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Bąk, Melania. "Accounting narratives and disclosures in reporting the case of Letters from the Management Board Presidents of selected companies in the light of narrative economics." Ekonomia i Prawo 20, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 213–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/eip.2021.013.
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Motivation: At the initial stage of accounting evolution it was considered an economic science, closely related to the activities performed by economic entities in economic conditions. Therefore, narratives in economics should be considered a determinant for the development of narratives in accounting. The indication of narrative economics as a reference point for narration in accounting supplements the research gap, since nowadays narratives in accounting are most often interpreted as the narratives prepared by companies and addressed to the potential stakeholders in the context of achieving specific goals by the management board and company executives.
Aim: The purpose of the article is to address the phenomenon of narrative accounting in the light of narrative economics and the evolution of reporting targeting non-financial information.
Results: Economic narratives facilitate the understanding of numbers, extend and supplement financial information and allow for the interpretation of economic processes. The narratives coming from economics are processed and disclosed in accounting. They are an indispensable attribute of modern accounting as well as its narration. Reporting is an important instrument allowing narration in accounting (primarily non-financial reporting). The research confirms: positive messages included in the analysed Letters from Management Board Presidents; references in the text to economic factors and the characteristic financial and social activities in specific companies; indication of the key words in the text, among which the dominant ones are those with a positive overtone and also the ones relating to non-material resources; creating narrative reporting in order to develop and strengthen relationships with potential stakeholders.
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Smorti, Andrea. "Autobiographical memory and autobiographical narrative." Narrative Inquiry 21, no. 2 (December 31, 2011): 303–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.21.2.08smo.
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In this contribution I discuss the link existing between autobiographical memory and autobiographical narrative and, in this context, the concept of coherence. Starting from the Bruner’s seminal concept of autobiographical self, I firstly analyze how autobiographical memories and autobiographical narrative influence each other and, somehow, mirror reciprocally and then I present some results of my previous studies using a methodology consisting in “narrating-transcribing-reading-narrating.” The results show that self narratives can have positive effects on the narrators if they are provided with a tool to reflect on their memories. Moreover these results show that autobiography in its double sides — that of memory and that of narrative — is a process of continuous construction but also that this construction is deeply linked to social interactions.
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Sher-Censor, Efrat, Izabela Grey, and Tuppett M. Yates. "The intergenerational congruence of mothers’ and preschoolers’ narrative affective content and narrative coherence." International Journal of Behavioral Development 37, no. 4 (June 26, 2013): 340–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025413482760.
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Intergenerational congruence of mothers’ and preschoolers’ narratives about the mother–child relationship was examined in a sample of 198 Hispanic (59.1%), Black (19.2%), and White (21.7%) mothers and their preschool child. Mothers’ narratives were obtained with the Five Minute Speech Sample and were coded for negative and positive affective content and narrative coherence. Preschoolers’ narratives were collected with the MacArthur Story Stem Battery and were coded for the portrayal of the mother-child relationship and narrative coherence. Across ethnoracial groups, maternal narrative coherence, but not narrative affective content, was related to preschoolers’ positive portrayal of the mother–child relationship. Our findings highlight the importance of maternal narrative coherence for understanding intergenerational continuity of relational representations.
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Sapiezynska, Ewa. "The Media and Power in Postliberal Venezuela." Latin American Perspectives 44, no. 1 (July 27, 2016): 199–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x16661185.
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Two narratives dominate the literature about the state of freedom of expression in postliberal Venezuela, and they have few points in common, since they depend on different conceptualizations of the notion of freedom of expression. While the traditional liberal narrative focuses on the negative freedom that prohibits state interference, the postliberal narrative is based on positive freedom that encompasses the collective right of self-realization, particularly for the previously marginalized. During the government of Hugo Chávez, the discourse of freedom of expression was renewed, placing it in the context of power relations, accentuating positive freedom, and emphasizing the role of the public and community media. The establishment of the international public channel TeleSUR has revived the 1970s debate about the right to communication and contributed to the creation of a new Latin American-ness. En la literatura predominan dos narrativas acerca del estado de la libertad de expresión en la Venezuela posliberal las que tienen pocos puntos en común porque parten de visiones distintas del concepto de la libertad de expresión. Mientras la narrativa liberal tradicional enfoca sólo en la libertad negativa que previene la injerencia estatal, la narrativa posliberal se centra en la libertad positiva que abarca la autorrealización del derecho colectivo, también de los previamente marginalizados. Durante el gobierno de Hugo Chávez el discurso acerca de la libertad de expresión se renueva, insertando el concepto en el contexto de las relaciones de poder, acentuando la libertad positiva y enfatizando el rol de los medios públicos y comunitarios. El establecimiento del medio público internacional TeleSUR revive los debates sobre el derecho a la comunicación de la década de los 70 y aporta a la creación de una nueva Latinoamericanidad.
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Schmitt, Josephine B., Claus Caspari, Tim Wulf, Carola Bloch, and Diana Rieger. "Two sides of the same coin? The persuasiveness of one-sided vs. two-sided narratives in the context of radicalization prevention." Studies in Communication and Media 10, no. 1 (2021): 48–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2021-1-48.
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Societal organizations aim at challenging online extremist messages by counterposing with different narratives such as alternative narratives (one-sided narrative) and counter-narratives (two-sided narratives). The current study examined which type of narrative is more efficient in changing attitudes accounting for narrative involvement and reactance regarding the narrative. We employed a 2(one-sided vs. two-sided narrative) × 2 (ease of identification vs. no ease of identification) between-subjects design (N = 405) using a controversial topic: the ongoing debate about how to deal with the number of refugees in Germany. We found an indirect effect of the narrative on attitude change. People who read the two-sided narrative showed less reactance. The smaller the reactance, the more they felt involved in the narrative, which, in turn led to more positive attitudes towards refugees. We discuss these findings regarding their theoretical contribution to create customized narratives challenging extremist messages.
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Stadelmann, Stephanie, Stephanie Stadelmann, Johanna Netzl, Verena Dähne, Lars Otto White, Annette Maria Klein, Kai von Klitzing, Mirko Döhnert, and Mirko Döhnert. "Kindliche narrative Kohärenz als Prädiktor für spätere soziale Kompetenz und positive Peerbeziehungen." Kindheit und Entwicklung 29, no. 4 (October 2020): 229–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1026/0942-5403/a000321.
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Zusammenfassung. Die Studie untersucht den prädiktiven Wert sozialer Kompetenz-Themen und narrativer Kohärenz, erfasst in einem Spielnarrativ-Verfahren, für soziale Kompetenz und Peerbeziehungen von Kindern, eingeschätzt durch die Eltern. Untersucht wurden 97 8- bis 14-Jährige mit/ohne psychische Störungen zu zwei Zeitpunkten ( t1/ t2). Das Spielnarrativ-Verfahren wurde zu t1 durchgeführt. Eltern schätzten soziale Kompetenzen und Peerbeziehungen zu t1 und t2 ein. Multivariate Analysen zeigten, dass höhere narrative Kohärenz in den Spielnarrativen (nicht aber soziale Kompetenz-Themen) quer- und längsschnittlich mit höheren sozialen Kompetenzen, positiveren Peerbeziehungen, weniger sozialen Problemen und sozialem Rückzug im Elternurteil zusammenhing. Höhere narrative Kohärenz sagte auch den Zuwachs positiver Peerbeziehungen und die Verminderung sozialen Rückzugs 1,5 Jahre später voraus. Die Befunde belegen die Bedeutung narrativer Kohärenz für die kindliche sozioemotionale Entwicklung.
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BURNELL, KAREN J., PETER G. COLEMAN, and NIGEL HUNT. "Coping with traumatic memories: Second World War veterans' experiences of social support in relation to the narrative coherence of war memories." Ageing and Society 30, no. 1 (October 22, 2009): 57–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x0999016x.
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ABSTRACTThis paper reports a qualitative study that used narrative analysis to explore how social support helps many armed-services veterans cope with traumatic memories. The analysis was carried out on two levels, that of narrative form (level of narrative coherence), argued to be indicative of reconciliation, and narrative content (themes of social support), which allowed exploration of the types of social support experienced by veterans with coherent, reconciled and incoherent narratives. Ten British male Second World War veterans were interviewed regarding their war experiences, presence of traumatic memories, and experiences of social support from comrades, family and society. Different patterns of support were qualitatively related to coherent, reconciled and incoherent narratives. Veterans with coherent narratives were no less likely to have experienced traumatic events than those with reconciled or incoherent narratives, but they reported more positive perceptions of their war experience and of the war's outcomes, more positive experiences of communication with family in later life, and more positive perceptions of societal opinion. The results are discussed in relation to how veterans can be supported by family and friends to reconcile their traumatic memories, thus to lessen the burden in later life when vital support resources may be unavailable.
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Fitzgerald, Kaitlin, Melanie C. Green, and Elaine Paravati. "Restorative Narratives." Journal of Public Interest Communications 4, no. 2 (December 21, 2020): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/jpic.v4.i2.p51.
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Restorative narratives are stories that highlight how people recover from adversity. Researchers have proposed that this storytelling approach may provide a way to share negative news without emotionally overwhelming audiences. Instead, restorative narratives may decrease the need for emotion regulation processes and as a result, increase the willingness to help those in need. In Study 1, a restorative narrative elicited more positive emotions and an increased willingness to volunteer compared to a negative and control version of the same story. In Study 2, the restorative narrative again evoked more positive emotions and higher hypothetical donations to a relevant charity. Study 2 also varied the narrative ending and found that restorative narratives may need to end positively to maintain their effects.
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Walker, Mary Jean, Wendy A. Rogers, and Vikki A. Entwistle. "The ethical and epistemic roles of narrative in person-centred healthcare." European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare 8, no. 3 (October 21, 2020): 345. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v8i3.1863.
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Positive claims about narrative approaches to healthcare suggest they could have many benefits, including supporting person-centred healthcare (PCH). Narrative approaches have also been criticised, however, on both theoretical and practical grounds. In this paper we draw on epistemological work on narrative and knowledge to develop a conception of narrative that responds to these concerns. We make a case for understanding narratives as accounts of events in which the way each event is described as influenced by the ways other events in the narrative are described. This view of narratives recognises that they can contribute knowledge of different kinds of connections between events: not just causal, and not just of patient’s perspectives. Additionally, narratives can add further epistemic value by suggesting potentially useful lines of inquiry. We take narrative approaches to healthcare to include clinicians considering both patients’ informational offerings and their own professional understandings as narratives. On this understanding, our account is able to overcome the major theoretical and practical criticisms that have been levelled against the use of narrative approaches in healthcare, and can help to explain why and how narrative approaches are consistent with PCH.
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Volchik, V. V., E. V. Fursa, and A. I. Maskaev. "Prospects of development of the Russian innovative system through the prism of qualitative methods." Russian Journal of Economics and Law 15, no. 4 (December 16, 2021): 541–660. http://dx.doi.org/10.21202/2782-2923.2021.4.641-660.
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Objective: to examine the influence of positive and critical narratives in the media, illustrating the problems and strengths of the Russian innovation system development, on the formation of public opinion.Methods: the methodology of narrative analysis of economics and original institutionalism is used in relation to the national innovation system.Results: with the help of narrative analysis, we analyzed 43 media outlets from Internet sources selected in accordance with the Medialogiya rating “Federal Mass Media: 2020” for the period from 01.01.2010 to 01.07.2021. A range of significant issues is highlighted which affect the innovative development, mentioned by media addressees and the Russian innovation system actors (policymakers, business, academic circles). Four types of positive narratives about the Russian innovation system are identified: 1) narratives about significant technological achievements; 2) narratives about the development of innovative infrastructure; 3) narratives that tell about the public recognition of the success of the Russian innovation system actors at professional conferences or by the state; 4) futurological narratives about prospects in the medium or long term.Scientific novelty: consists in the development of the narrative economics approach and the concept of public arenas for the analysis of the Russian innovation system with the help of mass media.Practical significance: the identified positive narratives allow studying the best practices and rules that contribute to the integration of science, government and business into a single innovation system in order to further upscale the positive experience to the entire economy. Positive narratives also contribute to the formation of a favorable innovation space and public opinion in Russia.
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Dunlop, William L., Grace E. Hanley, and Tara P. McCoy. "The narrative psychology of love lives." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 36, no. 3 (December 5, 2017): 761–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407517744385.
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Narrative identity is an internal and evolving story about the self. Individual differences in narrative identity have been found to correspond with several important constructs (e.g., well-being, health behaviors). Here, we examined the nature and correlates of participants’ love life narrative identities. In Study 1, participants provided autobiographical narratives from their love lives and rated their personality traits and authenticity within the romantic domain. In Study 2, participants again provided narratives from their love lives and completed measures assessing their attachment tendencies and relationship contingent self-esteem. Narratives were coded for agency, communion, redemptive imagery, contaminated imagery, affective tone, and integrative complexity. Across our studies, the communion and positive tone in participants’ love life narratives was associated with certain traits, authenticity, attachment tendencies, and relationship contingent self-esteem. These results suggest that love life narrative identity represents a promising construct in the study of functioning within the romantic domain.
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Sugesti, Ikariya. "Students’ Experiences of Left-Right Game in Writing Narrative Text: A Narrative Inquiry Study." ELLITE: Journal of English Language, Literature, and Teaching 7, no. 2 (December 25, 2022): 70–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.32528/ellite.v7i2.6369.
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The present study is aimed at exploring students’ experiences of using left-right game in writing narrative text. Narrative inquiry is used to capture students’ experiences of left-right games told in their narrative frames. This study concerned one class at the tenth grade purposively determined senior high school students in Indonesian context which consist of thirty-one students. Student’s narrative frame, semi structured interview and observation are the instruments employed to collect data. Their narratives reflect positive experiences in using left right games as a strategy to help them in writing narrative text. The findings of this study show that 87 % of the students state positive experiences in using left-right game activity in writing narrative text. They state that left-right game is a fun activity, they feel enthusiast when the teacher conduct left-right game. The students who engage through left-right game activity can find the way to equally and mutually collaborate in producing better a piece of writing.
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Sari, Rani Evita, and Dina Merris Maya Sari. "Teachers' Perceptions Using Narrative for Teaching English for Young Learners." JOURNAL OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (JTLEE) 5, no. 1 (March 10, 2022): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.33578/jtlee.v5i1.7891.
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This article examines the use of narrative as a learning method in English classes for young learners. This study used descriptive qualitative method. It examines the teacher's perspective in using narrative in lesson plans. Interviews were conducted with both novice and experienced teachers in teaching young learners about their preferences and experiences when using narrative-based learning. Research results show that teachers assume narrative-based lessons are very time-consuming so it is not easy to use narratives in learning, so narratives also have a positive impact on the theoretical part could be seen on students and for teaching, 5 out of 7 teachers think coursebooks are not enough for narrative-based learning so they use other sources such as internet and storybooks.
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Devran, Serap. "A Narrative Draft on Positive Self-Category in Diverse Social- and Language World." Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi - Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 1, no. 41 (June 25, 2019): 55–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.26650/sdsl2018-0007.
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Stroud, Scott R. "Desire, Truth, and the Role of Narrative Skepticism in Democratic Experience." Journal of Speculative Philosophy 35, no. 4 (November 1, 2021): 349–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.35.4.0349.
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Abstract Many see narrative as important for life in terms of its persuasive value, including through the process of identification. This article examines narrative and argument with particular attention to how desire and self-image warp processes of narrative judgment and appropriation. In seeking a way to transcend only accepting narratives or storied accounts of important events that confirm what we want to believe, this article proposes the idea of narrative skepticism as a limiting disposition to our reactions to narratives we are poised to accept and those accepted by our partisan opponents. Narrative skepticism, if employed in a positive and pluralistic fashion, can follow through on the ideals posited by thinkers such as John Dewey that involve deeply democratic and unified communities of diverse but respectful partisans.
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Bock, S. "Staying Positive: Women's illness narratives and the stigmatized vernacular." Health, Culture and Society 5, no. 1 (November 15, 2013): 150–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/hcs.2013.125.
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This article uses the stigmatized vernacular (Goldstein & Shuman, 2012) as a conceptual framework for examining the public construction and reception of women’s illness narratives. I begin by making the case that personal illness narratives – a genre that works to translate the subjective illness experience to a public audience – are rich sites for exploring how discourses of veneration and repudiation can become inextricably intertwined. Discussing illustrative examples of the construction and reception of women’s illness narratives shared in contexts of breast cancer and fibromyalgia, I show how popular understandings of emotions, particularly positive emotions like happiness, play a major role in the regimes of value shaping how women’s illness experiences become tellable or untellable, and thereby valued or devalued. Integrating scholarship on illness narratives, stigma, and happiness, I aim to contribute to a richer and more multifaceted view of the illness narrative genre and the discursive contagion of stigma.
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Piat, Myra, Jessica Spagnolo, Suzanne Thibodeau-Gervais, Catherine Deschamps, and Yves Gosselin. "Mental health recovery narratives: their impact on service users and other stakeholder groups." Mental Health and Social Inclusion 23, no. 4 (November 1, 2019): 173–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mhsi-08-2019-0021.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, assess the effects of the peers’ recovery narratives on service users’ perceived mental health recovery; and second, explore various stakeholders’ perspectives on the program, specifically its facilitators and barriers. Design/methodology/approach The study used a convergent mixed-method design. First, a pre-test post-test design was used with service users to evaluate the peer recovery narrative program. They completed the Recovery Assessment Scale (RAS) and participated in qualitative interviews that explored perspectives on their mental health recovery before and after the program. Second, a cross-sectional design was used to explore stakeholder groups’ perspectives on the recovery narrative program immediately after listening to the narratives. Findings While findings show that there was no statistical difference between scores on the RAS before and after the peer narratives, thematic analysis revealed a change in service users’ understanding of recovery post-narratives. Other stakeholder groups confirmed this change. However, some healthcare professionals questioned the universal positive effects of the peer recovery narrative program on service users. Stakeholders agreed that beyond effects of the peer recovery narrative program on service users, there were also positive effects among the peers themselves. Originality/value To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first Canadian study, and one of the first studies to rely on mixed-methods and various stakeholder groups to evaluate the impact of peer recovery narratives on service users. The research, thus, fills a knowledge gap on peer recovery narratives.
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Shin, Byoung-Chul, Hyo-Sun Yeom, Seong-Chang Kim, and Eun-Jun Park. "Franchise Hair Salon Juno Hair Symbol Narrative, Brand Image, Relationship Between Customer Emotional Responses." Journal of the Korean Society of Cosmetology 28, no. 4 (August 31, 2022): 666–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.52660/jksc.2022.28.4.666.
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This study was conducted to verify the symbolic narrative, brand image, and customer's emotional response of hair salon Juno. The subjects of this study were 450 customers who use beauty salons, and data were collected through self-response questionnaires about the symbol mark narrative, brand image, and customer response. The results of this study are as follows. First, there is a significant positive correlation between symbolic narratives and brand images. Second, symbolic narrative had a significant positive (+) effect on customer's emotional response. Third, it was found that brand image had a mediating effect on customer's emotional response. Based on the results of this study, a plan to increase the revisit intention of beauty salon customers was suggested.
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P. Andersen, Lars, and Jan M. Jensen. "Experiential dimensions of TV advertizing: modeling narrative and non-narrative perceptions." Innovative Marketing 12, no. 2 (September 14, 2016): 6–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/im.12(2).2016.01.
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This paper aims at extending advertizing response theory by presenting a three-dimensional model of advertizing perceptions (conceptualized as experiences) by incorporating concepts from cognitive film psychology and narrative transportation theory. The conceptual model is operationalized, tested and evaluated on empirical data from an e-survey measuring the experiential dimensions and ad liking of ten selected TV ads. The findings showed reliability and validity of the proposed measurement scales. The study supported the hypothesized positive influence of all three dimensions on ad liking, but to variable degree. The results showed that the suggested application of the framework is capable of measuring advertizing experiences based on their degree of didactic, narrative and lyrical potential. Findings also suggested that the lyrical dimension supports the narrative experience, adding a new ‘lyrical’ perspective to the conceptual understanding of narrative transportation in advertizing. Keywords: television advertizing, creative strategy, narrative transportation, advertizing effectiveness, lyrical advertizing, advertizing perceptions. JEL Classification: M31, M37
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Mji, Andile. "PROMOTING POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: A SCHOOL GARDEN NARRATIVE." Commonwealth Youth and Development 14, no. 2 (April 6, 2017): 135–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1727-7140/1823.
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This study reports on a programme encapsulating the ideals of positive youth development. Here, a specific narrative of an observed problem, how youths were encouraged to participate in activities and the resultant effect of interactions, is described. Participants were 118 learners, 67 (56.8%) of whom were females. The learners were in Grades 10, 11 and 12 with ages ranging between 16 years and 18 years. The programme learners participated in starting and tending gardens at school. Here, the aim was to determine how exposing learners to an empowering environment resulted in building their competencies. Specifically, this article determined what lessons learners learnt from the development programme and whether attributes of positive youth development could be extracted from learners’ utterances. Qualitative data using open-ended interviews and following a narrative perspective were collected. Findings revealed that learners changed, learned to share and understood what it meant to work with others. Also, their utterings were consistent with competencies illustrating positive youth development. The findings illustrated the importance and value of positive programmes among the youth.
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Gold, John R., and Margaret M. Gold. "Accentuating the Positive: City Branding, Narrative and Practice." Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 111, no. 1 (November 22, 2019): 2–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12395.
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Horne, Felicity. "CONQUERING AIDS THROUGH NARRATIVE: LONGLIFE POSITIVE HIV STORIES." English Studies in Africa 54, no. 2 (October 2011): 71–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2011.626186.
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Stander, Frederick W. "Constructing a positive narrative for African sport consumerism." Journal of Psychology in Africa 27, no. 3 (June 26, 2017): 299–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2017.1321867.
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Lilgendahl, Jennifer Pals, Veronica Benet-Martinez, Margaret Bishop, Katharine Gilson, Lindsay Festa, Chloe Levenson, and Rena Rosenblum. "“So Now, I Wonder, What Am I?”: A Narrative Approach to Bicultural Identity Integration." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 49, no. 10 (September 22, 2018): 1596–624. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022022118801555.
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Individuals socialized in multiple cultures actively construct their bicultural identity in the context of relevant life events. However, the content and meaning of these experiences, as subjectively constructed and understood by the individual, remain largely unexplored in relation to biculturalism outcomes. Using a narrative approach, two studies of U.S. biculturals examined how memories about the experience of being bicultural (“bicultural memory narratives”) related to bicultural identity integration (BII). BII describes having cultural identities that are blended and exist harmoniously within the self (vs. having dissociated and conflicting identities). In Study 1, bicultural college students shared two bicultural memory narratives, which were coded for the past event valence, exploratory processing, and ending valence (positive vs. negative ending). Most reported memories about at least somewhat negative experiences, and yet narrating those events with positive endings was predictive of higher BII, even after controlling for other factors, such as trait affect. In Study 2, second-generation bicultural adults ranging in age from 18 to 62 shared narratives about memories of bicultural conflict, which were also coded for exploratory processing and positive resolution. Similar to Study 1, positive resolution predicted higher levels of BII, independent of other factors. Bicultural identity conflict was found to decrease with age across adulthood. Findings for exploratory processing were inconclusive and suggest that its role in BII may fluctuate over time and be dependent on several factors, including age, type of memory, and time spent exploring bicultural identity.
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Küsters, Anselm. "Warum eine gute Geschichte nicht immer gut sein muss: Zur wirtschaftspolitischen Wirkmächtigkeit von Narrativen aus verhaltensökonomischer Perspektive." DNGPS Working Paper 6, no. 2020 (September 14, 2020): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/dngps.v6i1.02.
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Dieser Artikel verwendet das verhaltensökonomische Konzept der Heuristik, um die durch Narrative verzerrte Wahrnehmung von ökonomischen Sachverhalten zu analysieren. Vier Fallbeispiele aus der jüngeren wirtschaftsgeschichtlichen Debatte um Wirtschaftskrisen zeigen auf, dass Narrative nicht nur eine positive gemeinschaftsstiftende Funktion erfüllen, sondern auch im negativen Sinne grenzüberschreitende wirtschaftspolitische Kooperation erschweren können. Wie und an was wir uns erinnern sowie die Narrative, die wir auf Grundlage dieser Erinnerungen konstruieren, sind somit für ein Verständnis aktueller wirtschaftspolitischer Präferenzen unerlässlich. Daher wird eine um wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Fallstudien und digitale Methoden angereicherte Forschung über die Zusammenhänge zwischen Narrativen und ökonomischem Verhalten benötigt.
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Isakoglou, Foivos, Kristi S. Multhaup, Margaret P. Munger, and Brian A. Eiler. "The Effects of Genre and Reading Difficulty on Narrative Transportation: The Mediating Role of Affect." Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research 26, no. 4 (2021): 422–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24839/2325-7342.jn26.4.422.
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Stories offer a refuge from people’s mundane troubles and commitments by immersing them in intricate fictional worlds. Narrative transportation, i.e., the feeling of being “lost” in the world of a story, has been found to be an important measure of involvement with narratives (Green & Brock, 2000). Numerous studies have examined the impact of literary fiction on readers’ theory of mind, but the relationship between genre and narrative transportation remains relatively unexplored. Black and Barnes (2015a) proposed that exposure to literary fiction produces higher narrative transportation than exposure to nonfiction texts. The present investigation sought to replicate this finding while (a) measuring baseline trait empathy, (b) addressing a confound of genre and reading difficulty noted in prior work, and (c) assessing the mediating role of affect on the relationship between genre and narrative transportation. Empathy was positively correlated with narrative transportation, r = .39, p < .001. Narrative transportation was higher for participants who read challenging fiction and nonfiction than for participants who read easy fiction, F(2, 891) = 5.79, p = .003, ηp2= .013. Positive affect, but not negative affect, mediated the effect of challenging versus easy text conditions on narrative transportation, b = –.16, se = .04 (95% CI [–.25, –.08]). These findings suggest that narrative transportation may not be dependent on story genre, but rather on a given text’s difficulty level and the positive emotions experienced while reading.
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Meutia, Inten, and Budiawan Cimarko Putra. "Narrative Accounting Practices in Indonesia Companies." Binus Business Review 8, no. 1 (May 31, 2017): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/bbr.v8i1.1944.
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This research aimed to reveal creative accounting practices in the form of narrative accounting occuring in companies in Indonesia. Using content analysis, this research analyzed the management discussion and analysissection in the annual report on the group of companies whose performance had increased and declined in several companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange. This research finds that the narrative accounting practices are applied in these companies. The four methods of accounting narratives are found in both groups of companies. There are stressing the positive and downplaying the negative, baffling the readers, differential reporting, andattribution.
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Larsen, Gorm. "Subjektivitet i fortællinger." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 34, no. 101 (April 2, 2006): 140–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v34i101.22330.
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Udsigelsens fortolkninger Subjectivity in Narratives: Interpretations of EnunciationAn ongoing discussion in literary theory is about whether the narrative text generally, has narrator or not. The respectively positive and negative interpretations illustrate two paradigms in the narrative theory. Gorm Larsen shows that the two positions are connected by the concept of enunciation: Käte Hamburger and Émile Benveniste introduced the concept of enunciation and argued at the same time that only I-narratives have a structure of enunciation. In the view of poststructural theory this has been radicalised into a complete denial of the narrator. Gorm Larsen argues however that the different interpretations of enunciation are not in conflict with each other, but – from a narratological and structural point of view – a matter of different levels on which subjectivity in narrative can be understood; this shows that subjectivity in narrative is a complex state of affairs.
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Egner, Justine. "#ActuallyAutistic: Using Twitter to Construct Individual and Collective Identity Narratives." Studies in Social Justice 16, no. 2 (March 11, 2022): 349–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v16i2.2675.
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Employing Critical Autism Studies and Narrative Analysis, this project examines how autistic Twitter users engage in narrative meaning-making through social media. By analyzing the hashtags #ActuallyAutistic and #AskingAutistics this project broadly explores how individuals construct identity when lacking access to positive representations and identity communities. Answering the research question, “How do autistic people construct individual and collective identity narratives through Twitter?,” findings indicate that autistic Twitter users use their social media presence to build virtual learning communities. Common knowledge about autism is often oversimplified and highly medicalized. Therefore, autistics use Twitter to make meaning of their experiences that are not represented within cultural notions of what it means to be autistic. Autistic Twitter users reject medicalized narratives by contesting stereotypes, flipping negative narratives into positive stories, re-inscribing “deficiencies” as beneficial, and resisting rehabilitation and “cure.” Users do important social activist work by building strong autistic communities in ways that counter current negative representation, constructing positive self-affirming individual and community identities and resisting eugenic notions that autistic people are “less valuable.”
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Norrick, Neal R. "Negation in narrative." Narrative Inquiry 28, no. 2 (October 19, 2018): 373–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.17028.nor.
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Abstract Negation in narrative has been described primarily as a resource for expressing evaluation, and secondarily in its role in establishing orientation, but this article investigates a range of ways negated statements can contribute directly to complicating action. Negation works through presupposition in the rhetorical figure of paralipsis with phrases like “to say nothing of.” Reporting “I don’t see how she got in” presupposes that she got in. Semantic double negation in phrases like “never fail to” contributes to the complicating action. Idiomatic negatives like “didn’t go out” and negatives matching expectations like “didn’t go to sleep” mirror positive actions in the narrative model. Constructions coupling main clause negation with a positive embedded clause produce statements entailing actions in the chain of events, as in “I couldn’t face going back.” Taken together, these constructions provide powerful resources for contributing positively to the dynamic narrative model with negative statements.
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Gadirova, Rena, and Rauf Garagozov. "Narrative nudges to peace in protracted conflict: karabakh conflict as a case study." Univers Pedagogic, no. 2(74) (August 2022): 60–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.52387/1811-5470.2022.2.09.
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Recent research in narrative psychology provides insights into the dynamics of collective memories and group identities and how they are exploited by populist and nationalist forces for instigating intergroup conflict. In particular, narrative approach to conflict is important in this regard. In one key way, this approach considers conflicts as competing stories and conflict resolution as narrative transformation and the creation of a common (shared) narrative. In this regard, two questions are of particular concern: 1) What kinds of narratives are conducive to reconciliation between adversaries? 2) Which strategies for dealing with narratives found in intergroup conflicts are effective? As a way of addressing these questions we have developed a theoretical model of narrative intervention which was empirically examined at the context of conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabakh. These studies over the two decades have used different perspectives that enable us to identify “common suffering” type of narrative as a way of eliciting positive implicit attitudes and empathy among the conflicting parties. The research has also identified two psychological constructs - “painful collective memory” and “competitive victimhood”, which are often employed by political forces who are not interested in peace and reconciliation in the region.
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Metzler, Ingrid, and Paul Just. "“Think positively”: Parkinson’s disease, biomedicine, and hope in contemporary Germany." Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 22, no. 5 (June 21, 2017): 483–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459317715774.
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Narratives of hope shape contemporary engagements with Parkinson’s disease. On the one hand, a “biomedical narrative of hope” promises that biomedical research will help to transform this treatable but incurable disease into a curable one in the future. On the other hand, a more individual “illness narrative of hope” encourages patients to influence the course of Parkinson’s disease by practicing self-care and positive thinking. This article asks how these two narratives of hope interact. It bases its argument on an analysis of data from 13 focus groups conducted in Germany in 2012 and 2014 with patients with Parkinson’s disease and their relatives. Participants were asked to have their say on clinical trials for advanced therapies for Parkinson’s disease and, while doing so, envisioned their biosocial selves in the present and the future. Three “modes of being” for patients were drawn from this body of data: a “users on stand-by” mode, an “unengaged” mode, and an “experimental pioneers” mode. Both narratives of hope were important to all three modes, yet they were mobilized at different frequencies and also had different statuses. While the biomedical narrative of hope was deemed an important “dream of the future” that participants passively supported without having to make it their own, the illness narrative of hope was a truth discourse that took an imperative form: having Parkinson’s disease implied the need to maintain a positive attitude.
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Wehmeier, Carina Marie. "Development of narrative macrostructure in monolingual preschoolers in Germany and impact of socio-economic status and home literacy environment." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 62 (September 12, 2019): 52–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.62.2019.443.
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the development of narrative macrostructure and the impact of socio-economic status (SES) and home literacy environment (HLE) on the narrative macrostructure of monolingual preschoolers in Germany when retelling and telling a story. The analysis of narrative macrostructure includes three components: story structure, story complexity, and story comprehension. Oral narratives were elicited via Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN). 198 monolingual children between age 4;6 and 5;11 participated (M=63 months, SD=5 months). The comparison of narrative macrostructure in three age groups (4;6 to 4;11 years, 5;0 to 5;5 years, 5;6 to 5;11 years) illustrate significant age effects in story structure, story complexity and story comprehension skills. There were weak significant positive correlations of some of these skills with aspects of socio-economic status and home literacy environment, for example between story comprehension skills and the educational background, the frequency and duration of the child’s exposure to books and the number of books in the household.
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Inayah, Ratih, and Ningtyas Orilina Argawati. "NURTURING STUDENTS' WRITING NARRATIVE INTEREST THROUGH MIND MAPPING AND COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED READING AND WRITING." Indonesian EFL Journal 5, no. 2 (July 23, 2019): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.25134/ieflj.v5i2.1781.
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This study aims to investigate the motivation of senior high school students at 11st grade in reading and writing English texts, especially narrative text.� The study also explores the insight toward the use of mind mapping and cooperative integrated reading and writing in nurturing students� interest and motivation in writing narrative text. The study used qualitative case study to learn and pay attention to phenomena that the students� motivation in reading and writing narrative text are needed to be nurtured. There were 36 students of 11st grade in senior high school in Bandung were involved in this study. Questionnaire and interview were given to the students. The results show that the students who show positive view toward reading and writing narrative texts are 74% students. They interest and willingness in making mind mapping of the narrative, because they know that narratives texts are full of information and moral value. While only 26% students who seem force to read and write narratives text to compose mind mapping. Eventually, integrating reading and composition in the classroom can nurture their reading interest and increase their willingness to read narrative text. Since, many students can understand the moral value of the narrative text through discussing with their friends at the class and making a mind mapping through cooperative learning about the narrative text is very useful to develop their mind.
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Pólya, Tibor, and István Csertő. "Emotion Recognition Based on the Structure of Narratives." Electronics 12, no. 4 (February 11, 2023): 919. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040919.
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One important application of natural language processing (NLP) is the recognition of emotions in text. Most current emotion analyzers use a set of linguistic features such as emotion lexicons, n-grams, word embeddings, and emoticons. This study proposes a new strategy to perform emotion recognition, which is based on the homologous structure of emotions and narratives. It is argued that emotions and narratives share both a goal-based structure and an evaluation structure. The new strategy was tested in an empirical study with 117 participants who recounted two narratives about their past emotional experiences, including one positive and one negative episode. Immediately after narrating each episode, the participants reported their current affective state using the Affect Grid. The goal-based structure and evaluation structure of the narratives were analyzed with a hybrid method. First, a linguistic analysis of the texts was carried out, including tokenization, lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging, and morphological analysis. Second, an extensive set of rule-based algorithms was used to analyze the goal-based structure of, and evaluations in, the narratives. Third, the output was fed into machine learning classifiers of narrative structural features that previously proved to be effective predictors of the narrator’s current affective state. This hybrid procedure yielded a high average F1 score (0.72). The results are discussed in terms of the benefits of employing narrative structure analysis in NLP-based emotion recognition.
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Wairimu, Faith, Natalie C. Ward, Yingwei Liu, and Girish Dwivedi. "Cardiac Transplantation in HIV-Positive Patients: A Narrative Review." JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 87, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 763–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/qai.0000000000002647.
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Botha, Derek. "‘Anorexic’ Adolescents: Negative and Positive Resistances in Narrative Therapy." Journal of Constructivist Psychology 32, no. 2 (March 9, 2018): 181–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2018.1433089.
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Magerko, Brian. "A Comparative Analysis of Story Representations for Interactive Narrative Systems." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 3, no. 1 (September 29, 2021): 91–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aiide.v3i1.18793.
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Interactive narrative is a blossoming field, with new systems and approaches being developed each year. However, despite this burgeoning array of designs, little work has been done in empirically evaluating and comparing them (Weyhrauch 1997; Nelson and Mateas 2005; Magerko 2007). Such a comparison is complicated by the fact that different systems are used to create different narratives; it is difficult to differentiate between the authored content and the system capabilities in an empirical setting. This paper proposes a comparative analysis approach to determining the strengths and weaknesses of interactive narrative systems. Such a comparison is a positive first step towards understanding and evaluating current and future interactive narrative systems.
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Willer, Erin K. "Drawing Light(ning) from the Clouds of Social Aggression." Qualitative Communication Research 1, no. 3 (2012): 347–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/qcr.2012.1.3.347.
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The master narrative about social aggression is that it is devastating for girls. Absent from the narrative, however, are girls' voices and a consideration of the positive benefits that targets might incur. Girls' stories of social aggression can be hard to communicate, as adolescents experience challenges making sense of emotionally difficult events. Using Burke's dramaturgical perspective and visual narrative metaphor method, the present study provided girls with a means of purification or a way of identifying both the devastating and redeeming nature of social aggression, including a sequential move from pollution to redemption. Forty-two middle school girls drew and orally described metaphors representing their negative feelings and positive outcomes associated with an experience of social aggression. The analysis revealed four categories of pollution metaphors and four categories of redemption metaphors, as well as five discourse structures that provided insight into how participants constructed their pollution and redemption narratives.
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Äärelä, Tanja, Satu Uusiautti, and Kaarina Määttä. "“THE TEACHER SHOULD NOT JUST BOSS AROUND ALL THE TIME”. GOOD TEACHERHOOD IN THE LIGHT OF YOUNG PRISONERS’ EXPERIENCES." Problems of Education in the 21st Century 60, no. 1 (July 10, 2014): 10–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/pec/14.60.10.
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the essence of good teacherhood through young prisoners’ school experiences and memories in order to find means to prevent antisocial and exclusion-oriented development in youths. The assumption is that young prisoners’ teacher descriptions include also positive memories. How do they describe teachers who have supported them or could support children’s school going? How do the research participants perceive themselves in relation to teachers and teachers’ actions? The data consisted of young prisoners’ narratives regarding their school time. Twenty-nine young prisoners, aged 17-21, from two prisons in northern Finland participated in the study. This study employed the narrative research approach. The data were obtained through free-form interviews that resembled the narrative interview method. The qualitative content analysis and the narrative analyzing models were employed when analyzing the narrative data. According to the young prisoners’ perceptions, good teachers shared certain features and skills that could be categorized into three: interaction skills, pedagogical and didactic skills, and subject knowledge. The study contributed unique information about the positive actions and features of teacherhood that can support the school work also among the children in danger of exclusion. Key words: exclusion, narrative research, teacher, teacherhood, young prisoners.
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Nielsen, Kirsten, and Jette Henriksen. "Nursing students’ learning to involve elderly patients in clinical decision making – The student perspective." Journal of Nursing Education and Practice 12, no. 12 (August 15, 2022): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v12n12p49.
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The increasing number of elderly people in the population triggers a need for more nurses in the eldercare services. Therefore, a need exists to encourage nursing students’ interest in eldercare. International research found both positive and negative attitudes towards eldercare. The challenge is to facilitate students’ learning about and interest in geriatric care. This study aimed to investigate whether listening to older patients’ narratives may facilitate nursing students’ competencies related to and their interest in eldercare. A phenomenological-hermeneutic approach was employed to investigate whether an intervention in which nursing students conduct narrative interviews with older patients may promote their competencies to involve these patients in their own care while concurrently enhancing their interest in eldercare. New knowledge was generated through the interpretation of transcribed narrative interviews with the students conducted before and after the intervention. Four themes emerged: the significance of the narrative for the patient-nurse relation, for involving patients in clinical decision making, for person-centred care and for students’ interest in eldercare. The students valued the impact of the narrative interview. After the interview, they experienced a better patient-nurse relation and they found that it was easier to involve elderly patients in clinical decisions and to provide person-centred care. Students expressed a more positive interest in eldercare. This research addresses geriatric care, as it conveys experiences with the use of narratives to facilitate students' learning about eldercare.
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Bedard-Gilligan, Michele, Lori A. Zoellner, and Norah C. Feeny. "Is Trauma Memory Special? Trauma Narrative Fragmentation in PTSD." Clinical Psychological Science 5, no. 2 (March 2017): 212–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167702616676581.
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Seminal theories posit that fragmented trauma memories are critical to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and that elaboration of the trauma narrative is necessary for recovery. According to fragmentation theories, trauma narrative changes, particularly for those receiving trauma-focused treatment, should accompany symptom reduction. Trauma and control narratives in 77 men and women with chronic PTSD were examined pre- and posttreatment, comparing prolonged exposure (PE) and sertraline. Utilizing self-report, rater coding, and objective coding of narrative content, fragmentation was compared across narrative types (trauma, negative, positive) by treatment modality and response, controlling for potential confounds. Although sensory components increased with PE ( d = 0.23–0.44), there were no consistent differences in fragmentation from pre- to posttreatment between PE and sertraline or treatment responders and nonresponders. Contrary to theories, changes in fragmentation may not be a crucial mechanism underlying PTSD therapeutic recovery.
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Vanaken, Lauranne, Patricia Bijttebier, Robyn Fivush, and Dirk Hermans. "An investigation of the concurrent and longitudinal associations between narrative coherence and mental health mediated by social support." Journal of Experimental Psychopathology 13, no. 1 (January 2022): 204380872110682. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20438087211068215.
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The coherence of autobiographical narratives is thought to be reflective of individuals’ psychological adjustment. However, results are not always replicable, the longitudinal nature of the relation has remained largely unaddressed, and there is limited research on mechanisms that may explain the relation between coherence and mental health. Therefore, in a large longitudinal study, we investigated the concurrent and prospective associations of narrative coherence with mental health, as well as mediational effects of perceived social support. Concurrently, correlations showed that total narrative coherence was associated with higher psychological well-being, fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety, and fewer negative social interactions. Cross-sectional regressions showed that total narrative coherence was predictive for better psychological well-being and fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety, and that chronological coherence predicted depressive symptomatology. These relations were all mediated by perceived negative social interactions. Prospectively, over a 5-month time interval, higher coherence of positive narratives predicted relative decreases in depressive and anxious symptoms. These relations were also mediated by the amount of perceived negative social interactions. Individuals who were more coherent about their past positive life events experienced a relative decrease in depressive and anxious symptoms over a 5-month time interval because they experienced fewer negative interactions with their social network over time.
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Eng, Bennie, and Cheryl Burke Jarvis. "Consumers and their celebrity brands: how personal narratives set the stage for attachment." Journal of Product & Brand Management 29, no. 6 (June 1, 2020): 831–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpbm-02-2019-2275.
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Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate how consumer attachment to celebrity brands is driven by perceived narratives about the celebrity’s persona, which triggers communal (i.e. altruistic) relationship norms. The research investigates the differential role of narratives about celebrities’ personal vs professional lives in creating attachment and identifies and tests moderating effects of narrative characteristics including perceived source of fame, valence and authenticity. Design/methodology/approach Three online experiments tested the proposed direct, meditating and moderating relationships. Data was analyzed using mediation analysis and multiple ANOVAs. Findings The results suggest relationship norms that are more altruistic in nature fully mediate the relationship between narrative type and brand attachment. Additionally, personal narratives produce stronger attachment than professional narratives; the celebrity’s source of fame moderates narrative type and attachment; and on-brand narratives elicit higher attachment than off-brand narratives, even when these narratives are negative. Practical implications The authors offer recommendations for how marketers can shape celebrity brand narratives to build stronger consumer attachment. Notably, personal (vs professional) narratives are critical in building attachment, especially for celebrity brands that are perceived to have achieved their fame. Both positive and negative personal narratives can strengthen attachment for achieved celebrity brands, but only if they are on-brand with consumer expectations. Originality/value This research is an introductory examination of the fundamental theoretical process by which celebrity brand relationships develop from brand persona narratives and how characteristics of those narratives influence consumer-brand attachment.
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Crowell, Rebecca L. Nelson, Julie Hanenburg, and Amy Gilbertson. "Counseling Adolescents With Hearing Loss Using a Narrative Therapy Approach." Perspectives on Administration and Supervision 19, no. 2 (June 2009): 72–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/aas19.2.72.
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Abstract Audiologists have a responsibility to counsel patients with auditory concerns on methods to manage the inherent challenges associated with hearing loss at every point in the process: evaluation, hearing aid fitting, and follow-up visits. Adolescents with hearing loss struggle with the typical developmental challenges along with communicative challenges that can erode one's self-esteem and self-worth. The feeling of “not being connected” to peers can result in feelings of isolation and depression. This article advocates the use of a Narrative Therapy approach to counseling adolescents with hearing loss. Adolescents with hearing loss often have problem-saturated narratives regarding various components of their daily life, friendships, amplification, academics, etc. Audiologists can work with adolescents with hearing loss to deconstruct the problem-saturated narratives and rebuild the narratives into a more empowering message. As the adolescent retells their positive narrative, they are likely to experience increased self-esteem and self-worth.
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Westerveld, Marleen F., and Jacqueline M. A. Roberts. "The Oral Narrative Comprehension and Production Abilities of Verbal Preschoolers on the Autism Spectrum." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 48, no. 4 (October 5, 2017): 260–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2017_lshss-17-0003.
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Purpose This study described the oral narrative comprehension and production skills of verbal preschool-age children on the autism spectrum and investigated correlations between oral narrative ability and norm-referenced language test performance. Method Twenty-nine preschool-age children (aged 4;0–5;9 years;months) with autism, who obtained an age-equivalent score of at least 36 months on the expressive communication subscale of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales–Second Edition (Sparrow, Cicchetti, & Balla, 2005), participated. Children listened to an unfamiliar fictional narrative and answered comprehension questions afterward. After listening to the narrative a second time, children were asked to retell the narrative without picture support. Narratives were transcribed and analyzed for length, semantic diversity, grammatical complexity and accuracy, intelligibility, inclusion of critical events, and narrative stage. Results All children participated in the comprehension task, and 19 children produced an analyzable narrative retell. Compared with published data on typically developing children, significant difficulties were observed in narrative comprehension, intelligibility, and grammatical accuracy. Most of the children told descriptive or action sequences, with only 1 child producing an abbreviated episode. Significant positive correlations were found (a) between performance on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test–Fourth Edition (Dunn & Dunn, 2007) and semantic diversity and narrative comprehension and (b) between parent-reported receptive communication competence (Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales–Second Edition) and narrative comprehension. Conclusions This study provides preliminary evidence of specific difficulties in oral narrative comprehension and production skills in verbal preschoolers on the autism spectrum.
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Robertson, Alan, Chris Venter, and Karel Botha. "Narratives of Depression." South African Journal of Psychology 35, no. 2 (June 2005): 331–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124630503500210.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the life narratives of a group of self-identified depressed individuals. A qualitative research approach, specifically a multiple case study method was used, consisting of interviews in narrative format with people who were suffering from depression. The common themes seemed to be: the participants attached negative meanings to their life experiences; they used negative language, particularly in the form of generalisations, to articulate their stories; and they found socio-political narratives to be subjugating. The study suggested that a narrative approach to therapy could be fruitful in the treatment of depression, especially through helping people to find positive meanings for life experiences; re-authoring life narratives using fewer negative generalisations; confronting and transcending subjugating political stories; assisting the individual to discover and build upon unique outcomes; and encouraging the extemalisation of depression.
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Sulistyanto, Ari, Saeful Mujab, and Hamida Harahap. "Memorable cultural tourism experience: blogger narrative analysis." Jurnal Pariwisata Pesona 7, no. 1 (June 15, 2022): 104–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.26905/jpp.v7i1.6387.
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Cultural tourism has an important influence on the development of the tourism industry. The travel experience stories of bloggers written through blogs contributed to the initial introduction and impact of other travel planning tours. It can also be used as a reference by tourism agents. However, the travel experience stories of these bloggers have not been structured as themes and memorable experiences. Whereas the core product of the tourism business is a memorable experience. In the perspective of narrative paradigm theory (NPT), a story or narrative is successful as a human communication capable of forming meaning, if it has coherence and truth. . Therefore, this study aims to reveal the narrative structure told by bloggers. So that the meaning and theme of the cultural tourism experience can be understood as a memorable experience. This study uses a qualitative approach with narrative paradigm theory (NPT). The research data as the unit of analysis was collected from the narrative stories of bloggers published on weblogs. Meanwhile, the principle of the grounded theory approach is aimed at uncovering the narrative themes of bloggers. The results of the study explain the narrative of bloggers in cultural tourism that is told through blog pages as narrative rationales because there is coherence and truth so that they form meaning as a positive, enjoyable, and satisfying experience. The category of cultural tourism that bloggers often visit is the category of cultural heritage, such as museums, temple sites, and old buildings, as well as local or traditional villages. The results of this study also found that a series of blogger narratives formed the theme of memorable experiences through cultural tourism, such as spirituality, intellectual national identity, and local uniqueness. Overall this research reveals, the rational structure of the narrative in the blogger's narrative explains the meaning of an impressive experience in cultural tourism as a positive, pleasant, and memorable view that tourists remember after visiting a destination that is categorized as cultural tourism, retold in the form of a story.
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Barroso Del Toro, Alberto, Laura Vivas Crisol, and Xavier Tort-Martorell. "The Sustainability Narrative: A Multi Study Using Event Studies to Analyse the American Energy Companies Shareholder’s Reaction to Sustainability News." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 23 (November 22, 2022): 15489. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315489.
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This study investigates how shareholders of leading US energy companies value sustainability narratives. Leveraging the Global Database of Events (GDELT) from 2017 to 2019, 207,386 news items were extracted, 4101 event studies were performed, 3393 cumulative average abnormal returns (CAAR) were analysed, and 708 Abnormal volatilities (AV) were analysed. The magnitude of the analysis and further segmentation of the viral news by tone, type of energy, and environmental consequence help us to understand shareholders’ investment decisions and narrative. We proved that the sustainability narrative has a significant impact on shareholder value. There is a clear negative bias on sustainability news, impacting negatively on the market. More importantly, we’ve identified positive news about fossil fuels impacting the market more than positive renewable energy news. These results provide empirical evidence for the case of greenwashing in businesses. There must be a common shareholder’s narrative to penalise and reduce incentives for highly polluting investments to push forward an effective ecological transition. These results provide an objective for regulators to develop further regulations and incentives to fight against false sustainability news.
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Prescott, Susan, and Alan Logan. "Narrative Medicine Meets Planetary Health: Mindsets Matter in the Anthropocene." Challenges 10, no. 1 (February 20, 2019): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/challe10010017.
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The emerging concept of planetary health—defined as the interdependent vitality of all natural and anthropogenic ecosystems (social, political, and otherwise)—emphasizes that the health of human civilization is intricately connected to the health of natural systems within the Earth’s biosphere. In the clinical setting, narrative medicine underscores the importance of absorbing, reflecting upon, and responding to the narratives—the stories—conveyed by patients. Education and interventions using the tenets of narrative medicine have demonstrated value to both patient and provider. Given the grand interconnected challenges of our time—compounded by misinformation and quasi-scientific narratives propagated by the ideology of neoliberalism—we argue that the principles and practice of narrative medicine can be applied on a larger scale, one with planetary health in mind. The role of beliefs, expectations, and agency—mindsets—in the link between narrative and planetary health are emphasized. We use a story of our own to demonstrate that the biological buffering capacity in response to a fast-food meal does not sit on a level socioeconomic playing field. Patient, community, and global health narratives are melding with powerful narratives set by commercial entities. The success of planetary health as a new concept will be strengthened by attention to the ways in which storytelling can influence positive change. No less important is an understanding of the ways in which stories contribute to what ails person, place, and planet.