Dissertations / Theses: 'Positive narrative'

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Farmer, Ada M. "A narrative for a positive aging lifestyle." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2016. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/3344.

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The purpose of this project was to address the lack of Christian Education for less literate seniors at the Mount Ephraim Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The objective was to empower seniors to have a greater sense of self-worth by highlighting their abilities and acknowledging the insight that seniors bring to the conversation within the Christian community. The project took place at the Mount Ephraim Baptist Church. Less literate seniors in the congregation were invited to be involved in a Christian Education class that was designed to help seniors envision their goals, identify the barriers that precluded them from reaching their goals, and help them hear the voices of other seniors to give them encouragement as future leaders, despite their lack of formal schooling. The methodology is ethnographic and narrative approach. Working with thirty senior citizens at the church, this project addressed the importance of teaching Christian Education to senior citizens who are less literate and have a desire to know more about the Word of God in a way that will help them know that they are really a part of the faith community. Story-linking and ethnographic methods will be employed. The thirty seniors that the author worked with, 75% of them have a fifth grade education; 10% made it to the 7th or 8th grade; and 15% were unable to attend School every day regularly following the death of a parent and consequently they had to quit school to enter the work force to help support the family. The project included the development of a five-lesson series that addressed how biblical narrative relates to their narrative. The effectiveness of the lesson plan series was evaluated based on increased unity, behavioral attitudes toward each other, and their willingness to share their own stories.

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Weber, Benjamin. "Positive memories? A narrative analysis about positive experiences during a war childhood in Sarajevo under siege." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23507.

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Bennett, Melissa Juliet. "Narrative and Peace: a “New Story” to address structural violence." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11588.

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This thesis applies narrative as theory and method to explore a growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship that connects a holistic and process understanding of the world (a “New Story”) with social and ecological justice (or “positive peace”). First, the indirect violence of global poverty and environmental destruction are examined in terms of the dissipation of individual responsibility amid political, economic and social institutions. Second, a connection is made between these structural forms of violence and one-dimensional narratives. Drawing from an argument shared by process thinkers Charles Birch, Alan Watts and Thomas Berry, I critique the “Old Story” of one-dimensional religious narratives, and one-dimensional reductionistic narratives of the “Modern Story”. These stories are contrasted with a multi-dimensional and ecological worldview that Berry calls a “New Story”, which narrates an understanding of the self, humanity and the cosmos as one interconnecting process. This process understanding of the world is shown to be located in a rich and vast history of panentheistic theology. This research concludes that the narratological “New Story” engages conflicting worldviews, enables “positive conflict” and motivates action toward a long-term vision of positive peace.

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Ferris-Olson, Pamela. "A women’s talking circle: A narrative study of positive intergenerational communication." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1366205259.

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Wojtaszek, Sylwia. "Positive attitude change to school - Narrative inquiry into adolescent students' lived experiences." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2020. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/174716.

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This thesis reports on a qualitative research study that investigated adolescent students‟ experiences of positive attitude change to school. The literature review situates the research of students‟ attitude changes to school within the affective component of the multidimensional construct of student engagement and identifies this field and the phenomenon of positive attitude change to school as underresearched and under-theorised. Narrative inquiry methodology was applied in order to provide a detailed description of students‟ lived experiences and generate knowledge to fill the existing gap of how such an experience manifests itself. Eight students, who self-reported to have experienced positive attitude change to school, shared stories through in-depth semi-structured interviews of how the attitude change came about, who or what influenced it, and what meaning they attached to it in relation to its impact on their engagement and wellbeing. Students‟ attitudes to school are predominantly examined through quantitative research, whereas this study provided a unique and nuanced insight into attitude change based on the qualitative paradigm and a social constructionist view of the experience from the students‟ vantage point. Students‟ narrative accounts are compared and contrasted with each other to identify five resonant threads associated with the experience of positive attitude change to school. Data analysis suggests that positive attitude change to school has a significant impact on student engagement in learning and student wellbeing through its embodiment of perceived positive emotions associated with being at school. It consequently illustrates the relevance of broadening the understanding of such an experience to address the critical issue of disengagement in adolescent students. Key findings indicate that students develop a negative attitude to school when personal problems remain unresolved or have been insufficiently addressed within the school environment; no “helping hand” was there to assist these ambitious students who were struggling to engage in learning due to their experience of negative emotions at school. This research study has revealed that a negative attitude to school does not necessarily equate to a negative attitude to learning. Students‟ perception of the available support, both from the teachers and the services offered at school, is a critical factor in the transformation of their attitudes to school. Further, the students who participated in this study did not themselves feel that they were equipped with the required knowledge and skills to manage their personal problems effectively in order to maintain their engagement in learning. Only after having “hit rock bottom” and having sought help from outside the school environment were the students able to apply a different perspective to their circumstances that was associated with positive attitude change to school. From this research study it can be concluded that a student‟s positive attitude to school is a requirement for successful social and academic outcomes, and it is an educational goal in itself regarding the notion of developing lifelong learners. Personal problems and their impact on student engagement and wellbeing need to be acknowledged and catered for within the school environment. School support services must proactively extend a helping hand to students who have a negative attitude to school. Further, students need to develop selfefficacy regarding their personal wellbeing so that they become confident to act autonomously in solving their situations at school that are characterised by the difficult negative emotions that they are experiencing. Students‟ attitudes to school and the complexity of the multidimensional construct of student engagement need to be considered in the development of initiatives to address adolescent student disengagement and in the development of student wellbeing frameworks.
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Proudfoot, Denise. "A narrative exploration into the experiences of mothers living with HIV in Ireland." Thesis, University of Bath, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648948.

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Mothers living with HIV (MLH) are the focus of this narrative study. HIV is increasingly seen as a chronic illness because of medical advances in its treatment. Much research with HIV positive mothers is situated within the dominant biomedical discourse focusing more on outcome rather than experience and, while valuable, it fails to provide insight into their subjective experiences. In Ireland, women represent a third of the newly diagnosed HIV population (O’Donnell, Moran and Igoe 2013), many of whom have children, and migrant African-origin women represent a significant percentage of these new diagnoses. However, no research has examined contemporary maternal HIV experiences within an Irish context. This is an important fact considering the changing nature of HIV and that most HIV positive women are prescribed Highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) during their pregnancies and so give birth to HIV negative babies. This study explores the HIV maternal experience as the psychosocial impact of being HIV positive persists even though it is increasingly seen as a chronic illness. The original contribution to knowledge of this thesis is to provide insight into the experiences of mothers living with HIV in Ireland. My study involved adopting a narrative approach to interviewing a purposive sample of eleven HIV positive mothers living in Ireland who were at different points on the motherhood trajectory, and were from both high and low HIV prevalence countries. The analysis of this study’s narratives drew on a combination of theoretical perspectives including HIV stigma frameworks (Campbell et al., 2007, Herek 2002), social capital theory (Putnam 1995), medicalisation and HIV normalisation. The interviews reveal the centrality of being a mother to the study participants and how being HIV positive affects mothering. Being an HIV positive mother means protecting children from HIV from the moment of diagnosis , during and after pregnancy; minimising the impact of HIV in everyday life; having an awareness of the persuasiveness of HIV stigma; and managing HIV disclosure. Peer support was a significant factor for these mothers and all were members of an HIV support organisation in Dublin. Linking the findings of this study to wider theoretical literature allows for a greater understanding of the lives of HIV positive mothers in the HIV normalisation era and accentuates the multidimensional impact of maternal HIV infection.

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Rolison, Mary Day. "How human service workers maintain a positive perspective in their work| A narrative analysis." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3559729.

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Human service workers have a history of working with our neediest populations, and their work often entails long hours, challenging situations, and limited resources. When the focus of the work is on human strengths and positive approaches, more positive results emerge. In order to determine the process of how human services workers maintain a positive perspective in their work, 15 human service workers from a diverse spectrum were interviewed. A narrative analysis was applied to elicit the participants' insights, revealing common themes and strategies. The findings indicated that having a fundamental belief in human potential, seeing the client's positive attributes, and having inherent capacities of caring were fundamental. Participants believed their work was meaningful and made a difference, and that they were a part of something bigger. They felt empathy and compassion toward clients, and generally believed that their temperament and upbringing also influenced their capacity to maintain a positive perspective. Aside from their beliefs, workers depended on receiving support from like-minded people, colleagues, and others in their environment. They utilized self-care, self-monitoring techniques, and demonstrated self-awareness and a mature capacity to adapt to the unexpected. They were able to apply their learning from past experiences in support of the services they offer to others.

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Hancock, Stephen D. "Creating positive spaces a narrative account of the development of a multicultural learning community /." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1060974511.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 213 p.; also includes graphics Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-213). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Smith, Joshua Ryan. "Dick Grayson: Relatability, Catharsis, and the Positive Development of a Superhero." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1605268454563874.

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Callingham, Christina. "Youth Engagement in Northern Communities: A Narrative Exploration of Aboriginal Youth Participation in a Positive Youth Development Program." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32869.

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This qualitative study aimed to enhance our understanding of youth engagement experiences from the perspective of Aboriginal youth living in the Canadian North, as positive youth development programs can foster community engagement among youth and may have implications for Aboriginal youth involvement in community healing. With an asset-based orientation that recognizes that youths’ strengths co-exist with, and are understood in relation to, environmental challenges, narrative inquiry was used to explore the experiences of six Aboriginal youth who participated in a program that promotes community engagement. Rich participant accounts resulted in better understanding youth engagement as a profound culture-bound process rather than simple participation in a program, and illuminates the importance of positive relationships, adult support, and pre-program community involvement to building subsequent engagement. This study has implications specific to Aboriginal youth as having a role in promoting health and healing in their communities through their engagement.

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Grenier-Mélançon, Gabriel. "Les impacts du Fil d'Ariane : un instrument visant à favoriser la résilience en réadaptation." Thèse, Université de Sherbrooke, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/7539.

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À la suite d’accidents, les personnes atteintes de traumatismes physiques graves doivent faire des deuils importants dans différentes sphères de leur vie, sur les plans physique, psychologique, occupationnel et interpersonnel. La réadaptation qui s’ensuit peut paraître dépourvue de sens pour plusieurs d’entre eux, ce qui contribue à l’apparition de difficultés psychologiques (p. ex. une humeur dépressive). Toutefois, d’autres personnes semblent faire preuve de résilience. Concept fort de la psychologie positive, la résilience est définie comme le résultat d’un processus adaptatif d’une personne qui maintient un niveau de fonctionnement relativement stable et sain après avoir été exposée à l’adversité. Différents facteurs favorisent la résilience, dont la recherche de sens qui est une démarche visant à trouver une utilité, une mission, un but ou une importance à son existence. L’approche narrative est une approche thérapeutique qui accorde une place centrale à la recherche de sens. Dans le prolongement des études récentes sur ces sujets, le Centre de réadaptation Estrie (CRE) a créé un instrument, le Fil d’Ariane (FA), afin de favoriser la résilience de leurs patients et les aider à trouver un sens à leur nouvelle vie. L’instrument est constitué d’un guide d’entrevue semi-structurée (entrevue du FA) et d’une synthèse écrite des propos qui y sont traités (récit du FA) qui est présentée au patient et à son équipe afin d’orienter la réadaptation. Toutefois, aucune recherche n’a encore exploré les impacts de cet instrument. La présente étude a eu comme objectif d’explorer les impacts du FA chez une population adulte en réadaptation souffrant d’une blessure orthopédique grave à la suite d'un accident routier ou de travail. Pour ce faire, un devis qualitatif, descriptif et exploratoire, qui s’appuie sur une méthodologie phénoménologique a été utilisé. Les données ont été recueillies à partir d’entrevues semi-structurées, puis analysées grâce à une méthode d’analyse thématique. Selon les propos analysés, un processus est généré par le FA, soit une séquence d’impacts ayant une influence les uns sur les autres. Tout d’abord, l’entrevue du FA contribue à ce que les participants entrent dans une disposition psychologique favorable au dévoilement d’informations pertinentes à la rédaction du récit du FA. Ensuite, le récit du FA engendre différentes prises de conscience qui produisent, à leur tour, un changement de perspective sur le sens accordé à la réadaptation et à l’image de soi. Enfin, le récit du FA génère une mobilisation des participants envers leur processus de réadaptation et l’adaptation que demande le quotidien postaccidentel. Les résultats de l’étude correspondent aux premières connaissances scientifiques sur les impacts du FA. Des recherches futures seront nécessaires pour enrichir les connaissances sur cet instrument novateur. À la lumière des résultats, il serait notamment pertinent de s’intéresser au lien entre l’impact du FA sur la disposition psychologique et l’alliance thérapeutique. Les nouvelles connaissances permettront de valider la pertinence d’utiliser cet instrument et d’en généraliser l’application à d’autres populations.

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Tsweleng, Mmapula Petunia. "The experience of adolescents living in households with mothers who are HIV/Aids positive." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_6776_1298350439.

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South Africa is reported to have the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS infections in Sub-Saharan Africa. As a result the quality of life of families living with HIV/AIDS is negatively affected. Literature indicates that the majority of affected persons are young children and adolescents whose siblings or parents are infected with HIV/AIDS. Most affected adolescents are reported to have difficult social lives due to their parent&rsquo
s illness, difficult financial situations at home, stigma and discrimination within the society. The study attempts to explore the experiences of adolescents in households where the mother is HIV/AIDS positive. This research project is an exploratory study using a narrative approach within a qualitative methodological design. The study was conducted with 6 Xhosa-speaking adolescent boys (2) and girls (4) aged 12 to 15 years. An open-ended interview schedule was used to prompt participants to tell their stories. Data was collected by means of a voice recorder in order for adolescents to tell their stories. The responses were transcribed verbatim, translated and verified with the participants. The data were analysed by means of narrative analysis. The results indicate that most adolescent participants were coping with the mother being HIV/AIDS positive and maintained hope for their futures. Adolescents were coping due to support from friends and relatives. Some adolescents experienced rejection and discrimination. The biggest challenge in the home was due to socioeconomic status. The study is intended to benefit the community in terms of making recommendations to social workers at NGO&rsquo
s and the government sectors in terms of strengthening the existing support programmes in the community.

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Life, Patricia. "Long-Term Caring: Canadian Literary Narratives of Personal Agency and Identity in Late Life." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31162.

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This thesis analyses thirteen key literary texts taken from the last century of Canadian English-language publishing to assess how each text reveals, reinforces, and /or resists narratives of natural-aging, decline, progress and positive-aging. When considered together, these texts illustrate overall patterns in the evolution of age-related beliefs and behaviours. Stories have a potential emotional impact that scholarly readings do not, and thus the reading and study of these texts can serve to promote conscious intellectual consideration of the issues surrounding age and aging. My analysis focuses on how our Canadian literature envisages aging into old age, primarily addressing stories set in late-life-care facilities and comprising what I am naming our ‘nursing-home-narrative genre.’ Although my chapters follow a chronological progression, beginning with Catharine Parr Traill’s 1894 Pearls and Pebbles and concluding with Janet Hepburn’s 2013 Flee, Fly, Flown, I am not arguing that each age-related belief is replaced by a succeeding one. I would assert instead that over time Canadians have accumulated an assortment of age ideologies, some of which mesh and some of which duplicate or even contradict others. For example, although many people have embraced new positive-aging ideologies, aging-as-decline narratives still circulate strongly. Using social and literary theory as support, I argue that the selected literary texts of my analysis (Traill, Wilson, Laurence, Shields, Wright, Barfoot, Munro, Tostevin, Gruen, Hepburn, King) reveal a genre that is evolving quickly in both form and content. The nursing-home-narrative genre begins with gothic stories of fear of the nursing home, of aging and of death, expands to include darkly humorous stories featuring increasingly empowered residents successfully living within care homes, and is introducing, during the twenty-first century, fantastical stories of escape from the home and of return to youthful behaviours and preferable habitats. This most recent narrative joins the earlier ones to create a new master narrative in which aging people can overcome fear with agency and thus ultimately reject the nursing home and old age itself. However, in the most compelling of the new agency and escape narratives, authors lay a thin icing of entertainment over a dark undercurrent of reality.

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Queair, Edward C. "Children of the U.S. Military and Identity: A Narrative Inquiry into the "Brat" Experience." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch152935050794055.

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Srivastva, Alka. "In Search of Noble Organizing: A Study in Social Entrepreneurship." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=case1081265383.

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Osmun, William R. "Hiring the “Other”—A Biographical Narrative Inquiry of Progressive Human Resource Professionals." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1558953727028898.

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Asante, Sylvia E. M. "Grandmothers' Leadership Roles as Reflected in the Lives of High-Achieving Women: A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Grandmothers on Granddaughters During Their Formative Years." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1432040817.

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Fenton, Catherine Meghan. "An assets based approach to health promotion with young people in England." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/10920.

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Introduction The health of young people in England is an area of concern, nationally and internationally. This has prompted a range of strategies and policies to try to address how health may be improved. However, there has not necessarily been agreement as to how this should best be done. There appeared a case for consideration of alternative or additional approaches to health promotion. Aim This research aimed to construct an assets based model to shape health promotion practice and policy for young people in England. Methods A narrative synthesis was undertaken and highlighted the lack of information regarding which assets might be important for young people’s health in England. This programme of research was developed from those initial findings. Quantitative and qualitative methods were employed to gain a more comprehensive understanding than could be gained by individual methods. This mixed methods research involved secondary data analysis of the Health Behaviours in School Aged Children (HBSC) dataset using regression analysis to identify the assets associated with life satisfaction for English youth. Focus groups and interviews were employed to capture the views of young people regarding assets, health and health promotion. Findings were discussed with practitioners to gather their ideas as to the potential of an assets approach. The different research methods were drawn together by the underpinning theoretical frameworks provided by Assets models and the New Social Studies of Childhood. Results Two themes emerged from the narrative synthesis providing suggestions for health promotion; the ecological approach acknowledged the range of settings that young people inhabit, whilst the holistic approach recognised the interrelationship between risks and assets. Critical discussion consolidated the research findings to propose a list of health promoting assets for young people in England; constructive relationships, safety, positive attributes, independence and opportunity. These findings were brought together into a descriptive model to guide health promotion policy and practice (Figure 1). Constructive relationships appeared as a core asset, providing a foundation from which young people could develop. Having positive attributes was also fundamental to this process, which emphasises the importance of promoting physical and mental health simultaneously. Safety was the third core asset identified through the research strands. There was variation between young people regarding the definition of, and priority assigned to, the additional assets of independence and opportunity. Figure 1: Assets model to shape health promotion with young people Conclusion This research contributes to previous work in the field of assets models by providing new insight into the relatively little researched area of assets approaches to health promotion with young people in England. The complex interrelationships between mental health and assets have been highlighted; providing challenge to frameworks that focus on the quantitative accumulation of assets. The inclusion of young people’s perspectives provided new depth to previous theoretical models and interpretation of quantitative findings. The variation highlighted within this research raises implications for tackling health inequalities. This assets based model provides a framework to shape professional practice and policy thus providing the potential to improve young people’s health and wellbeing in a sustainable and non-stigmatising way.

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Banks, Jonathan Britten. "The Impact of Event Familiarity on the Complexity and Coherence of Children's Narratives of Positive Events." NCSU, 2004. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11042004-221924/.

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The coherence of individuals? narratives of negative events has been shown to have significant positive effects on a variety of indicators of adaptive functioning (Klein & Boals, 2001; Pennebaker, Mayne, & Francis, 1997). Relatively little is known, however, about the processes through which individuals form coherent narratives of important personal experiences. This research examined the role of familiarity with the event on changes over time in the measures of narrative complexity, coherence and intrusive thoughts. In addition, the relationships among three previously used measures of coherence (a count of words in relevant categories, an overall rating, and a measure of causal connections between clauses) were examined, and the association between each measure and a criterion measure, Story Grammar, was explored. Two groups of 16 children participated in either a familiar event, a soccer tournament, or an unfamiliar event, soccer tryouts for a more competitive leaguer. All participants were interviewed within one week of the event and six weeks after the first interview. In contrast to expectations, familiarity with the event did not result in higher initial levels of coherence, and the coherence of the account of the less familiar event did not increase over time. The alternative measures of coherence were related to Story Grammar as expected, but were not correlated with each other.

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Degenhardt, Lars. "Pioniere nachhaltiger Lebensstile Analyse einer positiven Extremgruppe mit bereichsübergreifender Kongruenz zwischen hohem nachhaltigen Problembewusstsein und ausgeprägtem nachhaltigen Handeln." Kassel Kassel Univ. Press, 2006. http://www.uni-kassel.de/hrz/db4/extern/dbupress/publik/abstract.php?978-3-89958-308-6.

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Azizzadeh, Satkeen. "And who gets the job? : narratives, dialogical perspectives and practices on implementing positive discrimination in financial institutions." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3226/.

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The high unemployment rate amongst nationals in United Arab Emirates (UAE) has generated the development of the 'Emiratisation policy', a drive to nationalise the UAE workforce. This quota-based mandate is considered a ‘positive discrimination' policy since ethnicity markers are applied. The process of 'Emiratization' has generated a heated public debate as organisations attempt to develop best practices across industries. This research explores the process of implementing Emiratization in two financial organizations in the UAE. The extant literature on implementing positive discrimination policies is however very limited, with an individualistic, quantitative and experimental focus. When a more social and organizational approach has been taken, it has been to look into stereotyping and similarity-attraction paradigms to explain work-related outcomes. Such research takes the policy as a given, concerned with its output and rarely considers the process through which the policy is understood, co-constructed and implemented over time and its impact on working practices. A more practice-based perspective is therefore required to explore the working practices and the practical and ‘hidden’ knowledge that supports them to better understand policy implementation processes. This research aims to address this gap by exploring the common practical (mis)understandings on Emiratisation developed over time among different stakeholders -employees of two financial organizations in the UAE as well as public actors- and their impact on the ‘mediated array of human activity centrally organised around [them]’ (Schatzki, 2001:2). The research was designed as a longitudinal qualitative study conducted over a period of three years. The data corpus consists of 54 in-depth interviews, more than 30 hours of observations, 2 Emiratisation conferences, 4 consultancy reports, 6 annual reports and online resources. The thematic, narrative and dialogical analysis of the data corpus illustrates the ongoing interaction between public narratives, intersubjective (mis)understandings between national and non-national employees and organizational working practices when implementing the policy. In public narratives, Emiratisation is portrayed both as an employment opportunity as well as a strategy to replace expatriates. This tension and the (mis) understandings it generates is reproduced at organisational and intersubjective levels and informs the development of distinct working practices in both organizations. The study provides new insights into the process of implementing positive discrimination policies in organizations through the practice lens, highlighting the emergent nature of policy implementation, grounding it in everyday knowledge and action. It also offers a rare opportunity to capture in situ how Emiratisation ‘becomes’ a practice.

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Madžarević, Goran. "Reducing homophobia through audiovisual narratives in Serbia: the impact of positive depiction of gay people on audience attitudes." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/394051.

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El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar el impacto que ejerce la ficción audiovisual sobre las actitudes hacia las personas homosexuales en el contexto específico de la cultura serbia. En particular, este estudio observa los procesos que explican el cambio de actitud hacia las personas homosexuales a través de la película titulada La Parada (2011), que conlleva una representación positiva de los hombres homosexuales. En el estudio participaron 200 estudiantes universitarios (M = 21.64, SD = 2.27). Se aplicó un diseño de investigación cuasi-experimental en la que todos los participantes fueron divididos en dos grupos: un grupo experimental (N= 150), y un grupo de control (N = 50). La recogida de datos se realizó en dos fases separadas por un período de 30 días. En la primera fase se recogieron los datos del pre-test: todos los participantes rellenaron un cuestionario que contenía la información socio-demográfica y el instrumento H25 que medía la homofobia. Al cabo de un mes, se realizó una segunda recogida de datos. En esta fase, el grupo experimental vio la película, y después del visionado, rellenó un cuestionario que medía la homofobia, la identificación con el personaje, el contacto intergrupal, así como el efecto de la tercera persona. Por otro lado, el grupo de control no vio la película, y volvió a rellenar el cuestionario que contenía el instrumento H25 de medición de la homofobia. Se aplicó un método cuantitativo con el fin de identificar las relaciones entre las variables subyacentes, y para determinar magnitudes de sus efectos. Los resultados principales revelan que el grupo experimental, en comparación con el grupo de control ha mostrado la actitud más favorable hacia las personas homosexuales. Los resultados asimismo indican que los hombres expresaron un mayor nivel de homofobia respecto a las mujeres. La identificación con el personaje homosexual se asoció positivamente con la aceptación de la homosexualidad después del visionado de la película. Igualmente, se obtuvo una correlación positiva entre el contacto intergrupal y la identificación con el personaje. La religiosidad y el efecto de la tercera persona se asociaron negativamente con los niveles de homofobia. La menor identificación con el personaje fue asociada con los niveles más altos de religiosidad y del efecto de tercera persona. Al encontrar su relevancia dentro del contexto serbio, nuestra investigación hace una contribución general a los estudios anteriores que conciernen a las influencias y los efectos de las ficciones audiovisuales en el cambio de actitud.
Abstract The objective of the present study is to analyze the impact of audiovisual fiction on attitudes towards gay people within the specific Serbian culture. Particularly, this study observes the processes explaining attitude change towards homosexuality through a positive representation of gay men depicted in the film The Parade (2011). The study was based on a sample of 200 college students (M = 21.64, SD = 2.27). We applied a quasi-experimental research design and divided all participants into two groups: an experimental group (N=150), and a control group (N=50). There were two phases of data collection separated by 30 days. Firstly, we collected data in the pre-test: All the participants filled in a questionnaire consisted of socio-demographic information and the instrument H25 measuring homophobia. One month later, we performed a second data collection. In this phase, the experimental group and the control group differed in some of the tasks they were asked to complete. The experimental group watched the film, and after the exposure, filled in a questionnaire measuring homophobia, identification with the character, intergroup contact and the third person effect. On the other hand, the control group did not watch the film, and once again filled in a questionnaire measuring homophobia. We applied quantitative method in order to identify subjacent relations between the variables, and to determine magnitudes of their effects. Main results reveal that experimental group, compared with a control group, showed more favorable attitude towards gay people. Results also found that men expressed higher level of homophobia than women. Identification with character was positively associated with acceptance of homosexuality. We also obtained positive correlation between the identification and intergroup contact. Religiosity and the third person effect were negatively associated with homophobia score. The less identification with the character the participants achieved, the higher level of religiosity, and the third person effect they expressed. In conclusion, the study makes a general contribution by reinforcing the results of previous media effect related studies, and finds their relevance within the

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Ceder, Felicia, and Olivia Ahlmén. "Årsredovisningen, ett objektivt informationsdokument eller ett marknadsföringsverktyg? : En kvantitativ studie om läsbarheten i svenska börsnoterade företags årsredovisningar." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-148893.

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Bakgrund Årsredovisningens berättande delar utgör numera majoriteten av årsredovisningen. De berättande delarna hjälper läsaren att tolka den finansiella informationen. Därmed är läsbarheten i de berättande delarna viktig för årsredovisningens användbarhet. Tidigare studier har kommit fram till att företag medvetet försämrar årsredovisningens läsbarhet för att dölja skadlig information och därigenom vilseleda läsaren. Syfte Studiens syfte är att förklara variation i läsbarhet mellan svenska börsnoterade företags årsredovisningar. Metod Denna kvantitativa studie tar sin utgångspunkt i ett eklektiskt och deduktivt angreppssätt där både läsbarhets- och redovisningsteorier ligger till grund för hypotesutvecklingen. Studien utgår från en tvärsnittsdesign där studiens empiriska material utgörs av sekundärdata som är hämtad från företags årsredovisningar. Variation i årsredovisningars läsbarhet analyseras med multipel linjär regression. Slutsats Studiens resultat visar att det finns ett starkt positivt samband mellan lönsamhet och läsbarhet och således har mindre lönsamma företag en lägre läsbarhet i sina årsredovisningar. Resultatet påvisar även att det förekommer svaga skillnader i årsredovisningars läsbarhet mellan olika branscher. Vidare indikerar analysen att större företag skriver längre texter och därigenom mer svårläst.
Introduction Nowdays the narrative parts are the majority of the annual report. The narrative parts help the reader to interpret the financial information. Thus, the readability is important for the usefulness of the annual report. Prior research has found that corporations strategically use the language as a tool to hide information and to obfuscate the reader. Purpose The purpose of this study is to explain variation in readability between Swedish listed corporations’ annual reports. Method This quantitative study is based on an eclectical and deductive approach where both theories of readability and accounting theories have formulated the hypotheses. A cross-sectional design has been used and the study's empirical data consist of secondary data, derived from annual reports. Variation in annual reports readability has been analysed by multiple linear regression. Conclusion The result shows that there is a strong positive correlation between profitability and readability, thus less profitable corporations have lower readability in their annual reports. The result also shows that there are weak differences in the annual reports' readability between different industries. Furthermore, the analysis indicates that larger companies write longer texts and thus more difficult.

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Uys, Martha-Marie. "Towards the development of a coping model for the well-being of patients with transverse myelitis." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32047.

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Transverse myelitis (TM) is a rare auto-immune inflammatory disease in which the patient’s immune system attacks their spinal cord resulting in an unpredictable degree of neurologic disability, ranging from complete recovery to quadriplegia. TM patients often experience insufficient assistance towards understanding causes of the illness and have little to depend on in trying to deal with it. This study explores psychological strengths and coping strategies used by TM patients in coping with the illness. A theoretical framework of positive psychology with a strong focus on seven constructs, namely positive coping, searching for meaning, benefit finding, hope, sense of humour, resilience, as well as religion and spirituality is presented. The main data collection strategy for this study was the gathering of stories as a form of conversation. These were subjected to thematic analysis by interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) focused on identifiable themes and patterns of living and behaviour. The emerging patterns and identified fortigenic qualities were then considered, analysed and argued in relation to corresponding coping strategies. A model for the psychological coping and well-being of TM patients, based on emphasising the positive and constructive and considering existing models and strategies for the well-being of patients, was developed. The strategic and therapeutic model is presented in easily understandable language for the benefit of any care-giver (e.g. family member, friend or nurse) or the patient him/herself.
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Nogueira, Ruzileide Epifânio. "A ESCRITURA BONASSIANA EM PASSAPORTE E SUAS RELA- ÇÕES COM O CINEMA E O INTERLOCUTOR." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2013. http://tede2.pucgoias.edu.br:8080/handle/tede/3642.

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This paper aims to perform a study about the interfaces established between Passa- porte, Fernando Bonassi`s literary work, and cinema, as well as their correlation with the interlocutor. Just like a film camera, the images produced in this text, capture a specific field of view, not a spatial continuum, but fragments that record a limited portion of reality, chosen by the writer, which determines a particular form of reception of the text where interpretation establishes itself between effect, which is the time conditioned by literary work, and reception, the time set by the addressee, who is requested to actively participate in the composition of the meaning of the text. From the late nineteenth century the center of interest of figurative object in literature and film, shifted from external reality to imagination of the viewer and reader, making them part of artistic creation, as seen in literary work under examination. It will be carried out the study of textual significance, which refers to the establish- ment of meaning, dissimulated by language in fictional writing, that requires an in- stance of pleasure and distress, resulting from the significant promise of what literary work keeps concealed. It will also be subject of reflection, the study of metaphorical images, in particular their correlations with the non-places, which are spaces occu- pied by human groups, without identification or bonds of coexistence with them. The world of massification constitutes these spaces, typical of modern epoch, such as shopping malls, airports, doctors' offices, are found in this literary work, thus making them one of the hallmarks of its constructive model and giving it a special current connotation.
Este trabalho tem por objetivo realizar um estudo sobre as interfaces que se estabe- lecem entre Passaporte, obra literária de Fernando Bonassi, e o cinema e, também, suas correlações com o interlocutor. Tal qual uma câmera cinematográfica, as ima- gens elaboradas, neste texto, captam um campo de visão específico, não um conti- nuum espacial, mas fragmentos que registram uma porção limitada da realidade, eleita pelo escritor, o que determina uma forma particular de recepção do texto, ou seja, a interpretação instaura-se entre o efeito, que é o momento condicionado pela obra, e a recepção, que é o momento estabelecido pelo destinatário, que é solicitado a participar ativamente da constituição do sentido do texto. A partir do fim do século XIX, o centro de gravidade do objeto figurativizado, pela literatura e pelo cinema, se deslocou, da realidade externa para o imaginário do es- pectador e do leitor, tornando-os, efetivamente, participantes da criação artística, e isto está presente na obra em exame. Será levado a efeito, também, o estudo da significância textual, que se refere à ins- tauração do sentido que a linguagem dissimula na escrita ficcional, que pressupõe uma instância de prazer e angústia, resultante da promessa significativa daquilo que a obra literária oculta sob sua sombra. Será, ainda, objeto de reflexão o estudo das imagens metafóricas, especialmente as correlações destas com os não-lugares, que são espaços que grupos humanos ocupam, sem se identificar e sem estabelecer laços de convivência com eles. Esses espaços, constituídos pelo mundo massifica- do, são característicos da época contemporânea, como shoppings centers, aeropor- tos, consultórios médicos, que constituem a sobremodernidade e estão muito pre- sentes na obra em exame, constituindo uma das marcas de seu modelo construtivo, o que lhe dá uma conotação especial de atualidade.

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Chancé, Dominique. "L'auteur en souffrance. Essai sur la position et la representation de l'auteur dans le roman antillais contemporain (1981-1992)." Caen, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998CAEN1248.

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Etre auteur aux antilles ne va pas de soi. La litterature antillaise n'a pas d'institutions propres, son existence meme est deniee par des ecrivains qui se pretendent "precurseurs", masquent l'acte d'ecriture derriere la posture d'un "marqueur de paroles". Pourtant une "litterature antillaise" a pris corps depuis les annees quatrevingts. P. Chamoiseau, r. Confiant, reconnaissant e. Glissant pour pere spirituel, ont institue un champ litteraire qui a succede au mouvement de la negritude: la "creolite". L'ecrivain a desormais mission d'expliciter l'imaginaire creole. Il donne acces a une "vision interieure" perceptible dans ses romans, qui mieux que les analyses dogmatiques et le militantisme, sont capables de saisir l'existence et de la transformer. L'imaginaire creole est d'abord reappropriation d'une histoire alienee dans la "chronique coloniale". Un nouveau type de logique, de discours, de recit et de narrateur sont donc necessaires. Les histoires diverses, fragmentees seront "reliees" par un narrateur qui les recueille a travers la parole populaire. Mais le narrateur potentiel n'est pas initie; il sera parfois rejete pas la collectivite, comme un etranger. Est-il certain d'ailleurs que cette communaute existe? le "roman du nous" se heurte au morcellement du recit, de la collectivite elle-meme, menace en outre d'implosion par les contradictions internes au narrateur. En effet, comment temoigner des histoires du peuple dans un langage qui fut celui de l'assujettissement a travers l'ecrit, et le francais? ecrire est trahir. Il faut donc imaginer une poetique qui mette en relation creole et francais, oral et ecrit, dans une creation qui, comme la traduction, est faite de tensions et de renoncements. Ainsi, dans l'incertitude, au seuil "du delire verbal" et de la folie, l'ecrivain en souffrance se construit une legimite afin de prendre la suite du conteur, tout en assumant les "imperatifs de l'ecrit moderne"
Being an author in french speaking caribbean literature is not self-evident. Some authors like e. Glissant even argue that genuine literature cannot take place in a neo-colonial situation. They claim to be "marqueurs de paroles", i. E. Not so much writers as mediators of oral speech. In spite of this denial, caribbean literature has been proving its vitality since 1988, when p. Chamoiseau, r. Confiant and j. Bernabe brought forward the creole quality of caribbean culture. In contrast with "negritude" which had been looking for an authentic being in africa, creolity tries to re-establish creole culture in its own homeland, the caribbean islands, and in its own language, which is not only creole, nor any other idiom, but a shared fancy (imaginative vision of the world). Novels rather than theories, writers better than political activists can bring this identity out of racial and social diversity. In the process of creating a counter-poetics, the narrator explores history in order to break down official, colonial speech and establish a new kind of "relation" (e. Glissant). The denied history of oppressed people thus becomes a puzzling patchwork of many tales. But the would-be narrator may fail in his project to collect popular stories, which requires him to be in contact with the community. First he is felt as an outsider and furthermore the group is quite scattered. A novel written by a collective voice is bound to be an idealistic endeavour. The writer finds another stumbling block in his own contradictions, since he tries to write oral stories in a world where writing is felt as an oppressive practice, linked to a perverse law. He must create a new language in which oral speech and writing, french and creole are brought together. This heterogeneous language may accordingly lead to "opacity", but it is the hallmark of creative writing and the prerequisite for the emergence of a free subjectivity

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Ilic, Dragana. "Conversation Analysis of Michael White’s Decentered and Influential Position." NSUWorks, 2017. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dft_etd/25.

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The relationship between the therapist and the client is an important consideration for most models of therapy, with all models of therapy emphasizing the importance of establishing a positive therapeutic relationship. Quantitative and qualitative studies have shown that the relationship between the therapist and the client is a predictor of positive outcomes. However, different models define the preferred therapeutic relationship differently. This study was a qualitative exploration of a decentered and influential position of the therapist in narrative therapy. A video of a one-session narrative therapy case conducted by Michael White was analyzed using conversation analysis to answer the following research question: How, if at all, can White be seen to take a decentered and influential position in narrative therapy? The findings of this study provide more knowledge about White’s decentered and influential stance in narrative therapy. It is expected that this knowledge could be useful for education and training purposes, as well as for the improvement of clinical practice.

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O'Leary, Stephen. "'Hidden voices' : an exploratory single case study into the multiple worlds of a 15 year old young man with autism." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3700.

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This thesis presents a 31-day case study carried out with a 15 year old young man who has classical autism. The study involved introducing him to a number of new and challenging activities, in a variety of contexts, over 31 days, that were previously assumed to be outside of his range of capability. The case study found that the application of the concepts of choice, control, challenge and risk had an unexpectedly positive impact upon the young man’s performance. This study further attempts to explore the concept of narrative as a ‘pedagogical bridge’ between the ‘worlds’ of autism and neurotypicality, arguing that narrative may provide a ‘way in’ to the world of autism. ‘Narrative’, this study contends, may provide a tapestry across which the world of autism may be connected with the world that surrounds it; by revealing a multiplicity of selves in a multiplicity of contexts. Methods of data collection included field notes, interviews, photographs and film footage. Ultimately, the study found that the use of ‘performance texts’ (DVDs featuring the young man’s achievements) constituted a powerful means of celebrating his accomplishments within the school and its wider community. Research approaches were participatory and ethnographic in the data collection phases, while a more phenomenological approach was adopted in the data analysis phase. The overarching analytical framework was that of ‘narrative analysis’ in telling a story of bravery, courage, hope and optimism.

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Arcas, Noguera Cristina. "Viral Voices. Digital storytelling, women and HIV in Podcast Positivos: Mujeres VIHvas project." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Forum för genusvetenskap och jämställdhet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-172668.

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Despite being considered as the most social infection, there is little data on HIV infection in women. Women have not been considered beyond their reproductive role as subjects with a sexuality that transcends the historical mandate of biological reproduction, maintaining a secondary role in the infection. At the same time, society seems to have forgotten that the infection is still present. This thesis explores the voice of a group of positive women who, with their stories and through the digital narrative, will challenge the discourses that are established as hegemonic. In order to illustrate the potential of new tools as digital storytelling to disrupt and challenge the hegemonic herstory around women with HIV, the starting point for this thesis is Podcast Positivos: Mujeres VIHvas project. Engaging with the theories of intersectionality, performativity and cyborg, it will be argued the use of language, voice and the role of listening. Phenomenological research and narrative discourse analysis will be applied as methodologies to, on the one hand, address the experience of HIV as an important dimension in women's lives and, on the other hand, use their stories as a way to understand the meaning of those experiences. This thesis also discusses the creation of a cyber self, a viralized voice that is introduced into the already institutionalized podcast platform, to construct, deconstruct and challenge silences. Further, this thesis calls for an effort to listen, feel and write the stories of resistance of positive women and to put them into conversation within feminist academic debates.

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Moraes, Brígia da Silva Amaro Lelis. "Sobre o que transborda: narrativas de histórias de vida atravessadas pelo HIV e outras histórias." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFC, 2017. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/24871.

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MORAES, Brígia da Silva Amaro Lelis. Sobre o que transborda: narrativas de histórias de vida atravessadas pelo HIV e outras histórias. 2017. 74f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2017.
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Essa pesquisa tem como objetivo compreender os sentidos dados pelos sujeitos que vivem com HIV/AIDS às suas experiências e aos sentimentos vivenciados nesse processo de reconhecimento ou negação das metamorfoses identitárias. É, pois, um estudo em Psicologia Social Crítica, com um embasamento teórico-metodológico construído a partir da obra de pensadores contemporâneos das teorias críticas. Aqui, entendida como este constante olhar de questionamento sobre a realidade posta. A metodologia utilizada, de caráter qualitativo, encontra no método de narrativas de história de vida uma possibilidade interessante de conhecimento da subjetividade humana. Partimos de uma concepção de sujeito que se implica no processo de constituição de suas experiências e, portanto, deve ser ouvido enquanto tal. Nesse sentido, não foi utilizado um questionário previamente estruturado para a realização das entrevistas, que aconteceram a partir das seguintes questões disparadoras: “Quem você é”? “Como você se tornou quem você é hoje”, “Quais seriam seus planos de futuro, agora?”. A análise dos relatos trazidos se dá a partir da proposta teórica metodológica apresentada por Ciampa, Almeida e Lima que preza pelos relatos de um narrador sobre sua existência através do tempo e os processos de negação e reconhecimento identitário. Os fragmentos de narrativas aqui apresentadas perfazem a constituição, em linhas gerais, de três personagens diferentes. Um efeito narrativo que conecta formas de vida no que elas trazem de mais frágil. Três formas de vida que nos convidam a um mergulho em suas realidades distintas e que dizem muito sobre os sentidos dados à experiência de viver a exclusão e o medo. Apresentamos aqui o cerne de uma pesquisa que busca compreender a vida. Mais que trazer relatos dos marcadores biológicos de uma doença que preocupa autoridades sanitárias em todo o mundo, este trabalho busca entender o modo como, todos os dias, damos continuidade as nossas histórias. Como considerações finais, falamos de quem somos e de como nos estruturamos a partir do resultado dinâmico da reposição constante de tudo que compõe nossas trajetórias em narrativas de vida outras que, por vezes, refletem a nós mesmos.

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Selmi, Dhouaifi Khadija. "L'œuvre narrative de Maria Messina : une voix pour les victimes d'un univers étouffant." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020COAZ2015.

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La thèse porte sur l’œuvre de Maria Messina (Palerme 1887- Pistoia 1944), une auteure sicilienne qui appartient à la catégorie des écrivains oubliés. Il s’agit d’une lecture analytique-critique de l’œuvre narrative messinienne. Dans la première partie, nous avons proposé une étude détaillée du profil biographique de l’auteure en examinant, dans une perspective théorique et textuelle, son appartenance et son adhésion au Vérisme et en analysant ses correspondances épistolaires. Puis nous avons abordé une étude diachronique de toute sa production littéraire en classant et résumant ses œuvres, et enfin nous avons pris en examen sa fortune critique et littéraire. Dans la deuxième partie, nous avons défini les différentes catégories de personnages-victimes de Maria Messina et nous avons étudié, dans une perspective textuelle, leurs portraits en examinant «l’univers suffocant» dans lequel vivent ces personnages. En particulier, ils ont été analysés les personnages féminins, explorés dans le cadre de la représentation de la condition féminine de l'époque, en abordant les thèmes principaux affrontés par l’écrivaine. Dans la troisième et dernière partie, toujours dans une perspective textuelle, et à travers l'analyse des différentes figures féminines dans les diverses œuvres messiniennes et une enquête thématique, nous avons examiné comment Maria Messina, par sa plume, a donné la parole à ces victimes étouffées qui n'ont pas la possibilité de parler ou de se défendre, en affrontant le passage du silence à la parole et de l'ombre à la lumière dans l’univers étouffant des «victimes» représenté par l’auteure
My thesis focuses on the narrative work of Maria Messina (Palermo 1887 - Pistoia 1944), a Sicilian author who belongs to category of forgotten writers. It deals with a critical interpretation of Maria Messina’s narrative work. In the first part, I propose a detailed biographical study of the author by examining, through a theoretical and textual perspective, her sharing the literary principles of the Verismo literary movement and by analyzing her epistolary correspondences. I then engage with a diachronical study of her whole narrative production by classifying and summarizing the content of her works. Finally, I consider the critical fortune of Maria Messina, that is, how her work was understood and interpreted by critical scholarship.In the second part of my thesis, I describe the different typologies of Messina’s characters and I study, by means of an in-depth textual analysis of her narrative, their representation in terms of victims within the “suffocating society” in which they live. In particular, I focus on Messina’s female characters, the representation of which documents the female condition at Messina’s time.In the third and last part of my work, I examine, by means of a textual analysis again, the way in which Messina gave voice to her characters, allowing them to become aware and denounce their condition of subalternity

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Stock, David M. "Educating for Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric in the General Education Curriculum." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd985.pdf.

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Åslander, Alice, and Joel Gedin. "You Wanna Be on Top? : A Narrative Career Study of Women’s Experiences and Strategies." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-263952.

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In Sweden, the statistics show how women are underrepresented in organisational hierarchies; as managers, executive managers, CEOs and board of directors. Qualitative research reveals that women in management positions perceive the working life in Sweden as unequal and how men and women have different terms for making a career. Previous career studies told from women's narratives with a gender perspective caught our interest to examine how women reason and relate to their careers in 2019. The purpose of this study is to examine what emerges in stories about career and gender by women with management experience. We seek to understand how women relate to their career stories and how dilemmas are handled and how strategies are being used. We applied a narrative research design to obtain women's own stories about their careers. Ten narrative interviews were conducted with women with management experience within different companies and across several industries. The findings reveal how women in their career find themselves in minority positions in an environment imprinted by men's homosociality, including a language and toughness, that is difficult to relate to for the women. The minority position gives grounds to multiple approaches for women. The narratives show the urge to prove oneself, to legitimise one's position and to make oneself visible by showing will-power and determination. We found three strategies that women use in order to sustain self-esteem while coping with gender structures. We have named these strategies the individualistic strategy, the positive strategy and the explicit structure strategy. The individualistic strategy makes gender invisible by focusing on individual characteristics and traits. The positive strategy focuses on the advantages of being a woman and, the explicit structure strategy relates the meaning of gender to structures rather than to oneself. A central finding in our material is how the women switch between coping strategies. Switching between the individualistic strategy and the explicit structure strategy unveils two different themes. The first I don't want to generalise, but, illustrates how women relate gender to structures while they at the same time do not want to generalise between the genders. The second switch the Trojan horse explains how women are aware of gender structures and conform to men to sustain control and thereby sustain their self-esteem. Finally, to switch between stressing the benefits of being a woman and the burden of being a woman, we interpret as efforts to unburden the weight of gender structures. These switches between strategies give rise to contradictive reasoning, which we find entirely understandable as a means for women to make sense of their own reality.
I Sverige visar statistik hur kvinnor är underrepresenterade i organisationshierarkier; som chefer, VD, i ledninggrupper och styrelser. Kvalitativ forskning visar att kvinnor på chefspositioner upplever arbetslivet i Sverige som ojämnställt och att män och kvinnor har olika villkor att göra karriär. Tidigare karriärsstudier med ett genusperspektiv, berättade från kvinnors narrativ fångade vårt intresse att undersöka hur kvinnor resonerar kring och förhåller sig till sin karriär 2019. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vad som framkommer i berättelser om karriär och kön av kvinnor med chefserfarenhet. Vi ämnade förstå hur kvinnor förhåller sig till sina berättelser och hur dilemman hanteras och hur strategier används. Vi tillämpade en narrativ forskningsdesign för att erhålla kvinnors egna berättelser om sin karriär. Tio narrativa intervjuer genomfördes med kvinnor med chefserfarenhet inom olika företag och branscher. Resultaten avslöjar hur kvinnor i sin karriär befinner sig i minoritetsposition i en miljö som präglas av mäns homosocialitet, inklusive ett språk och tuffhet som är svårt att relatera till för kvinnorna. Minoritetspositionen ger upphov till flera förhållningssätt bland kvinnorna. Berättelserna skildrar behovet att behöva bevisa sig själv, att legitimera sin ställning och att göra sig synlig genom att visa viljestyrka och beslutsamhet. Vi hittade tre strategier som kvinnor använder för att upprätthålla sin självkänsla medan de hanterar könsstrukturer. Vi har namngett dessa strategier: den individualistiska strategin, den positiva strategin och den explicita strukturstrategin. Den individualistiska strategin gör kön osynligt genom att fokusera på individuella egenskaper och förmågor. Den positiva strategin fokuserar på fördelarna med att vara kvinna och den explicita strukturstrategin relaterar betydelsen av kön till strukturer snarare än till individen. Ett centralt resultat i vårt material är hur kvinnorna växlar mellan strategierna. Växling mellan den individualistiska strategin och den explicita strukturstrategin avslöjar två olika teman. Den första jag inte vill generalisera, men, illustrerar hur kvinnor relaterar kön till strukturer medan de samtidigt inte vill generalisera mellan könen. Den andra växlingen den trojanska hästen förklarar hur kvinnor är medvetna om könsstrukturer och efterliknar män för att upprätthålla kontrollen och därigenom självkänslan. Slutligen, växlingen mellan att betona fördelarna med att vara kvinna och belastningen av att vara kvinna, tolkar vi som en stävan mot att avlasta bördan av könsstrukturer. Dessa växlingar mellan strategier ger upphov till motsägelsefulla resonemang som vi finner helt förståeliga som ett medel för kvinnor att begripa sin verklighet.

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Newell, Ashley Michelle. "Does capability measurement enable aspiration during emergent adulthood? Examining 'Poverty Stoplight' as a poverty measurement and capability building instrument for youth in South Africa." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32315.

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In South Africa, the majority of youth entering emerging adulthood find themselves in a protracted struggle to access further education, training or to secure their first decent job. The purpose of this multi-case study is to deepen the understanding of how capability measurement approaches and tools can empower marginalized youth to better understand their aspirations and map their way through emerging adulthood and out of poverty. This research aims to deepen the understanding of youth's experience utilizing 'Poverty Stoplight'; a poverty measurement and capability building instrument that utilizes a self-assessment survey and mentorship methodology. The researcher utilized a youth-focused participatory approach in conducting focus groups and in-depth one-on-one interviews across five marginalized communities in the Western Cape to gain insight into their experience using the tool, their ability to envision their future selves and develop their aspirations. What emerged from the data were insights into the youth's aspirations, the perceived enabling factors and impediments towards their aspirations and their experiences utilizing Poverty Stoplight. This process enabled youth to genuinely reflect and assess their situation, and have the opportunity to define their aspirations. Overall the Poverty Stoplight programme was experienced as empowering by participants, with several implications for the programme pertaining to data accessibility, communication, mentorship and solution sharing, as well as the importance of youth-specific participatory approaches. Aligned to this, the findings yielded several recommendations pertaining to providing support and enabling opportunities for emerging adults to realise their aspirations. Despite the limitations of this research, this study is relevant for stakeholders in South Africa and globally as it examines the critical issue of youth development, with a focus on the ability of young people to attain their aspirations. Further, it analyses the capability measurement approach as a means to ensuring young people can better understand and plot their way out of poverty, making the most of their individual capabilities and attributes within the broader structural and systemic challenges they face. This exploration of practical tools and methodologies being developed and utilized by pioneering organisations in the South African context provides empirical evidence of the merit of such approaches, with recommendations on how tools and approaches can even better serve the needs of youth. Further, longitudinal research is merited into the use of such capability measurement approaches to empower youth and the further use of participatory methodologies.

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Dekker, Anna Margaretha. "Comparing Wrong/Right with Right/Right Exemplars in Video Modelling to Teach Social Skills to Children with Autism." The University of Waikato, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2501.

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Research has shown that video modelling can improve social behaviours in children with ASD. In addition, research in behaviour modelling training from the field of organisational psychology has shown that using a mix of positive and negative exemplars can assist in acquisition and generalisation of a skill. The current study compared the use of one negative and one positive exemplar, with the use of two positive exemplars to determine which combination would result in faster acquisition and/or superior generalisation of a skill. No other studies have examined this with children diagnosed with ASD. Seven children, aged between 5 and 15 years, and diagnosed with ASD participated in a multiple baseline design across children; within child across two modelling conditions; and within each modelling condition across two tasks. In one condition, a participant watched a video containing one exemplar of a model (same sex and of similar age but with normal development) perform a task the wrong way, and one exemplar of the same model perform the same task the right way (wrong/right). In another condition, the participant watched a video containing two different exemplars of the model perform a matched task the right way (right/right). During the intervention, 1 participant refused to watch the videos. For 13 of the 16 tasks, where training was completed, participants either reached criterion or made some gains in acquisition of the social skills. However, for seven of the tasks criterion was not reached. Generally, neither modelling condition was superior in acquisition or generalisation of the targeted social skills. Confounds occurring during the course of the study may have contributed to the equivocal results. For some children with ASD, video modelling in combination with the delivery of preferred reinforcers may be required for successful skill acquisition. Further implications, particularly the potential negative effects of vicarious reinforcement when an observer does not gain reinforcement for imitation are discussed, as are recommendations for future research.

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Moreau, Mathieu. "Dépendance à l’alcool et Temporalité : du ratage à la rencontre inattendue." Thesis, Université de Paris (2019-....), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019UNIP7106.

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La rencontre clinique avec des sujets alcoolodépendants pose la question de l’inscription temporelle. Ce travail de recherche vise à explorer à travers plusieurs situations cliniques, les liens intimes entre l’identité, la mémoire et la subjectivité à partir d’un regard croisé entre philosophie, psychanalyse et phénoménologie. Plusieurs phénomènes rendent compte de l’altération de ces trois dimensions constitutives de l’être-là : des évènements traumatiques passés se télescopent avec le présent et ils obturent le futur, des troubles mnésiques énigmatiques comme les blackouts alcooliques posent la question du maintien de soi dans le temps, le présent vivant et porteur d’espoirs pour le futur se resserre sur l’instant froid, le sujet est plongé dans l’attente angoissée d’une rechute. La présence à soi et au monde se trouble et le présent devient inhabitable. Cette série de traits psychopathologiques n’est pas le fait de l’alcool mais elle résulte d’une organisation de la personnalité qui nécessite cette substance pour réguler son économie psychique. L’alcool constitue pour l’éthylique une manière de reconstituer le temps à travers « un squelette temporel » qui le protège des affres de la discontinuité des évènements. Il manque au sujet dépendant à l’alcool le décalage nécessaire pour qu’une temporalisation de son expérience puisse se déployer. Le travail psychothérapeutique d’orientation psychanalytique introduit l’écart nécessaire pour que le « Je » puisse s’ouvrir au mouvement réflexif et se reconnaître dans une histoire dont le sujet devient le quasi-personnage. La « décongélation » du psychisme du sujet dépendant à l’alcool s’appuie sur la co-construction d’une histoire au sein d’un espace suffisamment étayant et sécure pour lui
In clinical encounter with alcohol dependent subjects, inscription in time is questioned. Through several clinical situations, this research work aims to explore the links between identity, memory and subjectivity from a cross-section of philosophy, psychoanalysis and phenomenology. Several phenomena point out the alteration of these three parts of the Dasein: past traumatic events collide with the present and close the future, enigmatic memory disorders such as alcoholic blackouts question the self-identity in time, the living present and bearer of hopes for the future tightens on the cold moment; the subject is immersed in the anguished expectation of a relapse. Presence to oneself and to the world becomes troubled and the present becomes uninhabitable. This series of psychopathological traits is not the result of alcohol but is the result of a personality organization that requires this substance to regulate its psychic economy. Alcohol is for the patient a way of re-forming time through a “temporal skeleton” that protects him from the horrors of the discontinuity of events. The alcohol-dependent subject lacks the time lag necessary for a temporalization of his experience to unfold. The psychotherapeutic work of psychoanalytic orientation introduces the necessary gap so that the «I» can open to the reflexive movement and recognize itself in a story whose subject becomes the almost character. The «thawing» of the alcohol-dependent subject’s psyche is based on the co-construction of a story in a supporting enough and reassuring environment for him

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Ware, Felicity Jane Rachel. "Youth development, Maui styles : Kia tipu te rito o te pa harakeke, Tikanga and ahuatanga as a basis for a positive Maori youth development approach : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Maori Studies at Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." Massey University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1152.

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The Youth Development Strategy Aotearoa has been seen as an innovative approach to youth development. The E tipu e rea – Rangatahi Development Package was particularly useful for organisations implementing the strategy with Maori youth. There have been successful Maori youth development initiatives, though these have been ad hoc. Nonetheless, the realities and experiences of Maori youth are still not being fully addressed in national policy. This has implications for the support and resourcing of Maori youth development initiatives. Maori youth are members of a range of groups including whanau, hapu, iwi and Maori communities in te ao Maori as well as the wider youth population and New Zealand society. The histories, experiences and viewpoints of each distinct group contribute to diversity in the Maori youth population which presents challenges for Maori youth development. Maori development goals do not adequately focus on Maori youth and youth development theory does not fully consider culture. The challenge is to successfully integrate Maori culture and youth culture in a relevant and meaningful manner so that Maori youth can positively contribute to Maori development and wider New Zealand society. This study examines purakau (narratives) about Maui (Polynesian ancestor) as a template for the analysis of Maori youth development. Interviews were undertaken with a group of Maori youth from the Manawatu region. The research showed tikanga and ahuatanga were relevant to the contemporary daily lives of the participants. The study found that positive development and the realisation of potential for Maori youth was affected by individual and environmental influences. This thesis concludes by making recommendations for policy, practice and further research. Finally, it offers a culturally appropriate theoretical approach for positive Maori youth development.

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Häggblom, Gunilla. "Livsmystik och destruktiv maktsträvan - två poler i Per Olof Sundmans författarskap : en undersökning med särskilt fokus på romanerna Expeditionen och Två dagar, två nätter." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-101990.

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My thesis addresses the antagonism between the mystery of life and the destructive pursuit of power which forms a central theme in the works of Per Olof Sundman (1922–1992). The purpose is to show that Sundman uses the theme of the encounter/non-encounter and the destructive leader to examine the conditions for allowing a deeper experience of reality and the destructive exercise of power. I analyse these themes using concepts borrowed from literary studies (Atle Kittang, Paul Ricoeur, Bertil Romberg, Staffan Björck, Gérard Genette), the philosophy of religion (Martin Buber, Göran Bergstrand) and psychoanalysis (Ludvig Igra, Otto Kernberg, Erich Fromm, Julia Kristeva). My study highlights the problems associated with the destructive exercise of power, which is the overriding theme of Sundman's work. I explore the theme of the encounter by using the concept pair I-You/I-It. With the aid of this concept pair, I throw light on the aspect of depth in our existence by describing the human encounter. In my analysis on the theme of power, I point out the personal qualities inherent in the destructive leader. I also explore the link between the destructive leader's inner conflict of narcissism and repressed weakness – a conflict projected to the outside world – and the emergence of violence. In order to reveal this inner process, I unearth on a latent level the theme of the destructive leader/stranger in Sundman's work. This enables me to single out the mechanism responsible for the emergence of destructivity in the human psyche, while showing the close link between this pattern of narcissism and projected weakness and a distorted view of reality. Sundman contrasts this world of power with an integrative attitude to life. In his novel The Expedition, Sundman depicts life in the other world as being a state of human coexistence in which no one is seen to be a stranger. This idea of unity is reinforced by the choice of name for the first-person narrator of the other world. In this novel, the conditions enabling the flourishing of universalism as an attitude to life are also those that give expression in the I-You encounter to the experience of a deeper aspect to our existence.

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Chang, Yen-Chun, and 張晏春. "Positive Spirit, Positive Performance: Narrative Study to the Model Coach of Sin-Yuan Girl’s Volleyball Team." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/uc6ktz.

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臺北市立大學
體育學系體育碩士在職專班
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The girl’s volleyball team of Sin-Yuan junior high school in Pingtung County was established in 1973. The team has 43-year history so far and has excellent achievement. Coach, Chao Zheng Yu, was chosen as the participator of the research and who had led Sin-Yuan girl’s volleyball teams for more than 20 years. The research was a narrative study of qualitative research, and the main method for collecting data was by in-depth interviews. The purpose of this research was to explore Chao Zheng Yu’s player experience, coach experience, and leadership philosophy. Through the description and explanation as a story to realize how his leadership philosophy was established and he had provided a model for the coming generations. The results of this research as following for three parts. The first part was “Chao Zheng Yu‘s volleyball player experience”. An unexpected opportunity made him involve in the volleyball journey and made him leave the barefoot-life, and consequently he established an attitude of model leadership. The second part was “Chao Zheng Yu‘s coach experience”. Through best-of-five volleyball competition system, the process regarding leading Sin-Yuan girl’s volleyball teams was presented faithfully including challenges he faced and situations he improved. The third part was “Chao Zheng Yu’s leadership philosophy”, which described how he overcame pressure and solved problems and being a model coach with his principle, belief, and values. I expected this research could lead readers to activate the souls, minds and deeply review their own life. Furthermore, the research could be a reference for relevant units such as education units, coaches, players, and etc.

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LU, WAN-CHIA, and 呂宛珈. "The Narrative Research of the Positive Experiences of Counseling Supervision for Supervisees." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71797423940425525006.

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The purpose of this study was to explore the counseling supervision’s positive experiences for supervisees. Both of interviewers were counselors, females and 30-35 years old. According to the narrative research , the data was collected by half-structure interview from two interviewers and analyzed in a content-holistic method and content-category method. The finds were as followed:（1）The process of counseling supervision’s positive experiences for Mei Ren included five stages: “ the process of choosing a supervisor ” , “be coping by the dimension of identity” , “establish a trust relationship” , “the process of independence and differentiation” and “advance to the next level ” . The process of counseling supervision’s positive experiences for Yu Xia includes four stages: “looking for the master” , “getting guarantee and support” , “absorption and growth” and “flourish”.（2）The contributing factors of counseling supervision’s positive experiences for supervisees included three parts: “supervisor”, “supervisee” and “the quality of the supervisory relationship”.（3）The connotations of counseling supervision’s positive experiences for supervisees included three parts: “emotions”, “cognitive learning” and “self-efficacy”. （4）The influences of counseling supervision’s positive experiences for supervisees included three parts: “increase practical ability “improve counseling efficacy and the sense of meaning” and “ professional development and the career planning”. Finally, practical suggestions and reference for further study and counseling supervision will be proposed based on the result of the research.

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FIORETTI, CHIARA. "The language of memory: the impact of narrating on autobiographical memory fluency." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1003575.

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Olmesdahl, James. "Embodied subjectivities : exploring the stories of HIV-positive African women through body mapping and narrative theory." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/572.

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This qualitative research project attempts to consider how HIV-infected African women position themselves, through the stories that they tell, within the dominant discourses of HIV in contemporary South Africa. The research is couched within the theoretical framework of social constructionism which upholds that there are no absolute truths but rather that individuals inhabit different 'realities' and possess different 'knowledges' relative to their social and cultural context. In this view language is the medium through which discursive practices inscribe identities with meanings. Seen through a Foucauldian lens, these discursive practices, in the case of South Africa, operate as forms of surveillance and social control to 'silence' those living with HIV. Through cultural and patriarchal norms operating in conjunction with the racialising legacy left by apartheid, women, particularly African women, have come to be the group most infected with HIV. Despite their often-difficult circumstances, narrative research has shown that, through acts of storytelling, many African women are able to construct positive versions of their lives. Using body mapping in conjunction with narrative interviewing, a small group of African women of varying ages and from diverse locations, but all belonging to a single Durban-based HIV support group, were asked to tell stories about their lives and how their experiences of themselves had been impacted by HIV. Their body maps and stories showed that, while dominant discourses about HIV/AIDS do function to limit their positions for positive self-definition, these women also produced counter-narratives that resisted some of the discrediting social constructions of the illness. Four dimensions relating to self in time, self in relation to others, HIV as a disruptive event, and spiritual beliefs and morality were found to be operating in their narratives. In addition, a fifth dimension, looking at how research practices themselves are 'situated' and construct 'subjects' in particular ways was considered and this called on 'the researcher' to deconstruct the subject positions of his (in this case) own discursive positioning.
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Breen, Andrea. "The Construction of Self-identity and Positive Behavioural Change in Pregnant and Parenting Young Women." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/26155.

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The purpose of this mixed method study was to investigate the relationship between the narrative construction of self-identity and positive change in antisocial behaviour in pregnant and parenting young women. It focused on two related aspects of identity development: (1) individuals’ conceptualizations of their personally salient self-values; and (2) “self-action coherence”: the process of constructing self-narratives that establish coherence between one’s personally salient self-values and behaviour. This study also included a qualitative exploration of how becoming a mother in adolescence and early adulthood is related to processes of identity development and behavioural change. Participants were 27 pregnant and parenting young women (ages 16 to 22) recruited from youth-serving agencies in Toronto, Ontario. Participants completed a questionnaire on history of engagement in antisocial behaviour and a semi-structured interview that explored self-identity and critical life experiences. Analyses of participant interviews suggest that positive behavioural change in pregnant and parenting young women is related to active engagement in self-reflection motivated by a convergence of meaning gleaned from a variety of life experiences, including the transition to motherhood. Quantitative findings suggest that: (1) an orientation to relational values is related to lower reported recent engagement in antisocial behaviour; (2) self-action coherence develops across adolescence and early adulthood; and (3) self-action coherence is related to reported positive behavioural change. Overall, the findings suggest that an orientation to relationships is important for establishing positive patterns of behaviour and that positive behavioural change in pregnant and parenting young women involves a process of constructing personally salient self-values and establishing behaviours that cohere with these values. The findings have theoretical implications relating to identity development in adolescence and early adulthood and its relations to behavioural functioning. The findings also have implications for applied work with pregnant and parenting young women with histories of antisocial behaviour.

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Den, Hollander Weltje Annigje. "Pastoral development training in contextual and narrative family therapy." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1738.

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The need for a family therapeutic counselling programme in the management of HIV/AIDS was established by the researcher in 2001 (den Hollander 2001). The focus of this study was to develop the training programme model in family therapeutic counselling for church leaders and lay counsellors. This was accomplished using a variety of samples and research instruments, by firstly exploring the issues and problems facing people and families living with HIV/AIDS and then how best churches could respond as faith-based community organizations. At a theoretical level, this study sought to compare the paradigms of contextual and narrative family therapy with the theory and practice of social work and practical narrative theology, in order to integrate these paradigms into an incorporated response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The main research methodology was the Intervention Research Model as adapted from De Vos (2001). This model consists of six phases, consisting of problem analysis and project planning, information gathering and synthesis, design, early development and pilot testing, evaluation and advanced development, and dissemination of the training model. During the analysis phase an extensive literature research, as well as several field studies, both quantitative and qualitative were conducted. During the development phase, three pilot studies were designed and performed, in attempt to accommodate the context specific problems of different families and communities. The results of these two phases indicated a need for pastoral training in family therapeutic counselling, specifically in the areas of mental health, trauma and bereavement and child participation. Importantly, the need to intervene meaningfully to alleviate structural problems such as poverty and food insecurity were clearly indicated, with the study recommendation being for active networking across all stakeholders so that therapeutic counselling may work in tandem with these community based efforts. Recommendations in respect of offering such training are to provide a comprehensive structure of training, supervision and counselling practice.
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009.

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Chen, Ai-Ling, and 陳愛齡. "The Narrative Inquiry of Positive Thinking on Parent-teacher Communication for a Child with Developmental Delay." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51302924370790907538.

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In recent years, parent-teacher interaction has become the one of the important key of the educational relationship effect in school system. In school system, parent-teacher interaction is also the evaluation indicator of evaluating the effect of running schools. The social assessments or the media reports on school system, referred to parent-teacher interaction, however, there is rarely positive and good report that brings the positive evaluation of school education to the social; especially, the parents of the special needs children usually start to accept early treatment and education after experiencing the mentality of life transition. When facing with all the negative information of parent-teacher interaction, the relationship between the parents of the development delayed and the teachers is more attractive. The negative attitude is relevant to the capacity development of the special needs children. From building a family to having children, especially females, facing with the sudden nurture of the development delayed and during the period of time conducting parent-teacher interaction with researchers guide researchers to produce highly interests in this issue. This study discusses the parents of the development delayed in parent-teacher communication by using Narrative Inquiry. The results are showed as follows: (1)The mentality of the parents of the development delayed is innumerable twists and turns; (2)The difficulty of parent-teacher communication is related to the perception gap between the both two sides.(3)Parents and teachers should use different positive thinking to cope with communicative difficulties in parent-teacher communication.

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CHUNG, SHANG-YING, and 鍾尚穎. "Narrative Inquiry of a Chemistry Teacher’s Belief and Practices: Research on Creating a Positive Learning Space." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27mae5.

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科普傳播學系數理教育碩士班
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This study is a narration of my reflection on the belief of a teacher’s role and how it was transformed into practice from my experience serving as a high school chemistry teacher. Under an educational setting of curriculum guideline reforms and diverse curricula, most schools still retain their belief in conventional teaching, which hinders and pressures teachers’ self-change and render the closed climate unchanged. Because I experienced the dull atmosphere in chemistry teaching, I endeavored to determine the process of building belief in teaching and the source of frustration. Through reflection on my teaching problems and my attempt to adopt board games in teaching, I pondered on how my thoughts function and how I created a positive learning space. 　　Based on self-narrative literature, I described the process of self-growth and becoming a chemistry teacher as the background . Specifically, I reflected on the formation of conventional lecture-based teaching style under Taiwan’s cultural context and its effect on the learning climate. The potential effect of game-based learning on positive learning was subsequently examined. Credibility of interpretation was based on teaching events, including daily conversations and teacher–student interactions, recorded on a teaching log, which served as the text for interpretation in discourse analysis . Based on a meta-interpretative view, the meaning of these events and the transformation of a teacher’s belief and practices were reflected upon. 　　In this study, I changed my teaching belief and adopted games in class to teach chemistry. Regarding changes in teaching goals, I no longer merely emphasized knowledge acquisition and grade-oriented learning but rather shifted the focus to cultivating students’ motivation, interest, and autonomy toward chemistry learning. In terms of teaching attitude changes, I switched from controlling and restricting students to guiding and having discussions with them, which allowed me to understand students’ needs and their learning difficulties. From a high school chemistry teacher’s experience imparting professional knowledge, traits such as empathy, passion, and humor in teaching are conducive to self-change and creating a positive learning space that features happiness and autonomous learning. 　　Finally, educators are suggested to transcend the existent framework of delivering academic subject expertise. When faced with predicaments or frustration with the teacher–student relationships or interactions, teachers must reflect on their process of building teaching belief and practices to adjust their teaching goals and mindset. Such a transformation helps teachers adapt to the restriction from and changes in the teaching environment, thus enabling them to retrieve capacity in in-class teaching.

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Miinjy, Yu, and 余敏芝. "A Narrative Research of a Pre-School Teacher’s Career Development Path from the Perspective of Positive Psychology." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81800683178803615574.

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國立新竹教育大學
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A Narrative Research of a Pre-School Teacher’s Career Development Path from the Perspective of Positive Psychology Abstract This study aims to understand the decisive factors of the pre-school teacher’s career development path with a narrative research methodology from the positive psychology perspective point of view. The study volunteer is a 45-year female pre-school teacher with 20-year working experience and a 5-year caner treatment history. Four one-to-one interviews were conducted to assess her important life events that influence her career development choices. The research analysis uses Super’s Theory of Adult Career Development and Transition between Life Stages and Sub-stages to depict her career path map as well as PsyCap Questionnaire (PCQ) to establish her self evaluation basis. The narrative records showed that the influencing factors of the career development of the study volunteer are (a) unexpected salary in her early career stage (the 1st and 2nd employment), (b) un-recognized pre-school work that drove the volunteer to challenge art related work in her middle stage (the 3rd to the 5th employment); (c) difficulty to adjust the job rotation in the organization and wish to transfer to well established public pre-school system in her late career stage (the 6th employment). Finally because of the market’s unwillingness to accept senior pre-school teachers, the volunteer developed the stable readiness to stay in the current system. From the perspective of positive psychology, the study volunteer considered the “positive thinking” is the most critical factor that leads her to stay in the present job. Other factors, in sequential importance, are (1) working environment, (2) family members, (3) working contents and (4) self healthiness. The analysis of the four HERO constructs (Hope, Self-Efficacy, Resiliency and Optimisim) of PsyCap (Psychological Capital) indicated that, in the whole career development path, the “Self-Efficacy” (or confidence/conviction) construct of the Psychological Capital is the major support for the study volunteer, and the “Hope” and “Self-Efficacy” constructs are relatively high comparing to the “Optimism” and “Resiliency” constructs. During the cancer surgery and treatment period, “Hope” rating decreased and “Optimism” rating was at the lowest point. This clearly demonstrated the cancer episode was indeed the most negative stage for the study volunteer in her career development path. Overall, the volunteer was always positively facing the life challenges and actively solve the problems with her own means to develop more stable or even higher PsyCap rating to sustain her next future stage.

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Thobejane, Mamphofore Mack. "Tsiri : Padinyana ya Madiba (Sepedi)." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30598.

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In his monograph on Sepedi/North Sotho, Groenewald (1993:19) describes Moses Josiah Madiba as one of the first authors of didactic or moral tales. He also points out that Madiba’s contribution includes other kinds of works, such as poetry and school readers. Groenewald (1993:19) emphasises Madiba’s pioneering role in the development of literature in Sepedi. Because he was one of the earliest writers in Sepedi, his influence on the development of this literature should not be underestimated. In this study, the focus is therefore on the writing of Madiba as an author, but only his novelette Tsiri (1953) is selected for specific analysis. In the analysis, the content and structure of the work are discussed in detail and they are interpreted against the historical background of Sepedi literature in order to highlight Madiba’s place in this literature. The descriptive model used in this study is an adaptation of the narratological model. It requires a comprehensive definition of the relevant concepts. In this case a distinction is made between the theme and topic as concepts. The elements of the content, namely the characters, the action, the milieu and historical time, are defined precisely. The novelette deals with the difficult life circumstances encountered by the protagonist, which result in his falling into a life of laziness. The relationship that develops between the various characters is highlighted in terms of the topic. The historical course of the facets of the action is described. The various time aspects are closely examined, after which the milieu is discussed. The entire discussion is situated in an historical framework in order to reveal the importance of Madiba in the history of this literature. The structure of the work is discussed in four sections. First, the theme of the story, the narrative strategy, the title and the pillars on which the structure rests are discussed. Second, characterization is explored, with particular emphasis on Tsiri and his father, Madubaduba, who respectively represent the negative and positive poles in the novelette. This includes a discussion of the various narrative techniques which are used to persuade the reader to accept Tsiri after he repents. Third, the milieu is described in as far as it supports the theme. It contributes to the rationale for the turning point in Tsiri’s life. The milieu is functionally incorporated by means of a multitude of techniques. Fourth, the study focuses on the action, which presents the events in terms of an exposition, the development, climax and dénouement. Once the author has indicated the conflict between the main characters, he uses a variety of narrative moments to increase tension. In particular, he uses changes of the point of view and focalisation extensively. As can be expected in the early works in any literature, there are some bothersome structural flaws, and in this case they are related specifically to the use of the different points of view, where there is no clear rationale for the presence of the author’s moralisation. Although this flaw is pointed out, this does not imply a negative critical analysis of the work. The fact remains that Madiba writes in a flowing narrative style and that his Sepedi language usage is impeccable, which makes him an important pioneer in the history of Sepedi literature. His pioneering work in the educational arena positions him as a champion of the Sepedi language. Further studies could evaluate his other novelettes and poems against this background. AFRIKAANS : In sy monografie oor die Sepedi/Noord Sotho letterkunde beskryf Groenewald (1993:19) Moses Josiah Madiba as een van die eerste skrywers van die didaktiese of morele verhaal. Hy wys ook daarop dat Madiba se bydrae ander werke insluit, byvoorbeeld gedigte en skoolleesboeke. Groenewald (1993:19) beklemtoon Madiba se baanbrekerswerk in die Sepedi letterkunde. Omdat hy een van die vroegste skrywers in Sepedi was, mag sy invloed op die ontwikkeling van hierdie letterkunde nie onderskat word nie. In hierdie studie word die ondersoek derhalwe op die skrywerskap van Madiba toegespits, maar slegs die novelle Tsiri (1953) word vir spesifieke ontleding uitgesonder. In die bespreking word die inhoud en die struktuur van die werk indringend beskryf en dit word teen die historiese agtergrond van die Sepedi letterkunde geïnterpreteer om sodoende Madiba se plek in hierdie letterkunde duidelik uit te lig. Die beskrywingsmodel wat in hierdie studie gebruik word, is ‘n aanpassing van die narratologiese model. Dit vereis ‘n volledige omskrywing van die begrippe wat ter sprake kom. In hierdie geval word daar tussen die tema en die onderwerp as begrippe onderskei. Ook die elemente waaruit die inhoud bestaan, naamlik die karakters, die handeling, die milieu en historiese tyd, word presies omskryf. Die novelle handel oor die hooffiguur se moeilike lewensomstandighede, wat daartoe bydra dat hy in luiheid verval. Die verhouding wat tussen die verskillende karakters ontwikkel, word ten opsigte van die onderwerp uitgelig. Die historiese verloop van die fasette van die handeling word beskryf. Die verskillende tydsaspekte word onder die loep geneem, waarna die milieu bespreek word. Die hele bespreking word binne ‘n historiese raamwerk geplaas sodat die betekenis van Madiba in die geskiedenis van hierdie letterkunde na vore kom. Die struktuur van die werk word in vier afdelings behandel. Eerstens word die tema, die vertelstrategie, die titel en pilare waarop die struktuur staan, bespreek. Tweedens word karaktertekening nagegaan; en hier val die kollig op Tsiri en sy vader Madubaduba, wat onderskeidelik die negatiewe en positiewe pole in die verhaal verteenwoordig. Dit sluit ‘n bespreking in van die verskillende verteltegnieke waardeur die leser oorgehaal word om Tsiri, na sy berou, te aanvaar. Derdens, word die milieu beskryf en wel in soverre dit die tema ondersteun. Dit dra daarom by dat die keerpunt in Tsiri se lewe gemotiveer word. Deur ‘n veelheid van tegnieke word die milieu funksioneel ingespan. Vierdens val die klem op die handeling wat onder vier hoofde aan die orde kom, te wete die eksposisie, die ontwikkeling, die klimaks en die ontknoping. Nadat die outeur die botsing tussen die hooffigure aangedui het, kom hy met ‘n verskeidenheid vertelgrepe vorendag om die spanning uit te bou. Daar word veral gebruik gemaak van gesigspuntwisseling en fokussering word ekstensief aangewend. Soos te wagte in enige vroeë werk in ‘n letterkunde, kom daar hinderlike struktuurfoute voor, en in dié geval lê dit juis by die aanwending van die gesigspunttegnieke, waar die teenwoordigheid van die outeur se moralisering nie duidelik gemotiveer word nie. Hoewel die gebrek uitgewys word, lei dit nie na ‘n kritiese ontleding van die werk nie. Die saak is dat Madiba ‘n vloeiende vertelmanier het en dat sy taal in onbesproke Sepedi is, wat hom in die geskiedenis van die Sepedi letterkunde ‘n belangrike baanbreker maak. Sy pionierswerk op die gebied van die onderwys plaas hom as taalstryder voorop. In verdere studies sou sy ander novelles en gedigte teen hierdie agtergrond beoordeel kan word. Copyright
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Pringle, Aneita. "The importance of being humane: a case study of a positive practice ward and a mixed methods exploration of the development and acceptability of the personal narrative model." Thesis, 2021. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/707191/1/Pringle_2021.pdf.

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Scant research explores positive practice within specialist inpatient services for service users (SUs) with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Few collaboratively developed models of psychological formulation exist despite it being a possible support for positive practice for SUs with a diagnosis of BPD. This research employed a two-stream Mixed Methods-Case Study design to address these gaps. In Stream 1 an interview-based case study of SU (n = 6) and staff (n = 10) perspectives on a positive practice specialist ward (Poppy) identified explanatory factors of positive experience as well as barriers. Psychological formulation was identified as a means to support existing positive practice while addressing identified barriers, including the care-planning processes. Stream 2 entailed a mixed-methods acceptability exploration of the model of formulation developed collaboratively for this research (the Personal Narrative Model; PNM). This included a focus group with Poppy staff (n = 7) and an online phase of qualitative and quantitative surveys (n = 26) and interviews (n = 8) with a wider practitioner and lived experience sample. Findings revealed positive practice is defined by staff and SUs as good relationships, staff specialist training and knowledge, and sharing responsibility for risk and recovery. Care-planning was seen as collaborative, but staff found the process lacks meaning. The PNM was suggested to address this. Logistical and other barriers impeded its implementation at Poppy; however, the online phase confirmed general acceptability. Participants reported support would be required to address the risk of narrative for staff and SUs. Overlap across participants and research phases identified both implementation challenges (e.g., staff resistance and barriers to collaboration) and ways to address them. The contribution to knowledge includes: (a) explanatory factors of positive experiences in a specialist context; (b) acceptability of the PNM, which possibly addresses less positive practice (aversion to narrative; theoretical incoherence of care-planning); and (c) challenges of applying new practices in a specialist inpatient context and recommendations for their management.

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De, Lange Erica Françoise. "The fortigenic exploration of psychotherapists’ experiences in full-time private practice." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28568.

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Psychotherapists in full-time, long-term private practice face a variety of occupational demands. They usually maintain private practices for long periods of their lives often under difficult circumstances and emotional pressures and have come to sustain their practices. From literature it is revealed that various demands, as well as benefits and successes are part and parcel of working in private practice full-time. These various factors can have an impact on the well-being of psychotherapists. Apart from the literature review, the personal experience of the researcher, a psychotherapist in full-time private practice, also contributed to ideas and hypotheses about the study. From a position of exploration and further enquiry, the researcher was interested to explore the experiences of psychotherapists in full-time private practice from a fortigenic perspective. A second objective was to determine if this study could contribute to the development of the theoretical assumptions of positive psychology. The research is grounded in the theoretical perspective of positive psychology and fortigenesis. Both these fields are relatively new in psychology and seem to still be forging a niche within the discipline. This perspective was deliberately chosen due to the applicability to the exploration of strengths and vigour, with regards to the maintenance of the professional context of the psychotherapist. The qualitative research process is presented in a narrative approach by means of narrative synthesis and synergy. The findings of the research conversations are presented in the form of a literary short story. Suggestions are made about the fortigenic qualities of psychotherapists essential for maintaining their work in full-time private practice. It’s applicability and usefulness is discussed. Furthermore, suggestions are made with regards to the field of positive psychology and the way forward for this sub-discipline. Ideas relating to narrative research and qualitative research are also discussed.
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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