Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Self-adaption'

Julie/Julia stands out in several ways. What had begun, in 2002/2003, as a highly popular blog, in which New Yorker Julie Powell tracks her experience of cooking all the recipes in Julia Child’s classic cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cookery, became one of the first notable, commercially successful "blooks"—a neologism that denotes blogs adapted into books. As a visible sign of this achievement, The Ju-lie/Julia Project was awarded with the inaugural “Blooker Prize” in 2006. A few years later, Julie/Julia again pioneered in being the first blog (or blook, for that matter) to be adapted into a Hollywood movie, Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia. In the following, I want to discuss Julie/Julia, and its adaptations from blog to book to film, as an instructive case study of life writing in the digital age.

Julie/Julia stands out in several ways. What had begun, in 2002/2003, as a highly popular blog, in which New Yorker Julie Powell tracks her experience of cooking all the recipes in Julia Child’s classic cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cookery, became one of the first notable, commercially successful "blooks"—a neologism that denotes blogs adapted into books. As a visible sign of this achievement, The Ju-lie/Julia Project was awarded with the inaugural “Blooker Prize” in 2006. A few years later, Julie/Julia again pioneered in being the first blog (or blook, for that matter) to be adapted into a Hollywood movie, Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia. In the following, I want to discuss Julie/Julia, and its adaptations from blog to book to film, as an instructive case study of life writing in the digital age.

Rökare får allt mer mindre utrymme att röka på och det blir allt mindre socialt accepterat att röka i dagens samhälle. Syftet med vår uppsats är att undersöka hur rökaren upplever samhällets normer och negativitet kring rökning, samt hur detta påverkar dem. Vår huvudsakliga frågeställning har varit ”Hur påverkas rökare av samhället nedvärderande syn på rökning?”, men även om det finns någon skillnad i deras rökningsbeteende beroende på social situation. Studien är gjord med hjälp av en kvalitativ metod i form av intervjuer, där vi intervjuat 6 rökare allt ifrån åldern 23-70. Vi har använt oss utav Goffmans intrycksstyrningoch Harveys rumsbegreppför att kunna förklara ur ett sociologiskt perspektiv hur rökaren upplever samhället och hur det påverkar denne. Vårt resultat har visat att rökare anpassar sig väldigt mycket till den sociala situationen, samt tar hänsyn till andra och att rökare kartlägger sin rökning grundat på tid, rum och social situation.
Smokersgetincreasinglyless roomto smokeanditis becoming lesssociallyacceptable to smokeintoday's society.The purpose of ourpaper is to examinehowthe smokerexperiencingsocial normsandnegativity surroundingsmoking,andhow this affectsthem. Our mainresearch questionwas"How does the negative view on smoking in today’s society affect smokers?”, but also if there is any differenceintheir smokingbehaviordepending on thesocial situation.The study was conductedusinga qualitative approachin the form ofinterviews, wherewe interviewedsixsmokersranging fromages23-70. We have usedGoffman'spresentation of SelfandHarveysspace theory to explainfrom a sociological perspectivehowsmokersperceivesociety andhow it affectshim.Ourresults have shownthat smokers arevery adaptedtothe social situation, they are considerate andthat smokerscharttheir smokingbased on thetime, placeand social situation.

Base teórica: A doença de Parkinson (DP) é a segunda enfermidade neurodegenerativa mais frequente, crescendo proporcionalmente com o aumento da idade. É uma doença de comprometimento motor e não motor. Levodopa e agonistas dopaminérgicos (AD) são usados no tratamento da DP, permitindo um controle ótimo dos sintomas nos primeiros anos. Entretanto, em 5 anos, metade dos pacientes terão complicações motoras e nãomotoras induzidas pelo uso de antiparkinsonianos. Manifestações neuropsiquiátricas são frequentes, entre elas depressão, ansiedade, prejuízos cognitivos, sintomas psicóticos e transtorno de descontrole dos impulsos(DI). O DI é uma condição caracterizada pela falência em resistir a impulsos ou tentação de executar atos. O DI está associado ao uso de antiparkinsonianos, em especial, os agonistas dopaminérgicos A identificação desta condição é primordial para seu tratamento e estudo adequados. Na literatura atual, o questionário padrão-ouro foi validado na língua inglesa (QUIP), não existindo uma validação para língua portuguesa. Objetivo: Traduzir e validar o questionário QUIP-CS, em sua versão curta e aplicável no momento presente da DP, para lingua Portuguesa do Brasil Métodos: A versão curta da QUIP (QUIP-CS) foi traduzida para o Português por tradutor juramentado. Após, esta foi avaliada por 5 especialistas em DP no Brasil, sendo sugeridas pequenas correções. A versão corrigida em português foi retrotraduzida para o inglês por 2 tradutores juramentados nativos na língua original da escala (inglês), que compararam suas versões posteriormente, chegando-se a uma nova versão final neste idioma. Esta foi enviada ao autor da escala original, que concordou com esta versão, ou seja, foram mantidas as propriedades semânticas do instrumento. Após, a versão final em Português foi auto-aplicada em 65 indivíduos com diagnóstico de DP em tratamento no ambulatório especializado no HCPA, sendo que, de forma aleatória, para 30 foi aplicado um questionário de avaliação sobre o grau de dificuldade de compreensão de suas perguntas. Resultados: Em uma escala de 1 a 5 pontos, onde 1 era nenhuma compreensão das perguntas e 5, clara compreensão, a média de entendimento pelos pacientes foi de 4,06 +/- 0,69 DP. Conclusão: A avaliação desta versão foi considerada de fácil compreensão pelos próprios pacientes. O artigo para validação da tradução do conteúdo da versão em Português da QUIP-CS está em fase de revisão para publicação.
Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most often neurodegenerative disease and proportionally growing with people aging. PD is a disease with motor and nonmotor clinical features. Levodopa and dopaminergic agonists (DA) are used for PD treatment, allowing an exquisite control of the motor symptoms during the first years. However, in five years, half patients will present motor or non-motor complications induced by cronic use of these medications. Neuropsychiatric symptoms are often, for example, depression, anxiety, cognitive impairment, psychotic symptoms and impulse control disorders (ICD). The ICD is characterized by failure on resisting an impulse or on performing an specific act. Identification of the PD affected patients is crucial for proper management and study of this condition. There is an already validated self-reported questionnaire for this purpose, the Parkinson's Disease Impulsive-Compulsive Disorders Questionnaire (QUIP), without equivalent in portuguese language. Objective: To translate and to validate the Portuguese short version of the gold-standard questionnaire for identifying ICDs PD affected patients, applicable at the current moment of PD Methods: QUIP-CS was first translated to Portuguese by a professional translator. This translated version was shown to 5 PD neurologist specialists. in Brazil, being suggested minor modifications on it. This new Portuguese revised version was back translated to English by two independent native English speakers. They were both asked to compare the version one another and checked for differences. Then, they contacted each other and got a final back translated version. This one was sent for the original author, that approved its new version comparing to his original and validated one, with no loss of it’s original properties. The Portuguese corrected version was applied to 65 patients in a random way at PD’s ambulatory at HCPA. From these, 30 were asked to answer a number that would represent their level of QUIP-CS questions’ comprehension. Results: In a 1 to 5 point scale, being 1 no comprehension and 5, total comprehension, the average was 4,06 +/- 0,69 DP. Conclusion: Our results on Portuguese version of QUIP-CS show that QUIP-CS translated and corrected version was easily understood and easily self-applied. The article is under revision to be submitted for publication.

There are decades of research suggesting that drivers can compensate for distraction through behavioural adaptations such as selecting lower driving speeds, increasing road environment monitoring, decreasing lane changes, and avoiding overtaking. This research has confirmed the value of a new model for behavioural adaptation in distracted driving in explaining these phenomena. As such, the objective of this research was to characterize and evaluate the behavioural adaptation of mobile phone distracted drivers. A wide range of findings were generated, e.g. that behavioural adaptations are initiated by drivers and are not a de facto consequence of mobile phone use.

The vehicles of tomorrow will be more sophisticated, intelligent and safe than the vehicles of today. The future is leaning towards fully autonomous vehicles. This degree project provides a data driven solution for a speed adaptation system that can be used to compute a vehicle speed for curves, suitable for the underlying driving style of the driver, road properties and weather conditions. A speed adaptation system for curves aims to compute a vehicle speed suitable for curves that can be used in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) or in Autonomous Driving (AD) applications. This degree project was carried out at Volvo Car Corporation. Literature in the field of speed adaptation systems and factors affecting the vehicle speed in curves was reviewed. Naturalistic driving data was both collected by driving and extracted from Volvo's data base and further processed. A novel speed adaptation system for curves was invented, implemented and evaluated. This speed adaptation system is able to compute a vehicle speed suitable for the underlying driving style of the driver, road properties and weather conditions. Two different artificial neural networks and two mathematical models were used to compute the desired vehicle speed in curves. These methods were compared and evaluated.
Morgondagens fordon kommer att vara mer sofistikerade, intelligenta och säkra än dagens fordon. Framtiden lutar mot fullständigt autonoma fordon. Detta examensarbete tillhandahåller en datadriven lösning för ett hastighetsanpassningssystem som kan beräkna ett fordons hastighet i kurvor som är lämpligt för förarens körstil, vägens egenskaper och rådande väder. Ett hastighetsanpassningssystem för kurvor har som mål att beräkna en fordonshastighet för kurvor som kan användas i Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) eller Autonomous Driving (AD) applikationer. Detta examensarbete utfördes på Volvo Car Corporation. Litteratur kring hastighetsanpassningssystem samt faktorer som påverkar ett fordons hastighet i kurvor studerades. Naturalistisk bilkörningsdata samlades genom att köra bil samt extraherades från Volvos databas och bearbetades. Ett nytt hastighetsanpassningssystem uppfanns, implementerades samt utvärderades. Hastighetsanpassningssystemet visade sig vara kapabelt till att beräkna en lämplig fordonshastighet för förarens körstil under rådande väderförhållanden och vägens egenskaper. Två olika artificiella neuronnätverk samt två matematiska modeller användes för att beräkna fordonets hastighet. Dessa metoder jämfördes och utvärderades.

碩士
東吳大學
心理學系
98
The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between self-expansion and break-up adaption and to explore the relationship between individual and relation expansion and break-up adaption in Taiwan, a relation-oriented society. Yang and Lu (2004)suggested that Taiwanese may have individual-oriented traits and relation-oriented traits simultaneously. The author argues that the relational self may cause individuals develop not only individual expansion but also relation expansion during intimate relationship. When they break up, they may suffer from losing both individual and relation oriented expansion. This article investigates whether the relationship between individual and relation oriented expansion affect break-up adaption? The moderating roles of individual and relation oriented self-concept between expansion and break-up adaption were also examined. This study is cross-section study and the effective numbers of convenience sampling is 276. Result showed that both individual and friend relation expansion were related to break-up adaption. Relation oriented self also served as moderator between relation-oriented self expansion and break-up adaption.

碩士
國立成功大學
機械工程學系
103
The purpose of this thesis is to realize an under-actuated artificial finger with coupling-and-self-adaption mechanism, and verify four types of finger gesture under fuzzy logic control. In particular, the finger mechanism is analyzed with kinematics; angles of each link that composes the finger are derived with vector loop method; the finger's dimension is determined by the angular relationship between links and their static equilibrium. Before controlling the finger, the motor's model is identified, and fuzzy logic control is utilized to solve problems of modeling error and disturbances. Experimental results show a 6~18 mm root-mean-square error at the fingertip compared to the simulation. Besides, the minimum error appears when the finger bends 51.7 degrees in the second type of finger gesture, and the corresponding error is 0.46 mm in X-coordinate and 0.19 mm in Y- coordinate.

碩士
國立嘉義大學
輔導與諮商學系研究所
106
This article was a story of my own life. When I was just 28 years old with shallow life experience, I received an unexpected and forceful present that I really did not appreciate from the God, which depressed me for as long as 19 years with reluctance and unwillingness in my soul of childhood. At last, this wound burst open, through which I engaged in constant exploration and learning of life, and let myself start from my “heart”. And I accept my current status and keep on pursuing a better future through review and introspection of my past. So in this article, I am conducting an holistic-content analysis and interpretation in a narrative way, from which I will be aware of, refresh and rebuild myself. The study aims to let widows find the way of recovery and habituation based on personal narration of sad experience. It also explores how these widows could embrace the “pity” in past sadness and how to motivate internal power of recovery and habituation. Research results are as follows: Learn to face the dilemma and make compromise with setbacks; make right decisions, hold correct ideas and make self-acceptance unconditionally. Things must be learned from sadness, happiness, success and failure. Other than “missed” or “lost”, the current happiness to be held is worth the highest cherishment.　　 Always believe that meaningful “life” depends on endless study and “self-inspiration”. For all the sad tears, accept the defects, shame, fear, disappointment for being abandoned and compromise; remain calm throughout the changeful life; keep on living a real life and regain the true ego. “Mind” is the king of rules; fuel the “mind” and bring power back to yourself. “Love yourself and others”, “forgive yourself and others”: forget the pities and minimize the harm. Through long-term “study”, face the setbacks unflinchingly and bring enlightenment to life. “Appreciate our parents and life”: most valuable thing to be explored is to “meet the real ego”; understand the life profoundly, not in a time-based manner. “Face pities with courage, learn how to get rebirth” throughout the life: live a meaningful life.

碩士
國立臺東大學
教育學系教育研究所
106
This study aims to explore the difference between life adaption and career self-efficacy of university students in Taiwan and China as well as their current status, so as to understand the difference between life adaption and career self-efficacy of university students in Taiwan and China having different background variables, the correlation between life adaption and career self-efficacy and the predictive power of university students’ life adaption on career self-efficacy. With the university students in Taiwan and China as the subjects, this study used convenience sampling and questionnaire survey to collect the data and then the statistical analysis was conducted against the materials gained through questionnaire survey. The conclusions of this study are shown as below: 1. The university students in Taiwan and China’ “goal adaption” achieves the significance in life adaption and Taiwan’s university students are higher than Mainland China’s university students in this aspect. 2. Taiwan’s university students are significantly higher than Mainland China’s university students in terms of “goal selection”, “data collection” and “problem solving” in career self-efficacy. 3. The female university students are significantly higher than male university students in terms of “goal adaption” and “schoolwork adaption” in life adaption as well as the overall life adaption. 4. The senior students are significantly higher than the freshmen in terms of “goal adaption” in life adaption.   5. The university students having the experience in doing part-time job for study are significantly higher than those having no such experience in terms of “goal adaption” in life adaption and overall life adaption. 6. The male university students are significantly higher than female university students in terms of “self-evaluation” in career self-efficacy. 7. In regard to “self-evaluation”, “goal selection” and “data collection” in career self-efficacy as well as the overall career self-efficacy, the upperclassmen are significantly higher than lowerclassmen or the sophomores are higher than freshmen. 8. In terms of “goal selection”, “data collection” and “problem solving” in career self-efficacy as well as the overall career self-efficacy, the university students having the experience in doing part-time job for study for more than 1 year are significantly higher than those having no such experience or having shorter time in such experience. 9. The university students in Taiwan and China’ life adaption is related to career self-efficacy. 10. The university students in Taiwan and China’ life adaption can predict career self-efficacy. Keywords: university students in Taiwan and China, life adaption, career self-efficacy

博士
國立高雄師範大學
工業科技教育學系
96
The purposes of this research were to understand the current conditions of the web-based self-learning styles, web-based self-learning environment perception, web-based self-learning adaption, and web-based self knowledge effectiveness for aboriginal primary school students in Taiwan; to explore the significant differences within the web-based self-learning styles, web-based self-learning environment perception, web-based self-learning adaption, and web-based self knowledge effectiveness for the variances of background of aboriginal primary school students in Taiwan; to create and verify the model of knowledge transfer on web-based self-learning adaption for aboriginal primary school students in Taiwan; and to verify the the models of knowledge transfer on web-based self-learning adaption for aboriginal primary school students in Taiwan within the diferent web-based self-learning styles. This research used the questionnaire method to engage in the exploration. Related literature was reviewed in order to generate research tools. Then, sample population of this test was randomly selected from different layers of the subjects; and finally all the data obtained was analyzed and verified. A total of 239 valid pretest questionnaires received that were the sources of factor analysis for the testing instruments used in the study. There were totally 1223 students chosen out of 76 elementary schools for this survey. There were 1108 usable responses with 90.60% acceptable samples received from the target students of aboriginal elementary schools in Taiwan, R.O.C. Descriptive Statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Crosstabs with Chi-square, Repeated Measures, and SEM were applied to verify the assumptions made in the study. This research, after the verification of the received data, has come to the following conclusions: Descriptive Statistics: 1. The web-based self-learning style of aboriginal primary schools’ students were significant difference. 2. The web-based self knowledge transfer effectiveness was good, the web-based self-learning environment perception and web-based self-learning adaption were positive. The significant difference between the variances of background: 1. The aboriginal students of Taoyuan County who belonged to accommodator style were more than Taichong County, Nantou County and Taitung County. 2. The aboriginal students of Nantou County who belonged to assimilator style were more than Kaohsiung County and Taoyuan County. 3. The 6th grade students were higher than 5th grade students in web-based self-learning adaption and web-based self knowledge transfer, but there was no difference in web-based self-learning environment. 4. The aboriginal students of Nantou County were higher than Kaohsiung County and Hualian County in web-based self-learning adaption. 5. There were significant difference between the web-based self-learning environment perception, web-based self-learning adaption and web-based self knowledge transfer effectiveness in the learning effectiveness, the students’ score who above seventy were significant higher than inferior to forty. 6. The web-based self-learning environment perception was significant difference of in web using frequency. The students who used web 1-5 hours per week were higher than inferior to 1 hour. 7. The web-based self-learning styles were no effectiveness in grade, sex, the position of family social and economic, and web using frequency. 8. The web-based self-learning perception, learning adaption, and knowledge transfer were no effectiveness in sex, the position of family social and economic, and owning the computer and internet. The model verification: 1. The web-based self-learning adaption were important intervening variable in promoting the web-based self knowledge transfer effectiveness. 2. The model of knowledge transfer on web-based self-learning adaption for aboriginal primary school students in Taiwan were fit to the data. 3. There were fit in multi-groups model and multi-models test, otherwise, the structure covariances model was the fittest then the other models. The model between web-based self-learning styles verification: 1. The model of knowledge transfer on web-based self-learning adaption for aboriginal primary school students in Taiwan was influenced by the different web-based self-learning styles. 2. The model of knowledge transfer on web-based self-learning adaption for aboriginal primary school students in Taiwan with accommodator style was the fittest then the other web-based self-learning styles. At the end, this research intends to offer suggestions for educational authorities, school management, class teaching and future studies.

碩士
國立雲林科技大學
技術及職業教育研究所
103
Abstract This study was condected to investigate the variation and relationships of fifth and sixth grade students in elementary schools in Yunlin perception toward the following factors: family upbringing attitude , self-identity and adaptation of campus life. For purpose and need of this study , three questionnaires including the scale of family upbringing attitude , self-identity and adaptation of campus life were conducted , and survey line for fifth and sixth grade students in elementary schools in Yunlin were selected.To facilitate the use of cluster sampling was Surveying, both reached for the purpose of research, the study of a representative sample of the economy and the pre-trial questionnaires this study of 132 points, 447 valid questionnaires formal questionnaire sampling points. The effective collected data were analyzed through descriptive statistics,chi-square test, t- test, one way ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient.The conclusions are as follows: 1. These students’ awareness of the attitude of family upbringing perceived the middle-upper level. 2. These students generally perceived the middle-upper level of self-identity and campus life adaptation. 3. The mother who is Taiwanese significantly influence the aspect of response and self-identity than the mother who is not Taiwanese. 4. The number of children in the familyis is two significantly influence the aspect of response ,but the aspect of reguirement was not affeced. 5. Birth order in the first significantly influence the awareness of responsely aspect than birth order in the last. 6. The leve of awareness in the reaction of the students whose primary caregivers are their fathers are significantly higer than those primary caregivers are their grandfathers. 7. Family upbringing attitude of highly educated primary caregivers are higher than the low education level of the primary caregivers. 8. The students whose caregivers are higher-educated indicate significantly higher levers of the identity and academic performance than those students whose caregivers are lower-educated. 9. Self-identity of these students was not affected by gender , numbers of children in the family , birth order and primary caregivers. 10. Different types of family upbringing attitudes of fifth and sixth grade students deeply affect their self-identity and adaption of campus life. 11. Self-identity of these students was highly correlated with their adaption of campus life. 12. Self-identity of these students was predictive for their adaption of campus life. Finally, based on the study results , the researchers provided specifict recommendations to serve as family upbringing and education institutions, and research for future reference. Keywords: family upbringing attitude, self-identity, adaptation of campus life

碩士
淡江大學
漢語文化暨文獻資源研究所碩士班
98
The numbers of new immigrations in Taiwan has increased recently, therefore the children of those immigrations also increase. In the future , the percentage of new immigrations’ children will be 1/10. It becomes a concern about the new immigration children’s education & learning situations. Some researches point out that due to the low social status, language problems of immigration mothers, and other disadvantage conditions, the immigration parents can’t be very helpful in children’s education, even cause a worse learning situation to their children. Through questionnaire analysis, this research will discuss if the language ability and academic self-concept will affect the learning and adaptation situations of new immigrations children. Do the immigrations children have issues of learning Chinese? Do the language ability of the immigration mothers affect their children ? This research’s samples are from the new immigration children in public junior high school in Tai-chug county. Through phone and personal, receive 383 questionnaires and there are 347 questionnaires are effective. Through statistical analysis, this research has the conclusions as below : 1. The academic self-concept points (2.83 points) and learning adaption situation are not very good (2.81 points), body & mind adaption (3.33 points) is better than learning environment adaption (3.06 points). The self-evaluation of Chinese level is middle. 2. The Chinese ability points of mothers are just well (3.20 points), listening(3.37 points) , speaking(3.587 points),reading(3.16 points)and writing (3.01 points) points are all fine. 3. Mainland Chinese national mothers’s Chinese ability （3.77 points）and Indonesia (2.88 points) are higher than the overall average score, Vietnam (2.81) and others (Thai, Burmese, Filipino) (2.97 points) were similar. 4. New immigrations’ children’s Chinese immigrants academic achievement, environmental adaptation, physical and psychological adaptation, learning adaptation to the different variables of "sex" have significant differences, and the girls better than boys. Academic self-concept of "gender" is not reached on the significant differences in the situation. 5. New immigrant children''s academic self-concept in different "grades" have significant differences (first grade above the third grade), Chinese academic performance, environmental adaptation, physical adaptation, learning to adapt to other variables in the different "grades" on the other hand does not meet significant differences in the situation. 6. New immigrant children''s Chinese immigrants academic achievement, academic self-concept, environmental adaptation, physical and emotional, learning adaptation to the different "socioeconomic status," are no significant differences in the situation to achieve. 7. Academic self-concept, environmental adaptation, physical adaptation, learning adaptation to the different "mother’s nationality" all reached significant difference in the situation. 8. The Chinese writing & listening ability of mother has obvious impact on children’s Chinese academic performance. 9. The Chinese speaking & listening ability of mother has obvious impact on children’s learning adaption situation. 10. The Chinese writing ability of mother has obvious impact on children’s academic self-concept. Base on the conclusions above, this research provide below suggestions to the education bureaus :1. the relevant proposals to the education practice, 2. relevant recommendations for future research.

In this thesis we investigate how intelligent techniques, such as Evolutionary Algorithms, can be applied to finding solutions to discrete optimal control problems. Also, a detailed investigation is carried out into the design and development of a superior execution environment for Evolutionary Algorithms.

An overview of the basic processes of an Evolutionary Algorithm is given, as well as detailed descriptions for several genetic operators. Several additional operators that may be applied in conjunction with an Evolutionary Algorithm are also studied. These operators include several versions of the simplex method, as well as 3 distinct hill -climbers, each designed for a specific purpose. The hill -climbing routines have been designed for purposes that include local search, escaping local minima, and a hill -climbing routine designed for self -adaptation to a broad range of problems.

The mathematical programming formulation of discrete optimal control problems is used to generate a class of highly constrained problems. Techniques are developed to accurately and rapidly solve these problems, whilst satisfying the equality constraints to machine accuracy.

The improved execution environment for Evolutionary Algorithms proposes the use of a Graphical User Interface for data visualisation, algorithm control and monitoring, as well as a Client/Server network interface for connecting the GUI to remotely run algorithms.

The aim of this research was to support new mothers in groups, so that they can function optimally as educators. During the research mothers with babies up to three months of age were used by means of a support group. This research project was done after it became evident from a literature study that new mothers suffered with unique problems during this adaption phase. In the empirical survey the researcher gave attention to the new mothers' specific needs and problems during this trimester. The researcher aimed to explore the experiences of the new mother as educator through weekly group sessions. From the results it was clear that there was a need of support from other mothers that is going through the same experiences. In this way new mothers could receive emotional support and obtain knowledge regarding relevant issues experienced during this unique life phase.
Educational Studies
M. Ed. (Guidance and Counselling)