This qualitative study sought to describe the experiences of five male and five female individual... more This qualitative study sought to describe the experiences of five male and five female individuals who have experienced bereavement before reaching the age of 18, experiencing the loss of a parent between the age of 4 to 17. The participants’ lived experiences and their worldviews were the principal factors explored. Additionally, factors such as their attributions and coping mechanisms were considered. The following dominant themes were identified: the need for an immediate maturity, impairment in tackling significant life events resulting from their parent’s absence, observed gender differences in coping, and their positive worldviews. Their shared positive appraisal constituted the suggested theory, referred to by the researchers in this study as Affirmative Response Action Theory. The theory proposed described how the participants in this study took positive action as a response to grief from the early loss of a parent, not only in affirming the consequences of the death itself, but also of the need for their immediate maturity and accepting a sense of responsibility for the loss, all of which were done in a resilient fashion.
The advent of new technology has required people to disclose personal information. As social inte... more The advent of new technology has required people to disclose personal information. As social interaction tools, SNS (Social Networking Sites) are influenced by people’s willingness to post information about themselves; some users may be more inclined to engage in Self-disclosure than others (Loiacono, 2015). The purpose of this study was to construct a reliable questionnaire of idiographic (30-item) and nomothetic (10-item and 15-item) researches which comprised of 350 respondents. The constructed idiographic instrument obtained a Cronbach's Alpha of α=.926 and the nomothetic instrument with a Cronbach's Alpha of α=.893. Majority of the items (n=9) retained in the nomothetic instrument involved divulging personal information between an individual and an organization, and these items reflected a low-level of self-disclosure, which the researcher suggests that in such interactions between entities, disclosure of information is an important function of such interaction. Thus both the individual and an organization are vigilant about the nature and the extent of information to be disclosed.
This qualitative study sought to describe the experiences of five male and five female individual... more This qualitative study sought to describe the experiences of five male and five female individuals who have experienced bereavement before reaching the age of 18, experiencing the loss of a parent between the age of 4 to 17. The participants’ lived experiences and their worldviews were the principal factors explored. Additionally, factors such as their attributions and coping mechanisms were considered. The following dominant themes were identified: the need for an immediate maturity, impairment in tackling significant life events resulting from their parent’s absence, observed gender differences in coping, and their positive worldviews. Their shared positive appraisal constituted the suggested theory, referred to by the researchers in this study as Affirmative Response Action Theory. The theory proposed described how the participants in this study took positive action as a response to grief from the early loss of a parent, not only in affirming the consequences of the death itself, but also of the need for their immediate maturity and accepting a sense of responsibility for the loss, all of which were done in a resilient fashion.
The advent of new technology has required people to disclose personal information. As social inte... more The advent of new technology has required people to disclose personal information. As social interaction tools, SNS (Social Networking Sites) are influenced by people’s willingness to post information about themselves; some users may be more inclined to engage in Self-disclosure than others (Loiacono, 2015). The purpose of this study was to construct a reliable questionnaire of idiographic (30-item) and nomothetic (10-item and 15-item) researches which comprised of 350 respondents. The constructed idiographic instrument obtained a Cronbach's Alpha of α=.926 and the nomothetic instrument with a Cronbach's Alpha of α=.893. Majority of the items (n=9) retained in the nomothetic instrument involved divulging personal information between an individual and an organization, and these items reflected a low-level of self-disclosure, which the researcher suggests that in such interactions between entities, disclosure of information is an important function of such interaction. Thus both the individual and an organization are vigilant about the nature and the extent of information to be disclosed.
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