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  • 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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O impacto da língua portuguesa na atitude linguística das crianças Karajá de Bdeburè / The impact of the Portuguese language on the linguistic attitude of the children Karajá de Bdeburè

Souza, Lorenna Isabella Pereira 18 August 2017 (has links)
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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Lorenna Isabella Pereira Souza - 2017.pdf: 4409514 bytes, checksum: 5dafff3ea7692a0b7520ac3691e1d498 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This is a pioneering study of the Karajá indigenous community of Bdeburè village. This community was formed in 2001 by indigenous people who migrated from the former and now extinct Tytema village, which was located on Bananal Island, Mato Grosso state, to another territory that is very close to the city of Aruanã, in the state of Goiás. Other indigenous people who lived in Buridina were also joined, another Karajá village is also near the city of Aruanã (GO). This paper aims to describe the sociolinguistic reality of the Bdeburè community, as well as to investigate the feelings and linguistic attitudes of its members. It is known that linguistic attitudes have a great influence on the process of linguistic change in a diglossia environment, so it is our intention to observe how this environment and the Portuguese language are interfering in the linguistic attitudes of adults, but especially of children, who guarantee the future vitality of the minority language in the community. To that end, we will rely on authors who reflect on situations of linguistic conflict, diglossic environment and vitality of minority languages, such as the authors Grosjean (1982), Hamel (1984, 1988, 1993, 2003), Pimentel da Silva (2009; 2015), Meliá (1988) and Maturana (2002). As this work presupposes a research that involves feelings and attitudes, we chose as main research methodology the transmetology (MALDONADO, 2008), which allows the sum of diversified research methods that best fit the objectives of the study. Among the several methods that participated in the construction of the methodology, we highlight the ethnography (GEERTZ, 2015) and the interviews of a deep and participatory nature (HAMEL, 1988; MOREIRA and CALEFFE, 2008). Although not definitive, the results point to positive attitudes on the part of the Bdeburè natives, both adults and children, which favors linguistic vitality. However, the hostile and diglossic environment that the non-indigenous community represents puts at risk the continuity of positive attitudes, especially regarding children who are subject to a monolingual non-indigenous education in Portuguese. For this reason, this work also strives to demonstrate the great importance of bilingual intercultural education for the maintenance of positive linguistic attitudes that contribute directly to the linguistic vitality of the Karajá language in Bdeburè. / Este é um estudo pioneiro sobre a comunidade indígena Karajá da aldeia Bdeburè. Esta comunidade foi formada em 2001 por indígenas que migraram da antiga e já extinta aldeia Tytema, que se localizava na Ilha do Bananal, no estado do Mato no estado de Goiás. Juntaram-se a eles, também, outros indígenas que viviam na aldeia Buridina, também Karajá. Este trabalho dispõe-se a descrever a realidade sociolinguística da comunidade de Bdeburè, bem como investigar os sentimentos e atitudes linguísticas de seus integrantes. Sabe-se que as atitudes linguísticas têm grande influência no processo de mudança linguística em ambiente diglóssico. Por isso, este estudo buscou apontar as diferentes maneiras que este ambiente e, também, a língua portuguesa interferem nas atitudes linguísticas dos adultos e, principalmente, das crianças, que garantem a futura vitalidade da língua minorizada na comunidade. Para isso, este estudo embasou-se teoricamente em autores que refletem sobre questões de conflito linguístico, de ambiente diglóssico e de vitalidade de línguas minorizadas, como Grosjean (1982), Hamel (1984; 1988; 1993; 2003), Pimentel da Silva (2001; 2009; 2013; 2015), Meliá (1988) e Maturana (2002). Como este trabalho pressupõe uma pesquisa que envolve sentimentos e atitudes, optou-se, como principal metodologia de pesquisa, a denominada transmetodologia (MALDONADO, 2008), a qual permite a soma de diversificados métodos de pesquisa que melhor se adaptem aos objetivos do estudo. Entre os diversos métodos que participaram da construção da metodologia, destacamos a etnografia (GEERTZ, 2015) e as entrevistas de caráter profundo e participativo (HAMEL, 1988; MOREIRA e CALEFFE, 2008). Os resultados apontam para atitudes positivas por parte dos Karajá de Bdeburè, tanto adultos quanto crianças, o que favorece a vitalidade linguística. Entretanto, o ambiente hostil e diglóssico que a comunidade não indígena representa coloca em risco a continuidade das atitudes positivas, principalmente, quanto às crianças, que estão submetidas a uma educação não indígena monolíngue e monocultural, em língua portuguesa. Por esse motivo, este trabalho se empenhou, também, em demonstrar a grande importância da educação intercultural bilíngue para a manutenção das atitudes linguísticas positivas que colaboram diretamente para a vitalidade linguística da língua Karajá em Bdeburè.
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Sexuella övergrepp mot barn – känslor och konsekvenser för personer som utsatts för sexuella övergrepp : En kvalitativ studie om hur sexuella övergrepp mot barn kan påverka en utsatts känslor, självbild och framtida liv / Child sexual abuse – feelings and cocequenses för the victim

Johansson, Torgny, Karlsson, Henrik January 2018 (has links)
The aim of this study was to increase the awareness of the feelings that are described in autobiographies written by people that were victims of child sexual abuse and the role that these feeling have in the victims youth, self image and their later life. The empirical base of the study was eight autobiographies. The result of the study shows that feelings och shame, guilt and  stigmatisation were prevalent among the examined autobiographies. The study concluded that these feelings were found to have affected the individuals self image and that were present and had consequences for the victims in their later life. I addition were theories regarding shame and stigma applied to the study to allow a further analysis of the feelings.
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Vnímání trestné činnosti pacienty nařízené ochranné léčby / Perception of criminal activities by patients of Ordered protective treatment

Nichtová, Andrea January 2015 (has links)
Mental disorder and criminal activity is always a current topic because of high promotion of offences in the media which enhances its stigmatization. The aim of the work was mapping of patient's view of his criminal activities. We described criminal proceedings with mentally ill offender and measures of protection. We addressed to chosen aspects of perceiving of criminal activities - motivation, attribution of guilt, self-image and punishment. We described mental disorders in psychiatric protective treatment and their forensic significance. We used the qualitative analysis of semi-structured interview, method called pie of guilt, medical records and forensic expert testimony. The sample consisted of 16 patients of psychiatric protective treatment in Psychiatric hospital Bohnice, Praha, Czech republic. Collected data are various and they account for the heterogenity of research group. The main work result is a support for opinion that not only mental disorder, but also many other factors such as personality, substance abuse or poor impulse control, are responsible for the origin of offence and that patients are conscious of it and they don't interpret it only within the frame of mental disorder. The work highlights on the using of many ego mechanisms of defense to cope with feelings of guilt and...
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Från Anhörig till Vårdare : En kvalitativ litteraturstudie om att vårda en närstående med ALS / From family member to family carer : A qualitative literature study about caring for a relative with ALS

Holmquist, Rebecka, Andersson, Simon January 2020 (has links)
Bakgrund: Amyotrofisk lateralskleros (ALS) är progredierande sjukdom som drabbar nervcellerna vilka styr muskulaturen med koldioxidnarkos vilket är den vanligast dödsorsaken inom tre till fem år. Det är vanligt att anhöriga agerar vårdare till den sjuke vilket kan leda till ökad stress och börda för anhörigvårdaren.   Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva anhörigvårdares upplevelser av att vårda närstående med ALS.Metod:Kvalitativ litteraturstudie av tio vetenskapliga artiklar från databaserna; PubMed, CINAHL, PsyHub, Web of Science som analyserades utifrån Fribergs femstegsmodell.  Resultat: Tre huvudteman identifierades samt ten subteman. Framtagna huvudteman var; Omvälvande Känslor, Att förändras i sin roll samt Strategier för att orka. Slutsats: Anhörigvårdare till närstående med ALS upplevde ständigt nya problem, ökad börda och fler uppoffringar. Förhållandet till den sjuke förändrades när relationen gick från anhörig till vårdare och känslan av normalitet blev svår att upprätthålla. Upplevelserna av extern vårdpersonal var splittrad med både goda och sämre erfarenheter. Familjecentrerat förhållningsätt bör användas inom vården för att anhörigvårdares behov ska mötas. / Background: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative neuromuscular disease affecting the motor neurons with eventual death due to respiratory failure within three to five years. It is common for family members or friends to nurse patients which can lead to increased stress and burden for the family carers.   Aim: The aim of this study was to describe family carers experiences of caring for a relative with ALS.Methods:Qualitative literature study of ten scientific papers taken from four databases; “PubMed”, “CINAHL”, PsyHub” and “Web of Science”. These were analysed using Fribergs five step model. Results: 3 main themes were identified alongside 10 subthemes. The main themes consisted of; Turbulent Emotions, The change in one’s role, Strategies to manage.  Conclusion: Family carers with relatives inflicted with ALS experienced increased burden of new responsibilities, increased strain, and forfeiture of one’s normality. The relationship with the afflicted individual changed from family member/friend to carer. Family carers found that the quality of care given by external care staff was inconsistent. Family focus care needs to be more prevalent to meet the needs of family carers.
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Känsloreglering hos Elitidrottare : Känslor elitidrottare upplever timmen innan en viktig tävling och hur de hanteras / Elite athletes’ emotion regulating strategies : Feelings an elite athlete experience in the hour before an important competition and how those feelings are handled

Alfvén, Lena, Lagerberg, Maria January 2020 (has links)
Syftet med studien var att utifrån Gross (2007) teori undersöka känsloregleringsstrategier hos elitidrottare. Studiens frågeställning var: Vilka känslor upplever elitidrottaren timmen innan en viktig tävling och hur hanterar idrottaren de uppkomna känslorna? Studien omfattade nio elitidrottare inom individuella idrotter. Datainsamlingen genomfördes med semistrukturerade intervjuer som transkriberades och analyserades via en innehållsanalys. Analysen resulterade i sex teman med respektive två till tre subteman. De sex huvudteman var distraktion, självprat/peptalk, social strategi, struktur, uppmärksamhetsfokus och visualisering. Elitidrottarna sa samstämmigt att de upplevde känslor timmen före start i en viktig tävling och de gav uttryck för att de använde sig av känsloreglerande strategier. Dessa strategier användes ofta omedvetet. Att medvetandegöra känsloreglerande strategier kan bidra till att skapa möjligheter till en bättre tävlingsprestation. / The purpose of the study was, based on Gross’ (2007) theory, to investigate elite athletes’ emotion regulating strategies. The issue posed in the Study was the following: What feelings does an elite athlete experience in the hour before an important competition and how does the athlete handle those feelings? The study pertained to nine elite athletes in individual athletic disciplines. The compilation of data was performed through semi-structured interviews which were transcribed and analysed using a content analysis. The analysis resulted in six categories with 2-3 sub-categories. The six main categories were distraction, self-talk/pep-talk, social strategy, structure, attention focus and visualisation. The elite athletes conclusively stated that they did experience feelings during the hour just before an important competition and they gave the impression that they used emotion regulating strategies. These strategies were often used sub- consciously. Raising awareness of emotion regulating strategies can contribute to creating possibilities for enhanced performance.
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Stolthet och Skuld : en netnografisk studie om underliggande känslor i hållbarhetsredovisningar / Pride and Guilt : A netnographic study of underlying feelings insustainability reporting

Fundell, Linnéa, Precht, Nathalie January 2020 (has links)
Hållbarhetsrapporter utförs årligen av företag i enligt svensk lag. Rapporten kommunicerar hur företagens hållbarhetsarbete har genomförts under det senaste året. Detta innebär att företag ges utrymme att presentera sitt hållbarhetsarbete och på så sätt välja hur budskapet ska kommuniceras. Det är dock inte givet att det uttryckta budskapet nödvändigtvis är det som är av intresse, utan vad som är det underliggande budskapet. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten för uppsatsen har varit teori som behandlar hållbarhetskommunikation tillsammans med en fördjupning av moraliska känslor av stolthet och skuld. Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka hur företag kommunicerar underliggande känslor kring stolthet och skuld i sin hållbarhetsrapportering, och hur kommunikationen om hållbarhet påverkar gestaltningen av företags hållbarhetsarbete. Detta genom att svara på forskningsfrågorna: hur kommunicerar företag underliggande känslor av stolthet i hållbarhetsrapporter​, hur kommunicerar företag underliggande känslor av skuld i hållbarhetsrapporter samt hur bidrar denna kommunikation av känslor till gestaltningav företagets hållbarhetsarbete? En form av netnografisk undersökning genomfördes på hållbarhetsrapporterna med hjälp av nyckelord. Utifrån denna undersökning identifierades flertal sammanhang där stolthet och skuld kunde utläsas. Resultaten bearbetades sedan genom innehållsanalys, vilket möjliggjorde eftersökningar av mönster samt tolkningar av det underliggande kommunicerade budskapet. Samtliga företag visade efter analys på underliggande känslor av stolthet och skuld med varierande grad av övermodig stolthet och autentisk stolthet, samt både skuld med och utan spår av empati. Analys av resultat medförde slutsatsen att tolkningen av företagens hållbarhetskommunikation är komplex. Gestaltning av underliggande känslor genom kommunikation av hållbarhetsarbete påverkar hur budskapet kring hållbarhet uppfattas. / Sustainability reports are carried out annually by companies according to Swedish accounting law. The report communicates how companies sustainability work has been performed during the past year. This facilitates the companies to present their sustainability work and thus to choose how the message is to be communicated. However, it is not given that the expressed message is necessarily what is of interest, but what lies beneath the message. The theoretical background for this essay has been theory which processes sustainability communication along with a deepening of moral feelings of pride and guilt. The purpose of this study has been to examine how companies communicate underlying feelings of pride and guilt in their sustainability reporting, and how the communication of sustainability affects the perception of the companies' sustainability work. This by answering the research questions: how does underlying themes of emotions show pride in companies' sustainability reporting ,how does underlying themes of emotions show guilt in companies´ sustainability reporting and how does this communication of emotions contribute to the figuration of the company’s sustainability work? A form of netnographic survey was conducted on sustainability reports using keywords, which resulted in several contexts where pride and guilt could be found. The results were then processed through content analysis, which allowed the search for patterns and to interpret the underlying communicated message. By analysis, all companies showed underlying feelings of pride and guilt, with varying degrees of hubristic pride and authentic pride, as well as guilt with and without traces of empathy. Discussion of results and analysis accounted in the conclusion that the interpretation of companies' sustainability communication is complex. The figuration of underlying emotions through communication of sustainability affects how the message of sustainability is perceived. This report is written in Swedish.
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Våld i nära relation : Sjuksköterskans upplevelser av att möta kvinnor utsatta för våld i nära relation  - En kvalitativ litteraturöversikt / Intimate partner violence : The nurse’s experiences of meeting women exposed to intimate partner violence - A literature review

Andersson, Annie, Filipsson, Clara January 2022 (has links)
Bakgrund: Våld i nära relation är ett globalt folkhälsoproblem. Det drabbar främst kvinnor där förövaren är en man. Våldet kan yttra sig genom olika uttryck och konsekvenserna är ofta allvarliga. Sjuksköterskan ska utgå från personcentrerad omvårdnad och har en betydande roll i mötet med de våldsutsatta kvinnorna. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva sjuksköterskans upplevelser i mötet med kvinnor utsatta för våld i nära relation.  Metod: En litteraturöversikt med kvalitativ design och induktiv ansats. Databaserna CINAHL, Medline och PsycINFO användes. 12 artiklar analyserades med hjälp av Fribergs femstegsmodell. Resultat: I resultatet framkom tre huvudteman med tillhörande sju subteman. De huvudteman som identifierades var Sjuksköterskornas känslor i mötet med de våldsutsatta kvinnorna, Utmaningar i mötet och Sjuksköterskornas upplevelser av professionellt ansvar.  Slutsatser: Litteraturöversikten visade att sjuksköterskorna upplevde miljö, egna känslor, kunskap och utbildning som påverkande faktorer vid mötet med de våldsutsatta kvinnorna. Detta bidrog till att den personcentrerade omvårdnaden åsidosattes vilket påverkade identifieringen av våld i nära relation. En förbättring på organisationsnivå krävs för att säkerställa en god omvårdnad i mötet med de våldsutsatta kvinnorna.  Nyckelord: Ansvar, mötet, känslor, personcentrerad omvårdnad, upplevelser, våldsutsatta kvinnor / Background: Intimate partner violence is a global public health problem. It mainly affects women where the perpetrator is a man. Violence can manifest itself through various expressions and the consequence of the violence is often serious. The nurse’s should use person-centered care and has a significant role in the meeting with women exposed to violence.  Aim: The purpose was to describe the nurse’s experiences in the meeting with women exposed to intimate partner violence. Method: A literature review with qualitative design and inductive approach. The CINAHL, Medline and PsycINFO databases were used. 12 articles were analyzed using Friberg's five-step model.  Result: The result showed three main themes with seven sub-themes. The main themes identified were The nurses’ feelings in the meeting with the abused women, Challenges in the meeting and The nurses’ experiences of professional responsibility. Conclusion: The literature review showed that the nurses’ experienced the environment, their own feelings, knowledge, and education as influencing factors in the meeting with the abused women. This contributed to the neglect of person- centered care, which affected the identification of violence in close relationship. An improvement at the organizational level is required to good care in the meeting with the women.  Keywords: Abused women, experiences, feelings, meeting, responsibility, person- centered care
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The IS TAXISnet and new eServices as tools to assist citizens of Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study

Kourkoulis, Antonios January 2021 (has links)
This research is focused on how the Information System TAXISnet and other new  eServices have managed to assist citizens of Greece fulfill basic related tasks, during the  COVID19 pandemic. It is, also, trying to explore and study how these unique  circumsta nces accelerated the digital transformation of Greece during this period. This  approach has been considered by the author as an interesting aspect of the subject, due  to awareness for egovernment the digital immaturity of Greece and the lack of  citizens’ services before the COVID19 pandemic. COVID 19 has been a strong motivator  for the Greek government to create and apply a lot of updates and new features in its  information systems. There has been a large effort from the government to re servic es  and link them with the main system, to-- design old simplify procedures and as a result  to improve the end user’s experience. This study will explore, from an end user’s  perspective ‘if’ and ‘what’ changes occurred and how the users have been influenced by  the actio ns of the government. A qualitative research has been conducted and five  interviews have been analyzed in order to extract the empirical data and reach to  specific results. The respondents’ experiences enriched the analysis and interesting  outputs will be presented and described in this research. It was proven that citizens  indeed used TAXISnet more during the pandemic, they enriched their knowledge of the  system and mentioned positive feedback related to the provided assistance, while issues  and proposed u pdates were also discussed.
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Sensorialité et sensori-motricité : une approche du travail psychique chez la fille en période de latence / Sensoriality and sensori-motricity : an approach of the psychological processes at work in girls at the latency stage

Cohen-Salmon, Julie 10 November 2016 (has links)
Cette thèse de doctorat propose d'étudier la sensorialité et la sensori-motricité pour penser la clinique des agirs chez la fille en âge de latence (7-11 ans). Les agirs, autrement appelés « troubles du comportement », se caractérisent en effet par l'aspect bruyant du recours au corporel dans ses dimensions sensorielles et motrices. Notre recherche théorico-clinique se base sur une pratique auprès d'enfants placés en ITEP (Internat Thérapeutique Éducatif et Pédagogique) en raison de l'intensité de leurs « troubles du comportement ». Étudier l'organisation du sensoriel avec d'un côté « la sensorialité » et d'un autre « la sensori-motricité » est une façon d'appréhender les ressources dont dispose l'enfant pour éprouver ce qu'il vit intérieurement au contact de lui-même et des autres, mais aussi la façon qu'il a de mettre à distance ses éprouvés intimes, ses sentiments de dépendance et d'impuissance par l'intermédiaire de sa sensori-motricité. La conflictualité, à laquelle est confronté l'enfant en période de latence, peut s'exprimer en termes de dépendance et de désir de séparation-dégagement d'avec l'objet. La sensorialité, porteuse d'un état de dépendance, se construit sur le modèle de l'objet qui vient à la rencontre du sujet. Dans les rapports qu'elle entretient avec des capacités de régression vers les identifications primaires mais aussi avec l'altérité, la sensorialité devient l'expression d'un féminin originaire. La sensori-motricité se présente dans un mouvement contraire à celui de la sensorialité, car elle prend la forme d'une quête active de l'objet. Un paradoxe apparaît avec la sensori-motricité, du fait de l'insistance de la quête et du désir de dégagement adressée au même objet. L'utilisation de la sensori-motricité aurait pour fonction de renouer avec la sensorialité, de recréer activement les conditions de sa mise en place grâce à la création de l'illusion d'une sensorialité satisfaisante : l'enfant se heurte à son environnement, il s'y confronte, cherchant à faire venir l'objet à lui. L'action de la sensori-motricité s'oppose à la réceptivité de la sensorialité, mais elle entre également en complément de celle-ci dans le rôle qu'elle endosse dans la constitution de la bisexualité psychique. / In the present doctoral thesis, our objective is to study sensoriality and sensori-motricity in order to improve the clinical assessment of girls behaviors during the latent period (7 to 11 years old). These "behavioral disorders" (or more specifically in French "les agirs") are indeed characterized by a loud recourse to the corporeal in both its sensory and motor dimensions. Our theoretical and clinical research is based on work with children treated at an ITEP (Therapeutic, Educational and Pedagogical Institute) due to the severity of their behavioral disorders. Studying how the sensory system is organized, with sensoriality on the one hand and "sensori-motricity" on the other, is a way to grasp the resources children have at their disposal to feel what they internally live when in contact with themselves and others, but also how, through their sensori-motricity, they distance themselves from their inner feelings, their impressions of dependence and powerlessness. The conflict children are confronted to during the latent period may be expressed in terms of dependence and wish for separation/detachment from the object. Sensoriality, which goes along with dependence, is built on the model of the object that comes to meet the subject. Through its relationships with regression capacities towards primary identifications and also with alterity, sensoriality becomes the expression of a primal feminine nature. Sensori-motricity, in a contrary movement to that of sensoriality, consists in an active quest of the object. A paradox arises with sensory-motricity, due to the simultaneous urge for, and wish for detachment from, one and the same object. The use of sensori-motricity might be to reconnect with sensoriality, to actively re-create the conditions of its implementation thanks to the illusion of a satisfactory sensoriality it causes: children are confronted to their environment, confront it, and try to make the object come to them. Although the action of sensori-motricity counters the receptiveness of sensoriality, it also complements it due to the role it plays in the elaboration of psychic bisexuality.
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The Moderating Influence of Social Media on the Relationship Between Perceptions of Police and Community Violence Among African American Men

Tucker, Herman Charles 01 January 2019 (has links)
African American males experience homicides significantly higher than other groups throughout the United States. More African Americans are victims of violence, especially deadly violence, compared to any other racial or ethnic group. While research has been conducted on the association between perceptions of police and violence among African American men ages 18 to 44, no research exists on whether social media use moderates this association among African American men ages 18 to 44. This quantitative, cross-sectional study included 45 African American men. The Past Feelings and Act of Violence (PFAV) instrument, the Perceptions of Police (POP), and the Social Media Use Integration Scale were used to measure violence, perceptions of police and social media use, respectively. Overall, participants did not have high levels of violence, had poor perceptions of police, and did not have high dependence on social media use. Study results showed a significant association between perceptions of police (F=5.271; p=.027) and community violence, where perceptions of police explained 30% of the variance in community violence scores. This study also showed that social media use did not moderate the association between perceptions of police and violence. In addition to continuing to research what factors moderate the association between perceptions of police and community violence, findings in this study could inform strategies and interventions that seek to change African American men's perceptions of police. Interventions should focus on improving relationships between African American men and law enforcement, as well as work to improve perceptions that African American men have regarding police.

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