Despite scholarly debate on the topic of success, how women define career success remains unclear. For many decades, research on the concept of success has largely used quantitative methods to assess the external aspects of success in a male-dominated culture. Using a total of 18 articles from 1999 to 2020, this qualitative meta-synthesis aims to gain detailed insights into women’s definitions of career success and to capture their perspectives on the barriers they face. A systematic search was conducted across four databases: Sociological Abstracts, SocINDEX, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar. This study is novel in that it is the first synthesized research that qualitatively studies the concept of career success. From this review, three distinct themes regarding women’s definition of career success emerged: (1) having support, (2) having accomplishments, and (3) feeling belonging. This article also establishes three themes regarding the obstacles to women’s career path toward success: (1) work–family/work–life imbalance, (2) gender bias/gender discrimination, and (3) the lack of mentors and role models. In contrast to previous research, the findings of this qualitative meta-synthesis indicate that while women define career success individually, they acknowledge that the professional objective aspects of success are important or even central to them in their life. The limitations of the study are noted, and the implications and future research directions are discussed.
Our aim in this qualitative study was to explore the meaning and experiences of transgender youth in their everyday interactions. Participants included 24 transgender youth from Yazd and Isfahan Cities (Iran). We selected participants through purposeful sampling method. Research data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The interview transcripts were analyzed using theoretical coding techniques. The results showed that transgender people like to present their favorite identity in behaviors, wearing and social appearances, their social and domestic acceptance is deferred as the society defines transgender as a taboo and ostracizes persons. They felt themselves in a converse body and under pressure for coexistence by peers and neighbors. They attempt to save their desired identity through daydreaming and performing identity role in solitude.
Background: People and communities answer to cancer, like other diseases, due to their cultures, norms, and values. At the personal and family level, the unfamiliarity of the disease can cause many issues for a person. These conditions alter the patient's daily functions, roles, and emotions. Efforts to manage emotions and form behaviors become processes of bonding between the disease's body and social experiences. The aim of this research was to explore the emotions of cancer patients by discovering their meaning and interpretation.
Methods: This research was handled in a qualitative approach utilizing the grounded theory method. Semi-structured interviews were done with 17 cancer patients and their caregivers. Participants were chosen by the purposive sampling method (snowball), and the data provided from the interview after implementation were analyzed by the theoretical coding method.
Results: The findings constructed in 5 main categories including: helplessness in notification, expectation of continuous empathy, admission delay, desire for emotional retrieval and social distress. At last, "suspense of emotions" was constructed as the major phenomenon that was experienced by cancer patients.
Conclusion: Due to the findings of the research, patients' confusion in the face of cancer and their special conditions creates a sort of coping with the situation which prevents the achievement of stability and early concepts, and until reaching relatively established conditions, the patient and those close to them are suspended for some time. This condition puts their emotions in a volatile situation, which brings the experience of suspending emotions.
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