Who says aging is lonely? A phenomenology of Filipino older adults’ experiences of happiness when joining international group tours     

Allan B. de Guzman  Trisha Mae C. Cruz  Jeanne Nicole A. Garchitorena  Jannelle K. Gatus  Ranz Paolo R. Hernandez 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(6):365-376

Across the literature, travelling has been viewed as a recurring activity for older adults and is driven by a multitude of purposes and reasons. Previous studies have probed touristic activities of older adults however, little is known about their emotional experiences specifically their sense of happiness when joining international group tours, hence this phenomenological study. A qualitative approach was utilized to gather data from a group of 15 purposively selected participants aged 60 years and above. A two-part instrument consisting of a robotfoto and a semi-structured interview was used in this study. Through vertical and horizontal analyses of the field text, this study afforded the development of The Spiraling Model of Aging Filipino Tourists’ Happiness. This model describes aging tourists’ happiness while travelling as a product of Shared Moments, Shared Culture, Shared Memories, and Shared Transcendence. Summarily, findings of this study may provide significant insights to service providers such as hotels, airlines and travel agencies across the globe in developing innovative marketing strategies that cater to this promising age group. Empirically, this study may stimulate further exploration in the field of Cognitive Psychology aimed at adding large-scale data regarding the study of emotions specifically older adults’ happiness when joining international group tours.  相似文献   

Piloting a long-term evaluation of library data workshops     

Fred Willie Zametkin LaPolla  Nicole Contaxis  Alisa Surkis 《Journal of the Medical Library Association》2021,109(3):490

Background:Over four years of hosting library data workshops, we conducted post-workshop evaluation of attendees'' satisfaction with the workshops but not longer-term follow-up. To best allocate library resources and most effectively serve the needs of our users, we sought to determine whether our data workshops were impactful and useful to our community. This paper describes a pilot project to evaluate the impact of data workshops at our academic health sciences library.Case Presentation:We surveyed individuals who signed up for data workshops between 2016 and 2019. Surveys included open-ended and multiple-choice questions, with the goal of having participants describe their motivations for taking the workshop(s) and how they ultimately used what they learned. An analysis of responses using the Applied Thematic Analysis model indicated that the workshops had an impact on the respondents, although the strength of our conclusions is limited by a relatively low response rate.Conclusions:Survey results indicated that our workshops impacted how researchers at our medical center collect and analyze data, supporting the conclusion that we should concentrate our educational efforts on providing skills-based workshops. The low response rate and time-consuming nature of the analysis point toward several improvements for future evaluation efforts, including better tracking of workshop attendees, a shorter survey with fewer open-ended questions, and survey implementation within one year of the workshop date.  相似文献   

Microfluidic cell sorter sample preparation for genomic assays     

Nicole Jagnandan  Jose Morachis 《Biomicrofluidics》2022,16(3)

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Challenges in measuring wisdom-relevant constructs in young adult undergraduate students     

Nicole Brocato  Laura Hix 《Journal of moral education》2020,49(1):46-70

ABSTRACT

University settings present a unique opportunity for young adults to develop characteristics constitutive of wisdom. One challenge for educators working to support this development involves effectively measuring these characteristics. In this article, we present results from a secondary analysis of cognitive interviews to examine challenges that may arise when young adult undergraduate students respond to self-report measures of Meaning, Identification with all Humanity and Dedication to Lifelong Service—three characteristics of personality-focused accounts of wisdom. Although the items had well-fitting exploratory and confirmatory latent variable models, between 12.5% and 87.5% of students (n = 8 for each item) provided unintended interpretations for each item. This mismatch between students’ interpretations and the intended interpretations can threaten item validity and obfuscate findings from applications such as pre-post assessments. Further research is needed to better understand the factors affecting young adults’ responses to measures of wisdom-relevant characteristics.  相似文献   

Preventive Conservation: People,Objects, Place and Time in the Philippines     

Nicole Tse  Ana Maria Theresa Labrador  Marcelle Scott  Roberto Balarbar 《文物保护研究》2018,63(5):274-281

ABSTRACT

Preventive conservation, with its origins grounded in the material fabric of cultural material, is in a period of transformation, with numerous practitioners, in and outside of the field of conservation, considering its broader and holistic objectives. The conventional tools for the assertion of preventive conservation principles, namely the assessment and management of risks to cultural material from the ‘ten agents of deterioration’, have a central focus on the primacy of physical materials and degradation, with less clear relationships with people, place, and time in their modelling. With a case study focus on collections in the Philippines, this paper argues for a practice of preventive conservation that incorporates a balanced assessment and broader thinking around the contexts of objects, people, place, and time. The case studies of ecclesiastical Church collections, and museum environments in the Philippines, demonstrate how the interdependency of objects, people, place and time forms a holistic and conceptual preventive conservation framework. Through a cyclic renegotiation of these four parameters, this paper speculates on the gaps and opportunities for an inclusive view of preventive conservation that is current and more sustainable.  相似文献   

Sexual Socialization Messages in Television Programming Produced for Adolescents     

Mona Malacane  Nicole Martins 《Mass Communication and Society》2017,20(1):23-46

This study examined sexual content in American prime-time programs popular among the tween (9–14 years of age) audience on broadcast networks and programs aired on the most popular adolescent TV networks—an understudied area of media research. Consistent with past research, the majority of broadcast shows contained sexual talk and behaviors, as did adolescent shows. No significant difference was observed between the two types of shows regarding the frequency with which sexual behaviors were presented in a given hour of TV programming. The amount of scene focus paid to sexual themes varied, but studio audiences were almost always heard positively reinforcing these messages. The findings are discussed with respect to social cognitive and cultivation theories.  相似文献   

Who Publishes More Books in U.S. English Departments,Men or Women?     

Nicole Benevento  Albert N. Greco  Toniann Pasqueralle  Clara Rodriguez  Francesca Russo  Alana M. Spendley  Kelly Sullivan  Yiming Sun  Robert M. Wharton 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2017,33(4):357-372

The “gender gap” in the U.S. publication of English language and literature scholarly books has not been fully investigated. In order to investigate gender disparity, we collected, aggregated, and analyzed data on 1633 faculty members who authored or edited 4835 scholarly books at the top 50 U.S. English Ph.D. departments. Despite the fact that more women than men have received Ph.D.s in English since 1987, the top 50 departments are predominantly male, and male faculty members publish more books on a per capita basis. However, who publishes more books in these departments varies: (1) with the department that the faculty member is in (with grater parity in the middle 30 departments); and (2) when the faculty member published their first book, with female faculty who published their first book after 1998 publishing as many books on a per person basis as male faculty. This paper also offers recommendations on how marketing strategies can be used to ameliorate the “gender gap” in this academic field.  相似文献   

Procrastination,conscientiousness, anxiety,and goals: Exploring the measurement and correlates of procrastination among school‐aged children     

Steven J. Scher  Nicole M. Osterman 《Psychology in the schools》2002,39(4):385-398

We explore the reliability and validity of a self‐report measure of procrastination and conscientiousness designed for use with third‐ to fifth‐grade students. The responses of 120 students are compared with teacher and parent ratings of the student. Confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses were also used to examine the structure of the scale. Procrastination and conscientiousness are highly correlated (inversely); evidence suggests that procrastination and conscientiousness are aspects of the same construct. Procrastination and conscientiousness are correlated with the Physiological Anxiety subscale of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, and with the Task (Mastery) and Avoidance (Task Aversiveness) subscales of Skaalvik's (1997) Goal Orientation Scales. Both theoretical implications and implications for interventions are discussed. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.  相似文献   

《暮色》:走进斯蒂芬妮·梅尔的吸血鬼世界     

Nicole Sperling  芥子 《英语辅导》2008,(11)

如果不是因为这部电影,Grace根本不知道暮光之城这套书,更不会知道原来它在美国已经热卖了好几年。只看情节,似乎看不出这个吸血鬼故事有什么特别,但能在这个吸血鬼小说、电影和电视剧泛滥的年代打出名堂,肯定有其过人之处。如果想知道《暮色》讲什么但又懒得看小说,这部电影是个不错的选择。再透露一个消息:《暮色》原定今年12月上映,但由于《哈利·波特与混血王子》的上映日期由原来的11月推迟到明年7月,于是制作《暮色》的电影公司决定填补这个空挡。如果你对小说感兴趣,还可以翻到本期的美文共享栏目读一读节选,说不定你也会喜欢上它哦。  相似文献   

Knowledge and Attitudes of Produce and Seafood Processors and Food Safety Educators Regarding Nonthermal Processes     

Lori F. Pivarnik  Nicole L. Richard  Robert K. Gable  Randy W. Worobo 《Journal of Food Science Education》2016,15(4):120-128

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