scholarly journals Understanding Youth’s Lived Experience of Anxiety through Metaphors: A Qualitative, Arts-Based Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 4315
Author(s):  
Roberta Lynn Woodgate ◽  
Pauline Tennent ◽  
Nicole Legras
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
Lived Space ◽  
Visual Metaphors ◽  
Participatory Arts ◽  
Lived Time

Living with anxiety can be a complex, biopsychosocial experience that is unique to each person and embedded in their contexts and lived worlds. Scales and questionnaires are necessary to quantify anxiety, yet these approaches are not always able to reflect the lived experience of psychological distress experienced by youth. Guided by hermeneutic phenomenology, our research aimed to amplify the voices of youth living with anxiety. Fifty-eight youth living with anxiety took part in in-depth, open-ended interviews and participatory arts-based methods (photovoice and ecomaps). Analysis was informed by van Manen’s method of data analysis with attention to lived space, lived body, lived time, and lived relationships, as well as the meanings of living with anxiety. Youth relied on the following metaphors to describe their experiences: A shrinking world; The heavy, heavy backpack; Play, pause, rewind, forward; and A fine balance. Overall, youth described their anxiety as a monster, contributing to feelings of fear, loss, and pain, but also hope. The findings from this study can contribute to the reduction of barriers in knowledge translation by encouraging the use of narrative and visual metaphors as a communicative tool to convey youth’s lived experience of anxiety to researchers, clinicians, and the public.

scholarly journals Central Events and Causal Connections: A Narrative Inquiry-Study among Colombian Female Scholars in their Processes as writers

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 33-63
Author(s):  
Bertha Ramos-Holguín ◽  
Anna Carolina Peñaloza-Rallón
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Lived Space ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Causal Connections ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Lived Time

In the Colombian context there has been an increase in the interest for publishing in high impact academic journals. This is due to various factors such as institutional requirements, hiring requirements, categorization of teachers and academic visibility. The purpose of this research-based paper, as a decolonial report, is to portray the central events and the causal connections of three female Colombian authors in their process as writers for academic purposes. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews that emphasized on Van Manen's (1997) four lifeworld existential dimensions that include lived time, lived space, lived body, and lived relation. These dimensions helped us uncover the essences of lived experience. Results indicated that central events and causal connections affect the authors’ experiences in their process as writers.  The key ingredients female authors judge as important events were social interactions with mentors and the context.

scholarly journals Sketch of clinical phenomenology of the lived experience in the COVID-19 pandemic in Northeastern Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
Virginia Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Lived Space ◽  
Online Psychotherapy ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
Clinical Phenomenology ◽  
Video And Audio ◽  
Lived Time

The clinical practice in clinical phenomenology, be it psychiatric or psychological, is based on the philosophical inspiration adopted by the clinician. In my case, I see the world ambiguously and Merleau-Ponty is my philosopher of inspiration. Through these lenses, I see the phenomenon I study as a researcher or the way I relate to my patient as a psychotherapist. I also look through these lenses to write this essay about my lived experience in the pandemic of COVID-19 in 2020. COVID-19 reminds us that we are human and vulnerable. Assuming this vulnerability in its full existential meaning can be empowering, considering vulnerability in its intrinsic sense as a place in life with its ethical and political meanings. In the case of the lived experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in northeastern Brazil, contact with vulnerability, in many situations, is confused with precariousness, which has a more social nature. I also mention that the quarantine imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic required us to communicate with our families and work at home exclusively through video and audio on our computers. Under these circumstances, it is worth reflecting on the changes that we are experiencing in our own functioning, in our lived space and lived body. On the other hand, the lack of fluidity in our existential movement in the lived time is concerning as it affects the structural core of the human being and existential continuity. In this context, I finally present some preliminary thoughts about on-online psychotherapy through phenomenological lens.

Transformative Life Experience as a Glimpse Into Potentiality

2020 ◽  
pp. 002216782093748
Author(s):  
Pninit Russo-Netzer ◽  
Jonathan Davidov
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Theoretical View ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Phenomenological Exploration

Many clients cope with the consequences of transformative life experience (TLE) in psychotherapy. TLE often involves a radical, profound reorganization of or change in one’s life because of resulting formative, life-changing choices. Yet the essence of the mechanism people use to process and make sense of a TLE is unclear. This study is a phenomenological exploration of such experiences that aims to offer a heuristic theoretical view of how such change is constructed and played out. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 120 adults who had coped with the consequences of a TLE. Data analysis was guided by a hermeneutic phenomenology paradigm that postulates that people account for their experience within the four existentials of temporality, spatiality, corporality (embodiment), and relationality. Those lifeworld existentials were utilized as a framework and lens through which to organize the data. This procedure was followed by a hermeneutical interpretation to identify common features of lived experience along all four domains of analysis with the purpose of constructing a conceptual model that illustrates the essence of change during TLE. Implications are considered for utilizing theoretical and applied insights from the model.

scholarly journals Lived Experience of Women Suffering from Vitiligo: A Phenomenological Study

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leili Borimnejad ◽  
Zohreh Yekta ◽  
Alireza Nasrabadi
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
Chronic Skin ◽  
Purposive Sample ◽  
Chronic Skin Disease

Vitiligo is a chronic skin disease, which through change of appearance and body image, exerts a devastating effect on people, especially women. The objective of this study is to explore lived experience of women with Vitiligo by the hermeneutic phenomenology method. The purposive sample consisted of 16 Iranian women. Data analysis followed Diekelmann, Allen, and Tanner (1989). The results showed four main themes: (1) Perceiving myself in a different light; (2) Vitiligo: Worry about others’ perceptions; (3) Vitiligo, Being influenced by cultural beliefs; and (4) Accepting and fighting the disease; Variations in experiences of living with Vitiligo. The women affected with Vitiligo during their marriage-ready years face various psychosocial problems such as rejection by associates, isolation, divorce, and forced choice of a single life.

scholarly journals The Bodily Experiences of Music Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Rūta Girdzijauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Music Teachers ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Lived Space ◽  
Van Manen ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Lived Time

This paper deals with the specifics of a music teacher's work in kindergarten and presents an empirical study, based on the approach of hermeneutic phenomenology. In the research outcomes, the experiences of the music teacher's work in kindergarten are presented through their stories about memorable moments of their professional activity. Initially, in accordance with the theory of Max van Manen, the research data were viewed through the prism of five dimensions (lived time, lived space, lived self-others, lived things, and lived body), typical of all phenomena. The paper discusses one of them, i.e. the teachers' experience from the perspective of the lived body. The stories demonstrate how through the looks, facial mimicry, and body language, moments of the teacher's everyday routine are revealed that would otherwise be overlooked or considered irrelevant.

Resurrected Bodies

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arlene Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Organ Transplant ◽  
Transplant Recipients ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Faith Traditions ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Religious Actors

The anthropological literature on transplant, though theoretically and ethnographically rich, does not address religion in any substantial way. And while bio-ethical considerations of transplant regularly address religion, treatments are generally circumscribed to a list of various faith traditions and their stance toward organ transplant. Such a presentation reduces “religion” to the world’s recognized faith traditions, “religious actors” to the official spokespersons of these traditions, and “religious belief” to moral injunctions. The objective of the thesis was to illuminate the prominent place of religion in the lived experience of transplant recipients and donors, in the public policy and professional activities of transplant officials, and in the transplant discourses of North America

Disequilibrium and Divinity Salience as Invariant Structures in The Halal Executives’ Experience of Eudaimonia

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Jalilah Ahmad ◽  
Rosmimah Mohd. Roslin ◽  
Mohd Ali Bahari Abdul Kadir
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Self ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Living Well ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Invariant Structures

The global Halal industry is large and continues to grow as the global Muslim population increases in size and dispersion. There are 1.84 billion Muslims today spread over 200 countries and is expected to increase to 2.2 billion by 2030. The industry will be worth USD6.4 trillion by the end of 2018 with more non-traditional players and emergent markets. The stakes are high with pressures to generate novel and sustainable practices. This goes beyond systems and hard skills as it needs to cut into the self – the person of virtues in virtuous acts, not because they “have to” but because it is the purpose of humankind or his telos - to be “living well” and “acting well” or eudaimonia. This study seek to explore Halal executives’ lived experience of “eudaimonia.”. Using Giorgi’s descriptive psychological phenomenological method for data analysis, the study elicits two distinct invariant structures – ‘disequilibrium in status quo’ and ‘divinity salience’.

scholarly journals Schnëssen. Surveying language dynamics in Luxembourgish with a mobile research app

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (s1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Entringer ◽  
Peter Gilles ◽  
Sara Martin ◽  
Christoph Purschke
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Picture Naming ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Public ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Research Platform ◽  
Interactive Map

Abstract The mobile app Schnëssen establishes a digital and participatory research platform to collect data on present-day spoken Luxembourgish through crowdsourcing and to present the results of data analysis to the general public. Users can participate in different kinds of audio recording tasks (translation, picture naming, reading, question) as well as in sociolinguistic surveys. All audio recordings are accessible to the public via an interactive map, which allows the participants to explore variation in Luxembourgish themselves. In the first year of data collection, roughly 210.000 recordings have be collected covering numerous variation phenomena on all linguistic levels. Additionally, over 2800 sociolinguistic questionnaires have been filled out. Compiling such amounts of data, the Schnëssen app represents the largest research corpus of spoken Luxembourgish.

The Dance of Words

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-65
Author(s):  
Lis Engel ◽  
Rikke Schou Jeppesen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
General Level ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Movement Experience ◽  
Movement Theory

Abstract This article is about language and lived experiences and analysis of movement of dance within Physical Education studies in Denmark with a special focus on how the language of movement and dance can be related to lived body and movement experience. The issue of the challenges and possibilities of expressing movement experience and analysis in words is discussed at the general level and exemplified in the context of a dance educational event where the movement theory of Rudolf Laban is applied. A central question arising out of this example of working with language and lived experience of movement is: What influence does language have on our way of understanding and communicating a dance experience? The article proposes that a bodily anchored lived language – through an ethic-aesthetic phenomenological approach – may supplement, expand and broaden a given professional terminology in order to articulate, communicate and unfold the experiential dimensions of dance.

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