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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"companionship"”.
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Exploring Accessibility and Companionship in Boardgames via Alexa
… to support players' learning needs and provide companionship by conducting two qualitative studies. In study 1, 14 boardgame players who are BLV first identified their rule learning challenges and co-designed desired social and functional characteristics of CAs to combat these challenges. Based …
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Imaginary companionship and adult memory narratives: an interpretive phenomenological analysis
… been to understand the experience of imaginary companionship through the memory narratives of adults. Following a mid-century lull in research on imaginary companions, contemporary studies have focused primarily on childhood populations. Using correlational methods to draw inference between …
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Conceptions of collaterality in modern Europe: Kinship ideologies from companionship to trusteeship
Models of collaterality derived from historical accounts of intestate law, prohibitions on marriage, and socioeconomic sources seem useful for studying the interrelationship between family and society in four European countries (Austria, Finland, Germany, and Ireland). Some kinship models are …
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When medicine cannot cure : dying children, palliative care, and the production of companionship
… and ultimately produces a particular companionship to dying children and their families. This work is built on qualitative information gathered and produced during my four-month fieldwork with the Palliative Care Team. The ethnographic techniques (participant observation, …
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Stories of companionship and trust: women’s narratives of their student midwife caseloading experience.
It is national policy that midwifery students, as part of the undergraduate midwifery curriculum, gain experience of providing continuity of care for women throughout the childbearing continuum via caseload practice (NMC 2009). Student midwife caseloading has been cited as an example of best …
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The relationship between friendship quality, masculinity ideology and happiness in men's friendship
… of a number of provisions such as intimacy, companionship and help. These provisions or dimensions help to form, maintain and strengthen these friendships. This study has examined the claim that certain types of friendship are related to happiness, and that men's and women's friendships …
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Why Taiwanese students use Instant Messaging: a uses and gratifications approach
… sought (Flexibility, Escape, Convenience, Companionship, Socialization, Control, Habit, Identity, Utility, and Surveillance) and nine gratifications obtained (Convenience, Escape, Companionship, Socialization, Mobility, Identity, Surveillance, Control, and Utility) from IM use. …
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Emotional Work: A Psychological View
… in terms of behaviours. Three dimensions, companionship, help and regulation, distinguish whether positive or negative emotions in other people are the target of emotional work. Companionship builds positive emotions, whereas help and regulation repairs and regulates negative emotions. ¶ …
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Emotional Work: A Psychological View
… in terms of behaviours. Three dimensions, companionship, help and regulation, distinguish whether positive or negative emotions in other people are the target of emotional work. Companionship builds positive emotions, whereas help and regulation repairs and regulates negative emotions. ¶ …
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Nesting
… the way we come to find location--in time, in companionship, in our landscape, etc.-- in the midst of the greater activity always already going on around us.
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In My Football Era: Exploring the Impact of Parasocial Interactions in Shaping Football Viewership and Attitudes Among Swifties
… process, relationships were tested between fans’ companionship motives, parasocial interaction, and the entertainment motives and experiences that create endorsed brand attitudes; the relationship between endorsed brand attitude and influenced behavior was also tested. A quantitative survey …
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Dichotomy of Self
… also explores the dichotomy of solitude vs. companionship. (Abstract by OPUS staff from author text)</p>
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'No-body' is my friend: Cultural considerations of young children's 'imaginary companions'
… alike. Relationships, and understandings of companionship, can take multiple forms. Our understandings of what these relationships may look like are frequently informed by complex social and cultural constructs; therefore, seeking to apply a one-size-fits-all interpretation is theoretically …
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Unstill Life: Poems
… in New York and then later looking for love and companionship. The poems are written in free verse, some pieces being written as American sonnets and prose poems.
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Family, followers and friends : the socio-political dynamics of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, 1100-1204
… friendship, emotional friendship, company and companionship. Calling someone 'friend' was a sign of politeness. Political agreements, often termed covenants, created formal bonds of friendship. A new methodology for investigating emotional friendship is proposed. Groups with a strong identity …
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Friendship bonds, perceived parental support and self-esteem in children from individualist and collectivist cultures
… in their reported sources of intimacy and companionship. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses predicting global self-esteem from interactions of individualism-collectivism and social support from different members of the social network showed that the self-esteem of the most …
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Towards Achieving Human Flourishing – An mHealth Application and Machine Learning Approach
… mode, gratitude, contented minded, health, companionship and creativity) of flourishing. This dissertation empirically tests the effectiveness and utility of the FLOURISHING app. Data collected from 1615 survey participants revealed that a significant proportion of Americans did see their …
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Quantifying the Power of Pets: The Development of an Assessment Device to Measure Attachment Between Humans and Companion Animals
… factor analysis of the PAS revealed two factors; Companionship (12 items) and Emotional Fulfillment (7 items). Thus, the PAS can be shortened to 19 items for follow-up research. The factor analysis for the CABS revealed only one factor (i.e., caretaking), and the analysis suggested the scale could …
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The relationships among ideational fluency, self-reports of creativity, intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation, and perceived parenting style in gifted and nongifted adolescents
… paternal indulgence and maternal instrumental companionship; females rated their mothers as higher than males in present negative affect, past affective companionship, and past and present control; and high school students reported greater past paternal control and punishment than did middle …
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