Extended Communication Efforts Involved With College Long-Distance Relationships

Firmin, Michael W.; Firmin, Ruth L.; Merical, K.

doi:10.19030/cier.v6i1.7608

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“…The categorization was based on theoretical considerations regarding major developmental stages, namely Erikson’s ( 1950 ) psychosocial development theory and Arnett’s ( 2015 ) theory of emerging adulthood, and alignment with related research (Luhmann & Hawkley, 2016 , Rokach, 2000 , Victor & Yang, 2012 , Yang & Victor, 2011 ). Five studies included only children (0–15 years; Berguno et al, 2004 , Karnick, 2008 , Kirova-Petrova, 2000 , Kristensen, 1995 , Martin et al, 2014 ), two studies included only young adults (16–29 years; Firmin et al, 2014 , Rönkä et al, 2018 ), and eleven studies included only older adults (60 years and older; Graneheim & Lundman, 2010 , Heravi-Karimooi et al, 2010 , Kwegyir Tsiboe, 2021 , McInnis & White, 2001 , Morgan & Burholt, 2020 , Ojembe & Ebe Kalu, 2018 , Park et al, 2019 , Smith, 2012 , Sullivan et al, 2016 , Tiilikainen & Seppänen, 2017 , Wright-St Clair & Nayar, 2020 ). No studies included only middle-aged adults (30–59 years).…”

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“…Loneliness was generally described as a negative experience by participants at ages across the lifespan (Barke, 2017 , Cela & Fokkema, 2017 , Dahlberg, 2007 , Davidson, 1995 , Firmin et al, 2014 , Graneheim & Lundman, 2010 , Hemberg et al, 2021 , Heravi-Karimooi et al, 2010 , Kristensen, 1995 , Martin et al, 2014 , McInnis & White, 2001 , Ojembe & Ebe Kalu, 2018 , Park et al, 2019 , Rokach, 1988 , Rönkä et al, 2018 , Smith, 2012 , Sullivan et al, 2016 ). It was commonly depicted as painful (Dahlberg, 2007 , Heravi-Karimooi et al, 2010 , Kirova-Petrova, 2000 , Kristensen, 1995 , Kwegyir Tsiboe, 2021 , Martin et al, 2014 , Rokach, 2000 , Rönkä et al, 2018 ) and could even provoke suicidal thoughts (Graneheim & Lundman, 2010 , Hemberg et al, 2021 , Kwegyir Tsiboe, 2021 , Ojembe & Ebe Kalu, 2018 , Rönkä et al, 2018 , Tiilikainen & Seppänen, 2017 ).…”

Section: Loneliness Is An Aversive Experiencementioning

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Experiences of Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies

McKenna-Plumley

Turner

Yang

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International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Purpose Loneliness is a fundamentally subjective experience that is common at various life stages. Studies have qualitatively explored loneliness, but a comprehensive overview is lacking. This research therefore provides a fine-grained review of studies on loneliness experiences across the lifespan. Methods A systematic review and thematic synthesis were performed on studies that qualitatively investigated experiences of loneliness in people of any age from non-clinical populations. Sensitivity analysis assessed the impact of lower-quality studies and specific age groups on the findings. Results Twenty-nine studies of 1,321 participants aged between 7 and 103 were included. Fifteen descriptive themes and three overarching analytical themes were developed: (1) Loneliness is both psychological and contextual, (2) Loneliness centres on feelings of meaningful connection and painful disconnection, and (3) Loneliness can exist in a general, pervasive sense or can relate to specific other people or relationship types. Some features were particularly pertinent to children, younger adults, and older adults, respectively. Conclusions Loneliness involves a primarily aversive psychological experience of perceived disconnection which is linked to physical, personal, and socio-political contexts and can be pervasive or relate to specific relationships or relationship types. An awareness of context, life stage, and personal experiences is essential to understand loneliness.

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Section: Loneliness Is An Aversive Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Experiences of Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies

McKenna-Plumley

Turner

Yang

et al. 2023

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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“…LDRs can also force individuals to address assumptions they hold about their partners (Knee & Canevello, 2006). Consequently, how the partners navigate the LDR can influence and strengthen effective relationship building and their foundations (Firmin, Firmin, & Lorenzen Merical, 2013).…”

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Going the Distance: Understanding the Process of Maintaining a Long-Distance Relationship in Graduate School

Fletcher

2018

EJRE

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Graduate studies can be one of the most stressful periods of an individual’s life, and the added stressor of being at a distance from a significant other (SO) can complicate this issue. The partner is an important source of support and understanding during this process, and they can help alleviate stressors during this transition. Graduate students are typically not the focus of the research, and neither are the positive aspects of engaging in an long-distance relationship (LDR). Thus, this study addresses: What has been the process of maintaining an LDR while entering graduate studies? Participants were selected based on heterogenous and opportunistic sampling, and included four heterosexual, female graduate students whom were engaged in an LDR. Semi-structured interviews were utilized in conjunction with an grounded theory approach to better understand the subjective experiences of initiating, transitioning into, and maintaining an LDR while one partner undertook graduate studies. Keywords: graduate studies, grounded theory, long-distance relationship, mental health, stress

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“…111 He saw no need for learning in languages or math that he deemed relevant only to the ministry when the children might be taught "some other Useful art." 112 Firmin's skepticism of education to prepare a learned ministry made sense within his own heterodox religious vision. He was a committed critic of the doctrine of the Trinity and its place in Anglican orthodoxy, which he derided as an unintelligible provocation to ceaseless controversy.…”

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Making a Trade of Preaching: Clergy, Labor, and Political Economy between the Interregnum and Restoration

Brown¹

2023

J. Br. Stud.

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Many writers of political economy in the 1660s and 1670s agreed that there were too many clergy and divinity students in England. This surplus of ministers and aspiring clerics, they argued, would better contribute to the public if they worked as productive laborers in agriculture and manufacturing. The question of whether preaching constituted labor had been a contentious theological debate in the late years of the Interregnum, and the proposals advanced by commentators like William Petty and Edward Chamberlayne to put ministers to other work assumed that clergy were comparable to profane professionals who labored for their keep. This article traces how this fraught question continued to confront schemes of political economy that otherwise sought to avoid religious controversy. In the 1670s, Christopher Wase responded to calls to limit clergy and free schools with an innovative survey and arguments drawn from empirical evidence, scriptural exegesis, and economic principles. Wase was one among other contemporaries who assigned a productive place for learning despite its irreducibility to a form of labor. His efforts thereby elevated the status of the clergy on a foundation of economic premises arrived at through engagement in theological debate.

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Extended Communication Efforts Involved With College Long-Distance Relationships

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Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

Experiences of Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies

Experiences of Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies

Going the Distance: Understanding the Process of Maintaining a Long-Distance Relationship in Graduate School

Making a Trade of Preaching: Clergy, Labor, and Political Economy between the Interregnum and Restoration

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