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From mortality to connectedness
Title
From mortality to connectedness: an experimental study of affiliation, punitiveness, and mood.
Creator
Rosenzweig, Garreth., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
Terror Management Theory posits that induced death-related cognitions lead to anxiety. To relieve anxiety, individuals may bolster their self-esteem or current cultural worldviews. The current study hypothesizes that induced thoughts of social connectedness will be an anxiety-buffering mechanism that will reduce the need to defend one's worldview. Participants watched one of two films which were intended to either induce social connectedness or have no effect on the individual. Each...
Show moreTerror Management Theory posits that induced death-related cognitions lead to anxiety. To relieve anxiety, individuals may bolster their self-esteem or current cultural worldviews. The current study hypothesizes that induced thoughts of social connectedness will be an anxiety-buffering mechanism that will reduce the need to defend one's worldview. Participants watched one of two films which were intended to either induce social connectedness or have no effect on the individual. Each participant watched a short film clip then completed measures pertaining to moral transgressions, affiliative and agentic extraversion, self-esteem, and positive and negative affect. Females who were high on affiliation were found to defend their worldviews more often than males high on affiliation following the social connectedness induction. The experimental (42-Up) condition showed lower levels of punitiveness than the control (K-Web) condition.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11602
Subject Headings
Experience, Psychological aspects, Interpersonal relations, Affect (Psychology), Mortality salience, Terror management theory
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Objective self-awareness, standards of evaluation, and moral behavior
Title
Objective self-awareness, standards of evaluation, and moral behavior.
Creator
Vallacher, Robin R., Solodky, Maurice
Date Issued
1979
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/2796533
Subject Headings
Self-perception., Psychology --Experiments., Decision making --Moral and ethical aspects.
Format
Document (PDF)
Thai nurses' lived experience of caring for persons who had a peaceful death in intensive care units
Title
Thai nurses' lived experience of caring for persons who had a peaceful death in intensive care units.
Creator
Kongsuwan, Waraporn., Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description
The objective of this study was to describe the lived experience of caring for persons who had a peaceful death in the intensive care units in Thailand. A qualitative research design informed by hermeneutic phenomenology was used to analyze data. Participants were 10 intensive care nurses working at adult intensive care units in south Thailand. A snowball purposive sampling method was used to select the participants. Participant inclusion criteria were at least six months' critical care...
Show moreThe objective of this study was to describe the lived experience of caring for persons who had a peaceful death in the intensive care units in Thailand. A qualitative research design informed by hermeneutic phenomenology was used to analyze data. Participants were 10 intensive care nurses working at adult intensive care units in south Thailand. A snowball purposive sampling method was used to select the participants. Participant inclusion criteria were at least six months' critical care nursing experience, experience in caring for a person who had peaceful death, able to describe peaceful death, and willing to participate in this study. Participants who met the inclusion criteria were interviewed. Face-to-face individual verbal interviews were conducted in the Thai language. These interviews were audiotape recorded. Descriptions were transcribed and translated for data analysis. Van Manen's (1990) hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to analyze and interpret the data. The findings of this study were presented in each of 4 categories of the lived world of temporality, of spatiality, of corporeality, and of relationality. The description of the lived experience of caring for persons who had a peaceful death in ICU was, "understanding the other through the valuing of experience and enhancing relations with others by recognizing time is short and is a priority." This study may contribute to nursing knowledge of the end-of-life care to enhance a peaceful death in intensive care units congruently with Thai culture and society. In addition, this study directs the translations of its knowledge into implications that will benefit in helping Thai nursing to move forward. The implications of this study in advance will benefit terminally ill persons and family members regarding receiving good quality end-of-life care.
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Date Issued
2009
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186331
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Intensive care nursing, Nurse and patient, Terminal care, Psychological aspects, Nursing, Practice
Format
Document (PDF)