scholarly journals The role of spirituality as a coping mechanism for South African traffic officers

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rochelle Jacobs ◽  
Annelize Van Niekerk
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Coping Mechanism ◽  
Adaptive Coping ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Interpretive Paradigm ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Work And Life

Traffic officers are faced with many stressful situations, yet each traffic officer might cope differently with these stressors. Spirituality is regarded as an essential defence in stressful situations. Therefore, this article provides a basic framework guiding traffic officers and practitioners, on how spirituality can be used as a coping mechanism when faced with various work-related stressors. An interpretative, qualitative study was conducted utilising purposive sampling in which 10 traffic officers participated in in-depth interviews. In line with the interpretive paradigm, data were analysed using content analysis. The research findings indicate when utilising spirituality to various degrees in their workplace, traffic officers displayed adaptive coping capabilities. Traffic officers associated less spirituality or a lack thereof with weaker coping capability. Furthermore, spirituality in traffic officers is informed by their spiritual or religious foundation, their purpose in work and life, their connection to a spiritual source, and the fruits of spirituality. The coping ability of traffic officers is influenced by their upbringing and background, by stressors in their work environment and by their coping mechanisms. The role of spirituality in the coping of traffic officers culminated in their ability to interpret the meaning of spirituality, and then implementing spirituality as a coping mechanism.

“(Not) forever talk”: restaurant employees managing occupational stigma consciousness

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Michiko Shigihara
Keyword(s):  
Food Service ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Stigma Consciousness ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Future Selves ◽  
Restaurant Employees ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Depth Interviews

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine restaurant employees’ engagement in identity work to manage occupational stigma consciousness.Design/methodology/approachResearch methods included ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews.FindingsWidespread societal stigma attached to food service work disturbed participants’ sense of coherence. Therefore, they undertook harmonizing their present and envisioned selves with “forever talk,” a form of identity work whereby people discursively construct desired, favorable and positive identities and self-concepts by discussing what they view themselves engaged and not engaged in forever. Participants employed three forever talk strategies: conceptualizing work durations, framing legitimate careers and managing feelings about employment. Consequently, their talk simultaneously resisted and reproduced restaurant work stigmatization. Findings elucidated occupational stigma consciousness, ambivalence about jobs considered “bad,” “dirty” and “not real,” discursive tools for negotiating laudable identities, and costs of equivocal work appraisals.Originality/valueThis study provides a valuable conceptual and theoretical contribution by developing a more comprehensive understanding of occupational stigma consciousness. Moreover, an identity work framework helps explain how and why people shape identities congruent with and supportive of self-concepts. Forever talk operates as a temporal “protect and preserve” reconciliation tool whereby people are able to construct positive self-concepts while holding marginalized, stereotyped and stigmatized jobs. This paper offers a unique empirical case of the ways in which people talk about possible future selves when their employment runs counter to professions normatively evaluated as esteemed and lifelong. Notably, research findings are germane for analyzing any identities (work and non-work related) that pose incoherence between extant and desired selves.

scholarly journals Renegotiating power in adult safeguarding: the role of advocacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah P. Lonbay ◽  
Toby Brandon
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
North East ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The increased involvement of adults at risk in the safeguarding process has become a prominent issue within English safeguarding policy. However, there is evidence to suggest that actual levels of involvement are still low. The purpose of this paper is to present findings from a PhD study in relation to the benefits of advocacy in supporting this involvement in adult safeguarding for older people. Design/methodology/approach Participants in the study included advocates and social workers who had experience of working with older people through the safeguarding process within two North East England local authorities. A critical realist approach through in-depth interviews was taken with all the participants. Findings The research findings in relation to the benefits of advocacy in supporting older people going through safeguarding processes are reported. The practical limitations and factors which help and hinder advocacy support within the process are also considered. The theoretical implications for power, empowerment, and advocacy are also explored. Research limitations/implications A key limitation of this research is that it did not include older people who had been through safeguarding amongst the participants. Practical implications Key implications for practice and policy are discussed. Originality/value The paper provides an overview and critique of empowerment in adult safeguarding and the role that advocates play in promoting this key principle.

scholarly journals When Evidence is not Taken for Granted: The Use and Perception of “Evidence” in the Czech Republic Ministries

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnošt Veselý ◽  
František Ochrana ◽  
Martin Nekola
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Large N ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract The role of evidence in policy-making is one of the most researched topics in public policy and public administration. However, surprisingly little research has been done on how public officials actually use evidence in everyday life practice. Moreover, these studies have been limited to countries that have been influenced by the evidence-based policy movement (EBP). Little is known about how the evidence is conceptualized and utilized in other countries which have not been so strongly influenced by EBP movement. This paper addresses this gap. Using a large-N survey on the Czech ministerial officials and in-depth interviews with them, we explore what is understood under the term of “evidence”, what kind of evidence is used and preferred by public officials and why. In doing so, we use four theoretical perspectives on the use of evidence. We show that despite the long-established tradition of using research in policy-making the importance of research evidence in the Czech Republic is far from being taken for granted. On the contrary, the immediate and personal experience is often preferred over the research findings. The exception to that are census-like statistical data and comparative data published by international organizations. We find some support for the two-communities metaphor, though these communities are not defined by their socio-demographic characteristics, but rather by their internal discourse and understanding of evidence.

scholarly journals The Moderating Effect of Gender on Adaptive Coping Mechanisms and Financial Stress

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
Francis Osei-Kuffour ◽  
Williams Kwasi Peprah
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Financial Stress ◽  
Private University ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Coping Mechanism ◽  
Adaptive Coping ◽  
Correlational Design ◽  
Very High

It is a fact that financial stress impact university students. Given this notion, this research looked at the moderating impact of gender on the adaptive coping mechanism of private university students on their financial stress. The research was a descriptive-correlational design. The study conveniently employed 369 respondents of the primer private university in Ghana (Valley View University), out of a population of 9,000 to answer self-constructed questionnaires with Cronbach Alpha of .806 for adaptive coping mechanism and .845 for financial stress. The data were analyzed descriptively based on the central tendency with SPSS and regression Process v3.2 by Andrew F. Hayes model 1. The study revealed that there was a very high financial stress among private university students in Ghana and they have a high adaptive coping mechanism. The students used emotion-focus than problem-focus coping mechanisms in managing their financial stress. Also, there was a moderate positive significant association between financial stress and adaptive coping mechanism. However, the adaptive coping mechanisms could predict financial stress by 11.65%. There was a significant enhancing moderating effect of gender on adaptive coping mechanisms and financial stress relationship. With time the males' financial stress moderately decrease based on their rate of change to adaptive coping mechanism, while the females have a high increasing coping mechanism in managing their financial stress. The study recommends that an investigation into the outstanding 88.35% of adaptive coping mechanisms which can predict the financial stress of private university students in Ghana.

Informal Institutions and Entrepreneurial Orientation: An Exploratory Investigation into Vietnamese Small and Medium Enterprises

2018 ◽  
pp. 107-124
Author(s):  
Tuan Anh Bui ◽  
Mai Thi Tuyet Nguyen ◽  
Minh Hoang Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Informal Institutions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Exploratory Investigation ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study explores the informal institutions in Vietnam and their impact on entrepreneurial orientation of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises (SMEs). A qualitative study was conducted through in-depth interviews with 21 SMEs in Hanoi2, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City. The research findings suggest the important role of informal institutions in the context of Vietnam. Specifically, two main components of informal institutions, corruption and institutional trust, are found to have effects on entrepreneurial orientation of SMEs. The research findings are discussed and implications for SME managers and policy makers are provided.

scholarly journals ‘Music of origin’: class, social category and the performers and audience of kiba, a South African migrant genre

Africa ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah James
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Performance Theory ◽  
Social Category ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Work Related ◽  
African Migrant ◽  
Modern Work

AbstractThis article uses a case study of the kiba migrant performance genre from the Northern Province of South Africa to illuminate recent theoretical ideas on the role of performers and audiences, and in so doing to offer a critical perspective on the way in which the concept of class has been conceptualised in some southern African studies. While the homogenising and Western-derived concept of class may well be unsuitable in some African and other southern contexts, as certain writers have claimed, migrant northern Sotho communities have developed indigenous notions of social category which combine modern work-related sources of identity with apparently backward-looking celebrations of traditional behaviour. The article examines the contention of performance theory that cultural expression does not merely reflect the predilections of established groupings of people but may provide a focus for the consolidation and identity of new ones.

scholarly journals Mekanisme Koping pada Pasien Gagal Ginjal Kronik yang menjalani Hemodialisis di Unit Hemodialisa RSUD Bandung

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Angga Satria Pratama ◽  
Andria Pragholapati ◽  
Ikhwan Nurrohman
Keyword(s):  
Renal Failure ◽  
Chronic Renal Failure ◽  
Kidney Failure ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Chronic Kidney Failure ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Coping Mechanism ◽  
Adaptive Coping ◽  
Renal Disorder ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive

Gagal ginjal kronik merupakan gangguan renal yang progresif dan irreversible dimana kemampuan tubuh gagal mempertahankan metabolisme dan keseimbangan dan elektrolit, pasien gagal ginjal kronik harus menjalani terapi hemodialisis secara terus menerus seumur hidup dan akan menimbulkan masalah fisik dan psikologis yaitu depresi, pasien harus memiliki upaya dalam menyelesaikan masalah yang dihadapinnya yang dikenal dengan mekanisme koping. Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui mekanisme koping pada pasien gagal ginjal kronik yang menjalani terapi hemodialisis di unit hemodialisa Rumah Sakit Umum Daerah Kota Bandung.Metode penelitian menggunakan deskriptif kuantitatif. Sampel dalam penelitian ini menggunakan total sampling yaitu sebanyak 51 responden pasien gagal ginjal kronik yang menjalani terapi hemodialisis.Hasil penelitian mekanisme koping lebih dari setengahnya adalah mekanisme koping adaptif sebanyak 38 orang (74.5%). Berdasarkan hasil penelitian Perawat di ruang hemodialisa diharapkan dapat meningkatkan asuhan keperawatan secara menyeluruh yang bukan hanya biologisnya saja tapi pada psikologis pasien gagal ginjal kronik juga, seperti memberikan konseling sehingga pasien mampu menggunakan mekanisme koping yang adaptif.Kata Kunci: gagal ginjal; hemodialisis; mekanisme koping MECHANISM OF COPING IN CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS AT REGIONAL PUBLIC HOSPITAL OF BANDUNG ABSTRACT Chronic renal failure is a progressive and irreversible renal disorder in which the body's ability to fail to maintain metabolism and balance and electrolytes, patients with chronic renal failure must undergo continuous hemodialysis therapy for life and it will cause physical and psychological problems namely depression, patients must have the effort to resolve the problem that is facing by knowing the coping mechanism. The purpose of this study was to determine the coping mechanism in chronic kidney failure patients undergoing hemodialysis therapy in the hemodialysis unit of Regional Public Hospital of Bandung City.The research method used quantitative descriptive. The sample in this study used a total sampling of 51 respondents from chronic kidney failure patients undergoing hemodialysis therapy.The results of research on coping mechanisms more than half are adaptive coping mechanisms as many as 38 people (74.5%). Based on the results of research Nurses in the hemodialysis room are expected to improve overall nursing care that is not only biologically but also psychologically in patients with chronic kidney failure, such as providing counseling so that patients are able to use adaptive coping mechanisms. Keywords: kidney failure; hemodialysis; coping mechanism

Co-creating luxury brands in an emerging market

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beate Elizabeth Stiehler
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Luxury Brands ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Brand Knowledge ◽  
Segmentation Approach ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore consumer meaning-making and brand co-creation and the role of brand value and the consumption context of luxury goods in the emerging South African market. Design/methodology/approach An extant segmentation approach that classifies luxury brand consumers into four different segments was used to guide the identification of a total of 16 luxury consumers with whom in-depth interviews were conducted. Findings The findings identify differences between four consumer segments’ levels of brand knowledge and indicate how these differing levels produce interesting meanings assigned to luxury brands which in turn co-create the brands. A framework is also proposed that maps each of the four luxury segments according to the value they derive from luxury brands and the context in which luxury consumption holds the most meaning for each segment. Practical implications Managerial recommendations concerning the implications of consumers assigning meaning and value to luxury brands and recommendations pertaining to the managing and positioning of luxury brands to each of the four luxury segments in this market are proposed. Originality/value The study provides interesting insights with regards to how consumers assign meaning and value to luxury brands in the emerging South African market. The proposed framework also uniquely demonstrates underlying behaviours within each of the four luxury segments and contributes to a better understanding of how and why these segments consume luxury brands.

scholarly journals Analysis of Factors Related To Adolescents Preparedness in The Disaster-Prone Areas In Lempake Village, Samarinda

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1434-1444
Author(s):  
Dwi Rahmah Fitriani ◽  
Alfi Ari Fakhrur Rizal ◽  
Milkhatun Milkhatun ◽  
Ni Wayan Wiwin Astiningsih
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
High School Education ◽  
Bivariate Analysis ◽  
P Value ◽  
Coping Mechanism ◽  
Adaptive Coping ◽  
Support Factor

The results of this study indicated that the characteristics of the respondents were mostly in their early adolescence with 408 people (67.8%), 346 women (57.1%) and 317 people with a high school education background (53.4%). Anxiety factor having moderate anxiety were 436 people (71.9%), the coping mechanism factor of the respondents having an adaptive coping mechanism were 338 people (55.8%) and the respondents social support factor having good social support were 319 people ( 52.6%) and most of the respondents (349 people (57.6%)) had a good preparedness. The results of the bivariate analysis showed that the p value <α (α = 0.05, CI; 95%) which indicates that there is a relationship between anxiety factors, coping mechanisms and social support with adolescent preparedness. The results of multivariate analysis using Logistic Regression (OR value: 5.1) found that the anxiety factor was the most significant factor associated with adolescent preparedness

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