Ambivalent Feelings Research Articles

“The subtle sense of the Great Absolute”1:D. H. Lawrence and the Nomadic Godhead

Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation is first and foremost Lawrence’s revelation of his ambivalent feelings towards The Bible: From earliest years right into manhood, like any other nonconformist child I had the Bible poured every day into my helpless consciousness, till there came almost a saturation point. […] So that today, although I have “forgotten” my Bible, I need only begin to read a chapter to realise that I “know” it with an almost nauseating fixity. And I must confess, my firs...

Consumer acceptance of personalised nutrition: The role of ambivalent feelings and eating context.

Providing dietary suggestions based on an individual's nutritional needs may contribute to the prevention of non-communicable dietary related diseases. Consumer acceptance is crucial for the success of these personalised nutrition services. The current study aims to build on previous studies by exploring whether ambivalent feelings and contextual factors could help to further explain consumers' usage intentions regarding personalised nutrition services. An online administered survey was conducted in December 2016 with a final sample of 797 participants in the Netherlands. Different models were tested and compared by means of structural equation modelling. The final model indicated that the result of weighing personalisation benefits and privacy risks (called the risk-benefit calculus) is positively related to the intention to use personalised nutrition advice, suggesting a more positive intention when more benefits than risks are perceived. Additionally, the model suggests that more ambivalent feelings are related to a lower intention to use personalised nutrition advice. Finally, we found that the more the eating context is perceived as a barrier to use personalised nutrition advice, the more ambivalent feelings are perceived. In conclusion, the current study suggests the additional value of ambivalent feelings as an affective construct, and eating context as a possible barrier in predicting consumers' intention to use personalised nutrition advice. This implies that personalised nutrition services may need to address affective concerns and consider an individual's eating context.

‘You Can't Always Get What You Want’: The effects of winning and losing in a referendum on citizens' referendum support

In Western democracies, many citizens support the use of referendums. However, as referendums create satisfying outcomes for citizens with majority views, they could generate ambivalent feelings among voters for the minority option. Little is known about the effects of winning or losing a referendum for citizens' referendum support. This article analyses multiple-wave survey data from five referendums in Bavaria (Germany), Finland and the Netherlands. The findings show that losers' referendum support decreases in nearly all cases, but there is very limited evidence for an increase of winners' referendum support. Nevertheless, the results clearly indicate a winner-loser gap, suggesting that referendums have relatively more positive effects for winners' than for losers' referendum support. As such, this article extends previous findings of the non-stability of referendum support. As the legitimacy of democratic institutions depends upon losers' consent, these findings have important implications for the democratic potential of referendums.

Reflections on the Performance of Emotion, Masculinity, and Position Within a Prison Ethnography.

In this article, a selection of emotionally charged situations encountered while conducting an ethnographic research project in a prison in the United Kingdom are outlined and analyzed. With reference to three impressionistic field notes, the researcher's responses to interpersonal challenges, and subsequent attempts at impression management, particularly in relation to maintaining a broadly "neutral" and "credible" status are described. The challenges were experienced in the context of the researcher's position within the hierarchical and gendered nature of prison culture; it is argued that the subsequent subjective feelings of ambivalence are characteristic of the relational uncertainties found within prison settings. Reflecting on the impact of emotionally loaded interpersonal encounters helps to support and enrich the quality of the analysis and research. Furthermore, the learning from this process may help researchers undertaking fieldwork in other closed institutions with similar features and with other vulnerable populations.

'How Do We Belong?': The Perspective of 'Home' in Leila Buck's ISite

Home refers to the place where someone is raised, a place of origin, a place of belonging. This concept is for everyone lives in his own home; however, it is not the same for those who have left their countries of origin and immigrated to another countries. They will be torn between two worlds and cultures in which the question of 'How do we belong?' is crucial for them and particularly for their second generation who are born and raised away from the home of their ancestors. It is a universal case which has become very prominent recently due to the increase in numbers of immigrants, particularly from the middle east to Europe and the U.S. An example of the immigrated groups is Arab Americans who immigrated to the U.S. in the late nineteenth century. In her solo play, ISite, Leila Buck presents her personal experience as a Lebanese American searching for home to which she belongs. The play combines personal memories and experiences of her and her relatives in which the protagonist plays the role of different characters. The aim is to have an answer for the ambivalent feeling and attitude towards home of origin and the U.S. as a host country or a replaced home.

Identifying clients’ readiness for hearing rehabilitation within initial audiology appointments: a pilot intervention study

Objective: The current study sought to explore audiologists’ use of the Ida Institute Motivation Tools to help them identify clients’ readiness for change within initial assessment appointments.Design: The study involved a mixed methods intervention design. Data were collected pre- and post-training audiologists to use the Ida Motivation tools in their appointments. Appointments were video-recorded and analysed using conversation analysis. Clients and audiologists also completed questionnaires within each appointment to measure clients’ readiness-for-change.Study sample: Participants included 5 audiologists and 22 adult clients from two Audiology clinics.Results: Audiologists incorporated the Ida Motivation tools into the post-training appointments without a significant increase in appointment time. The Ida tools solicited responses from clients that displayed their ambivalence regarding hearing rehabilitation/aids within their talk. Post‐training, audiologists’ perceptions of clients’ stage of readiness were not significantly more likely to match clients’ self-reported stage on the URICA.Conclusions: The Ida Motivation tools may be useful to solicit clients’ ambivalent feelings towards hearing rehabilitation/aids, however, it is important for audiologists to actively listen for ambivalence within clients’ interactional responses to the tools in order judge clients’ readiness.

Qualitative investigation of the factors that generate ambivalent feelings in women who give birth after receiving negative results from non-invasive prenatal testing

BackgroundWomen who receive negative results from non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) may find that they later have mixed or ambivalent feelings, for example, feelings of accepting NIPT and regretting undergoing the test. This study aimed to investigate the factors generating ambivalent feelings among women who gave birth after having received negative results from NIPT.MethodsA questionnaire was sent to women who received a negative NIPT result, and a contents analysis was conducted focusing on ambivalent expressions for those 1562 women who responded the questionnaire. The qualitative data gathered from the questionnaire were analyzed using the N-Vivo software package.ResultsEnvironmental factors, genetic counseling-related factors, and increased anticipatory anxiety, affected the feeling of ambivalence among pregnant women. Furthermore, pregnant women desired more information regarding the detailed prognosis for individuals with Down syndrome and living with them and/or termination, assuming the possibility that they were positive.ConclusionsThree major interrelated factors affected the feeling of ambivalence in women. Highlighting and discussing such factors during genetic counseling may resolve some of these ambivalences, thereby enhancing the quality of decisions made by pregnant women.

The Title of the Collection of Yu Dafu «沉论》(1921) as an Image of Perception and Self-perception

The relevance of the research is determined by the interest of modern literary criticism to the issues of reflection in the artistic word of the processes of perception of each other by ethnic groups. The novelty of the work is defined by the appeal to the previously unpublished in Russia and not studied text of the collection by Yu Dafu Chen Lun as a source of reconstruction of the image of Japan's perception by the Chinese intelligentsia of the 1920s-1940s and self-perception. The problem of the research is to reconstruct the semantic content of the Chinese lexeme 沉 论 （Chen Lun) as an artistic concept of the image of Japan's perception and self-perception of the Chinese living there. The purpose of the work is to explicate the ideological and psychological mechanisms of creating images of perception and self-perception of the Chinese in the prose of Yu Dafu as a representative of the Left Wing of Chinese literature in the 1920s-1940s. The methodology of the work is based on a comparative analysis of the ideological and thematic content of the book and the semantics of the title of the collection, translations of these titles into Russian and English in different historical periods. The author uses historical-literary, comparative-historical methods, lexical-semantic analysis, comparative analysis of translation and translations with the original, conceptual analysis. On the basis of a comparative analysis of Russian and English translations of story titles (〇mut - Whirlpool), a lexical and semantic analysis of the word 沉论， key concepts and ideas of the collection, the author proposes another version of the translation into Russian as Pogryazshie (Drowned). The heroes of the Yu Dafu collection are young reflective Chinese intellectuals who came to Japan in the mid-1910s, have ambivalent feelings: the desire to see in Japan and the Japanese a model for self-improvement, and at the same time - dislike for the “higher” culture in relation to China. This study helps to reconstruct with psychological certainty the image of perception of Japan and the Japanese by revolutionary-minded Chinese youth of the 1920s, to explicate their image of self-perception, ideas about their own ethnos and ways of development of the Chinese state and Chinese ethnicity in this historical period. Keywords: literary images of perception, poetics of translation, China, Japan

The Starving Student Narrative: How Normalizing Deprivation Reinforces Basic Need Insecurity in Higher Education

The starving student narrative is a well-known colloquial idiom to describe student struggle in higher education. This rhetoric masks the reality of basic need insecurity for students and normalizes food insecurity and homelessness. This qualitative study explores the experiences of 213 students who experienced homelessness and food insecurity. Findings show that students experiencing basic need insecurity reported detrimental impacts on their educational success, and their physical, mental, and emotional health. Students described feelings of shame and ambivalence as they strived to meet their needs using their own resourcefulness. Study findings provide insight on how the starving student narrative influenced students’ perceptions of selves and help-seeking and how or if they accessed support services to mitigate basic need insecurity.

The Arabic and Hebrew versions of the caregiving ambivalence scale (CAS): examining its reliability, validity, and correlates among Israeli caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease

Objectives: Providing care for family members with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) might awaken ambivalent feelings in caregivers. This topic, however, has received little research attention. Having reliable and valid scales is a first step in expanding our knowledge in this area, particularly among different cultural groups, as ambivalent emotions have been found to be dependent on culture. Thus, the aims of this study were (1) to test the reliability and validity of the Caregiving Ambivalence Scale (CAS) among Israeli Jewish and Arab caregivers of individuals with AD and (2) to examine the contribution of caregivers’ ethnocultural affiliation (Jewish/Arab) to the experience of ambivalent feelings.Methods: Structured face-to-face interviews were conducted with 370 family caregivers (adult children and spouses) of elderly people with AD. Approximately half of the participants (55.3%) were Israeli Jews (79.5% female; 61.3% adult children; mean age = 65.52), and the rest (44.7%) were Israeli Arabs (87.4% female; 72% adult children; mean age = 54.28).Results: Our findings indicated that the CAS has good-to-excellent internal reliability and validity both in Hebrew and Arabic. Additionally, as expected, ethnocultural affiliation (Jewish/Arab) made a unique – although modest – contribution to the explanation of ambivalence as reflected in the CAS score, with Arab caregivers reporting significantly higher levels of ambivalent feelings than did Jewish caregivers.Conclusions: The CAS is a reliable and valid structured measure to assess ambivalent feelings among Arab and Jewish caregivers of individuals with AD in Israel. Cultural context is a unique factor in understanding their mixed emotions.

Who Owns What, and Why? The Origins of Issue Ownership Beliefs

Most research on issue ownership examines the topic as an independent variable that may shape campaign strategy or voter behavior. In contrast, our study looks at ownership as a dependent variable. Specifically, we employ a national Internet survey of registered U.S. voters to gauge the extent to which such judgments are influenced by individual‐level factors other than partisan identity. We find that while partisanship shapes ownership beliefs to a considerable degree, policy preferences and performance evaluations have significant effects across a range of valence and position issues. While feelings of ambivalence toward the in‐ or out‐party do not have a consistent effect on ownership beliefs, higher out‐party ambivalence reduces the probability that citizens will identify their own party as owning most issues. It is therefore premature, and probably incorrect, to assume that perceived ownership is little more than an expression of a person's partisan attachment or intended vote.Related ArticlesBernick, Ethan M., and Nathan Myers. 2012. “Issue Salience, Party Strength, and the Adoption of Health‐Care Expansion Efforts.” Politics & Policy 40 (1): 131‐159. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2011.00340.xGrossmann, Matt. 2014. “The Varied Effects of Policy Cues on Partisan Opinions.” Politics & Policy 42 (6): 881‐904. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12102Kim, Eun Kyung. 2019. “Issue Ownership and Strategic Policy Choice in Multiparty Africa.” Politics & Policy 47 (5): 956‐983. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12327Related MediaBrenan, Megan. 2019. “Democrats Maintain Favorability Edge over Republicans.” September 30. https://news.gallup.com/poll/267122/democrats-maintain-favorability-edge-republicans.aspxHook, Janet. 2018. “Tax Overhaul Remains Unpopular, Poll Shows.” April 16. https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-overhaul-remains-unpopular-poll-shows-1523912555Pew Research Center. 2015. “GOP’s Favorability Rating Takes a Negative Turn.” July 23. https://www.people-press.org/2015/07/23/gops-favorability-rating-takes-a-negative-turn/

The experiences of colorectal cancer patients in postoperative recovery: integrative review

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the experiences and needs of colorectal cancer patients during postoperative recovery. Design/methodology/approach This study is an integrative review, conducted by CINAHL, PubMed, ScienceDirect and ThaiJO from 2009 to 2019. Ten research articles published have been selected by PRISMA process. Findings Results show the experiences of colon cancer patients during postoperative recovery consisted of four themes, namely suffering, decreased activity, ambivalent feeling and need of caring. Research limitations/implications The health care personnel should be aware of these experiences and give holistic care in order to let the patients free from unpleasant experiences and receive the responses which really meet their needs. Originality/value Knowledge about the experience and needs of colorectal cancer patients after surgery is of great benefit to healthcare providers who are planning the care, so as to achieve complete holistic care in the future research.

Women's Caregiving Experience of Older Persons Living With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias and Multiple Chronic Conditions: Using Wuest's Theory.

IntroductionCare of persons living with chronic conditions rests heavily on women within the context of the family. Research demonstrates that women experience more caregiving strain compared to men, yet less is known about the differences in experiences between women carers: namely, wives and daughters.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to examine and compare the experiences of wife and daughter carers of older adults living with Alzheimer disease and related dementias, plus at least two other chronic conditions.MethodsUsing qualitative description with Wuest’s feminist caring theory of precarious ordering as an analytic framework, interview transcripts of women carer participants who were from the control group of a larger multi-site mixed methods study evaluating the web-based intervention My Tools 4 Care were analyzed.FindingsBoth wives and daughters experienced daily struggles, altered prospects, and ambivalent feelings around their caring role. Negotiating the role of professional carer was an important part of balancing caring demands and anticipating the future, and women took an active role in trying to harness caring resources. Findings indicated wives and daughters were generally similar in how they described their caregiving, although daughters reported more shared caring and decision-making, and needed to balance paid employment with caregiving.ConclusionWives and daughters face similar challenges caring for persons with a dementia and multiple chronic conditions, and actively engage in strategies to manage caring demands. The findings illuminate the importance of accessible, appropriate support from professional carers/health care providers, and suggest that assistance navigating such supports would benefit women carers.

Experience of pregnancy and maternity by adolescents/young people born infected with HIV.

to understand the experience of pregnancy and motherhood by adolescents/young people who were born infected with HIV. we carried out a qualitative study specialized in HIV service in Porto Alegre (RS/Brazil). Ten adolescents/young people were interviewed from June 2017 to March 2018. Thematic analysis was performed, using a vulnerability framework to reflect about unplanned pregnancy and its implications for care. four categories were highlighted: Discovery of the ongoing pregnancy: ambivalent feelings towards seropositivity; Breaking the news of the pregnancy to partner, family and health professionals; Experience of childbirth and prophylaxis of vertical transmission of HIV; and Experience of motherhood: implications for life stories and future projects. the study contributes to addressing situations of vulnerability to the occurrence of unplanned pregnancy, showing the need for dialogical proposals that respect human rights in the production of comprehensive care and reproductive planning.

The Phenomenon of Fanaticism

The paper describes the model shape of fanaticism. It defines fanaticism as a willing enslavement of personality and analysed the following features of it: intentionality, missionary attitude, being in love, intolerance, ability to satisfy ambivalent desires for objectivization and for subjectivization, and ability to evoke ambivalent feelings: moral condemnation and the feeling of admiration.

ŽANROVSKA POLIVALENTNOST PRIPOVEDANjA IVANE DIMIĆ (ZBIRKA KRATKIH PRIČA „POPIS IMOVINE“ I ROMAN „ARZAMAS“ IVANE DIMIĆ)

Genre diversity that is characteristic of Ivana Dimić’s opus becomes evident in the structure of her works – in her collection of short stories List of assets, short stories are followed by drama, while on the other hand, in her novel Arzamas short stories alternate with drama parts. It is important to emphasize that genre variety becomes the theme of both works. Short stories included in the collection have a specific form – the point is set at the beginning of the narration, the narrator, who is the author herself, starts the narration in medias res, and some of the stories have a fairy tale opener and are often allegorical. In her novel, the author uniformly models the short stories by choosing in medias res technique as dominant and by giving advantage to the theme that prevails in both of her works – the relationship between love and death which often leads to ambivalent feelings of the narrator.

A incerteza na pessoa em situação crítica: contributos para um cuidar holístico e humanizado

Introduction: The proximity to life´s threat triggers the person’s feelings of uncertainty, being this the psychological stressor with greater influence in critical situation. Objectives: To know the impact of the uncertainty experienced by the critically ill person and, inherently, how to direct the nursing care in this scope. Methods: Integrative literature review. Results: Pejorative and ambivalent feelings are associated with uncertainty. Being away from significant people, inability to influence one’s own care, among others, fosters it. Their appreciation translates into a new life purpose. Coping mechanisms help in the adaptive process. Conclusion: Knowing the impact of uncertainty in the critically ill person refers to directing nursing care in order to maximize adaptation, namely by optimizing the structure providers and framework stimuli of the person’s, involving her in their own care, and promoting coping strategies

Ambivalence in the Woods: Baltimore Resident Perceptions of Local Forest Patches

Wild urban forests may elicit positive and negative emotions, both at a community level and within an individual. This paper examines resident perceptions and use of local forest patches in Baltimore, Maryland across four case study neighborhoods selected for differences in homeownership and forest patch management. Semi-structured interview data reveal residents’ strongly ambivalent attitudes toward urban wilderness across all study sites with only nuanced differences in perceptions based on homeownership and management regime. Baltimore residents living adjacent to forest patches were found to experience some of the restorative benefits associated with immersion in wild nature, even when they do not actually enter the woods. Positive experiences were balanced by negative emotions resulting from the perception that urban wilderness is chaotic and unpredictable. These ambivalent feelings may influence the benefits derived from these urban green spaces, as well as local residents’ desires for their future structure and function as social-ecological spaces.

Breaking the boundaries of professional regulation: medical licensing, foreign influence, and the consolidation of homeopathy in Mexico.

As doctors sought state support to regulate professional training and practice after Independence, Mexicans also developed different attitudes toward foreign ideas, influences, and professionals. Leveraging the allure of the foreign among Mexicans, homeopaths strategically used work, products, and organizations from abroad to establish their practices and fight changing professional policies in the country that threatened homeopathic institutions. Homeopaths inhabited the blurry and shifting boundary between professional and lay medical practice during the early Republican period, the Porfiriato, and the post-revolutionary era, and used the ambivalent feelings about medical licensing, and foreign influence in Mexican society to consolidate their position.

Partners' Experiences of Living with A Man who has A Screening-Detected Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Qualitative Interview Study

Introduction: To be diagnosed with a chronic disease affects the patients as well as their partners' lives in different aspects. Partners of people with chronic diseases have previously reported emotional distress, fear for the future, depression, anxiety and feelings of powerlessness [1]. Screening programs for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), mainly for men, have been introduced in several countries to reduce the mortality rate [2, 3]. Although the awareness of having an AAA influences the individuals' quality of life (QOL) and well-being it is still unclear how it affects the partners' lives [4-7]. Therefore, the aim of this study was to describe partners' experiences of living together with a man diagnosed with an AAA through screening and attending regular follow-ups. Methods: A qualitative descriptive approach was used to describe the partners' experiences of living with a man diagnosed with an AAA £55. Twenty-one individual semi-structured interviews were conducted between August 2017 to February 2018.The data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis inspired by Miles and Huberman. Chunks were selected from the data with significance to the aim. The chunks were inductively coded and codes that had the same meaning were grouped together and formulated categories [8]. Results: Three categories were identified, Experiencing the unexpected, Being constantly reminded of fragility and Balancing a change in the relationship. The partners had a positive attitude towards the screening and were pleased that their husbands were under surveillance but at the same time it caused worries and many questions. The AAAs were a constant reminder in daily activities and sometimes the partners felt limited because of the men's diagnosis. Ambivalent feelings towards a surgical treatment were described. It was in general the only solution to remove the AAA and its negative impacts but at the same time unpleasant feelings were expressed. Furthermore, the partners tried to support the men and encourage them to achieve a healthy lifestyle to prevent the AAA to increase. Conclusion: The result from this study increase the understanding of the partners' experiences of living with a man with a diagnosed AAA and its impact it has on their well-being and daily life. Recurrent in all three categories are different degrees of worry. According to the result it is of importance to include the partners in the care of the men having an AAA and to provide family -centred support. Disclosure: Nothing to disclose