Relational Processes Research Articles

Physicians' Lived Experience of Breaking Bad News in Clinical Practice: Five Essentials of a Relational Process.

The purpose of this study was to develop deeper knowledge about physicians' lived experiences of breaking bad news by identifying their common meanings and interrelatedness along with their potential alignment with process-oriented and relational aspects. Based on the methodology of descriptive phenomenology, in-depth interviews were conducted with 22 physicians from a wide variety of specialties. The participants were invited to freely reflect upon their experiences of breaking bad news by describing situations that had worked well and less well. Results showed that breaking bad news was fundamentally experienced as a relational process constituted by the five essentials of Becoming the bad messenger, Expecting the unpredictable, Being on stage, Professionally managing hope, and Mindfulness of the emotional relationship. In line with recent research, this study confirms that clinical communication involves much more than just delivering the message. However, it also contributes to existing knowledge by focusing on the phenomenology of physicians' experiences, which enables deeper understanding of the medical profession and the relational process of breaking bad news. As such, our findings are important to enable broader learning in, for example, medical education and continuing courses for clinical staff.

An Analysis of The English Transitivity Process of Prabowo Speech at Forum IISS

This study aims to discover the transitivity process realized in Prabowo’s speech at the IISS forum in Manama Dialogue 2021. This study used descriptive qualitative research with the subject Prabowo Subianto speech at the forum IISS in Manama Dialogue 2021. Source data was analysed through Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory. There are six types of transitivity processes they are material process, mental process, relational process, verbal process, behavioural process, and existential process. It is found that the result of each process in Prabowo's speech at the forum IISS in Manama Dialogue 2021, the material process is 70 clauses, the mental process is 30 clauses, the relational process is 46 clauses, the verbal process is 14 clauses, behavioural process are two clauses. The last is the existential process, which is seven clauses. If you add up all the clauses that have been analysed, there are 169 clauses. Based on the result of the study, the dominant process used in Prabowo’s speech at forum IISS in Manama Dialogue 2021 is a material process which process occurs 70 times, or there are 70 clauses in Prabowo’s Speech because Prabowo’s speech realized that clause found more clauses which refers of construing doing and happening that related to the material process.

Discourse Analysis of Chinese Provincial and Regional Foreign Promotional Videos in the Framework of Fairclough’s Three-Dimensional Model

Chinese culture is a convergence of local cultures, and an in-depth understanding of local culture is the same as an understanding of Chinese culture. By constructing analysis framework, this paper not only analyzes text mode from the perspective of Halliday’s three meta-language functions, but also studies collaborative discourse propaganda effect of visual mode, auditory mode, and text mode from the perspective of semantic coherence and intertextuality at the level of discourse practice. This paper also expounds the performance of ideology and discourse power in propaganda film of Shanxi Province. The study has drawn the conclusion that regional propaganda films are mostly characterized by material and relational processes, third-person, and unmarked theme structure. Communication effect of multimodal synergy maximizes propaganda effect during text production and consumption. And regional propaganda films reflect the historical, cultural and political will and China’s determination to open up to the outside world at the same time.

Characterizing Non-governmental Organizations And Local Government Collaborations In Urban Forest Management Across Canada.

Urban forests are being threatened by rapid urbanization, biodiversity crises, and climate variability. In response, governments are increasingly collaborating with the public for solutions to these mounting challenges. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are dominant players in these collaborations because of their ability to supplement governments' expertize and resources and bring social and ecological issues to the forefront of civic agendas. Despite their growing visibility in urban forest management, there is a lack of attention directed to the forms and range of NGO relationships. This study focuses on addressing this gap and examining collaborations between local governments and NGOs in urban forest programming by characterizing their components including mandates, relationship ties, accountability, resource exchange, and power dynamics. We collected data using semi-structured interviews with three groups: leaders of NGOs, municipal government officials in an urban forest or public works departments, and urban-forest experts who have observed their interactions. The participants represent 32 individuals in nine Canadian cities. Our results indicate that NGO-government collaborations have relational ties and accountability processes that are both formal and informal in nature. Formality in collaborations is often associated with the amount of funding, proximity to government, or size of the NGO. In addition, our findings suggest that NGOs present an opportunity for local governments to supplement their resources and capacity. While the strength and formality of collaborations may be a product of NGO size and budgets, public servants should not hesitate to engage smaller, grassroots NGOs to realize their public service mandates. Characterizing the components of these governance processes provides a benchmark for practitioners participating in similar public-civic interactions and arms them with the knowledge to navigate collaborative decision-making.

Our Pedagogical Epiphanies: Moments of Clarity in Our Teaching Practice That Created Windows for Change

In this essay, we offer two personal narratives of how we innovated in our approaches to teaching and learning—our pedagogical epiphanies. The first narrative, triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, focuses on innovating and moving from the use of a single learning process to the use of a portfolio of learning approaches that align with the learning objectives for the course. The second narrative, triggered by the instructor’s inner dissatisfaction with the level of student preparation and engagement, focuses on innovating and moving from the use of a different case each class session—a surface approach to learning—to the use of two cases for the entire semester and eventually just one—a deep approach to learning. We describe the temporal and experimental character of the caring and innovating relational processes in each narrative, the insights gained across the narratives, and the implications for pedagogical practices and pedagogical research in management education. We ground our narratives in the conceptual literatures on a process-relational ontological view of teaching and learning, pedagogical caring, and innovating. We conclude with our desire to encourage others to embrace their own pedagogical epiphanies.

Contemporary integrative interpersonal theory in diagnosing relational dynamics in personality disorders

Accumulating empirical evidence suggests that despite some issues of clinical utility, dimensional models of personality disorders perform better than categorical ones. The aim of the paper was to present the contemporary integrative interpersonal theory (CIIT), which can become an extension of dimensional models by taking into account the pathomechanism and relational dynamics of personality disorders. Interpersonal situation, which is the field for the expression of personality pathology, is the basic unit of analysis of functioning in the presented approach. The interpersonal situation model is structured by the motives of causality and communality, and more precisely defined by the concept of four systems: self, affect, perception and behaviour. Personality pathology manifests itself through a combination of dysregulation and distortion in each system, and the coordinated pattern of motivation, perception, emotions and behaviours can be depicted as an interpersonal signature. The concept can be used to analyse internal and interpersonal relationships of an individual, as well as to monitor and diagnose the relational processes between the patient and the clinician. Using the presented theory in practice would increase the accuracy of conceptualisation by understanding an individual pathomechanism, including both external and internal relevant factors. Additionally, the interpersonal situation model can be a valuable tool to help identify and organise patient data.

French Fries’ Color and Frying Process in Relation to Used Plant Oils

Fast-food establishments today often sell fried food without proper control over the frying oil, and french fries are a prime example. Neglecting the maintenance of frying oil can lead to decreased taste, health concerns, and operational inefficiencies. The following plant oils were used in the frying process: rapeseed, sunflower, and palm oil. The degree of frying was measured by the total polar meter (TPM), until the achievement of 24%. To accurately assess the color characteristics of the french fry samples, Minolta CM 2600d color measurement instrument was used. Statistically significant differences were observed between some color parameters (L, a, b, C, and h) and TPM values. The following correlations were observed: 0.530 was obtained for TPM and h (hue angle) in french fries fried in palm oil; negative correlation (−0.214) between TPM and L (lightness) was obtained in french fries fried in rapeseed oil. While we have observed certain correlations from our experimental data, it is important to note that the color of french fries may not be the sole determinant of fried oil quality. Other external factors, such as temperature, chemical composition, and potato cultivar, can also significantly influence the color of french fries.

URBAN ECOLOGICAL FUTURES: Five Eco‐Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities

AbstractCities are critical sites for understanding, and potentially ameliorating, the effects of global ecological change, the climate emergency and natural resource depletion. Contemporary cities are sociomaterially connected through global markets, trade and transportation, placing ever‐increasing demands on the natural environment and generating dangerous pollutants and emissions. Current approaches to address these environmental crises are dominated by neoliberal forms of ‘green’ urban development, carbon accounting and techno‐economic solutions, which extend corporate control over cities and tend to entrench inequality. A more strategic approach for enabling ecologically sustainable and equitable urban futures is urgently needed. We present five strategies for urban ecological futures in the global North, derived from qualitative and ethnographic empirical research with international eco‐communities, which open up discussions about how to tackle this challenge by acknowledging the role and potential of: (1) non‐extractive community economies; (2) democratic processes of co‐operative action; (3) social approaches to resource management; (4) participatory collaborative governance; and (5) urban heterogeneity and social justice. We explore the relational, contested and contextual processes through which these approaches could become embedded in urban policy and planning, thereby offering the strategic capacity required to move towards truly sustainable cities.

How does socioeconomic homophily emerge? Testing for the contribution of different processes to socioeconomic segregation in adolescent friendships

Homophily – the fact that friendships happen at a higher rate among similar individuals – does not necessarily imply homophilic selection – the tendency to look for similar friends. This is particularly true for socioeconomic homophily: because individuals’ social class impacts most aspects of their lives, there are several ways in which it can favor homogeneity in friendship networks. Applying this view to the relationships of French middle-school students, the present article tries to unravel the contribution of various relational processes to the emergence of socioeconomic homophily. Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models, a class of generative models designed for network panel data, are applied to the friendship networks of 820 students surveyed over a year and a half. Simulations derived from the estimated models are then used to assess the impact of different processes on aggregated levels of homophily. To that aim, a new metric is proposed that help researchers decompose an observed property of a network into a set of contributions from low-order processes, called “contribution scores”. Results suggest that direct homophilic selection can be important in explaining socioeconomic homophily, but not in all cases. Indirect inducers, such as residential propinquity or ethnic selection, also play a significant role. Moreover, endogenous network processes – namely reciprocation and transitive closure – strongly contribute to homophily by reinforcing other homophily-inducing processes.

Evaluation of Relationship Management using SPSS

Relationship Management. Management of customer relationships (CRM), often known as relationship management, is the practice of maintaining and enhancing a company's commercial ties with its current and potential clients. Tracking a customer's download of a white paper is one of many applicable CRM instances. When that occurs, the website might notify a particular salesperson in that area to contact the potential client again. The idea is that by delegating many of these straightforward actions to the program, you can set up a process. Your interpersonal communication abilities will be crucial to managing relationships. It's about your capacity to bring out the best in others—your capacity to motivate and sway them, your capacity to relate to them and build relationships with them in their final days, and your capacity to support their capacity to adapt, develop, and resolve conflict. Relationship management is a tactic used to build new relationships with clients and suppliers as well as to preserve current ones. By doing this, we can boost customer loyalty to our brand, find and eliminate inefficiencies, cultivate new connections, and boost revenue. Relationship management is a tactic used to build new relationships with clients and suppliers as well as to preserve current ones. By doing this, we can boost customer loyalty to our brand, find and eliminate inefficiencies, cultivate new connections, and boost revenue. A CRM system's primary goal is to enhance the customer experience. Achieving this goal will guarantee excellent outcomes for your company as a whole. Each of the other objectives will serve to further this goal if your CRM's primary mission is to increase customer satisfaction. Similar to life, partnerships can experience ups and downs. However, if you work on your empathy, communication, conflict resolution, commitment, and love abilities, you'll see a strengthening in your relationships. The process for controlling relationships in an organization is known as employee relationship management, or ERM. These connections may exist between the company and staff members and coworkers who are on the same level. Employees need a workplace that supports their creativity in order to be effective. Customers receive individualized guidance from them, develop a rapport with them, and receive timely answers to their questions. Relationship managers look for trends that can enhance business procedures by examining the business's communication strategy, contract discussions, and legal agreements. The participants were asked to rank the importance of the following six elements in a section on romantic partners: commitment, honesty, a healthy sex life, common interests, appropriate personality, and communication. Relationship management at work aids in building cohesive teams with members that respect one another, are open to new ideas, and function well together. Your greatest employees shouldn't feel threatened by chilly workplace dynamics. Poor employee experiences are caused by confusion, stress, and anxiety. Honesty, trust, respect, and open communication are essential components of healthy partnerships, as well as a willingness to compromise from both sides. There is no disparity in power. Partners respect one another's independence, allow each other to make their own judgments, and share agreements without worrying about reprisals. “A (IT competency), B (Social media orientation), C (Relational information processes), D (Customer performance), E (Financial performance), F (Sales Calls), G (E-Mail Integration), H (E-Mail Marketing), I (E-Mail Marketing)”. “A (IT competency), B (Social media orientation), C (Relational information processes), D (Customer performance), E (Financial performance), F (Sales Calls), G (E-Mail Integration), H (E-Mail Marketing), I (E-Mail Marketing)”. The Cronbach's Alpha Reliability result. The overall Cronbach's Alpha value for the model is .644 which indicates 64% reliability. The above 64% Cronbach Alpha value model can be analyzed from the literature review.

‘I’m going home to breathe and I’m coming back here to just hold my head above the water’: Black students’ strategies for navigating a predominantly white UK university

Twenty-four percent of Black and minority ethnic students in the UK report facing racial harassment at university, and one in twenty leave their studies due to this. But how do those who remain negotiate a hostile climate and what can we learn from their strategies? In our focus groups conducted with 16 Black students at a predominantly white institution, we found a sophisticated awareness of multiple strategies, and awareness of the social and psychological consequences of each. Our reflective thematic analysis focuses on three of these strategies: First, the experience and expression of two versions of the self, depending on context and audience; second, performing a strategic whiteness both for personal and collective motives; and third, accentuating and embracing Blackness. Our analysis highlights how these strategies were adopted, encouraged, and discarded over time as well as the tensions between strategies; for instance, when the performance of whiteness is received as ‘inauthentic’ by other Black students. Importantly, our research troubles the notion that there are positive and negative strategies and instead emphasises the complex relational processes at play. Thus, rather than emphasising ‘fitting in’, institutions should endeavour to support the range of strategies used by marginalised students who remind us that it is not that straightforward.

At the fringes of transitions: socio-spatial constitution of transitions within early childhood education and care institutions in Finland

ABSTRACT This study focuses on transitions that emerge between the child’s first transition from home to early childhood education and care (ECEC) and the transition to pre-primary education in Finnish centre-based ECEC. Group-based organisation of Finnish ECEC produces transitions between groups within settings but children transition between centres also. The aim is to reach the fringes of transition focusing on other change processes children encounter during their years in ECEC. Thus, transition is defined as a relationally constituted change process framed by educational institutions and their practices. We examine how children’s lived spaces of transition are socio-spatially constituted. Two analytical narratives from a longitudinal, multimethods multi-case study dataset are presented as examples of relational socio-spatial constitution of transitions. Henri Lefebvre’s theory about production of social space is applied. We discuss how educational transitions within ECEC as relational processes concerns children who are not designated to move from one group or centre to another. For them, the relationality of transitions rearranges groups and centres as networks of socio-spatial relations in various, context-specific ways, constituting lived spaces of transitions.

Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding as a sluggish policy: A critical discourse analysis with process types

Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the government of Indonesia (GoI) and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) celebrated its 18th anniversary in 2023. However, its discursive aspect and efficacy are still under-researched. This article aims to analyze the process types in the Helsinki MoU text and explore the policy implementation of the agreement on the social changes in Aceh. The MoU document was retrieved from the United Nations peacemakers’ website. Mixed methods with descriptive statistics were used to identify, interpret, and explain the data. Hallidayan systemic linguistics was employed to identify the process types and the transitivity patterns. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) as an explanatory critique was applied to critical social analysis. The findings show that the material processes dominated the Helsinki MoU text (73%), followed by the relational processes (18%), and verbal processes (4%). The actors were generally in the form of concepts and sometimes obfuscated. Meanwhile, the goals were also mostly realized by concepts. Explanatory critique reveals that there was a vagueness and hidden power relation between the GoI and GAM in the peace deal. The GoI has also been inconsistent with some of the agendas. The Helsinki MoU has yet to produce comprehensive outcomes for Aceh’s development and has seemingly served as a bureaucratic means of control. The current study has limited itself to the single MoU text. Therefore, for deeper inquiries further research should focus on multiple similar texts and use a different research design, including intertextuality, questionnaires, and interviews.

Exploring the experiential meanings of the COVID-19 survivors’ expressions

Language transforms experience into meaning. Grammar, which can be metaphorically construed as its powerhouse, enables such a transformation. One of the linguistic approaches utilised to understand the linkage between the semiotic and material world is Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). SFL argues that the experiential meaning of a clause can be investigated through its transitivity structures in terms of Process, Participant, and Circumstance. This study carries out a transitivity analysis of expressions shared by COVID-19 survivors from different parts of the world in an attempt to learn how they construe their experience of illness. The data were obtained from online newspapers published in different countries and conveniently developed into a corpus from which COVID-19 survivors’ expressions were extracted. All texts under examination were reported in English regardless of their original language. This study examines the survivors’ direct expressions through their transitivity structures using the SFL framework. The results show that these individuals frequently used relational and abstract material Processes in describing their illness, meaning that they tended to express their physical or psychological experiences metaphorically as beings and actions. This suggests that they abstractly construe their experiences with this viral disease. Constructing experiences abstractly is likely driven by the need to distance themselves from experience as a way of coping with an event perceived as potentially life-threatening.

Research on low-carbon evaluation of green buildings based on the whole life cycle theory

Cities are highly dense areas with significant energy consumption and waste generation. Therefore, developing buildings with low energy consumption and reduced pollutant emissions is an important approach for China to achieve its goals of carbon neutrality, peak carbon emissions, and sustainable development. In this context, the concept and practice of green buildings have emerged. This research is based on the whole life cycle assessment method of the whole life cycle theory, integrating relevant indicators for calculating carbon emissions in buildings. It conducts a multidimensional evaluation and analysis of the low-carbon level of green buildings. Quantitative analysis is carried out based on five stages and five dimensions of the entire construction process. A conceptual model for the low-carbon evaluation of green buildings is established, and grey relational analysis and analytic hierarchy process are employed to rank and evaluate projects. The study aims to identify the key factors in the low-carbon evaluation of green buildings and discusses the focus and suggestions for future low-carbon management throughout the whole life cycle of green buildings.

Outdoor Education, Integrated Soccer Activities, and Learning in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Project Aimed at Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda

This research aims to promote motor activity in children with autism spectrum disorder through the development of an adapted integrated soccer project played outdoors. The project is carried out in collaboration with the nonprofit “Smile Association” of the city of Frosinone (Lazio-Italy) and the Pegaso and Parthenope Universities. The main purpose of the Smile Association is to provide an educational and sports service in an area poorly provided with opportunities for children with intellectual disabilities, allowing them to change their predominantly sedentary condition and, through corporeality, to improve cognitive, affective, and relational processes. Participation in sports activities allows for the development of motor skills, social interactions, and cognitive stimulation. There is a need for available resources and programs dedicated exclusively to children with ASD to help them develop social, motor, and cognitive skills. One of the programs that might be helpful is a structured group play program involving physical activity. In addition, through the project, a dense social network has been activated between the third sector, sports companies, and local health authorities. The project aims to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda in Articles 3, 4, and 11. This paper describes the correlation between learning and motor activity. According to the hypotheses of this research, integrated soccer activity implements cognitive skills, particularly those related to memory for visual stimuli and to the theory of mind, as well as sense-motor skills. Work carried out to improve attentional skills can reduce stereotypical behaviours. The results showed that continuous and regular engagement in motor activities has positive health outcomes for children with autism in terms of reduced symptomatology and improved quality of life. A total of 108 statistical units (the control group consisted of 18 statistical units, and the sample comprised 90 participants) aged 8 to 11 years were examined. The project is aimed at girls (in compliance with Art. 5 regarding gender equality); however, the participants identified by the local health authority are predominantly male.

Transforming Toxic Materialities: Microbes in Anthropogenically Polluted Soils

In this essay, I explore non-human multispecies interactions in soils polluted by electronic waste and subsequently bioremediated by plants and microbes. I argue that regenerative transformation in polluted soil environments is principally through microbial degradation, a significant process for survival amidst disaster. In doing so, I combine two separate research areas – the materiality of electronic waste and of soils – thus contributing to theorization on the persistent problem of anthropogenically polluted soils. I do so by examining the process of bioremediation, which ties anthropogenic pollution with underground soil processes, notably those that occur at the soil interface surrounding plant roots, the rhizosphere. Using empirical examples from scientific literature on the bioremediation of electronic waste-contaminated soils in China, I demonstrate that degradation, symbiosis, and sequestration are instrumental processes in polluted soils. The micro-scaled perspective of these relational processes and their toxic alterlives contributes to materialist, chemosocial understandings of toxic and polluted environments.

Ideational Metaphor in Saudi EFL Students’ Academic Writing: A Systemic-Functional Linguistic Analysis

Over the past decade, there has been an upsurge in studies on the quality of EFL students' English academic writing. However, research on grammatical metaphors in academic writing by EFL students is limited. As such, the purpose of this research is to identify the occurrences of ideational metaphors in students' academic writing essays. In this research, the qualitative descriptive approach was applied. This study included 20 undergraduate students from the English Language and Literature Department at the College of Science and Humanities in Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia, Essay Writing course in the fourth level. Students were to write 350-word essay on the subject of "Learning Difficulties During the Coronavirus Pandemic". The data corpus for the study totals 8,482 words. According to the findings, the students' essays include 408 sentences that comprise the ideational metaphor. It is considered insignificant in contrast to the corpus's full data set of 8,482 words. The occurrence of ideational metaphors is dominated by material processes, followed by mental processes, relational processes, behavioral processes, and existential processes. This conclusion shows that EFL students' essay structures are unlikely to have a high number of good grammatical metaphor clauses. For EFL students, lecturers, teachers, and other educational professionals involved in instructing English academic writing, this study has pedagogical implications; it sheds light on how grammatical metaphors in writing texts can serve as a stand-in for the caliber of writing used in academic and scientific literature.

Transitivity Analysis in English for Logistics: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Study

This study discusses the transitivity process. transitivity helps us in understanding the relationship between subject, object, and action in a sentence. This research aims to determine the process type of English clause in English for Logistics Books by Grussendorf (2009). The data is obtained from six reading comprehension articles contained in the book. The main theory used a transitivity system based on Halliday & Matthiessen (2014b). The method used qualitative description. The result of this research states that four types of processes are used in this research. They are the material, mental, relational, and verbal processes. The dominant frequency of occurrence process in this research is the mental process as much as at 35%. This research may involve ESP teaching process, especially for Logistics Business Students.

Reading in Uncertain Times

Reading in Uncertain Times