scholarly journals Investigating the Self-Perceptions and Experiences of Veiled Women in Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-223
Author(s):  
Sidra Noor ◽  
Muhammad A. Malik

The present phenomenological study aimed to explore the perceptions and experiences of veil-taking women. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 purposefully selected Pakistani veil-taking women. Construct validity of the tool was checked through expert opinion from 5 experts from social sciences and qualitative research fields. Respondents reported three main reasons for taking the veil: Islam and Quranic values, family norms, and fashion. All the participants looked at their veil approvingly and considered it a sign of respect, freedom, and empowerment. However, some women reported that they had faced prejudice, discrimination, and stereotypical attitude due to their veil. The study suggests that wearing a veil or not should be the right of a woman. Neither should a person be ridiculed, harassed, or discriminated for taking; nor for not taking it.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhonda K. Rodgers ◽  
Vanessa L. Kettering ◽  
Jeremy P. Hunter

Organizational leaders and decision makers are searching for those who “do the right thing” regardless of moral complexities or cultural norms. Researchers have categorized these individuals as mindful, authentic, etc., and suggest their more attentive, and less reactive nature enables them to maintain unique ways of seeing, thinking, and acting in the world. Interest is building in secular adaptations (e.g., mindfulness training) of teachings from antiquity (e.g., Buddhist mindfulness), however scarce attention has been given to practitioners. To address this lack of understanding about contemplative experiences, a phenomenological study was undertaken to explore contemplative practice as experienced by American businesspeople. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with executives, managers, and career professionals (n = 29) who had an ongoing contemplative practice at the turn of the last century, and follow up interviews were conducted 15 years later to explore the trajectory of these individuals as professionals and contemplatives. At present (n = 7) of the original participants have been interviewed, and their experiences are the focus of this second wave of the study. The broad discovery is that over time, contemplative practice becomes an experiential framework for daily life, informing and influencing life choices in both personal and professional domains.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1476718X2110200
Author(s):  
Eva Mikuska ◽  
Sandra Lyndon

This study investigates our role as early years researchers in qualitative data analysis. We draw on our doctoral studies to address how the co-construction, co-performance and co-reflection of narratives elicit deeper and new understandings of early years workers in England, and how our life stories are co-produced through narrative inquiry. Employing a constructionist approach and building on Buitelaar theorisation of I-positions and the multi-vocal ‘self’, we explore how narratives are co-constructed and co-performed between the researched and researcher in relation to the ‘self’ and master narratives of culture, time and place. Data were collected using focus groups and semi-structured interviews involving 50 early years workers and 17 nurseries situated in the South East of England. By ‘co-reflecting’ on how the data was analysed, we discussed the ways in which we and our participants are simultaneously positioned within social categories of intersectionality, such as gender, social class, mother and worker. Our reflections offer a broader understanding of how qualitative research can enrich existing knowledge of how early years workers and their practice are constructed in England.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reni Juliani

AbstractResearch on Student Stigma About the rise of students veiling on campus (case study at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Political Science at Teuku Umar University in West Aceh District).The purpose of this study is to familiarize students with stigmatization about the rise of students hiding at Teuku Umar Meulaboh University in the West Aceh district.The nature of this research is descriptive qualitative research, where this research aims to give a true picture, and statement on stigmatization of students Faculty of Social Sciences and Political Science at the University of Teuku Umar on rampant students who veiled on their campus.Data collection in this research is done through observation, interview and documentation.The results show that the stigma of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Political Science at the University of Teuku Umar against the veiled students is very positive that the veil has nothing to do with radicalism and terrorism and they accept the presence of students veiling their campus to have.This is because the location of Teuku Umar University in Aceh, which is the area of Islamic sharia and the majority of people accept Islam.Another reason is that there is no specific regulation at Teuku Umar University on how students should apply. The students have to dress politely and neatly.Mutual respect and respect are also the main factors in the non-discrimination of university students.But some students who have veiled at the University of Teuku Umar follow the latest trends. Keywords: Stigma, Students, Veil


2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Conoci ◽  
Elena Cristofori ◽  
Caterina Galletti

Gli operatori sanitari, nell’esercizio professionale quotidiano, si avvalgono di un insieme di regole deontologiche che giustificano la moralità e irreprensibilità dell’atto assistenziale di cui sono garanti. Tuttavia l’iper-specializzazione del sapere e lo sviluppo di nuove tecnologie sottopongono costantemente i professionisti della salute all’impossibilità di conciliare sempre ciò che “è possibile fare” con ciò che “è doveroso” ed “eticamente lecito” fare per il paziente, condizione che potenzialmente genera nell’operatore distress morale. Gli infermieri che sperimentano Moral distress vivono una situazione di forte disagio, poiché riconoscono il comportamento da intraprendere più adeguato alla situazione clinica ma, per svariati motivi, non possono metterlo in pratica trovandosi quindi ad agire in modo contrario ai propri valori professionali. Le ricerche sul distress morale sono state condotte prevalentemente su infermieri. Nel presente studio sono state esaminate le situazioni che provocano conflitto morale nel vissuto degli studenti infermieri, in relazione a tutte quelle situazioni d’assistenza che si collocano al limite di una medicina etica e coscienziosa in termini di proporzionalità dei mezzi impiegati e di gravosità o beneficità dei trattamenti per il paziente. È stato svolto uno studio fenomenologico con interviste scritte semi-strutturate su un campione propositivo di studenti infermieri di una università romana. I testi delle interviste sono stati analizzati con il metodo Giorgi. I risultati hanno evidenziato che il Moral distress si manifesta nel vissuto esperienziale dello studente che è già in grado di delineare situazioni spiacevoli, cause, effetti e, in limitati casi, possibili strategie per rispondere al disagio vissuto nei setting clinici.During the professional practice of every day, caregivers use a set of ethical rules that warrant morality and irreproachability of welfare deed they are guarantors to. Nevertheless, hyperspecialization of knowledge and the development of new technologies, steadily submit professionals of wealth to inability to reconcile many times what “it is possible to do” to what “it is right to do” and “ethically correct” for patients, and that’s what potentially creates moral distress to the caregiver. Nurses who experience this moral distress, live a strong situation of discomfort, because they recognize the right behavior to have in a certain clinic situation but, due to several reasons, they can’t execute as they should, and they are incline to practice against their professional values. The most of surveys about moral distress are all conducted on nurses. This analysis inquires all situations that produce moral conflict in lived of nursing students, related to all those situations that lie on the border between an ethic and conscientious Medicine, about the proportionality in the use of means used and burdensomeness or beneficence of treatments for patients. It was carried out a phenomenological study by written semi-structured interviews on a purposeful sample of nursing students of a roman Campus. The texts of the interviews were analyzed with Giorgi’s method. The results showed that moral distress occurs in experiential lived of a student who is already able to outline unpleasant situations, causes, effects, and in few cases, possible strategies to respond to the distress experienced in clinical settings.


2006 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 100-117
Author(s):  
Agnė Tonkūnaitė

The purpose of this paper is to explore and analyse the situation of labour mobility in the European Union - how Belgium and Lithuania deal with and promote the right of free movement of workers in the EU. The review of migration policy in Europe and specifically in Belgium and Lithuania is presented in the first part of the paper. The research is presented in the second part of the paper. The purpose of this research is to find out and compare the experiences of Belgian and Lithuanian people who were working or are working in another European country than their own. The qualitative research approach and semi-structured interviews were used in this study. The clear list of issues and questions were prepared to interview both Belgian and Lithuanian people who were working or are working in another European country. The interviews conducted with both Belgian and Lithuanian citizens, working (high) skilled work (projects managers, project coordinators, doctors, scientists) reveal their migration purposes and advantages of living and working in a foreign country.


2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (8) ◽  
pp. 972-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam B Evans ◽  
Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson ◽  
Rachel Williams

Swimming and aquatic activity are fields in which gendered, embodied identities are brought to the fore, and the co-presence of other bodies can have a significant impact upon lived experiences. To date, however, there has been little research on sport and physical cultures that investigates how meanings associated with space impact upon women’s embodied experiences of participating in swimming, specifically in the presence of their young children. Using semi-structured interviews and non-participant observations, this qualitative study employed a Foucauldian-feminist framework to explore self-perceptions and embodied experiences of aquatic activity amongst 20 women, who were swimming with children aged under four. Results highlight that through ‘felt’ maternal responsibilities, the co-presence of babies’ and children’s bodies shifted women’s intentionality away from the self towards their child. Mothers’ embodied experiences were grounded in perceptions of space-specific ‘maternal instincts’ and focused upon disciplining their children’s bodies in the lived-space of the swimming pool. Key findings cohere around mothers’ felt concerns about hygiene, water temperature and safety, and elements of intercorporeality and ‘somatic empathy’.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherilyn Chang ◽  
Rajeswari Sambasivam ◽  
Esmond Seow ◽  
Geoffrey Chern-Yee Tan ◽  
Sharon Huixian Lu ◽  
...  

Objective: This study examined self-help strategies engaged by psychotherapy clients and explored their views on such self-help approach.Methods: Secondary analysis of data from a qualitative research study was conducted. A total of 15 psychotherapy clients were recruited, and data were collected via semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis of data was conducted using inductive approach to examine the content.Results: Three main themes revolving around self-help strategies were identified: (1) types of self-help strategies, (2) reasons for engaging in self-help activities, and (3) effectiveness of self-help strategies.Conclusion: The self-help approach to manage distress is common among psychotherapy clients. This study provided insights into understanding how and why clients use self-help strategies in their daily lives.


2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Tarquinio ◽  
Gustave Nicolas Fischer ◽  
Aurélie Gauchet ◽  
Jacques Perarnaud

This study deals with the sociocognitive organization of the self-schema in alcoholic patients. It was aimed at understanding how the self-schema takes shape within the framework of social judgments known to be determinants of personality. Alcoholic subjects were interviewed twice, once during their first consultation for treatment and then again four months later after completion of treatment. Our approach was derived directly from the methodology used by Markus (1977) and Clemmey & Nicassio (1997) in their studies on the self-schema. The subjects had to perform three tasks that required manipulating personality traits with positive and negative connotations (a self-description task in which decision time was measured, an autobiographical task, and a recall task). The results of the first interview showed that 1. in their self-descriptions, alcoholics took more time than control subjects both to accept positive traits and to reject negative ones; 2. unlike control subjects, alcoholics considered more negative traits to be self-descriptive than positive traits, and 3. unlike controls, alcoholics recalled more negative traits than positive ones. By the second interview, the results for the alcoholic subjects on the autobiographical and recall tasks had changed: 1. they now described themselves more positively and less negatively than on the first meeting; 2. they recalled a marginally greater number of positive traits and a significantly smaller number of negative traits, and 3. the differences between the alcoholics and controls indicated an improvement in the alcoholics' self-perceptions.


1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Büssing ◽  
Thomas Bissels

The extended model of different forms of work satisfaction ( Büssing, 1991 ), originally proposed by Bruggemann (1974) , is suggested as a distinctive qualitative approach to work satisfaction. Six forms of work satisfaction—progressive, stabilized, resigned satisfaction, constructive, fixated, resigned dissatisfaction—are derived from the constellation of four constituent variables: comparison of the actual work situation and personal aspirations, global satisfaction, changes in level of aspiration, controllability at work. Preliminary evidence from semi-structured interviews with 46 nurses shows that the dynamic model is headed in the right direction (qualitative differentiation of consistently high propertions of satisfied employees, uncovering processes of person-work situation interaction). Qualitative methods demonstrated their usefulness in accessing underlying cognitive and evaluative processes of the forms, which are often neglected by traditional attitude-based satisfaction research.


Author(s):  
Stefan Krause ◽  
Markus Appel

Abstract. Two experiments examined the influence of stories on recipients’ self-perceptions. Extending prior theory and research, our focus was on assimilation effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in line with a protagonist’s traits) as well as on contrast effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in contrast to a protagonist’s traits). In Experiment 1 ( N = 113), implicit and explicit conscientiousness were assessed after participants read a story about either a diligent or a negligent student. Moderation analyses showed that highly transported participants and participants with lower counterarguing scores assimilate the depicted traits of a story protagonist, as indicated by explicit, self-reported conscientiousness ratings. Participants, who were more critical toward a story (i.e., higher counterarguing) and with a lower degree of transportation, showed contrast effects. In Experiment 2 ( N = 103), we manipulated transportation and counterarguing, but we could not identify an effect on participants’ self-ascribed level of conscientiousness. A mini meta-analysis across both experiments revealed significant positive overall associations between transportation and counterarguing on the one hand and story-consistent self-reported conscientiousness on the other hand.


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