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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Work-related stress in Her Majesty's Coastguard (HMCG)

Kingdom, Susan E. January 2011 (has links)
The aim of this research was to gain an understanding of work-related stress in a previously unstudied occupational group, Her Majesty's Coastguard (HMCG). The overall level of stress was established at 11%, contrary to expectations and lower than the 17% found in general population comparison samples. Despite this relatively lower level, measures reflecting the Effort-Reward-lmbalance (ERI), Job Demands-Control-Support (JDCS) and Negative Occupational Factors Models of stress were all associated with seven negative outcomes (stress, anxiety, depression, number of sick days, perception that illness was caused or made worse from work, inability to "relax or wind down" and impact on family life) and up to a further nine, dependent upon the model. Significant predictors of stress included ERI, organisation change and exposure to physical agents (noise), with anxiety predicted by ERI, noise and bullying, and depression by ERI, bullying, noise, training and role conflict/ambiguity. The level of depression found was significantly higher than a general population comparison group. ERI was a consistent theme throughout and the most efficient model in explaining variance in the data. Those who had high effort- reward imbalance were nine times more likely to experience stress, 13 times more likely to experience anxiety and six times more likely to suffer from depression. Using the JDCS Model, HMCG were found to have significantly lower job demands and decision latitude but significantly higher levels of moderating social support. A second, pilot study, which focused on job specific factors, indicated that critical incidents involving death of a child might be the most stressful to handle but that frequency of exposure, amongst a range of other influences, were having a moderating effect. Whilst demonstrating that lower levels of stress are still harmful, there were also aspects of this group which may help with stress reduction elsewhere. Implications for further research are discussed.
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Attachment at work : its construct, discriminant, and predictive validity

Neustadt, E. January 2007 (has links)
This dissertation is concerned with Attachment Theory (e.g. Bowlby, 1969/82 1973 1980) as it may apply to adults at work, with particular attention to the bearing of attachment orientation on management style and job performance. Chapter 1 provides an overview of attachment theory, existing measures and salient measurement issues Chapter 2 examines the literature, with a particular focus on adult attachment. Chapters 3-9 present a series of studies that entail testing the construct, discriminant, and predictive validity of a new measure of attachment at work. Studies 1 and 2 entail preliminary applications of this new adult attachment at work (AAW) inventory, completed by participants from a wide spectrum of work organisations, in part to test the measure's construct validity. Both of these studies also entail preliminary investigation of associations between attachment at work and the 'Big Five' personality factors, as measured with a relatively short (60 item) questionnaire (NEO-FFI, Costa & McCrae, 1992). This investigation of discriminant validity is expanded in Studies 3-5, through use of the most complete extant version of this personality questionnaire (NEO-PI-R, Costa & McCrae, 1992). Taken together, these studies serve in part as vehicles through which to test this measure's concurrent and discriminant validity. Studies 6 and 7 are concerned with the incremental predictive validity of the AAW relative to job satisfaction, job/career potential, and job performance. A final chapter presents results of a meta-analysis of data from the previous studies, and offers conclusions about limitations of the foregoing studies and suggested future directions for this research area. Note: Study 1 has been accepted for publication in Advances in Psychological Research. Study 3 has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Individual Differences.
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Difficulties for a practitioner preparing a family for the death of a parent : a narrative inquiry

Macpherson, Catriona January 2014 (has links)
This narrative inquiry creates a method of researching and presenting an account of difficulties faced by practitioners when assisting a family in the process of preparing children for the death of a parent. It is a self-led practitioner inquiry occurring within a NHS specialist palliative care context and proposes methods that address and overcome inherent ethical difficulties and reveal relational practice. Challenges and impediments for practitioners working with terminally ill parents are important to understand because they are under-represented in the literature, are likely to have a crucial influence on the child's experience at the time of a parent's death, and may enhance professional reflexive practice of preparation for a family facing the imminent death of a parent. Practitioners are expected to provide consistent empirically proven care whilst also striving for holistic, person centred care, tailored to terminally ill patients and family members or carers, both as individuals and as a family. Therefore, research methods are required which respond to the many associated ethical challenges of such practice. This narrative inquiry collects data, including naturally occurring conversations between practitioners relating to one family, with the aim of studying difficulties faced and meaning constructed by those practitioners as close as possible to the time they occur and in depth. The data are used to fictionalise a family account that re-presents actual challenges practitioners confront. Reflexivity unfolds the layers of complex influences and ethical issues practitioners face. The dissertation develops relational research by accommodating complexity, demonstrating collaboration between practitioners, and revealing ethically and with veracity interpretive and iterative processes of meaning-making. Reflexive practice is evident throughout the work with the patient. The challenges of taking a concurrent perspicacious and reflexive stance from inter-subjective, practice and personal perspectives are raised. Even when they have clear understanding of processes and willingness to facilitate difficult conversations, practitioners face tensions between respecting for a dying patient's needs, avoiding undermining the family culture, and meeting children's needs. Contrary to the requirement to practise from an evidence . base, some situations require practitioner intuition and the ability to work with the on-going lived experience of "not knowing". Methods that enable analysis of naturally occurring practices are useful for practitioners who wish to reflect in detail on their work, and thereby contribute to professional and personal development and offer a teaching and learning resource.
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Objects at the wall : continuing bonds and the Vietnam War Memorial

Fitzpatrick, Paul January 2011 (has links)
This thesis explores the phenomenon of objects being left at the Vietnam War Memorial, Washington D.C. Since its inception in 1982, one hundred and fifty thousand objects have been left by veterans, wives and families, as well as people not necessarily related to those named on the Wall. These objects are argued to be representative of a complex expression of loss and bereavement, both by individuals and by American society as a whole. This exploration utilises various understandings of grief and bereavement, theoretical approaches to understanding objects as gifts, and expressions of deeply set emotion through written and physical forms. It suggests that the use of these objects represents a continuous process of redefining individual relationships and that this is especially acute in relation to the Vietnam War. The work concludes by proposing one possible interpretation of the gifting of the objects; that of continuing bonds and, in turn, will aim to contribute to a broader understanding of grief that encompasses psychological, social, cultural and political landscapes.
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Themes and issues in the experience of child survivor friends

Adolphus, Katherine Jane January 1999 (has links)
This study was interested in the experience of adults who had been bereaved of close friends during childhood (aged 5-12 years). This was identified as an area that was both underresearched and of potential importance to mental health professionals. Six participants were recruited through newspaper articles and requests placed in G.P. surgeries. All of the participants met with the researcher for an open-ended, unstructured interview lasting between 1 and 11/2 hours. The interviews were explored using the qualitative approach of 'Interpretative Phenomenologjcal Analysis'. Several themes and issues emerged as important in the experience of child survivor friends. These themes were related to one another in a conceptual map. The analysis showed that child survivor friends could, and did, respond in ways that are typically associated with grief They were also shown to be particularly vuhierable to traumatic stress responses, which may have impacted upon the resolution of their grief The survivor friends had also maintained continuing bonds with the deceased that were present at the time of the interview. There was also a tendency to remain without a close friend for some time after the bereavement. Being a child survivor friend was shown to impact upon the development of understanding the universality of death, it was also identified as a possible risk factor for depression. The reactions of adults (i.e. parents and teachers) to the survivor fiiends was also found to be important. They tended to disenfranchise the grief of the participants as children. This was found to be detrimental to their ability to cope with the loss. This study recommended that the grief of future child survivor friends is acknowledged, franchised and supported. These findings were interpreted and related to current theories of grief and attachment. The clinical implications of these results were discussed. The limitations of this study were acknowledged and avenues for future research highlighted. The conceptual map developed from this research supports the 'dual processing model' of grief (Stroebe, 1994) with elements of Moss' and 'restoration' orientation in the responses of survivor friends, with oscillation between the two over time.
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The experience of partner loss in older adults : a qualitative investigation

Bird, Simon January 1999 (has links)
The experience of partner loss in older adults was explored through a qualitative analysis of seven semi - structured interviews. Interviews were analysed using the grounded theory principles of continuous comparison outlined by Strauss & Corbin (1990), and the broad areas of the Grief Experience, Grief Process, Influences on the Grief Experience. Positive Outcomes, and Reflective Aspects of Grief were developed. The study showed that the experience of grief and the ways in which people respond to it are widespread and complex. Although no firm conclusions can be drawn about the wider population from such a small sample, the seven interviewees within the study gave reports that suggested that age, position in the life cycle, and the influence of birth-year-defined cohort values influenced their experience of grief and the way in which they set about dealing with it. In addition, findings showed support for the recent theoretical position that a bereavement is experienced as a continuation, rather than a dislocation from, their lives. The pre-death period is important to the meaning of the loss, and an active relationship with the deceased is frequently established which appears functional. The implications of these findings for interventions with the bereaved are discussed.
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Nature and the restoration-preference connection : a multi-method investigation

Regan, Clair Louise January 2007 (has links)
No description available.
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Projection of personal space and schema beyond the physical body

Short, Fay January 2007 (has links)
No description available.
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Birth order : an examination of its relationship with the Big Five personality theory and trait emotional intelligence

Cole, E. January 2014 (has links)
This thesis explores the concept of birth order and its relationship with both the Big Five and trait emotional intelligence (EI). These relationships are examined through a series of studies, each differing in sample size and methodology. The hypotheses in this thesis are largely based on the work of Frank Sulloway and his influential book, Born to Rebel. Chapter 3 presents a set of meta-analyses on the relationships between birth order and the Big Five. Results suggest that there is no relationship between the variables. In Chapter 4, two between family designs examine birth order and its relationship to the Big Five and trait EI. The results from these studies reveal that oldest and younger borns score significantly higher than middle borns on Extraversion and Openness, and that there is no relationship between birth order and trait EI. A more comprehensive examination (of the relationship) between birth order and trait EI is conducted in Chapter 5 and finds that there is no relationship between the two variables when assessed in a between family design. The thesis concludes with a final study on birth order and its relationship with the Big Five and trait EI using a within family design; 126 sets of siblings from three sibling families participated in this study. Results showed that first borns scored significantly higher than last borns in Conscientiousness and that middle borns scored lower than both first borns and last borns in Neuroticism. This study also found no relationship between birth order and trait EI. Overall, this thesis found conflicting evidence of birth order effects on the Big Five suggesting that differing methodology and other confounding variables make this difficult to draw definitive conclusions on the relationship between the variables. However, this thesis found consistent evidence that there is no relationship between birth order and trait EI.
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Exploring the experiences of nurses who care for children who have Acute Life Threatening Events (ALTE) in hospital

Hudson, Adrienne January 2014 (has links)
This thesis presents a program of work designed to explore and describe what the experience of caring for a child who has an Acute Life Threatening Event (ALTE) is like for the nurses. An ALTE may include a cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest or unplanned admission for a ward to the Paediatric Intensive Care unit. Using the MRC framework for the development of complex interventions, this information was then coupled with theory to develop the PREPARE and SUPPORT interventions. Given the wide-ranging and exploratory nature of this research, a pragmatic, mixed design approach was used to address the aims and objectives of the thesis. The mixed design approach included: a systematic literature review; international survey of practice; interviews with nurses and doctors using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis; development, refinement and evaluation of interventions during a feasibility study. Two studies were identified through the systematic review which aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of debriefing. The studies did not provide evidence to support the use of these interventions within healthcare. The international survey of practice demonstrated hospitals were using interventions to both prepare and support nurses for these events. The preparatory interventions were clinically focused and the majority of the supportive interventions included a debrief. The interventions were not being evaluated for effectiveness. The interviews conducted with nurses and doctors provided insight into what that experience was like for the participants. Using the MRC framework, this evidence was coupled with theory to develop the PREPARE and SUPPORT interventions. A multidisciplinary working party used an iterative process to refine and evaluate the interventions and study procedures were explored through a feasibility study. The pragmatic, mixed design approach demonstrated how the empirical evidence was coupled with theory and clinical expertise to develop interventions for use within the healthcare environment.

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