scholarly journals When words become difficult: a critical reflection of the ‘MeBox’ method in understanding senior travellers’ responses to loss

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-106
Author(s):  
Uditha Ramanayake ◽  
Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten ◽  
Alison McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Major Life ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Visual Tool ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Emotional Aspects

Multiple dimensions of our experiences such as visual, embodied and sensory experiences cannot always be easily expressed in words. Traditional qualitative methods may struggle to access these deep-rooted complex and emotional aspects. Tourism scholars have called for innovative methodologies to unravel layers of diverse meaning in phenomena. This article critically reflects on a visual tool called the ‘MeBox’. It was adopted in our study to explore senior travellers’ responses to loss following a major life event. The ‘MeBox’ method enabled participants to express embedded and tacit knowledge to reflect on their lived experiences. We critically review the ‘MeBox’ methodology, and provide practical learnings for scholars who may want to adopt this method as a means to understand lived experiences that are difficult to express in words.

When words become difficult: a critical reflection of the ‘MeBox’ method in understanding senior travellers’ responses to loss

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Uditha Ramanayake ◽  
Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten ◽  
Alison McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Major Life ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Visual Tool ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Emotional Aspects

Multiple dimensions of our experiences such as visual, embodied and sensory experiences cannot always be easily expressed in words. Traditional qualitative methods may struggle to access these deep-rooted complex and emotional aspects. Tourism scholars have called for innovative methodologies to unravel layers of diverse meaning in phenomena. This article critically reflects on a visual tool called the ‘MeBox’. It was adopted in our study to explore senior travellers’ responses to loss following a major life event. The ‘MeBox’ method enabled participants to express embedded and tacit knowledge to reflect on their lived experiences. We critically review the ‘MeBox’ methodology, and provide practical learnings for scholars who may want to adopt this method as a means to understand lived experiences that are difficult to express in words.

scholarly journals Emotional intelligence as a part of critical reflection in social work practice and research

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502110247
Author(s):  
Mari D Herland
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Emotional Aspects

Social workers often experience higher levels of burnout compared with other healthcare professionals. The capacity to manage one’s own emotional reactions efficiently, frequently in complex care settings, is central to the role of social workers. This article highlights the complexity of emotions in social work research and practice by exploring the perspective of emotional intelligence. The article is both theoretical and empirical, based on reflections from a qualitative longitudinal study interviewing fathers with behavioural and criminal backgrounds, all in their 40 s. The analysis contains an exploration of the researcher position that illuminates the reflective, emotional aspects that took place within this interview process. Three overall themes emerged – first: Recognising emotional complexity; second: Reflecting on emotional themes; and third: Exploring my own prejudices and preconceptions. The findings apply to both theoretical and practical social work, addressing the need to understand emotions as a central part of critical reflection and reflexivity. The argument is that emotions have the potential to expand awareness of one’s own preconceptions, related to normative societal views. This form of analytical awareness entails identifying and paying attention to one’s own, sometimes embodied, emotional triggers.

Does organisational justice protect from sickness absence following a major life event? A Finnish public sector study

2009 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 470-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Elovainio ◽  
M. Kivimaki ◽  
A. Linna ◽  
J. Brockner ◽  
K. van den Bos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Sickness Absence ◽  
Major Life ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Major Life Event ◽  
Organisational Justice

Anthropological Description of a Modern Urban Wedding

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-2) ◽  
pp. 373-388
Author(s):  
Ksenia Yarushina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
The Status ◽  
Young Family ◽  
Wedding Ceremony ◽  
Detailed Interpretation

The article applies K. Geertz scientific approach of ‘detailed description’ to a modern urban wedding. The work is based on materials of field research into the marriage practices among young Perm families. The research techniques included semi-formal interviews and case-studies of 26 persons (13 families) during the period 2016–2020. These qualitative methods were necessary to get information about an important life event: from the first meeting a future partner to the wedding ceremony. Such methods helped identify cultural bases for the bride and groom’s practices. The paper provides a detailed interpretation of only one case, consisting of several narrative sections. Every narrative is a personal view of the participant at the wedding ceremony. The narrative “wedding as a drama” shows a woman’s interpretation of the celebration. The bride’s story has some negative connotations. The bride expresses rejection of the wedding procedure and some of its attributes. The narrative “wedding as a holiday” represents the man’s view. The groom’s comments contain mostly positive connotations. His story highlights the status elements of the celebration. He stresses his family’s contribution to the wedding ceremony. Analyzing both narratives, an additional aspect of the topic was explored: “wedding as a parents’ project”. It shows the older generation’s role in the organization of the wedding. In addition, the paper describes some stories which are repeated in the narratives, including various forms of objectification, gender roles in the young family, and shifting of social roles.

II. Brief Reactive Psychosis and the Major Functional Psychoses: Descriptive Case Studies in Africa

1992 ◽  
Vol 160 (S16) ◽  
pp. 24-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Guinness
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Distinct Group ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Major Life ◽  
Single Episode ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Rapid Social Change ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Functional Psychoses

In a three-year prospective study of service-based incidence of functional psychoses in Africa, 94 cases of brief reactive psychosis were compared with 56 cases of schizophreniform syndromes, 29 cases of DSM-III schizophrenia and 14 of manic-depressive psychosis. This was supplemented by retrospective study of the same syndromes not in their first episode. Brief reactive psychosis was found to be a composite syndrome. The 50% with preceding depression were a distinct group, in terms of course and demographic features. Of those with intense prodromal anxiety, most were a single episode precipitated by a major life event, a few showed a recurrent long-term pattern. Schizophrenia was heralded, or presented unequivocally months or years later, in 10-20%. The schizophreniform group comprised a range of atypical psychoses intermediate between the transient and major psychoses. The pattern of precipitants and the over-representation of education and paid employment in the acute syndromes, compared with the major psychoses, in a society which was largely first-generation educated, suggested a link with rapid social change.

Preferred Retirement Timing and Retirement Satisfaction in Women

1987 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximiliane Szinovacz
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Major Life ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Occupational Position ◽  
Role Transitions ◽  
Major Life Event ◽  
Adjustment Processes ◽  
Retirement Timing

Previous research on retirement relied heavily on samples of male retirees; it also emphasized objective predictors of retirement adjustment, such as occupational position, income, or age. Some recent studies, however, indicate that retirement signifies a major life event for women. Furthermore, as the literature on role transitions suggests, it is a combination of objective and subjective retirement circumstances that impinge on adaptation to this life event. This study explores retirement conditions affecting women's preferred retirement timing and retirement satisfaction. It is based on the assumption that sex differences in the retirement experience render retirement adjustment processes different for men and women, and it aims at identifying retirement conditions that are of primary importance to women.

Qualitative Methods, Critical Geography, and Education

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Helfenbein
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
The Social ◽  
Teachers And Students

The work known as critical geography, a distinct yet varied subfield of spatial analysis, seeks to understand how the social construction of both space and place interact with, resist, and reinforce structures of power and the work of individual and collective identity. A critical geography approach to qualitative educational research privileges inquiry that includes how the lived experiences of schools (i.e., students, teachers, schools, communities) are defined, constrained, and potentially liberated by spatial relationships in both discursive and material ways. That is, a critical geography approach includes how such understandings may be used, for example, to critically examine how spaces are used, by whom, when, and how in the process of learning and not learning; what spaces mean (and mean differently) for different people inhabiting the spaces of education; how spaces are used to construct identities, allegiances, and bodies; how they act pedagogically to position bodies to know and be known; and the kind of pedagogies they help make possible and intelligible for both teachers and students in classrooms.

CASE STUDY AS A METHOD OF HUMANITARIAN RESEARCH

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (101) ◽  
pp. 193-201
Author(s):  
ELENA V. PISKUNOVA
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Case Method ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

The article considers the case method as a method of humanitarian research that can be used to conceptualize knowledge, to confirm existing theories and to put forward new hypotheses. This method is especially appropriate for studying atypical cases. The method involves a critical reflection of the researcher who deliberately looks for contradictions in the research information obtained by quantitative and qualitative methods. The stages of implementation of the research method are indicated.

scholarly journals Major life event – diagnosis of schizophrenia in offspring and risk for cancer

2004 ◽  
Vol 90 (7) ◽  
pp. 1364-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
S O Dalton ◽  
T M Laursen ◽  
P B Mortensen ◽  
C Johansen
Keyword(s):  
Major Life ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Major Life Event
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