexuality. This article describes a pilot study of student perceptions of human sexuality curriculum content and their views regarding their sense of preparedness and anticipation in dealing with this area of practice. A convenience sample of undergraduate students (n=170) from BSW programs at public and private institutions in the northeastern United States completed a study- specific questionnaire. Preliminary findings suggest study participants were unable to identify sexuality content within their curriculum. Only 42% (n=71) perceived that they were adequately prepared to handle most sexuality issues, although many anticipate working with clients with sexuality issues in practice. Limitations of the study are addressed. Directions for future research are discussed that may contribute to a better understanding of the delivery of human sexuality content to BSW students.

Roots of Activism: A Qualitative Study of BSW Students

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Byers ◽  
Glenn Stone
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
Interview Format ◽  
Politically Active

This paper presents the results of a qualitative study of socially/politically active BSW students and recent BSW graduates. The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate social work students came to assume their activist roles. The study included intensive interviews with 11 participants through the use of a semi-structured interview format. Although the routes to activism were varied, one finding that emerged from the interviews was that most of the participants had begun their “activist” orientations at relatively early ages; many beginning in middle school. Participants' definitions of the activities encompassed by “activism” and their motivations for continued activism are elucidated. A discussion is also presented regarding ways in which social work educators can increase social/political activism interest and skill levels in undergraduate students.

scholarly journals Evaluating Caregiver Risk: The Dementia Caregiver Interview Guide

Psych ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 552-561
Author(s):  
Rhonda Feldman ◽  
Mary Chiu ◽  
Andrea Lawson ◽  
Joel Sadavoy
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Dementia Caregiver ◽  
Clinical Encounters ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Interview Format

Objectives: Family and other informal caregivers of individuals with dementia can be at increased risk for a significant decline in wellbeing or their ability to continue to provide care. There is extensive literature on the multifactorial elements contributing to risk, but frontline practitioners may be uncertain how to apply their knowledge of risk to an assessment of individual caregivers during clinical encounters. We developed a new one-page guided interview tool (the Dementia Caregiver Interview Guide, or DCIG) to guide practitioners to: (1) systematically assess known factors associated with high caregiver risk in a clinical interview format and (2) concisely document their judgement regarding risk of decompensation arising from caregiver stress. This semi-structured interview format collects detailed information while promoting a collaborative communication process. This study evaluated the validity of risk-assessment using the DCIG. Methods: A convenience sample of 50 caregivers was recruited during routine intake at the Reitman Centre at Sinai Health in Toronto, Canada. Risk was assessed using both the DCIG and the Caregiver Risk Screen (CRS). Total scores on the two tools were compared to establish concurrent and discriminant validity for the DCIG. Results: The DCIG correlated positively with the CRS (Spearman’s rho = 0.737; p < 0.001) and identified caregivers at risk at a moderate level of agreement with the CRS (Cohen’s Kappa = 0.559). Conclusions: The DCIG allows clinicians to efficiently identify caregivers’ level of risk for functional and emotional decline or decompensation in a client-centered, naturalistic manner.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Cooperation Model between University and SMEs: A Case Study in Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9140
Author(s):  
Yazdan Moradi ◽  
Siamak Noori
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
Cooperation Model ◽  
The University ◽  
Theoretical Saturation

The purpose of this research is to design and explain an entrepreneurial cooperation model between a university and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The main research question is as follows: What are the elements and conditions of development for entrepreneurial cooperation between the university and SMEs? In this study, a qualitative research method called grounded theory has been used. Data collection was conducted through a semi-structured interview, observation and, afterwards, library studies. The number of interviews continued until theoretical saturation was reached and, in each interview, the coding was modified and edited compared to the previous interview. Based on this model, the goals and motivations of entrepreneurial cooperation were introduced as the causal conditions, entrepreneurial cooperation between the university and SMEs was introduced as the main phenomenon, environmental issues and the entrepreneurship cooperation ecosystem were introduced as the background conditions, the context and infrastructure of entrepreneurial cooperation were introduced as the mediator condition and entrepreneurial cooperation consequence was introduced as the model consequence. The strategies of the entrepreneurship cooperation model between the university and SMEs are as follows: strategies related to the private sector and strategies related to the non-private sector.

INITIAL STEP OF SPECIALIZED CORPORA BUILDING: CLEANING PROCEDURES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Yakubson ◽  
Victor Zakharov
Keyword(s):  
Text Processing ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Linguistic Annotation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Cleaning Procedures ◽  
Unique Source ◽  
Future Work

This paper deals with the specialized corpora building, specifically academic language corpus in the biotechnology field. Being a part of larger research devoted to creation and usage of specialized parallel corpus, this piece aims to analyze the initial step of corpus building. Our main research question was what procedures we need to implement to the texts before using them to develop the corpus. Analysis of previous research showed the significant quantity of papers devoted to corpora creation, including academic specialized corpora. Different sides of the process were analyzed in these researches, including the types of texts used, the principles of crawling, the recommended length of texts etc. As to the text processing for the needs of corpora creation, only the linguistic annotation issues were examined earlier. At the same time, the preliminary cleaning of texts before their usage in corpora may have significant influence on the corpus quality and its utility for the linguistic research. In this paper, we considered three small corpora derived from the same set of academic texts in the biotechnology field: “raw” corpus without any preliminary cleaning and two corpora with different level of cleaning. Using different Sketch Engine tools, we analyzed these corpora from the position of their future users, predominantly as sources for academic wordlists and specialized multi-word units. The conducted research showed very little difference between two cleaned corpora, meaning that only basic cleaning procedures such as removal of reference lists are can be useful in corpora design. At the same time, we found a significant difference between raw and cleaned corpora and argue that this difference can affect the quality of wordlists and multi-word terms extraction, therefore these cleaning procedures are meaningful. The main limitation of the study is that all texts were taken from the unique source, so the conclusions could be affected by this specific journal’s peculiarities. Therefore, the future work should be the verification of results on different text collections

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S APPROACH TO ENERGY SECURITY IN POLAND AND THE BALTIC STATES

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1/2020) ◽  
pp. 33-67
Author(s):  
Olga Stevanovic
Keyword(s):  
Energy Security ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Realist Theory ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Baltic

The subject of this paper encompasses US policy towards Poland and the Baltic States regarding energy security during Donald Trump’s presidency. It is discernible that vast domestic energy resources have created an opportunity for the US to project more power to these countries, and the surrounding region. We argue that Trump and his administration’s perceptions have served as an intervening variable in that opportunity assessment, in accordance with the neoclassical realist theory. The main research question addressed in this paper is whether US has used that opportunity to contribute to energy security in countries it has traditionally deemed as allies. Two aspects of US approach to energy security of the designated countries are taken into consideration: liquified natural gas exports and support for the Three Seas Initiative. The way Trump presented his policy and its results in his public statements has also been considered in this paper. The article will proceed as follows. The first subsection of the paper represents a summary of energy security challenges in Poland and the Baltic States. The second subsection is dedicated to the opportunity for the US to project energy power and to Trump’s perceptions relevant for the opportunity assessment. The third subsection deals with American LNG exports to these countries as a possible way for contributing to energy security in Poland and the Baltic States. The last part of the paper addresses the Three Seas Initiative and US approach to this platform.

scholarly journals Effects of exposure to immersive videos and photo slideshows of forest and urban environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariba Mostajeran ◽  
Jessica Krzikawski ◽  
Frank Steinicke ◽  
Simone Kühn
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Jail Inmates ◽  
Forest Environment ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Head Mounted Display ◽  
Sense Of Presence ◽  
Hospital Patients

AbstractA large number of studies have demonstrated the benefits of natural environments on people’s health and well-being. For people who have limited access to nature (e.g., elderly in nursing homes, hospital patients, or jail inmates), virtual representations may provide an alternative to benefit from the illusion of a natural environment. For this purpose and in most previous studies, conventional photos of nature have been used. Immersive virtual reality (VR) environments, however, can induce a higher sense of presence compared to conventional photos. Whether this higher sense of presence leads to increased positive impacts of virtual nature exposure is the main research question of this study. Therefore, we compared exposure to a forest and an urban virtual environment in terms of their respective impact on mood, stress, physiological reactions, and cognition. The environments were presented via a head-mounted display as (1) conventional photo slideshows or (2) 360$$^{\circ }$$ ∘ videos. The results show that the forest environment had a positive effect on cognition and the urban environment disturbed mood regardless of the mode of presentation. In addition, photos of either urban or forest environment were both more effective in reducing physiological arousal compared to immersive 360$$^{\circ }$$ ∘ videos.

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