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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"interactionist perspective"”.
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Construct Confusion and Assessment Centers: A Person-Situation Interactionist Perspective
… dimensions in another exercise. Person-situation interactionist models suggest that these findings may be due to the interaction of individual differences and exercise characteristics (Lance et al, 2000; Schneider, 1983). Based on these models, exercise form (i.e. group interaction vs. individual …
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Social Factors Associated with Bulimia Nervosa in College Women
… bulimia. Bulimia was viewed using the symbolic interactionist perspective. This perspective was used to see bulimia as a socially constructed line of action. A questionnaire was given to 426 female students at a mid-sized Southern university during the fall of 1994. Crosstabulations and a …
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Creating shared meaning: Narratives of youth violence, mindfulness, and counselling psychology
… Emergent ideas were interrogated from a symbolic interactionist perspective, and the impact of broader social contexts and dominant cultural narratives were explored. Suggestions are made regarding therapeutic work with young people engaged in such behaviour, and avenues for future research …
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"The Visual Voice: ""Armchair Tourism,"" Cultural Authority, and the Depiction of the United States in Early Twentieth-Century Stereographs"
… of the stereograph sets, I take a symbolic interactionist perspective and use interpretative interactionist methods. By comparing and contrasting the two sets, I show how visual stereotyping facilitated a powerful mode of communication. I argue that the heightened realism of stereoscopic …
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Coping with child sexual abuse and its meanings: Adult female perspectives
… present. Adopting a phenomenological/symbolic interactionist perspective, this dissertation rests on the thesis that survivors cope with childhood sexual abuse according to its meaning for them, and that this meaning is socially constructed. Each participant's retrospective account of their …
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Proactive Personality: Genetic Influences in its Relationships with Career Success and Environmental Impacts on Its Change
… career success. In the second study, I adopt an interactionist perspective to study development of proactive personality as a result of individuals' work environments and further to examine a reciprocal relationship between them. Results of the first study demonstrate distinctive weights of …
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A multivariate analysis of satisfaction among Virginia community college students
… were derived generally within a symbolic interactionist perspective and, more specifically, from relative deprivation theory. Past research was considered when applicable. The findings indicated that felt control concerning entry into the community college and perceived reputation of the …
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Battered women: Exploring motivating factors to leave or remain in violent relationships
… leave or remain in violent relationships from an interactionist perspective. Literature reviewed will integrate gender socialization and labeling with studies on domestic violence to investigate a woman's role in becoming a victim and her responses to violent relationships. Interview data from …
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How do privileged insiders become change agents? A study of institutional volition
… gender, or their race. I combine a symbolic interactionist perspective on social conduct with a structural perspective on frames to explore the process of institutional volition and the conditions under which privileged insiders may become engaged in different types of institutional change …
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Vapaaehtoistyöntekijän sitoutuminen lastensuojelun tukihenkilötoiminnassa
… influences on sustained volunteerism: An interactionist perspective; Grube, J. A. & Piliavin, J. A. (2000). Role identity, organizational experiences, and volunteer performance; Omoto, A. M. & Snyder, M. (1995). Sustained helping without obligation: Motivation, longevity of service and …
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Who Cares? A Case Study to Explore Health Care Assistants' Jurisdiction in a Hospital Setting
… acute NHS hospital. The thesis makes use of an interactionist perspective to frame the study's examination of the micro-social processes surrounding the daily negotiation of HCAs' work. In doing so, connections are made to the wider (macro) processes that influence nursing work. An in-depth case …
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Social Structure and Interaction in Girls' Basketball: A Contribution to Socialization and Sport
… of the individual. In line with the symbolic interactionist perspective, an in-depth analysis was made of the social interactions experienced by a varsity team of female athletes participating in high school basketball. Questions of particular concern included the nature of the interpersonal …
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Stigma Resistance: Exploring the Experiences of Young People at Risk for Psychosis Through Photo Elicitation
… analyzed the visual and textual data from an interactionist perspective, exploring the concept of stigma and its relationship to young people’s experiences. Visual and narrative data revealed that young people reject their at risk status and redefine their experiences to fit with more …
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School staff positions on P1 composite classes
… staff involved in PI. It does so from a symbolic interactionist perspective. Data for the study came predominantly from interviews with six principles, fifteen teachers and ten teacher-aids at three government and three independent primary schools. Further data was collected from classroom …
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How Do Community Registered Nurses Support Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities Who Exhibit Challenging Behaviours in Wales and Ontario, Canada: A Grounded Theory Study
… adopted a qualitative paradigm and a symbolic interactionist perspective to explore the role of the participants. The research was conducted using Charmaz’s (2014) version of Constructivist Grounded Theory. Twenty-five participant interviews were conducted in Wales and Ontario.<br/>Data was …
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Catalysts and Triggers in Lifelong Learning
… functionalist in nature, failing to capture the perspective of the learners themselves, this research study eschews the deterministic conceptions of learner engagement by being situated within an interpretivist paradigm and focusing on deriving meaning from learners’ lived experiences. The work …
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An Exploration of the Experiences of Paid Social Care Staff who have Supported and/or Currently Support People with Learning Difficulties Living with Cancer in Residential Services across Wales: A Grounded Theory Study
… adopted a qualitative paradigm and a symbolic interactionist perspective to explore participants’ experiences. Data was collected from analysis of 14 semi-structured interviews. Theory was generated simultaneously using Charmaz’s (2010) version of constructivist grounded theory. Since existing …
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The New Local Activism in Russia : Biography, Event, and Culture
… structure or culture. The socialization taken in interactionist perspective, i.e., as the careers and not as the set of more or less stable dispositions, is a necessary tool to study how different experiences, visions, and know-how are accumulated, transferred from one place to another, find each …
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The Impact of the Food Safety Training Program on Food Handlers in the Food Service Industry: A Social Cognitive Theory Perspective
… food safety training framework to an interactionist-perspective-based multilevel, longitudinal and reciprocal framework, which provides significantly better explanations regarding the trainees’ cognitive, affective, and behavioral changes during a food safety training intervention. …
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