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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"seeking support"”.
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Social Anxiety and Communication in Intimate Relationships: Identifying Core Challenges while Navigating Conflict and Seeking Support
… with their partners during conflict and support-seeking conversations. Male (n = 50) and female (n = 57) undergraduates ("actors") and their intimate partners ("partners") completed two videotaped conversations in our laboratory. One conversation featured a topic of conflict within the …
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Caregiver wellbeing and the role of resilience in seeking support when caring for an individual with dementia
… & aims: To provide appropriate and suitable support to caregivers of people with dementia, it is important to explore the risk and protective factors related to their psychological wellbeing. The aim of this thesis, is firstly, to highlight lived experiences of dementia caregiver’s; secondly, …
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No Laughing Matter? Examining the Effect of Stigma and Humor on Coping Efficacy and Empowerment when Seeking Support for Mental Health Conditions
… affect comforting quality and reappraisals when seeking support for a mental health condition (MHC). Participants (N = 159) were asked to describe a time they sought support for their MHC. They then completed a survey to assess their self-stigma, use of humor when seeking support, and support …
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Fear in the Workplace: The Relationships among Sex, Self-efficacy, and Coping Strategies
… situations as a group. However, females prefer seeking support as a coping strategy more than males do regardless of type of fears. In contrast, males prefer avoidance coping strategies to deal with situations that provoke fear of punishment. With regard to severity of the four fearful …
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College students' preferences in seeking social support from divorced verses non-divorced parents
… to (a) determine if differences exist in social support sought by college students from divorced vs. intact families and (b) to determine if the nature of the stressor is also related to students seeking support from either parent. Fifty-five students were recruited from Psychology courses at …
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Patterns and Outcomes of Bereavement Support-Seeking Among Older Adults with Complicated Grief and Bereavement-Related Depression
… aims to enhance knowledge about bereavement support-seeking among older adults with Complicated Grief (CG) and/or depression and to examine the outcomes of support received. This three-paper dissertation uses data from two studies of bereaved older adults: the Changing Lives of Older Couples …
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Finding 'I' in University: Effects of Psychosocial Intervention on Undergraduates with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Symptoms
… coping (planning/self-management and seeking support from institutional resources) and five components of sense of belonging (perceived faculty support, perceived empathetic faculty understanding, classroom comfort, perceived peer support, and feelings of isolation) among undergraduate …
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First Response: Centering Victim Care in Human Trafficking
… There are few studies that examine the types of support that victims need when reaching out for help. The current study employed a feminist methodology to examine victim service and specialized police officer insights into the types of responses victims need when seeking support. The research …
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The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts: The Social Support Exchange Process
<p>Social support is a dyadic exchange process that yields many psychological and physiological health benefits. The goal of this study was to examine the effects of the support exchange process from a dyadic perspective on health outcomes and to investigate the extent that gender and relationship …
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An exploration of burnout and compassion fatigue in ABA providers in an online forum
… 2) “How do ABA providers receive feedback and support from these expressions”. Data sources were posts on the social media site Reddit, analyzed using directed content analysis. The findings suggest that providers expressed experiences through (a) direct expressions of burnout and CF, (b) …
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IDENTIFICATION OF RELAPSE FACTORS OF ALCOHOLICS AFTER THEIR FIRST TWELVE STEP PROGRAM
… therapy, unemployment, availability of healthy support, shame and guilt in seeking support, loneliness, and lack of support from family/peers and community.</p> <p>There are limitations to this study which, include a small sample size and interviews were held at only one agency that incorporated …
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Para além do documento: um estudo teórico sobre os conceitos de documento
… the theoretical ideas of this and other areas, seeking support in comparative research in order to set off an investigation of concepts. It concludes that understand the idea of a document means understanding its history, placing it as the product of a will, which would be to inform and to be …
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The Role of Social Support in Counselors' Responses to Client Adverse Events
… factors. Researchers have found that social supports serve as a protective factor in counselor resilience. However, there is a lack of understanding of how counselors receive that social support, specifically after a professional adverse event. Professional adverse events are common given the …
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Exploring the engagement in clairvoyant readings; attending to the lived experiences of patrons
… is possible that there are an unknown population seeking support through this alternative practice. An exploration of the lived experience of patrons of Clairvoyants was studied to ascertain whether the engagement is done so to meet a need, that may be more appropriately met in traditional …
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Documenting the Experiences of Gay Latinos in Higher Education through the use of Testimonio
… testimonios about their campus experiences of seeking support in that they were the narrators of the experiences. Key findings indicated a pipeline of support which began with supportive families. Multidimensional identity was well defined by the participants as understanding of being both …
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Transcending the Now: A Grounded Theory Study of Depressive Symptoms in African American Women with Breast Cancer
… analysis were Relying on Faith, Being Strong, Seeking Support, Dealing with Life Too, and Enduring Breast Cancer. The findings of this study provide nurses with new knowledge regarding the experience of depressive symptoms in African American women with breast cancer and provide a theory of …
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La Vida en el Norte [Life in the North], Three Mexican Women in the Roanoke Valley
… for alternatives on how to resist violence by seeking support and resources to escape from it on either side of the border.
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Exploring The Lived Experiences Of Work-Life Balance Among Female Public School Teachers (K-12) In The Cayman Islands
… prioritization, reliance on faith, and seeking support from family, colleagues, and institutional resources. This study contributes to the global and Caribbean discourse on teacher well-being by highlighting how female teachers in small-island contexts navigated complex role …
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Investigating test anxiety and the effects of supportive messages
… study comparing a novel intervention of seeking support from one’s own social network to the more common approaches of expressive writing and studying task-relevant materials for open-ended test questions. In the final study, I present an experimental study comparing how the perceived …
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Beyond words : qualitative study on survivors' experiences of the decision-making process of disclosing sexual violence on social media
… the narrative, handing the shame back, and seeking support. The barriers the survivors faced were fear of negative outcomes, shame, privacy concerns, a desire to protect others, and lack of support. Despite facing these obstacles, all survivors disclosed. All survivors could positively link …
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