Dissertations / Theses: 'User. lived experience. meaning'

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Stark, Jessica. "A Day in the Life of a Sim: Making Meaning of Video Game Avatars and Behaviors." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1497718914530561.

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Åström, Gunilla. "The meaning of caring as narrated, lived, moral experience." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för omvårdnad, 1995. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-100560.

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The purpose of this research was to understand the meaning of caring as narrated, lived, moral experience. Forty-five good nurses experienced in the care of patients in surgical, medical and geriatric wards were interviewed. They described their experience of; caring, caring abilities, the worthwhile of caring, the strength related to caring and narrated situations (n=88) in which they had experienced that their caring had made a difference to the patient. Surgical nurses described care and cure as an integrated whole, medical nurses described care as integrated with the patients' social context and geriatric nurses described care as enhancing the autonomy of patients (I). The nurses' narrated, lived, experiences of caring situations revealed ways of intervening and interacting with the patient including caring actions (II). Eighteen good nurses experienced in the care of cancer patients were also interviewed. Their narrated, lived experiences of morally difficult care situations i.e. situations where it had been hard to know what was the right and good thing to do for the patient (n=60), revealed that relationships with their co-workers were very important for their possibility to act according to their moral reasoning and feelings(III). The situations for the nurses were either disclosed as overwhelming or possible to grasp. When narrating about these situations the nurses used different terms about themselves and their co-workers (One, They, I and We). The nurses viewed the patients either as a task to be accomplished or as a valuable unique person. In the latter situations ethical demands were interpreted, judged and acted upon (IV). Interpretations of these nurses' skills in managing morally difficult care situations disclosed two levels; one group of nurses who described positive paradigm cases, liberating maxims and disclosed open minds, while the other group described negative paradigm cases, restrictive maxims and revealed closed minds. The latter nurses were mostly the nurses who disclosed in Paper III that they used the term "one" about themselves and "they" about their co-workers (V).en patients recently cared for at surgical and medical wards were interviewed(IV). They narrated lived experiences of receiving/not receiving the help they needed or wanted when suffering from pain and anxiety/fear. The patients revealed that the most important thing for them to feel cared for in these situations was to be listened to, taken seriously and trusted, if they were not treated in this way the patients revealed that they felt they were in the hands of somebody who was uncaring. The findings are interpreted within the framework of Paul Tillich's philosophy concerning love, power, justice and courage, thereby showing the tension between these phenomena in the narrated, lived, moral experience. Light is also thrown on the dynamics of openness, vulnerability, fallibility, forgiveness, affirmation as well as powerlessness, meaninglessness, insufficiency, dissociation and exclusion. Reflections are made concerning practical wisdom.

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Fochtman, Dianne. "Understanding the Meaning of the Lived Experience of Adolescents in Treatment for Cancer." Diss., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/22052.

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The increased intensity and complexity of cancer treatment has an impact on the lives of the adolescents undergoing such treatments. Living with cancer is a distinct experience for them which include physical, psychological, spiritual and social dimensions. The cancer experience comprises more than the measurement of symptom occurrence, frequency, duration and severity, or the ratings of quality oflife. The meanings of the lived experience from the adolescent's perspective and self-report can give a more accurate, holistic picture of the nature and scope of the experience. Practitioners need to know and understand the meaning of the experience from the adolescent's perspective in order to design appropriate interventions to prevent or relieve distress in these patients. The purpose of this study was to describe the meanings of the lived experience ofhaving cancer for adolescents undergoing treatment. Phenomenology was the qualitative research methodology used. As outlined by Patricia Munhall, this methodology seeks to understand the meaning of lived experiences. Seven adolescents, 14 to 18 years of age, in treatment for cancer were interviewed. Six males and one female participated in this study. Six were receiving treatment for acute lymphocytic leukemia and one for a solid tumor. All participants were of Pacific Island origin; two live in Hawaii and five were temporary residents. The audio taped interviews were transcribed and analyzed to understand the meaning of the cancer experience. The essence of the experience for the individual adolescent was described and a composite interpretation of the meaning derived. Recommendations to healthcare providers for improving communication with adolescents in treatment for cancer are provided, including discussing death and dying early in the illness trajectory. The interdisciplinary concept of care is stressed, as well as the importance of a thorough physical examination. The importance of social support and techniques to potentially strengthen and increase this support are outlined. Solutions to the problems of school reintegration are introduced.

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Herfst, Andrew. "The meaning of the lived experience of nonattachment for long-term yoga practitioners." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61163.

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Yoga is a popular alternative mental health intervention and an integral component of leading mindfulness-based interventions. Yoga helps with concerns like anxiety and depression (e.g., Field, 2011), but we do not yet understand how it helps. With the aim of developing more potent theoretical models of therapeutic yoga, there have been calls in the literature to explore yoga’s underlying principles and constructs, and to use qualitative research methods to look at the lived experience of healthy, long-term practitioners (e.g., Field, 2011; Solomonova, 2015). Mindful nonattachment (e.g., Sahdra, Brown, & Shaver, 2010), which is associated with the promotion of psychological freedom, emotion regulation, well-being, and distress tolerance (e.g., Desbordes et al., 2014; Sahdra et al., 2010; Shapiro, Carlson, Astin, & Freedman, 2006), is an important underlying construct in yoga and may be a helping factor not only in mindfulness, but across psychotherapeutic modalities. This research project investigates the meaning of the lived experience of nonattachment for four long-term yoga practitioners from Vancouver BC. Using Smith, Flowers, and Larkin’s (2009) method of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, interviews with long-term yoga practitioners were conducted to explore their experience of nonattachment in detail. Six superordinate themes emerged: a flexible identity in relationship, developing nonattachment moment by moment, how to see things differently, processing lived experience, choosing freedom, and framework for a way of life. Areas of congruence with the literature and novel findings are discussed in view of the relevant literature on nonattachment and on self-regulatory features of yoga.
Education, Faculty of
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
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Cooper, Holly. "The lived experience of meaning in life and satisfaction with life among older adults." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/4398.

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Cassidy, Elizabeth Emma. "An exploration of the lived experience of progressive cerebellar ataxia : an interpretative phenomenological analysis." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7547.

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Background and Purpose: Progressive cerebellar ataxia is a rare neurological condition characterised by uncoordinated movement, and impaired speech articulation. Rehabilitation and physiotherapy in particular, form the cornerstone of healthcare intervention. Little qualitative research has been undertaken to understand the subjective experience of this complex condition. This study explored the experience of progressive cerebellar ataxia, physiotherapy and physiotherapy services from the perspective of people living with this condition. Method: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis underpinned this inductive qualitative enquiry. Twelve people with a progressive cerebellar ataxia participated in semi-structured interviews. All participants had some experience of physiotherapy. Interviews were transcribed. A case by case idiographic analysis was undertaken followed by a cross case analysis. Findings: Five super-ordinate themes were identified. ‘The embodied experience of progressive cerebellar ataxia’ emphasised the foregrounding of the body, and the disruption of the skilful interaction between body and world. ‘Identity, stigma and disrupted embodiment in public spaces and places’ encapsulated how participants made sense of actual and perceived stigma and discrimination. ‘Lifeworld meets biomedicine: a complex juxtaposition’ described participants’ problematic relationships with healthcare practitioners and their disease-centric world. ‘Wresting control in the face of uncertain and changing forces’ portrayed participants’ attempts to understand and reinterpret their condition on their own terms. ‘Exercise: a multifaceted contributor to managing life with ataxia’ captured the meaning of exercise and physical activity. One over-arching theme, ‘Retaining a homelike way of being-in-the-world’, cautiously indicated that whilst participants described ‘unhomelike’ lifeworlds (uncomfortable and disturbing); they simultaneously held onto, and sometimes realised, the possibility of ‘homecoming’, for example through the generation of new modes of belonging. Conclusion: This study provided a detailed, phenomenological account of the lived experience of progressive cerebellar ataxia. New insights were developed that have the capacity to inform not only physiotherapy practice but also other healthcare disciplines. New avenues for future research were also identified.

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Iaquinta, Maria. "The experience and meaning of career decision-making as lived by women with brain injury." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30893.

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Through explicit attention to diversity and a positive psychology frame, this phenomenological inquiry investigated the experience of career decision-making for women with brain injury. This group has been previously ignored in the career development and counselling, vocational psychology, and psychology literatures. There is a paucity of information about the subjective experience of career decision-making. The purpose of this study was to give women with brain injury a greater priority in career research and to illuminate the lived experience and meaning of career decision-making from the perspective of women with brain injury. Eight volunteers, involved in the community as a worker, volunteer, or student, described their career decision-making experiences through in-depth audio-taped interviews. Notwithstanding the initial severity of brain injury, participants richly articulated and illuminated their personal experience and meaning of career decision-making. Six common themes and five sub-themes emerged from a thematic analysis of the interview data. These were: (1) Continued Centrality of Career comprised of two interrelated sub-themes: the intensified meaning of paid work career, and the influence of rehabilitation in career decision-making; (2) Continued Centrality of the Relational in Career; (3) Sense of Life Purpose and Altered Life Perspective with a concomitant sub-theme of increased agency in career decision-making; (4) Sense of Continuity and Change in Identity; (5) Sense of Increased Vulnerability in Interactions comprised of two inversely related sub-themes: the sense of being devalued, and the sense of equality; and (6) Sense of Insecurity and Emotionality. The findings of this study revealed the experience of career-decision making to be a highly complex ongoing experience imbued with emotion and subjective meaning. Social interactions and the societal context, giving rise to positive or negative emotions, facilitated or obstructed the women's experience of career decision-making. These findings point to a. critical need for training about the potential of women with brain injury for rehabilitation and counselling professionals. The theoretical implications of the findings are discussed as they relate to research in brain injury and career. The implications for career counselling process, in relation to models of career-decision making and career counselling, are discussed and recommendations for future research are provided.
Education, Faculty of
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
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Harcourt, Charles. "Myanmar Students Seeking Higher Education in the United States| Illuminating Meaning in Stories of Lived Experience." Thesis, Prescott College, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10816594.

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This research aimed to understand, explore, and find meaning in the participants’ experiences with the phenomenon of overcoming adversity to pursue higher education. The structure and methodology employed in this qualitative research endeavor were guided by hermeneutic phenomenology. Data collection was conducted over the course of five weeks with partner organizations in the cities of Yangon and Mandalay in Myanmar. Interviews were conducted with Myanmar students who were in the process of seeking higher education in the U.S. Observation and informal interviews with professional staff were also important data collection methods that were used to build an understanding of the situational context for the participants’ experiences. The analysis procedure followed a phenomenological reduction procedure and sought to illuminate the essence of the phenomenon by producing narrative descriptions of the participants’ experiences, as well as identifying and reflecting upon shared experiences among the participant group.

The topic of this research had particularly timely importance because Myanmar’s government and society were going through a period of significant transition, moving from decades of military rule to a parliamentary republic. This research examined ways in which this change and other situational factors impacted students’ abilities to access higher education abroad. This study also addressed a gap in the existing research, specifically the need for qualitative research concerning Myanmar students’ experiences in education and access to higher education abroad. The research approached this need by collecting and sharing the voices of individuals who had direct, personal experience with the changes and challenges in the education system and access to higher education in Myanmar.

The findings of this study indicated that Myanmar students experienced systemic adversity and individual challenges that negatively impacted their access to opportunities for higher education abroad. For the participants, these challenges began at the primary education level and followed them through the college application and enrollment process. For many of the students, the instructional methods and curriculum content they experienced in local primary and secondary schools was inadequate and left them ill-prepared for higher education abroad. For the participants in this study, their educational aspirations led them to seek additional advising and support to help them reach their goals in higher education. Despite finding help from advisors and educators, it was clear that these students were struggling in a flawed system, which included many barriers that impeded students’ access to higher education abroad. For most of the students, their families were unable to pay the full cost of tuition for college in the U.S., so they needed to apply for scholarships or to colleges that provide need-based assistance to international students. The international reaction to violence in their home country and the election of U.S. President Trump added to the students’ feelings of anxiety in an already complicated process. Despite the individual challenges and systemic adversity that they faced, the student participants maintained a sense of hope for themselves and their country. They believed that they would each be able to continue to overcome the difficulties they faced and be able to achieve their dreams of studying at a U.S. college or university. They also knew that if they could better their own lives with higher education, then they would be in a position to have a greater positive impact on the lives of others and the situation in their home country of Myanmar.

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Marescot, Vanessa. "Dispositifs pédagogiques innovants à l’université. Diversité méthodologique pour le recueil et l’analyse de l’expérience des usagers : étude du cas NCU PRéLUDE." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Valenciennes, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023UPHF0036.

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Ce travail doctoral a pour objectif de questionner l’expérience vécue par les usagers dans les dispositifs pédagogiques innovants mis en place à l’université. En effet, les différentes vagues de massification de l’accès au supérieur ont introduit une diversification du public étudiant dont la réussite est devenue une priorité. Les discriminants de la réussite sont nombreux, et les facteurs contextuels, dont les pratiques pédagogiques des enseignants en font partie. Ainsi, la transformation pédagogique et numérique est au cœur de différents appels à projet visant à soutenir financièrement l’université dans ses évolutions. Le mode de fonctionnement compétitif des appels à projet et l’émulation qu’il insuffle, fait émerger des propositions de dispositifs de plus en plus innovants. A l’autre bout de la chaîne, des acteurs mettent en œuvre, expérimentent et vivent ces dispositifs sur le terrain. L’objet de ce travail de recherche est d’interroger les acteurs et notamment les étudiants sur leur vécu dans ces innovations pédagogiques, dans le cadre du projet PRéLUDE, un des lauréats du PIA 3 Nouveaux Cursus Universitaires. La recherche est abordée suivant une approche constructiviste, dans une démarche inductive. Elle a utilisé des méthodes de recueil variées : questionnaires, entretiens semi-directifs, entretiens Repertory Grid complétés par une collecte documentaire et l’observation participante. Ces méthodes ont produit des données quantitatives et qualitatives, analysées avec des méthodes quantitatives et qualitatives. Cette diversité méthodologique permet d’analyser l’expérience vécue par les usagers, questionnant ainsi le processus de design à la fois dans l’adéquation de l’idéation aux usagers et dans la mise en œuvre effective du projet idéel
The aim of this doctoral work is to examine the experience of users of innovative teaching methods introduced at university. The various waves of massification of access to higher education have led to a diversification of the student population, whose success has become a priority. There are many factors that determine success, including contextual factors such as teaching practices. As a result, educational and digital transformation is at the heart of various calls for projects aimed at providing financial support for the university's development. The competitive nature of these calls for projects and the emulation they engender give rise to increasingly innovative proposals. At the other end of the chain, those involved implement, experiment with and experience these schemes on the ground. The aim of this research project is to question the players, and in particular the students, about their experience of these educational innovations, as part of the PRéLUDE project, one of the winners of the PIA 3 New University Curricula programme. The research is based on a constructivist, inductive approach. It used a variety of data collection methods: questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, Repertory Grid interviews, supplemented by documentary research and participant observation. These methods produced quantitative and qualitative data, analysed using quantitative and qualitative methods. This methodological diversity makes it possible to analyse the experience of users, thus questioning the design process both in terms of how the ideation is adapted to users and in terms of the actual implementation of the ideal project

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Byrne, Rory. "Understanding psychological treatment for psychosis from the perspective of those with lived experience : "What's important to us?"." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/understanding-psychological-treatment-for-psychosis-from-the-perspective-of-those-with-lived-experience-whats-important-to-us(4df9a255-2e71-4f77-9711-317e972a48f8).html.

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This thesis aimed to explore service users’ priorities and preferences for treatment of psychosis-spectrum difficulties, and experiences of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). A literature review (Chapter 1) summarised current understanding and treatment of psychosis. A narrative review of qualitative studies examined treatment priorities and preferences of people with experience of psychosis (Chapter 2), and found that common priorities and preferences included improving social and functional ability, reducing symptoms of psychosis, and individualised, collaborative approaches to care, including alternatives to routine psychiatric treatment. A Delphi study of priorities and preferences for treatment of psychosis was conducted (Chapter 3), and identified priorities that included improving difficult emotional and cognitive states, understanding, coping, and self-esteem, along with treatment preferences such as individualised, collaborative care, greater provision of information, and choice of treatment. Three qualitative studies were conducted. The first (Chapter 4) explored the subjective experiences of young people seen in an Early Detection (ED) for psychosis service. Findings indicated that reluctance to communicate mental health concerns delayed help-seeking for the majority of participants. Disclosure of such concerns to staff in the ED service was considered helpful, especially in the context of CBT. The second qualitative study (Chapter 5) explored subjective experiences of CBT for psychosis. CBT-specific processes were summarised as ‘structured learning’, and the most commonly perceived benefits included improved understanding of psychosis and self, and normalisation. The ‘hard work’ of CBT was also highlighted, especially the disclosure and discussion of difficult life experiences and psychological problems. The third qualitative study (Chapter 6) evaluated experiences of involvement in a randomised trial of CBT for young people at risk of developing psychosis. Having a ‘chance to talk’ about mental health concerns was consistently valued by participants in both the control and the treatment arm of the trial. Valued experiences of CBT included ‘rethinking things’, especially through psychological formulation and re-appraisal of distressing beliefs. Participants also described difficult aspects of CBT, such as personal disclosure, though these were often considered necessary for recovery. Across studies, the importance of individualised, collaborative treatment was highlighted consistently. It is also evident that along with reductions in distressing psychological problems, participants across studies also highly valued social and functional aspects of recovery. The methodological limitations and strengths of these studies, along with implications for clinical practice and future research, are discussed.

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Hunter, Cheryl Anne. "A qualitative investigation into the lived experience of psychosocial assessment following self-harm." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-qualitative-investigation-into-the-lived-experience-ofpsychosocial-assessment-following-selfharm(173523d3-7031-426b-96e7-6f28c6be99fe).html.

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This thesis investigated the experience of taking part in a psychosocial assessment following an episode of self-harm from the service user perspective. Psychosocial assessments are a key aspect of self-harm management in secondary care, designed to identify needs and risk and determine further care. This study utilised interpretative phenomenological analysis to privilege the voices of service users and produce in-depth, contextualised understandings of the experience of assessment and its impact on future help-seeking and engagement with services. Data collection consisted of semi-structured interviews with thirteen participants soon after their hospital attendance; follow-up semi-structured interviews were also completed with seven participants three months later, to explore patient-derived outcomes from assessment and hospital attendance. The lived experiences of participants were characterised by two main features: experiences of life as a struggle and of the self as “less than”. As a result of these struggles and experiences of powerlessness and devaluation, participants mostly saw self-harm and suicide as a natural progression in their narratives. Expressions of suicidal intent reflected a struggle between a desperate desire for change and hopelessness in the face of current circumstances. The key message gained from participants’ accounts of assessment was that the interaction with staff had the power to reinforce or challenge hopelessness and negative self-evaluations. In addition, the way an assessment was conducted had influence beyond the hospital: as an experience which created or reinforced expectations for future instances of help-seeking; as a deterrent or an encouragement to seek help; and as the first step along the path to change. Unfortunately, participants’ experiences of aftercare were dominated by a sense of stagnation due to the failure of services to follow through with promises of aftercare, which affected their attitudes towards future help-seeking and towards themselves. This thesis is the first study to utilise an in-depth idiographic methodology to explore and contextualise the service user experience of psychosocial assessment following self-harm within the wider circumstances of their lives. It demonstrates how patient-staff interactions within the hospital and after discharge can affect future help-seeking through reinforcing or challenging the hopelessness and self-negativity of patients.

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Davis, Lindsey Ann. "The Meaning of Being an Oncology Nurse: Investing to Make a Difference." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23250.

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The landscape of cancer care is evolving and as a result nursing care continues to develop and respond to the changing needs of oncology patients and their families. There is a paucity of qualitative research examining the experience of being an oncology nurse on an inpatient unit. Therefore, a qualitative study using an interpretive phenomenological approach has been undertaken to discover the lived experience of being an oncology nurse. In-depth tape recorded interviews has been conducted with six oncology nurses who worked on two adult inpatient oncology units. Van Manen’s (1990) interpretive phenomenological approach has been used to analyze the data by subjecting the transcripts to an analysis both line by line and as a whole. The overarching theme of the interviews is: Investing to Make a Difference. The themes that reflect this overarching theme are: Caring for the Whole Person, Being an Advocate, Walking a Fine Line, and Feeling Like You are Part of Something Good. Oncology nurses provide care for their patients through a holistic lens that further enhances how they come to know their patients. Over time, relationships with patients and families develop and these nurses share that balancing the emotional aspects of their work is key in being able to continue to invest in their work and in these relationships. Their investment is further evident as oncology nurses continuously update their knowledge, for example, of treatment regimes, medication protocols, and as they champion their patients wishes and needs. As nurses develop their own identities as oncology nurses, they in turn enhance the team with their emerging skill and knowledge. These research findings serve to acknowledge the meaning of oncology nurses’ work and inform the profession’s understanding of what it means to be an oncology nurse.

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Ladores, Sigrid. "The Early Postpartum Experience of Previously Infertile Mothers." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6306.

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The lived experiences of previously infertile mothers in the early postpartum period have not been previously studied. The purpose of the research was to explore the experiences of previously infertile mothers during their early postpartum period. Colaizzi's (1978) approach to descriptive phenomenological inquiry was used to analyze the interview data obtained from twelve first-time, previously infertile mothers. These new mothers, aged 27 to 43 years, were interviewed twice. The first interview focused on eliciting descriptions of new motherhood in the early postpartum period after overcoming infertility. The second interview validated the interpretations from the first interview and provided additional information and reflection. Two main themes emerged that described the early postpartum experience of first-time, previously infertile mothers: 1) Lingering Identity as Infertile; and 2) Gratitude for the Gift of Motherhood. Participants reported that their lingering identity as infertile and immense gratitude for the gift of motherhood propelled them to establish unrealistic expectations to be the perfect mother. When they were unable to live up to being the perfect mother, they censored their feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and shame. Findings from this study sensitize healthcare providers to the difficulties faced by previously infertile women during their transition to motherhood.
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Bardill, Lindiwe. "'Feminisation and outsourced work' : a case study of the meaning of 'transformation' through the lived experience of non-core work at the University of Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10085.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-202).
This dissertation examines the meaning of university 'transformation' from the perspective of workers in 'non-core' zones of work. Mergers, outsourcing, retrenching and rightsizing, have become features of the post-apartheid higher education landscape; and they seem set to remain. Through higher education restructuring work has been divided into 'core' and 'non-core' zones of work and 'non-core' work has largely been outsourced. The men and women working in the outsourced zones of 'non-core' work engage in the 'reproductive work' of the university and yet they largely remain hidden from institutional debates of transformation.

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Paulson, Margareta. "The meaning of living with pain of fibromyalgia type as narrated by affected men, their partners, nurses and physicians." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för omvårdnad, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-94106.

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Sagemann, Bernd J. "Inserting financial instability in strategic management of commercial real estate companies: A corporate perspective on the meaning of the phenomenon of financial instability." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17393.

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The global financial system was marked by several crises frequently connected to Commercial Real Estate (CRE). As a precursor to financial crisis events, the phase of Financial Instability (FI) is generally considered from a more macroeconomic perspective with a focus on systemic risk to better identify environmental dynamics in the run-up to such a crisis. However, there is no common understanding about FI on a corporate level that enables organisations to undertake such a strategic analysis. This study aims to explore the corporate meaning of the phenomenon from a managerial perspective. It emphasises executives` lived experience in FI and the underlying procedures in organizational sensemaking. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews with senior executives of German CRE companies with reference to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) 2007/08. Within the social constructivist paradigm, the study adopts a hermeneutic phenomenological research approach using the theoretical lenses of van Manen's ‘lifeworld existentials' and Weick's ‘properties of sensemaking'. The corporate definition of FI that emerged from this study extends existing ones. The revealed procedures indicate that organisational sensemaking was underrepresented in such a phase. From this, qualitative indicators and implications are developed grounded in behavioural dynamics of the market participants. The findings of this research contribute to theoretical and applied knowledge about FI. The study proposes the systematic incorporation of this definition and sensemaking procedures by executives and institutionalises the monitoring of the developed indicators in SM to better control a CRE company prior, during, or after a phase of FI.

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Vegge, Einar. "Sorg, mening og rom for handling : - en kvalitativ studie av studenters sorgerfaringer." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-920.

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Studien undersøker studenters sorgerfaringer som fenomen. Den fokuserer levd erfaring i handlingsperspektiv og meningsperspektiv. Innledningsvis redegjøres det for foreliggende forskning om sorgerfaring. Deretter introduseres teoretiske perspektiv som anvendes i studien. Ut fra respondentenes erfaring analyseres de rom for handling og meningsdannelse som finnes på studiestedene.

Studiens formål er å utvikle dypere forståelse for hva det innebærer i studenters daglige liv å erfare sorg. Studien anvender en hermeneutisk-fenomenologisk metode, inspirert av van Manen. Datainnsamlingen ble gjennomført ved semistrukturerte forskningsintervjuer med seks respondenter, to intervjusamtaler med hver med +/- fire måneders mellomrom. I intervjuingen er det lagt vekt på meningsfortetning og tolkning i samtalene. Respondentene er tre kvinner og tre menn mellom 22 og 30 år, alle studenter som har mistet foreldre eller søsken ved dødsfall. De avdøde var fra 25-60 år, relasjon til respondenter: Tre fedre, en mor og to brødre.

Databearbeidingen har foregått ved lytting og gjenlytting, skriving og analysering av lydfiler og transkriberte tekster fra forskningsintervjuene. I prosessen er det analysert fram betydningsbærende elementer fra studentenes fortellinger som så er forsøkt rekontekstualisert i møte med teoretiske perspektiv. Framstillingen sikter mot å formidle en kunnskap som er kongruent med sorgerfaringen som fenomen.

Resultatet presenteres først som seks fortellinger som formidler noe vesentlig ved sorgerfaringen og skaper resonans. Deretter presenteres åtte tema som har utkrystallisert seg gjennom analysen: Å være merket (1), Sårbarhet (2), Fravær (3), "Det som har skjedd, er en del av meg" (4), Å føre noe videre (5), Dødsfall kan komplisere nære relasjoner (6), Lengsel etter den reine sorgen (7), Å holde kontakt (8). For det tredje redegjøres det for studentenes opplevde rom for handling. Til sist utvikles meningstolkning i dialog mellom studenters sorgerfaring, slik den er analysert fram i studien, nyere sorgforskning og teoretiske perspektiv. Fortellingens rolle som grunnlag for mening og konstruktiv handling viser seg avgjørende.

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Koprulu, Secil. "Relevancy Of Bipolar Word Pairs Across Product Categories: A Comparative Study Between Automobiles And The Iphone." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612828/index.pdf.

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This thesis investigates human product interaction with a focus on the physical experience provided by products. The differences of users'
perceptions are discussed according to the differences of bodily experiences served by products. The interaction with products is taken as a holistic experience phenomenon, and in order to assess users'
understandings and evaluations about the experience with products
perceived pragmatic qualities, perceived hedonic qualities and elicited emotional reactions are analyzed. The research is conducted by means of surveys in order to compare users'
perceptual differences in relation to two different product groups: automobiles and the iPhone, which differ in content of interaction, namely one serves a more physical (bodily) experience while the other a more virtual one. In order to find out the perceptual differences, verbal descriptions of perceived qualities and emotional states are used as measurement tools. A list consisting of bipolar word pairs in relation with pragmatic qualities, hedonic qualities and emotional reactions has been composed, and perceptual differences are investigated through the bipolar word pairs'
relevancy levels according to the product. In addition, in order to show that meaning associations related to the same verbal description are context dependent, the meanings that are associated with the same word pairs for both products are investigated. Apparent differences between the relevant word pairs of the two different product groups have been observed, in addition with pragmatic qualities'
higher relevancy scores compared to hedonic qualities and emotional reactions in defining users'
interactions with products.

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Diehl, Florence Anne. "Eutopiagraphies narratives of preferred future selves with implications for developmental coaching /." [Yellow Springs, Ohio] : Antioch University, 2010. http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=antioch1277922552.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Antioch University, 2010.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed July 22, 2010). Advisor: Jon Wergin, Ph.D. "A dissertation submitted to the Ph.D. in Leadership and Change program of Antioch University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy May, 2010."--from the title page. Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-210).

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Seagram, Samantha. "The meaning and lived experience of maternal guilt." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9771.

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A qualitative, phenomenological methodology was used to explore and describe the experience and meaning of maternal guilt. Eight women between the ages of 32 and 42 years of age with one or more preadolescent children were interviewed about their experiences of maternal guilt. Using Colaizzi's (1978) approach to phenomenological data analysis the following seven common themes regarding these women's experiences of maternal guilt emerged: a sense of complete responsibility, a sense of depletion, a sense of inadequacy, fear that their children might come to harm, a strong desire to have a positive impact on their children, a sense of profound connection, and a sense of loss. The first six themes were common to all the women while the last one, a sense of loss, was common to all but one participant. A follow up interview with each of the women served to confirm or clarify the findings generated from the initial interview. These results provide a greater understanding of the experience and meaning of maternal guilt for these eight women. Recommendations for counsellors and for future research are provided.

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Meredith, Leah. "The meaning of the lived experience of transsexual individuals." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10453.

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The purpose of this study was to examine how transsexual individuals who lived their lives as the sex other than that to which they were born made sense of their lives. The lived experience of transsexual people is currently lacking in the literature. This study has begun to fill that gap in an attempt to provide transsexual individuals with a voice. A phenomenological research method was employed to pull out the major themes of the interviews. The interviews consisted of six participants; three male to female transsexuals and three female to male. All of the participants lived their lives as the sex other than that to which they were born. Some had completley transitioned, while others were in the beginning stages. The transcribed data were analyzed using the Stevick- Colaizzi-Keen method, modified by Moustakas (1994). Twenty themes were extracted that fell into four categories including the decision to act, relationships with others, relationship with their bodies and relationship with themselves. Themes that were experienced were an imperative to change, fraudulent feelings with regards to relationships with others, a sense of disconnection with their bodies before their transitions and a sense of relaxation following their transition. The common themes that were extcracted were returned to the participants for validation. The meaning of the lived experience of transsexual individuals is one that has had little discussion in the literature. Because of this lack, the participants in this study were anxious to tell their stories to help those who will come along behind them as well as those in helping professions. Implications for counselling and for further research were included in the discussion section.

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Milley, A. Tyler. "The meaning of the lived experience of the struggle to forgive." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18085.

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The purpose of this study was to explore the meaning of the lived experience of the struggle to forgive. Six people currently engaged in the struggle to forgive described their understandings of their experiences in written and semi-structured interview formats. The orientating questions used to guide participants was, "What can you tell me about your struggle to forgive?" and, "What have you learned about forgiveness based on your struggle?" A qualitative, interpretive phenomenological approach was used to collect and analyze the testimonies provided by participants and to construct hermeneutical statements based on their written and spoken stories. The six participants varied in gender, age, ethnicity, spirituality, and experiences. Five themes emerged as a result of the phenomenological analyses: struggles with forgiveness, struggles with oneself, struggles with the offender, struggles with outside influences, and struggles with reconciliation.
Education, Faculty of
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
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Brooks, Geraldine Susan. "The meaning and experience of career as it is lived by women artists." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6284.

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Little has been written in the literature on women's career or identity development specifically addressing the experiences of women artists. Yet there is reason to believe that these women, by virtue of their gender and their career choice, may have a particular perspective on how career is understood and lived that differs from that of the majority of women and men who have chosen more traditional career paths. This qualitative study investigated the meaning and experience of career for eight women artists over age 40 from the visual, performing, and literary arts. The methods of inquiry and data analysis were based on a phenomenological approach. The researcher conducted three in-depth interviews with participants over a two-year period. Nine common themes, an account of what the term "career" meant to participants, and the fundamental structure-or common story-of the participants' experiences of career over their life span were drawn from the interview data. These nine themes are: (1) Sense of being an outsider; (2) Sense of validation through external recognition; (3) Sense of being obstructed; (4) Sense of being torn between the needs of self and others; (5) Sense of connection and belonging through art; (6) Sense of struggle to assume the identity of artist; (7) Sense of selfdetermination; (8) Sense of being a pioneer; and (9) Sense of harmony between self, art, and career. All of the participants indicated some degree of discomfort with the concept of career. They perceived their work as artists to be closely related to the sense of self and preferred to talk about their "lives as artists" and about "being artists," rather than about "having careers" as artists. The findings of this study contribute both to our understanding of how women artists conceptualize and experience their careers over the course of their lives and to our knowledge of how they develop their identities as artists within the context of their careers. These findings led to specific recommendations for research and practice in the area of women artists' career development.

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Hood, Leslie. "The meaning and lived experience of permanent childlessness as a result of infertility." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10647.

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The purpose of this study was to examine infertile couples' subjective experience of permanent childlessness after they elected not to pursue other parenting options. This study involved the secondary analysis of data from a phenomenological study exploring the transition to biological childlessness for infertile couples (Daniluk et al., 1996). In that study, a qualitative phenomenological methodology was used to guide the data collection and analysis. Data were gathered through four unstructured, in-depth interviews over a period of three years with a volunteer sample of nine infertile couples from different regions in Canada. Participants were between the ages of 29 and 48 when the study began. All couples had ended infertility treatment and considered their childlessness to be permanent. To explore the lived experience of permanent childlessness after failed infertility treatment, the data were analyzed according to Colaizzi's (1978) method of phenomenological data analysis. Seven common themes emerged, which included the following experiences: (a) a need to protect themselves; (b) a sense of lessening emotional intensity; (c) a sense of regaining control; (d) a need to revision life and identity; (e) a sense of appreciation for the strength of their relationship; (f) a sense of recognition and reconciliation to their fate; (g) a need to make sense of their experience. These findings led to specific recommendations for future research, as well as implications for the counselling profession with respect to working with infertile couples.

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Lei, Ruoh-Lih, and 雷若莉. "The Meaning of Lived Experience in Adolescents with Cleft Lip and Palate in Taiwan." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85770951622826646706.

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博士
高雄醫學大學
護理學研究所
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Cleft lip and palate is one of the common congenital defects in Taiwan. Significant advances have been made in our understanding of Cleft Lip and Palate (CLP) specific physical and psychosocial problems. The possible problems and challenges actually experienced by adolescents with CLP have not been done. The main purpose of this study was to explore the meaning of lived experience in adolescents with CLP in Taiwan. From humanistic nursing perspective, a qualitative research design, hermeneutics phenomenology, was adopted, using depth interviews with participants who were selected by purposive sampling and snowball method. A total of 11 informants participated in this study, after clarifying pre-understanding, the interviews were transcribed and a hermeneutical circle analysis of their thematic contents were carried out. The process of inquiry included 11 stories and 6 themes were summarized from informants’ feeling and thoughts of living with cleft lip and palate. The six themes were (1) being with kinship; (2) being with defect of cleft lip and palate; (3) being with experience of stigma; (4) being with predicament; (5) being with meanings of life; (6) being with worries. The meaning of lived experience reveals as “see through the gaze: being with resoluteness” and consists of three dimensions: (1) The fact of being thrown: the being with kinship − being accepted or excluded by primary family; (2) The encounter with gaze: the being with breakdown − the alienation or assimilation with others; (3) The possibility of future planning: the co-existing with cleft lip and palate − making decision in the predicament of being. The findings provide evidence-based data to help nursing professionals supply intersubjectivity and suitable pre-understanding of nursing care for client with visible defect and improve the quality of care.

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Lee, Huei-Ying, and 李慧鶯. "EXPLORING THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF NURSES IN TAIWAN: THE MEANING OF THE INTRAPROFESSIONAL INTERACTIONS AMONG NURSES IN THEIR WORKPLACE." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04043656466447550530.

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博士
高雄醫學大學
護理學研究所
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Purpose: This present research is a qualitative attempt at the explorative discussion of the work and lived experience recounted by clinical nurses from an emic perspective and the purpose is to further explore the cultural meaning of the professional interactions and of the lived experience shred by nurses. Methods: The interpretive design of the study structure is constructed on mixed methods, integrating hermeneutic phenomenology and ethnography as the theoretic basis. Methodology includes data collection methods consisting of focus group interviews, in-depth interviews, participant observations and field notes. Sampling is performed through maximum variation and intensive case with representative cases ranging from new recruits with minimal experience to individual nurses of various seniority levels, relevant to the present research. Participants are fluent in both Mandarin and the Taiwanese dialect, totaling 43 informants, with an average age of 27.65 ± 7.92 and a mean seniority level of 5.46 ± 7.69 years. A group of 19 nurses under one year of nursing experience is also included. Results: A pro-familial structure exists in the interactive relationship of nursing professionals, with 3 distinctive features present in the process of professional interactions, being firstly the formation of hierarchy as a result of the order of arrival in the unit: first come; first served basis. Second of all, supervision and training offered and received give rise to the formation of the concept of the subordination and responsibility: "my" senior or "my" junior colleagues. The third is competency following empiricalized knowledge. Power practice is the result attributed to the considerable latitude exhibited by the above 3 features, which very frequently lead to difficult circumstances encountered by most new recruits. They also represent the 3 thresholds waiting to be crossed before the nurses become accepted into their group. The core nursing value focuses on virtues such as coherence, solidarity, collaboration, interaction, alertness, self reflection and proactive management, subsequently demonstrating that the concept of conformity and subjugation is correspondent with the cultural as well as professional demand for social collectivism in Taiwan. Conclusions/Implications for Practice: That the group is above the individual gives rise to the thought frame of self and others, harmony, wholeness and, above all, others-in-self, conducive to behaviors considered appropriate in the both professional career and personal life of the traditional Taiwanese community. Much emphasis is given to the idea that each participant in a group should both expect and be expected to adapt to and fit into the group in which he or she belongs. And a finely woven cultural uniqueness of Chinese collectivism is thoroughly expressed through interactions experienced by career nurses and experts. The research findings also provide to nurses the comprehension of the meaning of interactive experience and professional placement within the organizational and cultural context, contributing reference to educators, administrators, clinical supervisors, and heads of departments in the field of nursing and allowing for reflection over the clinical instructions and training that have long been taken for granted. The real benefit that can be reaped by both the patient and nurse comes from true understanding of the pragmatic need present in the current clinical climate in order for more creative nursing strategies and clinical education in a threat-free environment.

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Su, Tsann-Juu, and 蘇燦煮. "The process of searching for pregnant hope ─Lived experience, situational context, meaning of life and anxiety level of women receiving in vitro fertilization treatment." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16318893780189970754.

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博士
國立臺灣大學
護理學研究所
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Abstract Hope is a vital life force in human; it is fragile, robust and dynamic. The focus of hope may change throughout the lifespan development or the course of an illness. Infertile women live a life of hope-despair circulation. Their hope changes overtime. When they received the first treatment of in vitro fertilization (IVF), it may inspire their hope again. They made their effort to search for the hope. But, if the IVF treatment fails, the hope would be destroyed. They must reconstruct their hope. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience and situational context during the process of searching for pregnant hope and its influence on the meaning of life and the anxiety status of the women who receive IVF treatment. The setting was in one of the medical centers in Northern Taiwan that performs 400 cases of IVF annually. The study was under integration of qualitative and quantitative research. Using cross-sectional design, the subjects consisted of 69 women receiving IVF treatment, and 80 women suffering from the failure of IVF treatment one year later. Data were collected by using interview and questionnaire. As a nurse consultant of the IVF women, the researcher took care of the patient, and collected the interview data. The Purpose in Life Test (Crumbaugh & Maholick, 1969) was used to measure the meaning of life, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberg et al., 1970) was used to measure the level of anxiety. The qualitative data were analyzed based on the interpretive research strategies of phenomenology. Analysis of the quantitative data involving percentage, means, t-test, Chi-Square test, Fisher Exact test, ANOVA, Factor Analysis, Linear regression, ANCOVA, and Discriminate analysis were performed by using SPSS version 8.0 for Windows (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA). The results indicated that the process of searching for pregnant hope was divided into 4 stages: creating hope, fulfilling hope, reconstructing hope and giving up hope. (1) The theme of lived experience in the four stages was bracing for high technology but uncertainty in the stage of creating hope, getting rid of pass and enacting maternal role in the stage of actualizing hope, holding on the chance but doubting in the stage of reconstructing hope, and transforming hopeless into other hopes and searching for one’s own living in the stage of giving up hope. The situational context consisted of the specific factors of individual, family and environment in each stage. There was high level of anxiety in both stages of creating hope and reconstructing hope. (2) There was higher level of state-anxiety in the stages of creating and reconstructing hope. Even, there was higher level of trait-anxiety in the stage of reconstructing hope. However, there was lower level confronting of life in the stage of reconstructing hope, higher level self controlling and preparing of the lived in the stage of giving up hope. (3) Age, times of IVF treatment, duration of IVF treatment and education were the influence factors. Age and state-anxiety were the two predictors about the IVF failure women who decided to whether terminate the infertile treatment or not. According to the result, we suggest proving holistic and long term medical care for the IVF women based on different stage of hope, situational context, age, time of IVF treatment, duration of IVF treatment, education, and anxiety.

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