One of the major concerns of counselling psychology is to foster development rather
than to simply remediate problems. One of the emotions through which proactive
development might be facilitated is pride. Pride has potential connections to achievement
motivation, care and attention toward work, task persistence, self-competence, esteem, and
general productive well-being within a social context. The purpose of this study was to
describe children's conceptions of pride in the anticipation that knowing about these
conceptions would help indicate ways for counsellors to intervene.
Using phenomenography, a descriptive research methodology that emphasizes
conceptions of things experienced, child participants in Grades 2, 4, and 7 were interviewed to
determine their conceptions of pride. The children were invited to talk about pride, mainly by
telling stories of experiences with pride. The resulting narratives were analyzed to sift out all
qualitatively distinct categories of meaning for pride, mapping the general domain of the
emotion. Eight distinct conceptions emerged, including three active or doing conceptions
(achieving, acting ethically, and acting independently) and five having conceptions
(possessing, having a desired attribute or ability, belonging, having special status, and pride by
association). All conceptions were represented in all three grades sampled, with no
outstanding age- or gender-related differences. Research results contribute to our knowledge
of how children experience and comprehend pride, and point toward educational and
psychological implications for those who parent, educate, or counsel children.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/11000 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Zwiers, Michael Lee |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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