Feeling Alone

Barrell, James E.

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“…But solitude, such as that described by the participants in this study, cannot be understood only as physical isolation. As Barrel (1997) noted, in most situations, feeling alone occurs mostly when one is in the presence of others. Thus, ‘feeling alone’ is not synonymous with ‘being alone’.…”

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Sudden informal caregivers: the lived experience of informal caregivers after an unexpected event

Pereira

Botelho

2011

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Sudden informal caregivers: the lived experience of informal caregivers after an unexpected event

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Botelho

2011

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…The purpose of the present paper is to introduce the wider field to the intriguing possibilities entailed in the perspective. The interested reader is referred to important work such as Jackson and Sherriff's (2013) qualitative analysis of intergroup relations, De Castro's (2005) study of the experience of being anxious, Halling, Leifer, and Rowe's (2006) examination of the experience of forgiving another, Barrell's (1997) treatment of loneliness, Mastain's (2007) exploration of the experience of being altruistic, Sayre, Lambo, and Navarre's (2006) investigation of what it means to "be a couple," Clegg's (2012) study of the experience of feeling socially awkward, and Way and Pahl's (1999) work on friendship patterns among adolescent boys. CONCLUSION We have suggested that contemporary experimental social psychology, as the progeny of a Hempelian-positivist approach to science, suffers as a result of its heritage.…”

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The Generality of Theory and the Specificity of Social Behavior: Contrasting Experimental and Hermeneutic Social Science

2016

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Since its inception, experimental social psychology has arguably been of two minds about the nature and role of theory. Contemporary social psychology's experimental approach has been strongly informed by the "nomological-deductive" approach of Carl Hempel in tandem with the "hypothetico-deducive" approach of Karl Popper. Social psychology's commitment to this hybrid model of science has produced at least two serious obstacles to more fruitful theorizing about human experience: (1) the problem of situational specificity, and (2) the manifest impossibility of formulating meaningful general laws of human social behavior. It is argued that a social psychology based on the search for this kind of lawfulness, under the auspices of either a strict or loose interpretation of the largely Hempelian model, is ultimately unworkable. An alternative approach to social psychology that is attentive both to the need for understanding individual situations and behaviors and to the need for generalized understanding of actual human behaviors is offered. This approach is grounded in the hermeneutic tradition.Keywords: hermeneutics, nomological-deductive, contextualism, philosophy of science, Carl Hempel For much of its history social psychology has been of two minds about the nature and purpose of theory in the discipline. This is most apparent in (but not unique to) those social psychologies whose roots intertwine with experimental psychology rather than classical sociological theories. In fact, this ambivalence regarding the nature and purpose of theory is characteristic of much of contemporary psychology. We focus on social psychology here because social psychology, of

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Aging in the Shadow of Violence: A Phenomenological Conceptual Framework for Understanding Elderly Women Who Experienced Lifelong IPV

Band‐Winterstein

2015

Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect

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This article suggests a heuristic framework for understanding elderly women's "lived experience" of lifelong intimate partner violence (IPV). This framework is based on the phenomenological qualitative studies of 31 women, aged 60-83, using a semistructured interview guide. From the results, a matrix emerged built on two axes. The first axis consists of three phenomenological dimensions: suffering, a "ticking clock," and life wisdom. The second axis consists of four themes that emerged from the content analysis: loneliness, regret, being in a state of waiting, and being a living monument to perpetual victimhood. The practical implications of these phenomenological findings are then discussed.

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Feeling Alone

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Sudden informal caregivers: the lived experience of informal caregivers after an unexpected event

Sudden informal caregivers: the lived experience of informal caregivers after an unexpected event

The Generality of Theory and the Specificity of Social Behavior: Contrasting Experimental and Hermeneutic Social Science

Aging in the Shadow of Violence: A Phenomenological Conceptual Framework for Understanding Elderly Women Who Experienced Lifelong IPV

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