Experiences of music listening among rugby players at North-West University

This article documents a study that investigated the reasons why a group of student rugby players habitually listen to music as part of their pre-match routine. The investigation followed a hermeneutic phenomenological approach that allowed the players to verbalise their personal music listening experiences. The investigation links the music listening practices of the players with the concept of musical experience as an innate human capacity directed towards general well-being. For the players, well-being is a basic condition of happiness and optimism. Achieving and maintaining this condition draws on the emotive qualities of musical sound patterns, as well as the powerful, socially situated meanings of song lyrics. Consequent states of mind conceptualise a rewarding existence by integrating experiences in sport as well as in music. Directed towards rugby practice, the study found that music listening is an informal, individual activity that involves the use of earphones. The sense of personal isolation this induces is a prerequisite for generating focus as well as controlled energy, a state of mind regarded as essential for effective participation in rugby. The pervasive use yet informal application of this strategy by rugby players points to an officially undervalued psychological resource. This finding has implications for fuller exploitation and incorporation of music listening into rugby training programmes.

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The experience of adolescents who have a parent with advanced cancer: A phenomenological inquiry

Palliative & Supportive Care ◽

10.1017/s1478951514001023 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 1057-1069 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Farya Phillips

Keyword(s):

Advanced Cancer ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Well Being ◽

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Parental Cancer ◽

Open Communication ◽

Phenomenological Inquiry ◽

Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽

Semistructured Interviews ◽

Being There

AbstractObjective:Adolescents are considered the group most susceptible to negative psychosocial outcomes when faced with a parent's illness. However, there has been extremely limited research on the adolescent's adjustment to advanced parental cancer. The aim of our study was to gain understanding of the experiences of adolescents, in their own words, to gather pilot data about the needs of this population that will be valuable in developing interventions for adolescents facing parental cancer.Method:A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was applied using in-depth semistructured interviews to inquire about adolescents' experiences. Some 10 adolescents (7 males, 3 females) aged 14–17 were interviewed.Results:Four essential themes about adolescents living with a parent's advanced cancer emerged from the analysis: “life interrupted,” “being there,” “managing emotions,” and “positives prevail.” These findings underscore the significant impact an advanced cancer diagnosis can have on a family unit and suggest that the experience may also have the potential of creating opportunities for growth and well-being. Our findings reinforce previous results that advocate for the importance of family and peer support, positive attitude, and open communication when a family is coping with advanced parental cancer.Significance of results:Understanding how adolescents gain strength from their relationships with family and peers offers healthcare professionals an opportunity to have services and strategies in place to foster these relationships.

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Factors Contributing to Delayed Health Seeking Behaviours Among Adolescents

Global Journal of Health Science ◽

10.5539/gjhs.v11n13p67 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (13) ◽

pp. 67

Author(s):

Ripfumelo F. Mboweni ◽

Gsakani O. Sumbane

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Waiting Times ◽

Negative Attitude ◽

Well Being ◽

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Health Seeking ◽

North West ◽

Seeking Behavior ◽

Clinic Manager ◽

The University

BACKGROUND: Most adolescents for various reasons fail to go and seek for health care regarding health risks and challenges until they are faced with the complications. The socio-cultural belief concerning the causes of illnesses and its characteristic has correlation with the treatment seeking behaviour of an individual. OBJECTIVES: The study explored and described factors contributing to delayed health-seeking behaviours amongst adolescents in Kutlwanong clinic, North West Province. METHOD: This was a qualitative study designed using a phenomenological approach. Individual semi-structured in-depth interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. 8 Steps of Tesch’s inductive, descriptive open coding technique by Creswell was used followed by independent coding. Purposive sampling recruited fourteen participants aged 15–18 years. Trustworthiness criteria adhered to were credibility, dependability, transferability, and confirmability. Ethical clearance was sought with the University of Limpopo. RESULTS: Factors that negatively impact adolescents’ health-seeking behavior include the negative attitude of nurses and community, influenced by peers, shortage of medicine, lack of services throughout weekends, long queues, waiting times, distance, and lack of knowledge. Family planning and antenatal care were the common reason for seeking health care. CONCLUSION: Being aware of factors contributing to delay health-seeking behaviours will facilitate with setting future priorities to guard the health, well-being, and dignity of adolescents. The impacts of youth programs must be monitored on a regular basis to assess the needs and capabilities of specific facilities. Clinic manager to ensure compliance with the national core standards to meet adolescent’s immediate expectations.

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Reconciling Dichotomous Demands: Telemarketing Agents in Bangalore and Mumbai, India

The Qualitative Report ◽

10.46743/2160-3715/2007.1637 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Ernesto Noronha ◽

Premilla D'Cruz

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Well Being ◽

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Snowball Sampling ◽

Business Process Outsourcing ◽

Negative Experiences ◽

Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽

Positive Experiences ◽

Employment Potential ◽

Conversational Interviews

Though outsourcing has created enormous employment potential in India’s information technology enabled services/business process outsourcing (ITES/BPO) sector, the implications for employees remain to be understood. The present paper describes employee experiences in telemarketing outbound call centers in Bangalore and Mumbai, India. Following van Manen’s (1998) hermeneutic phenomenological approach, data were collected through unstructured conversational interviews with 18 telemarketing agents identified vi a snowball sampling and were subject to holistic and sententious thematic analyses. Reconciling dichotomous experiences at work was the label used to capture participants’ core experiences and indicated that while participants’ simultaneous positive and negative experiences contributed to a sense of concomitant stress and well-being, they employed various strategies to maintain a balance between positive experiences/well-being and negative experiences/stress.

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The Frontline Nurse’s Experience of Nursing Outlier Patients

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17145232 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (14) ◽

pp. 5232

Author(s):

Jasmine Cheung ◽

Sandra West ◽

Maureen Boughton

Keyword(s):

Registered Nurses ◽

Well Being ◽

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Face To Face ◽

Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽

South Wales ◽

Renal Patient ◽

Depth Interviews ◽

Improve Patient ◽

Health And Well Being

The frontline nurses’ experience of nursing with overstretched resources in acute care setting can affect their health and well-being. Little is known about the experience of registered nurses faced with the care of a patient outside their area of expertise. The aim of this paper is to explore the phenomenon of nursing the outlier patient, when patients are nursed in a ward that is not specifically developed to deal with the major clinical diagnosis involved (e.g., renal patient in gynecology ward). Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, eleven individual face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with registered nurses in New South Wales, Australia. The study identified that each nurse had a specialty construct developed from nursing in a specialized environment. Each nurse had normalized the experience of specialty nursing and had developed a way of thinking and practicing theorized as a “care ladder”. By grouping and analyzing various “care ladders” together, the nursing capacities common to nurses formed the phenomenological orientation, namely “the composite care ladder”. Compared to nursing specialty-appropriate patients, nursing the outlier patient caused disruption of the care ladder, with some nurses becoming less capable as they were nursing the outlier patient. Nursing the outlier patient disrupted the nurses’ normalized constructs of nursing. This study suggests that nursing patients in specialty-appropriate wards will improve patient outcomes and reduce impacts on the nurses’ morale.

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Schoolchildren’s play – A tool for health education

Health Education Journal ◽

10.1177/0017896919862299 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 79 (1) ◽

pp. 21-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Margareta Sjöblom ◽

Lars Jacobsson ◽

Kerstin Öhrling ◽

Catrine Kostenius

Keyword(s):

Health Education ◽

Design Method ◽

Well Being ◽

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Medium Size ◽

Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽

Conflict Situations ◽

Inner Child ◽

Grade 3 ◽

Health And Well Being

Objective: The purpose of this study was to gain more knowledge about the phenomenon of the inner child in relation to health and well-being as reflected in play experienced by schoolchildren. Design/method: Participants were 20 schoolchildren recruited from a primary school in a medium-size city in central Sweden. The children who agreed to participate were 14 girls and 6 boys aged between 9 and 10 years old in grade 3. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to analyse the data consisting of the schoolchildren’s drawings and transcribed interviews. Participants’ verbal reflections on their drawings enabled deeper insight into their lived experiences of play. Results: Findings from this study demonstrate how schoolchildren are influenced by the inner child in childhood to handle conflicts, to cope, to make choices, to build relationships to connect and to dream about the future. The schoolchildren in this study developed their coping skills in conflict situations as part of friendship making. Conclusion: The value play offers for health and well-being reveals how schoolchildren are influenced by the inner child in childhood. Gaining knowledge from schoolchildren’s own voices about play makes a worthwhile contribution to research. In addition, the value play provides to schoolchildren’s health and well-being suggest that play can be an important tool as part of health education.

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Impact of critical illness news on the family: hermeneutic phenomenological study

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0163 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 71 (1) ◽

pp. 170-177 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Anabela Pereira Mendes

Keyword(s):

Critical Illness ◽

Phenomenological Study ◽

Family Members ◽

Well Being ◽

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽

The Family ◽

The Impact ◽

Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study

ABSTRACT Objective: Understand the impact of critical-illness news on the experience of family members at an Intensive Care Unit. Method: Phenomenological approach according to Van Manen's method. Open interviews were held with 21 family members. From analysis and interpretation of the data, three essential themes were identified: the unexpected; the pronouncement of death; and the impact on self-caring within the family. The study complied with the ethical principles inherent to research involving humans. Results: The unexpected news and death of the sick person influence the well-being and self-care of family members, affecting their ability for analysis and decision making. It was observed that the family experiences the news with suffering, mainly due to the anticipation arising from the events. Final considerations: The humanity of nurses was revealed in response to the needs of the family. In view of the requirements for information, it was verified that the information transmitted allowed them to become aware of themselves, to become empowered in their daily lives and to alleviate the emotional burden experienced.

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Vēsturiskā atmiņa Latvijas teātra jaunās paaudzes mākslinieku darbos: izrādes „Dvēseļu utenis” piemērs

Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā: rakstu krājums ◽

10.37384/aplkp.2020.25.269 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 269-275

Author(s):

Ieva Rodiņa

Keyword(s):

Historical Memory ◽

Intergenerational Relationships ◽

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Political Theater ◽

Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽

The Past ◽

The Social ◽

Humanistic Study ◽

New Generation ◽

Flea Market

The aim of the research “Historical Memory in the Works of the New Generation of Latvian Theater Artists: The Example of “The Flea Market of the Souls” is to focus on the current but at the same time little discussed topic in Latvian theater – the change of generations and the social processes connected to it, that are expressed on the level of world views, experiences, intergenerational relationships. Most directly, these changes are reflected in the phenomenon of historical memory. The concept of “postmemory” was defined by German professor Marianne Hirsch in 1992, suggesting that future generations are closely related to the personal and collective cultural traumas of previous generations, which are passing on the past experience through historical memory, thus affecting the present. Grotesque, self-irony, and focusing on socio-political, provocative questions and themes are the connecting point of the generation of young Latvian playwrights born in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including such personalities as Jānis Balodis, Rasa Bugavičute-Pēce, Matīss Gricmanis, Justīne Kļava, etc. However, unlike Matīss Gricmanis or Janis Balodis who represent the aesthetics of political theater, in Justīne Kļava’s works, sociopolitical processes become the background of a generally humanistic study of the relationships between generations. This theme is represented not only in “The Flea Market of the Souls”, but also in other plays, like “Jubilee ‘98” and “Club “Paradise””. The tendency to investigate the traces left by the Soviet heritage allows to define these works as autobiographical researches of the identity of the post-Soviet generation, analyzing life in today's Latvia in terms of historical memory. Using the semiotic, hermeneutic, phenomenological approach, the play “The Flea Market of the Souls” and its production in Dirty Deal Teatro (2017) are analyzed as one of the most vivid works reflecting the phenomenon of historical memory in recent Latvian original drama.

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Musical Engagement is Linked to Posttraumatic Resilience: The Role of Gender, Personality, and Music Listening Styles After Childhood Trauma

Music & Science ◽

10.1177/2059204321993731 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 205920432199373

Author(s):

Nora Rosenberg ◽

David M. Greenberg ◽

Michael E. Lamb

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Childhood Trauma ◽

Mental Health Professionals ◽

Coping Styles ◽

Adult Survivors ◽

Well Being ◽

Small Sample ◽

Music Listening ◽

Affective Engagement ◽

Musical Engagement

Previous research on the links between music and posttraumatic resilience have typically relied on small sample sizes and case studies from clinical settings. To address this important gap, we conducted an online study to measure childhood trauma and adult musical engagement in everyday life in non-clinical contexts. The present study ( N = 634) investigated these links by administering online questionnaires about musical engagement, personality, and demographics to adult survivors of childhood trauma. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that social music listening predicted increased well-being in males while affective music listening predicted decreased well-being in males. Gender moderated the interaction between affective engagement and well-being: affective engagement was linked to increased well-being in females and a decrease in males. Furthermore, neuroticism moderated the interaction between narrative listening and well-being: narrative listening was linked to increased well-being for participants with low neuroticism and a decrease for those with high neuroticism. These findings may reflect general gender differences in coping styles: emotional reflection for females and emotional distraction for males, and suggest gender differences in attentional biases, rumination, and capacities for disassociation. Taken together, the results show that there are individual differences in musical engagement and posttraumatic resilience based on gender and personality. These findings are useful for the development of music-based coping strategies that mental health professionals can tailor for individual clients.

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