scholarly journals «Barndommen min har aldri forlatt meg» En undersøkelse av trosfortellinger og unges deltagelse i interreligiøs dialog

2020 ◽  
pp. 207-232
Author(s):  
Mette Bøe Lyngstad ◽  
Yvonne Margaretha Wang
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Impact

This study explores the impact of interreligious dialogue on identity, belonging and faith among young adults who are active in an interreligious dialogue group where they use storytelling as a method to reflect on their faith as young adults in light of their childhood background, teenage experience and present understandings of themselves. It is a qualitative research study, conducted through interviews with three young adults between 18 and 30 years of age, and through analysis of video tapes. The theoretical framework is narrative theory and sociology of religion. The results show that the group constructs new ways of belonging through dialogue and personal storytelling. It shows how lived religion expands and develops through interreligious dialogue. The young adults develop a new form of identity and belonging through different life experiences and through reflection upon their faith in the encounters with each other. Thus, the study offers new understandings of the dynamics of the individual’s religion and interreligious dialogue. The study concludes by drawing attention to the impact of early socialization in relation to religious belief and how critical moments in life shape new interpretations of religion and faith.

Are Lifestyle Differences Beneficial? The Effects of Marital Diversity on Group Outcomes

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen A. (Etty) Jehn ◽  
Donald E. Conlon
Keyword(s):  
Group Performance ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Performance Outcomes ◽  
Important Predictor ◽  
Group Outcomes ◽  
Rock Bands ◽  
Project Groups ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Archival Study

As the number of unmarried adults in the workforce is on the rise, employees increasingly have to navigate lifestyle differences between single, married, and divorced members of their work groups. To understand the impact of this new form of diversity in groups at work, we introduce the concept of marital diversity as an important predictor of group performance outcomes. We argue that marital diversity may benefit group outcomes by providing members with complementary life experiences and skills, without instigating the stereotyping or conflict often associated with other less mutable forms of diversity. In Study 1, an archival study of rock bands reveals that marital diversity positively affects group outcomes when band tenure is high. In Study 2, this pattern is replicated in a study of project groups. Overall, the studies show that marital diversity can positively affect groups, especially groups with longer tenure.

scholarly journals Dating Apps: The Uncertainty of Marketised Love

2022 ◽  
pp. 174997552110515
Author(s):  
Carolina Bandinelli ◽  
Alessandro Gandini
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Structural Uncertainty ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Dating Apps ◽  
New Form ◽  
Ontological Uncertainty

Dating apps promise a ‘digital fix’ to the ‘messy’ matter of love by means of datafication and algorithmic matching, realising a platformisation of romance commonly understood through notions of a market’s rationality and efficiency. Reflecting on the findings of a small-scale qualitative research on the use of dating apps among young adults in London, we problematise this view and argue that the specific form of marketisation articulated by dating apps is entrepreneurial in kind, whereby individuals act as brands facing the structural uncertainty of interacting with ‘quasi-strangers’. In so doing, we argue, dating app users enact a Luhmanian notion of interpersonal trust, built on the assessment of the risk of interacting with unfamiliar others that is typical of digitally mediated contexts dominated by reputational logics. From a sociocultural perspective, dating apps emerge as sociotechnical apparatuses that remediate the demand to rationally choose a partner while at the same time reproducing the (im)possibility of doing so. In this respect, far from offering a new form of efficiency, they (re)produce the ontological uncertainty (Illouz, 2019) that characterises lovers as entrepreneurs.

scholarly journals The Sacredness of Remembering and Re-storying

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 4-27
Author(s):  
Christina Louise Romero-Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
Story Writing

This article discusses findings from a qualitative research study which focused on how women from diverse backgrounds used storying as a space to make sense of life experiences that had highly impacted their lives. This article explores how women’s stories mediate their experiences of being temporarily silenced, how they resisted others’ silencing over their own viewpoints, and how their storying mediates different ways of “talking back” through story-writing in letters and journals and story-living through an intentional practice of wearing an artifact of trauma. Multiple interviews were used as the primary data sources, and through these the participants’ stories emerged. Intersections of gender, race, religion, and socioeconomic status in the participants’ stories were analyzed, and the categories of silencing, resistance/talking back, and resilience developed. Findings included the participants’ abilities to navigate issues related to others’ forced perspectives on their bodies as a social and political space (Pitts, 2003; Woods, 2012).

Investigating the Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Stigma Among Young Adults With History of Suicide Attempts

Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meshan Lehmann ◽  
Matthew R. Hilimire ◽  
Lawrence H. Yang ◽  
Bruce G. Link ◽  
Jordan E. DeVylder
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
High Risk Population ◽  
High Functioning ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Background: Self-esteem is a major contributor to risk for repeated suicide attempts. Prior research has shown that awareness of stigma is associated with reduced self-esteem among people with mental illness. No prior studies have examined the association between self-esteem and stereotype awareness among individuals with past suicide attempts. Aims: To understand the relationship between stereotype awareness and self-esteem among young adults who have and have not attempted suicide. Method: Computerized surveys were administered to college students (N = 637). Linear regression analyses were used to test associations between self-esteem and stereotype awareness, attempt history, and their interaction. Results: There was a significant stereotype awareness by attempt interaction (β = –.74, p = .006) in the regression analysis. The interaction was explained by a stronger negative association between stereotype awareness and self-esteem among individuals with past suicide attempts (β = –.50, p = .013) compared with those without attempts (β = –.09, p = .037). Conclusion: Stigma is associated with lower self-esteem within this high-functioning sample of young adults with histories of suicide attempts. Alleviating the impact of stigma at the individual (clinical) or community (public health) levels may improve self-esteem among this high-risk population, which could potentially influence subsequent suicide risk.

Violence and Sex as Advertising Strategies in Television Commercials

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 304-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Ferguson ◽  
Amanda M. Cruz ◽  
Daniel Martinez ◽  
Stephanie M. Rueda ◽  
Diana E. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Television Commercials ◽  
Brand Recall ◽  
Violent Content ◽  
Willingness To Buy ◽  
Advertising Strategies ◽  
Television Violence ◽  
The Impact

Despite several studies investigating the impact of sex and violence in television on consumer behavior and memory for products in commercials, results remain inconsistent and debated. The purpose of the current study was to examine the effects of television violence and sex on memory for commercials and willingness to buy products. Two hundred twelve young adults were assigned to watch either a sexual, violent, combined sexual and violent or neutral television show. Within each show were embedded 12 commercials, four violent, four sexual, and four neutral. Results indicated that violent or sexual content of the television show did not impair memory for commercials or willingness to buy products, and that sexual or violent content in the commercials themselves increased memory for those commercials. Implications for the current study are that violent or sexual shows may adequately function in attracting viewers’ attention, with sexual and violent content in the commercials themselves improving viewers memory for products. Use of violent or sexual content in commercials may thus be useful in advertising for brand recall.

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