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Showing 1 to 20 of 626 for “"meaning-making"”.
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Emotional functioning and meaning making in grief
… the relation between emotional functioning and meaning making in bereavement. Emotional functioning (i.e., awareness, expression, and regulation of emotions) has been traditionally considered crucial in grief coping (Pennebaker, 1990; Raphael, 1983). At the same time, bereaved people who were …
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Explaining “explaining” : a phenomenological study of meaning making
This research sought to provide a description of the processes used by individuals who guide others to understanding and a set of terminology to explain these processes in order to “explain explaining”. A review of literature wove conceptual blending theory, encoding/decoding, and conceptual …
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"Or I May Live...": Meaning-Making and Mortality
… of the fact of one’s own impending death impacts meaning-making in day-to-day life. Taking a qualitative approach, the thesis builds from five in-depth interviews and follow-up surveys with students in higher education. In reviewing the role of death education in public school settings, the study …
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Meaning-Making in Student Conduct Administration: A Developmental Perspective
… officer development, especially as it relates to meaning-making, influences their experiences, knowledge, and skills. This study, utilizing a developmental theory known as “action logics,” explores how conduct officer meaning-making informs their thoughts, actions, and ultimately, how they take on …
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What’s Good: Sharing Food and Meaning-Making Among Commensals
<p>To explore how systems of meaning are formed and reformed over an individual’s lifetime in the context of food, meals, and commensality, this research applies a critical phenomenological lens to food-centered life histories centered on the life experiences of childhood, adulthood and the …
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Living with HIV - The psychological relevance of meaning making
… their own lives, particularly how they find meaning in living with this life-threatening virus and how they cope with their HIV-positive status by making meaning out of it. Work done on meaning making and coping by Park & Folkman (1997) informs this study and provides the theoretical …
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Meaning making amongst South African survivors of violent crime
The aim of this study was to explore the meaning attributions, in terms of comprehensibility and significance, held by South African crime survivors in relation to the traumatic event, and to see if existing international research on meaning making and posttraumatic growth (PTG) was relevant in the …
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Continuing Bonds, Meaning Making, and Collectivism: Predictors of Complicated Grief
… and how this effect is influenced by the meaning making the bereaved individual engages in, and their level of relational collectivism. One hundred and fifty seven participants who had lost a human loved one were recruited from counseling psychology masters and doctoral programs. A …
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Meaning Making and Dispositional Mindfulness among Women with Breast Cancer
… study elucidated the theoretical links between meaning making and dispositional mindfulness for women with breast cancer to develop a guiding framework for future intervention research. The research questions were: 1) Does dispositional mindfulness moderate the relationship between meaning …
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Biographical dimensions of meaning making in coaching psychology: A critical evaluation of the use of biographical inquiry in the exploration of meaning making in coaching psychology
… coaching that is focused on deeper meaning and identity work through higher-quality dialogue (Stelter, 2014; Grant, 2016). While there is research on coaching effectiveness, to date the research has not adequately addressed the complex issues that arise in the varying approaches used …
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Caregiver Emotion Socialization and Adolescent Meaning Making about a Devastating Tornado
… emotion and cognitions related to, and making meaning out of events (elaborativeness, coherence, internal states language, and meaning). Two hundred and twelve adolescents (ages 12 to 17, 66% male, 77% African American) and their female caregivers who experienced an EF4 tornado provided …
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The influence of 'spiritual meaning-making' on career choice, transition and experience
… of this inquiry is “The influence of ‘spiritual meaning-making’ on career choice, transition and experience”. Over the past decade there has been an increase in interest in the expression of spiritual belief in work. Most of the writing on the topic is based on the premise that individuals and …
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Food security in the free state province: Meaning making as democratic agency
… realities, for their narratives reveal what meanings they make of the situations they are living, how they face these situations and what strategies they formulate to overcome them. Their meaning making is one of the most powerful tools of their agency, and this is what this study reveals. In …
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Haitian Linguistic and Cultural Practices: Critical Meaning-Making Spaces for Haitian Learners
<p>This dissertation is concerned with the effects of the exclusion of Haitian linguistic and cultural practices in the education of Haitian learners. Through qualitative data collection and analysis, a set of texts and narratives in the Haitian Creole language, Rara and Vèvè practices were …
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Museum-Based Teacher Education: Teacher Meaning-Making at a Jewish Heritage Museum
This study answers the question of what meanings teacher-participants make in Holocaust professional development at a Jewish heritage museum in a mandate state. By understanding these meanings, the educational community can better understand how a particular context and approach influences teacher …
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Moving Beyond Betrayal: How Meaning-Making and Power Promote Forgiveness Following Infidelity
… participants completed questionnaires assessing meaning-making and forgiveness. In Study 1 (N = 330), results revealed that people who found meaning in their experience of infidelity were more willing to forgive their romantic partner than people who were not able to find meaning. This effect was …
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Multimodal meaning making and the doctoral dissertation – An exploration of academic forms
This study investigates the inclusion and expansion of multimodal research in academic and dissertation writing, exploring how to overcome the challenges and obstacles encountered in the creation of multimodal doctoral dissertations in the field of education. The work starts by looking at …
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Evidence-based Practice: An Exploration of Meaning Making Among Leaders of Community Coalitions
<p>Notwithstanding considerable debate about the meaning of evidence-based practice (EBP), its utility, and the credibility of the evidence on which it relies, EBP has gained a great deal of currency in U.S. policy and practice fields. At the same time, little attention has been focused on how …
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