Receptive Experience Research Articles

Crisis from Afar. Media Conceptualisations of Events in Brazil after the 2022 Presidential Election

The proximity (localness) of the reported events is closely correlated with their relevance to the audience of media reports—and so the fact that it may be “our business”, that the thing may also affect us, becomes crucial to the decision to deal with the topic in question, but also to the way in which it is dealt with. In this article, we are interested in media conceptualisations of a crisis that is far away, that is “alien”, “foreign”, and thus cannot be narrated through reference to social and receptive experience. We look at the ways in which the exoticisation of distant places and events can be reduced, and thus at strategies for convincing the Polish audience that these are issues that are relevant and worthy of attention. We will look at whether the divisive, deeply political fractures in media narratives also apply to the storytelling about events on the other hemisphere, and whether the ideological filters common in Polish media are also imposed on what is unknown.

How immigration detention harms children: A conceptual framework to inform policy and practice.

This paper identifies the multiple adversities and trauma experienced by children who are detained after seeking asylum. A conceptual framework identifies the specific impact of immigration detention on the psychosocial development and mental health of refugee children that can inform policy and prevent additional migration-related trauma. The paper draws on international evidence about the impact of childhood adversity, challenges faced by all displaced children, and the additional negative consequences of immigration detention. It integrates socioecological, temporal, and relational approaches to identify the pathways through which detention of forcibly displaced children causes preventable harm. The public health and human rights implications are identified. The framework draws on Bronfenbrenner's socioecological model and has the child, their development, and experience at the center. Refugee children are exposed to cumulative adversity during displacement, flight, and resettlement. Immigration detention is associated with multiple additional adversities and human rights violations. International and national contexts and the detention environment impact on family functioning and directly on the child's well-being. Immigration detention is a preventable and profoundly negative reception experience for already vulnerable children. It is unavoidably associated with multiple additional adverse exposures with significant health and public health consequences. The proposed framework demonstrates adversity in each socioecological sphere of the detained child's life and across time. The framework can inform migration, child protection, and public health policy. Advocacy and political action to end this practice are urgently required to prevent further harm. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

THANATOPHORIC DYSPLASIA: Birth, death, and the experience of family support and neonatal palliative care

Tanatophoric dysplasia is a usually lethal genetic syndrome in the perinatal period, which has a significant psychological impact on the pregnant woman and family. It necessitates careful monitoring by the health professionals involved in the care. The objective of this work is to present an experience report on the psychological and multidisciplinary monitoring of a pregnant woman diagnosed with type 2 tanatophoric dysplasia during prenatal screening. The methodology of the present study involves presenting a clinical case with a description of the clinical and psychological conditions of the pregnant woman, along with the interventions carried out by the health professionals involved in the case. The pregnant woman sought psychological care after receiving the diagnosis of type 2 tanatophoric dysplasia. Subsequently, the psychologist coordinated with other health professionals involved in the case and the institution where the delivery would take place, leading to the development of a collaborative planning and management approach. Upon discussion, the pregnant woman and her family opted for palliative care for the newborn. The team of professionals aligned their approach to meet the family’s wishes and needs. The newborn received supportive measures but survived for only a few hours before passing away. The integrated performance of the health team professionals and the flexibility of the hospital institution allowed the adequate planning of care actions and facilitated a positive reception experience for the family. This case highlights the importance of psychological support, individualized planning, and the relevance of teamwork in providing comprehensive care during such challenging circumstances.

A SAJÁTOS NEVELÉSI IGÉNYŰ GYEREKEK REPREZENTÁCIÓJA A KORTÁRS GYEREKKÖNYVEKBEN – AZ ŐRANGYAL, A SIMI ÉS A RENDETLEN BETŰK, VALAMINT A MIHÁLYI CSONGOR ÉS AZ IDŐGYURMA CÍMŰ KÖTETEK PÉLDÁJÁN

The present study focuses on contemporary children's books that reflect some form of special educational need. Since recently there has been an increase in the number of books on topic available in the children's book market, with publishing series, issuing the difficult life situations and on the presentation of ’otherness’, including learning disabilities, it is of great importance to take a glance at these publications. In this essay, my aim is to focus on how the texts are written and the language of representation. In particular, I will pay attention to the illustrations, which make a crucial part of the experience of reception and interpretation. With this analysis, my aim is to show how concretely or abstractly a particular educational need can be represented, whether it reinforces stereotypes or not, and how this may impact the connection to the phenomenon. The analysis of the texts also provides an opportunity to validate different attitudes, behaviours, and perspectives, and can thus contribute to sensitisation. The presentation of specific educational needs, with its positive or negative connotations, and the phenomenon of positive discrimination, are closely linked to methodological possibilities and practical implications of interpreting the texts. Here it is worthcalling attention to the concepts of helpful books, sensitisation and prevention, the relationship between these terms and literature, and reflecting on the close connection of the aesthetically shaped texts to these problems. Accordingly, the paper will first aim to explore the concept of special educational needs, then it will present its types to point out the difficulties of definition, the different approaches, and to define its own terminology. Similarly, this paper will take into account the terminology of literary studies and the perspectives relevant to this thesis. This will be followed by the analyses of the three preselected volumes which on the one hand ask whether the books are appropriate for the age group they are aimed at, while, on the other hand, they concern the possible directions for future methodological inquiries. Finally, the conclusion part summerises the results of the study and the controversies surrounding the presentation of the subject in children's books.

Seriousness in the eyes: experiences of school reception and inclusion with Ukrainian pupils (2022-2023)

Beginning with a general framing of the conditions dictated by the conflict in Ukraine, this contribution aims to photograph the situation of Ukrainian refugees in Italy, mostly mothers with dependent children, through their experience of reception in the city of Florence. Against this backdrop, the reflection shifts to the impact that both the expatriate life and the provided reception have had on the pathways to social, linguistic and educational inclusion of young Ukrainian refugees attending Florentine schools. As a result of an empirical research, the contents of the article draw on primary sources, namely testimonies from the field. La serietà negli occhi: esperienze di accoglienza e inclusione scolastica con alunni/e ucraini (2022-2023). A partire da un inquadramento generale delle condizioni dettate dal conflitto in Ucraina, il presente contributo si propone di fotografare la situazione dei profughi ucraini in Italia, in prevalenza madri con figli/e a carico, attraverso la loro esperienza di accoglienza nella città di Firenze. Su questo sfondo, la riflessione si sposta sull’impatto che sia la vita in espatrio che l’offerta di accoglienza hanno avuto sui percorsi di inserimento sociale, linguistico e scolastico dei giovani profughi/e ucraini frequentanti le scuole fiorentine. Frutto di una ricerca empirica, i contenuti dell’articolo attingono alle fonti primarie, ovvero alle testimonianze raccolte sul campo.

Association Between Online Reviews of Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facilities and Drug-Induced Mortality Rates: Cross-Sectional Analysis

Background Drug-induced mortality across the United States has continued to rise. To date, there are limited measures to evaluate patient preferences and priorities regarding substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, and many patients do not have access to evidence-based treatment options. Patients and their families seeking SUD treatment may begin their search for an SUD treatment facility online, where they can find information about individual facilities, as well as a summary of patient-generated web-based reviews via popular platforms such as Google or Yelp. Web-based reviews of health care facilities may reflect information about factors associated with positive or negative patient satisfaction. The association between patient satisfaction with SUD treatment and drug-induced mortality is not well understood. Objective The objective of this study was to examine the association between online review content of SUD treatment facilities and drug-induced state mortality. Methods A cross-sectional analysis of online reviews and ratings of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)–designated SUD treatment facilities listed between September 2005 and October 2021 was conducted. The primary outcomes were (1) mean online rating of SUD treatment facilities from 1 star (worst) to 5 stars (best) and (2) average drug-induced mortality rates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) WONDER Database (2006-2019). Clusters of words with differential frequencies within reviews were identified. A 3-level linear model was used to estimate the association between online review ratings and drug-induced mortality. Results A total of 589 SAMHSA-designated facilities (n=9597 reviews) were included in this study. Drug-induced mortality was compared with the average. Approximately half (24/47, 51%) of states had below average (“low”) mortality rates (mean 13.40, SD 2.45 deaths per 100,000 people), and half (23/47, 49%) had above average (“high”) drug-induced mortality rates (mean 21.92, SD 3.69 deaths per 100,000 people). The top 5 themes associated with low drug-induced mortality included detoxification and addiction rehabilitation services (r=0.26), gratitude for recovery (r=–0.25), thankful for treatment (r=–0.32), caring staff and amazing experience (r=–0.23), and individualized recovery programs (r=–0.20). The top 5 themes associated with high mortality were care from doctors or providers (r=0.24), rude and insensitive care (r=0.23), medication and prescriptions (r=0.22), front desk and reception experience (r=0.22), and dissatisfaction with communication (r=0.21). In the multilevel linear model, a state with a 10 deaths per 100,000 people increase in mortality was associated with a 0.30 lower average Yelp rating (P=.005). Conclusions Lower online ratings of SUD treatment facilities were associated with higher drug-induced mortality at the state level. Elements of patient experience may be associated with state-level mortality. Identified themes from online, organically derived patient content can inform efforts to improve high-quality and patient-centered SUD care.

Sondheim from the Side

This article is a short introduction to ‘Sondheim from the Side’, the Special Issue on the late influential American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, which focuses on the reception experience of minoritarian artists and critics to his body of work. Historicizing the impetus for the collection in the wake of Sondheim’s death in November 2021, and citing a number of queer and feminist scholars on the politics of reception – including Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Jane Gallop, Eve Sedgwick, David Román and Carolyn Steedman – this article theorizes the emphasis that the collection places on critically generous, first-person articles that centre rather than occlude the author’s social location and affective experience of various works, and it links this emphasis to methods in the field of performance studies. Borrowing from Special Issue contributor Gabrielle Hoyt and Jewish rituals of mourning, the introduction also frames the collection itself as a kind of prayer, or Kaddish, for the deceased artist.

Інтерпретативні стратегії сучасної української й польської прози в контексті літературознавчої антропології

Interpretative strategies are explored as a type of textual strategies alongside narrative and receptive ones. We illustrate modern, prose‑bound interpretative strategies targeting various types of perception and aesthetic delight. The interpretative strategies of modern Ukrainian and Polish prose are affected by the author’s choice of the convention lines implemented in the story, and the types of perception the story is targeting. These parameters help implement the story’s semantic structure, which determines the way it is interpreted by the reader. The reader’s own life, emotional, and receptive experience builds a criterion for the story’s maturity. The reader’s interpretative effort is seen in the text as a game which is divided into separate milestones and requires a shift in the interpretative vector at each of them or implies the reader’s ability to perceive the virtual worlds of the rhizomatic plot that maps a modern person’s mental processes. The ability to notice in one text various interpretative strategies constitutes one of the ways for the reader to take aesthetic delight as well as building within them man‑world interaction skills, the ability to accept the world’s uncertainty, someone else’s different attitude.

Logistics value in e-commerce and its impact on customer satisfaction, loyalty and online retailers' performance

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to identify the factors that create value for the customer in the area of e-commerce logistics and to verify whether these factors impact online retailers' performance through customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in a business to customer (B2C) area.Design/methodology/approachFor the purpose of the study, a model of logistics value in e-commerce was introduced. The model was proposed based on the literature review. A total of 592 correctly filled questionnaires from telephone and web interviews [computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) and computer-assisted web interview (CAWI)] were studied. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM) were conducted in the study.FindingsIt was confirmed that four of five defined logistics value dimensions have positive impact on customer satisfaction. These dimensions are communication of delivery status, convenience of receipt, reception experience and convenience of return. The influence of speed of delivery on customer satisfaction was not confirmed. It was also confirmed that customer satisfaction has a positive impact on customer loyalty and that customer loyalty positively impacts online retailers' performance.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the current understanding of the influence of logistics factors on online retailers' performance through customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. There have been few studies that concern logistics value in e-commerce, with particular emphasis on above-mentioned relations. It is especially an important issue due to the fact that logistics can potentially lead to gain a competitive advantage in e-commerce.

Your writing sounds gorgeous: post-cinematic experiments in ASMR videos as a sign of posthuman sensibility

ABSTRACT Based on the visual, textual and video analysis of selected autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) films published on YouTube, this article seeks to provide an overview of numerous roles that both the activity of writing and onscreen written elements play in sonic contexts. In line with the findings of post-cinema studies and posthumanism theories, the author aims to present the post-cinematic techniques used in ASMR videos focusing on the written element as a sign of processuality-, relationality- and experimentation-oriented posthuman sensibility. In this essay, it is demonstrated that in ASMR culture the process of writing supersedes the final product of this activity, and that listening designates multimodal reception experience. While this research draws primarily on the concepts developed within the fields of post-cinema and posthumanism studies, it is interdisciplinary in nature and can be situated within the academic fields of sound studies, new media studies, and performance studies.

The Emotional Flow Scale: Validating a Measure of Dynamic Emotional Experiences in Message Reception

ABSTRACT The dynamics of the emotional experience during message consumption, referred to as emotional flow, is hypothesized to be an important and influential element of message reception processes. In this article, we propose and validate a scale for measuring self-reported experiences of emotional flow following exposure to a message. Items were derived from Nabi and Green’s initial theorizing and the final 6-item measurement model demonstrated good fit using data from seven studies (NTotal = 2,626). Measurement invariance tests supported the stability of the scale across written versus audio-visual narrative stimuli, participant sex and age, and two sample populations (student versus non-student). Finally, we present evidence of construct validity through an experimental study that manipulated and assessed emotional shifts during exposure to media content, where the scale was able to account for these emotional shifts. These findings suggest that the Emotional Flow Scale provides a valid instrument for measuring experiences of emotional flow.

Aesthetic principles of interpretation of early arias in the vocalist’s concert repertoire: air de cour

Aesthetic principles of interpretation of early arias in the vocalist’s concert repertoire: air de cour

“As If There Are Two of Us”: The Battle of Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis in Lived Time

Background: Although the experience of reception of borderline personality disorder (BPD) diagnosis was previously researched, the process of mental adjustment to this diagnosis remains both empirically and theoretically unexplored. Theoretical concepts describing the structure of lived time in borderline patients, which underlies adjustment to diagnosis, living with the diagnosis, and recovery from the disorder, namely, immediacy and instantaneity are not empirically verified. Aim: This study aimed to phenomenologically describe the process of mental adjustment to the diagnosis of BPD and to uncover its underlying temporal structure. Methods: Semi-structured phenomenological interviews based on Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenological psychological method and Cottle’s Circles Test. The participants were 10 white, adult women diagnosed with BPD aged 20–32 years. Results: The process of adjustment to BPD diagnosis comprises three following stages: (1) a cumulative feeling of inadequacy preceding the diagnosis, (2) the outburst of diagnosis, (3) a battle of Self fragments while adjusting to the diagnosis. Simultaneously, the diagnosis modifies the relationship between the self and illness in a way that previously scattered problematic issues become inscribed into the self as symptoms. At the same time, these symptoms are relatively separated from its “healthy” part. The temporal structure underlying this process is discontinuous. Particular temporal dimensions are distanced from one another, and the inner images of the past and present consist of unconnected, emotional peaks. The present resembles waking up from the lethargy of the past, while the future consists of two colliding scenarios – either being free of or in control of symptoms. Conclusion: Clinicians should pay more attention to the pathway of identification with BPD diagnosis and its underlying temporality. This is crucial for recovery and may allow adjusting therapeutic interventions to the patients’ needs. Treatment should aim to enhance the patients’ abilities to reflect upon their temporal experience to merge their fragmented narrative identity and better situate them in the recovery process.

A child‐centred asylum policy: Building on evidence and unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children's views

AbstractThe political sphere is typically reserved for adults in contemporary nation‐states, leaving limited opportunities for children's participation in democratic processes. This holds even more true for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children who are politically unrepresented and often find themselves in a precarious position due to their immigrant status. The article aims to overcome this gap by presenting their experiences of Slovenian reception and asylum procedures as a framework for child‐informed policy. The child‐centred approach as presented in this paper starts from the principles of children's rights, particularly from the right to express views (Article 12 of the CRC) and the use of children's viewpoints as a way of interpreting how reception and asylum procedures should be. In this way, the paper highlights key factors that affect unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children's well‐being and participation rights, including being able to stay with family and friends, having adequate material conditions, having good relationships with institutional staff, having access to information and legal advice, having trained interviewers, translators and decision‐makers.

Transcending non-citizenship? Looking at asylum policy through the lens of a child-centred approach and the procedural justice perspective

ABSTRACT Based on field research with asylum-seeking children in reception centres, the article looks at the situation of unaccompanied minor migrants in Slovenia through the lens of the child-centred approach and from a procedural justice perspective. Initially it highlights the commonalities between procedural justice and the child-centred approach in terms of voice, dignity and respect and impartial decision-making, and thereafter describes migrants’ perceptions and experiences of asylum reception and determination procedures from the perspective of the child-centred approach and procedural justice. Interviews with unaccompanied migrant minors revealed that their experiences of reception and the asylum process were most influenced by respect for dignity and voice. Finally, the article discusses the relevance of the child-centred approach to the inclusion of non-citizen children at the intersection of different rights regimes.

LANGUAGE EXPOSURE PREDICTS CHILDREN'S PHONETIC PATTERNING: EVIDENCE FROM LANGUAGE SHIFT.

Although understanding the role of the environment is central to language acquisition theory, rarely has this been studied for children's phonetic development, and receptive and expressive language experiences in the environment are not distinguished. This last distinction may be crucial for child speech production in particular, because production requires coordination of low-level speech-motor planning with high-level linguistic knowledge. In this study, the role of the environment is evaluated in a novel way-by studying phonetic development in a bilingual community undergoing rapid language shift. This sociolinguistic context provides a naturalistic gradient of the amount of children's exposure to two languages and the ratio of expressive to receptive experiences. A large-scale child language corpus encompassing over 500 hours of naturalistic South Bolivian Quechua and Spanish speech was efficiently annotated for children's and their caregivers' bilingual language use. These estimates were correlated with children's patterns in a series of speech production tasks. The role of the environment varied by outcome: children's expressive language experience best predicted their performance on a coarticulation-morphology measure, while their receptive experience predicted performance on a lower-level measure of vowel variability. Overall these bilingual exposure effects suggest a pathway for children's role in language change whereby language shift can result in different learning outcomes within a single speech community. Appropriate ways to model language exposure in development are discussed.

Resilience in Local Housing Policy? Liberal or Restrictive Policy Stances Among Swedish Municipalities Following the Great Migration in the Summer of 2015

The dramatic event that the great migration in the summer of 2015 entailed changed the migration policies of various countries. Substantial amendments were hastily made in a policy field in which already tense state-local relations struggled to manage coordination, responsibilities, and funding. Sweden, recognized as a final host country of the massive flows of refugees and asylum-seekers, was no exception. In Sweden, autonomy in terms of local refugee reception was circumvented in 2016. Municipalities' remaining discretion is above all concentrated to one of the most crucial spheres of refugee reception: the outline of local housing policies. We argue that housing may be perceived as a tool of resilience that local governments may use to maintain far-reaching influence over the settlement of migrants with a refugee background by selecting restrictive or generous policy options. In this paper, we conduct a theoretically grounded analysis of local housing policy for refugees among Swedish municipalities. To capture the intrinsic dynamic, we propose a generic typology applying the dimension of either a liberal or a restrictive housing policy and relate it to theoretical notions of refugee policy as characterized by either a rights-based or a more restrictive approach. Our findings show that local governments in Sweden pursue a wide array of policy stances that appear to be correlated with factors originating from prior experiences of refugee reception, conditions in the labor and housing markets, and political circumstances. Based on this, we argue that local housing policy has offered municipalities a tool to exert a form of intentional, or unintentional, migration control despite national efforts to impose a more just system of refugee reception.

‘Here is my shameful confession. I don’t really “get” poetry’: discerning reader types in responses to Sylvia Plath’s Ariel on Goodreads

ABSTRACT This article considers how readers engage with Sylvia Plath’s poetry collection Ariel (1965) – deemed as particularly ‘difficult’ – on Goodreads, in the context of online amateur reviewing. George Steiner’s (1978) fourfold typology of difficulty (contingent, modal, tactical and ontological) informs our approach and leads us to explore the ways in which difficulty is talked about and dealt with, especially since the poetry genre faces resistance in educational settings, as Peter Benton (2015) points out. Our discussion stems from a qualitative analysis of 25 positive and 25 negative Goodreads reviews of Ariel, from which we derive an inductive typology of readerly attitudes. We find that, across the positive/negative spectrum, three readerly attitudes prevail that can be aligned with particular reader types: The Self-Deprecator, The Re-Reader, and The Senser. The Self-Deprecator emphasises their lack of poetic skills, which makes literary difficulty hard to overcome. The Re-Reader foregrounds their need to engage with Ariel further to increase their appreciation of it. The Senser focuses on the feelings and sensations experienced, which means that difficulty is not construed as a barrier to meaningful receptive experiences. We argue the above-mentioned categories enhance our comprehension of the wide array of readers discussing poetry online.

Coherent experiment in the lyrics of Dmitry Bykov: reception experience

Modern lyrics in the unfolding of the main names are many-sided and diverse. The main guidelines of this literary form are aimed at aesthetically overcoming the dialogue with the indisputable classics, however, a number of authors create an oppositional version, form a new, alternative view of reality. The lyrics of Igor Guberman, Vladimir Stepanov, Igor Irtenyev, Olga Sedakova, Denis Osokin, Vera Pavlova, Dmitry Bykov look original, in their own way, in the mode of transformation of meanings. The lyrical narrative of these authors becomes the sphere of reduplications. In addition to the meaning, which tends to the transcendent canvas, there is also an internal highway, focused on a more subtle manifestation of the author's position. Contrasting from the presented series of poets is the name of Dmitry Bykov, who raises acute social issues, oppositional puts the extremes of the present. The methodology of text analysis in this work correlates with the principles of empirical evaluation, receptive aesthetics. Released in 2021, Dmitry Bykov's collection Draw. 20:20 becomes the literary base of the article. It seems that D. Bykov creates a kind of coherent experiment in this collection, because most of the forms are response to modern events, an oppositional word, supposed dialogue / contact, created conceivable perspective, spiritual rebirth, real story. It seems that the formal component of Dmitry Bykov's lyrics does not obscure the semantic parallelism. On the contrary, the poet's voice sounds indifferent, passionate, holistic, convergent. The material can be useful in the study of the literary process of the early twentieth century, the latest poetry, the work of Dmitry Bykov. The objective component of the work is aimed at determining a number of aesthetic, ideological, literary preferences of the specified author. Thus, the article is an attempt to verify the artistic markers of modernity, to combine them with the unchanging sphere of classical lyrics.

El paradigma liberal de la propiedad y la codificacion decimononica en la Republica Argentina

The liberal paradigm of ownership was welcomed by the Argentine Civil Code of 1871. This paper first offers two conceptualizations that assist in setting its scope: ownership paradigms and American civil law jurisdictions. This paper then addresses the first generation of civil codes in those American jurisdictions, elaborating on the time of adoption, content, and motivation. The account continues by tracing the codification of the liberal paradigm of ownership in those nineteenth-century normative bodies. Further, this paper offers an illustration of the above-mentioned circulation of ideas, describing the experience of reception of the liberal paradigm within the articles and notes to the text drafted by Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield and its pollination into the civil codes of other jurisdictions. It should be noted that ownership is subject to changes that respond to the mentality of a given society, according to time and space.