Kelly's Grid Research Articles

Research on the Image Perception of Shaoguan Tourism Food Based on Kelly Grid Technology

This study takes Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province as an example to study tourists’ perception of local tourist food image. The research method uses the Kelly grid technique. Through interviews with 24 tourists who have travelled to Shaoguan, 36 key constructs are obtained, and they are divided into cognitive and emotional constructs. Seven final representative constructs are presented. After sub-analysis, it was found that Shaoguan’s tourism food development is lagging behind, the food environment needs to be improved, and the lack of representative food in the city, etc., and proposed to establish representative tourism food, improve dietary hygiene awareness, and use the Internet to increase publicity and other optimization development suggestions.

Measuring the Impact of Promotion Campaigns Intended to Educate Tourism Services Consumers from Romania Using Kelly's Theory

Decision-making in choosing tourist destinations is influenced by endogenous variables (e.g. their experiences, perceptions) and exogenous variables (e.g. education, promotion, culture, subculture, family). Kelly's Theory of Personal Constructs (TPC) argues that a subject perceives the surrounding reality in terms of their subjectivity, their own life experience. In Romania currently there are conducted educational campaigns towards domestic tourism, supported by Ministry of Tourism and Regional Development (MTRD). The TPC instrument used is Kelly's grid. We applied it to measure the perception of nationally representative Romanian tourist attractions among students of tourism specialization, the data being processed with statistical methods (principal component analysis, descriptive statistics).

Traditional Filipino Arts in Enhancing Older People's Self-Esteem in a Penal Institution

Numerous studies have tirelessly and comprehensively accounted for the effects of art as a recreational therapy on mental well-being. However, there has been no previous study on the use of TFA (Traditional Filipino Arts) in the form of Puni as an intervention in facilitating the enhancement of self-esteem of Filipino elderly in a penal institution. Capitalizing on a set of triangulated data, this descriptive phenomenological study purports to have captured the lived experiences of a select group of geriatric Filipino inmates focusing on the effects of TFA on their self-esteem. Transcribed field texts went through cool and warm analyses via a Kelly Grid. Interestingly, a continuum model emerged that revealed two major themes: The reflected and refracted images of Puni-making. The reflected images surfaced the low self-esteem status of the subjects prior to the use of Puni-making. Puni-making, as a recreational intervention, gives rise to the five Rs of the refracted images showing positive change in the subjects' self-esteem: revenue, recreation, reminiscence, reeducation, and reward. On the whole, the use of traditional Filipino arts as geriatric intervention shows its unique power as a recreational and therapeutic tool. Implications of this study to nurse education practice are discussed.

Práticas de gestão e cognição gerencial: uma análise utilizando a técnica do "Grid de Kelly"

O objetivo do presente trabalho é analisar como gestores centrais da área de produção de quatro empresas industriais, classificadas em quatro diferentes padrões de adoção de novas práticas de gestão da produção, estruturam seu conhecimento em relação a um conjunto de doze práticas. Para tanto, utilizou-se uma metodologia de mapeamento cognitivo baseada na técnica do Grid de Kelly. O sistema cognitivo dos gestores pesquisados foi tratado em função de três categorias: a diferenciação, a complexidade e a integração. Os resultados revelam que os gestores, no geral, apresentam um nível baixo de diferenciação de suas estruturas cognitivas em relação às práticas investigadas. Encontrou-se, também, um nível de complexidade maior no mapa do gestor inserido no contexto considerado Muito Inovador, indicando que seu entendimento das práticas é mais ampliado.

Interpersonal cognitive differentiation and drug of choice.

The relationship between drug abusers' level of interpersonal cognitive differentiation and preferred drug of abuse was explored. 30 subjects completed a drug-history questionnaire which provided information on the pattern and extent of drug use. Interpersonal cognitive differentiation was assessed with a modified form of Kelly's grid repertory test. Depressant abusers were significantly less differentiated than stimulant abusers. Cross-validation with a larger sample would make more interesting the implications which are discussed in the context of earlier studies.