The helpers' tale : a phenomenological exploration of helping behaviors across cultural divides

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
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LeCreshia M. Mckinney-Stege
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
White American ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Prejudicial Attitudes ◽  
The University ◽  
Group Characteristics

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this Transcendental Phenomenological study was to describe the shared experiences of those who choose to help others (engage in helping behavior). It seems important to understand what the group characteristics are which motivate the persons who decide to help others on a regular basis; especially if they once held prejudicial attitudes towards a specific outgroup, or have been on the receiving end of prejudice expressed by another group or individual. Utilizing the Stevick-Collazzi-Keen qualitative method of analysis, the meaning of helping for a group of African American and White American individuals from a Midwestern state, was explored. By applying purposive sampling, those who engage in helping behavior as a significant and recurrent part of their personal and/or professional lives were selected. Based upon a total of 257 Significant Statements and 244 Meaning units, 35 Textual Descriptions emerged. These Textual Descriptions were further divided into 3 Major Themes: Help Requires, The Helper Experience and Help Is. It was found that individuals who engage in helping behavior tend to utilize perspective taking, have had strong models of cross-cultural prosocial behavior early in life, and who take the time and effort to feel empathy towards out-group members tend to be the most effective in their prosocial endeavors. Leaning how to sit with discomfort and uncertainty in cross-cultural situations also emerged as a strategy utilized by participants.

Technology ethics in the public schools system : developing a technology ethics assessment tool through policy analysis at the secondary level

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Jeremy Alsup
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Public High Schools ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technology Ethics ◽  
Ethics Assessment ◽  
Technology Policies ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Technology ethics seeks to identify the ways in which individuals and organizations might develop and sustain optimal relationships with the various technologies in their personal and professional lives. Secondary public schools have considered technology primarily through only a few very important but rudimentary lenses. The problem of practice was grounded in the ability and willingness of public schools to respond to the changing technological landscape in a way that was timely and meaningful. This study followed an exploratory sequential design and was two pronged: first, it investigated the ways public high schools supported technology ethics through their technology policies at the district and building levels; second, it developed a technology ethics assessment tool.

The experience of men who were managing symptoms of COPD

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Peeranuch Jantarakupt
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Local Health Care ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experience of middle-aged men who were managing symptoms of COPD. A longitudinal design with non-probability sampling was used. Participants were recruited through local health-care agencies. Data were obtained through three in-depth interviews with each of 8 men, aged 45 to 65 years, who lived with one or more family members and had been diagnosed with moderate (Stage II) COPD for at least one year. Interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed. Data pertaining to the participants' perceptions, actions, and intentions were analyzed using Porter's descriptive phenomenological method. Three-level taxonomies were created to describe the personal-social context of the experience (element, descriptor, and feature) and the experience (intention, component phenomenon, and phenomenon). The three contextual features were: (a) living with my physical limitations, (b) having a hard time breathing, and (d) living with a slow progressive disease. The three phenomena were: (a) adjusting to my limits in life, (b) dealing with my breathing problems, and (c) keeping my life stable with COPD. Findings led to new insights about how middle-aged men experience symptoms of COPD and develop skills to manage symptoms. Findings suggested new self-management interventions for pulmonary rehabilitation and for nursing.

A phenomenological study of lived experiences of learning communties in online courses among undergraduate pre-service teachers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Chelsea Kay Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
College Courses ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The University ◽  
Study Participants

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This phenomenological study examined lived experiences of learning communities among pre-service teachers within online undergraduate college courses from a new literacies perspective. Online learning continues to grow rapidly in higher education. As institutions of higher education develop online courses and students participate in those courses, various issues arise: retention rates, feelings of isolation, and a decrease in feelings of success. Learning communities can combat these issues, but they must first be effectively implemented. This study addressed participants' common lived experiences of learning communities. To collect data, the researcher conducted three in-depth interviews with each of the 12 study participants. Based on these interviews, online undergraduate pre-service teachers' lived experiences of learning communities in their online college courses were relationship-based, generated by communication, and technologically bound.

The birth and adoption of kinship: Folklore and fakelore in the context of nation-states and world religions

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Ryan O'Dell Begley
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cooperative Interaction ◽  
Sociopolitical Organization ◽  
World Religions ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Ancestral Function ◽  
The University ◽  
Subsequent Modification ◽  
Traditional Stories

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation centers upon the premise that human kinship, cooperation, and sociopolitical organization are not fully comprehensible without reference to the influence of stories in shaping them and that stories are not fully comprehensible without reference to the context of their origin, persistence, and subsequent modification. It is through transmitting traditional stories that human ancestors built a model of kinship around which their descendants would organize into clans and tribes, with ancestors as a unifying theme and moral center. It was these ancestors that tribes would compare upon meeting, oftentimes to disastrous results, but would in time serve as the model for their regular interaction within the emerging context of complex political structures. As the context of later storytelling began to diverge that of its evolution, the influence of traditional stories on descendant behavior would undergo a fundamental change, retaining much of an ancestral function in influencing behavior, but modified for an audience shifting in composition and circumstance. With the support of cross-cultural ethnographic evidence, I argue that traditional storytelling was a means through which ancestors were able to influence descendants to recognize a widening web of co-descendants and to teach them the rules for their cooperative interaction, in such a way that left the storytelling descendants that anthropologists would come to document. I then turn to the adoption of this effect in the context of nation-states and world religions, wherein the modification of traditional stories/storytelling extends the trope of kinship to include citizens and co-religionists, resulting, I found, in their identification, cooperation, and sociopolitical organization as a homogenous "people" (a nation).

scholarly journals Wnderstanding the experience of being a peer advisor in the freshman interest groups program at the University of Missouri

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Jeffrey A. Wiese
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Student Leadership ◽  
First Year Experience ◽  
Undergraduate Teaching ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
College Credit ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The Freshman Interest Groups (FIGs) program at the University of Missouri is a first-year experience program where groups of approximately 20 students live together in a residence hall and are co-enrolled in four courses. By combining residential and academic initiatives the program helps approximately 2,000 firstyear students transition from high school to the university each year. The FIGs program employs more than 100 undergraduate Peer Advisors (PAs) to assist students in this transition. The PA position is unique in higher education because it combines responsibilities similar to traditional resident assistants along with the responsibility of teaching a university course for college credit. Adding to the complexity of this position is that the students with whom the PAs live are also their students in the classroom. While previous studies have looked at the impact similar transition programs have had on participants, few look at the impact these programs have on the student staff who work in them. Additionally, no study has been found that explores the combined experience of working as both a resident assistant and an undergraduate teaching assistant with the same group of students. In this phenomenological study, I interviewed 15 PAs and asked them to share their experience of working in the position. Through analysis of interview transcripts four themes about the PA experience emerged: managing multiple relationships, setting priorities and making sacrifices, challenges engaging residents, and the PAs' reflection of the outcomes of their experience. This study concludes that the overall essence of being a PA is about balance: balancing relationships, roles, and responsibilities. The way the PAs handle the balance of these areas provides insight into their experience that may be useful in understanding other student leadership positions which involve overlapping roles and responsibilities.

Cross-cultural coping in a Taiwanese cultural context : a qualitative study of Filipina immigrants' utilization of coping strategies within a cross-cultural transition

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Hung Chiao
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Adjustment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Consensual Qualitative Research ◽  
Cultural Transition ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Cultural Coping ◽  
The University ◽  
Age Range

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this study, we aimed to explore the cross-cultural adjustment experiences of Filipina immigrants in Taiwan and their utilization of different coping strategies to intervene with challenges in cross-cultural transitions. Utilizing a feminist paradigm, twelve Filipina immigrants (age range = 29-41 years) who gained their Taiwan citizenship through marriage (duration of stay in Taiwan average = 9.4 years) were interviewed. The Consensual Qualitative Research method (Hill et al., 2005, 1997) was utilized for data analysis. Researchers identified four domains: challenges, coping, strengths, and outcomes, as well as 30 categories within the four domains. Situation-specific coping strategies and outcomes were extracted. Implications for clinical practice and research on cross-cultural coping of immigrant populations were discussed.

TEM study of boron additions to cobalt aluminide

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 546-547
Author(s):  
Gerald B. Feldewerth
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Major Drawback ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Aerospace Applications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ordered Alloys ◽  
The University ◽  
Very High

In recent years an increasing emphasis has been placed on the study of high temperature intermetallic compounds for possible aerospace applications. One group of interest is the B2 aiuminides. This group of intermetaliics has a very high melting temperature, good high temperature, and excellent specific strength. These qualities make it a candidate for applications such as turbine engines. The B2 aiuminides exist over a wide range of compositions and also have a large solubility for third element substitutional additions, which may allow alloying additions to overcome their major drawback, their brittle nature.One B2 aluminide currently being studied is cobalt aluminide. Optical microscopy of CoAl alloys produced at the University of Missouri-Rolla showed a dramatic decrease in the grain size which affects the yield strength and flow stress of long range ordered alloys, and a change in the grain shape with the addition of 0.5 % boron.

Social attribution, correspondence bias, and the emergence of stereotypes *This research has been completed in partial requirement of a doctoral dissertation of the first author under the supervision of the second author. We wish to thank the members of the social psychology division at the University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve, especially Steve Rocher and Emanuele Castano for their insightful comments on preliminary drafts. This paper has been enriched by feedbacks received from Russell Spears, Roos Vonk, Margit Oswald, and anonymous reviewers. Many thanks to Philippe Kemp and Christophe Remy for their assistance in running the study, and to the students who volunteered to appear on the video. This research has been presented at the Social Cognition workshop of the Kurt Lewin Institute, workshop held at the Free University of Amsterdam in April 1998: we want to thank participants of this workshop and especially Gün Semin for their useful feedback. Completion of this study benefited from a research grant from the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research to the first author.

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anouk Rogier ◽  
Vincent Yzerbyt
Keyword(s):  
Correspondence Bias ◽  
Social Attribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dispositional Attributions ◽  
Kurt Lewin ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Group Target ◽  
The University ◽  
Institute Workshop ◽  
Research Grant

Yzerbyt, Rogier and Fiske (1998) argued that perceivers confronted with a group high in entitativity (i.e., a group perceived as an entity, a tight-knit group) more readily call upon an underlying essence to explain people's behavior than perceivers confronted with an aggregate. Their study showed that group entitativity promoted dispositional attributions for the behavior of group members. Moreover, stereotypes emerged when people faced entitative groups. In this study, we replicate and extend these results by providing further evidence that the process of social attribution is responsible for the emergence of stereotypes. We use the attitude attribution paradigm ( Jones & Harris, 1967 ) and show that the correspondence bias is stronger for an entitative group target than for an aggregate. Besides, several dependent measures indicate that the target's group membership stands as a plausible causal factor to account for members' behavior, a process we call Social Attribution. Implications for current theories of stereotyping are discussed.

MARS — Its Tenth Anniversary of Operation and its Future

1980 ◽  
Vol 19 (03) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
G. S. Lodwick ◽  
C. R. Wickizer ◽  
E. Dickhaus
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Administrative Support ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Computer Scientist ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Complete Bibliography ◽  
The University ◽  
Economic Considerations

The Missouri Automated Radiology System recently passed its tenth year of clinical operation at the University of Missouri. This article presents the views of a radiologist who has been instrumental in the conceptual development and administrative support of MARS for most of this period, an economist who evaluated MARS from 1972 to 1974 as part of her doctoral dissertation, and a computer scientist who has worked for two years in the development of a Standard MUMPS version of MARS. The first section provides a historical perspective. The second deals with economic considerations of the present MARS system, and suggests those improvements which offer the greatest economic benefits. The final section discusses the new approaches employed in the latest version of MARS, as well as areas for further application in the overall radiology and hospital environment. A complete bibliography on MARS is provided for further reading.

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