The comfort derived from social comparisons at a camp for youth with neuromuscular disease

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Doug Knapp, PhD ◽  
Shay Dawson, MA, CTRS ◽  
Jennifer Piatt, PhD, CTRS ◽  
Mary Ann Devine, PhD, CTRS ◽  
Eric Knackmuhs, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Neuromuscular Disease ◽  
Social Comparisons ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Residential Programs ◽  
Comparison Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
Disease Specific

Evidence suggests that disability-specific camps may positively affect the social domains of youth with disabilities while attending residential programs. However, research has not focused on neuromuscular disease-specific camps despite a national programming presence. The current study used a qualitative phenomenological approach with 14 youth from a Muscular Dystrophy Association specific camp. The five to six-month post camp interviews yielded three themes associated with the participants' camp experience. There were recollections of the activities related to the camp, a strong feeling of comfort while participating in this week-long experience, and an apparent ease to which all of the participants were able to get along with each other due to the acceptance of each camper and their life's story. The application of social comparison theory to individuals experiencing health conditions is used to interpret the findings of this exploratory study.

scholarly journals Ideal Corporal Masculino: Percepciones De Estudiantes Universitarios De Nutrición

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (26) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
María Leticia Bautista-Díaz ◽  
Ana Karen Galván-Juárez ◽  
Itzel Esmeralda Martínez-Fernández ◽  
Alan Javin Álvarez-Ríos ◽  
Rubén García-Cruz
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Body Satisfaction ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Male Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Body Ideal ◽  
Eating Disorders Symptoms ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
Clinically Relevant Behaviors

Body image is a dynamic entity that includes three components: perceptive, cognitive-affective and behavioral; It is constructed of characteristics such as age, sex and educational level, as well as the ideas established by the context. The interaction between the psychological and the social can lead to the development of clinically relevant behaviors. Thus, the objective of the present investigation was to know the perceptions on the male body ideal of the college students of nutrition. Through a focus group, since the qualitative-phenomenological approach and based on the participants discourse, four categories of analysis were derived. It was found that media (including social networks), cultures, stereotypes and beliefs are predominant factors in the construction of the male body ideal, which is reflected in self-esteem, health, economic, occupational or professional opportunities, and to achieve it, can be developed eating disorders symptoms or muscular dimorphic disorder symptoms. It is conclude that the focus group allows knowing the perceptions related to male body ideal by college students of nutrition, where it was showed that, also the society pressures to achieve that ideal, for example, participants express body satisfaction, but wish to modify their composition, so their beliefs determine what must be done to reach such ideal. Therefore, it is evident the importance of carrying out intervention programs at the primary level in college students, from health psychology.

scholarly journals Islamic College and Local Culture: Internalization and Integration

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Fulan Puspita ◽  
Zulkipli Lessy
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
State Institute ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
Islamic Values

<p class="06IsiAbstrak"> This study aims to determine Indonesian Islamic values' integration and internalization in building students’ personalities as teacher candidates. The research method used is a qualitative phenomenological approach. The data source comes from the head of FTIK Salatiga State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN), five lecturers, and 25 students. The study concludes: (1) stage of value transaction is conducted in every college activity either inside the class or in the campus environment by considering laws, social regulations, and obligations attached to every student in preparing them to return serving the community and state as well as religion. (2) Stage of the social contract. In this stage, the student has acted by considering that they have certain obligations toward society and certain obligations to them. (3) Trans-internalization stage; students have found values, and they regard them as universal values that influence an individual’s character. In all the steps, the more measures developed will be instilled within the student to take a strong effort and relatively-long enough time to reach the desired outcome.</p>

scholarly journals STUDI FENOMENOLOGIS DINAMIKA PSIKOLOGIS SANTRI PEMBELAJAR

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-204
Author(s):  
Saifullah Saifullah ◽  
Abd Mughni
Keyword(s):  
Help Seeking ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological

This study was qualitative-phenomenological approach aimed to identifying and understanding more deeply about the self-regulated learning of islamic boarding school students. The subjects of this study consist of 3 islamic students were lived in boarding scool. The results indicated that the three subjects conducted self-regulation in learning through regulating the metacognition, motivation, behavior, help seeking in order to  achieve certain learning objectives. Self-regulated learning performed by the subjects was influenced by specific precipitating situations and the social support that given to them.

Listening to the Voices of Individuals with Disabilities

1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen French Gilson ◽  
John C. Bricout ◽  
Frank R. Baskind
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Individuals With Disabilities ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Social

Social work literature, research, and practice on disabilities has lagged behind other topical areas dealing with oppressed groups. The social work literature remains “expert focused” and generally fragmented into discussions of specific disabilities or subpopulations. A viable general model that deals with the personal experience of disability is not available. This exploratory study presents a social work literature search and analysis as well as interviews with six individuals with disabilities about their experiences with social workers. Individuals with disabilities assert that they were treated as though they had categorically fewer aspirations, abilities, and perhaps even fundamental rights than did nondisabled people. This study provides a base for follow-up research on models of consumer-focused social work practice in the area of disability.

Envy and Social Comparison

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels van de Ven ◽  
Marcel Zeelenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Comparison ◽  
Social Comparisons ◽  
Past Work ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Malicious Envy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Upward Social Comparison

Upward social comparison can give rise to the emotion of envy: the pain caused by the good fortune of others. We explain what envy is, and what the possible function of envy is to an organism experiencing it. We provide an overview of past work on envy, the distinction between two subtypes (benign and malicious envy), possible antecedents of envy, possible consequences of envy, and the responses to being envied by others. In each of these areas there are clear links to research on social comparison, and research on envy has greatly benefitted from insights from the social comparison literature. Given the surge in research on envy in the last decade, we hope that the findings on envy can also inspire those investigating social comparisons.

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

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.

scholarly journals ‘Somebody stuck me in a bag of sand’: Lived experiences of the altered and uncomfortable body after stroke

2021 ◽  
pp. 026921552110007
Author(s):  
Hannah Stott ◽  
Mary Cramp ◽  
Stuart McClean ◽  
Ailie Turton
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Stroke Survivors ◽  
Post Stroke ◽  
Personal Perceptions ◽  
Psychological Sense ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological

Objective: This study explored stroke survivors’ experiences of altered body perception, whether these perceptions cause discomfort, and the need for clinical interventions to improve comfort. Design: A qualitative phenomenological study. Setting: Participants’ homes. Participants: A purposive sample of 16 stroke survivors were recruited from community support groups. Participants (median: age 59; time post stroke >2 years), were at least six-months post-stroke, experiencing motor or sensory impairments and able to communicate verbally. Interventions: Semi-structured, face-to-face interviews were analysed using an interpretive phenomenological approach and presented thematically. Results: Four themes or experiences were identified: Participants described (1) a body that did not exist; (2) a body hindered by strange sensations and distorted perceptions; (3) an uncontrollable body; and (4) a body isolated from social and clinical support. Discomfort was apparent in a physical and psychological sense and body experiences were difficult to comprehend and communicate to healthcare staff. Participants wished for interventions to improve their comfort but were doubtful that such treatments existed. Conclusion: Indications are that altered body perceptions cause multifaceted physical and psychosocial discomfort for stroke survivors. Discussions with patients about their personal perceptions and experiences of the body may facilitate better understanding and management to improve comfort after stroke.

Marital Satisfaction of Portuguese Families in Times of Social Lockdown

2021 ◽  
pp. 106648072110098
Author(s):  
Carla Sílvia Fernandes ◽  
Bruno Magalhães ◽  
Sílvia Silva ◽  
Beatriz Edra
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Marital Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a global threat and crisis situation, and its wide-reaching impact has also affected marital satisfaction. Dysfunction of the marital system puts the survival of the family unit at risk. This research aimed to determine the level of marital satisfaction of Portuguese families during the social lockdown and the association between the variables under study. A descriptive, exploratory study was conducted. During the social lockdown, 276 people of Portuguese nationality and residing in Portugal were recruited using nonprobabilistic convenience sampling. Marital satisfaction in the pandemic phase showed low values that may be associated with the social, economic, and political context experienced by the pandemic situation. Future research must be carried out in order to identify, prevent, and intervene in situations of violence. In addition, future research should explore not only marital satisfaction during the current pandemic but a more systemic assessment of marital relations during crises, expanding the impact of marital satisfaction in family functioning.

scholarly journals A Predictive Model Assessing Genetic Susceptibility Risk at Workplace

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiarella ◽  
Capone ◽  
Carbonari ◽  
Sisto
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Genotype Frequency ◽  
Individual Heterogeneity ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Polymorphic Genes ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
The Social

(1) Background: The study of susceptibility biomarkers in the immigrant workforce integrated into the social tissue of European host countries is always a challenge, due to high individual heterogeneity and the admixing of different ethnicities in the same workplace. These workers having distinct cultural backgrounds, beliefs, diets, and habits, as well as a poor knowledge of the foreign language, may feel reluctant to donate their biological specimens for the biomonitoring research studies. (2) Methods: A model predicting ethnicity-specific susceptibility based on principal component analysis has been conceived, using the genotype frequency of the investigated populations available in publicly accessible databases. (3) Results: Correlations among ethnicities and between ethnic and polymorphic genes have been found, and low/high-risk profiles have been identified as valuable susceptibility biomarkers. (4) Conclusions: In the absence of workers’ consent or access to blood genotyping, ethnicity represents a good indicator of the subject’s genotype. This model, associating ethnicity-specific genotype frequency with the susceptibility biomarkers involved in the metabolism of toxicants, may replace genotyping, ensuring the necessary safety and health conditions of workers assigned to hazardous jobs.

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