Dissertations / Theses: 'Interpersonal aspects of nursing'

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Ingsén, Josefin, and Viktoria Thorsell. "Patientens upplevelse av samtal med sjuksköterska vid cancerdiagnos : Analys av självbiografier." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-16793.

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Bakgrund: Cancer är en diagnos som ökar i samhället, en ökning som ses fortsätta. Att ta emot ett cancerbesked och genomgå behandling kräver stöd från hälso- och sjukvården. Genom samtal ges möjlighet till delaktighet och en omvårdnad där patienten står i centrum. Sjuksköterskan behöver ha kunskap kring kommunikation för att bemöta patienten på bästa sätt. Viktigt är att säkerställa att patienten mottagit och förstått informationen. Syfte: Att belysa patientens upplevelse av samtal med sjuksköterska vid cancerdiagnos. Metod: En kvalitativ analys av narrativer har använts för granskning av sex självbiografier, skrivna av personer med erfarenhet av cancerdiagnos. Resultat: Resultatet belyser följande kategorier: samtal som vårdar, delaktighet i samtalet, hoppfullhet i orden, vill inte höra samt upplevelse av rädsla. Konklusion: Samtalet visar sig vara betydelsefullt i mötet mellan patient och sjuksköterska. Hur sjuksköterskan uttrycker sig och bemöter patienten påverkar upplevelsen av samtalet och vilken utgång samtalet får.
Background: Cancer is a diagnosis that is increasing in society, an increase seen to continue. Receiving a cancer message and undergoing treatment requires support from the health service. Through conversation, the opportunity is given for participation and a care where the patient is in the center. The nurse needs to have knowledge about communication to respond to the patient in the best way. It is important to ensure that the patient has received the information correctly. Aim: To illustrate the patient's experience of conversation with nurse during cancer diagnosis. Method: A qualitative analysis of narratives has been used for examination of six autobiographies, written by persons with experience of cancer diagnosis. Result: The result highlights the following categories: conversations that cherish, participation in the conversation, hopefulness in words, don’t want to hear and experience of fear. Conclusion: The conversation turns out to be important in the meeting between the patient and the nurse. How the nurse expresses her/himself and responds to the patient affects the experience of the conversation and what outcome the conversation gets.

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Kiikeri, Alexandra, and Therese Blades. "Öppenhet som emancipation : En fenomenologisk-hermeneutisk studie utifrån sjuksköterskors upplevelser och erfarenheter av öppenhet om psykisk ohälsa." Thesis, Röda Korsets Högskola, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:rkh:diva-4026.

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Bakgrund: Öppenhet om psykisk ohälsa är något som har fått allt mer medial uppmärksamhet. Konceptet öppenhet är brett och innefattar flertal definitioner såsom transparens, som i att vara ärlig och inte gömma information, samt ett förhållningssätt som präglas av bland annat tolerans och förmågan att acceptera nya perspektiv och idéer. Öppenhet avhandlas i denna studie från perspektivet av sjuksköterskor med egen erfarenhet av psykisk ohälsa. Syfte: Denna studie syftar till att utforska sjuksköterskors upplevelser och erfarenheter av öppenhet gällande psykisk ohälsa samt att avtäcka öppenhetens meningsbärande enheter utifrån ett omvårdnadsperspektiv. Metod: Studien har en kvalitativ studiedesign med en fenomenologisk hermeneutisk forskningsansats. Information samlades in via semistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultat: Analysen resulterade i 3 övergripande teman: öppenhet som transparens, öppenhet som förhållningssätt och öppenhetens kraft och fundamentala växelverkan. Helhetstolkningen visade att öppenhet är en förutsättning för all typ av medmänsklig interaktion och kommunikation. Att dela med sig av erfarenheter av psykisk ohälsa är transparens med intentionalitet kopplat till både strävan efter en bättre värld och ett sätt att visa omsorg. Helhetstolkningen mynnade ut i att sjuksköterskors öppenhet gällande egen erfarenhet av psykisk ohälsa i hög grad påverkades av upplevd stigma. Slutsats: Öppenhet har en inre självförstärkande kraft: öppenhet leder till öppenhet. Att dela med sig av egna erfarenheter av psykisk ohälsa ter sig har en stor potential i att skapa relationer präglade av ömsesidighet och medmänsklighet. Att bemöta med öppenhet är nyckeln till att ge transparensen en möjlighet att skapa en mer humanistisk och rättvis vård.
Background: Openness around mental health issues has gained increased media attention. The concept of openness is vast and includes multiple definition like transparency, as in to be honest and not hiding information, and also an approach characterized by, among others, tolerance and the ability to accept new perspectives and ideas. In this study openness is presented from the perspective of nurses with own experience of mental health issues. Aim: This study aims to explore nurses’ experiences and knowledge of openness regarding mental health issues and also uncover the meaning entities within the concept of openness from a nursing perspective. Method: The study uses a phenomenological hermeneutical method. Information was gained through semi-structured interviews. Findings: The analysis resulted in 3 main themes: openness as transparency, openness as an approach and the power and fundamental interactions of openness. The comprehensive understanding exposed openness as a postulate to all human interaction and communication. To share own experiences of mental health issues is transparency with intentionality including striving for a better world and mediate caring. The comprehensive understanding also indicated that nurses’ openness in sharing own experiences of mental health issues was impacted negatively by stigma experiences. Conclusion: Openness has an inner amplifying power: openness leads to openness. To share experiences regarding mental health issues appears to possess a great potential in creating relationships characterized by mutuality and compassion. To approach with openness is the key to give transparency the ability to create a more humane and just health care.

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Treadwell, Chris L. "Interpersonal Aspects of Attribution and Emotion." DigitalCommons@USU, 1999. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6148.

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In Weiner's attributional perspective on emotion, recipients appraise outcomes in terms of three attributional dimensions--locus, controllability, and stability. The specific pattern of inferred attributions determines the nature of the resulting emotional experience. Weiner further claims that a sender's own emotion may serve as a precipitating event for a receiver's resulting attributions and emotions. Parkinson critiques the notion that there are inflexible or unique links among senders' emotions, the attributions conveyed by senders' emotions, and the resulting attributions or emotions aroused in recipients. Parkinson implies instead that the nature of the interpersonal relationship between senders and receivers, independent of attributional inferences, is a more important determinant of the specific emotion aroused. The main question asked in the present study was whether a sender's anger or pity led to receiver attributions and emotions consistent with Weiner's model across different types of sender-receiver relationships. Using a variation on Weiner's paradigm, 174 female and 104 male university students were presented with scenarios depicting the interaction of two people who were friends, enemies, or strangers. In each scenario, a receiver's behavior was followed by either a reaction of anger o pity from the sender. Participants then answered four questions to check the effectiveness of manipulations, rated the sender's attributions about the receiver's behavior and the receiver's own attributions, and predicted the intensity of the receiver's own emotional response (including guilt and shame). Because the pity manipulation was deemed ineffective, data were analyzed for the sender-anger condition only. Although Weiner's model was somewhat supported in the friend condition, there was only a weak relation between sender and receiver attributions, as well as either of these attributions and sender anger when examined across the three relationship conditions. Importantly, relationship variables more than attributional ones affected the degree to which receivers responded with guilt and shame to the sender's anger. Discussion focuses on the potential epiphenomenal role of attribution in eliciting emotion and the need to examine Parkinson's view that identity-related concerns, which vary as a function of the nature of the target relationship, are more central to arousing specific emotional responses.

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Zurakowski, Tamara Lee. "Interpersonal factors and nursing home resident health." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1054909283.

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Swiden, Wick RoseAnn. "Personality and interpersonal aspects of the work environment." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/917.

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Workplace arrogance has emerged as a research focus area for many industrial-organizational psychologists. Employees who demonstrate arrogance tend to demonstrate poor job performance, executive failure and poor overall organizational success. The present study investigates arrogance measured by the Workplace Arrogance Scale (WARS: Johnson et al., 2010) in relation to the Honesty Humility facet of the HEXACO Personality Index-Revised (HEXACO PI-R: LEE & Ashton, 2004). A total of 273 participants completed the WARS and HEXACO PI-R Honesty-Humility Facet of the HEXACO. Results show significant, strong negative correlations between the Honesty-Humility subfacets and the overall Honesty Humility facet score with the WARS scores. These findings indicate that workers high in arrogance lack important honesty-humility characteristics. Once we fully understand the complex mixture of personality traits that make up workplace arrogance, we can begin to screen for it in the hiring process and develop ways to better address it in the workplace.
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Morrison, Paul Anthony. "The meaning of caring interpersonal relationships in nursing." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 1991. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/3132/.

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This thesis explores nurses' and patients' perceptions of caring relationships in a hospital context. An attempt is made to discover the meaning these caring relationships have for the nurses who provide care and for the patients who participate in this process. The nurses enter into the caring relationship as voluntary and professional participants. The patients come into hospital because of illness. The relationship entered into is claimed to be a caring relationship yet little is known about the personal experiences of the participants. In the first part of the study the repertory grid technique was used to structure interviews with 25 experienced nurses. Personal constructs were elicited and rated during the interviews. Six major themes emerged from a content analysis of the constructs. These were: personal qualities, clinical work style, interpersonal approach, level of motivation, concern for others, and use of time. The personal cost of caring for the nurses surfaced as a significant aspect of the caring relationship. In the second part of the study 10 nurses and 10 hospitalised patients were interviewed. These were analysed by means of a method grounded in interpretive phenomenology which focuses on the informants' lived experiences. Nine general themes emerged which captured the nurses' experiences of caring relationships. The themes were: patient dependency, patient circumstances, effectiveness, emotional involvement, stress, preparedness, ward constraints, role uncertainty, and personal benefits. The patients' experiences of being cared for were embodied in four general themes quite different from the nurses. The themes were: vulnerability, self-presentation, service evaluation, and other concerns. The thesis provides many details about the perceptions of caring relationships through the exploration of the lived experiences of nurses and patients in hospital. An extended picture of caring relationships in nursing has emerged. The need to take account of both the professional and consumer perspective is emphasised as it highlights important discrepancies between the views of carers and those they care for. Professional carers must be able to understand the patient in order to care in a personalised way and the approach used here demonstrates how this understanding can be achieved. Such an approach could also be used in nursing practice. The findings and methods used here should also be of interest to other helping professions and consumers of health care.

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Boldan, Debra. "Experiences of Interpersonal Interaction between Nurse Educators and Minority Nursing." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5609.

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Changes in the cultural composition of the United States population are not reflected in the nursing workforce. The lack of diversity in nursing may be due to the unique interpersonal needs of minority nursing students remaining unmet in traditional nursing education programs, which might unintentionally lead to alienation, isolation, and lower graduation rates for minority students. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore interpersonal interaction experiences nursing educators have in teaching minority nursing students. Critical social theory provided the theoretical framework to explore the ways social inquiries may hinder learning and keep marginal groups from reaching their full potential. Ten nurse educators from three community colleges were interviewed using open ended questions. Data analysis was conducted using Van Manen's three step approach and NVivo 11 for thematic analysis. Five themes emerged from the data: Perceptions of the need for minority nurses, social responsibility of nurse educators, perceptions of minority students, the effectiveness of teaching minority students, and perceptions of interpersonal interaction. Participants believed there is a need for increased diversity and that minority nursing students face specific challenges, so most of the nurse educators employ techniques that they think may help minority students. Future research should include a more diverse sample of nurse educators including educators from different geographic locations across the US. The study contributes to positive social change by identifying caring and supportive interpersonal interactions and behaviors practiced by nurse educators.

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Marsden, Janet Elizabeth. "Aspects of advanced nursing practice." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.548209.

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This PhD by publication brings together several pieces of research undertaken in order to explore issues in advanced practice in a number of different settings. The focus of the programme of work has been to gain a better understanding and widen available knowledge of the drivers and essential elements of advanced practice nursing roles. The whole body of the work is based on my continuing academic and professional role embracing clinical practice and education as well as research. It is my strongly held belief that these three components are intrinsically linked and that one without the others, for professionals in practice, is incomplete and inherently flawed as an underpinning to the work of health care professionals. The work on this thesis began because of concerns and issues around personal practice and has grown to involve national and international perspectives on a number of clinical areas. This programme of work with each new study considering different aspects of advanced practise while building on the results and conclusions of the preceding works, leads to a consideration of some of the implications for future practice, education and research in this important area of nursing. The opportunities for research were, in the main, on a small scale and unfunded. Qualitative techniques were chosen in order to explore the ideas and experience of the participants, rather than those preconceived ideas held by the researcher(s). The demographic and quantitative data collected in the surveys was represented by descriptive statistics only as no inferences (in a statistical sense) could possibly have been drawn from such data. The publications associated with the planned areas of enquiry add to the evidence base for advanced nursing practice and seek to promote discussion and debate and promote change around an essential element of healthcare provision. The studies consider aspects of advanced practice including: " Decision making and safety: Decision making reflects expertise and has been shown, in the work here as well as in many other areas, to be safe and effective. 9 Acceptability of roles: There is a huge volume of research available that shows overwhelmingly that patients like these advanced practice roles. Research undertaken here showed the acceptability of the role to the multidisciplinary team and the importance of the whole team to role functioning. " The organisation of advanced practice: Some issues identified in the study relating to aspects of role development such as prescribing, have subsequently been successfully addressed. Others, such as the rigidity of job descriptions and the lack of support for risk taking, still prove problematic, " The process of role development is, as has been highlighted in other literature, often ad hoc, local, ill thought through and without the infrastructure to support it. Nevertheless, roles are evidently successful. " Regulation of advanced practice: What has become clear throughout the process and the time span of the programme of research is that whether regulation is in place or not, nursing responds to the needs of the service and while regulation of one part of nursing ensures that the particular advanced practice role is protected, others evolve outside the framework as easier (and cheaper) options. " Policy as a driver of roles: It is clear that policy, whether local or national drives the areas in which advanced practice flourishes. Where there are gaps in service, nurses and now other health professionals undertaking such roles, move in to address the service imperatives. The nature of healthcare is about to change quite fundamentally in the UK, and if we are to be able to know what is going on and the effect it is having, research on advanced practice roles must continue. My intentions are to build on this work in the future and include replication studies as well as studies employing sequential explanatory designs to widen the scope of the research presented here. Other areas of potential research include outcomes for patients in acute care settings as well as issues such as value for money which, at present are very difficult to quantify. As nurses move into even more complex roles, it will also be important to keep an eye on the educational underpinnings of such roles. The private sector is playing an increasing part in the UK's health provision and, with a diverse range of organisations involved, little is known about advanced practice roles in these organisations. This gap in the original research, coupled with the much wider role of such providers in the future, also opens up future research possibilities.

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Perez, Ricardo J. "Setting, arousal and interpersonal attraction." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23202.

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Kuhlmann, Kristin L. "Weight change in college freshmen| Personal, interpersonal and situational influences." Thesis, The University of New Mexico, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3597802.

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Obesity has become the most significant noninfectious health risk in the United States, and the major causes of death and disability are shifting to chronic, non-communicable health conditions that are largely attributable to physical inactivity, overweight and obesity, and other diet-related factors. Among children and adolescents, the overweight/obesity rate is approaching 32%, with 17.9% of adolescents becoming obese. While the obesity rate has doubled in all age groups in the United States, it has tripled among young adults aged 18 to 28 years, and 70% of adolescents who are at a healthy weight will become overweight or obese as adults. At particular risk for rapid weight gain are college freshmen; the rate of weight gain in the first semester of college is twice that of same-age peers, and 77% of all college freshmen gain weight. The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore the personal, interpersonal, and situational factors that influenced weight change in freshmen. Seventy-six college freshman completed measures of demographics, height and weight, physical activity, sedentary behavior, nutritional intake, beverage and snack intake, alcohol consumption, stress management, interpersonal relations, spiritual growth, and health responsibility at baseline and 15 weeks later during their first semester of college. Participants gained a mean of 2.3 pounds, with 43% gaining clinically significant weight (≥ 3.5 pounds); 33% of the participants gained over five pounds. Two variables predicted 12% of this weight gain: a low level of health responsibility and having an underweight/normal BMI upon entrance to college. Identification of participants in the underweight/normal BMI category as the group at most risk for significant weight gain was an unexpected finding that merits further exploration. In addition, findings indicate that strategies are needed to create stronger support systems, to increase the level of health responsibility, and to encourage college freshmen to regularly perform behaviors to attain, or maintain, a healthy weight throughout the first year of college.

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Wilhite, Thomas R. (Thomas Ray). "Interpersonal Reactions to Bereaved Parents: An Exploration of Attachment and Interpersonal Theories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331156/.

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The experiment examined negative social reactions to bereaved parents from unrelated others. Both the behavior displayed by the parent and attachment style of the perceiver were expected to influence reactions to bereaved parents. Undergraduates at a southern university (N = 239) completed both attachment measures and measures of reactions to videotapes of bereaved parents. Results indicated that bereaved parents do indeed receive negative evaluations from unrelated others, in the form of decreased willingness to interact in various roles. However, a nonbereaved parent displaying depressive symptoms also received negative evaluations. Depressed targets in the present study did receive negative evaluations, supporting the predictions of Coyne's interpersonal-process theory of reactions to depressed individuals. Contrary to the predictions of interpersonal-process theory, a bereaved parent displaying loss content without depressive symptoms also elicited negative evaluations. Coyne's hypothesis that the amount of induced negative affect in the perceiver leads to negative evaluations was not supported by the data. Subjects appear to react to a complex set of factors when forming these evaluations, including both personal and situational information. Two factors may have undermined the present study s ability to adequately test this theory. Subjects may have perceived depressive symptoms in loss content in the present study. Further, subjects may not have identified with the parent in the present study as anticipated. Research is necessary to identify the amount and focus of subjects' identifications with depressed and bereaved targets. Only minor support was found for the prediction that attachment style would be related to reactions to bereaved parents. Continuous measures of attachment style were related to amount of induced negative affect. However, grouping subjects by attachment patterns was not related to either induced negative affect or evaluations. The present study and previous research suggest the possibility that conceptually attachment may contain several components which relate to behavior in varying degrees and ways. Further study of the components of attachment is necessary to clarify what behaviors are related to attachment disturbance.

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Rosenblatt, Abram B. "The reactions of depressives to depressives: The interpersonal consequences of depression." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184494.

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Two studies were conducted to examine the interpersonal world of the depressive. It was hypothesized that depressed subjects would not like nondepressed targets as much as would nondepressed subjects. In addition, it was hypothesized that depressed subjects would feel worse after speaking with nondepressed targets. Finally it was hypothesized that perceived similarity would mediate these effects by covarying with mood and liking measures. To assess these hypotheses, study one had depressed and nondepressed college students speak with one another in either depressed-depressed, nondepressed-depressed, or nondepressed-nondepressed pairs. Measures of liking for the person with whom they conversed, of perceived similarity toward the person with whom they conversed, and of the subject's mood were then taken. Although the results were mixed, it was found that depressed subjects felt worse after speaking to depressed targets, though there were no differences in liking or perceived similarity between the groups. Perceived similarity did covary with most of the liking measures for the depressed and nondepressed subjects. Study two examined whether depressives had best friends who were themselves more depressed than best friends who were nondepressives. It was hypothesized that the best friends of depressives would be more depressed. Furthermore, it was expected that the best friends would also be perceived as more depressed by the subjects. These hypotheses were confirmed when depressives brought their best friends in for a study and the level of depression for these best friends was measured. In addition, the depressed subjects reported feeling worse after speaking with their friends when compared to how the nondepressed subjects reported feeling after speaking with their best friends.

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Hedberg, Berith. "Decision making and communication in nursing practice : aspects of nursing competence /." Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=013341214&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Junyk, Sharman Natalka. "Cognitive and emotional aspects of maladaptive interpersonal patterns, a dynamic systems approach." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ27969.pdf.

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Bonenberger, Nikole R. "Paradoxical Communication in Office Space." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/BonenbergerNR2007.pdf.

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Edmonson, Kindra Lynn. "An evolutionary psychology perspective on responsibility attributions for infidelity and relationship dissolution." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3318.

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This study investigated responsibility attributions for a partner's emotional infidelity and for a partner's sexual infidelity, and the likelyhood that the victim or partner would end the relationship. This study found a significant relationship between responsibility attributions for a romantic partner's unfaithfulness and the likelihood the relationship would end: the stronger the attributions of personal responsibility the more likely the relationship would dissolve.

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Crouse, Marlene. "Satisfaction and importance of job communication and interpersonal relationships among nurses and first-line supervisors." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1036195.

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Job-communication satisfaction and its importance to nursing staff and first-line supervisors is important because people in complex health care delivery systems tend to dehumanize communication (Duldt, 1989, 1990b). The purpose of the study is to determine the level of satisfaction first-line supervisors and staff nurses have of job-communication and interpersonal relationships, and the degree of importance staff members and first-line supervisors place on job-communication and interpersonal relationships within a mid-sized acute care facility in an urban area. The theoretical framework is Duldt's Humanistic Nursing Communication Theory (Hersey & Duldt, 1989).The population was all staff nurses and first-line supervisors employed in inpatient services at a midwest hospital. The sample was comprised of about 231 registered nurses and 61% first-line supervisors who volunteered to answer the Job-Communication Satisfaction Importance Questionnaire (JCSI). The JCSI was developed by B. W. Duldt (1990) based on the work of Downs, Hazen, and Thiry as cited in Duldt (1990a). The procedures for the protection of human subjects were followed.Findings revealed that supervisors and staff nurses were satisfied with aspects of job-communication. Supervisors and staff nurses rated six of the eight topics on the JCSI as important aspects of job-communication. Aspects of job-communication and interpersonal relationships were important to supervisors and staff nurses in the facility studied.The conclusions from the study were: (a) satisfaction with job-communication and interpersonal relationships can be improved, (b) aspects of job-communication and interpersonal relationships identified in the study were important to supervisors and staff nurses. Nursing supervisors are in key positions to influence job -communication satisfaction. Organizations undergoing rapid changes need to develop and maintain communication which is satisfactory to human beings working in the organization.
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Wheeler, Melissa Yuki. "Men's ambivalence toward sexy versus traditional women." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1990.

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Allen, Bruce W. (Bruce Wayne) 1958. "Interpersonal Perception and Communication within Marital Dyads." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278953/.

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The present study examined the relationships among similarity, interpersonal perception and communicative behaviors in marriage. It was hypothesized that greater understanding, feelings of being understood, and realization of understanding would be associated with greater self-disclosure, use of more direct person control strategies, and use of less attention control strategies. It was further hypothesized that measuring feelings of being understood and realization of understanding, in addition to measuring understanding, would improve prediction of behavior. Finally, it was hypothesized that the contextual measure of understanding would better predict self-disclosure and interpersonal control than would global measures of understanding.

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Smolen-Hetzel, Ann Caldwell. "Emotional Labor and Nursing Students: An Investigation of Nursing Students' Emotion Work." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1179.

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This study examined emotional labor as a potential source of stress for nursing students, as nursing students' performance of emotional labor may impact their working lives in important ways. Participants were 107 undergraduate and graduate nursing students enrolled in a large southeastern university who completed the Discrete EmotionsEmotional Labor Scale (DEELS; Glomb & Tews, 20041, the Student Nurse Stress Index (SNSI; Jones & Johnston, 1999), the Job Descriptive Index (JDI; Balzer et al., 20001, and the Job in General (JIG; Balzer et al., 2000) scales. Two sub-samples of nursing students were identified, one of which held a registered nurse license (seasoned group; N = 54), and the other which had no previous clinical training in nursing (unseasoned group; N = 53). First, it was hypothesized that frequency of faking emotions and suppressingemotions would predict stress and satisfaction levels for the overall sample. A second hypothesis explored if seasoned nursing students engaged in higher frequencies of faking and suppression of emotion when performing clinical nursing work. Results indicated that frequency of faking emotion was negatively correlated with student nursing stress overall, and also nursing stress about interface worries. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that faking emotion and suppression emotion while engaged in clinical nursing work were significant predictors of overall nursing student stress. In addition, faking and suppressing emotion were significant predictors of stress related to the balance of personal and professional life. However, use of emotional labor strategies did not predictstress related to personal problems, or satisfaction with either work or the job in general. Furthermore, no differences were found with regard to frequencies of faking and suppressing emotion when seasoned and unseasoned students were compared. Other findings included that clinical nursing experience was positively related to genuine expression of emotion. In addition, students reported both high levels of stress with school and high levels of satisfaction. Students suppressed emotion while engaged in clinical work more frequently than they faked emotion. Overall, results of the present study suggested a link between nursing student performance of emotional labor strategies and their stress levels.

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Zmyslinski, Anne Nicole. "Online or Face-to-Face?: Relationship Satisfaction and Attraction in Romantic Relationships Across Two Media." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28835.

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The purpose of this study was to examine romantic relationships that began through face-to-face (FtF) interaction or computer-mediated communication (CMC). Two hundred seventy-six participants who were currently in romantic relationships that began in person (196) or online (80) completed an online questionnaire. The study explored several relational variables (relationship satisfaction, intimacy, trust, communication satisfaction, physical attraction) and tested for differences in the two types of relationships; however, the data were not consistent with the hypotheses and research questions. Post-hoc tests revealed that sample characteristics (including sex, exclusivity of relationships, same/opposite sex relationships, and length of relationships) accounted for several differences when tested with the relational variables. Finally, the study sought to find which of these variables related to relationship satisfaction in relationships that began FtF and online. Trust and communication satisfaction significantly predicted relationship satisfaction in relationships that began FtF, and physical attraction and communication satisfaction significantly predicted relationship satisfaction in relationships that began online.

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何健華 and Kin-wa Ho. "A study on characteristics of youth's interpersonal relationships in cyberspace." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31256259.

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Wirtz, Nina [Verfasser]. "Interpersonal aspects of leadership and implications for health and well-being / Nina Wirtz." Mainz : Universitätsbibliothek Mainz, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1164716360/34.

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Bridgen, Annette Frances. "A heuristic journey of discovery : exploring the positive influence of the natural environment on the human spirit : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Nursing /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/168.

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Jiang, Li Crystal. "Self-disclosure in online groups : predisposition, disclosing style and relational development." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2007. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/820.

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Vanhook, Patricia M. "Comeback of Appalachian Female Stroke Survivors: Interrelationships of Cognition, Function, Self-Concept, Personal and Interpersonal Relationships." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7445.

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Vanhook, Patricia M. "Comeback of Appalachian Female Stroke Survivors: Interrelationships of Cognition, Function, Self-Concept, Personal and Interpersonal Relationships." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7446.

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Baker, Kay Stouffer. "Home care clients' perceptions of nursing invasiveness, territorial control, and satisfaction with nursing care." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276586.

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This descriptive correlational study describes the relationships among 30 home care clients' perceptions of nursing invasiveness, territorial control, and satisfaction with nursing care. The self-report data were collected using a Nursing Invasiveness Scale (NIS), Index of Patient Territorial Control Perceptions (IPTCP), and Patient Satisfaction Instrument (PSI). The subjects were males and females, aged 23 to 93 years, who were receiving home care nursing. Analysis of the data suggests that the subjects perceived a low level of invasiveness by home care nurses, "much control" within their homes (their primary territories), and were highly satisfied with their nursing care. There was a significant negative correlation (r = -0.79) between perceptions of nursing invasiveness and satisfaction with nursing care. The relationships between perceptions of nursing invasiveness and territorial control (r = -0.02) and between perceived territorial control and satisfaction with nursing care (r = 0.14) were not significant.

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Christie, Nancy Gail 1957, and Nancy Gail 1957 Christie. "THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF BODY AND FACE IN ATTRIBUTIONS OF PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS, AND SOCIAL AND RELATIONSHIP VARIABLES." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276528.

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One hundred and fifty undergraduate students at a Southwestern university rated the attractiveness of the face, body and full, face and body of 5 male and 5 female stimuli. The subjects also rated the full, face and body stimuli on 6 social and relationship variables. These ratings were used to determine the relative influence of facial attractiveness versus body attractiveness on overall assessments of attractiveness and social and relationship variables. Both facial and body attractiveness were predictive of all the overall assessments, but face was a more powerful predictor. A second analysis related perceived similarity of attractiveness and liking. Perceived similarity of attractiveness was not a significant factor in how much the subjects indicated they liked the stimuli.

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李翠蓮 and Tsui-lin Lee. "The impact of facial disfigurement on interpersonal relationships as experienced by adolescents with cleft lip and/or palate." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249838.

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Vanhook, Patricia M. "Comeback of Appalachian Female Stroke Survivors: The Interrelationships of Cognition, Function, Self-Concept, Interpersonal, and Social Relationships." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7437.

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Arpin, Sarah Noel. "Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Consequences of Loneliness: Health Behavior, Social Interactions, Self-Disclosure, and Perceived Responsiveness." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2340.

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As a social species, human beings are driven by an innate desire to belong and are thus motivated to develop and maintain meaningful social relationships. As such, perceiving a lack of belongingness strongly impacts psychological and physiological health and well-being. A common form of perceived relationship deficits is loneliness, a negative-affective experience detrimental to health and well-being over time. Through a series of three manuscripts, this dissertation applies the full-cycle model of social psychological research to explore various affective, behavioral, and cognitive consequences of loneliness. Whereas existing models of loneliness focus on long-lasting or chronic forms of loneliness, these studies investigate chronic and transient loneliness, as well as processes through which transient loneliness may develop into more chronic levels. The first paper demonstrates that solitary consumption is a unique behavioral response to transient loneliness, which may exacerbate the experience of loneliness and negatively impact health over time. The second paper provides support for a positivity-deficit perspective, demonstrating that chronic loneliness is related to less disclosure of recent positive experiences, a deficit which may be consequential for the development of close relationships. The third paper demonstrates the role of transient loneliness in inhibiting individuals and their interaction partners from reaping the social rewards of positive-event disclosure, particularly among those who typically feel socially connected. Taken together, these studies expand the current understanding transient loneliness, revealing various social-cognitive and behavioral consequences which could impede the social-reaffiliation process, and thus contribute to the maintenance of loneliness over time.

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Dominguez, Socorro Escandon. "Temporal aspects of Mexican American intergenerational caregiving." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280544.

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Problem and background. Caregiving for elderly family members can be viewed as a part of and extension of supportive behaviors between individuals. Consequently, there are cultural undertones to caregiving and what is supportive in one culture may not be in another. Mexican American caregiving has not been well studied; however, Mexican Americans are reported to be more likely to use family as resource for solving problems than non-Hispanic whites. Purpose. Guided by caregiving framework developed by Bowers (1987), Wilson (1989) and Nolan et al. (1995, 1996, & 1997) this study employed grounded theory to formulate a conceptual model of intergenerational caregiving among Mexican American families focusing on characteristics of the temporal axis which defines caregiving in terms of (1) family structure or generational attitudes (historical time); (2) what and how shared understandings with elders and among family members influence who assumes the caregiver role and when (kin time); (3) how entry into the caregiving role affects the entire family (intergenerational development time); and (4) how entry into the caregiving role affects the caregivers' peer relationships (peer time). This study also builds theory about how acculturation influences family care giving. Design, methods. This exploratory study was guided by grounded theory methodology where interviews were taped and analyzed using grounded theory's constant comparative method of analysis. Sample. The sample consisted of Mexican American caregivers (n = 10) of various generations over the age of 21 who provided at lest one intermittent service (without pay at least once a month) to an elder, related through consanguinal or acquired kinship ties. Results. Grounded theory of Role Acceptance comprised of four phases: (1) Introduction: Early Caregiving Experiences; (2) Role Reconciliation; (3) Role Imprint; and (4) Providing/Projecting Care. Significance. This study provides a Mexican American intergenerational caregiving model that can be utilized to study varied generations of Mexican American caregivers. It also provides a framework for comparison with other groups of caregivers. Results of this study also inform health professionals about ways in which Mexican American caregivers view caregiving. This information has potential to increase cultural competence in delivery of health care to elders and their families.

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Nilsson, Agnes, and Risa Larsen. "INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION AS EXPERIENCED BY NURSES WORKING IN CULTURALLY DIVERSE INDIAN HOSPITALS." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26973.

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Syfte: Syftet med studien var att skapa djupare förståelse kring sjuksköterskors upplevelse av mellanmänsklig kommunikation med patienter med annan kulturell bakgrund. Bakgrund: Kommunikation spelar en viktig roll i kulturen och är en stor del av relationen mellan individer. Kommmunikation är en grundbult i sjuksköterskans arbete och är av högsta vikt för att kunna erbjuda en patientcentrerad och säker vård. Transkulturell medvetenhet är essentiellt för god vård, speciellt som världen blir alltmer mångkulturell. Såväl sjukvårdsturism som utökade globala samarbeten inom Hälso- och sjukvården ökar kraven på kulturell kompetens bland sjuksköterskor. Indien är ett föregångarland inom sjukvårdsturism och människor från olika kulturell bakgrund reser dit för sjukvård. Metod: Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med 12 sjuksköterskor mellan 23 och 53 år från två indiska sjukhus. Sjuksköterskorna möter ofta patienter med olika kulturell bakgrund. En tematisk innehållsanalys utfördes på det insamlade materialet. Resultat: Två tematiska inriktningar framkom från materialet; ett tema med fokus på praktiska verktyg och tekniker för att arbeta med patienter med annan kulturell bakgrund och det andra temat handlar om att bibehålla vårdkvaliteten. Utökade språkkunskaper och kommunikationsverktyg skulle underlätta sjuksköterskans arbete. Kulturell medvetenhet leder till ett ökat självförtroende hos sjuksköterskan och hjälper denna förutse eventuella behov hos patienten. Slutsats: Transkulturell medvetenhet och kommunikationsverktyg bidrar till en säkrare och mer effektiv vård. Sjuksköterskeutbildningen behöver lägga mer fokus på kulturell mångfald inom hälso- och sjukvård. Mer forskning krävs inom detta område då vården globaliseras allt mer.
Aim: The aim of the study was to gain a deeper understanding of interpersonal communication as experienced by nurses working in culturally diverse hospitals in India. Background: Communication is an important part of culture and a base in any interpersonal relationship. Communication is a foundation in the nursing occupation in order to give patient centered care which is safe and effective. Transcultural awareness in nursing is an important factor in order to give good care, especially as the world is becoming more multicultural. Medical tourism along with the expanding network of global interactions in healthcare ads to the necessity of developing culturally competent nursing care. India in one of the forerunners in medical tourism and cares for patients from many different cultural backgrounds. Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted on a sample of 12 nurses between the age of 23 and 53, working with diverse patients at two different hospitals in India. A thematic content analysis was performed. Results: The developed themes focus on specific tools and techniques for working with culturally diverse patients and how to sustain the quality of care in diverse hospital settings. Language resources and tool which aid in communication would alleviate the nurses work. Cultural knowledge helps the nurses gain confidence and foresee possible needs of the patient. Conclusion: Highlighting transcultural interpersonal communication techniques within nursing leads to a safer and more productive practice of nursing care. Nursing education needs to prioritize cultural diversity in health care. More research needs to be conducted on the subject of interpersonal communication in culturally diverse hospital settings since healthcare is a continuously growing globalized organization.

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Socks, Julie Renee 1961. "Staff nurse views of important aspects of nursing practice." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277883.

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The purpose of this study was to identify what registered nurses employed in hospitals perceived to be important to their nursing practice. Staff nurse opinions were analyzed to explore similarities and differences between demonstration and comparison sits, and demonstration sties over time, during early implementation of the Differentiated Group Professional Practice (DGPP) model. An exploratory/descriptive design was used to analyze the content of written responses to one open-ended question. Nurses on the demonstration units expressed fewer responses related to administrative and nursing management support and more responses related to lack of recognition from nursing management, continuing education, pay related to responsibility, non-nursing tasks, and group cohesion. Results supported the conceptual framework of the DGPP model. Additional categories revealed by the analysis included administration, education, interdepartmental communication, job alternatives, nursing management, physical environment, and staffing.

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Garza, Christine Seftchick. "Inferential Set Adoption by Nursing Students." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332240/.

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This study examines nursing students' adoption of inferential sets in a clinical situation. The investigation determines (1) the particular inferential set(s) nursing students adopt toward a patient in a clinical situation; (2) the particular inferential set(s) adopted by sophomore and senior nursing students in a clinical situation; and (3) whether or not inferential sets adopted by the sophomore and senior nursing students differ. Sophomore and senior nursing students at a woman's university in Texas were asked to complete a research tool designed to determine inferential set adoption.

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Sundberg, Sharon Eloise. "The effect of a relationship-building activity on nursing student anxiety in the clinical setting." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27736.

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A pre-test post-test group design was used to determine whether student nurses who received a relationship-building intervention would rate their relationship with the instructor higher than those who received a placebo/ whether student nurses who received the intervention would have less state anxiety than those who received a placebo/ and whether there was a relationship between ratings of state anxiety and student-instructor relationships. The intervention was designed to occur over a three-day period. Data were collected from a homogenous sample of 30 control nursing students and 31 experimental nursing students. Effectiveness of the intervention was determined by measuring student anxiety levels using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger/ Gorsuch/ & Lushene/ 1970) and by measuring the student-instructor relationship using the Relationship Questionnaire (adapted from Truax & Carkhuff/ 1967). Additional data were collected from a Stressful Event Questionnaire/ a demographic data form/ and a debriefing session with participating instructors. Analysis of data indicated a treatment main effect was statistically significant. Members of the experimental group rated the perceived relationship with the instructor higher than members of the control group. There was no significant difference between groups in their ratings of anxiety. There was a trend/ however/ for those in the experimental group to have lower state anxiety than those in the control group. Correlations between the student-instructor relationship scores and the anxiety scores were low but were in the anticipated negative direction.
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Swartz, Beryldene Lucinda. "Experiencing night shift nursing: a daylight view." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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This study focused on nurses who work the night shift, and on some of the aspects of their lives. The objectives of the study were to identify and describe these experiences with specific reference to the physical, social and work-related effects.

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Hunter, Sarah Elizabeth. "The emotional and interpersonal aspects of fertility damage and/or premature menopause from cancer treatments." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/6870.

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This research constitutes the first New Zealand study to explore the emotional and interpersonal aspects of fertility damage and/or premature menopause from cancer treatments. Using a qualitative approach, the study provides an in-depth exploration and interpretation of how seventeen women, with varied cancer diagnoses, experienced these ongoing and life-changing effects of their cancer treatments, using the theory of chronic sorrow as the conceptual framework.This method enabled a deeper understanding than could be attained using a different approach. The theory of chronic sorrow provided an opportunity to recognize and explore aspects of these women’s experiences that have not been explored previously in this group of cancer survivors. Data for the study were collected through semi-structured interviews with 17 New Zealand women. The data were analysed using general inductive analysis techniques. For fourteen of the seventeen participants, the cancer diagnosis and treatment resulted in often significant disruptions to their lives, identities and intimate relationships, in response to which they struggled, to varying degrees, with ongoing emotional distress. In addition, the findings showed a notable increase in distress associated with engagement with processes such as fertility preservation, assisted reproductive technologies, adoption and surrogacy. The remaining three participants, however, described positive responses and personal growth, suggesting the possibility of such responses for other people in similar situations. Further to this, health professionals did not adequately provide, allow or encourage discussions about issues related to fertility and premature menopause, which contributed to the difficulties and distress described by some participants. While the distress described in this study can be interpreted as a normal and understandable response to the losses and life disruptions these participants had experienced, this does not suggest that the amelioration of this distress should not be attended to by health professionals through appropriate screening, diagnostic and intervention activities. Despite the suggestion that the participants were objectively cancer-free, physically well and functioning normally, many continued to suffer considerably in the aftermath of cancer and its treatment.

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Leadbitter, Kathy. "Unpacking Joint Attention : Instrumental and Interpersonal Aspects of Social Communication in Verbal Children with Autism." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531702.

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Soares, Daniela Arruda. "Competência interpessoal no cuidado de pessoas com diabetes: percepção de enfermeiras(os)." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFBA, 2008. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/9551.

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Este estudo versa sobre a percepção de enfermeiras sobre competência interpessoal no cuidado de pessoas com diabetes. Tem natureza qualitativa, do tipo exploratório, cujos objetivos foram apreender a percepção de enfermeiras (os) que cuidam de pessoas com diabetes sobre competência interpessoal e caracterizar a relação interpessoal entre ambos. Constituíram os sujeitos deste estudo onze enfermeiras (os) que exerciam suas atividades no Programa de Saúde da Família, na zona urbana, no município de Vitória da Conquista-BA, no período de fevereiro a julho de 2006. Para coleta dos dados utilizou-se entrevista semiestruturada e observação sistemática e não-participante. O conteúdo foi analisado e categorizado por meio da análise temática norteada por Bardin, tendo por base os pressupostos de Moscovici sobre competência interpessoal e a teoria de Travelbee sobre a relação pessoa-a-pessoa. Os resultados da entrevista apontaram que as percepções das (os) enfermeiras (os) acerca da competência interpessoal fundamentaram-se na habilidade de interação com o paciente e no estabelecimento de um relacionamento interpessoal efetivo, o que coaduna com as proposições teóricas acerca da temática em questão. Ainda caracterizaram os relacionamentos interpessoais como formas de relacionamentos eficazes com os pacientes, além de esses relacionamentos apresentarem elementos facilitadores e limitadores para sua consecução. Como elementos facilitadores mencionaram a confiança, o respeito, o interesse, a compreensão, a comunicação, a empatia e o conhecimento científico; e como limitadores as condições de trabalho inadequadas, as falhas no processo comunicativo, a resistência do paciente às mudanças e a falta de preparo profissional. Já nas observações feitas, o papel instrumental do profissional ficou evidente, enquanto as questões subjetivas mais distantes e, o seguimento de uma rotina de trabalho centrada fortemente na tarefa, ficou mais próximo do quotidiano cuidativo/relacional desses profissionais. Assim, com o fito de desenvolver a competência interpessoal nas (os) enfermeiras (os) que cuidam de pessoas com diabetes, é importante e necessário preencher as lacunas de informação, conhecimento e reflexão delas (es), bem como suas implicações para o contexto pessoal, profissional e para o paciente, e dos recursos necessários para sua mobilização.
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Waugh, L. A. "Spiritual aspects of nursing : a descriptive study of nurses' perceptions." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 1992. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7396.

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This descriptive, exploratory study examines nurses' perceptions of spiritual care. Having reviewed the literature it became apparent that the spiritual dimension can influence health, well-being and quality of life. Moreover, the nursing literature considers spiritual care part of the nurse's role, however, guidelines for its practice are absent. Research on spiritual care, particularly of British origin, is very much in its infance and nothing is known about how British nurses perceive their role in this. A conceptual framework for giving spiritual care using the Nursing Process is, therefore, offered by the researcher, although this still requires testing. The study, believed to be the first of its kind in Britain, ascertain how nurses, working in care of the elderly hospitals in Scotland, perceived spiritual need and spiritual care and professed to have given this care in practice. This was achieved by distributing a purpose designed postal questionnaire to the population of nurses (n=1170) in 1991. A response rate of 67.8% (n=793) was achieved, 58.5% (n=685) of questionnaires being usable. In addition, factors which appeared to influence the spiritual care nurses were identified. Initially clues to possible factors were obtained by conducting a certain statistical analysis using nurses' responses in the questionnaires. Further exploration of factors influencing spiritual care took place through interviewing a sample (n=12) of nurses. Findings revealed that nurses in the larger sample (n=685) seemed able to identify patients' spiritual needs and evaluate the care given, mainly through using non-verbal / indirect verbal cues displayed by patients. Nurses were, however, less willing / able to personally respond to these needs. Whereas for some nurses their reluctance to respond to patients' spiritual needs may have been due to their disclaim of responsibility for spiritual care, for others it seemed to be due to feelings of inadequacy. Charge nurses claiming religious affiliation and working on varied wards in certain geographical locations were most likely to have claimed to have identified patients' spiritual needs. However, it seemed, from the limited sample interviewed, that personal characteristics of the nurse were perhaps more important than the forementioned factors in determining the spiritual care given. Furthermore, factors relating to other professionals, the ward environment and the patient appeared to influence the way in which spiritual care was given to patients. The limitations of the study are acknowledged and the implications of the findings discussed. Given the descriptive nature of the study its prescriptive function is limited which highlights the need for further research in this important area of patient care.

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Hermansson, Hélène. "Ethical aspects of risk management." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Philosophy and History of Technology, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3948.

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The subject of this thesis is ethical aspects of risk management. It is argued that a model for risk management needs to be developed that acknowledges several ethical aspects and most crucial among these, the individual’s right not to be unfairly exposed to risks.

Article I takes as its starting point the demand frequently expressed in the risk literature for a consistent risk management. Such consistency is often assumed to be in accordance with some kind of cost-benefit analysis. It is maintained that such a model, here called the Standard Model, does not respect the rights of the individual. Two alternative models are outlined in order to better deal with this ethical weakness, the Model of Inviolable Rights and the Model of Procedural Justice. The arguments in the alternative models evolve around the separateness of individuals, rights and fair risk taking. It is claimed that the latter model, which focuses on a fair procedure, seems most fruitful to develop.

Article II is a discussion of the NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) conflict, which is well known from situations of siting potentially risky facilities. Of special concern is to investigate what the ethical premises are behind the negative characterization of the NIMBY concept. It is argued that, contrary to the assumption that the total benefit should outweigh the individual’s cost, individuals in siting scenarios have rights not to be unfairly exposed to risks.

Article III, which is co-authored with Professor Sven Ove Hansson, presents a three party model as a tool for ethical risk analysis. It is argued that ethical dimensions need to be acknowledged in the analysis of risks and that this is best done through a discussion of three parties that are involved in risk decisions – the risk-exposed, the beneficiary, and the decisionmaker. Seven crucial ethical questions are recognized and discussed regarding the relation between these parties. By using examples from the railway sector it is shown how the questions can be used to identify salient ethical features of risk management problems.

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Dorse, Aletta Jacomina. "Legal and ethical aspects of nursing practice in selected private hospitals in the Western Cape Metropolitan Area." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/937.

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Grancea, Erica Liana. "Aspects of sequence and preference organization in Romanian telephone conversations." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1693061471&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Parkinson, Camillus-Anthony. "'Caritative wisdom' : the sacramental presence of the nurse : a metaphorical tapestry capturing the spirit embodied in practice - an ontology of nurses' meaningful experiences /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09php2475.pdf.

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Meier, Katharine. "A realistic evaluation of a tool to assess the interpersonal skills of pre-registration nursing students." Thesis, City University London, 2012. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/2097/.

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Wicks, Loretta Ashley. "Instrumental and affective aspects of elderly parent-adult child relationships in blacks and whites /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487261553056265.

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Akyunus-ince, Miray. "Cognitive Aspects Of Personality Disorders: Influences Of Basic Personality Disorders, Cognitive Emotion Regulation, And Interpersonal Problems." Phd thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614048/index.pdf.

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The purpose of the study was to examine the influences of basic personality traits, cognitive emotion regulation and interpersonal problems on the cognitive aspects of personality disorders. 1298 adult participants (411 males and 887 females) between the ages of 18 and 68 (M = 26.85, sd = 7.95) participated in the study. In the first part of the study, Inventory of Interpersonal Problems was adapted to Turkish, and psychometric properties of the adapted inventory as well as Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and Personality Belief Questionnaire were analyzed and were found to have good validity and reliability characteristics. Differences in demographic variables and correlational data for the measures were examined. Direct and mediational models were used to investigate the relationship among basic personality traits, cognitive emotion regulation, interpersonal problems and personality disorder beliefs. The results revealed that openness and neuroticism were associated with positive and negative emotion regulation, respectively. Neuroticism, negative valence and catastrophization were associated with interpersonal problems positively whereas extraversion was associated with them negatively. In terms of personality psychopathology, neuroticism, catastrophization, blaming others, and being cold and domineering in relations were found to be positively associated with personality disorder beliefs. Furthermore, the effect of neuroticism and negative valence on personality disorder beliefs was mediated by interpersonal problems, with the effect of negative valence also being mediated by negative cognitive emotion regulation. The findings and their implications with suggestions for future research and clinical applications, were discussed in the light of relevant literature.

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Dodd, Margaret A. "A descriptive study of interpersonal behavior of inmates confined to a detention center." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/539807.

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The Indiana institutions are bursting at the seams. It has become necessary for local communities to keep nonviolent offenders in county jails or place them on probation. Correctional caseworkers are responsible for providing counseling to a significant number of juvenile and adult offenders; therefore, it is necessary that counselors in the criminal justice system examine any significant interpersonal behavior patterns of offenders.The purpose of the research was to identify the unique interpersonal needs behavior pattern of inmates incarcerated in an adult detention center and the ways in which these needs change from the point of initial incarceration. The ways in which the interpersonal needs of inmates deviate from and are similar to those of the general population also were identified. William C. Schutz's Fundamental Interpersonal Relations orientation--Behavior, was the testing instrument used for pre and post-testing of inmates.Chapter One justifies the study and previews the need for a study of this nature. Chapter Two is a review of existing literature which explores both advocates and detractors of Schutz's FIRO-B theory. Chapter Three discusses the method, subjects, testing site, testing procedures and testing instrument used in this research. Chapter Four incorporates results of the tests and discusses the inmate profiles developed through this research. Chapter Five summarizes the research, discusses possible Programs to be utilized by criminal justice practitioners, and makes recommendations for future research and application of FIRO-B.
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