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Interpretive Study (interpretive + study)
Selected AbstractsDieting among Adolescent Girls and Their Mothers: An Interpretive StudyFAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, Issue 4 2000Jennifer Paff Ogle This interpretive study focused on mothers' and their adolescent daughters' diet-related thoughts and behaviors and explored the possibility that daughters model their mothers' patterns. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 mothers and their adolescent daughters. Grounded theory analysis revealed that mothers'diet-related experiences were complex, varying across the life span. Among daughters, three types of dieters emerged: nondieters; short-term, low-commitment dieters; and serious dieters. Both mothers and daughters distinguished between "going on a diet" and "watching what you eat." Mother and daughter dieting and watching patterns varied in terms of content, duration, and motive. Findings indicated that modeling effects alone cannot adequately explain diet-related patterns of mothers and their daughters. Intervening variables, such as a daughter's degree of identification with her mother or a mother's verbal reinforcement of a modeled attitude, may affect whether a child models a given maternal behavior. [source] The Making and Unmaking of Body Problems in Seventeen Magazine, 1992,2003FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, Issue 4 2005Leslie Winfield Ballentine This interpretive study explored body-related content Seventeen magazine, a fashion and beauty magazine for adolescent girls, from 1992 to 2003 (inclusive). The authors' work was guided by symbolic convergence theory, which illuminates how rhetorical visions within media can contribute to audience perceptions of reality. Analyses revealed two main rhetorical visions within Seventeen: (1) the making of body problems and (2) the unmaking of body problems. Content related to Rhetorical Vision 1 simultaneously constructed a narrow constellation of body characteristics as ideal and problematized bodies that deviated from this ideal. Content related to Rhetorical Vision 2 provided three different mechanisms for "dealing with" body problems: (a) controlling the body through bodywork regimens, (b) controlling the body through consumption, and (c) staging resistance against dominant cultural discourses about the body (e.g., the thin ideal). Findings suggest that rhetorical visions presented within Seventeen may send mixed messages to adolescents about their bodies. [source] Dieting among Adolescent Girls and Their Mothers: An Interpretive StudyFAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, Issue 4 2000Jennifer Paff Ogle This interpretive study focused on mothers' and their adolescent daughters' diet-related thoughts and behaviors and explored the possibility that daughters model their mothers' patterns. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 mothers and their adolescent daughters. Grounded theory analysis revealed that mothers'diet-related experiences were complex, varying across the life span. Among daughters, three types of dieters emerged: nondieters; short-term, low-commitment dieters; and serious dieters. Both mothers and daughters distinguished between "going on a diet" and "watching what you eat." Mother and daughter dieting and watching patterns varied in terms of content, duration, and motive. Findings indicated that modeling effects alone cannot adequately explain diet-related patterns of mothers and their daughters. Intervening variables, such as a daughter's degree of identification with her mother or a mother's verbal reinforcement of a modeled attitude, may affect whether a child models a given maternal behavior. [source] Students' ideals for nursing older people in practiceINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OLDER PEOPLE NURSING, Issue 2 2006Erica S. Alabaster MSc Aim., Drawing on research exploring nursing students' experiences of working with older people, this paper aims to demonstrate how context and culture can impact on the realization of their ideals. Background., The principles underpinning individualized and person-centred approaches to care resonate with those focal to gerontologic nursing. Restrictive contexts of care and pervasive workplace cultures render nurses unable to deliver care in accord with these. Design and method., This interpretive study was informed by phenomenological,hermeneutic theory. A purposive sample (n = 10) was recruited from a single educational institution. Data were generated in two phases using loosely structured interviews and supplementary activity. Themes explicating their experiences were identified via systematized detailed analysis and issues pertaining to nursing students' orientation towards older people cut across these. Findings and discussion., Students perceived that older people were prone to depersonalization and marginalization, so sought to show respect by coming to know individuals, form human connections with them and personalize care accordingly. Giving respect, promoting personhood, asserting reciprocal identity and maintaining dignity were prominent features of this but were often frustrated by practices and cultures encountered in mainstream settings. Conclusions., Nursing students' approaches to older people are contextual and reflect elements of person-centred ideology. Their attempts upholding their ideals are liable to be subverted by workplace norms. Preparatory education should address these, assist students to learn how to attend to personhood in restrictive environments and offer targeted placements in age-specific and non-acute services. Relevance to clinical practice., Demographic trends mean that working with older people has increased significance for nurses in most settings. Person-centredness is seen as beneficial for older people but contemporary service imperatives and enduring practices are inhibitory, preventing entrants to nursing from developing related skills. [source] Learning from inquiry-based laboratories in nonmajor biology: An interpretive study of the relationships among inquiry experience, epistemologies, and conceptual growthJOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING, Issue 10 2003Carolyn S. Wallace The use of inquiry-based laboratory in college science classes is on the rise. This study investigated how five nonmajor biology students learned from an inquiry-based laboratory experience. Using interpretive data analysis, the five students' conceptual ecologies, learning beliefs, and science epistemologies were explored. Findings indicated that students with constructivist learning beliefs tended to add more meaningful conceptual understandings during inquiry labs than students with positivist learning beliefs. All students improved their understanding of experiment in biology. Implications for the teaching of biology labs are discussed. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 40: 986,1024, 2003 [source] Evaluating enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems using an interpretive approachKNOWLEDGE AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT: THE JOURNAL OF CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION, Issue 2 2002Walter Skok Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems may be defined as the implementation of standard software modules for core business processes, usually combined with customization for competitive differentiation. The aim is to provide breadth of integration and depth of functionality across multi-functional and often multi-national organizations. However, current research has shown that there has been a notable decrease in the satisfaction levels of ERP implementations over the period 1998,2000. The environment in which such software is selected, implemented andused may be viewed as a social activity system, which consists of a variety ofstakeholders e.g.users, developers, managers, suppliers and consultants. In such a context, an interpretive research approach is appropriate in order to understand the influences at work. This paper reports on an interpretive study that attempts to understand the reasons for this apparent lack ofsuccess by analyzing issues raised by representatives of key stakeholder groups. Conclusions are drawn on a wide range of organizational, management, cultural and political issues that provide guidance in managing such large-scale, complex business projects. These conclusions have led theauthors to review the area of critical success factors (CSFs) for IS projects and to identify those peculiar to ERP projects. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The sustainability of ideals, values and the nursing mandate: evidence from a longitudinal qualitative studyNURSING INQUIRY, Issue 2 2007Jill Maben This article reports on research that examines newly qualified UK nurses' experiences of implementing their ideals and values in contemporary nursing practice. Findings are presented from questionnaire and interview data from a longitudinal interpretive study of nurses' trajectories over time. On qualification nurses emerged with a coherent and strong set of espoused ideals around delivering high quality, patient-centred, holistic and evidence-based care. These were consistent with the current UK nursing mandate and had been transmitted and reinforced throughout their ,prequalification' programmes. The existence of professional and organisational constraints influenced their ability to implement these ideals and values once in practice. Data analysis revealed that within 2 years in practice the newly qualified nurses could be categorised as sustained idealists, compromised idealists, or crushed idealists. The majority experienced frustration and some level of ,burnout' as a consequence of their ideals and values being thwarted. This led to disillusionment, ,job-hopping' and, in some cases, a decision to leave the profession. These data are explored and discussed to inform the question of whether the current nursing mandate is sustainable. [source] Thriving as Becoming Resolute in Narratives of Women Surviving Childhood MaltreatmentAMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHOPSYCHIATRY, Issue 3 2009Joanne M. Hall PhD The purpose of this feminist interpretive study was to portray the experience of women thriving after childhood maltreatment (CM) through personal narratives. An interdisciplinary team conducted multiple in-depth interviews of 44 women survivors of CM who identified themselves as successful and doing well. The interviews focused on "what worked" and "what did not" with the aim of exploring aftereffects of CM; strengths and strategies; interactions helpful in overcoming abuse; and related sociopolitical contexts. Narrative analyses revealed a distinct, dynamic process of becoming resolute characterized by six dimensions that were not sequential steps but characteristics, actions, and interactions. This study offers a new understanding of the experience of women gaining solid footing in their lives, the peace of knowing the abuse is over, and power to move in an upward trajectory. [source] Caving, role playing, and staying home: Shopper coping strategies in a negotiated pricing environmentPSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING, Issue 10 2004Philip J. Trocchia This interpretive study reveals specific behaviors that shoppers enact in order to cope with the tensions they experience in an environment where negotiated pricing is the expected norm. Consumers experience inner conflict, or tension, when they feel that a pleasant shopping experience may only be attained at the risk of a poor financial outcome. These tensions, derived from 34 depth interviews with auto shoppers, include "truth versus deception," "self-presentation versus testing the limits," and "reciprocation versus looking out for number one." Some coping strategies emanating from these tensions include using analogies, role playing, and bringing one's own audience. Implications for academicians and retailers are discussed. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] | |||||||||||||