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Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-94). Also available in print.

Zhu, Yuhong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-142). / Abstracts in English and Chinese; appendix 2-3 in Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.i / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.iii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES --- p.vi / Chapter CHAPTER ONE: --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Physical child abuse outside China --- p.2 / The situation in mainland China --- p.4 / Definition of terms --- p.10 / Statement of purpose --- p.11 / Research questions --- p.13 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO: --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.14 / Physical child abuse and help-seeking in the West --- p.14 / Physical child abuse and help-seeking in China --- p.26 / Limitations of existing literature --- p.32 / Summary --- p.33 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE: --- CONCEPTUAL FRAMWORK --- p.34 / Conceptual framework of this study --- p.34 / Summary --- p.40 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR: --- METHODOLOGY --- p.41 / The choice of qualitative research --- p.41 / Data collection --- p.43 / Data analysis --- p.46 / Credibility --- p.47 / Ethical concerns --- p.49 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE: --- PROFILES OF PARTICIPANTS --- p.51 / Chapter CHAPTER SIX: --- THE NINE STORIES --- p.57 / Jia Jia --- p.57 / Xiao Wen --- p.60 / A' Jian --- p.63 / Qin Qin --- p.67 / Le Le --- p.70 / Xiao Jie --- p.73 / Xiao Ming --- p.77 / Xiao Lei --- p.80 / Liang Liang --- p.84 / Chapter CHAPTER SEVEN: --- FIVE THEMES OF PERCEPTIONS --- p.88 / Common themes of perceptions of parental physical abuse --- p.88 / Summary --- p.100 / Chapter CHAPTER EIGHT: --- IMPEDIENTS TO HELP-SEEKING --- p.102 / Reasons for not seeking help --- p.103 / Summary --- p.110 / Chapter CHAPTER NINE: --- DISCUSSION --- p.112 / Parental physical abuse as ´بloving punishment' --- p.112 / Salient barriers to seeking help --- p.115 / Possible strengths and contributions --- p.120 / Limitations of this study --- p.122 / Implications of findings --- p.123 / REFERENCES --- p.129 / APPENDIX --- p.143 / Appendix 1: Interview Guidelines (English Version) --- p.143 / Appendix 2: Interview Guidelines (Chinese Version) --- p.144 / Appendix 3: Letter to school (Chinese Version) --- p.145

Doctor of Philosophy / School of Family Studies and Human Services / Briana S. Goff / Human sex trafficking is a complex and unique phenomenon involving the commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) of persons by means of force, fraud, or coercion. The purpose of this study was to investigate unique patterns of trauma exposure and biopsychosocial health among a sample of CSE survivors. Results from a latent profile analysis with 135 adults trafficked in the United States yielded three distinct survivor sub-groups: mildly distressed, moderately distressed, and severely distressed. The mildly distressed class (18.5%) was characterized by the lowest reports of trauma exposure and an absence of clinically significant psycho-social stress symptoms. The moderately distressed class (48.89%) endorsed comparatively medial levels of trauma exposure, as well as clinically significant disturbance in six domains of psycho-social health. The severely distressed class (32.59%) reported the highest degree of trauma exposure and exhibited clinically significant symptoms of pervasive psycho-social stress across all domains assessed. To better understand variation in CSE survivors’ engagement with formal support services, this study also examined differences in help-seeking attitudes and intentions between latent classes. Results indicated that compared to those in the mildly and moderately distressed classes, severely distressed survivors endorsed significantly more unfavorable attitudes toward seeking professional help, along with no intention to seek help from any source when facing a personal or emotional crisis. Findings from this study provide a snapshot of significant heterogeneity in trauma exposure and biopsychosocial health among CSE survivors, as well as associated differences in help-seeking attitudes and intentions. The identification of distinct survivor sub-groups in these and future analyses mark an important intermediate step toward developing empirically-testable support services that are specifically designed to meet the unique needs of CSE survivors.

In the first part, diploma thesis presents theoretical background of well-being and sensation seeking tendency concepts. By analysing available resources in Czech and foreign literature it presents current theoretical understanding of these concepts and discusses their relationship to other psyche phenomena. In the empirical part, research hypotheses about existence of the relationship between well-being represented by SWLS questionnaire (Satisfaction With Life Scale; Diener et al., 1985) and sensation seeking tendency represented by SSS V scale (Sensation Seeking Scale V; Zuckerman, 1979) are examined. As support, Ten-item personality inventory TIPI (Gosling et al., 2003) is used. Two groups of respondents participated in the study: Czech (N = 137) and Slovak (N = 181) which were considered one sample (N = 318). Pearson correlation and hierarchical regression analysis showed negligible significant relationship (r = 0,12; p < 0,05) between sub-scale Experience Seeking (ES) and SWLS. However, EC score did not predict SWLS variance. Overall, study failed to accept hypothesis of existence of the relationship between SWLS and SSS V and hypothesis of mutual independence was accepted. Furthermore, the thesis deals with closer analysis of the results and personality predictors of SWLS. Keywords:...

Hjärtinfarkt är en av de vanligaste dödsorsakerna i Sverige idag och kvinnor har en högre mortalitet vid hjärtinfarkt. Kvinnor dröjer med att söka vård vid symtom på hjärtinfarkt, det finns ett flertal orsaker som fördröjer tiden från första symtom till kontakt med sjukvården. Orsakerna till den ökade fördröjningstiden för kvinnor kommer att belysas i denna litteraturbaserade studie.  Resultatet redovisas i två teman på orsaker om varför kvinnor dröjer med att söka vård vid symtom på hjärtinfarkt. Kvinnor ville inte vara till besvär för sina anhöriga eller arbetsgivare. De ville heller inte vara till besvär för hälso- och sjukvårdpersonal då de inte ville belasta sjukvården i onödan och de upplevde även en rädsla att inte bli tagna på allvar utav hälso- och sjukvårdpersonal. Kvinnorna hade också vilseledande föreställningar om hjärtinfarkt. Föreställningarna kommer från massmedia samt erfarenheter från män i sin omgivning som drabbats av hjärtinfarkt. Kvinnorna hade även svårigheter att härleda symtomen till hjärtinfarkt och de försökte hitta andra förklaringar till sina symtom eller förminskade dessa. På grund av dessa svårigheter försökte kvinnorna hantera symtomen själv genom självmedicinering.   Sjuksköterskan behöver en ökad kompetens om kvinnor och hjärtinfarkt, då hon har en viktig funktion att utbilda kvinnor om hjärtinfarkt och symtombild. Detta är för att kvinnan ska kunna ta ett snabbt beslut att söka vård för att därmed förbättra prognosen vid hjärtinfarkt. / Background: Time is crucial for the forecast of myocardial infarction. It’s crucial for the prognosis and can decrease complications. Complications can include both physical and psychological ailments and can affect women’s daily life. Aim: The aim of this study was to illustrate why women delay seeking care for symptoms of myocardial infarction.  Method: A literature-based study. Results: The reasons that women delayed seeking care of their symptoms were fear of being an inconvenience for either their relatives and/or health care professionals. They had also a misleading conception about myocardial infarction and had difficulties to connect their symptoms to myocardial infarction. Therefore the women try to attempt to perform self-care rather than consult medical professionals. They also prioritized obligations against employer and related.  Conclusion: Women want to be self-sufficient enough to take care of themselves and not be a burden to their family or medical professionals. They had difficulties prioritizing themselves and the women has to start put herself first. Through increased knowledge about symptoms for myocardial infarction the result may be that women can take better and more informed decisions on when it is imperative to seek immediate medical care. This may in turn result in better prognosis for the affected women.

A growing consensus on suitability of Strategic Entrepreneurship (SE) for firms to face challenges in a competitive environment is anchored on the argument that SE is an intersection of entrepreneurship and strategic management associated with opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking behaviours. However, this concept is flawed by failure of firms to simultaneously combine opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking behaviours to attain and sustain performance, a situation that raised contentions on the relevance of constructs chosen to build SE. Recently, other scholars suggested that SE is more than interface between strategic management and entrepreneurship and treat this fusion as a debatable idea. This argument presents a conceptual gap which triggered this study. This study examined three constructs namely: Market Orientation (MO), Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) and Networking Capability (NWC), which are collectively referred to as dimensions of Strategic Entrepreneurial Response (SER) as appropriate constructs to enhance simultaneous opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking behaviours. With the understanding that these constructs were collectively used for the first time to study SER, this study examined if their individual dimensions could successful measure SER, and if they are related to SME performance. Also, examined how much variance in SME performance is explained by scores of the dimensions of SER and whether the interaction of the dimensions of SER explains a significant amount of variance in performance to enhance simultaneous opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking behaviours. In the course of the study, a cross-sectional research design was used to collect data from SME’s in Tanzania of which 291 SME owners/managers were randomly selected and interviewed in three types of industries namely: manufacturing, service and retail. A factor analysis after oblique rotation revealed 9 factors and explained 68.16% of total variance. The identified factors were customer orientation, competitor orientation (market orientation), pro-activeness, risk taking, competitive aggressiveness (entrepreneurial orientation), relational skills, internal communication, coordination and partner’s knowledge (networking capability). Subjecting the nine factors into the second order factor analysis converged into a single component suggesting successful measuring SER. The findings confirmed a relationship between dimensions of SER and SME performance suggesting that emphasis on market orientation, entrepreneurial orientation and networking capability enhance SME performance. However, the interaction of the three dimensions only market orientation and entrepreneurial orientation explained significant amount of variance in SME performance, with large amount of variance accounted for by the market orientation. The findings suggest that emphasis on market orientation is a firm’s strategic choice to generate strategic information which forms a seedbed of opportunities from which entrepreneurial oriented firms identify and proactively seize to build competitive advantage. Contrary to previous studies, which emphasized that opportunity seeking is a domain of entrepreneurial orientation, this study argues that previous studies underplayed the role of market orientation on opportunity seeking. This study views entrepreneurial orientation as more driven by opportunity exploitation which is more of advantage seeking than opportunity seeking. This study suggest that sustained market orientation and entrepreneurial orientation cultures build opportunity seeking and advantage seeking behaviors crucial to create and sustain SME performance. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / Business Management / unrestricted