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Richter, Kenneth, Patricia Marie Anne Houde, and Krisztina Zimányi. "The Repertory Grid Interview: Exploring Qualitative and Quantitative Data on Language Teachers’ Pedagogical Beliefs." Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development 24, no. 2 (July 27, 2022): 215–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/profile.v24n2.95749.
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This article focuses on the use of the repertory grid technique as a research instrument for conducting and analyzing interviews in the field of teaching English as a foreign language. As a demonstration of the explanatory usefulness of this methodological framework, a pilot study was carried out to elicit second language teachers’ tacit beliefs concerning cultural perceptions of good language teaching. Repertory grid interviews were conducted with nine teachers at a public university in central Mexico. The data from each group were compared to uncover possible cultural influences on participants’ beliefs. It is hoped that this overview of the method encourages an interest in repertory grid interviews and their analytic techniques in the field of applied linguistics and in English as a foreign language teaching in particular.
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Burdon, Wendy Mason, and Jackie Harvey. "A plea for adoption of ethical compliance." Journal of Financial Crime 23, no. 1 (December 31, 2015): 187–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfc-11-2014-0049.
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Purpose – This paper aims to discuss the evolution of regulation and compliance in the past 20 years, to the current state of affairs. Despite earlier calls for ethical compliance within financial institutions, there remains scope for improvement within practice (as evidenced by on-going regulatory issues in the banking sector). Design/methodology/approach – Pre-crisis academic models of regulation and compliance are reviewed for evidence of use in practice. Some preliminary inductive research evidence is presented, following data collection via interviews with individuals impacted by compliance in financial service organisations. The interview data, facilitated by repertory grid, provide a post-crisis assessment of the issues faced by practitioners to comply with a new regulation. Findings – An over-reliance on group think and consulting services in compliance approach is potentially holding back progress in compliance service. Due to the limited recent empirical data offered in the literature, we believe further research into this area should be undertaken. Originality/value – This piece of research will provoke reflection on current practice vs existing academic theories, and seeks to identify whether alternative models are viable for the future of compliance approaches within practice.
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Pačešiūnaitė, A., and D. Čekuolienė. "SERGANČIŲJŲ VALGYMO SUTRIKIMAIS ASMENYBĖS KONSTRUKTAI." Psichologija 42 (January 1, 2010): 74–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/psichol.2010.0.2570.
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Siekiant išsiaiškinti sergančiųjų valgymo sutrikimais asmenybės konstruktų sistemos ypatumus, naudojant SELF-GRID repertuarinę gardelę buvo ištirta dešimt merginų, sergančių nervine anoreksija, dešimt nervine bulimija ir dvidešimt sveikų merginų (kontrolinė grupė). Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad sergančių valgymo sutrikimais merginų asmenybės konstruktų sistemos yra mažiau kognityviškai sudėtingos, naudojama mažiau skirtingų vertinimo parametrų įvairiems įvykiams aplinkoje paaiškinti, palyginti su kontrolinės grupės tiriamosiomis. Reikšmingiausių konstruktų analizė atskleidė, kad vienas svarbiausių valgymo sutrikimų grupės konstruktų yra „siekiantis tikslo“. Priešingai ankstesnių tyrimų rezultatams, tarp sergančiųjų valgymo sutrikimais pagrindinių asmenybės konstruktų nė karto nebuvo paminėti konstruktai, susiję su svoriu, kūno išvaizda ar maistu. Valgymo sutrikimais sergančiųjų asmenybės konstruktai, pasitelkus repertuarinę gardelę, Lietuvoje buvo analizuojami pirmą kartą.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: asmenybės konstruktai, valgymo sutrikimai.Personal constructs of patients with eatingdisordersPačešiūnaitė A., Čekuolienė D. SummaryObjective. To examine the personal constructs system in female patients with eating disorders.Method. All subjects were invited to take part in a semi-structured interview which included completion of a type of repertory grid known as SELF-GRID. The SELF-GRID was chosen as specifically suited to this study having been devised by E. Button (1993) with the aim of exploring personal constructs of patients with eating disorders. In this study, a repertory grid of 11 elements (five versions of oneself and six elements of other people) was presented to 20 female subjects suffering from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, and 20 matched control subjects.Results. The main difference between the two groups was found to be the greater tendency of patients with eating disorders to construe in a narrow “tight construing” manner utilising less multidimensional personal constructs than the control group. This means that these patients with eating disorders were less cognitively complex than the control subjects. On the total percentage of variance contributed by the first three principal components, there was a significant difference (eating disorder group 83.12 %; control group 78.24 %; t = 2.465; p < 0. 05). The use of narrower systems of personal constructs provides fewer alternatives for construing oneself and other people. Such a constriction of alternatives might arise from a desire for greater predictability and control. In this situation, people with more multidimensional constructs can be a source of danger to the narrower system of personal constructs, as they might challenge and invalidate these constructs. This may explain why patients with eating disorders can gradually withdraw from socialising. The content of constructs was also analysed. Surprisingly, no central constructs related to weight, eating or appearance were found. The further detailed work is needed to understand this finding, as this might reflect the denial of the problem or, on the contrary, indicate that disturbed eating is just a manifestation of other underlying problems such as restricted negative emotionality, perfectionism, and high levels of achievement. Results of this study provide some evidence of a shared underlying problem, “goal orientation” being the consistent strong main theme of the personal constructs of patients with eating disorders. Patients with eating disorders usually focus narrowly on getting thinner, perhaps in the naïve hope that this will solve their underlying problems.The number of constructs elicited by the SELF-GRID was compared between the groups, and there was no significant difference. Neither was there a significant difference between eating disorder and control groups in the measures of positivity / negativity of construing.Conclusions. The personal construct systems of patients with eating disorders were less cognitively complex as compared with control subjects, although there was no difference in the number of elicited constructs. The main topic of the personal constructs of patients with eating disorders was “goal orientation”.Keywords: personal constructs, eating disorders.
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Huber, Stefan, K. Helmut Reich, and Dominik Schenker. "Studying Empirically Religious Development: Interview, Repertory Grid, and Specific Questionnaire Techniques." Archive for the Psychology of Religion 24, no. 1 (January 2002): 180–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157361203x00318.
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Steinberg, Falk, Philipp Tursch, and Ralf Woll. "The Improvement of Kansei Engineering by Using the Repertory Grid Technique." Management and Production Engineering Review 6, no. 3 (September 1, 2015): 77–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mper-2015-0029.
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Abstract A customer-oriented approach to product development with particular consideration of emotions is represented by Kansei Engineering. Developed by Mitsuo Nagamachi, Kansei Engineering is characterized by the possibility to capture customer perceptions and to translate them into product features. In order to assess these perceptions, a semantic space is generated. For this purpose it is necessary to identify Kansei words that are gathered up through research in marketing concepts, scientific journals and service reports. This procedure though displays the disadvantage of not being able to identify all emotions referring to the investigated product. One way to improve the identification of Kansei words is Repertory Grid. The Repertory Grid technique makes it possible to gather unaltered perceptions through in-depth interviews from the direct interaction with customers. Thus, the interview phase of the Repertory Grid technique offers an improved approach to identify of Kansei words.
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Eimecke, Jörgen, Katrin Baumert, and Daniel Baier. "Applying the Repertory Grid Method for Technology Forecasting: Civil Unmanned Aviation Systems for Germany." Management and Production Engineering Review 8, no. 3 (September 1, 2017): 22–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mper-2017-0025.
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Abstract Multistage expert surveys like the Delphi method are proven concepts for technology forecasting that enable the prediction of content-related and temporal development in fields of innovation (e.g., [1, 2]). Advantages of these qualitative multistage methods are a simple and easy to understand concept while still delivering valid results [3]. Nevertheless, the literature also points out certain disadvantages especially in large-scale technology forecasts in particularly abstract fields of innovation [4]. The proposed approach highlights the usefulness of the repertory grid method as an alternative for technology forecasting and as a first step for preference measurement. The basic approach from Baier and Kohler [5] is modified in-so-far that an online survey reduces the cognitive burden for the experts and simplifies the data collection process. Advantages over alternative approaches through its simple structure and through combining qualitative and quantitative methods are shown and an adaption on an actual field of innovation – civil drones in Germany – is done. The measurement of a common terminology for all experts minimizes misunderstandings during the interview and the achievement of an inter-individual comparable level of abstraction is forced by the laddering technique [6] during the interview.
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Küppers, Almut, and Maik Walter. "Is Shakespeare a Foreign Language?" Scenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Research VI, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/scenario.6.1.11.
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An Interview with Peadar Donohoe, Artistic Director of Cyclone Repertory Company, Cork Cyclone Repertory Company Ltd. is a core group of actors & technicians based in Cork who are devoted to the art of theatre to serve the wider community through quality productions that entertain and educate. More recently the company has been very successful in Ireland with performances of their ‘pedagogic adaptations’ of plays by William Shakespeare. Scenario readers may also wish to view short films which give a first impression of the unique way in which Cyclone have managed to make Shakespeare’s texts accessible and interesting to Irish secondary school students. The SCENARIO interview with Peadar Donohoe can be downloaded hereFor a short film on Cyclone’s approach to Macbeth click here, for a short film on Hamlet click here
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ERGÜN, Asuman, and Sevgi KOÇ. "Classroom Teachers' Cognitive Fictions on the Concept of Value." Cukurova University Faculty of Education Journal 52, no. 3 (December 31, 2023): 953–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.14812/cuefd.1301747.
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This study investigated classroom teachers’ cognitive fictions on the concept of value. The sample consisted of 40 primary school classroom teachers using purposive sampling. The study adopted a qualitative phenomenological research design. Data were collected using a Repertory Grid Interview Questionnaire. The data were analyzed using content analysis. Four hundred cognitive fictions were developed and categorized into ten fundamental values theorized by Schwartz. The cognitive fictions were addressed based on participants’ gender and training in values education. As a result classroom teachers considered the value groups ‘‘achievement’’, ‘‘conformity’’, ‘‘self-direction’’ the most important.
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García-Mieres, Helena, Anna Villaplana, Raquel López-Carrilero, Eva Grasa, Ana Barajas, Esther Pousa, Guillem Feixas, and Susana Ochoa. "The Role of Personal Identity on Positive and Negative Symptoms in Psychosis: A Study Using the Repertory Grid Technique." Schizophrenia Bulletin 46, no. 3 (July 29, 2019): 572–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbz082.
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Abstract Background People with psychosis experience disruptions in personal identity that affect positive and negative symptoms, but the complexity of these phenomena needs to be addressed in an in-depth manner. Using the Personal Construct Theory, we examined whether distinct dimensions of personal identity, as measured with the Repertory Grid Technique along with other cognitive factors, might influence psychotic symptomatology. Method Eighty-five outpatients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders completed a repertory grid, an observed-rated interview of psychotic symptoms, and measures of cognitive insight, depressive symptoms, neurocognition, and theory of mind. Results Structural equation models revealed that interpersonal dichotomous thinking directly affected positive symptoms. Self-discrepancies influenced positive symptoms by mediation of depressive symptoms. Interpersonal cognitive differentiation and interpersonal cognitive richness mediated the impact of self-reflectivity and neurocognitive deficits in negative symptomatology. Conclusions This study is the first of its kind to examine the structure of personal identity in relation to positive and negative symptoms of psychosis. Results suggest interventions targeted to improving interpersonal dichotomous thinking, self-discrepancies, interpersonal cognitive differentiation, and interpersonal cognitive richness may be useful in improving psychotic symptoms.
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Gore, Julie, and Michael Riley. "A Study of the Perceptions of the Labour Market by Human Resource Managers in the UK Hotel Industry: A Cognitive Approach." Tourism and Hospitality Research 2, no. 3 (October 2000): 232–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/146735840000200304.
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It is reasonable to assume that if the labour market is the dominant force in labour management then the significance of the role of the human resource manager lies in the position it holds at the intersection between the external and the internal market, with recruitment as the joining process. This paper describes a qualitative investigation of hotel human resource managers' perceptions of their labour market environment using the process of recruitment as a vehicle to explore cognitive processes. A cognitive task analysis was completed which utilised four interview methods: task diagram; knowledge audit; simulation interview; and repertory grid. The findings show that the HR managers conform to the appellation of ‘expert’ in that they would use few and simple rules in making decisions. They also assume that the labour market will always provide and that perceptions of what goes on inside the organisation are quite separate. In other words there is both an industry and in organisational perspective at work.
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Wang, Yi, Yang Chen, Tengteng Zhu, and Danming Lin. "Unpacking the organizational impacts of enterprise mobility using the repertory grid technique." Internet Research 28, no. 1 (February 6, 2018): 143–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/intr-10-2016-0293.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the organizational impacts of enterprise mobility and the configurations of mobile information technology (IT) impacts in companies with various value creation logics. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory approach combining semi-structured interview and repertory grid method was used to evaluate managers’ perspectives on the effects of mobile technologies. Findings The qualitative findings unearth managers’ perspectives about the organizational impacts of enterprise mobility, which are categorized into six intermediary dimensions and two fundamental impacts. A further analysis of material collected from interviews also shows the differential context-related configurations of mobile IT impacts in companies. Research limitations/implications This study contributes to literature on the business value of IT in general and mobile IT in particular by examining managers’ cognitive constructions of the organizational impacts of enterprise mobility and highlighting the complexity and context-related variety of mobile IT impacts. Practical implications This study provides valuable insights for managers and decision makers that enterprise mobility shows promise in enhancing a firm’s operational and marketing performance. Originality/value Different from prior literature, this study is an exploratory attempt to investigate complex enterprise-mobility-performance relationship and preliminarily uncovers that the mechanisms with which mobile IT influences firm performance vary in different organizational contexts.
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Kalkan, Fatma, and Emine Dağlı. "Views of secondary school students on ideal teacher qualifications: A phenomenological analysis." International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) 10, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v10i1.20565.
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This research aimed to reveal the views of secondary school students on ideal teacher qualifications. For this purpose, research was carried out in a phenomenological pattern, which is one of the qualitative research methods. The study was carried out with 76 students who were studying in a secondary school in the 2017-2018 academic year. The data were obtained with the repertory grid technique and interview technique. As a result of the analysis of the data, it was seen that the qualifications of the teachers considered ideal by the participants were among the general competencies of the teaching profession. According to the results of this research, ideally, teachers are expected to provide good and fun lessons, not discriminate among students, be friendly and calm in communications with students, and ensure discipline and democracy in the classroom environment.
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Pattinson, Malcolm, Kathryn Parsons, Marcus Butavicius, Agata McCormac, and Dragana Calic. "Assessing information security attitudes: a comparison of two studies." Information & Computer Security 24, no. 2 (June 13, 2016): 228–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ics-01-2016-0009.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on the use of two studies that assessed the attitudes of typical computer users. The aim of the research was to compare a self-reporting online survey with a set of one-on-one repertory grid technique interviews. More specifically, this research focussed on participant attitudes toward naive and accidental information security behaviours. Design/methodology/approach In the first study, 23 university students responded to an online survey within a university laboratory setting that captured their attitudes toward behaviours in each of seven focus areas. In the second study, the same students participated in a one-on-one repertory grid technique interview that elicited their attitudes toward the same seven behaviours. Results were analysed using Spearman correlations. Findings There were significant correlations for three of the seven behaviours, although attitudes relating to password management, use of social networking sites, information handling and reporting of security incidents were not significantly correlated. Research limitations/implications The small sample size (n = 23) and the fact that participants were not necessarily representative of typical employees, may have impacted on the results. Practical implications This study contributes to the challenge of developing a reliable instrument that will assess individual InfoSec awareness. Senior management will be better placed to design intervention strategies, such as training and education of employees, if individual attitudes are known. This, in turn, will reduce risk-inclined behaviour and a more secure organisation. Originality/value The literature review indicates that this study addresses a genuine gap in the research.
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Kussin, Laura, and Henning Bundtzen. "How Error Prevention and Organizational Silence Influences Managers’ Self-Perception – A Repertory Grid Study." Business Ethics and Leadership 5, no. 1 (2021): 31–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/bel.5(1).31-44.2021.
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The topic of self-perception within management has become a subject catching more and more attention. The necessity for leaders’ self-awareness when aiming at high employee satisfaction and productivity still bears a lot of research potential. Developing self-awareness and efficacy are paths that do not have an end or a quota to reach. It is a rather mindset like a tank that can always be filled up more. Leaders’ self-awareness is crucial to improve their abilities and much more inaccurate self-perception can become harmful for an organisations’ performance. Surprisingly, the influence of managers’ self-perception on leadership behaviour and leadership effectiveness has only been studied little in contemporary literature. The main purpose of this article is to identify organizational factors that influence leader’s self-perception and how an organization can develop this characteristic of their managers. Therefore, this paper aims at identifying corporate cultural causes for managers’ distorted self-perception. This task leads evidently to the topic of organizational silence, which is understood as the absence of upward-directed feedback of employees’ input of ideas. Consequently, a corporate culture inherited by organizational silence impacts a manager’s self-perception. Additionally, the contextual literature research on self-perception guided to the subject of error management. It becomes evident that error management functions as a link between organizational silence and managers’ overestimation. Summarizing the article studies the interlinkages of these three research areas and combined them with a new research and hypothesis model tested on a repertory grid data set consisting of 782 personal constructs of a specific corporate culture. Individual construct psychology was chosen as an investigative methodology to ensure unbiased qualitative results. This psychologically grounded methodology is proven to make socially desirable results unlikely due to the intuitive interview structure. The results of this research give practitioners advice for developing corporate culture and self-perception and efficacy of people in leadership positions.
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Pankratz, Oleg, and Dirk Basten. "Ladder to success – eliciting project managers’ perceptions of IS project success criteria." International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management 2, no. 2 (February 18, 2022): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.12821/ijispm020201.
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The traditional approach to assess information system (IS) project success is adherence to planning (ATP) – meeting budget, schedule, and requirements targets. Today, scholars agree that ATP is insufficient to adequately assess IS project success, but an agreed-on set of success criteria is still missing. Many works on this topic are based on theoretical considerations rather than empirical inquiries. We analyze practitioners’ subjective perspectives by investigating what criteria IS project managers consider relevant for IS project success assessment. We interview eleven experienced project managers in Germany, applying Repertory Grid and Laddering to minimize potential biases. Our results yield eight success criteria, indicating that criteria like process efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction must be considered in addition to ATP. Scholars can use our findings to apply the identified success criteria in future studies. Practitioners gain insights into the expert perspective on project success and might rethink the way of assessing success in their projects.
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Yingzi, Hu. "An Interview on Innovations in Social Governance: The Wuxi Experiment." China Nonprofit Review 4, no. 2 (2012): 193–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18765149-12341245.
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Editor’s Notes Professor Wang Ming, Director of the NGO Research Center of the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University led a team to conduct field research in Wuxi County, Chongqing City, in early August, 2011. The team discovered several innovations implemented in the local social governance. First, there is the “Lehe Homeland”, a community building model that stimulates the initiative of grassroots citizens and enthusiasm for participation in local affairs by setting up the Lehe Mutual Support Group as a platform for mutual communication and support between urban and rural populations. Second, there is the “general mass work” mechanism. A Mass Work Department (群工部) was set up by the county party committee as a liaison between the party committee and government organizations with horizontal coordination and supervision functions to engage in social governance from the mass work. Third, a “grid-style management” scheme was implemented. This refers to a comprehensive, service-oriented grid-style administrative system that meets both rural and urban demands on public services, and serves the purpose of building a service-oriented government. Fourth, different participants including the village governing committee, village party committee, Lehe Mutual Support Group, departments included in the grid-style system, NGOs, the Mass Work Department, etc., were brought together under a “joint council” system to hold meetings on a regular basis for the purpose of communication and cooperation. These new features in Wuxi’s social governance experiment intrigued Professor Wang Ming so much that he invited Zheng Xiangdong (郑向东), Party Secretary of Wuxi County, and Liao Xiaoyi (廖晓义), founder of Global Village of Beijing to Tsinghua University in mid-November for a public dialogue on the practice of and experiences with Wuxi’s innovative social governance experiments, using the example of community building at Lehe Homeland. The following is the edited transcript of the dialogue.
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Sewell, Alexandra. "Utilising personal construct psychology and the repertory grid interview method to meaningfully represent the voice of the child in their social relationships." Pastoral Care in Education 38, no. 2 (January 12, 2020): 93–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2020.1713869.
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C. Danoa, Julius. "TO LEAVE OR TO LIVE: UNDERSTANDING THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF THE OUT OF SCHOOL YOUTHS VICTIMS OF THE TYPHOON HAIJAN IN CAPUTATAN NORTE, MEDELLIN, CEBU." Volume 2 Issue 3 2, no. 3 (July 15, 2018): 51–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.31674/mjmr.2018.v02i03.007.
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The purpose of this research was to explore the lived experiences of the out of school youths (OSY) victims of the Typhoon Haijan in Caputatan Norte, Medellin, Cebu. A qualitative methodology using a phenomenology framework was employed, with semi-structured interview to facilitate the respondents reveal their lived experience. A convenience sample of five OSY’s who have direct experience of typhoon Haijan was needed to reach saturation. Data analysis was based on Colaizzi’s methodology. The whole process was based on the data, transcribed interviews, sorting, categorizations (cool analysis), categories as thematized (warm analysis) in a repertory grid or a dendogram that paved the way to discovering the value of the lived experiences of the out-of-school-youths victims of typhoon Haijan. The description of the lived experience revealed is the terrifying experience that emanate from the OSY internal and external environment of retreating, revealing, and regressing experience, the destructive experience that derives from the OSY’s understanding of detrimental, desuetude, and destitute observations, and the surviving experience that stems from exodus, endure, and empower experience. The themes, which emerged, suggest that the lived experience reflected a normal adaptation response of human beings siege with disasters.
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Coelho, Cidéli de Paula, Francisco Rafael Soto, Erlete Rosalina Vuaden, Priscilla Anne Melville, Leoni Villano Bonamin, and Nilson Roberti Benites. "Pilot study of preventive homeopathic treatment for colibacillosis in a swine farm in the State of São Paulo, Brazil." International Journal of High Dilution Research - ISSN 1982-6206 11, no. 40 (December 21, 2021): 159–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.51910/ijhdr.v11i40.592.
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Diarrhea has become an economically important disease in pigs due to intensive management system which has been used. Escherichia coli is the most important etiological agent of neonatal and post weaning diarrhea in swine colibacillosis and the greater impact of the disease in pigs. The demand of consumers seeking meat without chemical residues and the prohibition of the use of antibiotics and chemotherapeutics in swine production has led to seek an alternative medicine for preventive and therapeutic treatments in swine breeding. This study was carried out in a commercial farm in São Paulo state. Stool samples were collected from five piglets presenting diarrhea and examined for the presence of Escherichia coli. Concomitantly, a detailed interview was done with the owner, about all clinical information useful to choose the best homeopathic medicine, using repertory method. Subsequently, four groups were formed consisting of 11-12 piglets each: a control group (antimicrobial used in the farm routine for treatment of diarrhea), a group treated with the chosen homeopathic medicine - China officinalis 30 CH - a group treated with E. coli biotherapic 30 CH (medicine made from E. coli strains collected and isolated from the same farm) and a group treated with both homeopathic and biotherapic E. coli medicines. There was no statistical difference in the number of animals presenting diarrhea among groups, but China treated pigs showed greater weight gain compared to the other three groups (Fisher test, p = 0.0001), despite the incidence of diarrhea. In conclusion, this preliminary study suggests that the use of repertory chosen homeopathic medicines could improve productivity in swine farms even though clinical manifestations of diarrhea occur.
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Kearns, Kevin P., Jonathan Livingston, Shelley Scherer, and Lydia McShane. "Leadership skills as construed by nonprofit chief executives." Leadership & Organization Development Journal 36, no. 6 (August 3, 2015): 712–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lodj-11-2013-0143.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how chief executives of 20 nonprofit organizations construe and prioritize the skills they use to perform typical leadership tasks. Design/methodology/approach – The in-depth interview protocol used in the study is based on the Repertory Grid Technique, which elicits assumptions, beliefs, and values of respondents without imposing the researchers’ implicit frame of reference. Findings – The interviews generated 285 skill constructs. Respondents in this study report that they utilize a mix of technical, interpersonal, and conceptual skills. Interpersonal skills, especially communication and trust building, appear to be particularly prevalent among the many skills used by executives to perform their leadership tasks. Research limitations/implications – Because this is an exploratory study, its findings cannot yet be generalized to other contexts. Therefore, the paper concludes with some propositions for further research. Practical implications – The study may have implications for the design of curricula to prepare people to assume leadership positions in nonprofit organizations. Originality/value – This study uses a distinctive methodology to elicit from nonprofit leaders their assumptions and beliefs about the skills they use to perform leadership tasks. In this respect, the findings are grounded in the frames of reference of the subjects, not those of the researchers.
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Villamor, Neil Jupiter E., Allan B. de Guzman, and Evangeline T. Matienzo. "The Ebb and Flow of Filipino First-Time Fatherhood Transition Space." American Journal of Men's Health 10, no. 6 (July 8, 2016): NP51—NP62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988315604019.
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Fatherhood, as a developmental process, is both a human experience and a text that needs to be read. For developing nations like the Philippines, little is known about the process undergone by first-time fathers on their transition to fatherhood, and how nurses can play a significant role in assisting them. This grounded theory study purported to conceptualize the multifaceted process of transition from the lens of Filipino first-time fathers’ lived experiences. A total of 20 first-time fathers from Metro Manila, Philippines, were purposively selected to take part in an individual, semistructured, and in-depth interview. The Glaserian (classical) method of analysis was specifically used, and field texts were inductively analyzed using a repertory grid. Member checking and correspondence were done to validate the findings of the study. Six surfacing stages emerged relative to the process of transition. Interestingly, The B.R.I.D.G.E. Theory of First-Time Fatherhood Transition Space describes how these fathers progress from the beholding, reorganizing, inhibiting, delivering, grasping, and embracing phases toward successful transition. This emerged theoretical model can be used in framing health care programs where the needs of fathers during this period are met and addressed. Finally, it can also be used in guiding nurses in their provision of a more empathetic care for first-time fathers.
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Loyens, Kim, and Jeroen Maesschalck. "Police-public interactions: a grid-group cultural theory perspective." Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management 37, no. 1 (March 11, 2014): 144–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pijpsm-03-2013-0023.
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Purpose – The police culture literature suggests that police officers’ attitude towards the public is characterised by suspicion and an “us-vs-them” mentality. It also refers to the moral mission of protecting the public by being tough on crime. The traditional police culture model seems to imply that these aspects are typical for the police. There is, however, a lack of empirical studies to test this proposition. The purpose of this paper is to propose a different conceptual framework, based on grid-group cultural theory (GGCT), which not only broadens the lens of the police culture model, but also allows for comparative research between different professional groups. Design/methodology/approach – The newly developed conceptual framework is tested in an ethnographic study in the Belgian police and labour inspection. The main data collection methods are observation, interview and informal conversation. Findings – The results of this study show that there are similarities in the way in which Belgian police officers and labour inspectors interact with the public, which raises interesting questions concerning the (often implicit) claim of the police culture literature concerning the specificity of police culture. Research limitations/implications – More research is needed to gain deeper insight into similarities and differences of the occupational culture in the police and comparable professional groups. GGCT offers a useful conceptual framework for such a research agenda. Originality/value – This paper addresses a number of criticisms against the classic police culture model and provides an innovative perspective to not only study aspects of police culture, but also compare the police with other professions.
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Partridge, Katie. "Exploring pastoral staff’s experiences of their own emotional well-being in a secondary school." Educational and Child Psychology 29, no. 4 (2012): 121–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsecp.2012.29.4.121.
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Mental Health (MH) and Emotional Well-Being (EWB) strategies such as Social, Emotional Aspects of Learning (DfES, 2005, 2007) and the Targeted Mental Health in Schools project (DCSF, 2009) are increasingly implemented in schools. However, there has been little research into the EWB of staff. This paper reports mixed methods research that explored six pastoral staff’s experiences of their own EWB in a secondary school. The qualitative phase explored participants’ experiences using semi-structured interviews and were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The quantitative phase adopted Personal Construct Psychology and participants took part in Repertory Grid interviews to explore how they construed work situations.Findings are discussed in relation to the literature and both psychodynamic and systemic theoretical perspectives were applied at an individual and organisational level. The findings corroborate existing theory and literature, and extend findings regarding interpersonal relationships. Interestingly, experiences could be simultaneously difficult to manage emotionally yet be positive for staff EWB as working through adversity generated internal reward. Nevertheless, in order to manage the emotional demands and provide a containing function to others, coping mechanisms were employed and containment was sought. The research indicated both idiographic and nomothetic findings which inform our understanding of individual differences and how overarching concepts such as containment were applicable for all participants. Implications for Educational Psychology (EP) practice are discussed in relation to developing the EWB needs of pastoral staff and promoting a supportive whole school ethos through consultations, group work and training.
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Parry, Odette, Carolyn Thompson, and Gerry Fowkes. "Life Course Data Collection: Qualitative Interviewing using the Life Grid." Sociological Research Online 4, no. 2 (July 1999): 102–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.233.
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The life grid, has recently been acclaimed as a accurate method for collecting retrospective data from elderly respondents. Accounts of using this method, which are based upon quantitative studies, however, have not adequately captured the dynamics of grid interviewing. This is, we suggest, because it is much easier to describe technical aspects of a research method than it is to convey how that method works in practice. In this article we set out to portray some of these more ‘indeterminate’ aspects of the life grid interviewing, drawing on our own experiences of using this method in an qualitative study of lifecourse patterns of smoking behaviour among elderly respondents who have a smoking related illness. Focussing upon interaction between researcher and respondent the article explores the reconstruction of the life course as a mutual endeavour and the implications of this for the interview structure and data collection among this respondent group.
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Keen, Sam, Martha Lomeli-Rodriguez, and Helene Joffe. "From Challenge to Opportunity: Virtual Qualitative Research During COVID-19 and Beyond." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 21 (January 2022): 160940692211050. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/16094069221105075.
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COVID-19 has required researchers to adapt methodologies for remote data collection. While virtual interviewing has traditionally received limited attention in the qualitative literature, recent adaptations to the pandemic have prompted increased discussion and adoption. Yet, current discussion has focussed on practical and ethical concerns and retained a tone of compromise, of coping in a crisis. This paper extends the nascent conversations begun prior to the pandemic to consider the wider methodological implications of video-call interviews. Beyond the short-term, practical challenges of the pandemic, these adaptations demonstrate scope for longer-term, beneficial digitalisation of both traditional and emergent interview methods. Updating traditional interview methods digitally has demonstrated how conversion to video interviewing proves beneficial in its own right. Virtual focus-group-based research during COVID-19, for example, accessed marginalised populations and elicited notable rapport and rich data, uniting people in synchronous conversation across many environments. Moreover, emergent interview methods such as the Grid Elaboration Method (a specialised free-associative method) demonstrated further digitalised enhancements, including effective online recruitment with flexible scheduling, virtual interactions with significant rapport, and valuable recording and transcription functions. This paper looks beyond the pandemic to future research contexts where such forms of virtual interviewing may confer unique advantages: supporting researcher and participant populations with mobility challenges; enhancing international research where researcher presence or travel may be problematic. When opportunities for traditional face-to-face methods return, the opportunity for virtual innovation should not be overlooked.
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Vranjesevic, Jelena. "Self constructing in adolescence." Psihologija 36, no. 4 (2003): 487–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/psi0304487v.
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The aim of this study was to explore ?theories? adolescents have about themselves, i.e. about the changes in the ways they construe themselves in the period of middle adolescence: how they construe changes and estimate them according to some dimensions relevant for change (appreciation of change, its importance, expectancy, timing, comprehensiveness, intensity and visibility in social surroundings). The study was explorative and it was performed on the sample of 96 adolescents aged 15-17 (middle adolescence). Instruments used for the study were: interview and Role Construct Repertory Grid, adjusted to the need of study. The results show that the adolescents? construct system is highly monolithic and tight in regard to constructs (black and white construing), but at the same time vague and predictively unclear in regard to elements, i. e. the stated changes, meaning that adolescents are not able to construe those changes according to certain constructs. It seems that this study included the beginning of the loosening phase (creativity cycle) in which the system is still tight and, therefore, protects from threat and anxiety, while the elements are not predictively (this is what Erikson calls moratorium, i.e. the process of active experimenting). Changes which are fully predictively are those which refer to adults' roles, such as: self confident, experienced, independent and has responsibilities, worries. On the hand, changes which are predictably the most clear to adolescents (and not appreciated) are depression and nervousness. Adolescents face an implicative dilemma: positive implications of maturity are not enough, while negative implications, such as nervousness, depression and not trusting people are clear, predictable and negative. This dilemma can be the cause of their ambivalence towards growing-up and accepting the roles of adults.
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Denis, Marie-Agnès, Fabienne Dumetier, Ghislaine Poyard-Berger, Marie-Michèle Mantha-Belisle, and Michel Vézina. "O7B.2 Pilot project for identifying psychosocial risk factors among senior physicians in the pediatric medical center of a university hospital center." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 76, Suppl 1 (April 2019): A62.3—A63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oem-2019-epi.168.
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ContextAfter several warning signals coming from senior physicians working in a Department of pediatrics at a large university hospital, the Department of occupational health decided to assess objectively the psychosocial risks to which this personnel was exposed.MethodsA research team from the scientific unit of the Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec has developed an identification grid with markers that help understanding and limiting physical and psychological risks at work. This grid includes characteristics of the workplace environment and various aspects of management practices. It is based on theoretical models such as ‘Demand-Latitude-Support’ (Karasek & Theorell, 1990), ‘effort-reward imbalance’ (Siegrist, 1996), ‘organizational justice’ (Adams, 2000), and ‘prevention’ (Kristensen, 1999). The assessment involved an interview guide with a scoring system of data collected from credible persons familiar with the working environment.After adequate training in the use of the interview guide, an occupational physician and an occupational psychologist interviewed jointly each of 34 pediatricians and 3 managers and scored the 12 items of the guide according to specific recommendations. The data collected from the interviews were submitted to a thematic analysis.ResultsThe analysis showed that the working environment of the Department was not favorable to the return to work or work-life balance. Regarding management, the warning signals pointed to heavy workloads, lack of recognition, and communication problems. There were some protecting factors such as support from colleagues, some decision latitude (but limited possibilities of knowledge development) and, unevenly between wards, support from the hierarchy. The most negative indicators were reported by junior doctors and, as expected, by temporary personnel.DiscussionAccording to these results, group involving the assessment team, pediatricians, and ward managers will be formed to suggest improvements in the fields of human-resource management, communication, recognition, workloads, and occupational health.
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Maryanti, Maryanti, Casmudi Casmudi, and Ashari Sofyaun. "KUALITAS PELAYANAN BAGI KEPUASAN KONSUMEN PEMBELI RUMAH GRAND CITY BALIKPAPAN." Jurnal Edueco 1, no. 2 (December 30, 2018): 18–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.36277/edueco.v1i2.20.
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Serve is a part of action/service for others to be able to meet the needs and desires. Customers satisfaction might be checked by comparing the expectations of consumers with the desired quality of service what they receive in fact. This research was conducted to find out how customer satisfaction with the quality of service the management of Grand City Balikpapan. Research used qualitative methods. Data sources are secondary and primary data. Data collection techniques through interviews, observation, documentation and triangulation. Data collection instruments through the interview grid with the 5W + 1H method.
The validity of the data was examined through triangulation and data analysis techniques using
data reduction, data display and drawing conclusions or verification (conlusion drawing /
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Finally Grand City Balikpapan consumers have been satisfied with the quality of service provided by the Sinarmas Land Group management.
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Thapa, Bhesh Raj, Baburam Paudel, Rabindra Karki, Manita Raut, Michael Scobie, and Erik Schmidt. "Is Solar Powered Irrigation Technology Sustainable Option for Groundwater Irrigation Management in Nepal’s Terai?" Journal of the Institute of Engineering 15, no. 3 (October 16, 2020): 334–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jie.v15i3.32214.
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The most densely populated Terai Plains of Nepal with poor access to irrigation water in the dry season resulting the food insecure community. Several initiatives have been carried out to improve the irrigation facilities by extracting the ground water resources using solar, diesel, and grid operated electric pumps. Sustainability of all those initiatives and identifying the most viable solution is always in question. In this context, this study attempts to assess the cost effectiveness of these pumping technologies considering life cycle cost (LCC) in the context of Terai region of Nepal. Observation, Key informant interview (KII), in depth interview, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) were conducted in 14 different sample sites to assess the performance of technology, life cycle cost and unit water cost (UWC) in different capacity utilization factors (CUFs), farmer’s perception, affordability, and profitability. The characteristics considered while selecting the sample sites were of size of pumping system, date of installation, beneficiary households, grid situation, solar vendor, implementing organization, major application of solar pumped water, and major cost associated. Low utilization factor of solar pumps has been observed in almost all sites. Solar pumps become expensive than diesel pump, if it is operated at less than 45% CUF. Grid operated electric pumps are found cost effective than diesel and solar, if gridline is near to pump site. If solar pump is operated at 10% CUF, the per unit water cost is NPR. 24.4, and the cost is reduced to NPR. 2.83, if it is operated at 90% CUF. Solar pumps need to be operated at least 700 hours per year to compete with diesel pump. The payback period for solar pump was calculated considering cost per unit of water at three different price NRs 5.51, 7.92, and 10 and found as 6.97, 4.1, and 3.14 year respectively for 70% utilization factor. High upfront cost of solar powered system, poor access to financing and technology seems to be hindering factor to popularize the system. Effective supply chain network, easy access to repairing service, introduction of cash crops instead of traditional crops, promotion of micro irrigation techniques, better access to finance and technology, operation of solar pump at high CUF through grid connection to sell/buy surplus/deficit energy, and subsidized price of solar operated irrigation technology could help to become solar powered techniques as sustainable option in near future to popularize and easy operation for irrigation water management in Terai Region of Nepal. However, Government needs to formulate and implement the policy for utilization and overexploitation of groundwater resources with expansion of solar, diesel, and electric operated pumps in near future to make groundwater resources sustainable.
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Bidossessi Ghislaine Peguylle, Boko, and Imorou Abou-Bakari. "ENJEUX ET INTERACTIONS AUTOUR DU PAIEMENT DES IMPOTS ET TAXES DANS LA COMMUNE DABOMEY-CALAVI AU SUD DU BENIN." International Journal of Advanced Research 10, no. 08 (August 31, 2022): 1004–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/15260.
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Local taxation issues are built around power relations, issues, conflicts of interest, strategies, etc. These make it possible to define strategic orientations that take into account social realities with a view to their effectiveness. This article, through tax reluctance, has analyzed some of these questions, in particular the strategic interactions between the actors and the issues that motivate them. Conducted with a mixed approach, it interviewed 353 actors, including 330 by questionnaire and 23 by semi-structured individual and group interviews based on interview guides. She also used an observation grid. The targeted taxpayers are those of the micro enterprise. From the analysis of the data collected, it appears that the deductions as an obligation are granted (84.43%) by the taxpayers. However, the payment of taxes and duties is subject to negotiation and bargaining practices between actors pursuing relatively divergent objectives, in particular political, social and economic. The dynamics observed can then be explained by these issues.
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Dunn, Michael. "All at sea – gender and leadership in Britain’s Royal Navy (RN)." Gender in Management: An International Journal 30, no. 6 (August 3, 2015): 434–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-11-2013-0133.
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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the relationship between leadership and gender in the UK’s Royal Navy (RN) to answer the research question “Do men and women lead in different ways?”. Design/methodology/approach – The research collected factual data on personnel statistics and organisational structure in the RN. The primary research adopted a grounded theory approach using repertory grid and critical incident technique. The research design was to interview a snowball sample of 27 mid-ranking officers, equally split between men and women and drawn from the main branches in the RN. Findings – There is a significant gender deficit in the RN officer cadre with no women senior-ranking RN officers currently in post. A model of RN leadership was developed from a content and statistical analysis of the primary data. This was broadly equivalent for both men and women, except in one regard: women are expected to manage the impact of their gender so that their self-presentation conforms to the prevailing androcentric norms. The analysis also identified the consequences of unreflective leadership for followers and developed the term “damagement” to conceptualise this. Research limitations/implications – The small-scale research design precluded any generalisable findings, but further research, if confirmatory, should make a substantive contribution to both the theoretical field of gender and leadership, and the practice of leadership in the RN. Practical implications – These would relate the practice of leadership in the RN. Given further confirmatory research, the findings should inform the leadership selection, training and evaluation processes operated by the RN. It should also influence the Ministry of Defence’s policy on the wider deployment of women in the armed services, when the issue is next reviewed. Social implications – The research may have social implications for the wider acceptance of the valuable contribution that women can and should be making in the national armed services of the UK and beyond. Originality/value – The research was primary. It has added value though both its contribution to the leadership and gender debate and also the conceptualisation of leadership in the armed services, particularly the RN. In addition, it developed a new concept, that of “damagement” that could be critical in the development of more effective leadership styles.
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Afifah, Wiwiek, Lucia W. Ningsih, Nadhim Obaid Hussein, and Asma Aisya. "Constructing an Instrument for Assessing the Internalization and Actualization of Cultural Values toward English for Foreign Language Learners." Humanities and Social Sciences Letters 10, no. 1 (February 16, 2022): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.18488/73.v10i1.2925.
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This study is aimed at developing an instrument to assess learners’ internalization and actualization of cultural values through English for foreign language learning. The five phases of instructional design proposed by Cennamo and Kalk (2019) guided the research and development. The five phases of instructional design include (1) defining key terms and exploring the need to develop an instrument from a practical perspective while taking into account any theoretical gaps; (2) creating the instrument grid design and table of specifications for the design; (3) developing and modeling the instrument; (4) refining the instrument using input from forum group discussions and expostulating with expert judgments; and (5) presenting the product and testing it to the learners. The research consisted of a questionnaire, observation, and interview guide. The technique used to analyze the data was an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with the factor loading determined by the number of samples in this research. We used the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) test to measure data sufficiency with levels greater than 0,05 (KMO>0,05). After analyzing the data, the results revealed 0,587 with the significance of 0,000 showing that, for assessing internalization and actualization of cultural values, there were 25 items with seven factors: deserving the value of achievement, self-confidence, creativity, respect, discipline, nationalism, and tolerance.
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Bombamu, Fiston Masikini, Becker Kanku Tshimanga, Landry Kemfine Lemvie, Jean Jacques Amogu Domondo, Trésor Matuzeyi Kuedi, Jacques Bomoi Matita, Pierre-Celestin Bongo Mola, Prescilia Mabubu Pembe, and Odette Kabena Ngandu. "Connaissances Des Vendeurs Du Marché Sur Les Risques Chimiques Des Composés Organiques Volatils « Cas Du Marché Bayaka » De La Commune De Ngiri-Ngiri,» A Kinshasa, République Démocratique Du Congo." International Journal of Progressive Sciences and Technologies 40, no. 2 (September 30, 2023): 177. http://dx.doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v40.2.5395.
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The aim of our study is to assess the knowledge of vendors at the BAYAKA market in the commune of Ngiri-Ngiri Ville, Kinshasa, on the prevention of pathologies caused by volatile organic compounds. Methods : Data were collected using a survey questionnaire on a sample of 115 respondents, sellers of all kinds of chemical products with over three years' experience on the BAYAKA market. An interview grid (focus group) was used to complete the information contained in the questionnaire. The data collected covered the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents and their opinions on the characteristics of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), as well as cases of intoxication caused by Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). Results : The results showed that the main health problems linked to the use of volatile organic compounds cited by sellers were digestive problems (2.1%), eye irritation (17.0%), vomiting (12.8%), coughing (23.4%), respiratory problems (4.3%), skin irritation (8.4%), dizziness (12.8%), hunger (6.4%), heat in the hand (4.3%), etc. When it comes to waste management, most vendors dispose of their waste by incineration (48.5%), landfill (16.9%), reuse (11.5%) and garbage can (23.1%). Conclusion : In view of the results obtained, studies on samples of persistent organic products, hydrocarbons, sodium hypochlorites (bleach), etc. are essential for a sustainable orientation of market gardening in Kinshasa.
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Hanna, Gillian. "Waiting for Spring to Come Again: Feminist Theatre, 1978 and 1989." New Theatre Quarterly 6, no. 21 (February 1990): 43–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00003961.
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Most of the heavily-quoted interviews available on feminist theatre are in serious need of updating. A current account is needed of ‘feminism and theatre’ as experienced by feminist theatre practitioners, and as perceived by feminist theatre students, critics, players and their audiences. To meet this need, NTQ plans a series of interviews with women involved in the British feminist theatre movement today, whose career paths trace developments and shifts in the feminist theory and practice of the past fifteen years. The first interview is with Gillian Hanna, who worked with the 7:84 Theatre Company and with Belt and Braces from 1971 to 1975, before co-founding the Monstrous Regiment feminist theatre group in 1975. Hanna worked exclusively within the Regiment from 1975 until 1981–82. and is one of the three original members who still actively participate in Regimental management, production, and performance, though she now works extensively outside the group as well, having acted in repertory at the Liverpool Everyman and in Newcastle, Sheffield and Derby. Recently, Hanna spent the best part of a year playing in The House of Bernardo Alba. which opened at the Lyric. Hammersmith, and ran in the West End, and in the Spring of 1989 she played in Caryl Churchill's Ice Cream at the Royal Court. Her acting credits include work in TV and film, and her interests extend to translation of playtexts from French and Italian: she translated Dario Fo's Elizabeth, and is currently on a commission to translate (and re-translate) the complete oeuvre of the one-woman plays of Franca Rame and Dario Fo. Three of the Rame/Fo plays – under the joint title A Common Woman – were recently produced at the Sheffield Crucible and at the Half Moon in London, for which performance Hanna won the 1989 Time Out ‘01 for London’ Award. Projects currently under way within the Regiment include an adaptation of a Marivaux play (The Colony), and possible plans to tour both A Common Woman and Beatrice. She is interviewed by Lizbeth Goodman, originally a New Yorker, and currently a junior member and scholar of St. John's College and a graduate researcher in the English Faculty of Cambridge University, where she is working on a doctoral thesis on feminist theatre since 1968, and a book on the politics of theatre funding.
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Gupta, Dr Shyam Kumar, Dr Sandeep Mittal, Dr Charu Mittal, and Dr Alka Gupta. "Study of Risk Factors Associated with Age Related Macular Degeneration in North Indian Population." Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences 10, no. 9 (September 3, 2022): 1420–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.36347/sjams.2022.v10i09.001.
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Introduction: Age-related macular degeneration ARMD is becoming the leading cause of visual impairment. As the size of elderly population is rising in developing countries. To prevent the ARMD and enhance functioning of these persons the knowledge of ris factors are very important. Material and Method: The study includes 156 patients out of which 50 patients of ARMD and 106 controls all patient’s demographic data was recorded and clinical history and examination undertaken all the patients interview to obtain medical residential occupational and smoking history blood pressure visual acuity height weight and refractive error were measured. Detailed ocular examination with the help of indirect of thermos was done and grid and fluorescent angiography done for all patients. Result: ARMD was most common in 61-70 years age group (40%). 32% of ARMD patients were labor 30% were farmer maximum number 32% of ARMD where illiterate education status was not found to be statistically significant P > 0.9 prevalence of AR MD was higher in hypermetropia 74.07% 22.22% myopia 3.71% was emetropia (P<0.001). Among hyperopia 32% of AR MD patient have refractive error of +2 to +3 D (p< 0.05). 58% of ARMD patient were smokers (P<0.05). Conclusion: The study found age is the most significant refactor for ARMD. Other significant risk factors were hyperopia, smoking, obesity and high blood pressure. Cataractous lens and colour of iris was not found to be significant risk factors for ARMD patients.
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Chahbounia, Rabia, and Abdellah Gantare. "A Pilot Study to Assess the Effect of Coaching on Emergency Nurses’ Stress Management." Nursing Reports 13, no. 1 (February 1, 2023): 179–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nursrep13010019.
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(1) Background: Emergency nurses are more exposed to a wider range of stressors, resulting in higher levels of burnout, reducing the quality of nursing care, and decreasing job satisfaction compared with other peers in other nursing departments. The objective of the current pilot research is to evaluate the efficiency of a transtheoretical coaching model on emergency nurses’ occupational stress management through a coaching intervention. (2) Materials and Methods: An interview, Karasek’s stress questionnaire, the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), an observation grid, and a one-group Pre-test–Post-test questionnaire was carried out to evaluate the changes in emergency nurses’ knowledge and their ability to manage stress before and after attending the coaching intervention. A total of seven emergency room nurses at the proximity public hospital of the Settat area in Morocco have taken part in this study. (3) Results: The results have shown that all emergency nurses were subject to the job strain and iso-strain; four nurses were in moderate burnout, only one nurse was found in high burnout, and two were in low burnout. There was a significant difference between mean Pre- and Post-test scores (p = 0.016). Nurses’ mean score has improved by 2.86 points after attending the four sessions coaching experience, passing from 3.71 in the Pre-test to 6.57 in the Post-test. (4) Conclusions: The coaching intervention through a transtheoretical coaching model could potentially be an efficient strategy for enhancing the nurses’ knowledge and skills in stress management.
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Damien, Noma Eloundou, Mebenga Tamba Luc, and Edongo Ntede Pierre François. "Educational Principles in Relation to Cultural Connectedness among Internally Displaced School Children in the Locality of Zamai." East African Scholars Journal of Education, Humanities and Literature 6, no. 1 (January 18, 2023): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.36349/easjehl.2023.v06i01.001.
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Objective: The objective of this article is to examine the cultural logic in the field of education to be used in favour of displaced school-age children in the locality of Zamai, Far North Region. Methodology: As the study is qualitative in nature, descriptive, analytical and interpretative, the data collection techniques are: in-depth interview, direct observation, observation grid, simultaneously with documentary research. The theory of social representations of Jodelet (1993), Herzlich (1972) and Laplantine (1987) was used as a guideline for this analysis. Results: The results reveal that formal education is real when parents commit themselves, with some means and mechanisms that are generally their own, to accompanying their offspring to success. Families made more vulnerable by poverty, aggravated by insecurity and forced displacement, do not have the capacity to support their children's education. This constantly imposes on them the socio-cultural changes, the cultural logics that underpin the education of internally displaced children in their new environment. Conclusion: Geographical accessibility, retention of IDP pupils at secondary level, socio-cultural factors related to the parents' religion, and the approximate appreciation of IDPs in formal education are the factors that explain the increase in school drop-out among this vulnerable group in Zamai. The perspective of "cultural reliance" for quality education among children vulnerable to displacement leads to the emergence of a new paradigm, that of the indissociable conceptual couple deliance/reliance.
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Costa, R., N. Rosa, and R. Lopes. "Mindfulness: Implementation and evaluation of an intervention program for people with alcohol dependence." European Psychiatry 66, S1 (March 2023): S570. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.1197.
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IntroductionThe treatment of the person with alcohol dependence allows the possibility of a self-determined alcoholic abstinence and reducing the consequences associated with alcohol-related problems at a personal, family, work and social level.It is important to develop therapeutic strategies that complement the different approaches in the treatment of people with alcohol dependence, enabling them to use effective coping strategies that facilitate the maintenance of their self-determined alcohol abstinence. In recent years, scientific evidence has emerged that justifies the adoption of mindfulness-based protocols as a complement to various treatments, both for the prevention of relapses and as a treatment enhancer.ObjectivesTo train people with alcohol dependence to use Mindfulness;To promote psychological well-being and positive emotions;To reduce anxiety;To evaluate the effectiveness of a Mindfulness-based intervention program.MethodsThe Mindfulness-based intervention program was developed with 2 groups of people hospitalized for the treatment of alcohol dependence (the institution’s treatment protocol is comprehensive and based on self-determined alcohol abstinence). The 1st G (pilot) - 6 people; 2nd G - 5 people), total of 11 participants; 4 sessions (each group), duration 45-60 minutes.The selection criteria of the participants were evaluated in an interview and defined as follows: being in the first week of the treatment program; self and allo psychic orientation; reduced to moderate anxiety (Zung Self-Assessment Anxiety Scale - EAAZ); existence of motivation for change.Participants gave informed consent.In the global assessment used instruments: Psychological General Well-being Scale for the Portuguese population (BEP); Short Version of the Portuguese Scale of Positive and Negative Affect (PANAS-VRP) in the first session (before intervention). In the last session (after the intervention), in addition to the BEP and the PANAS-VRP, the EAAZ was also used.At the end of each session, an evaluation was carried out using a grid built for this purpose.Results As for the general psychological well-being, the BEP, only one participant (pilot group) had a final score lower than the initial one.With regard to PANAS-VRP, in both groups, there was an increase in positive affection and a reduction in negative affection at the end of program implementation.With regard to the EAAZ, 7 participants showed a decrease in anxiety after the intervention.The evaluation grid of each session revealed good participation, good adhesion and positive evaluation.ConclusionsIt is concluded that after the implementation of the Mindfulness-based intervention program there was: an increase in well-being (the higher the score, the greater the state of well-being); increase in positive affection (which remained or increased); decrease in negative affection and decrease in the level of anxiety.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared
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Côté, Anne-Sophie, and Sophie Éthier. "« Nous sommes de jeunes aidants et nous existons » : Un groupe d’aide mutuelle pour faire sortir de l’ombre les jeunes proches aidants." Groupwork 29, no. 1 (June 21, 2020): 64–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1921/gpwk.v29i1.1431.
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Le rôle de proche aidant que les jeunes sont amenés à occuper auprès de leurs parents passe trop souvent inaperçu, bien que diverses études montrent la présence de cette réalité à un moment ou à un autre de l’adolescence. Cet article présente un groupe d’aide mutuelle au sein de l’organisme Deuil-Jeunesse de Québec (Canada) auprès de jeunes aidants de 12 à 17 ans : les participants assumaient un rôle d’aidant dans un contexte de deuil. La démarche de huit rencontres visait à leur offrir un lieu où échanger, briser l’isolement et démystifier leur rôle. L’entrevue individuelle pré- et post-groupe, le journal de bord de l’intervenante et la grille d’observation des dynamiques d’aide mutuelle ont permis d’évaluer l’intervention. Les résultats mettent en lumière la méconnaissance sociale et individuelle de cette problématique ainsi que les besoins spécifiques des jeunes aidants. Les principaux bénéfices de cette approche sont l’acquisition d’un soutien significatif, le cheminement des jeunes vers la reconnaissance de leur rôle et la réalisation d’un projet artistique visant à sensibiliser la population. Cette étude se penche donc sur les enjeux du travail social de groupe auprès de populations méconnues, la force de l’aide mutuelle, le groupe considéré comme un vecteur de changement et les défis liés au manque d’identification à la situation qui réunit les participants.The caregiving role that young people are sometimes required to undertake with their parents is all too often overlooked, although various studies show the presence of this reality even in adolescence. This article presents a mutual aid group within the ‘Deuil-Jeunesse’ Québec (Canada) organization which deals with 12 to 17 year-olds. As a result, participants undertook their caregiver role in a context of grief. The group of eight meetings is aimed at offering them a place to exchange, break the isolation and demystify their role. The pre- and post-group individual interview, the practitioner’s logbook and observation grid dealing with mutual aid dynamics, made it possible to evaluate the intervention. The results highlight the social and individual misunderstanding of this problem as well as the young caregivers’ specific needs. The acquisition of important support, the journey of young people towards recognition of their role and the realization of an artistic project in order to raise public awareness, constitute the main benefits. Finally, the issues of group intervention with hidden populations, the strength of mutual aid, as well as the group as a vector of change and the challenges related to the lack of identification of the problem that brings them together are discussed.
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Salar, Riza, and Ayhan Aksakalli. "The effects of using social biographical texts of scientists on students' attitudes in science courses: A qualitative study." LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education 9, no. 1 (August 11, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.31129/lumat.9.1.1560.
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Biographies of scientists are often used in the teaching environment, both in textbooks and in course contents - sections from the lives of scientists are often included to encourage students to pursue and enjoy science. This research investigated the effect of social content biographical texts of scientists on students' attitudes towards science courses. The research was a mixed-method study and consisted of 51 science teachers. The participants were determined according to a convenience sampling method. Focus group interviews, repertory grid technique, and individual interviews were used to collect data in the study. Through focus group interviews with teachers, it was discussed what kind of changes biographical texts might make to students' attitudes to science. Later, 51 teachers explained the social biographical texts to their students and observed the changes in the students. Based on their observations, they scored the repertory grids. Finally, an individual interview was held with fifteen teachers. As a result, it has been determined that social biographical texts were able to increase students' interest, motivation and questioning skills, while able to decrease their anxiety.
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Mason, Clare B., David A. Winter, Stefanie Schmeer, and Bibi T. J. S. L. Berrington. "The Radicalization of Brexit Activists." Frontiers in Psychology 12 (February 9, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.798232.
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Brexit activists demonstrating outside the British Houses of Parliament were studied in situ to examine their potential for pro-group extreme behavior. This involved activists of two polarized, opposing views; those of Leave and Remain. The research engaged concepts linking the different theoretical perspectives of identity fusion and personal construct psychology. The study measured participants' degree of fusion to their group using a verbal measure. Willingness to undertake extreme acts was assessed in several ways: a measure of willingness to fight for the group, adaptations of the trolley dilemma and questions regarding political violence. Individual construing was examined using repertory grid technique and a semi-structured interview. Results were similar for both Leave and Remain participants. The majority of activists identified as “fused” to their group and, if so, were more likely to undertake hypothetical extreme behavior compared to those who did not identify as “fused.” Repertory grid technique indicated that becoming an activist provided individuals with a clearer and more positive view of themselves. Opposition activists were construed more negatively and extremely than fellow activists, and this construal was associated with an increased willingness to undertake extreme pro-group behavior. This was consistent with the personal construct model of radicalization and was heightened in those who were “fused.” Interview data provided support for the constructivist model and revealed characteristics and concerns of the two groups. Overall, the findings indicate that campaigning organizations contain fused individuals, who are more likely to undertake hypothetical pro-group violence including self-sacrifice. This has broader implications which may be particularly pertinent, given the violent impact of extremist activists around the globe.
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García-Mieres, Helena, Judith Usall, Guillem Feixas, and Susana Ochoa. "Placing Cognitive Rigidity in Interpersonal Context in Psychosis: Relationship With Low Cognitive Reserve and High Self-Certainty." Frontiers in Psychiatry 11 (November 26, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.594840.
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Introduction: People with psychosis show impairments in cognitive flexibility, a phenomenon that is still poorly understood. In this study, we tested if there were differences in cognitive and metacognitive processes related to rigidity in patients with psychosis. We compared individuals with dichotomous interpersonal thinking and those with flexible interpersonal thinking.Methods: We performed a secondary analysis using two groups with psychosis, one with low levels of dichotomous interpersonal thinking (n = 42) and the other with high levels of dichotomous interpersonal thinking (n = 43). The patients were classified by splitting interpersonal dichotomous thinking (measured using the repertory grid technique) to the median. The groups were administered a sociodemographic questionnaire, a semi-structured interview to assess psychotic symptoms [Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS)], a self-report of cognitive insight [Beck Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS)], neurocognitive tasks [Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)], and the repertory grid technique. We used a logistic regression model to test which factors best differentiate the two groups.Results: The group with high dichotomous interpersonal thinking had earlier age at onset of the psychotic disorder, higher self-certainty, impaired executive functioning, affected abstract thinking, and lower estimated cognitive reserve than the group with flexible thinking. According to the logistic regression model, estimated cognitive reserve and self-certainty were the variables that better differentiated between the two groups.Conclusion: Cognitive rigidity may be a generalized bias that affects not only neurocognitive and metacognitive processes but also the sense of self and significant others. Patients with more dichotomous interpersonal thinking might benefit from interventions that target this cognitive bias on an integrative way and that is adapted to their general level of cognitive abilities.
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Stevens, Kenneth J., Zixiu Guo, and Yuan Li. "Typology and Hierarchy of Students’ Motivations to Use Technology in Learning." Australasian Journal of Information Systems 22 (March 15, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v22i0.1492.
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Considerable discussion has taken place in practice and academe regarding the need for changes to the educational system to better suit current student’s approaches and preferences for technology use in learning. Much of this discussion involves assumptions about the current students (referred to by some as ‘digital natives’) preference for independent learning and that students are motivated in similar ways to use technology to achieve and support their preferred learning style. This study sought to better understand student’s motivations for technology use in learning and whether assumptions about the homogeneity of motivations are warranted. We sought to identify students’ motivation typology and any groupings within these typologies, and understand the inter-relationship between motivations. Using data collected from 16 Information Systems (IS) students via the Repertory Grid Interview technique (RGT), a cluster analysis segmented respondents into two distinct groups: ‘Independent Learners’ and ‘Traditional Learners’. A hierarchical framework of technology use motivations was developed for each group using Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) and Cross-impact Matrix Multiplication Applied to Classification (MICMAC) was used to categorise each group’s motivation factors. Results show that the two groups were driven to achieve the same learning goals by different paths and hence questioning the assumption of homogeneity in technology use motivations among the current student cohort.
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Imelwaty, Sri. "DEVELOPING A MODIFIED REPERTORY GRID INSTRUMENT FOR ELICITING RESEARCH PARTICIPANT’S PERSONAL CONSTRUCTS." Jurnal Pelangi 7, no. 1 (July 29, 2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.22202/jp.v7i1.188.
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Previous application of the repertory grid technique in exploring participants’ personal constructs has been noteworthy. However, this technique could be modified to suit the purposes of the research questions, the conditions of the participants and the context of the study. This paper presents personal constructs theory which underpins the repertory grid technique and it also proposes the ways to developa modified repertory grid instrument for eliciting teachers’ personal constructs. According to Kelly (1955), a seminal psychologist, individual forms their constructs based on their observations and experiences and these personal constructs are used to interpret events. To elicit participants’ personal constructs regarding the topic under study, the repertory grid instrument, which is developed based on Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory, could bemodified through interview trials. After conducting the interview trials, the resultsshould be analyzed to identify whether this instrument is effective not only for participants but also for the researchers. The modified repertory grid instrument should allow and support participants in formalizing and elaborating their personal constructs. For the researchers, the instrument should be helpful to identify the participants’ personal constructs based on their own conceptions and understandings toward the topic under study.
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SANBERK, İsmail, Cenab TÜRKERİ, and Burhan PARSAK. "Türk Elit Milli Karatecilerin Kişisel ve Sosyal Spor Kimliklerinin Öz-Kimlik Grafiği Aracılığıyla İncelenmesi." Spor Bilimleri Araştırmaları Dergisi, August 29, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.25307/jssr.1222397.
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The aim of this study is to investigate ideal and non-ideal image of six Turkish national players and their cognitive representation of karate players. This study involved six participants majoring in Physical Education and Sports who are national karate players and was carried out with young adult elite karate players who became successful in national and international tournaments. The data of this study were collected via repertory grid, a semi-structured interview technique. Self-identity graph of each participant was obtained and analyzed based on repertory grid data. The findings show that all the participants’ personal and social sport identities, except one participant, are positive. The study found that the participants who had high self-value identified selves, ideal self and social self with positive personal constructs as a karate player.
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Bundtzen, Henning. "Assessing Corporate Sustainability with Repertory Grid Based Personal Construct Psychology." Regional and Business Studies 11, no. 2 (December 15, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.33568/rbs.2406.
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Corporate sustainability (CS) is becoming a key feature for preparing an organization for the future challenges of its competitive environment. It has expanded from corporate social responsibility (CSR) by adding the dimensions of ethical, environmental, economic and cultural responsibility whilst asking for a long-term perspective of sustainability for the aforementioned subjects. This paper summarizes the concept of corporate sustainability focusing on the most relevant topics of recent scientific literature. The findings are compared to the results of 61 repertory grid interviews to evaluate how far corporate sustainability is already carried into practical notion. It is tested whether this type of interview technique and the underlying theory of personal constructs allow a visualization of the CS status of an organization. In addition, this article gives a brief outlook on the interconnection of leadership, corporate culture and corporate sustainability.
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Hasebrook, Joachim, Juliane Hecke, Thomas Volkert, Maren Singer, Juergen Hinkelmann, Leonie Michalak, and Klaus Hahnenkamp. "Individual perspectives and mental maps of working conditions and intention to stay of physicians in academic medicine." Frontiers in Psychology 14 (May 12, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1106501.
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IntroductionJob satisfaction has a strong impact on the intention to stay which is an important aspect to counter skills shortage in academic medicine. The purpose of the three studies reported here is to find out what specific factors are relevant for the intention to stay and turnover intention of physicians in academic medicine –and what measures might have a positive impact on employee retention.MethodsIn an interview study combining qualitative and quantitative methods, we investigated how the individual mental representation of working conditions influences job satisfaction and its impact on the intention to stay. In total, 178 physicians from German university hospitals, residents, and physicians, in 15 departments of anesthesiology were interviewed and surveyed. In a first study, chief physicians participated in interviews about job satisfaction in academic hospitals. Answers were segmented into statements, ordered by topics, and rated according to their valence. In a second study, assistant physicians during and after their training period talked about strengths, weaknesses, and potential improvements of working conditions. Answers were segmented, ordered, rated, and used to develop a “satisfaction scale.” In a third study, physicians participated in a computer-led repertory grid procedure composing ‘mental maps’ of job satisfaction factors, filled in the job satisfaction scale and rated if they would recommend work and training in their clinic as well as their intention to stay.ResultsComparing the interview results with recommendation rates and intention to stay show that high workload and poor career perspectives are linked to a negative attitude. A positive attitude towards work environment and high intention to stay is based on sufficient personnel and technical capacities, reliable duty scheduling and fair salaries. The third study using repertory grids showed that the perception of current teamwork and future developments concerning work environment were the main aspects to improve job satisfaction and the intention to stay.DiscussionThe results of the interview studies were used to develop an array of adaptive improvement measure. The results support prior findings that job dissatisfaction is mostly based on generally known “hygiene factors” and whereas job satisfaction is due to individual aspects.
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Gao, Peng, Heng Jiang, Ying Xie, and Yu Cheng. "The Triggering Mechanism of Short Video Customer Inspiration – Qualitative Analysis Based on the Repertory Grid Technique." Frontiers in Psychology 12 (December 9, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.791567.
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It is believed that stimulating the inspiration of short video consumers might be an effective way to attract and maintain the attention of consumers so that they are willing to respond positively to short video ads. Therefore, in order to explore the source of customer inspiration in short video and its cognitive psychological process, the text and grid data collected from an interview among 25 short video users have been qualitatively analyzed by Kelly Grid Technology in order to construct the formation path model of short video customer inspiration, and find out its source, triggering mechanism, and influencing factors. It is found that the inspiring informational content characteristics include richness, reliability, vividness, and fluency of emotional content characteristics, fun, novelty, and narrative. However, the characteristics of commercial content in short video ads hinder the inspiration of consumers. The study also reveals that an internal mechanism of inspiration stimulation is built on some cognitive processes (i.e., presence, processing fluency, perceived innovation, perceived convenience) generated by informational content, and emotional responses by emotional content (i.e., curiosity, surprise, enjoyment, etc.). In addition, it is shown that personal involvement enhances the relationship between the inspiring content characteristics and consumer inspiration. As a result, customer inspiration and engagement in short video ads are highly enriched. Findings provide implications for short video platforms and online marketers.
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Tamir, Ram, Orit Ben-Zvi Assaraf, and Shimrit Maman. "System-thinking progress in engineering programs: A case for broadening the roles of students." Frontiers in Education 8 (April 20, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1138503.
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IntroductionComplex systems are prevalent in many scientific and engineering disciplines, which makes system thinking important for students of these fields. Duchifat 3 is a unique engineering educational extracurricular program, where high school students designed, assembled, and tested a nano-satellite.MethodsThis study applied qualitative methods to explore how the participants’ systems-thinking developed during the program. Participants were interviewed using the repertory grid interview, and a semi structured interview at the beginning and at the end of the project, while various observations were conducted throughout.ResultsWhile the participants were initially assigned narrow roles, each dealing with a single sub-system of the satellite, some chose to be involved with other sub-systems and aspects of the project. Our findings show that the broader the participants’ involvement was, the greater the progress they experienced in their systems-thinking. Participants who stayed focused on a single subsystem did not show progress, while participants who involved themselves with several sub-systems exhibited a more meaningful progress.DiscussionAlthough the program design aimed to assign students to a narrow role to enable them to achieve the educational goals, from the perspective of systems-thinking this was counterproductive. These findings shed light on the design of engineering programs such as the one examined here in terms of systems-thinking development. We discuss the implications of the findings for similar programs and make suggestions for improvement.
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Ramazanoğlu, Mehmet. "PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTS REGARDING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES ACADEMICIANS." European Journal of Educational Sciences 8, no. 1 (March 31, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/ejes.v8no1a1.
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This paper focuses on revealing and modeling the cognitive constructs of pre-service teachers regarding the characteristics of a good IT academician. The research was carried out via the exploratory sequential design with the participation of 42 volunteer pre-service teachers enrolled in the Department of Computer and Instructional Technology. The data were obtained through the structured interview according to the repertory grid technique. The data obtained were analysed by taking into consideration similarities and common features. 426 cognitive constructs were found. Cognitive constructs were collected under 11 sub-categories. These categories were also divided into three main categories: attitudes and values, professional knowledge, and professional skills. As a result, essential constructs within the model of a good academician include the relationship among students, knowledge of field education, and field knowledge. The model revealed a whole set of characteristics rather than a few characteristics of a good IT academician. The model can be used to evaluate IT academicians and to explain the relationship among their characteristics.