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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Emotional impact"”.
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The emotional impact of nursing : identifying issues and supporting staff
These publications relate to the emotional impact of nursing and result from three separate empirical studies conducted during the years 2002 to 2016, in the UK. Each study was qualitative, specifically using phenomenology to investigate the lived experiences of staff working in healthcare. Eight …
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Passionate Political Talk: Social Networks and the Emotional Impact of Political Discussion
… influence in political networks by examining the impact of political talk on emotion. Despite scholarly attention to interpersonal communication in political behavior research, the conflicting findings regarding the impact of political talk on opinion formation and political participation suggests …
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A preliminary analysis on the emotional impact of synchronous, collaborative CAD tools
… stone to a later study that will correlate the emotional analysis summarized here with another study dedicated to the user interaction with the software.
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Developing a Psychometric Tool to Measure the Emotional Impact of Visual Content
This thesis investigates the human valence response to sequences of visual images. We f irst use crowd-sourcing and a novel nine-point psychometric scale to estimate human valence responses to individual images from the OASIS image set with high reliability (split-half Spearman rank-correlation ρ = …
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Developing a theory of the emotional impact of auditory hallucinations: an exploratory study
… aimed to develop the cognitive model of the emotional impact of voices by examining further possible associations with participants' self-evaluations, hypothesising that these evaluations are associated with the affective response. The cognitive assessment of voices shows reasonable …
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An examination of the emotional impact of the insertion of documentary footage into trauma cinema
… staged narratives and, furthermore, enhance emotional affect for the spectator. It deploys David Bordwell’s and Kristin Thompson’s (2017) formalist film theory to textually analyse a range of films, while also considering the dialogue between journalistic approaches and contemporary critical …
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Delayed motherhood : exploring expectations, anxieties and emotional impact of the transition to motherhood at mid-life (37+ years)
… to explore the expectations, anxieties and emotional impact of eight women having their first child after the age of 37 years. The design used semi-structured interviews to collect data in two phases. The first were conducled when participants were in their third trimester of pregnancy (26+ …
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A deaf child in the family : a preliminary study of the social-emotional impact of deafness on parenting and family life in Cape Town
… documents hearing parents' experiences of the impact of deafness on raising their deaf children during the preschool years. It focuses on their experience of health services for their child. The study population of 20 children was drawn from parents with children under 6 years of age diagnosed …
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Primary school teachers' encounters with cases of suspected or disclosed child sexual abuse
… interviewing seven teachers to explore the emotional impact of working with cases of suspected or disclosed abuse. The entire sample felt that initial teacher training had not adequately prepared them to deal with abused children; over 95 per cent said they would welcome more training. …
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To evaluate the support required by staff in the Paediatric Unit in Dora Nginza Hospital in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in caring for children with life limiting and life threatening illnesses
… need for educational support; 2) To explore the emotional impact on Health Care Professionals HCPs caring for children with LL and LTI; 3) To identify the kind of support required for staff in order to offer the best possible care to these paediatric patients and their families.
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The Luxury of Tears: A Secondary Survivor's Story
… a twelve-minute documentary video exploring the emotional impact of sexual assault on male survivors and their partners, this document examines the visual texts of both the fiction and nonfiction genres. Specifically, I contend that fiction film manufactures male survivorship with regard to rape …
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All our griefs: An exploration of how we adjust to and accommodate non-death losses - an arts based narrative inquiry.
… make sense of what has happened. However, the emotional impact of our experiences cannot be over-looked and managing internal conflict is essential for a healthier identity to take shape. I explore the emotional impact of loss by providing my own auto-ethnographic account, as well as the …
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Loving care for a person with dementia: from phenomenological findings to lifeworld theatre.
… and empathy to patients. This study explored the emotional impact of a phenomenology-based play on medical students, healthcare professionals, and the public including carers of people with dementia with a specific focus on empathy and understanding of the patient/caregiver/ physician triad. Three …
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The dynamics of terror : or, The grotesque character of Gothic fiction
… understanding of how these works generate their emotional impact in the reader.
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A troubled duet.
… of family. It visually depicts the protagonist’s emotional world, how it was shaped during childhood, and subsequently how it forms a blueprint for his outward experiences. The piece is structured in order to elicit emotion above intellect and does so by portraying emotive childhood scenes and by …
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The subjective response of people living with HIV to illness narratives in VR
… a form of social support and (2) VR will have an emotional impact on participants. The research builds up on findings which demonstrate the therapeutic effectiveness of telling personal and collective narratives in an HIV I AIDS support group. This fact, together with the tested ability ofVR as a …
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He ara whakaora i whaia e atahi wahine i tukinohia = Long term effects of childhood sexual abuse among Maori women: A healing path for abused women
… The women describe the physical, social and emotional impact the sexual abuse had on them. lndepth case studies are used to explore how these women rallied their personal, interpersonal, and social resources to survive the abuse, and ultimately find a way of healing. A theoretical synthesis …
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A Qualitative Study of the Social Emotional Needs of Newly Arrived Immigrant Secondary Students in One Texas High School
… with newcomer students to determine the social-emotional impact of the lived experiences of newly arrived immigrant students in one East Texas High School. Interview data was coded to define specific struggles and to identify supportive strategies for these students. The findings revealed themes …
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The use of immersive media to cover armed conflict in Colombia
… in conflict settings, including questions of emotional impact, image manipulation, and compromising narrative independence. By outlining good practices and highlighting key concerns, this research contributes to a broader understanding of the role immersive media can play in journalism, …
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The Automatic Prediction of Pleasure and Arousal Ratings
… properties of an acoustic signal and its emotional impact remains an open area of research. This paper reports the results and possible implications of a pilot study and survey used to construct an emotion index for subjective ratings of music. The dimensions of pleasure and arousal …
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